We are fortunate to be supported by a caring district administration and governing board. Tonight we have with us Superintendent Brian Capistran and governing board member Laura Arita. Member Arita began serving the Glendale Union High School District as a governing board member in January of 2021. She is a first generation Glendale High School in Phoenix College graduate who earned an associates degree in global business. Miss Rita and her husband are proud parents of one elementary age child, a current GHSD high school student, and a Glendel High School graduate. She is a tenure employee of the Glendale Elementary School District and has volunteered actively for the Glendale and Phoenix communities since the mid 1990s. Thank you both for being here this evening. One of the most important responsibilities of a school is to promote academic education and insist upon excellence. Washington High School confers its highest academic honors by designating the top 1% of the graduating class.
Isn't each decision just as impactful? Every day we get up we ask ourselves what will we do today? Maybe you ask yourself what to wear, what to eat, what to get done for the day. Why for most of us do the question stop there? Why is it that collectively we are so scared to ask questions? Isn't it better for you to know? Because it is okay to be wrong. It is okay to not know. It is okay to be curious. We have and will all fail like I just did. But we're still here, aren't we? Today, we celebrate those who have answered countless questions correctly. But what can you proudly say you learned during the last four years? As one of my dearest friends once said, "In a society where we're often awarded for answering questions correctly instead of asking questions, it seems as though we fail to venture to new ideas and even attempt understanding.
Steve, let's share them all. But I've really I've really enjoyed working alongside Gina. Um Gina has done a great job. She's been a real asset um to Hooverwood, to BPS 101, and that the whole community. And uh she'll definitely be missed. But I also know that she has some wonderful things on the horizon and we uh definitely wish her well and I'm sure at some point uh this summer or next fall she'll miss us. Um but uh certainly we wish you well in your future future pursuits and we certainly thank you um for just all the moments um all the conversations all the nights all the early mornings and just all the different things that you've done uh to support the students uh the staff and the community at Hooverwood and then the uh BPS 101 community at large. So we're grateful for your service.
Anybody want to be on the final Friday funday of the year? Final Friday of the year. Good. Okay. Season finale of Friday funday. Anybody want to be on the season finale of Friday funday? Season finale of Friday fun. Want to be on the season finale? Was freshman year fun. Yeah. Very fun. Went by fast. It does go by fast, doesn't it? You start in August. Next thing you know, bam, it's man. It's over. Are these gray guys going to make me pale? Being here by 7:55 a.m. is overrated. Ava, do you have a first hour class? Um, I do. Okay. You are very [Applause] [Music] late. kids movie growing up. Tangled too as well. Like Tangled as well. Not Tangle Two. I was like, I wasn't familiar with Tangle Two. Can you show us a punt here? Yeah, sure. Snap Hawk. Left footed punt. Bad punt.
Uh we do have some investments that are maturing, I believe, this summer. Uh and at this point, we're probably going to reinvest a large portion of those funds. And you'll see our capital improvement fund that is financed from our bonds that uh were issued. Uh we earned $52,000 of interest for April 2025. Uh, and we spent 195,000 uh on payments towards summer capital projects. Mr. Shepard, that interest just goes right back to the capital improvement fund or does that go to the general O andM fund? So that interest stays within uh the capital fund. It stays within the capital improvement fund, which would be fund 60. Uh we can we use those uh interest funds to help offset any anticipated increases in projects that uh we have coming down the pike. All right. So basically what you're saying is that we passed a referendum for 30 million, right?
Say students can come grab your things real quick. I'd like to tell the parents about my kids. I got a 31y old and 29y old still playing. I thought it was a lot of money. Your son has my two of them. Two of them. You better take a look at the older one. Yeah. Cards. A lot. I know his paper I keep we used to go to brag sales when they were third fourth grade you know look for Pokemon man cards something to do that money on and then some older kids tricked him out of his my middle sons they said well we'll give you you know like two bucks for a home but he was so stupid he didn't he ended up coming over and getting a fight with his mom and getting him good he was like second grade, first grade. Yeah, they were very heard of them.
You will start to see expenses coming out of the capital fund. Uh I imagine probably in June is when we're going to start seeing a lot uh of invoices coming our way and definitely at the beginning of uh the next fiscal year. Uh that's when we're going to be starting to utilize some of those uh resources from the bonds that we issued uh in December. So our cash flow slide you'll see that uh again those those two uh lines the revenue trend and the expense trend they do not cross but they are getting tighter uh as we go through the the fiscal year. Um I again expect this to tighten up even further uh as we go through uh the remainder of this fiscal year. Uh I'm also going to uh take the investments off this slide as I think it's probably fairly hard to read.
