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One Nation na under God indivisible with liberty Justice thank you everyone um we will go ahead and move down to agenda item B1 uh Mr President Leonard can we just do a roll call real quick oh yep let's do a roll call Jay Leonard is present do we have Miss Pritchard yes present thank you Miss denmore present Miss Syer selt present Miss Tanner present welcome everybody let the record show that we have all board members present all right now we'll go ahead and move on to agenda um form uh B1 I'll make a motion to approve this agenda form uh to approve the agenda form consistent with governing board policy and temporary suspend any policy with which this agenda may be inconsistent second made by Jay Leonard seconded by Tracy Sor sink Bel let's go ahead and vote and I'm still waiting for Christine Pritchard and Jennifer Tanner's vote mine's not popping up so just if you want to just click yes that'd be great okay yes for Christine Pritchard how about you Jennifer yes okay off the motion passes thank you everyone all let's go ahead and move on we will move on to C1 which is the superintendent update we'll turn it over to Dr Kellis thank you president Leonard and members of the board members of cabinet this evening I would like to issue a statement that U is reflective of just my thoughts and and feelings about moving forward in our community in a an environment of of peace and and Harmony and this statement will be presented publicly via a video and also will be posted on our District web page I'd like to express my sincere appreciation to everyone in our Dysert Community who is committed to Building Bridges of Peace respect and Harmony I am humbled by so many examples of courageous people doing extraordinary things to write the wrongs in our society who advocate for and who protect our human rights who openly who open previously closed doors for civil discourse and most of all who ensure each and every individual can reap the rewards of their education hard work and talents I am saddened to think that even one dcer student or employee has ever been victimized by hatred we here in dier believe in and are committed to providing a safe well welcoming and inclusive environment for Learning and working if there are ways we can do better I invite you to responsibly communicate with me so that we can work together for a better future the daer district and surrounding communities of surprise El Mirage Youngtown wadell and our friends at Luke Air Force Base are indeed extraordinary places to live to learn and to work I stand with our diverse community to say that the work of ensuring peace and togetherness Is Never Done rather it is what we collectively must do each and every day and every hour I wish you faith hope and love Faith and Hope for safe and healthy times ahead and above all love for peace in the hearts of all and that's all I have to report this evening thank you for that I appreciate you putting that letter together that was very well said we'll go ahead and move on to um C2 governing board updates we have anybody that wants to start this is oh go ahead this is Christine Pritchard I was just wow um really touched by that Dr kis I think with everything that is going on I think that's probably the best way I've heard those sentiments captured in a very in a way that encompasses everyone and just exudes just kindness for all um there's nothing I can say that can top that so thank you for sharing it and articulating it in that way um was very meaningful and impactful thank you thank you Miss Richard Miss seld um Miss per actually took the words right out of my mouth though uh it was um very well articulated um with the unrest that has been going on um I I never want anybody in daart to feel uh that they are not welcomed and that's that's students staff and any Community member so I think that was very well well done thank you Dr Kellis and uh my second thing is I just want to give a a shout out to um uh one of our assistant superintendant Jim Dean and also to Mike Hawkins principal over Shadow for their distinguished honors um with Asa uh congratulations gentlemen I know you've worked hard and uh thank you for representing daart the way you always do and that's all excellent thank you for that uh Miss denmore um just ditto with everything um thank you very much Dr Kellis that was a beautiful message um thank you for incorporating Faith love and hope that is exactly what we need right now so again thank you thank you thank you Miss Dunmore and Miss Tanner I have nothing to add except just echoing those comments and grateful for the message that will be put out real quick what how are you releasing it on video is it just through social media Outlets or how is that going to be released um yes we will post it where we typically post our our video posts okay thank you I appreciate that excellent and uh just wrapping it up uh I Echo each one of your sentiments um well said I think it's a great representation of the extraordinary efforts that Dart is making to be a fruitful member of the community and also mindful of uh current events and how we all make an impact and um definitely can can work to be um just a little bit better so thank you for that um I also um had an opportunity to meet with the mayor and some of his council members last week and uh it was a very great meeting and uh I will say that they had some excellent things to say about uh Dr Dr Kellis and uh Skip Hall was very complimentary and um specifically mentioned the partnership that you have worked on with the city of surprise and his appreciation in the changes and the effort that you and your team has made um and just the um way that you're willing to work with him and his team in continuing to make those Partnerships and um he mentioned that um you do your best to um not say no to anything that he brings up as crazy as some of the ideas may be but um you always try to make it um work and work in the partnership and he mentioned that he um consciously makes an extra effort to attend all of the things that he's invited to that are related to the district um I I'm reminded of uh one thing that he said even when he um had a serious knee injury um he made it out to an event that he committed to come to because he feels that the uh partnership with dart is so important to the city and uh he definitely um shared his excitement for the things that are coming and the partnership we have so I appreciate you fostering that um with the city and the efforts that you've made with the mayor and the city council so thank you for that thank you all right let's go ahead and move on we are going to move down to D1 uh motion to approve the consent agenda agenda items as presented Dr Kellis thank you president Leonard members of the board I believe that um a board member would like to make a special motion thank you very much much this is Don Densmore um yes I would like to make a motion to approve the agenda with the exception of item E9 and to table the item E9 for a future date I'll second that that's Jay Leonard motion made by Don denmore seconded by Jay leard let's go ahead and vote the motion okay did it come up it has not yet oh sorry about that there it is there it is and Jennifer if you can give me a yes or a no on that I put it I put it on I'm sorry I did not see that that's okay and that motion approve is approved yes motion carries thank you for that we'll go ahead and move on that we're going to go ahead and move on to uh information items F1 uh information on the plan uh for returning to classroom for the 2020 2021 school year Dr Kellis take it away thank you president I'm sorry I do have a um public commentary Dr Kellis go ahead okay I'm going to go ahead and read the comment first um this is from Tracy Scot I wanted to put my opinion on the start of the new school year as with our covid numbers continuing to go up and more hospitals reaching capacity in ICU I think we have not seen the worst of the virus yet and fear May Spike again during September October between the seasonal flu and the more severe covid-19 multiple people in a space for an hour or more contribute to a higher risk factor especially when we are all in the same building sharing the same air I would like to suggest we begin first quarter with distance learning and or small groups one option that I believe would minimize risk and exposure is maybe half of the class on Monday Tuesday Wednesday is a day off distance learning project work day from home while school is cleaned then the other half of the class on Thursday Friday the other half of the class can do distance learning from home on the days they are not in school and still still communicate with teachers this would allow more students to have interactions with the teachers and resources but minimize the overall population of the school on any given day thank you for considering my opinion to move forward to make decisions I believe we should continue to reevaluate every two weeks as we move closer to the start of school thank you Louisa you're welcome um president Leonard members of the board and members of cabinet thank you for this opportunity to share some information where we are today on our plan to return to school in the fall and I emphasize the word today because tomorrow there will be changes and the the environment is very Dynamic right now and as much as we U are confident in where we are at today we also anticipate that we will necessarily have to adjust and and monitor as we move forward this evening I would like to First just give some overview and then I'll get into some details I know that the board will likely have lots of questions um hopefully we can answer all your questions um understanding that things are going to change and that we cannot today commit to exactly what things are going to be like in the fall I can tell you what our plan is but I can I cannot say that the plan is what is going to actually happen in the fall just because of the the dynamic um and fluid situation so first of all I will share as the board is already aware DT is offering two options for our families in the fall the first option is inclass at school at the brooken mortar location where students uh come to to school they spend their day at the school and then they go home at the end of the day they go to recess they eat lunch um they receive instruction it's a very typical uh day at school understanding that there are going to be some families who are not comfortable with that environment there is also another option and that is online daer is very fortunate because back in 2010 ner applied for and was approved to be an Arizona online instruction provider basically what that means is that we have permission to offer education online and receive partial funding for the students who are enrolled in that online program the acronym that is used widely throughout the state is called aoi that that is Arizona online instruction Dart has developed a program to provide education in that aoi environment and we call it I school since 2012 daer has been very successfully operating high school for our high school students for students in grades 9 through 12 uh they have had the opportunity to select either one course or multiple courses or we have many who are exclusively enrolled in high school this option has provided opportunities for students to make up credits to get ahead in their educational pathway um or even just to take classes that are of interest to them that they otherwise would not have been able to fit into their daily schedule many of the students who have a partial schedule in other words they might pick up one or two classes but still attend their regular schedule in their High School many of them go to the high school library um during the time that they would be taking those online classes students who are full-time enrolled High School um are welcome to come to the school to to do their studying but many of them stay at home and some of them have uh unique life situations that um it's the best option for them at this time in their lives we have seen success of the students in these classes particularly those who attend the library because there are teachers in the library who monitor the students who assist them and help them to get through their their daily lessons and stay on track to earn their credits looking forward we have approval from the state since 2010 to offer kindergarten through 12th grade instruction via our aoi or high school as I mentioned up until now it's just been for high school but now starting in the fall that option will be available to students K12 that means that a family who is uncomfortable with their children being in the classroom environment can choose to have their students enroll in high school at any grade right now there is talk and rumor about a third option but I will just put that off a little bit um I first want to explain how we are funded in Arizona and that is what we call ADM which is average daily membership in other words how many students are enrolled but also how many students attend every day if under current circumstances we have half of the students who do not attend school and are not enrolled in aoi or our high school if only half of the students are attending school and the other half are at home we would only get half of our budget from the state the concern there obviously is that that is not sustainable and we would very likely go bankrupt as a district if we only had half of our students attending school at any given time so that's obviously creates a dilemma when you look at some of the CDC guidelines and some of the what the Arizona Department of Education has released as a road map for returning to school which recommends these are not requirements by any means and it's been stated many times that these are just guidelines but some of the guidelines that they have posted including smaller class sizes or fewer kids on a bus or less movement around a school the solution that some districts are looking at is to only have either half the kids on one day and then half the kids the next day that's called the AB Model if you're on a track you come on Monday if you're on B you come on Tuesday or it could be you come in the morning or the afternoon or it could be that you come this week and and then not come next week There's different models but that AB Model is is what a lot of districts are talking about right now that is what we call the hybrid model where you take the students who have chosen to come to the classroom not enroll in high school which is full-time at home online but those who want to be at school but are worried about their the the health conditions um that hybrid model would allow us as a district to do exactly that and have a a smaller population of students in a classroom on any given moment any hour or day or week depending on on how that's played out the problem there is that's not the state funding model right now the funding model does not report that now here's the rumor or the the what what is being talked about in fact I was just talking I was in a meeting with Governor Ducey on Monday where this very conversation was had with me and a few other superintendents in Arizona and the question was the prevailing question was is there going to be some relief for education in Arizona to be able to offer a hybrid model without the financial penalties that currently exist Governor Ducey stated that he was very confident that the legislature and he himself are supportive of schools being open and school and students attending and and being back in school for a multiple of of of reasons but um he was also very confident that there would be a financial solution to this big question about the hybrid model now I'll tell you there are many districts around the state who uh are not in favor of the hybrid model they are worried about uh just the the logistics of what that means and I will share that there are indeed some huge logistics for example if um and this is applying to the three different plans whether it's in class online full-time by high school or in a hybrid model there is the potential opportunity for families to change their mind within a few weeks or a couple of months being after being in one of those those plans so let's take for example a third grade at an elementary school maybe that third grade has four different third grade classes I can see where one class would be a full-time regular classroom full of students having a very typical day at school there may be two classes that are hybrid classes where students are here today but not tomorrow and then there could be the fourth class which is full-time at home after school starts and after maybe a month it could be that some of the parents whose students are at home full-time in high school say this is not working for me I I can't have my student here at home five hours a day or six hours a day on the computer or doing lessons every day it's just overwhelming and they want to return back to school I don't have any idea how how many parents are going to choose either of these options other districts have done some preliminary ping and it's anywhere from 5% at one District 20% at another district and 50% at another district for choosing the stay-at-home option generally there's a very high percent of parents who want their kids to come back to school but say we have 3,000 students who choose to go online via high school and after a couple of months 500 of them want to return to the classroom the logistical implication of that is that we have assigned teachers to those 3,000 students in high school and now those teachers and the students will have to transition back to their regular schools open up classrooms and be assigned to teachers so the teachers will have to come back with the students the teachers follow the students it could go back the other direction as well it could be that there are a large number of parents who have their students assigned at school in a in a typical classroom but at some point feel uncomfortable and feel like they're not ready for their kids to to be in school and want them to go online if number of students make that transition back to or from the classroom to the online version teachers would have to follow them which means classrooms would have to be collapsed and those teachers would be reassigned to teach online for for the families that choose that at every grade level these are all Logistics this is what we do this is our business is to figure out these Solutions and we we don't shy away from the challenges of working out the logistics of what's coming in the fall but for a parent to decide what plan they would like to choose or consider it is absolutely reasonable that they would have as much information as possible about what is it going to look like in the classroom experience what is it going to look like in the online or the hybrid experience and this is where uh I say again we have plans but they're going to change they will change so first of all I would just like to very uh quickly go through what the classroom environment would look like what the experience for students who choose to come back to school and a reminder that right now we do not have hybrid as an option because the legislature has not provided the funding to pay for kids who don't come to school we're hoping for that that's what we are anticipating but that's not the case right now so we are dealing with two options right now at school and at home so for those who are at school what will the classroom and I'll talk about the cafeteria hallways um specials the buses I'll go through each of these very quickly first of all for those in the classroom we will be doing temperature checks for each student two times a day we will also do temperature checks for adults we will ask students to do handwashing multiple times through the day there will be no large group assemblies indoors emergency drills will continue per current emergency drill plans personal school supplies will stay with the students in other words it's typical that the students are are given a back to school supply list they bring them to school the first day and they're collected and and put in as a community basket full of rulers or erasers or whatever it is that the supplies are we will say that students will maintain their own school supplies so that there is no sharing we would look at how Furniture is arranged within the classroom I will say very honestly that it is not possible to comply with the guidelines to have students six feet apart in a classroom there is just not enough room but we would look at what excess Furniture might be in the room remove any excess Furniture to uh give as much space as possible for students it may be that the students desks are arranged in a traditional format of being in rows versus in small groups of four facing each other it may be that a classroom full of tables may be arranged or we have many classrooms that have flexible Furniture in them uh we will continue to use tables and flexible furniture and desks um and we will make the accommodations as much as possible but it is not possible to keep students six feet apart but in instruction will continue students would clean their learning stations for example um each time a student leaves the classroom and goes to art class the student uh would when they arrive at the art class will have some paper towel and some spray to just wipe down their learning area at that site when they come back to the classroom and they return to their desk they can wipe down quickly so anytime that they um they return or go to a learning station they would be allowed to clean that Learning Station we will look at locker room cleaning and bathroom cleanings uh to do midday cleanings U that means that we're not waiting until the end of the day and doing it at night yes that will happen so that when students come back and morning that we clean but we're also going to be doing cleanings um during the school day we would look at a maximum of three students per small group this does not include pull out groups for like gifted or or our exceptional student services this would apply if a teacher wants to or needs to tutor a a small group of students that they would pull three students at a time and not have six huddled together for that tutoring masks would be allowed not required but if uh if an adult or a student or volunteer wants to wear a mask they would be allowed there would be some masks available in the nurse's office for any person who requests one we're looking at onetoone computers or devices for students there's a concern of about having the the laptop carts or the Chromebook carts in one room and every time a different class comes into the room um they all use the same same Chromebooks or or laptops so we would look at um ensuring that in grades three through 12 each student had their own Chromebook we would look at um not sharing textbooks many of our classes have class sets of textbooks that are shared like at the high school level for all six classes or five classes that come through that room would use the same class set to study from um that is still unsure how but I'm guessing that there would be um supplemental materials either online or through Google classroom or schooly where those resources would still be available to the students but they would not be sharing textbooks there are what we call manipulatives or they are classroom gadgets or tools that teachers have students use to help them learn for example if a a younger grade has a lesson on addition or subtraction they might have small plastic tiles that they move around to add or subtract um we would ask that teachers ensure that every student has their own set of manipulatives rather than a shared um classroom set there would be traditional recess students would go outside they would play they would run it's actually probably the safest place for them is outside getting fresh air and getting some exercise when they come back from recess we would ask them to wash their hands or sanitize their hands we would look at health plans for students who are at risk in other words identifying students early and working with those families to identify what the needs of students with pre-identified um health risks have obviously we there'd be plenty of healthy habits signage and um we would be looking at as has been suggested monitoring the situation uh day to day week to week in the cafeteria students will go to the cafeteria to eat right now we will have box lunches only there will be some distance between students as they're lining up to go through the the cafeteria line um we would maximize the entire cafeteria space again it is very likely particularly at the high school that it is not possible to separate students by six feet during lunchtime there are great