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I need about a 100 hours of continuing education. So like many professions we we need that. And this keeps a a transcript for me of my 100 hours and then I put that in the state system when I go through that renewal. So it's very convenient for staff. It's also meeting for um signing up for things, especially if there are multiple sessions. So, we currently have a piece of software. It's not great. Uh we get a lot of complaints about it. It's not easy to use. It's not easy to access. So, we're recommending an upgrade with Kickup. And then we also use a piece of software and have for for many years uh to run our teacher evaluation system. And um well, there's nothing wrong with it. It's not been updated in about 10 years. Um, and we don't have all of our staff in it.
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For the third I mean third graders are like right. Exactly. Level up, right? You got to use their term. That is the phrase. I appreciate you finding this program cuz you and I have had discussions about the communication home and like we get the star reports and it's like if you're not in education, even if you are in education, you probably don't even know what it means, right? This is going to be incredibly helpful for our parents. Um, the one question that I do have is, is it multilingual? So, if a student is Ukrainian or Spanish speaking, they have the ability to adjust the language. Yeah. So, any student regardless of language when they come in here, they take the assessment, the benchmark in English regardless of that native language. However, for the dual part within the program that we have here, they have the Spanish version in order to help track and monitor.
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May I have a motion to approve policy 450 payment procedure as presented? Okay. Is that You can have a motion. Yes, I'll make it. Is there a second? Second. Second.
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Somebody else will be in that spot and they'll have that information and as it gets updated maybe in a different procedure, it would be reflected in the exhibit as well. Let's say the FOYA procedure changes, right? Then whichever board is sitting here in 10 years will have that information. And so I'd like to see that included. But I also I I'm just going to leave it at that. I'd like to see that the exhibits included. I I agree with that because then they at least getting updated. But um yeah, I do hear the may wish to use or consult to support their implementation of board policies. But again, that's confusing to me because we as board members don't actually implement the policies. We just adopt them. the exhibits and the policies. So, it's just, you know, so is this then going to go into um consent agenda then or So, are we thinking we want this to go into the procedural manual or with updates then it'll get done or are we thinking that we're leaving it in policy?
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Yeah, we have to say it in open session, but I think you've already given me one, but I don't know if you have a confirmation on that name. Okay. Yeah, we can wait another, like I said, we're not in a rush. Do I need to get a confirmation? Well, so the idea is you're supposed to go talk to that person to see and then you're supposed to say, "Yes, this person has agreed to serve on this committee." Okay. Yeah. So, we can wait until next time. So, just I'll try to put a tickle reminder out for you folks to Yeah. Great. Did everybody get their Everybody get their little bio and all of that, too. Superintendent. We got that taken care of. Okay. Great. Excellent. Any other old business? New business? Okay, we do have a reason to go into close session and I do want to ask our council this.
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Uh the bottom of the seventh inning. that first three innings the score was tied one to one. Um it was a really tough game and then Hopton was able to put a you know few few runs on the board between the fourth and fifth innings but Ashlin came back um the score was like seven to five at the end of five and then in the sixth inning was able to put seven runs on and Ashley hasn't been able to score and then another run in the seventh and Ashton hasn't been able to score again. So see if they can get some runs on the board here. This will start. Okay. Tomorrow night, Wacka is going to be broadcasting girls lacrosse at 6:30 p.m. Anybody who wants to tune in for that as we get underway. First batter who was up was uh JP Duffy who got into a ball hit it out into the outfield but pop you know left fieldielder able to get over and get that for the first out.
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Does anybody have any questions? I know you mentioned that um you keeping track on those job positioning that is 2023 or 2024. How how do you guys keep track of that? So um so each year uh we compile a team um and the team is you typically teachers um who will apply for a stipended position. And so what we do is we take all of the graduates who graduated the previous year um and we reach out to them. So we'll start with um we'll start with putting on um our social media posts that we're looking for information about what they're up to. um what are they involved in, where are they working? Um and then from there we'll look at and so it's a series of um of rounds of which we collect the data and um then we'll reach out to their the email that they provided upon their graduation um and we'll collect some additional information you know from from those students and then if we what we're trying to do for the Perkins um report is collect responses from 65% of our graduates.