So, this past yesterday, yesterday, uh we played Thor High School and Brent had uh four stolen bases. If he had five in inning, he would have actually tied the national record, but he had four. So, that puts you at second to the national record with I'm sure with a slew of other individuals. But Bren stole number 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, and 79. So now he is the single he has the single placeholder as the all-time uh record holder for single season stolen bases presently. However, in addition to that in addition to that, if this wasn't wasn't enough, you're also 11th all time in the United States for stolen bases in a single season. And we're sitting with three games, three guaranteed games, right? with three regular season games, which if things were to trend, and I'm not saying that they're going to trend this way, but if I were going to predict, I would say that, and I've looked at the numbers, that he could be as high as fifth all time stolen bases in the United States of America.
Two balls, two strikes. Got a runner on second. Taking a good healthy lead. And that ball's low. A full count now. That ball's pass ball, too. Pelaka's got to make his way over to third base. Got Padula heading the first. No outs. Runners on the corners. Up at bat is JP Duffy. See if uh see if coach sends Padoula on this sharply hit ball right to the left fielder who's under it. Tagging up is Pasalaka who makes his way in there. The game is tied. Good heads up running. Copton's checking if the runner left a little bit early. Unfortunately, with one umpire, that's that's such a hard thing to keep track of. 90% of the time they're gonna not not call that throw over to first base. Padoula back safely. Pitch to Duffy. That's in the Dura. Good pickup by the catcher. Nelson's the catcher.
Thank you. Thanks. [Applause] All right. Uh Mr. Dano, you're up with the cash balance report, please. April 2025 cash balance is 4,241 192 deposits for the month of 5,37868. We transferred out a million dollar the MMDT account. Uh you see the unless the payroll amounts and warrants are shown leaves us with a an operating balance of 4 million25727. In our MMDT account we have 6,205918. To start the month we have uh interest of $29,999. and then receive the net of the 3.5 to 2.5 1 million come from operating account leaves us with an MMDT balance of 7,2357 and a total operating cash balance of 11,485744. Um one other thing I wanted to add um is that um we've made through MMDT uh almost a 1.5 million mostly coming uh from the la from 2021 to uh this point in time. So $1.5 million over the last four years.
She is the outgoing president of the student council. She is involved in theater, forensics, cross country, track, scholars bowl, mind over matter, national honor society, FBLA, and FCA. This year she led the VHS forensics team to their first runner-up finish at the state competition and was part of the state qualifying scholars team. Next year, Mallerie will attend the University of Oklahoma working toward a bachelor of fine arts and acting. Please join me in welcoming Miss Mallerie Over. [Applause] I'd like to start off by thanking Mr. Spring and eighth grade teachers for asking me to speak tonight. I am no expert, but there are a few thoughts that I would like to share with you as you prepare for high school. First of all, congrats on surviving middle school. That is an accomplishment. And your reward, four more years of school. The good news is that high school will provide you with so many different opportunities that can be so fun if you do it right.
[Applause] Good evening everyone and Mr. Math. Thank you for being here to celebrate our achievement. It is my honor to recognize a student who has met a zel in mathematics and has shown incredible problem solving skills and perseverance throughout the year. From solving challenging equations to supporting classmates with difficult concepts, this student has consist consistently shown strong leadership and a genuine enthusiasm for learning. His curiosity and precision have set a high standard for excellence in our math program. Please join me in congratulating our best demand award recipient Alden. [Applause] Thank you middle school teachers and congratulations awardees. At this time we are honored to hear a message from someone who plays a vital role in supporting our students, staff and our schools across the district. Please join me in welcoming our superintendent, Dr. Roman Sautero to deliver an inspirational message to the class of [Music] [Applause] 2029.
Thank you for that lesson. Ethan, I see you. Your artistic talent is amazing and inspiring. I want to start painting and drawing because of you. Thank you for inspiring me and thank you for teaching us that lesson. [Applause] JJT Jose or Juan Jose, thank you so much for your curiosity. Thank you for asking why and challenging us and asking why we do things the way we do. Thank you for that energy. I really appreciate [Applause] that. Christian Your determination keep kept us focused and thank you for reminding us of that lesson and congratulations on meeting your goal. Your energy is fantastic. Thank you. [Applause] From this point forward, you will have some grit, you will have challenges. I know you will. But each and every one of you brings that positive energy that you have inside of you with you. Remember that you can control the way that you go with your bus.