rewards for students socializing with each other and having a break from their classroom uh the tables will be wiped down after every student use and in between the class rotations and students will use we have hand cleaning or sanitizing stations um and again uh we would have signage in the hallways at the high school level we would look at the high schools for developing their own plans there's a lot of students as many as 2500 students in a in a school and they change classes about every hour one of the guidelines or suggested guidelines is that students stay in the same classroom all day long that is impossible at a high school because students at the high school have six different classes that they go to not as a class but individually and it would be impossible for teachers to rotate through High School classrooms and the students stay put because um each classroom of students all have their own schedules that they have to go to but we would still be sensitive to space in the hallways and in the classrooms there would also be as I mentioned before midday restroom cleanings and we would encourage students to use the water filling stations where they are available that means those are stations where somebody can just um put a water bottle up to The Filling Station and there's it's a touchfree um sensor that will fill the water bottles without having to push any handles one question that's come up is uh how are we going to stop kids from hugging each other we're not we are not going to be the no hug police we will teach we will encourage um but that is not our our intent to be hug police for the pickup and drop off um we will we're looking at opening schools a little bit earlier so that everybody's not bunched up all at the same time we would look at staggered release times within a couple minutes just so that the hallways aren't as full and we would um obviously have signage outside about not coming to school sick as far as specials classes or electives each specials or elective teacher knows their equipment best and would be the best person to establish protocols for their classroom if they are in a Ceramics SL lab for example or if they are in an engineering room for example um it's not possible for for us to uh create guidelines for every single classroom the teacher knows best and we would we have full trust in the teachers to do that as far as buses students under the current plan will continue to um to ride the buses the bus schedules would ride would would continue on schedule as they have been it is impossible to keep students 6 speed depart or to only allow 20 students on a bus right now if we have 55 students on a bus and we reduce that to 20 students on a bus we would be looking at either starting at 5:30 in the morning to do multiple turnaround routes or hiring and purchasing additional buses because we would only have half the kids on a bus at a time and we'd have to figure out a way to transport the other half to make sure that they got to school on time and got home on time so these are just a few of the uh the initial considerations I will tell you that while the this seems like it doesn't cover everything it does not cover all the wha ifs um just this part alone has this plan has been requested by districts across the state and by state officials um because we have gotten into the kind of the details that we have so far everybody is is holding off some of them have said we're not going to think about it for at least another month because they know that it's going to change we anticipate the change and we still want to be prepared with the conversations that we have had now going to the online model what would the experience be for students who are taking School taking their classes or attending school in our aoi or our high school program for high school it would continue as it has it's already been operating for um about eight years very successfully and we would continue doing the same thing those students are required to be to log their hours every day and they're required to log about 6 hours a day for elementary if a student is in high school and they are in grades seven and eight they would be required to log six hours a day this is not District policy this is State um State guidelines State rules that in order for us to operate high school we have to submit these time logs to the state and they require 6 hours a day for students in seventh and eighth grade and five hours a day for students in kindergarten through sixth grade every student who is in high school would be provided a device meaning a either a laptop or Chromebook um the classes that they are taking are provided by Florida virtual which is an online curriculum that we have been using for high school for many many years um daer is comfortable with the alignment of the Florida virtual curriculum to the diser curriculum but every student would still have live teachers and the teachers would have office hours they would take opportunity to do tutoring have direct contact with students for either instruction or tutoring um for those online students they would have classmates they could have group discussions um students to have an IEP would can would receive um Services based on the the classroom placement or the environment that they're in and English language Learners Services would also be provided we are also looking at ensuring that those students have access to a social worker so those are the two options that we have right now and if we understand um the the the seriousness of making this decision we indeed take the responsibility of informing parents of what what the options are and the details of the options and so we will be um conducting a special Facebook live event for parents where we will present the information that I've prepared and other information and that is um coming up and I'm going to ask Steve pulling can you just jump tell me what date and time that is yes um just to clarify I misheard you're talking about the Facebook um parent launch yes yeah um that is next Tuesday evening go live uh Dana k at 6 pm and they'll be taking parent questions live as well thank you for that so with that I will take any questions from the board Dr kis this is Jen um what are we doing as far as they our staff like the high-risk staff are those the ones that would primarily for teachers say be the ones who would teach online or how are we working that for our staff that may be a higher risk um thank you Mr President Miss Tanner the the challenge there is very real for teachers also who have varying levels of comfort either being in school or not and we want to make sure that we are able to be as as sensitive as possible and I'm GNA ask John Coto if he could just explain briefly if a teacher right now feels like they are unable to teach in a classroom environment what the uh what the guidelines are for that thank you Dr Kellis um right now currently um as Dr Kell said um we're looking at uh you know the two groups the two different groups those that are vulnerable at risk and those that are um worried about coming to work so obviously we're going to be as Dr Kellis has said um we're going to look at um working with everybody in this situation um if they have at risk and St at risk obviously um we are going to listen to that and we're going to uh work with them they can contact HR um currently right now we're dealing with employees not necessarily teachers because they're not there but we do have employees that we've been working with on an ongoing basis and uh trying to make the accommodations needed to make them comfortable in the workplace or um continue working from home so um as Dr Kell said it's a pretty difficult situation um we're trying to be sensitive we're trying to work with it and it's ongoing it changes um as he said on a daily basis so um really the key is we're being flexible uh we're willing to work with people um and try to make this work out uh the best way we can for all of our employees and all of our students so the important thing here is that we want teachers we want students to have access to the very best teachers in whatever environment that they are learning in and that they have an extraordinary experience regardless of their learning plan which environment that they're in we understand that um there may be some who are just rock stars and teaching online and we would want them to be teaching online and and vice versa in the classroom but we also understand the the need to be sensitive to um teachers who are at risk or have compromised immune systems and we would either work through them on leave time through current federal guidelines or we would try and and accommodate a teaching environment where they can be successful um regardless of their of their immune systems but um in if there is a a big shift for example of students who move from online to the classroom as I mentioned before teachers will also have to shift with those students back to the classrooms and if teachers are are unable to return to the classrooms um then we would have to seriously look at um at the leave time that the current federal laws allow for okay thank you and then my other question was with um um as far as budgeting because I know like if we're if we're doing temperature checks I'm not sure how you were looking at that with every classroom having a thermometer or how that's going to work but I just didn't know as far as I'm I'm sure we'll be um having to get more um cleaning supplies with upping everything that we're going to be doing to keeping things clean and wiping it down so as far as budget wise how are we budgeting for this thank you Mr President Miss Tanner um that is absolutely a great question given that um we are looking at a lot of options here that do come with a price tag for example as I mentioned doing a temperature check of every student every day we have two options we could have one person at each school um test every single student which means they' have to go class to class student by student or we would just give every teacher a thermometer um these are touch list thermometers is what the guideline is and so if we uh do the the math there we would need about 1,200 touchless thermometers those range anywhere from about $50 to $270 depending on the quality on the provider um we did a just an estimate of $100 each so if you look at 1,200 touchless thermometers at $100 each that's $120,000 um we would look at hand sanitizer stations at each School placed in different places around the school our estimate is about 20 $1,000 um to uh increase the amount of cleaning supplies um have a masks available to ensure that students have a onetoone Chromebook um option in other words they're not sharing Chromebooks without using textbooks we anticipate there's going to be an increase in paper costs um making sure that every student has their own lab kit or manipulative kit um all of these do add up right now I'll let Ken talk briefly about what federal dollars are available to us and an estimate of the total cost that uh starting the fall would cost and this isn't year long this would just be like for the for a 60-day supply of things Ken can you comment on that very much Dr Kellis members of the board yes uh so we are at Esser fund uh from the federal cares act and then two we have applied for or started the process to apply for gear funds uh those federal funds um are reimbursed at 70 75 cents on the dollar and um mainly aligned to um some salaries and benefits and supplies and so we're uh in the budget later tonight you'll see that we've already uh put a budget in uh for next next year's budget for $3 million and those federal funds and next board meeting where we're revising our current year budget we still have um some additional few 00,000 in that as well so we are provided some funds um from the federal funds that are allocated to us that we're going to use we're going to apply uh through FEMA for emergency funds for some of for example the thermometers we probably putting that through our Fe to get reimbursed and so we're identifying those funds and additional expenses that best meet the grant uh intentions and applying that um and doing the best job that we C so um right now what we're anticipating is that even with all the the federal funds and state funds that might be available we will still come up short and it would probably be um a couple of million over that of what it would cost us for the additional supplies and and costs of moving forward okay thank you very much anybody else have any questions I had I had a couple this is Chrissy um thank you for that I'm sorry I was like quickly writing as you were talking so um in regard to the temperature checks twice a day what what do we know what our protocol will be for students returning so if they have a fever or develop any symptoms that are consistent or could be consistent with covid-19 um do we have a plan or do we know our any obligation we have even legally to allowing those students back into the general population or they have to get tested or how does that work do we know yet we don't know that yet okay um and then you kind of answered my questions as far as the hand sanitizer and mask it sounds like those will be provided so um students won't have to I know hand sanitizer is like hard to find nowadays so um I'm glad we'll be looking at buying that probably in in bulk and having that available for students in regard to the not um being six feet apart I know um you know there's concern with the CDC guidelines in a lot of areas being almost impossible um but I think the things that we're able to try to do to the best of our ability just to keep children and staff safe we should try so um normally they say if you can't guarantee six feet apart you that's when you should wear The Masks um just want to hear a little bit about the decision to not require them but mainly you know if that's the if that's the path the district's going to take with it then um you know I think it's important to maximize the space and if that means maybe we don't have tables in the classroom and try our best to make even though they won't be six feet apart having students in desks and acquiring them somehow in any way we can so we're eliminating that shoulder Tosh shoulder or um students facing this each other with maybe only a couple feet apart like we do now um is is there a way to get a lot of desks and take away the the table structure in the classroom uh thank you president L Miss Pritchard no we cannot replace all of our tables with desks so how are you going to determine which students I mean if you have a table that you can how how many you planning on sitting at a table I guess I'm just worried about I understand we can only do so much with our classrooms but again I think the takeaway is doing everything we possibly can to be Innovative and coming up with ways to try our best to minimize spread so um are you thinking maybe just having two students even though that's still probably not going to be very far apart but instead of four or have you thought of that um pres Lear Miss Richard yes and it depends on again the funding that would come from the state if we can do the hybrid model where we could potentially have half the students present if that does not come through we would have the uh the full class size in every classroom and then I know that the CDC came out with um directional signs which sounds like it could be a hassle but I think it's beneficial if it could work if if students just know when they exit their classroom they go the same direction is something like that being discussed at the school sites for hallways and particularly thinking of high schools too where some of our buildings are eventually just a loop if you just kind of all go in the same direction rather than kind of bumping into each other face to face is that one of the things you're looking into um Mr President Miss Pritchard we have talked about the high school um passing times and and traffic um and believe that each High School is best equipped they know their their campus their schedules and this they would be best equipped to be able to make those decisions understanding that you're absolutely correct we need to do whatever we can to um to mitigate the implications of being at school but also they have to get from one place to the next and we would rely on our our high schools to make those decisions and then to um the cafeteria um is there a way or if you considered removing some of the seting so they're seating inside but maybe not as much and just encouraging students to eat outside where there's open air and more space Mr President Miss Pritchard yes we have talked about allowing students to eat outside as a additional dining space But we would anticipate as many tabl needing as many tables as possible in the caf to spread out as as much as possible and be able to clean those in between um each each scheduled class that comes through okay and then I'm sorry if I missed this piece of it when you're talking about the online you mentioned High School um six hours a day 7 eight six hours a day did you mention what um the requirement would be for k6 online logged hours k6 is five hours a day five hours okay thank you um and I think that's good to note that because it's it's it's going to be a a huge difference from what we were calling kind of Crisis teaching um where students were on like one to two hours a day that this is really going to be more of that traditional online programming as opposed to what students experienced towards the end of last year and that's I think it's good to make sure we educate um our parents on that so they they know that this is not going to look anything like that um so thank you for clarifying that piece of it what about um Athletics and fall sports are we assuming at this point again I know you say this is only as good as today but um thankfully our a lot of a lot of our Indoor Sports and things don't necessarily start in the fall to where we can take advantage of more outdoor type Sports will that um enable us to allow those Sports to continue or or is there a chance that even fall Outdoor Sports can be impacted pres Miss Pritchard I'll let Mr Dean address the athletic aspect um but yes you're correct it is still premature to get really into too much detail right now we're just trying to think of the the getting kids back to class we haven't really had much conversation but Mr Dean can talk about at a state level what kind of guidelines are are being given Mr President Miss Pritchard um as you're aware we currently have brought our athletes back um on modified opportunities to work out um both in the weight room and um per their specific sport in terms of moving forward for the fall the AIA has released um phases for bringing athletes back um for fall sports right now um the AIA is expecting to have a full season of sport um beginning in the fall um we are expecting to have a full season of sport as well um and are making plans for that additionally um you know we we brought our athletes back with restrictions on their practices and on weight room use um we do have plans in place to loosen those restrictions um as we are able um and I will tell you that many school districts across uh the valley are working together on plans to make sure that we continue to move lock step the biggest concern the AIA has at this point in time is that um there are uh likely many athletes who will return in the fall and have not had their typical summer conditioning and um and and practice time and so the aia's biggest concern is to make sure that when fall Sports um return and we've done this with a return of our athletes that started last week to make sure that those students are eased back in um to the practice process and not brought back in um as if it was mid-season and in mid-season shape so as it stands right now um we and the AIA are anticipating a full return to Athletics in the fall but as Dr Kellis um stated at the beginning of this plan um it's quite possible that that that that may change okay thank you for that two more quick questions Dr kis um when you mentioned that teachers would follow the students back into the classrooms I want to make sure I understand that because that sounds horrendous for the teachers I'm thinking so are you saying that a student starts online and this teacher has a group of students for that class and then as those students may decide that they want to go back into the school that same teacher is going to have to manage their online class and their online students and then also do in-person teaching in a classroom with all of those students um Mr President uh Miss pitchard not quite um for the I School th that will be a separate School in the district so the students in high school will not likely be grouped in the Western Peaks third grade group and they would be students from all over the district as as we anticipate that there will be students who migrate back to the classroom be it shorttime or over the course of the first semester um as we anticipate that migration back we have we can't just put 40 kids into the classroom we have to have teachers in that classroom and those teachers right now would be sitting in the online environment and would need to transition we would collapse online classes and transition transition those teachers back to their school sites to where the the migration is is ending up um now that you bring up a good point if you talk about the hybrid model in a hybrid model where you have students who are half at school and half at home then the teacher would be assigned to a school with a class but they also are responsible for students instruction um for those who are at home that may be that those who are at home are that's uh um Independent Learning time or reading time or doing homework time um or could be as some have used the term a flipped model where they receive instruction um through their their textbooks or whatnot at home and then come and then when they're at school then they can receive the personalized tutoring and director instruction but the regardless in a in a hybrid environment the same teacher would be managing students at school and not at school those students would not be enrolled in high school high school are separate separate environment okay so when you were talking about preparing for the fact that students may start online and then decide to go back in school but they'd be followed by the teacher you are talking hypothetically if we get funding for the hybrid but right now if you're in I school you can't do half High School half in session it's one or the other because otherwise those teachers aren't going to follow you right for K8 um you are you have the three you right now but it suppose the hybrid there's the choice of being in high school or at school in a classroom and if the hybrid is an option that'd be a third option but um right if you are in I school once enough students migrate back to the classroom we would have to start reassigning teachers back to the classrooms okay but that's just because the class is no longer sustainable not I for a minute I thought you were talking about teachers getting set up for online schooling and then if one student decides to go to inline online or um inperson school that same teacher is always like teacher of record and responsible for that student I'm thinking oh my gosh gonna driving everywhere okay good good okay so I think I understand that last question so the ad put out the road map um for these plans and when I was looking through them it seems like they referenced the plans were based on where your community stood in regard to being zero to minimal um exposure moderate or then substantial in regard to covid-19 where based on your understanding of our numbers where does daart fall I have no idea I know that we have the two model options right now and that is about as much as we can offer based on um regard really to be honest regardless of where our community stands we will be offering those two options in the fall the third option really depends on the the funding from the state and the legislature um and so it becomes a parent choice it's not going to be driven by we're going to assign students to one plan or another based on um the phase that we're in as a community we are letting the community decide what plan meets their comfort level at the start of school okay so that's one area where we're not necessarily following the road map that ad put out then because that they're more saying in order to go in school full person you have your community have to have zero or minimal exposure in order to go back fully into in person so you're saying that we're going to deviate from that a bit and just let parents decide what they're comfortable with offering those two options M pren Miss pitard that's correct and I will tell you that