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10.3 is the appointment of the policy chair. I appoint Katherine Potter as the policy chair. Next up, we have the appointment of board insurance committee representative. I appoint Mindy Hartman and Stacy Saltz as the board insurance committee representatives. Next up, we have the appointment of the community engagement planning committee representative. I appoint Stacy Salt and myself as the community engagement planning committee representatives. Next up, we have the appointment of the district 26 technology representative. I appoint Bridget Sandlin as the district 26 technology representative. 10.7 is the appointment of the ethics commission representative. I appoint Katherine Potter, Darling, and Brian Daroo as the ethics commission representative. Next up is 10.8, the appointments of the legislative liaison representative. Representative, I appoint Katherine Potter and Darling to the legislative leazison representative. May I have a motion to approve the curriculum finance policy chair and the board insurance committee, the community engagement planning committee, the district 26 technology committee, the eth ethics commission, the legislative liaison representatives appointed as presented.
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I'd be happy to answer any questions uh the board may have. I don't have questions. I just wanted to thank you for your diligence and it seems like we've really taken notes from the challenges that we've received and are really heading in a good direction. I think everything in here makes a lot of sense. Any other comments? Thank you, Mr. Shepard. Uh, next up we have the Organic Life LLC contract 2025 2026. All right. So, last year the the district uh went out to RFPs for food service. Keep in mind, food service is one of those that we are required to go out to bid for every 5 years uh per uh state law. Uh it is also one of those contracts that needs to be reapproved every year uh by the the board of education. Uh we are recommending that we uh continue on with organic life.
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Uh at times we do have to hire some external high school teachers again uh depending on uh if we have any internal candidates or if we need um credit recovery in a certain area for our high school students. Uh the calendar is planned in February or March. Uh that is when our dates are selected. uh high school students attend uh they have to have 60 credit hours for each semester. They attend for 12 sess 12 days I'm sorry for each session. We run two sessions for that. Uh and then elementary depending on the dates can run anywhere from 20 to 24 days. Um we try to give flexibility again to our families and welcome in any siblings if that supports them. Uh funding can sometimes be a little tricky for us. It's grant 100% grantf funded. Uh and we try to again register and get as many students that we possibly can and historically again that runs about 500 across um all sites.
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Previous games haven't been as uh you know quite the the same outcome for Ashlin. a bit behind multiple runs, but doing a great job this game keeping the game within their reach. Good fielding, good pitching, manufacturing runs. See how we do going here in the top of the fourth inning. throw down the second must mean we're going to start the fourth inning. The lock is still out there. Up for Hington is Curran. Balls down to the dirt for a ball. Oh, it came in high, but it's got to swing out of it. One and one. Foul tip. Going off the catcher's mask and into the umpire's chest protector and out of bounds. Great pick up by the shortstop over to first base. Have to jump up a little bit to get that ball and the runner gets in there safe. Throw is just a little bit high.
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My dad is sick and I wasn't able to come. I have many things to do and I wasn't able. So I came last month and I spoke to the superintendent and his presence. I spoke with him and I was concerning that $320,000 is what he told me that he was getting paid. And I asked for 340 or 45 at the time and he told me no, he get he's getting 320. Well, after finding out, I found out that he's getting 337 actually today. 28,000 coming in 2025, which will make it 2025 $365,000. In 2029, it will voice and it will raise to $419,000. In average, if we take an average of four years, we're talking about $387 to $393,000, which will make it way over $1.6 6 million in 40 years. That's what I found out with the paperwork that I have in front of me and the paperwork that I have in my telephone in my computer.
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Gabby is most proud of improving her art [Applause] skills. Kevin Nunes. Kevin was on the high honorable all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Kevin Mo is most proud of getting good grades. And Murphy is most proud of trying a new sport. Andrew Myers. Andrew is most proud of being part of the civil air [Applause] controller. Jackson Ness. Jackson was on the high honor all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Jackson is most proud of his athletic accomplishments. Sophia Sophia was on the high honor role all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Sophia is most proud of getting another record in track and field. Grayson Taylor. Grayson was on the high honor role all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Grayson is most proud of the people he has met trying new things and success in eighth grade.
