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and um we thought we filled it out pretty well. Um they asked for lots of different programs that we run and we think our program is pretty special. We offer a lot of things that a lot of districts around even in this area don't do. Um so we think that and we pride ourselves on this wonderful music program. So we're very very honored to have this award and this recognition and um we plan on applying you for it year after year because we think so highly of everybody that's a part of this music program. So congratulations to everybody. Thank you. And the the the timing of being able to recognize our staff tonight, our music staff on the same night that we had the musical performances is just um really speaks as an example of what exactly what you're talking about. So, um Miss Smith.
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Good evening everyone. I'm Karina Rodriguez Quanka and it has been my honor to serve you guys as your senior class president. Okay, let's be honest. Our high school journey was far from perfect. Take August of 2023 for example. Just as we stepped into our roles as upper classmen, we were hit with a storm. Literally, like I'm sure you guys all remember it. So now, forgive me for going full English teacher on you, but in literature, storms often symbolize chaos, uncertainty, and emotional struggle. Something many of us have faced, are currently facing, or will face. That storm didn't just damage buildings. It tested our morale. But in the face of it all, we showed who we truly are. Family stepped in, teachers adapted, and our community stood strong together. We didn't just rebuild our school, we rebuilt our spirit. From this, we learned that growth isn't always immediate.
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Trier Gavin Sawyer Scott Oliver David Scott Lucas Abel [Applause] Senra Hina Eileene Zepa [Applause] Janiah Alin Seriel, [Music] Connor Aldere, Cerna, Fatima, Guadalupe, Serrano, Maggie Rose Seymour, sedan shatiz [Music] [Applause] Owen Michael Shrieve Sebastian Vincent Noel Shame Eric Silva Jr. Devon Simmons, Parker Braden Sloth, [Music] Aiden Gray Smith, Marcela Marie Smith, Marcus Allen Smith, Shiloh R. Smith, Ma Jasmine Michaela [Music] Sulttow. No one saw that. Tyler Bryant Sorenson, [Applause] Alexis Isabel Sto, [Applause] Madison Marie Statulations. [Applause] Connor Matthew Stillwell, Christian Paul Strader, Mia Karen Stzman, [Applause] Bo Campbell, [Applause] Sundon, Reagan Taylor, Sundon, [Applause] Madison Paige Sutherland, Natalie Sophia [Applause] Tanaka, Samantha Emily Thomas, Jaden Jace Thursby, [Applause] Casey Develin, Tobin, Trevor Lane Tower. Can you just read the bottom? Just the bottom. Jaylen Tran. Gabriella Anastasia Triana, [Applause] Gabriel Via Trinidad, Isaiah Eli [Applause] Trillo, Anna Renee, [Applause] [Music] Victoria Steven Lee Trick, sea, yarn, [Music] USA, Faith and Vakage, Jazelle Angelina [Applause] Valdez, Milan Valdez, Dazzo Elijah James Valencia, Hayden Frederick Vanlangan, [Applause] Ariana Janelle Vehar, [Music] Jonathan Joseph [Music] Velasquez, Mia Tatiana Via, Seth Ryan Lee Walker, Benjamin Jacob Wallace Walsh, Ashlin Janette Wasin, Kenzie Lynn Weakland, Christopher Lee Whitamp, [Applause] Megan Savannah Weller, Derek Anthony, Hunter Nunees White, [Music] August Rebecca Molina Whitaker, [Applause] James Alexander Willis, Skylar Anne [Applause] Winfield, Sylvia Leonar Wit, Isabelle Jaden Wac, Lacklin Ryu Woodman, June Madison Wright, Sienna Grace, Ibara, Charlie Young, [Music] Michaela Naa Zapata, [Applause] Emily Mercedes, Zuniga, Congratulations graduates.
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Any discussion? All those in favor? 70. One additional. Yes, please. Also asking for the following recommendation. Travis Writzman, Jennings County High School impact alternative ed teacher and Jennings County High School boys varsity basketball coach. Okay, we'll entertain a motion. I have a I have a motion by Mary Lynn and I have second by Earl. Sorry, we're fighting over this. Can you tell we're a little bit excited? So, I have a motion and I have a second.
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So, as chair, issues are coming at me regularly out outside of meetings. Um, and things that homework that needs to be done between meetings. And so, I find that it would be a really good to have some a sounding board, someone that's available to have phone calls in the evening or um um obviously not every evening, but to to talk things through. And so that's the kind of um availability I'm looking for that that the vice chair also would step in and run the meeting if the chair wasn't if if the chair wasn't here for whatever reason. Um that could be because you're out of town, you're sick, or it could be because a project comes up um where I would need to recuse myself. So the the vice chair would step in and run the meeting. There's also the secretary position which we have recently really defined well with our former member Kate that involves essentially um keeping track of public comment that we receive, reporting to the board at every meeting, a summary of the public comment.