dard is fortunate because we are an aoi District most of the districts in Arizona are not so if they were not to have classroom instruction and have all of their students stay at home short any um special session by the legislature they would get zero funding as a district because they have no students in the that's attending school yeah wow okay thank you so much for the information you're welcome anybody else with questions this is gone um I just had a question you mentioned um about volunteers and and um I just wanted to make sure so as of right now I know things can change but volunteers and parent visitations would would not be discouraged right now more uh thank you for that you know we we want to be responsible uh for everybody in our Das Community if there are volunteers who um I don't know how to say this nicely are old um we would talk to them very carefully about whether it's a healthy place for them to to be and we would look at all of our volunteers and make sure that we just like with our employees we do the temperature checks and whatnot but I would hope that there are volunteers I hope that we have um our our friends in the community who want to be substitute teachers it's it's going to be all the things we've had in the past we want our students to to benefit from and that's one of the greatest benefits that daer has is the extraordinary volunteers that we have and we would continue to invite them to safely volunteer in our schools thank you I know that for some of our um our parent booster meetings sometimes we do have excess of 20 30 parents in a in a fairly small room I just I'm curious if those events would be discouraged going forward as well Mr President Miss denmore um I I'll just be honest and I think we're going to be doing things differently for a long time okay and virtual meetings I think people are getting more comfortable with I think as we look to the socialization there's great benefit in in being together and gathering together however um that is something that every adult has to take responsibility for if you are the leader of a group you need to act responsibly in how you gather your community together your group together whether it's online or in person thank you um another thing that came to mind as you were kind of speaking about um a students day is uh lunchtime and and recess time has there been consideration and possibly extending the lunchtime even slightly um I know many people kind of feel rushed as it is um with a with a very short lunch um but if there's additional steps being and prec cautions being made to wash hands and sanitize and space out it may take a little bit longer to even get to the table for some of our children Mr President Miss denmore we haven't talked about that level of detail yet okay thank you that's a good point okay thank you um my last question is if we went to um you know an AB uh schedule have we also made considerations for for um our teachers that are also parents of younger students you know K through three for instance you know where would their students where would their children be be going in the meantime then if the if the teacher was maybe um you know working a full five days but their student was on the Navy's schedule and only coming to school three days would there be considerations to allow that that parent teacher to bring their you know their child with them or other Alternatives Mr President Miss denmore we would not be able to allow teachers to bring their students to the workplace that kind of defies the purpose of having half the students at home if we bring back to the classroom I can just see that being an issue for some of our our teachers who are also parents of young young children yes and it is that that aspect is definitely something that a lot of people are talking about not even just with the hybrid but even with the full-time High School option right that whenever you have that many students at home that means it's that many parents who are supervising them so that is definitely a a Statewide Nationwide um concern starting school in the fall thank you all right any other questions um yes this is Tracy mine will be kind of brief um we are either way we are looking at an an additional expenses um whether we do the thers and and the you know like you said the Chromebooks and the copy paper it's going to be an EXT ex added expenses um but the one expense that I was thinking of um had to do with substitute teachers on I school um at what point are we going to call for substitute teachers on I school I mean is would it be just when um when just the teacher is not there um are we going to like over overpopulate so to speak I mean how is substitutes with I school going to work out thank you Mr President Miss s s Bill The Substitute um the need for substitute is going to be tremendous I will just say that we're going to have teachers and students to test positive for Corona virus and we obviously don't want a student or a teacher particularly if we don't on the topic of substitutes we don't want a teacher who has tested positive in any of the three plans um to have to worry about continuing to teach when they're trying to recover from a positive illness a positive test so um as we have looked at the need for substitutes in I school we would need to have substitutes who are capable and competent to teach online uh likewise with with the hybrid if that's an option but in the classroom as well and we we understand I'm just anticipating that there's going to be a shortage of substitutes and so we have looked at actually hiring full-time substitutes that we own as a district that we would just have um available and assign on a regular basis so right now substitutes um yes they work for the district but um only as needed if we hired one substitute per school maybe a couple for the high schools we could anticipate as many as additional substitute teachers which is the the cost there would be about $2 million which we just add that that to the ongoing rolling costs here but we see that as a as an option that if a teacher has to take two to four weeks off in any of the three plans that we would have a substitute immediately available to to um pick up and continue providing an extraordinary learning experience so for those substitutes um because I like what you said in regards to having um a substitute teacher hired on campus um uh would you have them deemed highly qualified like for K8 or um even for high school a particular subject or we just have them have a substitute certificate Mr President Miss s s right now um that is what we do is we try to match those substitutes that are are best qualified with the assignments that match their credentials um we would hope that these would be in the ideal world we would hope that these would be cert certificated um teachers who would serve as substitutes um if there's a shortage it's comes to the matter of having a a substitute an adult a person there to continue to provide the lesson plans provided by the teacher uh but absolutely we would prefer having somebody who's experienced and credential in the subject areas that they teach good okay and last question I know you have received several um emails or several phone calls um uh of parents and community members wanting to make sure that we make the right decisions for all of our students if you had to guess on a ballpark how many have you received um you know that's a a good question the the the real story is the diversity of the responses or the comments or the the um emails that have come which leads us to why we feel confident in offering options I will say that some parents have been very ad extremely adamant that they want their student to have a very typical learning experience in the classroom and then at recess and in the cafeteria and at their specials and after school sports and activities likewise there are some parents who are very cautious at this point and are not prepared or feel comfortable with the the State of the State uh with regards to coron virus and are expecting uh really some extreme and I'm not putting that as a judgment um word but expecting extreme um accommodations or or services to ensure as as the CDC does to ensure that this does not spread or that their children do not come in contact with anybody who could potentially have it so that's where the options come in and as conditions around the country and particularly in our neighborhood change um our options are flexible enough to be able to accommodate okay all right thank you very much Dr Kellis all right anybody else going on presid M of the board Dr Kels just a correction next Tuesday's Facebook live is at 5:00 pm so I apologize and uh PR will send be sending out lots of information on that thank you Steve yeah thanks for that correction all right last chance woohoo all right a lot of information definitely appreciate the input from the board and also um Dr Kellis uh in answering those um ever um changing and moving targets um we definitely appreciate your staff and all the work that they put into that um I know it gets a little a little tough to to chase that moving Target but I think it's vital that we keep getting out information as quickly as we possibly can um keep people informed and that definitely helps them understand that we do have options um let's go ahead and move on to information F2 information on survey results Dr Kellis thank you Mr President members of the board and members of cabinet each year we as a district want to hear from our community our our Dysert community and so this is our our annual survey results report and Mrs Jane we will present the the results of the survey good evening let me try and uh share my screen here e can you see my screen yes yes be sure okay I did something wrong I'm sorry I apologize Dr we you don't need to resign into Zoom you're still in Zoom you just need to open up your presentation don't click it out just sign into your Google your slides I'm working on it it's not being nice to me tonight there you go there you go click over to your Google Chrome over to your left I'm sorry go right there to the top just click on the the top there we go I'm sorry about that thank you for your patience good evening president Leonard board members Dr Kellis and cabinet thank you for allowing me to present the information tonight these are the 1920 survey results each year we do parent survey student surveys and staff survey based on School site and staff survey based on District based DLT this is our parent survey numbers please look at the increase in the participation the survey was completed in February prior to covid-19 um there are a total of 23,600 students in the district but about 15,000 primary households um this gives us an exceptional survey response of our households of about 2 2% generally satisfaction surveys have a standard response rate anywhere between 10 to 30 so we're right in the middle with our response rate we have many celebration celebrations this school year um I can U highlight a couple of areas the standards for student conduct we have high standards in our district parents feel that they are really treated with respect our celebrations continue um we are clear there are clear numbers indicating increases in safety satisfaction and leadership in our district we always have opportunities Although our numbers are increasing we would like to see this swing upwards continue we know that it isn't enough and these are opportunities that we continue to work on within our student survey responses we also had an increase however these surveys are a little more difficult as they went out the end of March during covid-19 we did achieve a 70% response rate we do track these numbers and send list to the principles however the data is not identified to them therefore they cannot track individual responses we're very careful with that tracking our student survey celebrations an increased number of responses um it was great to see more students reported low Conflict at school with their peers uh also students continue to be feel safe at our locations and the numbers represent that students have a clear understanding of expectations to graduate we also have opportunity ities although we have mostly increases here as a district we would like these numbers to grow the counseling individual contact data reflects that overall counselor contacts with students have increased this year from 33,000 to 36,000 that is a 10% overall increase in total contacts these contacts are inperson email telephone or mail and do not include classes or groupings when separated out just in person contexts for the school year total about 15,000 for high schools plus the alternative program however we still do have students that answer that question that they have not met with their counselor so we are looking at more effective ways to break down that question in order to gather more precise data our employee survey responses again we saw a rise in the employees that completed the DAT uh employee survey responses average between 25 and 60 however we don't track this as the confidentiality promises to our employees employee surveys are all given through a different method open link so they have to tell us their position in their school so we can count the numbers there it does not link back to their email so their responses can not be individually identified and this is um these are promises that our leadership and our cabinet made that we wanted their honest answers and we um assured them that no one would ever know how they answered their questions individually so we have some employee celebrations here the a number of responses the communication level there's also a next side slide of uh celebrations all indications are that employees are confident in the district and proud to be employed by guys AR unified was interesting top three words we did the qualitative data uh culture of schools family positive and supportive top three words that describe the culture of departments collaborative supportive and positive with our opportunities again we want to continue to grow the percentages um we look for areas that we really want to be in the 80s and 90s in so these were the opportunities that we highlighted for the employee survey we had a focus review this year and it was about the counseling department as stated in the previous slide we continue to look at a more effective way to break down counseling questions in order to gather more precise data um we need to ensure better tracking of the counselor notes um we need to minimize a tab that um consists of contact but not by how and so we're going to continue to refine this again and continue to work on this Focus to have a better distribution um we made positive steps this year but we realize again this needs to be a focus area so of the um of the list when we look at the counseling page and the data that I collect from it there is a category on there that's um not really assigned to a personal meeting or a telephone call or um an email and it's a blank and it has a large portion of contacts in it but we want to really do away with that that section and make them clearly identify I saw this student in person I saw this student via email or I saw this student VI via phone so we're still working at refining this category we made positive steps this year but it is one of the areas leave in Focus review our overall themes and celebrations they're um listed here so we significantly increased all the survey responses we worked very hard at that um employees find the district to be positive and supportive in a safe environment in our overall opportunities um we want to look at precisely worded questions to better separate the complexity of questions we also want to take advantage of eliminating neutral questions answers and add and any where appropriate we've we've got some questions that we really need to put an in so because people are forced to answer these questions and some of them just won't apply so we are always looking at consistency and better ways to make these surveys um meet the needs of our stakeholders thank you and stand for any questions at this time excellent thank you for that review do we have any questions from the board just a quick one this is Tracy uh Dr Weavers thank you so much for that uh survey one thing that I just want to comment on was the fact that the number of um resp responses that we increased by um uh from parents um I mean that was that was a big number that um we increased by and so I'm that just kind of gave me Goose pimples in order to uh um think that there are people out there that are completing the surveys and um um you know showing such great support in dice art so I was very happy to see that number increase so that was all thank you pres Leonard if I could just respond to that typically as researchers understand whenever you have more responses you generally Trend lower in the ratings one thing that is unique about this the responses the survey is while in all of the categories we had great gains in the number of responders the number of people who took the survey um the generally there was greater satisfaction across the board expressed so we happy to see that and I think that's a result of a lot of hard work from a lot of employees in each of their individual positions um not just getting the responses but to to ensure that our our dri Community is having an extraordinary experience I agree thank you any other questions from the board excellent thank you for that presentation very well done and definitely insightful I think it's amazing that uh you know the trust in the district and the way that we're pulling this information is definitely shown by the number of people that are willing to respond and I appreciate the uh the insight and looking at new questions and having uh questions that can definitely provide Insight instead of just the yes or no um type question so thank you for looking at that all right let's go on and we'll move to information item uh F3 superintendent 20192 20 um goal report Dr Kellis thank you president leard members of the board and members of cabinet this evening I am pleased to provide the goals report I will share just very briefly that just like with the survey results the governing board was provided with this plus an extensive amount of additional data and that is not presented in this particular report but um the the goals report is much more comprehensive basically than what I'm just sharing this evening these are the slides I'm going to be sharing this evening focus on the goals and the measures we don't get into the specifics of the indicators for each of those measures so with that um I would also share that it was early on in the school year where the board asked for my evaluation plan and that plan was presented as the district's strategic plan goals or the board goals that they're one and the same my goals are the board goals are the district's goals and so it's the progress that the district has made toward those goals that I am reporting on this evening and I'm going to see if Louisa that uh this presentation can be brought up yeah Denise will be sharing her screen she has that great thank you and Denise if you could uh switch to the next page I'd like to thank the governing board for the work that has been done over the last couple of years in revising and streamlining the the board's goals and just as a quick review these are the four goals that have been adopted by the governing board each of these are areas that are significant driving forces behind what we do as a district and they cover the various aspects of the operations of the district everywhere from our number one purpose and and priority in the district is the the business of teaching and learning but we are also very conscientious about the culture of the environments where employees and students and families come and and we certainly are very responsible and take responsibility for the safety of our dier community in order to achieve these goals we rely on important resources U so those are the the goal areas and overall to measure if we are making progress towards those goals if you could move to the next slide um there are several measures and the first one is that every school will be an A in other words every school will receive an a label right now um unfortunately there were I'd say all of our schools were actually rather disappointed that the State Testing was cancelled in the spring because they had put in a lot of hard work and we're looking forward to demonstrating the successes that they were expecting but with the cancellation of State Testing that also meant that there were no new school labels that were assigned out and so for this year all the schools received the exact same labels they received last year but last year we did make progress on every school becoming an A and we increased from three to five from the previous year go on to the next slide measure two says students graduate with credits Andor certifications to be successful at the next level typically obviously this is when you talk about credits and certifications you're talking about the high school students but we're also measuring moving to the next level means elementary students who are promoting from one grade um e8th grade into the the ninth grade and so as you look at this data um we see that there is indeed some some good progress that's being made um number of students earning industry certifications I'd like to thank Jim Gaber for his extraordinary work and his team of helping our CTE students with the number certifications that they are earning great gains there and we we're excited about that um four-year cohort graduation rate now if you will look you see that there's a year missing and that is this year as you look at a cohort we are still technically in the year and there are students who are finishing out some credits um they through the covid experience and we had a lot of students who not a lot but we had a handful of students who um got behind and so they are still working diligently so we don't have the final number for the 209 2020 school year as you look at the number of uh or the percent of students in the 8th grade who are promoting to ninth grade you know when you get above about 96% um it's difficult to show growth from 96 to 97 or 98 to 99 you're doing a good job if you're over 96% and you can see across all the schools throughout the district that there is really uh they're doing a a great job in students moving from 8th grade to 9th grade now some would say that it's social promotion and that is something that uh is would be concerning and we are looking at just like this year in offering students free summer school kindergarten through 12th grade so that they can recover from any of the what we call the used to be called the summer slide but now it's uh inclusive of the co and the summer slide where students um forget things and they need to stay and re rehon some of their their learning um so we will keep track of of those students at every grade level again these are the eth the eightth grade promotion rates um on track to go to high school and when you look at the number of credits students are earning um there are still students who are still earning some of those credits that they didn't earn during the time that the schools were closed and so I'm anticipating by the end of the summer that we will see the credits on track to to graduate in other words if you're a junior you should have the number of credits necessary to be a junior and I'm anticipating that across the board 9th 10th 11th grade that those numbers will continue to go up under measure three if you could Advance the slide one more you can advance it the slide [Music] again thank you measure three all athletic teams and arts performances as possible will qualify in state level competitions and tournaments and there's going to be a couple slides on this one this one talks about the arts and we've had a previous board presentation on the success of the Arts seal and the number of students in viser who earned the Arts seal um as you can see there at the bottom of that chart daer High School had the fourth highest in the state of Arizona the highest number of students who earned the seal but when you look at who we're comparing ourselves to and the districts that earned that had more students than us um Paradise Valley has several more high schools Phoenix Union has quite a few more high schools and also Tempe Union those are um that's who had more students than us but it it wasn't by many that they had more students than us we really are a story of success on our arts program and the the experiences obviously Das High School will'll be looking at how we can promote the Arts seal and encourage more students to um take the Arts coursework and qualify for the Arts seal moving on