More questions for Tony? Good. All right, then we'll move on to 6.3 committee updates. time. So, um as as customary will and any of the board members want to speak to their committees, feel free, but I know uh plaque and CAC did not meet this month. Uh that was due to the wrap-up of the year and and everyone's calendars and schedules, but uh we do have some of the other reports in there and I don't know if anybody wants to start out. Go ahead. Kristen, do you have anything to report? No, I do not. All right, Rob. Okay. So, uh for the stipen committee, that work was wrapped up um here a couple uh about a week ago or so, I guess. Um and interesting thing here, so um we had uh 14 proposals to review totaling 900 uh sorry 93,000 in requests and we had a budget of 10,000 to work with.
Yeah. So the interventionist will still have access to that. And again, we would look to see what does a student need. Um and then also what's age appropriate, right? When you have a student that comes in, let's say seventh or eighth grade, that's different than a student that comes in at second or third grade. Um and so we would look to see what is it that the student needs, but yes, they would have access to benchmark phonics as a tier 2 support. Perfect. Thank you. I tried to buy you some time on the presentation here, but uh can I share it with Shephard and then Well, thank you. Just so next up is um benchmark assessment. Currently this year, uh, we have had Star Renaissance as our, um, yeah, I guess I could have it up here so that way I know what I'm talking about, right?
Also shout out to the special services department who hosted uh FBA BIP and behavioral data collection PD. There was also a threat assessment training and then also a special services organized ECE placement um extended school year uh planning in addition to 2526 rostering. And we got actually a wonderful email from the ECE team just very grateful to you um for organizing and providing them that time to get that done. And so to wrap this up, I also wanted to highlight an additional PD opportunity for our Kerry Junior High teachers. There is a partnership with D1 155 who is hosting professional development over the summer and it is led by their teachers, but it has been extended to Kerry 26 teachers at the junior high as well. Um they can earn professional development hours towards their license renewal. um sessions are taught by the DU 155 staff.
Is there any um restriction on the amount of uh cloud space or the amount of time that we're able to keep these records based on the package? So, I I I believe this package calls for us to be able to store video u for up to uh up to 30 days uh which based on uh the experience here at the junior high, I believe has proven to be a long enough period uh of of time at least storing it within the uh the cloud. But you'll be able to download say there was an incident that we needed for a court case or whatever. Correct. Okay. Yeah. which I believe is what would would happen. Now, if there is something that really is egregious that occurs at the junior high, we do have the capability of of downloading uh and storing that on our server. Okay.
We do. We can talk. We can we just need the motion and second and then we can have discussion. All right. Yes. Okay. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Okay. We got a uh motion by Bill and moved by Todd. Dr. Hall.
That ball's low. Gets by him. Gorman's running in. Scores easily. McCay able to make his way to third base in that pass ball. Ashlin's put three on the board so far here in the bottom of the fifth inning. one still a bat. Takes that for a ball. Still got a runner on third base. That ball's popped up and makes it over to the right by the Ashlin dugout. I don't think the catcher had a chance at that. Three balls, one strike. Got under that one. That's a pop up right to the pitcher and the pitcher's going to not even move off the mound and able to get to that. That's a tough break. Two outs now. Luke Lame up at bat. That's in there for a strike. Luke, one of the uh 15 lame boys. Or maybe there's only four or three. I don't know.
Before we go much further, does anybody have any questions so far? What do you attribute being uh delayed a half a year to where the students are coming in or co? Oh, no. In terms of implementing the curriculum, yeah, a part of it was just um timing. I didn't start until after I started on September 16th. So, it wasn't until after I came on board, got acclimated that we could really delve into the work. So, um, everything was set and they were kind of ready to go. They just needed, you know, someone to come in and help facilitate and get it moving forward. One of the things I'll add, Tom, just on that, too, is um, the teachers getting that feedback based on, you know, opportunities to engage in that curriculum at the start of the year. um wanting to be thoughtful in being consistent in implementing it, rushing that kind of coming in a couple weeks in and then having it maybe not go as successful would put our students back.
One teacher called this student, quote, "One of the most respectful students in our school while still maintaining a sense of humor." While another said, quote, "This student leads by example and is a one ina- million kid I will never forget." This year's most outstanding cold is a leader in athletics. This year he broke a school football record, two school track records, was the best defensive basketball player I've ever coached, and he was also one of the best wrestlers in our school's history. This year's Colt is someone who, when our boys basketball team was in a playoff game late against Calabasas, a team that had beat us by 34 earlier in the season, and he was working his butt off to keep us in the game so tired he could barely breathe and asked me to come out of the game. I angrily told him absolutely not.