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All right, on to maintenance operations. Jose Aguo and I know you saw him once already ready to make his entrance. Martine Sandival of Mary Anna Academy. Sylvia [Applause] Felix, you're the only one. You're the only one leaving Mariana. Congratulations. All right, our nutrition services folks. First up, food service supervisor, Mary Lou Asavdo. [Applause] one of the lucky few remaining that opened Granite Hills High School. Yeah. Um Joanne McDaniel also nutrition services. Leading the troop in nutrition services, retiring Rose Stark, [Applause] director. And last out of nutrition services, Rhonda Viz. Viz. I was I said you said Viz. [Applause] Sorry. All right. On to Phoenix Academy. Melissa Clark, teacher, Missy. Sorry, Missy. Melissa. I It's the database. I I I read before I think. [Applause] brought your own fan club. Congratulations, Irma Coronado Aldaz. I'm sorry, Irma, you're [Applause] here. Next up, Fenus Academy teacher Kevin Dodge.
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Most of those projects over the last 20 years have been larger housing projects on large tracks of land. There has never been any protection for any natural feature on any residential neighborhoods that are established and have long existed. We think there should be. The fundamental things we're saying here also mean that we want natural features protections expanded in the city to address the loss of them on private property that is not large development that does not require site plan. We don't want to lose trees in densification. We do not want to lose tributary buffers in densification. We don't want to lose wetlands or wetland buffers in density densification. This has never proved to be a impediment to developers in a city. The cost has been minimal though not insignificant in order to push them to take fewer trees to stay out of wetlands to not flatten a flatten a site to not cover the site with subsurface.
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Everybody Thank you. [Applause] All right, you guys. You guys are good. So, we don't have any action from the executive session. So, at this point, we will adjourn the meeting. Can I have a motion in a second? Motion. Sorry. Not everyone at once. All those in favor I oppose or abstain. All right, everyone have a nice Memorial Day weekend. Do that again if we practice. Um, hold on. I sent like a separate one. Hold on. Cuz you said yes. I don't know any that one was empty. I [Music] I'll have an exact number.
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Say it all day. I do it. It doesn't always Guys, since I have work to do, I should really go upstairs and do it. I'm wondering. Yes, it's nice. that you haven't seen from other Is Dante retiring? He is 42 years. Wow. And we were finished at like want to say we had two people present a little something from outside and still I think we were done at like 20 after 5 so then we had to wait they weren't ready for dinner so here I thought I'd get out earlier two, right? It's hard to tell. A little more comp. So, you know, in the brownstone, you would see everything spread out and go, "Oh, light." Yes. That was your last name. retirement. I was literally going to kidnap her and tie her to her desk. So when she became president, I took over a lot of Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, I was I was gonna uh you're you're in here somewhere. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. There we are. Okay. After hand after handing out so many certificates, it has to be officially handed out to you. Okay. We can't skip that. So thank you. [Applause] That concludes our recognitions. That is um probably a record I feel like um a fantastic record. We're going to take five minutes for a break. Folks who were here for the recognitions are welcome to stay through the rest of the meeting. This is traditionally where I also say if you have other things to attend to, we understand and thank you for having come out. So, we'll be back on in five [Music] resume. Now, as we have done with our previous couple meetings, we're going to consolidate our public comment into one public comment section, which will be now.
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Progress doesn't always feel like progress, and success doesn't always look how we imagined. But as the Arizona Association of Student Council says, trust the process, trust the slow days, trust the setbacks, and trust the moments that didn't go your way because each of them has led you here. To our teachers, coaches, and staff, thank you for being more than just educators. You've been mentors, guides, and sometimes very patient babysitters. To our families and loved ones, thank you for your love, your sacrifices, and your belief in us. This achievement is yours, too. We couldn't have done this without you. And finally, to the class of 2025, thank you. You've shown me what true perseverance looks like. Whether it was pushing through a storm or powering through our senioritis, you've proved that we are capable of more than we know. As we step into the unknown, let's be honest, none of us have it completely figured out.
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Diplomas will now be distributed by Mountain View staff. Cue our senior song. That was good. That's a great question. It should be coming right across. Make sure we get yours. I think you're pretty much And thank you. Thank you, Mountain View staff. In closing, congratulations to each member of the class of 2025. As we've heard tonight, keep dreaming. Commit to your future legacy. And thank you for the footprints that you've left on our school. Mountain View High School, class of 2025, please stand, Mountain View High School community. I proudly present to you the graduating class of 2025. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Class of 2025, please exit to our two back doors. Cue our fight song. graduates. Please Come on. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Love that. [Music] [Applause] [Music] again.