to the next slide we have the athletic teams and arts performances the same measure but now we're looking at the sports and I'm not going to read all the State Playoff qualifiers but you can see there are many that uh made the state playoffs but definitely want to highlight that the 6A girls basketball won the state championship the girls at Val Vesta High School the 6A Coach of the Year Rachel matus and the 6A Player of the Year Marissa Davis all from that same program 2020 Palm state championship will Canyon High School and also the national championship qualifier in 201920 Regional coach of the year we had several coaches including Rachel Matas David Chavez Keegan cook and Ashley becko and so these are good celebrations they're they're representative of the fact that Athletics is on the move in dyser and we are attracting a lot of attention from people who used to Discount daer as a non-competitor and now we are in the game we're looking forward to even greater successes at the state level can move on to the next slide please measure four all stakeholders will have an extraordinary experience the data here is taken from the survey data and I'm not going to go through and read all of these data points but if you just look at the Bold points you can see that generally every single category showed growth and increase and what that means is that we are making progress toward this goal and the progress is going to continue there are definitely things that we are not sitting on our Laurels with academics will continue to be uh forever goal that we want every single one of our students to have an extraordinary learning experience but when we look at the Arts the academics the Athletics all three of our areas of focus are what we encapsulate as the overall extraordinary student experience but it's also our employees and our guests our amilies anybody who has association with the district are our stakeholders and we want them to have an extraordinary experience so we're happy with the progress that's being made there measure five increase effective if you go to the there we go increase effective and efficient use of resources um there's some excellent data here obviously we don't have the final numbers because we are still in the current school year um there's also some some related attributes to the closing of schools that had some some impact um unfortunately one of the goals was to increase effective and and effective use of resour efficient use of resources that means that we would be able to increase our budget uh the legislature was on track to make some of those changes to accelerate some of the funding that was projected to move forward however the legislature ended their session early and those those bills did not come to fruition but um we will continue to to pursue those efforts one thing that is a celebration and I'd like to extend the particular kudos to Bob Young Arizona has what is called the school facilities board and they are tasked to fund or to provide funding for repairs at school districts many districts are very frustrated with the process because often the equipment has to be in total failure mode before the state will step in and replace or repair that equipment in diert um you can see the significant increase in funding that we have acquired uh to take care of things like air conditioning chillers and towers and roofs and and other major um equipment or facility needs and so we made tremendous progress on measure five in just that area and those are the measures that are associated with the governing board goals throughout the year the Govern board has received monthly data reports in various um aspects of the operations of the district be it academic or or otherwise and the board also received a data packet last week and had the opportunity to review that and I am very proud that in all of the progress indicators which were in in that data packet um that there is evidence of ongoing Improvement and continuous progress towards the achievement of our district goals with that I'll be happy to answer any questions thank you for that report Dr Kellis some very impressive numbers and I appreciate your dedication and your hard work on uh putting this together and presenting it and also making those goals happen and well done to uh the staff and everybody that has helped us rise to this occasion um do I have any board questions I just had a quick one um Dr Callis gr measure to under CTE certifications um just knowing how valuable our CTE courses are and those certifications as well help me understand what accounts for the differences between in high schools regarding schools that have 73 students in schools with far fewer um is it a lack of opportunity or is it um just what what would account for that just to make sure that our students have equal access and um can fully participate in those programs and courses Mr President Miss Pritchard thank you for that question and I'm going to uh ask Dr polling to step in here and see if he can help Enlighten us both on that number Mr President Madam Pritchard Dr K and board and cabinet um yeah I do think it varies um each school does have different programs but I know Mr G Sher team been working on um getting programs that all students can earn certifications for and you know building new programs um all the time and in fact working on a surfr for Willow Canyon so um you know we're working on providing the students access to those and um have been building programs over the last few years sometimes also takes time for those programs to come to fruition so students um are ready to take those examinations so it's a matter of students not being uh ready for the exams or it's not so because I'm I'm just looking at that chart and um I know that I know that there are programs available in in some of the schools that don't have the 73 so I don't know that it's that the programs are still developing so I just I don't I just want to make sure there wasn't anything that we could there's an easy fix to to make sure that these students have access to just as many CTE opportunities for certifications as um the other high schools Mr President Miss pitchard I appreciate the question one of the things that we have been frustrated with this year is in order to achieve certification in many of these classes they have to do Hands-On um demonstrations of their of their skills and with schools being closed that denied many of the students access to um to those facilities or the equipment necessary to demonstrate their certification skills so we were just on a phone call yesterday with West Mech Administration um they are trying to bring in all those students who were unable to get it done during the Spring they're trying to bring them in under safe conditions now during the summer to where they can get those certifications you'll see here that the data you're looking at does not include this year's um numbers but regardless even the numbers from last year and moving into this year um it is something that will take extra effort to help the students who didn't meet the certifications to either try again or to find out what be done to open doorways for them to achieve those certifications okay thank you yeah if you could if you could look into that I just again there's there's a a big gap you know in in with with some of our schools and I just want to make sure our students have those opportunities thank you than those questions anybody else have any questions for Dr kis um just this is Tracy and just one is mostly a comment and it had to do with measure three um um more specifically about the Arizona seal of Arts proficiency um the fact that uh we had the fourth highest amount of students earning that seal and I just know it's going to go even further up from there um our Arts teachers you know choir and and band and and everything um they put their heart and soul into it and I know this is just one aspect of dice art but um I know that uh um the teachers that I have witnessed doing their job and doing um that collaboration with all of their students I I just know we're going to go up even higher and that number for our students is going to go up even higher so um to have that opportunity for all of our students is remarkable and and fourth that's amazing so um thank you to you know Dr Kellis and uh and uh uh Miss Den um it's just it's remarkable thank you thank you yes it's excellent job in showing that the Arts are definitely important um at dice art and um it's definitely uh great to see that and receive those Awards any other questions um this is Jen I just have one question comment and it's just based off of um I know that Dr kis you were faced with a lot that no superintendent has ever had to face um kind of with this year and everything that has happened and I just want to say how much I appreciate that we were ahead of so many districts as far as the online learning and getting our students up and going and I know how important their academics are to you and to um continue that growth and so I just appreciate you and your team for I know that there were many sleepless nights um from your staff to to be able to make that happen so our I mean we know our our students face big changes but um try to get them back you know up on on track with their academics as much as possible and so I know that's not reflective in your evaluation because of um we definitely weren't expecting that but I just want to take note again about how appreciative I am for all the work extra work and effort that was not part of your evaluation that did take place thank you Mr President Miss Tanner and you made a very important um comment in passing but I'll put an exclamation point on it and that is an team and it is indeed an team the rest of everybody else who made this possible it was I would say a successful end of the school year even though we were closed but not closed um the entire daer team stepped up and made it happen so very proud of everybody all right any other questions excellent let's go ahead and move forward all right thank you give me a moment it logged me out of board docs I lost uh connectivity so just one minute no problem and I'm back on we're on action yeah action discussion yep thank you um let's go ahead and move on to action discussion item G1 recommendations to approve the 2020 2021 proposed budget Dr Kellis thank you Mr President members of the board and members of cabinet as we again look ahead toward next year um we need to talk money so Mr Hicks will present this agenda item thank you very much good evening Mr President colleagues and community members it is my pleasure to be presenting the fiscal year 2021 proposed budget although this is there's not a formal PowerPoint presentation here um we will put one to recommending to adopt uh the budget um this just as a reminder this proposed budget is comprised of all the ibaa recommendations that were presented to the governing board last month um there are also a few other items and so I'm just going to draw attention to a few of those and few reminders um there is a small dollar amount that is now included in the budget it's new in a few years and it is the adjacent ways fund there is a $155,000 that has been added to this budget is to have an architect to fund the the cost of an architect um to increase the safety of students that live across from the West Point Elementary School on the Southeast side of Lichfield and Greenway the solution will include a modification to the entrance and a state Crossing or at least we anticipated to have that um this will be done uh once we complete it will submit that with other documentations to the Arizona school facilities board for their repr review and approval prior to next fiscal year which um in the 2022 year um for that project to be fully uh budgeted and put into our the following Year's budget this is a requirement um any time that you have an adjacent WS project over $50,000 which this one is not but the we're putting a project together to that we anticipate will be able um once its budget improved the local taxpayers to fund the project not the state but yet the state does have to review and approve it or at least has to review it they have 60 days to approve it um so this is a budget of it's $15,000 it's not a large dollar amount from uh total of our budget it does have a financial impact of about 10 cents per home in that home being $100,000 home a limited cash value so 10 cents a year is what the cost is um that will be as a reminder this budget does include the 5% increase um that we that we last board meeting that approved it the last uh in May the 4% increase the Arizona State Retirement System increased the health increase in classroom site fund increase in District additional assistance for and mainly the biggest increase is going to textbooks curriculum for and um equipment for it and some additional transport decreases we did reduce um the average daily membership um by about 120 for this going to this year looking at our projected enrollments and um conflicts or um competition it does as we previously discussed it does have about $3 million in new federal funds from the Esser and the gear grants that were talked about um covid related it but it does not have a covid reduction to ADM doing we talked previously about opening schools and how there's some uncertainty there um so it does not have any budget reduction due to covid um we're looking for the legislature for either some hold harmless the governor to um whether they have a special session or not I know it seems like every week I hear different messages if we are aren't going to have a special session um we know the governor has a pledged to help with that that could be anywhere from some type of executive order or ad I've been talking to attorneys today about working with ad and their ability and their guidelines that they have in place um for example 15806 that allows um some attendance um widespread illness season so working on all that if so I'm just trying to be clear that we do not have that uncertainty in this budget um we will look and rea to that as soon as we know about it we really uh truly are there is widespread support to help schools and so we don't think there'll be too much adverse effect but we do as we previously talked about there are going to be some additional increases that um probably be in excess of the federal funds that we're getting although there's three million in this budget as I mentioned previously next week next board meeting we will be revising the current Year's budget which will also probably see another a million dollar increase in federal funds from that as well so um but I would also like to say that as though we are looking at some uncertainty with the covid impact on our budget the recent preliminary report that was um provided by the jlbc I think it was the end of last week or the beginning of this week did indicate that the April Revenue projections were not as bad as they estimated um and so where they were previously projecting the end of next year having about a $1.1 billion shortfall it could be um only a $600 million shortfall so there was a$ 400 million dollar impact or difference now that does not change the projections going forward that was just looking at putting actual in on June 19th the jlbc The Joint legislative budget committee will making a presentation to the legislature that will be a more comprehensive report meaning that they will take the actual data from April any updated information of sales tax through May and then work with Economist they're going to revise their projections for next year knowing that things did not the sales tax and other things were not as bad as what was projected so that's still all to come that would be probably a December revision that we would Implement anything or may not happen from that I do also want to just this budget also has two new funds there is a new fund um CTE credential incentive um hate to admit this but that was a bill that went through um last legislative session before they left with the skinny budget and uh so that'll be imp implemented for next year I don't know a lot about it um I'm sure Mr Greer knows everything about it and he's provided a little bit of update but um so we'll adjust that as going forward um and there's also the the auditor general has revised the forms to move our Student Activities fund that was separate they've moved it into our other funds section of the budget so just if those people that are scouring our budget and want to look at every line that that is a change that um was not previously done so um this is just summary this is where we propose and the board approves our proposed budget then we take this proposed budget I'll put a presentation together and we'll adopt it we're looking to adopt on June 24th for a special meeting nothing changes between the proposed and adopted and um I would also like just to say that I'm always very thankful of Miss Mary D spel and her amazing team uh this year has been tremendously stoua with all that's been going on and all the seems uh endless Mental Math that we're constantly having to do with school Finance projections and estimates and where we're going the additional budget revision coming on June 24th um they've managed it all extremely well and I'm very grateful for all their hard work and dedication that they put in and with that I am happy to answer any questions excellent uh thank you for that presentation it's not like you're not to have 17 slides so little extra covid kudos for you um let's go ahead and open it up to the board for any questions this is Tracy um the one about the um Arizona industry credentials um I guess I was looking at something else on the budget what did you say we didn't have info for that just yet um madam there is no budget in there because we can't project how many uh how much we get from that so Mr Gaber will um give us some additional guidance as we go forward so although it's on page six of eight um and it's a new fund it was passed in the legislature so I just don't know how much to estimate on that and so we left it blank at this present time but it is a new fund and we'll be working with Mr Gaber to get the right will that be for the June 24th meeting we won't have it for June 24th because we cannot increase the budget going from one to the next um but it'll be in the December revision for sure okay all right thank you you're welcome that was all I had excellent anybody else all right that I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the 2020 2021 proposed budget second this is Tracy made by Jay Leonard seconded by Tracy s sell let's go ahead and vote excellent motion passes thank you let's go ahead and move on to action discussion item G2 recommendation to approve the uh resolution ordering and calling for a special maintenance and operations budget override election to be held in the diart Unified School District number 89 on November 3rd 2020 um declare the deadline for submission Arguments for and against the election as August 7th 2020 at 5:00 pm and authorize expenditures necessary to order note and administer the election Dr Kellis thank you Mr President members of the board and members of cabinet as the board recalls this item was brought to the board back in April and the board requested that this be reintroduced um at this meeting today so for this reason it is brought forward to the board um I will just share all the same comments that were made back in April and why this is being recommended why the board is being asked to approve or to to call for this election um one of the things that was discussed at that April meeting was regarding plans I guess you you might say or or Solutions and I did look back at the last time that the override did not pass and how that was handled and I shared um with the board a copy of the the board meeting agenda and I believe I'm not sure if you got the minutes but the the the motion and the plan that was approved at that meeting um we do have several comments on this item and so I'll ask Louisa if she will go ahead and read those comments okay I'm GNA go ahead and read um I want to give you a heads up I do have 21 comments to read um there are some that I will be setting the timer on this one is from Jennifer Timmons dear governing board members Dr Kellis and cabinet members thank you for your time and consideration and sending the override to the ballot this November I want you all to know how detrimental the override is to educating all students in The daart District student programs such as art music band and physical education are beneficial developing many valuable skills these programs are associated with gains in math reading critical thinking verbal skills motivation confidence teamwork and many more attributes that add to a well-rounded education these programs are essential this override is also detrimental to our students in K through three for reading reading interventionist support at every school is extremely valuable I am currently the K through3 reading interventionist at Riverview Elementary School I pull approximately 36 to 40 struggling students per day throughout the school year a successful reading program consists of instruction in tier one tier two and tier three tier three intervention is provided by all K through3 read interventionists and instruction is specific to individual needs and skill levels I can't hear you I'm sorry there's somebody be positive be positive okay tier three intervention is provided a through three reading interventionist and instruction is specific to individual needs and skill levels research has proven that tier three intervention is of utmost importance because it provides relief focused and instruction for struggling students in a small setting at my school we have kindergarten students who at the beginning of the year are unable to write their name they do not know their last name or their or their letters and numbers and are literally years behind in our schools are vital as an interventionist I am also the Dibbles coordinator I oversee Dibbles Benchmark testing at my school which includes every student in Kinder through sixth grade being tested for several measures in reading and entering their scores I also enter all prog progress monitoring scores for all students K through six every month I am an essential part of the RTI which is the response to intervention team as I teach students who are continually in the RTI process the override is essential to all students in the daart district they deserve the best education possible and nothing less this district is extraordinary it is override has provided programs that are essential to a well grounded education please consider putting the override on the ballot again the students in the daart district deserve to have the best education possible thank you for your consideration the next one is from Jennifer Preston hold I'm going to stop the timer on that one Kellis governing board and cabinet members I would like to thank Dr Kellis and the governing board and the cabinet members for your time and consideration I believe that we need to offer the override for election at this time is it imperative now more than ever for good quality education our students ruce our resources whether it is teachers supply or special areas would be an e even bigger disservice right now I believe that parents are more appreciative of what Educators do for students to pass an override at this time we need to be able to help our students even more and this override will help us do that next one's from Andrea Carter dear governing board members Dr Kellis and cabinet members I would like to thank you for your time this letter is to request for you to consider the override as a priority the mission of derer is to create a safe Diversified engaging learning environment where every student attains academic excellence and is empowered to achieve lifelong success this override doesn't just retain highly qualified teachers and staff but also maintains manageable class sizes it would contribute to the student programs including art music band physical education and Athletics isn't that Dr Kell's push the three a of academics Athletics and the Arts how can we do that if there is no funding I personally feel that the funding for math and reading support is also essential as we are to support every student without those supports in place we are failing our students the all day kindergarten is a program which may be which much must be continued kindergarten have better behaviors academic ability and longer stamina when entering first grade I would think that Al day Kinder supports the working parents in our district as we are not sending children home to an empty to an empty home we provide quality ride that these programs will be continued so I urge you to support the override I support