Um, and also to be able to support the small businesses and things like that. So, that's that's my one concern up here. Before you get to the next topic, what's the deal with the room policy history? I guess how did we get to land where we're at with that? I know years ago we tried to lower the bar of entry. Um, one of the things we tend to run into is a concept in state of Arizona law which is called gift of public funds. So, as a public entity, we there are certain things that we have to be certain to do to make sure that we're not providing a value to someone of less than the value of what we're providing. Probably there's probably a better way to express it than that. So, in other words, like let's say for us to heat and cool that room, keep the lights on, and clean it costs us, you know, $89.
Whenever you're ready. I am a senior at Highland High School. I I've been in the broadcasting program at Highland for for about four years now. Since my freshman year, I've been on and off in it. had to take a couple years off, but um recently it's been noted to us that the Highland broadcasting program is going to be cut next year. And obviously as this doesn't affect me personally as I'm going off to college next year, uh it still frustrates me and upsets me that such an important program to my life is getting cut. Uh I found my passion. I'm going into sports journalism, sports broadcasting because of this program. Uh, and I think it's just a really important thing, especially as a district that as we prioritize CTE classes and and what those can do for someone's career in the future. Uh, I just urge you to to at least think about the message you're sending by cutting one of to me Highland's most important programs and one of their best programs and easily one of their most distinguished programs as we just won all the most awards at the district film film and video festival.
So um this committee did an outstanding job of vetting all the proposals um baselining. They did the research. They went and talked to um affected parties and had to make some tough decisions but um did get down to pretty close to meeting the the budget. Maybe a little bit over but uh pretty negligible over. Um, so, um, so it was a great job and, um, we're getting ready for the next year. The dates are already set, so forward to that, uh, the next school year. And then I will say just on rack, um, so there's the explanation there. I won't go into all those. Um, there's a few different items talked about there in the summary. Uh, and Tony already mentioned it, but we're going to talk a little bit more about the fiscal year 26 budget. Um, and it it's in there. But, uh, I think the thing to keep in mind here is, um, one, it's a little ahead of schedule, and the reasoning for that is, um, lining up with resources with the start of the school year.
Um, we've had Star Renaissance as our benchmark assessment. Um, we did engage a committee to review uh, STAR, I Ready and MAP NWEA. It was very evident from the very first meeting. The entire team unanimously said was not meeting the criteria based off of the rubric that was generated which I'll share the rubric with you in just a moment. So then that narrowed down I ready um and MAP NWA. In addition to our committee which I will share what the committee results were, we also engaged teachers in a survey regarding the benchmark assessment. A survey was sent out, as you can see on the right side of your screen, a survey was sent out that included links to the specific information for both MAPN NWA and I Ready, so that way they could see the information for themselves and make an informed decision. On the left side of the screen, you'll see the benchmark review rubric that we utilized.
There are AM and PM sessions, not PM like nighttime, but PM as in the afternoon versus the morning. Um and there they had topics on differentiation, incorporating reading into classrooms to support that ACT prep uh and leveling up teacher student relationships as well. So, some great offerings right there. And so, we're just very excited for that partnership. Just want to remind the Kerry Junior High teachers that the deadline to sign up for those uh PDs is May 1st, which I believe is Thursday. That's all I have. Thank you. Uh next up, we have a recap of the committee of the whole from last Monday. Um we had a review of the bills. Uh the treasur's report, fiscal year 25 amended budget was presented. discuss the organic life LLC contract. Uh the security camera installation bid, uh additional teacher allocation at one of our schools, policies 2160, 2250 E1, and 2250 E2.
And there's nothing else um technology-wise, it wise that we need to prepare ourselves for these cameras internally as part of the rest of the infrastructure. the other components such as switch capacity and everything is covered in that uh that bid amount. Perfect. Thank you. Just to go with the obvious, Mr. Shepard, once we if we approve this boat, then we have everybody but Deer Path on board and Deer Path security camera will come to the board when all of Deer Path's remodel comes. Right. Correct. Which we're looking at uh uh summer of 2026. Well, pay systems they checked out. We've used them before. They're using our um IEB IB EW local. Um they completed the Kerry Junior High project on time, right? Yep. Um and we anticipate the same for um fall 25, right? Yep. Okay. Looks good to me. Yep. Perfect. Any other questions?