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She cries and she gets a runny nose and she gets bruises, but every time she gets back up, she will go as fast as she can and she's not worried about the risk of falling again. As we go through the world, it's easy to get lost in it. And it's important every once in a while that we stop and smell those flowers and look at those trees. every single tree like my daughter does. Every single tree because every single tree is unique. She is who she will be forever. Whether you are a baby or an adult, there is the ability to keep that. Of course, we look at babies and adults and they're so different, but that person inside of you has been there since you were born. All of your favorite things, all of the the discoveries that you've made as you've grown, that person has been with you the whole time.
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Next is the athletes of the year award presented by Mr. Steven and Mr. Nathan. [Applause] So, first I want to thank Mr. Lean for allowing me to present this award and also for a couple of things. One is harassing me at a job fair six years ago and convincing me to come here. And the other is uh on my second day of teaching here six years ago asking me if I'd be the assistant flag football coach and I told him no. But again, he was persistent and I'm so glad I did that because it led me to spending so much time with all of these guys both in that sport and many other sports. So, thank you, Mr. Lean. And let's go ahead and get going with the most outstanding female athlete award. This year, Mrs. Hatch, the middle school music teacher, and I bravely embarked on an experiment.
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And they mean something from school district to school district. when you go and look at 10,000 in another school district and you want to compare, it is the same classroom dollars that you're looking at. So, the chart of accounts and account codes are what help to create the transparency in Arizona funding in how we budget and how we spend the dollars. Um 2100 is direct student support. These are some of my most important dollars. This is where we want most of our dollars to go. 2200 is instructional staff. So, that's supporting teachers and helping teachers to teach. uh the 2100 with the direct support to students, that's direct face-to-face student um nursing, speech services, uh OT, PT services, things like that. Um but 10,000 are the classroom. The rest of it is broken up into the operational areas of a district. So, you're going to see in there administration, you have school principles, you have the executive staff here.
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You can start off with who you are. I'm Coach Trey. I'm Carter Scousin. I'm a senior. I'm Trevor Gamble. I'm a sophomore. I'm Malachi Bredensteiner. I'm a senior. I'm Isaiah Han. I'm a senior. I'm Daniel Burgess. I'm a senior. Gideon Curtis. I'm a senior. I'm Zach Brown. I'm a freshman. and I'm Coach Gabe. If you've never checked out volleyball, boys or girls, I suggest you go because they're exciting games. They're fast-paced and uh you represented Gilbert Public Schools and Campo pretty well. Please, one more hand for them. If you guys would shake hands with the board, we'll take your picture. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. I still have that video. Oh, yeah. Well, we might want to stand in front of you. How about this? We'll kind of weave in there. I don't know. Where you going? There are no height requirements for superintendents or board members.
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We will miss you. Thank you. I would now like to introduce Miss Laura Arita. Miss Arita began serving as 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 associate degree in global business. Miss Arita is and her husband are proud parents of one elementary age child, a current GUhSD High School student, and a Glendale High School graduate. She is a tenur employee of the Glendale Elementary School District and has volunteered actively for the Glendale and Phoenix communities since the mid 1990s. Welcome, Miss Arita. [Applause] Good evening graduates, families, families, distinguished faculty and friends. My name is Laara Arita. As a member of the Glendo Union High School governing board, it is a pre privilege to stand before you to celebrate this major milestone in the lives of Thunderbird High School graduating class of 2025.
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And they played a crucial well role as as did Susan uh Thorson, our uh NEA rep, and keeping things moving forward for us and and with you you folks. and um made a tremendous difference in keeping things on track and moving in a in a positive direction. So, we at um at best, but myself in particular, thank Drew for for his help uh during those challenging hours. But for myself, I' I've gone on probably the longest I have in a long time here at the podium. Thank you very much. Good luck to everybody. I will never say I've learned it best, but never to say This is my final thing because something always comes up with fast. So hopefully I'm scheduled that this is my last appearance with you, but you never know. But I look forward to uh working with you uh uh on matters committee assignments in the future, but as I understand it, this will be my last time as president.