highquality programs that produce educational outcomes that drive Economic Development generate a competitive Workforce and protect the values of our communities and properties don't you and if I could pause the cleaning lady just walked into my office and started cleaning so hold on to started vacuuming hold on a sec okay I apologize for that and the next one is from Tom banck dear governing board members it is my understanding that tonight's meeting agenda includes the authorization of a ballot initiative to override the current operating budget for the district and that this override would essentially be an extension of the one that is currently in place I urge you to vote no on this authorization this initiative was just defeated in an election less than seven months ago what good are elections if the will of the voters is not recognized do we just continue to have elections until the desired result is achieved then and once that result is achieved what is to stop the opposition for continuing to hold elections to get their desired results how long do we play this game indefinitely who pays the bill for all of these fax elections the elected officials The taxpayers Who benefits I think you know the answer to these questions now for the big question who are you supposed to represent and what is the right thing to do to fill that obligation I understand how conflicting it when your personal opinions do not align with the duties that you have been tested with but as a Prof profal it is your oblig represent the will of your employer which are the taxpayers that have already expressed their will or step down from your post please do the right thing and represent the people that elected you please vote to defeat this proposal the next one's from Katie McCarthy governing board members Dr Kellis and cabinet thank you for your time and willingness to listen to input from all stakeholders I am writing to share my support for the district's recommendation to approve the resolution ordering and for da it to authorize expenditures necessary to administer the election as a parent educator and active Community member I believe it is imperative that voters are given another opportunity to support the measure in the November 2019 election there was less than 30% voter turnout by putting the override on the ballot for November 2020 we are affording the other 70% of registered voters in the derer community an opportunity to be involved in this decision ple derer needs the time and resources to reach all community members to ensure every stakeholder understands the override to make an educated vote I know a concern the pending economic climate giving the repercussions of covid-19 the override is not asking for additional funds but a continuation of what is already in place taking away existing monies will only further disrupt any sense of stability and normaly our students have you have during these unprecedented times there are a lot of unknowns about what school in the economy will look like in the fall let alone what it would look like in the 2122 school year with $7 million cut and the possibility of another $14 million dollar cut to following the over if the override continues to fail if you want to continue to be proud of what daer has to offer you need to put this measure on the ballot our students staff and Community deserve to have these funds in place for the school years to come NE next one is from Beth seic dear Dr Kellis president Leonard members of the board my name is Beth Simi and I'm a proud parent of a fantastic mountain lion at Mountain View I am a long-standing member and supporter of the daer community and I am writing once again in support of the daer override in this time of school closur as it becomes it became even more glaringly obvious just how critical it is to have a strong teacher in every one of our classrooms it was our teachers who stepped up in huge ways to ensure every student in class was learning engaging and felt far above and beyond to reach out and help engagement with families on a struggled because of our own self-doubt we actually fret it unnecessarily because our kids were already prepared for many different styles of learning based on previous classroom preparation and rigor even our special Area Teachers went above in Beyond in ways I couldn't have imagined even having Virtual Field Day now we are preparing to embark on a new normal our teachers and staff deserve the support of our community in return the override committee has already moved with a recommendation for you to go forward with an election this group at Miss pitcher's request was not part of a previous committee and came at this with a fresh perspective with that in mind we cannot afford to lose the amazing progress dard has made or the incredible teams assembled at each one of our schools our teachers deserve our your support our communities deserve great schools continuation of what we are already paying does not add any additional burden to taxpayers as the amount won't increase taxes but it has and will increase our property values to have great schools in our neighborhood the naysayers don't have children in our schools and have no vested interest in their success I hope that the members of the governing board will agree to move forward based on the recommendation of the override committee with the m override election in some capacity in the fall the next one is from Eric M smtz thank you in advance for considering the budgetary concerns of the covid riot economic Rec recession the taxpayers of the daart school district will more like more than likely be voting again to reject the unreasonable demand for the budget override just months ago before the covid-19 economic crisis We the People overwhelmingly voted the proposed override figures down at this time our business and our and our family budgets have been trimmed to Bare minimums and employees have lost their jobs never to return the future looks bleak as unemployment percentages and business bankruptcies will change the landscape of our tax base the long-term effects are not unknown are not known as District P taxpayers will be financially impacted for years to come the older residents will be seeing cuts to Social Security as a result starting in 2021 Social Security will begin to draw down trust fund reserves to help pay for benefits before the pandemic and the ra radical disruption of the booming economy Social Security had a long-term Financial shortfall that was to be depleted by 2035 now it is predicted payroll taxes will Now cover only 3ars of promised benefits to get us to 2035 when households are struggling to survive DSD is making no compromise for our decaying personal and business financials as we have to downsize our personal and business budgets to reflect the new normal of our economy we ask the school district to do the same and not strap us with taxation incumbrances we cannot meet the only way a reasonable School District can hope to pass an override in these times of recession is to severely cut the override that was voted down just months ago by 50% or more the cut should be across the board not seeking the most painful political motivated agendas such as all day Kinder Care the Arts and sports we know how districts P Play On Emotion in addition let us consider the enriched educational experiences offered by less funded schools such as the area a a EC high schools that are graduating Almost 100% of their students with few discipline problems and near a 0% dropout rate these schools are graduating their high school students with 2-year AE degrees that transfer all the credits earned to four-year colleges within the state yes these students graduate with a high school diploma and college degree on the same day most students even receive scholarships averaging $52,000 that should be the return on investment our students and parents expect there is opportunity and crisis we are willing to compromise if you are you make the call the next one is from Kathleen o governing board members and superintendent Kellis there are six taxpayers in our household who contribute to derer we do not have children attending the district none of us are employed by the district we all value quality public education and see the importance of doing our our part to enens ensure every child receives the best education possible on behalf of the six fors who reside together I encourage you to vote in favor of an M override that the derer community can vote on in November next one's for M Michael Hutchinson governing board members I write today to encourage you to vote no on initiating an override election we just held a vote for the same item seven months ago and it is insulting to me that you would even consider wasting hundreds of thousands in taxpayer money to ask a question that has been answered very clearly our economy is in crisis families in El marage who were struggling before covid are struggling even more now every household has made Cuts every business has made Cuts if every municipality has made cuts the only organization that doesn't seem to understand the need for cuts as yours please disregard the misleading information that are being given by Mr Hicks about the override committee I have the documents have any of you actually read them the override committee was poorly attended and the ones that did attend were friends and allies of the superintendent when the time is right all of these documents will be released for public view a yes vote will result in another chunk of taxpayer money being wasted in another failed election the override will fail Mr Hicks has spoken to political Consultants about the overrides chance of success chances of success and he won't tell you what they said there's a good reason why please do not abstain from this vote you were elected to make decisions not to dodge responsibility I will see to it that the voters in derer hold each of you accountable for the way you vote tonight don't waste our money again don't insult us with your Ado over election don't keep trying to reach into our pockets while we are all suffering do the right thing next one is Candace sharp good afternoon I live I have lived here in elaraj for 18 years we do not need to have another override election we the people voted no and that's it we are tired of our taxes going up in El Mirage for the derer district next one's from Jenna catlick thank you for your time derer board members Dr Kellis and cabinet as a district parent teacher Community member I again State my support for our District's override continuation children learned best with a well-rounded education including the Arts and Athletics having override will continue to fund um hasher extraordinary education for over 20,000 students this is one facet of funding for public to be F to be a focused need perhaps now more than ever due to changing conditions from covid-19 next one is Annette Alm I am writing this email to voice my support of the renewal of our current override as a military wife who runs a Luke Air Force bace spouses group with over 3,000 members over three quarters of them being parents looking for schools children I can tell you how important it is for the daer district to be able to compete with Charter Schools and other districts in the area without this crucial funding there is no way we can offer incoming families the level of Education they may have been receiving in other states would derer be able to offer anything close to what the neighboring districts and Charters can offer children living in our district strong schools make strong communities and we cannot afford to lose teachers or programs I feel like we are finally getting into a Groove in our district and if this override fails to make it on the ballot and pass all hard work teachers and staff have put in have been for nothing please respect our teachers invest in our families and our communities and put this override on the ballot next one is from Carla Bennett as a parent of five daer UniFi School District students current current and for I whole wholeheartedly support an override next one's from Christina Bergeron dear president Leonard and members of the board there have been great consideration there has been great consideration for what is best and needed for daer which is the reason that the bond is not advancing for a boat the override not going on to the ballot and or not passing in November would have hurtful consequences in programs and Staffing at a time that is unstable at best we need to maintain our staffing in our programs which help create stability in a time of instability it is because of the stability the students that it impacts and also the staff that would be affected that I'm asking all board members to consider what is best for the district and Community by maintaining the one outlet that many students have in these trying times which is school the override helps so much without it we would be cutting not just 7 million but $21 million from The District's budget I am excited to be able to tell the community about the support that are board shows for the programs that help students and does all that it says it will I know that there will be many teachers that will work to ensure that this year the override the override is front and center thank you for supporting the daer override in the November 2020 election next one is from Tammy deers dear members of the school board please vote no on the budget override ballot measure we just had an election and rejected this very override and that this and that was back when the economy was thriving things have gotten worse things are tight things are irresponsible are tight is irresponsible respons to waste money of our waste more of our money on this again those involved in the public school system will immediately start threatening to cut programs they know will evoke an emotional reaction from the public please give us the community you represent and receptive tactics what about the $28 million in cash that's floating around in the books why wasn't that money being used toward instruction for teachers and students in a recent meeting a new contract was rushed through for the super tendent two of the members who re voted to approve hold on a second I need to plug my computer in sorry in a recent meeting a new contract was rushed through for the superintendent two of the members who voted to approve it are members of the same church where the superintendent is apparently a high priest it is customary that if an issue might give even the appearance of impropriety it is best to avoid it not in this case there were several letters from the public against this action and two members of the board both gave rational legitimate compelling reasons why the board should wait until after the next evaluation all of that was ignored and the new contract was hastily rubber stamped through by a three three to2 vote the appearance of impropriety is very much an issue it is unfair to go by one incident but it is wise to watch for patterns you represent the voters of this District not the public schools not yourselves and not the leaders of your church we spoke up and rejected this override only a few short months ago unless you have some Earth shattering and compelling evidence suggest something has changed tonight is your opportunity to represent those have usted you with the responsibility of representing us and the next one is from John D email Johnny man2 2001 at Hotmail he does not um give me his name it just his um Johnny d as derer UniFi School District contemplates yet another expensive a wasteful Bond and override campaign I feel it necess necessary to voice voice my opposition the voters already made clear that we do not want or approve of a tax increase to subsidize the districts unwillingness to budget and prior prioritize spending the mere fact that the district is eager to risk $500,000 on back-to-back Bond and override campaigns as a glaring example of the gross mismanagement and lack of respect for the funding received by the district how can you even consider this when the amount of this year's funding levels and expenses can't even be estimated with any degree of certainty surely you realize that state revenues have been drastically reduced due to covid-19 this will be compounded by additional unknown expenses for d start Unified School District to maintain sty safety standards for staff and students and to prepare for the eventuality of another school closure during the course of the school year instead of sensely senselessly wasting that money in an effort to raise taxes on families already struggling financially due to covid-19 technology and her professional development no one could have foreseen the pandemic coming that struck our state in March but we know now it is our duty to repair and this includes efficient budgeting and the iMed immediate termination of wasteful spending many of the families in our district are suffering financial hardship and to expect a different result from a bond and override campaign at this time is naive at best for these reasons icage you to reconsider pursuing another Bond and override campaign it is not in the best interest of daer Unified School District are students the next one is from Mark Demers dear members of the school board I'm writing you as an active register voter and property owner in the daart Unified School District as of this morning there are 105 5,458 active reg register voters in the district based on pre this board has taken recently I felt the need to remind you that it is your responsibility to fair to fairly represent the interests of all the voters in the district you are not there to represent yourself or push personal agendas nor were you elected to represent only a small taxpayers pay Public School Employees to represent and manage the interests of the failed Public School System Your Role is to protect us the voters against any possible abuses from that system Your Role is not to protect the interests of public school against the voters who put you there daeri school district called for a special election seven short [Music] month to as the taxpayers asking for approval on a bond and a 15% override of the already burdensome annual budget we the voters whom you represent rejected both seven months ago before cor the economy was booming we rejected the budget override by a margin of 12% that doesn't send a clear if that doesn't send a clear message I don't know what does the following day superintendent qu Quinn Kellis made his Infamous public statement claiming that he didn't believe he vowed to ignore the results and the will of the voters Those whom you the board members represent and spend more of our money to shove this irresponsible money grabed down our throats again that insulting and irrational statement was quickly deleted and taken offline but it wasn't that long ago we haven't forgotten it was not Quinn Kell's place to announce that this override will be back on the ballot and that is exactly why we have a school board to protect us against knee- jerking reactions from petulant administrators in this matter your responsibility is pretty straightforward you don't have to agonize Wonder or try to second guess how those you represent want you to vote we just told you loud and clear next one is from Lisa fer the existing budget override allows our local community to provide additional funding for our schools no amount of creative budget cuts or recent savings on utilities can replace the override this is not just $7 million in Cuts you will need to find but 21 million in yearly Cuts those cuts cannot be made without a devastating impact on our students I urge you to vote Yes to place the override on the November 2020 ballot and allow voters to continue the funding for our school district with zero additional impact to our property taxes next one is from Elizabeth Schultz I am in support of the override being added to this Falls election please Advocate advocate for this much needed override the next one is from J JLA DWI Dr Kellis members of The Bard and cabinet my name is Jayla DWI I'm a seventh grade student at sonor and Heights Elementary last year in sixth grade I had the best teacher that I've ever had Miss bulmer makes learning very fun and is very open to communicating with her students about school and life she is the kind of teacher every student should have unfortunately that was not the case a few years ago last time the override did not pass she was one of the teachers who lost her job thankfully the following year the override passed and she was able to return I feel very lucky that she was able to return to teaching because I got to have her last year and now she gets to move up with me and be my seventh grade teacher too if the override does not pass many students will not have an amazing teacher like Miss bulmer I highly encourage you to put the override on the ballot so derer does not have to lose great teachers thank you for your time and the last one is from Tracy SC I'm writing once again to let you know that I'm in favor of the derer override and believe we should get it on the ballot for this fall it is imperative that we get this funding and continue to put put money towards education both our Stu teachers and staff and our student resources so we may all continue to learn and grow with our technology economy and the world and that was the last one thank you Louisa and I just would like to um expressly thank everybody who submitted comments I believe this is definitely a community that uh is very engaged in the Affairs of the district whether you have students or not and your comments are appreciated because it is some because our district has such influence in our community in many ways um I would just add to the comments that have already been said that great schools make great communities and to not have this Bond pass would mean that we would contribute $7 million in unemployment and other um losses to the community and that's not good for for our community for neighborhoods if it were to go over three years without passing the $21 million in lost jobs and and other losses associated with these expenses would be detrimental to our community it's been said already very articulately why it's needed for our students but it's needed for everybody as we look at um this proposal it is what is best for everybody we understand our responsibility to be fiscally responsible and we take that very seriously and if anybody has any questions about how our finances are handled we invite you to please uh make an appointment and we will open up the books and share those with you we take fiscal responsibility absolutely at its highest level um be happy to answer any questions from the board thank you Dr k um Dr Kellis um quick question with regards to the time that we what was this on April 22nd that we had um had this discussion what would you say was the biggest thing that has changed um I I know the cases in the state of Arizona have changed as far as um the number of covid and everything but what has changed for daart Mr President Mr s s Bill there is a lot of optimism in the district about what is to come and I would say it's not just since April I would say that it is a growing optimism in the extraordinary experiences for employees for students and for anybody who Associates with the district we would not be able to have that level of confidence moving forward this is not a competition with Charters this is not a competition with our peer districts this is our community this is our neighborhood and every single person in our community and in our neighborhoods um needs to have that confidence that they live in a good community and with a good school whether their kids go to that school or not a good school is reflective of the community and vice versa um so while we might ask what has changed there's been a lot of changes in in our society for sure and I I would not open up that uh conversation so much as just to say that there's confidence in daer and we appreciate that and want to continue to to grow and progress in that effort so um I'm I'm going to say this for the purposes to further um discuss this I would like to um make a motion to recommend the governing board call the continuation of the 15% special maintenance operations override and authorized expenditures necessary for to order notice and administer the election second Mrs Jen motion made by Miss uh saw selt seconded by Jen tenner let's go ahead and um we can open it up for further discussion or we can continue uh with the vote I I have some comments if I don't if nobody else does is that it's hard without seeing each other it's hard to get verbal cues that's why I'm asking it that way is this appropriate for me to talk now or was Dr k still gonna say more no you're good okay well first of all um so I appreciate the