Any questions or comments on the consent agenda? Yeah. So, in the financial report, I saw Elim Elim Christian Services, and I was just wondering what that is. I think it may have something to do with speed. I'm not sure. Um, I can look up the vendor specific information and get back to you. Um, okay. I believe Helum is a out of district uh special ed entity. It looked like it said. I wrote that down, too, cuz I was wondering what that was. Uh because it uh I when I look at the financial report, I only look at large numbers like uh and that one actually turned out to be like $38,000. I think yes, it is tuition for four students. Okay. All right. You wrote two there. 22 and 15. Okay. We got the answer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? I I did on an individual basis since the board members including our financial team.
Seems to be a lot of them. That's a ball outside. 101. Oh, good cut. One ball, two strikes. Still got a runner on third base here. And that's outside. Good eye. That's high. Three balls, two strikes. Two outs, full count. Able to get to that ball down to third base. Third base run all the way across the field. Not a good throw. pulls the runner off the base and Lamemize able to drive in a run. Nice sharp ball to the third baseman. Very hard play for a third baseman. Like literally from the corner having to get it all the way across the field to first base. Just couldn't get it. And another runner is driven in. Now we got Carter Gork up at Another player here with an older brother. He's a good baseball player. Oh, foul tip. B on that ball. Good job. Two outs runner at first.
So I think going in there allowing them to use their common planning time to go in work with Brendan um develop some of the initial units before having some extended time maybe over winter break where we invested and kind of give us some teachers some time there allowed for them to kind of go on be consistent and really push the standard for where our students can get the curriculum. So um but that's why the way while you're on the role explain career readiness course to me. Well, I have Lauren here for career readiness course. So, our career readiness course is um in the it's implemented in the ninth grade. It's a new course this year that was developed and refined over the summer. Um and it it encompasses um uh I would say what we mostly refer to as soft skills, but those are those career readiness skills in terms of um communication, collaboration, um even job readiness.
And he just nodded his head and kept on going. His fullcourt pressure, steals, and clutch scoring helping us seal the win. and the greatest sports turnaround I've been a part of since I started coaching here. This moment is the perfect moment to represent this guy as a person. This year's most outstanding Colts will grind and grind and grind because he knows no other way. All talent aside, that's what makes him truly great. This year's most outstanding Colt is Jonathan JJ. [Music] The next award is the Optimus Club Award presented by Mr. Kevin Walsh and Mr. Steven Leon. [Applause] Good, good morning. Morning. Nobody's uh quite mentioned it so far, but uh the decorations for this year's promotion are amazing. It's a pretty killer summit. The uh the famous club of Green Valley Serena uh has 21 members. That's uh that's a pretty small club. Uh we're not exclusive.
If we rent the room for $75, then we potentially would get in trouble um from the auditor general that Miss Shapiro referenced earlier because they would come back and say, "Well, you you basically gave away $14 of value taxpayer money to this private entity." So, um I don't like to editorialize from the deas. Um the legislature seems to be okay with one very large taxpayer money giveaway that I'm aware of. But um but public as public schools Yeah. but public schools um were held very tightly accountable to that. So but it is certainly something that we are about due to assess again. Um, one thing I heard, I don't mean to cut you off, was Dominic told you that, you know, within that policy, there seems to be some sort of scale depending on there are three classes. Is there you said we it's time to reassess it maybe in Oh, I'm getting a little bit of eyes from Vanessa because I think the fear is the last time we the last scale that we assessed was like our our long-term leasing rates and that put us in that our leasing rates are actually below where they need to be, right?
We took home the big award there. So, just to me, I it's it was just frustrating to hear as even as a senior who got to experience things that a lot of other students don't. I mean, I got to do the play-by-play calls for all of our football games this year, including a playoff game on the NFHS network, which looks really good on a resume for the future. And that all stems from this program and the the CTE programs that as a district you guys work so hard to promote and get out there. And I think cutting this class in particular, especially the one that helps you promote some of those classes. I mean, we've done promo videos for other classes, other CTE classes, uh, I think it just sets a a bad has a leaves a bad taste in my mouth there. And and this program, especially at Highland with Mr.