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Steven Austerly. um our superintendent, Miss Roxanna Rico, and our principal, Diana Quos, and our director of student services, Mr. Steven Lake. The following classrooms will be announced by Andy Vance. Welcome families. I'm very proud of this group right here. They've been exceptional all year long and it's just a testament of their uh environment and their families. So, it's a privilege to have been their teacher and it's a privilege to live here in this community with all of you. Without further ado, we're going to go ahead and begin the ceremony. But before that, I I do want to tell you guys that I will I will miss you very much. All of you. I really It's been just such a pleasure being your teacher and I will miss you and I want you to know that no matter what happens in your life in the future, you come to a crossroad.
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We do have a regular board meeting to follow this, but obviously these are important conversations. So if anyone feels moved to speak about a budget issue or priority, please this is your opportunity um before we close the study session and move into our regular board meeting and the study. And this is a good on this is if you've noticed it's a little different than our general board meetings at public comment. At general board meetings we cannot respond to you. This is a study session. So we're able to respond ask questions immediately start a conversation as opposed to our board meeting where if you make a public comment it's going to be some time before we get to where we're going with that. But it also does have to be about budget. Does have to be about budgets. You can't just come up here and talk about whatever you want.
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Moving on to uh agenda item number six, reports 6.01, monthly financial report for month ended April 30th, 2025. Dr. McCord. Thank you, President Thompson, governing board members. I will turn this over to our associate superintendent, Miss Bonnie Betts. Good evening, President Thompson, governing board members, Dr. McCord. This is a short uh presentation uh giving you the status of our financials in the current year through um April 30th, 2025. So, it's not up there. If if we can get it, let's do I have to do it again. Maybe I've got to maybe I've got to connect. I'm connecting it. It disconnected me somehow. So I got it. Thank you. So today's report, as always, we have the district operating funds, the federal grant funds, state grant funds, and other district funds. Uh just note that you all approved the final budget revision last board meeting on May 6th.
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It's just our licensed teaching staff. And with the new BESBA contract and other things going on in the district, we'd like everyone to be in one system. So, we're recommending and this system doesn't um distinguish between licensed staff and and support staff or administrators. So, we're looking to add more people to that system and to increase its usability in web interface. So again, they kick up learning and kick up growth modules to help do something that we're already doing but a new company that we would use. What was the cost of the previous systems that were used? This is about in total $5,000 more I believe. So it's fairly comparable but a little bit more. I was at the plaque meeting when we talked about this and uh I've never had to sign up for professional development here in the district, but there was a lot of complaints and it's like you have to use your phone and then your laptop and then you have to make sure you do all this.
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So, like the same way star, we had star math, right? They have math in Spanish as well. Awesome. They have the reading part as well in Spanish, but we are using last links to monitor the four language domains uh throughout the language development of the dual program and and the communication home if English is the primary language. Oh yes, there are multiple languages. Yes, it's looking at data score data in the different languages. Yes. Yeah. I thought you meant the actual set. I apologize. I wasn't clear on the but the communication communication can be adjusted to the parents native language. Awesome. Thank you. The other benefit is that currently our students take STAR as a benchmark three times a year, right? But it's also used as a progress monitoring tool in between those. So students essentially get starred out and the weight of the benchmark is not really there because they've been taking this assessment even throughout in between benchmarks.
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Any discussion? Yeah. Uh, so on what what we have in our packets, okay, I assume that press is um what they recommended is in black type and what Mrs. Potter would like added is in the green type so that you what we're being asked to do is approve that the entire thing gets put into the policy manual. So that when press updates this only the black part will get updated when press with press plus whatever we've tailored into the policy they will they will update the whole policy but any tailored language they won't touch. Okay. That's right. Okay. And this is just from going through the policies and comparing is um this was in the former board policy manual and it it did didn't transfer over um as the new manual aligned with press. So I brought it for consideration. If I could just make a comment on that section.