board being willing to table this item um well the economy is definitely far from pre-pandemic status I guess you'd say but it's definitely looking better than it was in April um which makes me feel better having these types of discussions um now as opposed to things looking completely different in April but in the meantime too I've I've personally had opportunity and purpose to go into um communities outside of just my own neighborhood and gather a lot of community input and have some pretty deep discussions with people about our district and specifically about the override and and one theme that it seemed to continuously um to come up and and that I would hear is that not all like despite the fact that we lost the override by what we say like 12% last time um not everyone is opposed to the concept of an override that's not necessarily what I was hearing that keeps them from voting yes it's more The View that the district lacks transparency and accountability and I think we need to care about that I think that um the district re the the district often references North AEL as our opposition and I think we need to probably change that verbiage as well because I I'm learning that it's offensive to many because if that's a reference to our retirees I can tell you that the retirees that I've been speaking with don't oppose public education and not everybody North ofel is a retiree so I just um what I'm gathering or what I was able to gather is that these people just want answers and I think that's completely okay I'm obviously you all know I'm I'm very big on you don't understand something ask a question and so these people have questions about transparency and accountability and I think we need to hear that and I think we need to be open to it um people need to be able to see and this is this was information I was getting that what how we are spending the money know that we're being accountable to our stakeholders and then feel like that they're getting a good return on their investment meaning if they're going to pour money into our schools they that to me getting that good return is turning out students that um are career and future focused and ready and the test scores are going to reflect that so to me that was hopeful because you're not it's not like necessarily and I'm not saying not I'm not saying everyone um wants this override to go through but what I'm saying is the people that were telling me no they weren't in favor of it again weren't close to the concept so to me that was opportunity because we have all this data I mean we have just recently we adopted the new elll or Ela curriculum and we have our test scores that we just reviewed not too long ago in one of our board meetings showing that our scores have gone up based on that curriculum and we have a great research department and Dr we so we have the capability to show these stakeholders what they're looking for we need to maybe do um have more data items on the agenda and not necessarily like the one the board just received with like I think literally Dr Kellis remind been 81 pages to the document not like that obviously but in friend user friendly or Community friendly ways that people can understand it you know we've just gone through too lots of um arts and Athletics accomplishments and we know that Arts especially and athletics they're linked to brain development and and there's just a lot of links to academics in that way so we have the capability I think we need to um you know really make sure that we share that with some of the people that we've got their attention now but they feel like they need to see more in regard to accountability and transparency you know but the the bottom line is a failed override means laying off hundreds of of Staff which then is contributing to the increas in employment which or unemployment which is what I was concerned about before and thankful to a a Community member that actually took the time out to call me um which I always welcome if people are unclear about my position to explain a different aspect that I hadn't thought of if we if this override isn't pass and we lose our staff and then we lose all day kindergarten those those individuals then are looking at having to who also may be struggling with unemployment pay for child care for half day because we no longer fund full day kindergarten um so that's another added economic hardship failed override would mean in-class you know increasing the class sizes which impacts our learning environments which impacts our scores and even for people who don't have students in our district if our test scores fall and our district is um has just overall declining scores that's going to have a NE a negative impact on our property values and we say right now it's $20 a month roughly that would be continued on if this override is p and continues are the loss we're going to lose more um in decreased property values I believe than just $20 a month so I think this is multifaceted that can you know impact people um negatively so I think this is something that we we have to do for our students and for our stakeholders but I think we really as a district need to be very Mindful and have a concerted effort to have a very high level of accountability and transparency um have to go along with it and I think it's we've got that data to share um and we just need to find ways to do that I mean ultimately the board voting on this tonight is just putting it on the ballot ultimately the voters are they have the power to decide what happens with this override measure but I think that as a district if if this passes tonight we need to make sure that we have this great data we need to make sure it's user friendly to our community and make sure they clearly see hey this is where your money's going and this is why it's important in ways they understand and not just leave it to ourselves to think we know D's great we see all the fantastic things that are going on that's okay if they don't get it no it is it's not okay they have to be we need to care and we need to find ways to connect with them and make those meaningful um relationships that are going to just bu make our district better and stronger but then also it's beneficial when we go into um overwrite ballot measures like this so um I think I think it's necessary am I on thank you for that Insight Miss Pritchard as uh always very well thought out and appreciate your um level of detail in your comments and I agree with you that um it is um a multifaceted um situation that we're in and obviously weighing out the pros and the cons and looking at um the people that each one of us has been appointed to represent um there's definitely an opportunity for us to communicate better and uh provide that information as you outlined so I appreciate that insight and approach and and your Insight um Miss Tanner do you have anything I don't no thank you thank you Miss Densmore um just yeah just a few comments um I just wanted to say that I do appreciate um everyone's patience in allowing this uh vote to be tabled while we kind of uh had a wait and see approach to this and um you know just seeing uh what my perception of of the economy was back then and seeing it shift a little bit more positively a lot faster than I think most of us had anticipated uh that definitely makes me feel a little bit more comfortable with with doing something like this um you know I do struggle with this you know just some of the comments were read um you know not that long ago voters did vote this down at 12% um that being an off cycle election though I do think it's important uh to note that we will have hopefully a better turnout with this upcoming election and hopefully get a better idea of uh of where everyone truly truly stands on it so just wanted to say thank you for your patience on that um Mr President this is Tracy um Miss Pritchard I want to thank you for your comments um uh thank you for talking with um people that are in the community I know when I had stated that I had spoken with um several people um before our April 22nd meeting and these were people that I did not know who they were but I asked because they were part of surprise El Mirage wadell all three cities and um uh I was quoted as only speaking to people in Surprise and taking my own poll um criticized for that but the fact is I wanted to speak to people that really did not know what was going on and I am very glad that um uh you know once I explained it to them um they they were on board with it and um as long it wasn't new money and uh I I am very thankful that that uh uh you were comfortable enough in speaking with people um about this and getting their input and um yes it was um defeated back in November because that was only about 30% of the entire what 105,000 voters uh registered voters um you know if it was flip-flopped I I would be kind of hesitant on that but it wasn't um so I I do appreciate your comments and um um I do appreciate that uh um Miss Densmore had um um concerns and we all should have concerns because of what we're striving to do striving to make sure we have um a good quality education um for our students and um if funding was different from um the state's perspective um funding schools then none of us would be even discussing this right now and um so if we were funded properly then nobody would have uh the reason to go out for an M override um so um those those are my comments and um thank you thank you Mr I appreciate your comments and insight anybody else have any other comments before we vote all right Lisa let's go ahead and call for the vote okay we have a motion made by Tracy and seconded by Jennifer Tanner yes and that motion passes thank you everyone appreciate your time and inside on that and appreciate the the time that we had to uh look and allow things to settle down a bit and uh so we can see where we're headed all right let's go ahead and move [Music] on are we at request for future jeda items uh yes this is Tracy and I do have one um it has to do with uh uh I believe um gosh was it at our March 11th meet 10th or 11th meeting that um admin ation brought forth um a request that I had made for um skills life skills having to do with not my kid and um uh so we kind of tabled that because we were moving into um uh covid issues and uh I would definitely like for us to bring it back for discussion um in light of uh increasing our student skills students life skills and um the racism and how to deal with that um um I I'm very appreciative of Dr Kell's um uh comments at the beginning of the uh the beginning of the board meeting um and I can't wait to see the video but I I still think it needs to be a discussion topic for the board um as far as how are students can deal with life skills and like I said uh with the racism issues so I would like to bring back that uh information uh for a future board agenda item as soon as possible excellent thank you any other future agenda items that we'd like to add Mr President if I could uh just jump in real quick and as a reminder to the board excuse me we have a special board meeting scheduled in about two weeks to approve the budget that Ken Hicks mentioned earlier this evening Tonight is the last regular board meeting until our next regular board meeting at the end of July so we'll have a little bit of a summer break um we have a special meeting just it should be about 10 minutes and we'll be asking the board um Louisa will send something out later to find out when a a good time for the board to just do a quick 10-minute meeting to to look at that um but thank you for a great year and we're looking forward to what comes in the fall excellent thank you for that Insight we will hold you to that 10-minute meeting just so you know that's a that's a quote that is now on the record all right anybody else with anything else that we need to add to the uh add to the Future items excellent thank you for that let's go ahead and move on we're going to move on to um section um i1 executive session we're going to call for an executive uh session pursuant to ARS 38-43 1.03 A1 uh the superintendent's year end evaluation um keeping in mind that we will be logging off of this system then reconvening after the executive session so please make sure you log off of this system and we will log in and meet you over at the executive session thank you everyone we need to we need to vote oh I'll make a motion to move over there I'll second s Tracy all right motion made by Jay Leonard seconded by Tracy s s Bel let's go and vote motion passes we'll go ahead and move on to the executive session thank you everyone hello is anyone there I'm here are you here I keep getting muted is this the link that that'll come back to are you there no I'm here okay cool J's here we get Jen Tanner back on I am here yes I think you were the only one that I didn't see on there well I'm here praise the Lord hallelujah pass all right L are we ready to start did Louisa make it back on I am here sorry I had to let everybody know that we were coming back in no [Music] problem yep okay we are all back in all right do we need to start out with the roll call again no um we will hold on where are we it's we're on I3 yep I J J1 J 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good evening dr. Thomason I'm gonna call this meeting to order would you please do recall president chemical members of the board please let the record show that we have all five board members in attendance tonight reunited I'm gonna go on to a moment of silence in the Pledge of Allegiance but first I would like to read a quote just for the times of today and this is from Cornel West and he writes none of us alone can save the nation or the world but each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so I move that we approve the agenda all those in favor motion passes 5-0 superintendents report upcoming events dr. Thomason president Kaler members of the board we are on the summertime and we have a couple of events coming up Saturday June 20th we have our governing board retreat on Saturday morning at 8 a.m.

Wilson I believe has something to say I just wanted to thank everybody who had anything to do with our graduations I got to watch them I know it was at the beginning of this like cycle so it's been a while for us but they just turned out so great and I just want to thank all of you because I know especially dr. Foley on how much time and energy you put into them and I just appreciate it and they turned out really magnificent our administrative team and our H CPA were amazing this was truly a Haley United leadership effort and proud of everybody so thank you for that mister we told it I would just like to say I've been gone for the last three months and everybody doesn't know well my my sons came down with the virus our family experienced this personally he was a healthy 28 year old no pre-existing athletic and he crossed paths with somebody in a supermarket we nearly lost him it was an intensive care for three weeks and when I see sit when you see statistics on television and you do not have a clue what it's like for us as a family to go through when your child is an intensive-care and you cannot go to them and you cannot do anything and just I can't thank everyone enough for the prayers and kind thoughts and people we're sending their way but it's still not over with you still can only walk a block now he's still taking steroids trying to build up his lung capacity so so this is a very evil virus and just because you cannot see it it can strike any one of us and I just want everybody to understand is be safe out here please please please be something because thank you thank you for sharing mr.

you like to call the meeting to order please Roka Dennis bender here donar Davis here Maria or para here great Raleigh Wilson so here here okay I will lead the Pledge of Allegiance okay um Kylie do we have any public comment Kurt we have no public comments at this time okay let's see you need to go into closed session to discuss the following and our second all those in favor you okay call the meeting back into session [Music] do we have a CNC CNC a representative we did receive a report from CSE a and this is from CSEA chapter eight to eight president mike coffman good day board members cabinet and superintendent Nelson I want to thank all of you for your efforts this school year to keep things focused it has been challenging for us in many ways most of my communications are normally with the classified employees and their concerns many of those concerns are because they do not understand the complexity of what is happening it's creating a fear as we look to the future while completing the past CSEA has high hopes that road bumps that have occurred can be repaired we hope the road ahead can be paved with a stronger more resilient bond between labor and administration to best serve the students and community at the last board meeting I heard miss O'Hara asked a question that was similar to what many of the employees have asked me the 5% reserves we maintain by board policy why can't we temporarily use the 2% over the state's mandated requirement to protect as many programs and jobs as we can governor Newsom to use the rainy day fund money down to zero because of this crisis why are we not following a similar example I would hope the board would consider and have meaningful discussions on that and similar options costs have been rising especially on food and a few things that held the CPI down was fuel because we were unable to go anywhere classified had a bit of a hit in health insurance causing us to change the structure to make one plan more affordable but still at a higher cost we are everyday people with little knowledge of the workings of a large organization when things are good most of us do not pay a lot of attention to the spending habits of any organization when time gets when times get tough we scrutinize all of the costs we see and do not see please use your experience not to lead us by cutting expenditures at the employee level but trimming costs not buying new furniture when the old things can be repaired not buying equipment existing labor can do the same task and yes being conservative when using utilities these are small samples of cost savings that can be implemented all the time to build reserves and protect labour I know it requires renewed efforts periodically educating us as employees and inspiring us to continue these habits during good times and not-so-good times our community expects us to educate their children they have and always expect to the staff to be role models so the students lifes will be better than the last generation public unions have always been about the improvement of workers conditions and understanding the communities in which they live and work let's keep our workers keep the Venna benefits and pay them a fair wage thank you for your time and I wish you all a healthy safe time before the next school board meets again thank you and do we have a representative I did not receive anything from óbuda closed session reports clerk will read out any action in closed session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent d3 conference on litigation government code section 54957.6 a V USD on a motion by mr.

Buchanan could you hit the one of the switches to your left just not the one that will kill the projector thank you thank you thank so the 2020 retirees I don't know if we're gonna call this the Kovac class or whatever but our first retiree and again that this is in the order that they respond that Cindy Franklin her most significant accomplishment 37 years teaching and learning from young children her funnier poignant memories there's too many memories of time with colleagues and the brutal honesty that comes from very young children I treasure so many memories her immediate plans after retirement her husband and her are leaving California after 30 years to return to Arizona the Tucson area where her first 30 years were spent and where her teaching career began long-term plans for retirement enjoying time with her husband and her mother who is 86 years old she hopes to enjoy her new home cycling volunteering and waking up later than 5:30 next we have Carol brown her most significant accomplishments enjoying every year that she has taught at Mojave Mesa and Phoenix Academy funnier poignant memories years ago a student brought in a rooster for share the cage collapse the rooster ran around the class and the students laughed with the light during the fire several years ago smoke smells drifted into the classroom all her second graders put their shirts over their mouth and nose they look so cute like little bandits or raccoons and the media plans after retirement sort out everything she's bought brought home from her classroom long-term plans retirement her husband and I were in her not me sorry we'll be flying to Washington DC to visit their son and his family a new grandchild and new goldenblatt puppy hmm Mary Wellman funny or poignant memories when she was doing the Renaissance rally's one of her colleagues decided to come out in a coconut bikini without any of us knowing she was doing that we all stopped in our tracks and tried to quietly push her offstage it was hysterical and probably job security for the HR department most significant accomplishments being at the same site teaching for her entire career immediate plans her daughter Emily is getting married in July so she's planning on planning for that her son Matthew and his fiancee are expecting their her first grandchild in October and these two events will keep them busy for a while long-term plans her husband Ron and she would like to travel Ryan Williams most significant accomplishment it took half his career to learn that God wanted me to work with at-risk kids he's very proud of the work he's done at Willow Park and high desert premier Academy high desert premier Academy has become a positive place for students to be and the staff is fully student focused he can't wait to hear the lost results and he expects it to be very very positive funny memories will teach in eighth grade he had a bout of bells Bell's palsy which left half his face paralyzed he would do Sylvester Stalone impressions in class to make fun of themselves in that the students were very good about it and never heard any of them make fun of him immediate plans he'll be splitting time between his four grandchildren doing volunteer work with the LDS Church and working for two of his sons at justice property solutions he'll be acquiring distressed properties for their rehab and remodeling long-term plans he wants to visit every national park with his wife and family Denise Baxter most significant accomplished was working for 80 USD for 20 years funny memory when mr.

at 6:05 p.m. first we have the flag salute of the bow we have everybody here so mr. Jordan would you lead us in the flag salute ready the latest lie of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all the announcement of action taken in closed session we had one item and employed by a performance review the result of that review was a satisfactory the adoption of the agenda do we have a motion to move the agenda with pulling out when you do that we need to pull out item number two on the consent agenda is there a motion now motion by mrs. Pope is there a second second the second by mrs. Anderson all right do we let's see yeah we're gonna roll call it so then we have a motion we have a second for adoption of the agenda mrs.

Berger is gonna make his way up and I just want to say this Mike makes his way up there at alert are you gonna go there laughing that's right yeah while Mike goes up I just want to say that there's a lot of conversations about the coming school year there's a lot of uncertainty there's many guidelines out there I just want to reiterate that no decisions no final decisions have been made we're having a lot of conversations based on those guys out of what what it may or may not look like and our philosophy has been and I'm going to take this at a page of mr. Wilson's book or Tresckow says we need to be nimble and prepared for what we have and so that's the core espect we're looking at so we're spending a lot of our time this summer and even spring trying to figure out what scenarios what could it look like and be prepared rather than just waiting and trying to let it happen to us so with that I just want to reiterate that we do not have there's no final decisions we plan to come back if there is a situation that is unique it's not a regular everyone comes on back we'll come back with for sure with the board to stay here we didn't have improve that we're not just going to implement it we want your approval and understanding of it before such time that we quote implement so with that I would give it to Mike but I'm not going to give you this so that Jeremy and mr.