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Any discussion? Yeah, I got a comment. I know they're Newcastle boy. U We come from a community that loves their basketball, but I'm telling you, this community, they'll give you your heart. They're really something. I've been here 55 years and this is home and very proud to be here and God's blessed you. That's it. Any other discussion?
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Kate also kept us organized relative to specific tasks if you will, a checklist for every project. Um yes, it's important to note that the secretary who actually we called the clerk um clerk uh does not take meeting minutes that that is done for us. It gets done um by someone outside. Y so um I I will say that as busy as I am, planning board business is still very important to me and I think Trish and I have a when I run the meetings I think it's gone well to kind of cover for Trisha and I'm very comfortable with that role. Um, right now we don't have any big projects coming up that I'm aware of where um, unless I'm wrong, maybe our you can speak to this, but I'm not aware of any major projects that require heavy lifting outside of our meetings right now.
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[Applause] teacher preschool. Janette Hand, [Applause] PE teacher Vicky McDaniel. [Applause] Speech and language. Theres [Applause] Moore, teacher. Robin Potter, school office assistant Mary [Applause] Smart, and teacher Margaret Wilson. Phoenix [Applause] Academy. Retiring out of our police department, dispatcher Sue [Applause] Derek. Right on to Rancho Verdie Elementary teacher Tracy [Applause] Lowenhorse. Congratulations, teacher Carol [Applause] Olen. Congratulations. Teacher Linda [Applause] Shelton, para educator. Alma Go forth. Take your time. Take your time. Congratulations. All right. On to Rio Vista. Principal Kelly Poff. [Applause] and teacher Roger [Applause] Stefan onto Sandia Mary Kaufman. [Applause] Christine Rom. No. Wendy's shaking her head. No. Teacher Mary Vastine. We got [Laughter] one. Congratulations and teacher Steven Wulmarmac. [Applause] All right. Uh we have little rearranging up here. Um Sitting Bull Academy. I actually technically assigned to student services but working on that property more than anywhere else. Uh music teacher Andrew [Applause] [Music] Karubius also shared actually between Rio Vista and Sitting Bull working out of student services.
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soils to not fill wetlands. We want the same thing to happen in the rest of the city. Now, so please understand this is a we are asking for an expansion of these regulations. It is not difficult to do. Um, and it may be one way to soften the uh tearing up of the fabric of some residential neighborhoods by this densification process. Thank you. Just so everyone understands, it's not it's one thing to say, okay, it's great, we'll keep our natural feature stuff, but if it doesn't apply to where all this densification is going to go on, it's not working. Thank you. Other comments? Go ahead, C Commissioner Mitchell. Thank you. Um, I just want to say what Chris said in a slightly different way and that is that we currently get a lot of value from the natural features that exist on private property. We may not even know and have may not have measured it exactly.
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Such a nice and it got cancelled because That's right. We were gone down too much. So when I live in literally three seconds away and um drove us My cousins live right outside of Philly. So I've been there. So there's really not. Well, your cousins have to come get you by them. No longer right outside. Oh yeah, that's cool. You know, for some reason today So my kids used to come home on Mother's Day, but then I didn't realize it was later in the past because I've noticed when they're gone. Okay. So yeah, the White House is open. Apparently somebody I don't know was able to security number one from our school that two weeks ago they called him and said oh yeah he couldn't get appointment passport expired but he was able to get an at the passport office in the mail. Passport everybody's doing it was a bag for everybody.
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Um, so this meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of interest. However, if your questions or comments pertain to litigation, student or personnel items, or negotiations, we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting.
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And that's okay. Because no matter what storm hits us later in life, we'll be ready to face it. Now, 2,340 school days later, let's make this official. Graduates, please rise. You may now move your tassels to the left. It is my honor to present to you the Morirana High School graduating class of 2025. Congratulations. You did it. You may now throw your caps. Thank you guys so much. [Applause] graduates, please exit up the escalators. You came down. Thank you. [Applause]
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Thank you families for joining us. Please find your student outside. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] What chang Yeah. I asked everybody and they're like, "No, we're going to wear green." And I'm like, I have my green dress is like it's ugly and it's not a it's not a flattering. It's fun. It's fun to have this. Yeah. By the way, that's your only raise this year. So, no kidding. I was like, retirement funds invest. Hey, you don't your RMA now. I know like up [Music] What do they do you have a box? So I think um that is an excellent question. We definitely have lots of boxes that they all get. [Music] [Applause] I [Music]
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