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And they passed a referendum in which they were eliminating social emotional learning. all classes needed to be taught only in English and um there was nothing to do with any DEI. So, I mean, this is this almost seems like a blue versus red type resolution. And I just wonder how many counties or districts down, you know, past Kanga Key are are signing this just so you can see once we um once a board does um approve to um align with vision 20 30, it is posted. I will try to see if I can get that information for you of what districts have um approved the resolution um so far. Um but I will say each of the organizations that are involved in vision 2030 we're members of. So for example, Illinois Association of School Boards. Um I almost said Dr. Shepard. See I'm putting in atmosphere.
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So moved. Second. Any discussion? Um, I don't think I want to be on the community engagement and planning committee because I feel like that was a huge part of like the um, strategic plan and I wasn't invited to be a part of that. So, I think I'd just like to be taken off the committee. Okay. Is there anybody else that would like to be on that committee in Stacy's spot? I'll be. Okay. Julie, would do would you be interested in policy chair? No. Okay. Is there something else that you want? All right. Um, if there's no further discussion, may I um can we take a vote with that change? Julie Jetty, yes. Jason Jansik, yes. Bridget Sandlin, yes. Darling, yes. Mindy Hartman, yes. Katherine Potter, yes. Stacy Salt, yes. Okay, that motion carries. Next up is the establishment of regular meeting dates, times, and locations for the 2025 2026 school year.
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Uh this would be contract renewal number one or year two of a possible 5-year contract. Uh keep in mind that uh that the board at um any time can direct us to go out to RFP. Uh but we are recommending that we continue on with organic life. Uh the rate increase is determined by a CPI number that is actually driven not only by the the bid documents we submitted uh but also uh through uh state code uh as to what food service prices can go up. Uh and uh I should mention that the food service program is is really a self-funded uh program for the the district. Uh it is not meant to bring in revenue uh for the district. Uh and at this point uh between reimbursements that are received uh from the state and federal government and where the current lunch prices are, we are not anticipating a increase to uh student lunch prices, although that will be confirmed later uh this spring.
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Um questions. Yeah. You said um you post uh jobs for the teachers in March? Uh February or March? February or March. Yes. Uh in those job postings, uh do you include dates? Yes. So the so the teachers know what they're signing up for? Yes. So there is a full job description and it has the the date range of when we will um host summer school. Okay. Okay. I will tell you that historically uh for the high school, we try to start as soon as the the um that Monday afterwards uh and then it usually starts the following Monday for our elementary students. For instance, this year high school starts on June 6th and uh elementary or June 9th and then uh elementary starts on June 16th. Okay. And then um what metric are you looking at to invite students to summer school? We use a multitude of measures and again that kind of starts in March.
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Pulled uh JP Duffy off first base and uh the runner was able to get in there. Good hustle. Good running there by Curran to get in there. I still know we got Brooks at bat. ball kind of got by the pitcher, rolled into the outfield. Luckily, Austin was able to get on that before the runner was able to get himself over to second base. That's all these little little things in baseball you have to uh constantly watch out for, making these little errors that turn into runs. That ball's way up in the air coming right at me and I'm out of the way and I could have had it. Ben McCay tried to get over that. That was quite a run to get over here. He's right at the table where the uh all the broadcasting equipment is set up. No damage. Another foul ball backwards.
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All three of them. So, I don't think I'm going to erase those three. Um, I have a problem with $185,000 that is being paid to the assistant superintendent of the schools. And that $185,000 I think is worthless and it's not needed. You guys are spending too much money there besides the money that the superintendent is getting currently. He is worth something. He's a superintendent. He's been here for in 2011. You got you guys owe money to this guy. He needs to get paid. But I think $418,000 in four years that he will be getting paid. I think it's too much. This school needs money. I saw in the budget a deficiency. I see I saw many deficiencies in the budget that I will bring up to you at a later point because I don't have the time right now to speak.
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Max Morano Pinto. Max is most proud of his family supporting him throughout the [Applause] year. Austin Maras. Austin was on the honorable all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Austin is most proud of the friendships he has [Applause] made. Grace is ready. Grace had all A's all four quarters, will receive an academic letter, was top five pursuing in career and life planning, and top 5% in computer applications. Grace is most proud of working hard and keeping her grades [Applause] up. Will the last row, please stand and be recognized. Jaci Reed. Jaci was on the high honor role all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Jaci is most proud of having a positive attitude over the years. Jace Greer. Jace was on the high honor roll all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Jace is most proud of earning an A on his final in [Applause] match.
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