which is a very broad category of work and actually built right into the ordinance so just off the top I would say that those are three areas that are well covered in the ordinance and could be included either by pulling this language you know precisely from the ordinance or modifying it based on swinging back yes thank you John I just want to clarify a small point I'm in total support of both what Alice and a Deb are suggesting but regarding the public art fun at the Community Foundation my wife and I have actually set up a fund at the Community Foundation so the way the Community Foundation works is that donors can either leave in their will which we have to create a fun the particular money part of the money that I under community foundation was created by the preceding committee the the Commission for our public places which was a committee DDA that was organized to raise and select art for the 4th and Washington parking structure that and I talked with with the folks that were on that committee Rader was one of them and at that time they raised the money to pay for all of that artwork plus they set aside money for the maintenance of that artwork and they use the Community Foundation to sort of set up an endowment for that particular artwork so the fund that the Community Foundation has identified was the public art fund they have a lot of funds the John and Tessa fund you know the dead Mexican fund and so if you want to give money to the Community Foundation and attach that gift to some sort of reason you know you create a fund the fund that's in the ordinance however the ordinance was created for the percent for art and I believe that the language in that ordinance relates to the money that was set aside and pooled from the percent for art right this is not talking about money the ordinance that we're referring to is talking about what we're tasked as a commissioned to do a charter that I'm talking about that does should stipulate only maintenance and repair that is that the Community Foundation is Tyrannis directly related to that distance I'm trying too many is that I don't I don't know whether or not the language in the ordinance when it says public art fund relates to the Community Foundation public art fund they're they're called the same thing and the did you want to interrupt me dead she was waiting till you were done oh okay so the preamble or the meridians that describes how this money can be used was originally created by the people that raised that money this committee for public art for art and public places and they put it in communications I believe that the reference in the ordinance to to manage the public art fund has to do with city money they're they're called the same thing but I believe they're theirs their separate monies and that's just to clarify my head and if you understand it differently that's that's that's fine maybe I misheard you can you clarify what it talks about is public art funds and not specific funds but funds for public art so the monies that would come to the city from the you know from the interest from the Community Art Foundation public art fun comes to the city for the purpose to be used for public art and currently for maintenance and repair and so once that money is dispersed on the request of us through City Council and with the agreement of the foundation it comes into the coffers of the city for the purpose of public art and the way that these funds are talked about in the ordinance is that it isn't a percent for art it is a funding for public art may come from private donations of cash or collateral crowdfunding a specific art projects as part of capital improvement project specifically designated as an enhanced project or other funds that City Council may appropriate so this interest is what we are looking at the other thing about the Charter is that it didn't I mean and I believe you know it's great to hear the history of how this got set up because when you build public art you want a way to maintain it and back in the 90s when this was set up you know the the there wasn't a lot of that for the art that was set up mine is my guess and I think you indicated that as well John I'm so what what the original purpose was maybe to have set this up for that one particular artwork but the way that the Charter currently reads it's much broader than that so so that's kind of betrayal of funds into the city that I think allows us to think about this money as public art money even did you have something yeah a couple things I've got the foundation description on my phone here and I wondered about a couple of things first of all have they agreed that we can draw money from this for the specified purpose is that because it talks about enables the Commission and as a reference back to the Commission I'll make sure that they accept us as a successful administrator the other thing is although the last sentence talks about maintaining and preserving public art the earlier thing that talks about why it was set up it was includes funds for security works like purchase should be allowed already with this I think that the fact that it was initially used for a purchase if indeed it was I think is frozen I believe that this particular organization put all of the money into this fund both to purchase to pay and to maintain I suspect sorry about that my any time my phone rings for some reason it knocks me off the internet yeah I know sorry dice oh I mean I guess at this point I mean it's good if historically that was the intent was to purchase and maintain and all that at this point the Charter the way the community foundation understands it and the way they've communicated it to us only limits the Charter to maintenance and repair and so we're looking to add a couple things at this point and if that's in line with how it was originally put together if that's excellent I think that's more more reason to do it right so this is David again me in general I would say I you know I think it would be kind of a shame to use you know foundation money to for general marketing and kind of annual expenses like that but I'm not adamantly opposed to it I definitely think we should so I think I think that when you and David I understand your the idea that it would be a shame to use it for something as mundane and as you know as as marketing perhaps I think one of the reasons that we thought that that should be or could be included and a much broader promote awareness is that it could it could its first of all it's in the ordinance as something we're supposed to be doing second it's often monies that we have to scramble to find within the city budget and things like for setting up an intern at the you know we have to dig it out somewhere out of a city out of public services fund or some other place so like the monies that were put aside for and you can speak to this Craig and Vinita the monies that were put aside for Olivia to you know set up the online archive or if wanted to run a promotional event that raised a womanís about you know the 10 year anniversary of the dry side or something like that add up as a fundraising you know event it's very difficult to find monies for that under the current circumstances and so but so it's it's a area where we're tasked with it but we aren't somehow able to fund it whereas in maintenance and repair we've actually over the years have built those into certain of the site budgets and so while something catastrophic could still happen and these monies would be helpful toward that or something big comes up that needs this kind of money it's not the routine place where we would end up using it does anyone else have any thoughts on specifically in German language we should be considering when we draft our proposed language again I I come down a little bit more with David I'm not opposed to it but unless I think first of all we're gonna have to go to City Council and ask their permission make a recommendation that this be done and then that then we would have to go as my understanding is to the community foundation board and make the similar recommendation for this to be done so that I'm wondering with without a specific project or a specific item to do if it wouldn't it be stronger if we had you know we want to do this and is not available nor will be available in the future nor should be and therefore in other words to use this money exclusively to raise donations you use this money as matching donations now the Community Foundation does that so in other words we set it up and we you know we will we will match your donation we will name some little fun for you or something like that a unique fundraising effort might be more persuasive to counsel that we want it to change this that I'm wondering if if it is broad enough to encompass just about anything that I would prefer maintenance to stay as city staff has maintained it that they have already I believes that policy that whoever controls the artwork is required to maintain the artwork and that if it if it's catastrophic well you know that that organization has to do it so that's you know that's my point I'm not opposed to it and I'm encouraged by the donation and this would just make it a larger donation but if we could have a specific idea or project how we want to use this as opposed to the general language I think the idea of having some general language to broaden the scope of the Howard can charter the money is the whole point we don't want to limit it to a certain project I think we could for example bring examples forth with our language that might get them excited and ideas of what we could potentially do with the money if we were able to do this if you think that might be more persuasive but I mean I think the whole point is that we want to go a little bit more with the language because we don't want to have to come back and do this another year from now again when we decide you know what we should have really just asked to do this with you know so I think the more general we can be without being too presumptuous the better oh and as far as the maintenance goes um we don't plan on asking to remove that from the language predominantly because those funds were put in there by donors who believe that to be what they were putting the money in there for and we don't want we want to honor those donations and what they put the money in there or at that time you also do not believe the community foundation would approve just eliminating that language and changing it to something else I think that would be including us ought to get it not approved Sophie yeah I agree with Allison that it's useful to keep it broad and that we should allow the public art Commission to decide what it would like most use it for and if it thinks some idea is a waste of money donation you know propose it for that so then you should trust the public art Commission to make those decisions sensibly and since the future is becoming increasingly unknowable I think the more flexible it is the better Johnna thanks very much I'm generally in support of keeping the language broad and I wonder if I could ask council member tom hollie just to chime in on what he thinks is best from our council perspective well I mean just sitting back listening to all sides yeah I think council what first one I hear consensus from the Commission and and then then half yeah but I think we'd like to leave that up for the Commission to decide but ultimately you know counsel you know wants to be supportive and and at the same time especially these days the funding is highly insecure and even when it is available it becomes contested so you know I would I would first want to see what the Commission what what language you landed on and then I'll give you a better answer I guess you know but I'd rather have the Commission you know hash it out and then and then give you it take them and what I think for lack of a better answer right now so I would I would say that I think Deb and I have a good foundation to start with from what we're hearing from here and we could put some language together based off of that perhaps for approval at our next meeting does that sound like a plan to you I'm certainly but a couple of the things I would like to sort of here before we move on with this I'd like to hear just kind of the roundup of where we're we've come down it sounds like there may already be the option of purchasing art which is indeed something that is indicated in the ordinance as something we can recommend to sit to the City Council just raise your hand if they like certain things you're saying I'm being I'm being grad sort so I think that something that I and I have to say you know I don't find marketing and promotion all that exciting either but whereas the purchase part is really exciting but also it'll be the case that only small amounts of money will become available unless we build it up and so if we did want to do an art purchase it would be planned for you know after several years of roll over the so I think having something that allows us to purchase art would be a good thing I think that promotion of art is as I said promote awareness of public art is one of our jobs and one that we do sometimes want to fund and so that could be a clause as well and finally I would argue that leaving repair and maintenance as in the Charter and this I know might be an area of some discussion will actually allow I think the foundation strategically to think about broadening while allowing the monies that were there already donated to be concluded with the original purchase purpose of what those monies were donated for so I'm hearing those three things as being possibilities here are there other bits of language or fine points that need to be sort of thought about in the language moving forward doing just for the record I'm not saying that promotion of public art of educational activity is unexcited or a desire it's more of a philosophical thing that the foundation money should be spent generally our capital or major investments I think if we had a plan for something we could get the money but I am fine with changing the language I would assume that any actual requests for money the commission would be voting on after we spend that's another thing that we you might want to speak to Allison and I'm sorry to jump in but but how the monies get dispersed yes so um the money can be dispersed either in the spring or the fall each year um timeline wise for us probably depending on when we get this approved we'll probably be looking at a spring it's personal if we're gonna take it this time around and when we do that we have to go in asking for it for a specific purpose so we as a group would come together and discuss things and come up with a specific item that we wanted to spend for and we could request that from the foundation I think ideally they would love it if we said you know what every year we're gonna spend this amount on this purpose and tell them when we're gonna take it out and go forward like that it makes their life a lot easier firstly I don't see us doing that I think we're a very Dement dynamic group and we you know Evan flow and have great new ideas and every year so I see us kind of coming hopefully deciding at a certain time of year to have those discussions and come to an agreement on what we want to use the million or not use the money save it on and going to the Community Foundation so that's how we would move forward and so we talk to common figure out our timeline then we would add into our timeline each year a discussion of monies and how it's going to be used so we had her hand up but Deb do you want to add to that before we move to no I don't think so I think that the the idea of a regular dispersal as Alison said is interesting to the foundation I mean they even have they often do those regular dispersals my sense is that they will do a regular dispersal of an amount every year with the idea even and this we should clarify that you will be using it for the purpose that you set aside and so I'm not even certain you have to say oh and this year and be used for this and this and this it's that here's your two thousand dollars every year to be used for these purposes so I think a little clarification on that but the second thing is that there are also funds that say we will disperse two thirds of the interest to you and roll a third for instance back into the foundation or what we've been doing is just asking for it when we've wanted it in a certain amount so those are kind of the options for it I think Sophie you had your hand up yeah my my Kirsten unfortunately introduces a new a new area which is because because of the financial crunch right now we know that wsg gallery is closing and lots of other things will be closing and opening things will be hard so I'm just wondering whether our charter already would cover things like assisting galleries or creating a gallery for open to the public or whether that's just completely disconnected from what we're supposed to do because I feel like there was a time when people would say I'm going to Ann Arbor to see the gallery so now I'm thinking this like one that's kind of on the side of town and then the new one look at when one and what else is there well there's the one in City Hall which you know we're actually excited about I failed to mention which maybe it's somewhere else I was gonna mention it but there has been a small budget set aside for that to continue within the space to continue working with the Ann Arbor Art Center to have featured artists in chambers so I'm excited about that so there is that I think I think personally as far as public art and the city of Ann Arbor goes it would it would be a stretch to see how we could be funding private nonprofit organizations within the city not to say that someday we couldn't figure that out but as it stands right now I don't see how that falls in our ordinance it more the gallery within the space and the City Hall is more in line with what we're supposed to be doing and supporting that type of space have to do have anything to add councilmember when lollie yeah oh thanks you know just adding I'm sorry doing I didn't have a better answer for you yet but you know when we look at money a lot of times you always want to look at matching grants you know fliers I think it really should be something that is stressed and when you go to spend money especially unfortunately the little money that that there is they kind of have a multiplier effect and leveraged what happens I mean I just remember you know student groups coming to the Commission and samo if we just had $500 we could then get this other $500 and do a project with and so you know I really would stress the importance of that having to mention grant money for other organizations who who are looking for that I think it's that's what the city does you know and whenever we're looking at em I we just we don't spend a hundred percent of our own money it's always in conjunction with other funds so I think it really needs to be looked at and then you know you know having maybe a two-year budget cycle or something again to see we kind of try to look out a little further so we can plan ahead further and smooth out the highs and lows a little bit more and whether you want to look up maybe uh perhaps a fund balance in your fund so you can maybe dip below you know what you're you're needing you know dip below your your your fund balance or bigger things that happen or maybe there's you know when trains at Forrest Bennett dang you know so I haven't run down maybe it may be a good idea to include in this and you know hopefully so that I'll continue for many many years and you know for folks and commissions after everyone here has served their their time and so putting it in place for that ever man that in mind I think are are important we talked about budgeting and I just you know for for marketing you know I just you know just a little leery of that because I mean budgeting I mean you can go both ways I mean you can spend everything on marketing I'm sorry on marketing you can spend sky's the limit it's really I think it's important when you're doing something to communicate what you're doing I don't do enough of but I keep to me sky's the limit with a marketing budget so what are you really getting and how do you really quantify it versus you know some of the other types of spending that can happen so I just went to sleep I just want to leave leave you with that could could I just jump in really quick just to let everybody know we're at 7:43 so if we're going to make it through the agenda I know that Allison made some comments about bringing this back our next meeting is August the 5th but in the meantime if maybe some other groups want to get together I just don't want us to miss the other items on the agenda have any some final comments to add about this topic like we've if anything's happened something feel like he didn't get a chance to say it or whatever no feel free to reach out to myself or Deb and we'll start framing some language about how we're gonna do this ask and we'll have that for you guys to review at the next meeting the next thing a new business is importance of art and culture for a full life I think this was something Sophie brought to the table for us to discuss today yeah I wonder if I can screen share something can I try that I can don't see what I can do oh that's just disabled I have to be allowed to do that be able to make Sophia oh ho so she can stop my video he's not the same as a screen share I don't know now screen-sharing no posters disable screen sharing okay so anyway I can't find the screen sharing it seems to be disabled right now I don't have a video so whoever is hosting should be able to go down to share a screen and put up the multiple attendees allowed and then you should go down to share screen and pick the screen that you want to share after that's been done so she just made you a co-host yeah does that mean ice pick on share screen huh and then it and then it'll bring up some options and pick the one that's your desktop hmm well I don't see anything that looks remotely like mine my what I have on my desktop okay that is not my desktop that's somebody else's but it seems I can't find it we're looking at a new normal lon yeah that's right you can see that yes okay so um I'll just read it through to you so it says we're currently going through unusual times including what's been dubbed the great pause where many of us have had an opportunity to stop and think more broadly about how we'd like the world to look when we emerge from the pandemic oops there we go when we emerge from the pandemic as well as the nationwide and even global anti-racist protests since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis as a response to this time of openness to change this seems like a good opportunity to reach out to other art related organizations to discuss whether there new ideas things we could do join me to improve the status of artists and the arts in Southeast Michigan which would in turn positively impact public art in Ann Arbor since AIPAC has a responsibility to the public to demonstrate its commitment to the concerns of the public later proposed a committee to reach out as soon as possible to other organizations in the greater Detroit area and/or Southeast Michigan to see if there's any interest in convenient conference possibly virtual for the exchange of ideas along these lines and stop sharing for the minute so really it's very broad I just feel like this is a time when we shouldn't really just be bumbling along as no woman Sophie we freeze freeze let's give Sophie a second to possibly unfreeze okay Johnny looked like you wanted to jump in with something there well I didn't want to jump in I just wanted to support where Sofia's going with this I think it's a it's a brilliant idea and we as a body could provide a forum for a discussion about the arts the value of the arts bringing other folks together and so I think I think it's a wonderful idea and and and you know we should do it and if if you know Sophie had the idea that she wants to kind of spearhead this I would be a you know all in favor of that but you know probably because you know Alice and Deb you're you are the office there's no this group you know my only thought might be is to is to shape it into something you know a specific issue that you would like these organizations to talk about and and then you know it could start out very simple I think that just as a as a discussion and and start talking to folks to find out what issues are important and and who should be included in this discussion and we as a body could sponsor it completely or whatever so Sophie back on I'm just trying to keep the idea alive I love the idea Sophie and and I would support you know moving forward with it and some fashion maybe you know in the next between the next this meeting in the next you know start a work group that discusses some specifics about moving forward you know so if we brought this to my attention it seemed like a great project to fall under the special projects working group rather than adding another working group and I think that both of you are on that working group you did Sophie so Sophie John was just shouting hurrah and he was excited about this idea and sharing and he thinks it's awesome that you brought it former and we could work on this and then I was saying that I had when you brought the idea forward that I thought well this would be a great project for the special works committee working group and I think you guys are both on that so I knew I muted yourself like you wanted to share something I just wanted to say that and I think this would be the work of a subcommittee to decide on the topic and and the purpose so that we are working toward a goal of some sort so something to along the lines of the role of public art and social change and using the recent you know one of the things that was struck me about the the nearly two mile ents that was put up around the White House was that an immediate became a mural space for public art and that public expression and so thinking about the role that public art has been playing in both the current conversation national conversation as well as how we might want it to play in the immediate future toward a purchase are people looking at cataloging what has happened in their communities and then we repacking repackaging and promoting it out as a secondary art expression or a tertiary arts expression or how does it link communities together through their activism but I think we do need a purpose title statement as it relates to public art and the role that it serves or has been serving in community activism oh that's what I was gonna say 100% agree does anyone have anything else to chime in encouragement I I wonder if we are going to set this up as a project if we need to prove and assign it to the special projects group for instance do it we can take it on if you want but it would be nice to reflect it in the that's that the entire Commission supports this idea to be explored by the special projects and also to be brought back at some set time you know I would say some kind of planning for feasibility topic organizations that might be engaged like for instance in in town we would engage the you know universities public our Commission for instance and then was it past that and maybe bring it back for the August okay so can I have a motion to this I don't to the special projects committee or working group moved Thank You Jonah second John all in favor any further discussion any further discussion all in favor all right all right any opposed great thank you Thank You Sophie bring that to the table and I'm excited to see what you guys come up with I can sound a little piece of wording to Vinita if you want to have it okay thank you um for old business we have the council policy update so this is concerning the request that was put forward 150,000 years ago to the council that was to create a perhaps a policy change regarding creating a line item of 30,000 dollars that would not be used every year necessarily but but could be used things like a coupon and various things that we stipulated I believe that the wording is in the documents that you have for the meeting I think that the update I just wanted us to have an update of where that was and what actually happened to it and Ollie can weigh in on this but it appears that there was many things that were going on at the time that this policy would have been brought forward and I think that the upshot is that the policy was not brought forward to the full council as would have been sponsored by ollie on our behalf and I just wanted to sort of get a you know it's not that we can't put it forward in the future it's not that we might not want to rethink it but I didn't want it to leave it hanging out there as to hey whatever happened to that so only if you could actually add to hey whatever happened to that that would be really helpful well yeah I appreciate you bringing it forth and I'm sorry it's it's been a very choppy three or four months for many reasons and there's definitely a pin in it I'm looking at it now and I talked with our city administrator about it I know he had then had a conversation with mr.