We knew. We let it happen. That's love. We really didn't let it happen. To all of you, thank you for the memes, the core memories, and the absolute tom foolery. This school won't hit the same without you. The hallway energy is about to drop 87%. High school's up next. New arc, new characters, bigger boss battles. But I believe in y'all. No cap. Keep slaying. Stay dulu and stay safe. For real though, proud of you. We all are. This isn't goodbye. It's just BRB. Honestly, I'm very proud of you all and all of your accomplishments. You've all worked so hard to get to this point. I've watched it. I've seen you through the years. I've seen the friendships. I've seen you problem solving. We'll miss you all very, very much. For many of you, you've been here since preschool. And regardless of when you started here, you become part of the family right away.
My goodness. [Applause] Boys and girls, I would like you to help me give a great big shout out of thank you to your amazing parents and family members that are here. Can you say thank you? One, two, three. Thank you. All your teachers, can you look at them and say thank you? I want you to continue to work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen. Okay? Continue to work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen for you all. Okay? I love you all so much. You're amazing. Thank you parents again. I would like for you, we're the students will be up here waiting for you um to get signed them out with their teachers. Also, if you're going to take them for the day, which you don't have to, but if you choose to, we have sign out sheets at the gate with Mr.
So this is uh Arizona revised statute 15941 talks about the teacher experience index and this is where the state tries to give you some additional dollars if your population is uh much higher experience than the rest of the state of Arizona. So they look at our calculation for our teachers, they compare it to the state, they do some math, and then it comes out with an average. The average if you have less is a 1.0 additional funding, which is nothing. I'll show it in the funding formula, but if you're able to get more than a one, uh, then you get some additional dollars. Um, I'm not aware. I've never been in a district that got more than a one. Uh, so I'm not sure if Mr. man has ever seen a more than a one. You have had some districts with higher experience index. Yeah.
Stand in front. Here we go. One, two, three. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you guys. Tell your hubby I said. Tell your hubby I said hi. Thanks. Next up, we have Islands Elementary. Can I have Allison Hunt come up? Is she here? There you are. [Applause] Hi, Alison. Hi. You guys took third place. You want to bring up your students and and say hello? I would love to. So, our team, we had a twoerson team. We have Eliza and Macy. Awesome. So, they worked really, really hard this year. Um, they actually were a three-person team and they ended up getting turned into a two-person team and they went to the district battle the whole first round. They got every single question correct and then it became a battle off and they took home third place which was really impressive. I'm super proud of them. So, okay, tell everybody your name and your favorite book.
I am pleased to present the three students have who have earned the highest academic ranking in the class of 2025. Isabelle Barrosu John Delgado, [Applause] Dave Dominguez, students, we as a community acknowledge and respect your remarkable achievements. Thank you for the hard work and dedication you have given to Washington High School over these past four years. I now present to you Isabelle Barrosu. [Applause] Good evening, esteemed guests, Washington faculty, and class of 2025. I would like to begin by thanking my parents for challenging me to perform well academically and my brother Adrian for helping me throughout high school. Also, thank you to all my teachers for making me the student I am now and staying by me through difficult times. Throughout my time as an honor student, I have learned many valuable skills, but one of the most important has been perseverance. My journey to complete the art seal, an award given to students who show commitment and proficiency in art fields, has had many obstacles and setbacks.
So, I'd like to remind you all today to ask more questions like how your loved ones are doing." And make sure to realize this moment in your life so when you look back on today, you could be grateful for what you did. Mamaos. I am Jose Chavez Odama. Thank you. Good afternoon, fellow graduates, family, friends, and school faculty. For those who don't recognize me by my luscious locks, I am Josh Katsman, one of the seven top 1% graduates of our spectacular class of 2025. I'd like to start by expressing my gratitude to everyone because I couldn't possibly have made it to where I stand today without all of your help. Thank you to my mom and dad for your love and support and to my hardworking teachers for my enriching education. Thank you to my friends for all the good laughs and memories. Finally, thank you to my fellow peers for making it through these four years and preparing for the bright future together.
Thank you. Yeah. I don't know if does Tom have anything to add here. Well, I always if you want, but Gina just wanted to say thank you for your leadership over the last 11 years at BPS 101. Gina has served honorably in supporting the students and staff under her watch. Gina's experienced leadership and student focus has helped bring learning and activities to Hooverwood that empower student voice and curiosity. Her teachers are able to try and explore different ideas with her support while others other leaders in the district call her a mentor and use her as a sounding board very often. While Regina's career, she has made a difference for thousands of students. Any conversation with her will bring you to a point where every student is thought of and accounted for, especially those who might need to be thought about the most, but could accidentally be forgotten.