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So, who wants it to go into the procedural manual? So, I I'm a procedure voter. And and my other thought is while I may not know what the procedure manual looks like now, I'm sure there's nothing that stops us from having a board procedural section of the procedure manual so that we know where to look for all these forms. So I'm on procedure, not policy. But I'm going to disagree. Uh because if the there's a wait list for the procedure manual to get updated and we've been asking for a couple years versus if press releases new language that that's included in the exhibit. It's going to get updated when press comes out versus waiting for our number to be called for that AP update. I think until we're they're they get to us for a procedural manual, you know, for the AP manual update, it has in my mind, it has to stay where it is until such time as they're ready for us to update our AP manual.
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In close session, we have no other action other than adjourn. Can we adjourn in close session? Now I'm putting you on the spot. If we have no other action and if we had action, well, we just come out of close session, but can we adjourn in close session after we finish close session? Do we have to come back in open session to adjourn? You can adjourn in close session. We can. As long as you're informing the public that you're not coming back into open session. Okay, great. All right. Thank you, sir. So I would like a motion to go into close session for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees. So moved. Moved by Alex, second by Janine. Um we need a roll call and I do all favor roll call. Roll call. Miss Venegas. Hi. Miss Wolf I Dr. Hall I Mr.
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Adam Silverman up at bat now was a called strike on the first pitch a little bit outside but just caught the uh caught the zone. That's down low for ball. 101 of Silverman. Nice hit right to the shortstop. Shortstop ranges over. Well, off the mark. Pull the first baseman off and Silman has good speed going on that line. Able to get to first base. Good job on the running there. It's going to bring up Colton Gorman. First pitch strike in the Colton. There's a second strike. able to rip that one, but that's right to the center fielder. Oh, and the center fielder able to range over and get to that ball. Another very well struck ball. Just not dropping into the gaps. Two outs now. Runner on first. Got Ben McKay up at bat. That ball's on for a strike. Swing and miss. Two strikes.
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So that's the that's the marker that we're looking for. Um and so we use a variety of different methods. Um the most successful that's been in the past has now been our connected call. Um so that goes out to all of our graduates. Um and they'll they'll respond in that way. Um and so really and then it then it comes down to like cold calling and we will um you know leverage our our lead teachers. Sometimes they make the call, like I said, the the teachers who who apply for the statement, they'll work to to make the calls and um we just try to make those connections with families and get in touch with our graduates um and and find out what what they're doing um so where they're working um and and whether it's aligned to, you know, what the career path they were in when they were here or have they gone on to, you know, get additional um you know, education.
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But just let us know. Yeah. Welcome. I wasn't planning to speak on this tonight. My name is Casey Aken and I'm a um math and science coach here in the district. Um I taught in the district for 10 years and then I went to Baltz for a couple years as a science coach, district coach there and then returned this year. Um, I just do want to express that like they are a similarly very small district, but I took about a 10 to 11,000 salary cut to return here. So, I just want to make like that clear that like salary is a consideration for people when they're looking for employment, right? Thank you. Thank you. Alrighty. It's going once, twice. Anybody? Okay. All right. Thank you guys. I really appreciate the input. Yeah. Thank you. Do I need a motion to close the study session? No, you just adjourn it.
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So all of the budget grids reflect the final revised budget for the current year. So, the district operating funds um you can see again the highlighted budget revision number three. Again, a reminder, you can see that uh on the maintenance operations fund, we actually did realize a $300,000 increase in maintenance operations between revision 2 and revision three. This was primarily due to additional weighted student counts um that increased our revenue control limit. In addition, the uh Department of Ed posted the one-time additional district additional assistance supplement and that resulted in an overall increase to our budget of just over 1.5 million. If you note on unrestricted capital, uh that budget also increased by 1.5 million. So, we did move most of that into unrestricted capital instead of leaving it into maintenance operations. Just a quick update on that. So um this just shares what I just shared.
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