frost and push for some reform here because it's drain brain and it's it's it's creative you have your hand up I just wanted to say that I think that this isn't in the end about Mary specifically although Mary is a prime example of what we can lose by not having this this sorted out properly and so I just wanted to say that that while Mary is the example that we're using it's not about this specific commission member it's about the ownerís level of stricture on commissioners that makes to me makes absolutely no sense BAE on what the Commission does how it operates and actually this is this may indeed be in excess maybe an out of the city but in excess of what even the state of Michigan might require for this kind of position so I'm just I feel adamant about making sure that we are reasonable for a volunteer unpaid Advisory Commission position and how we how we treat our commissioners as it relates to their expertise their positions in the community and their possible conflicts of interest and how we might address them and I dig we lost another Commissioner maybe the same reasons I'm not sure David's then found it difficult I'm not sure exactly why but you know just I just wanted to throw that out there so yeah I agree it's not just about Mary but it really does exclude a lot of folks from being you know giving back we hear you're loud and clear what's what has the opinion that the attorney rendered is based on your bylaws we will gladly invite Chris for us to on your meetings talk about routes forward yeah yeah because if this is as simple as a bylaw change we'll make it yeah yeah Sophie yeah I mean it's it's not a very large large town in terms of the number of artists who are involved in in that might be public art you know most people probably might do it once in a few years if it's also someone who does have that expertise it's a shame to exclude them it's really confused about the judging thing because I thought one of the things was is that that Commission's didn't do any of the art project now generally at the rate before recommendations for the pieces goes forward to City Council it does come to our body to put forward to City Council in general we've out of the position that we are reviewing a process that the art was selected not the piece so even more so we're not saying that's the right piece or the wrong piece we're just saying they followed but we hit recommended as a process they put it out to public they included the public they you know they use whatever all of our things that we recommended to put that forward but I think that is the one time we do touch that process very very minor recuse from that one place right and that's what we're suggesting she could just recuse from that conversation and we'd be good John just everybody this is a vestige from the old Commission that was that had eight hundred thousand dollars coming into a fund that we sat on task forces and we chose it so it might not have been smart to do that but that was put in place for that particular process the percent for arc and and and they did it pulling from best practices across the country so it was smart however we are not that same commission and that we are now advisory and unintended consequences is Mary thief ills and possibly Davidson yeah I think so I think when it sounds like we'll have Chris come to one of our meetings so we can better understand the bylaws that have led him to this decision and how we can change those what that process will look like so we can remedy this there's noone any questions before we move on to each of our little working groups if we have a feedback yes okay so are we assuming that Mary won't be able to come back on to the Commission and does that mean there is another opening or are those two things not the case so there are two openings currently and Deb and I as our working group will report we've been working on filling those however if my understanding is we could have more than what we're filling and so that if we fill those two spots Mary wants to come back and allowed within our bylaws and the capacity that she's happy with if she could do so Greg you had your hand of them yeah I just wanted to emphasize that no way did the Public Art Commission say that Mary could not be on it that was her choice to resign yeah but that report we got saying you can't have this conflict of interest was pretty blunt yes yes well she couldn't be on the Commission she could be on a commission but she just couldn't bid for that project and be on the commission yeah okay so working groups looks are the first working group on our list on the agenda is business owners and developers we have no report at this time the design review board meetings were canceled okay a CIT working group nothing to report at this time Hey Communications and public outreach we have nothing to report donations and our placement we got a donation we already reported on that so unreasonably met but we've had Deb and I are on that group and we've talked about how we're excited about the current donation and how it may leverage the ability to do some more fundraising now that we kind of had this as an example of how folks in the community can give to the public art fund sometimes people are reluctant to give too directly to the city because they're not sure how those funds will be used but this allows them to do that and still give to public art so we're excited to sort of leverage this donation and see were able to potentially raise more funds that Leadership Forum I don't think we have I think David had a question oh sorry I was just going to ask relating to fund raising Craig and Vina do we have a way if we got smaller donations that weren't you know up to the level that we were putting them in the Community Foundation but is there a way to segregate those within the city so that they stay applicable to the public art Commission acted I'm pausing because this questions been asked before and I'm trying to remember the response donations to the city would generally go into the general fund and there would not be restrictions on those in the general fund but I can ask the question again and refresh my memory with the answer is to get donations then they should be willing to put together a wait for us to use them the issue is a restricted fund is a unique creature in the municipal government and I'm not even going to try to go into it because I don't understand at all providing the money to the Community Foundation to the art fund does ensure that that's where we'll end up in our project Oh John first I think it's really smart of what Deb and Alison have sort of done as reestablished the reissue with the Community Foundation this donation that we've received is now going to the Community Foundation it's actually earning interest so it's in endowment we are using the money off of it and so that I think it might make sense that we think about donations as outlined in the ordinance being situated at the community phone through this public art fund particular donor once go ahead Craig I know one of the the things about donating to the Community Foundation is there's no question about it being tax-exempt and having tax credit that's by far I believe one of the reasons that donation went to the Community Foundation because it doesn't require any acknowledgement from the city as to how it would be used and whether it would be unattached and struggling forward I'm not the accountant but it would be allowed to be a deduction on the givers taxes so we're still working through smaller donations I I will say that when you know we look at the history of that endowment there are lots of small donations that make up that entire fine so I'm putting in small donations and there is a bad idea it would be fun and exciting to have a separate place that we are following some smaller donations that we could use readily because as we talked about the endowment can only and hopefully Craig you can dig into that a little bit more and see if there is a way to have a designated fund within the city to do that's all right this is uh this is just an aside but years ago I wanted to make a donation to an animal shelter that was run by a municipality down river my they had taken in some cats of my cousin's after she passed and I wanted to make that donation and they indicated that they were not able to take a designated donation but what I could do is I could purchase a gift card from a place and purchase and then they could use that gift card to purchase supplies or food or something like that I only bring this up as a yes it is hard to do designated funds in the city and yes there may be workarounds that we could also explore and so I'm just putting that out there Craig as there may be other ways that we can accomplish this that are a more direct or reimbursable kind of piece it creative Craig alright so the next one after fundraising is the Leadership Forum we met probably just before all this went down and made a nice little list of people we are going to invite and we but we are still working towards having that group come together nominating and membership new commissioner application updates so yes we just briefly touched on this we have two openings for commissioners we have two applications that we spoke to the mayor about last week they will be going forward to City Council when I say it's July I want to say fourth which is absolutely wrong but like the first meeting in July they'll go forward so hopefully we will have two new commissioners joining us at our next meeting policy and the governance we haven't met I think that's just you and me Deb well it sounds like we might after we speak with the city attorney there we go a special project so I do believe you guys have an update for us we do I think everyone received the the workgroup report and it focuses on the golden paintbrush award last meeting the Commission recommended the workgroup would explore how we might be able to reinstitute that we've been meeting and this happened just before the pandemic and so we've been meeting online primarily and we have three documents submitted to you tonight for your approval that would move this golden paintbrush award forward as background the the golden paintbrush award was a given award given by the city organized through the art commission since 1999 you have a list of all the he was gonna say recipients I'm pretty sure all the past recipients yes the list of all the past recipients I'm sure the winners of the sticker contest in the meantime o'clock okay so I don't know can I do a screen share you are not a co-host yet but if you hold on a second be able to make you a toaster that you can do a scream chair it says your co-host John alrighty let's give it a shot here yeah are you seeing that great okay so this is going to be more visual than informational they have submitted the contest submissions for the designs and the people have voted and spoken those are some judges and such so here is K through six these were the finalists there and I personally felt like there should have been an honorable mention also maybe for the squirrel like that one but as we go through this is the winner for K through six there Sylvia last name being covered by this other item here so we had to board from Bach elementary and then we have our seventh through twelfth grade those are the finalists there Marcella Passos Matthew yay Lela Williams and the winner Marcella pathos very nice design there and the final citywide finalists there selena chased eric up geez Jenny Williams Katherine Loomis and the winner being Erica cheese and that's the citywide when are there and there's a picture of some of the lovely people that work in our City Clerk's office and remember to vote in November not only to get a sticker but also to get a sticker so there will be an announcement of this I believe also at upcoming City Council meeting as well thanks so much you know if we vote be a male can we still get a sticker oh yeah people definitely ask me that several times typically the have them at City Hall or you can just stop by a precinct and they should be there as well all right I think you get electronic sticker if you know white is fun I really like them I think the final designs are really great I think that was a pretty awesome contest thank you John for keeping else a part of that whole process for sure yeah I think it came out great and it's good it's the city program that's moving forward and has funding and support and everything that involves arts I was really happy to be a part of that and I salute folks in the City Clerk's office for making that happen as well and all that all the entries as well so much I think it was it was a great idea and it worked out really well even though I'm a little bit sad about the squirrel not winning that's what I think honorable mention should be definitely in there for sure do you know is this the first of many of this type of contest or if they're thinking about doing it again at some point I don't know anything for sure but it seems like it was successful and it went well to the point that definitely folks in the City Clerk's office would advocate for doing it again I certainly would do you know how many people voted on the works I don't have that information off the top I apologize it would be just fun to know how many people participated in the voting process and I wonder if their contact information is something that was tracked by the city these are folks who are obviously interested in art auction of art so potentially a good group of people for us to communicate with potentially generally in polls like that we don't track who is doing it unless there is a reason to do it for Geographic is let's say you're voting on a location on a street or something like that we didn't we pretty concerned about folks as privacy and identities except makes that yeah I think I think it's probably fair enough not to track people individually but it would be nice to know the numbers and then see if we can increase those numbers if we do it again for sure the main contact person at the City Clerk's office so I worked on with this and some other projects in the past his name is Kelly Bedi and he's been super helpful and very responsive and so I think I can get in touch with him regarding some of that data well as other folk on staff great John you're back with us I am so are we still talking about the golden paper brush award weed while you were gone we talked about the sticker winners I see a lesson on that so and I actually were just wrapping that conversation up I believe I can talk back to your own presentation so we are we are proposing that anybody can nominate anyone an artist can nominate themself it would be an online forum and we have given a draft form that we have also created frequently asked questions and these nominations would be collected over the course of the year and sometime in August the art commission would assemble a panel of judges nobody on the art commission would judge and that this three panel judges would review all of these and we have recondite area that they use basically creativity and craftsmanship 50% civic engagement 25 visibility and sustainability 25 and you can judge from the past recipients it was away at the end of promoting an elected public art events that then the recipients were recommending no more than three would be would be designated a recipient of this golden paintbrush and certificates would be dependent on the judges whether they wanted to give one to just the artist that created it another one to somebody that funded it that would totally be up to the judges and they would be presented at a council meeting sometime in the fall so that in a nutshell and Sophie and Peggy is Peggy sir not and David do you have anything to add this is David I don't have anything to add I thought you did well and I think the paperwork was fairly self-explanatory I just want to thank you Jen oh sorry I just want to thank you John you did a great job on that we were he was working we were working on this in the midst of the coab in nineteen and he carried a lot of the weight with it so thank you thank you going forward you know I would I would like Peggy and Sophie if you're willing to kind of co-chair this subcommittee going for so your task would be to if this is approved by the art commission would be to assemble those judges by August collect all of this and we're recommending that Alison be a part of the facilitating help the judges sort of sort through it all and and come out with at least three winners so I would like to make a motion that the three forms the guidelines the FAQ and the submission form be adopted by the Art Commission and with a recommended date for the fall of this year so I have a question you mentioned that there would be over the course of a year people could nominate people for this correct but then you're saying a couple months from now we would be doing this election well we like I have two that I'm willing to nominate right away you know but we're the only ones who know this is even an opportunity so I really limited to whose nominating it could look kind of enter like we're just our own group nominating people and putting this forward it's not as community oriented it as I would as it seems like it could be and I would like to see it be human yeah I would assume that this should go to Council for their by instance that would really be counseled who would actually be giving these out at a council meeting so it's not like it's something that could start right away on our approval fair enough okay so I mean you said August so are we really talking about August 20 21 well if that's the consensus I'd like to we we have documents that could start the program Sophie and I think Peggy if you're willing to co-chair and what's the date you know we want to set we can set whatever date and and you know maybe is out really still here you know do we do we do we think that it's just too soon and too chaotic to add something like this for the Fall and if that's the case maybe we do it for next fall Deb has her hand up I just to sort of clarify and this is this is fantastic I mean this is exactly the kind of thing that would fall under promote awareness of public art right I mean it's exactly in our wheelhouse and because it's in our wheelhouse I do think that we have and because there was never anything I think that got rid of the golden paintbrush it just kind of you know fell into dormancy I don't think we have to ask city council anything about reinstituting the prize or awarding the prize or going through a process with the prize what we'd mostly just be asking them for is that we that they give us space in either their presentation or their public commentary period to present them publicly through the City Council at the time and so I mean if we're making the award I don't think we have to ask them for more than that and I'm just looking for clarification about this well I mean if you're looking at me you know I would have to ask questions but I you know loop in the mayor many because the the proclamations and runs the meetings and and I think having his input on this with would it be helpful and I can ask others but that's that's all I say I would agree with you that you don't need our permission other than if you wanted to have it placed on the agenda that's gonna be back we we don't have to do it in September it could be done in October November why don't we do this why don't we accept these documents and get Bonita to figure out how she can put this forum on on and all the technical and have Sophie and Peggy figure out how to move this forward and an appropriate time and report back at the August 15th which would mean we proud we won't give one out then this September but it could very well be it doesn't you know it could be December it could be in January it could be it could be you know it doesn't have to be necessarily on a particular you know and in the fall these awards are given out the historic district commission gives out awards in the fall you know I mean the council sets their hours and hours of having people come in and get awards so the fall is kind of an award season we might choose a different you know January you know we give give the awards and then but just to move it forward if everyone is happy with kind of the documents in the verbage that our group has recommended let's just approve these let's task a Sofia Peggy with working out the details and report back and our August 5th meeting okay so I would say John has moved is there a second David great any further discussion oh I forgot to check whether my name was spelled correctly but if my name is brought correctly then yes I think it was not actually in one place there are a couple of old typos we grill a gr il le T oh I'm sorry my apologies I add in the extra I I will make sure that well none of the documents includes any of our names it's the report so the documents just talk about the judging process the criteria the FAQ and the nomination to be in three different groupings and so I don't think there's a problem with your name there Sophie sorry alrighty all in favor hi any opposed great documents are approved to move forward so Peggy and Sophie you turn a torch exactly yes I'm excited to see what comes of this the final workgroup that we have on our list is the youth outreach group two guys have any report Frost today that was mostly the sticker design contest so not much else going on yet to report the next agenda is special presentations which I'm just getting out of zoom was a special for me without further ado I will adjourn us oh oh yes I always forget this part does anyone want to share a little piece of information or before we go I saw Ali's hand go up yeah thanks I just I just want to say you know sorry I've been a little m.i.a and it's good to see the the Commission back it's one of the more pleasurable ones to serve on and I'll be working on getting I got it to-do list here in front of me and I'll get cracking on this so make sure we come back in August we have at least my business taken care of I appreciate the work that this Commission's been doing and in light of everything and keeps coming back at it and Jonah appreciate you you and others who helped with the sticker design that was a great presentation and looking forward to talking about that on Monday and you know anytime that we can come to Council and offer an award or bring some good news and show what this community has done and is doing is always a welcome part of council so don't feel that you have to work around our schedule bring bring that good news and bring those awards as you see fit we can stay for a few extra minutes but the good news I appreciate you as well thanks so much thank you yes Sophie I've just been enjoying all the probably getting quite faded in the Sun from forget the official name of it so there are some really lovely pictures in town but also there was an interesting sculpture of shakey Jake in one of the shop windows I don't know if anybody saw about it it's really rather remarkable I don't know who did it or why or anything but it's very cool so if it were on Main Street did you know where did he see it anyone did you see it yeah that's Stefan he's a fifth Ward resident he's been doing most wire sculptures for years he actually used to have a policy of making one for my employees who were here for a year or longer and he would make them a sketch sculpture but yeah I think it's in a moveable I'm sorry peaceful Kingdom yeah yes it's been there for about a year almost I'd say it's been it for a while do you see things now yeah yeah I'll let the art teachers know yeah youth art month went on for three months good though the shaky Jake wire sculpture had been in the store there for years I think they just moved it after the store closed they moved it up to one of the display windows I lost my connection before you started Jonah your presentation on the stickers they were awesome they were absolutely awesome I absolutely loved it so and I had my favorite and but kudos job well done yeah that's an example of a project that came to us and they were you know had some ideas and I think that we potentially pushed them to broaden that project include ages they hadn't originally thought about so I think Jonah Peggy push that forward a little bit at that meeting I remember and you guys should be proud of the fact that we had an impact it was exciting I like to see the project go along and there was a one of my colleagues and our teacher from bright who was on the judging and she really enjoyed her experience so a golden paintbrush nomination right there Toby I just had an idea for future of a golden crayon for the youth section oh that's so cute I love it your co-chair so bring it make it a part of your report hmm all right well with I don't see anyone else raising their hands so thank you so much all for coming and contributing and it's so good to see all your faces please take care and see you all in August

right here in the governing board room and then on Wednesday June 24th we have our next governing board minute at 5:30 p.m. here in the governing board room that's the events that coming up for the next month thank you and I know our retreat is at 8 a.m. and it's usually held in the backroom by June 20th is there any recommendations coming for us that we can have any type of audience or is it going to be this set up still June 20 or yeah June 20th and 24th president Kaler members of the board we still watch that on a daily basis right now according to governor Ducey we're still in phase 1 and so we will be holding in there until we hear differently very good I had people asking about the work study coming up at the end of the month and I wanted to make sure I don't invite people that can't come in ok board comments mrs.

Glover thank you I echoes the sentiments of both of you and the high school graduation was great and I agree we we have to be you know it shouldn't happen to happen to you to give to have a concern for other people and and I think that's a lesson we all could could learn and so on the way here I was just reflecting and I'm gonna take a little bit of time but hopefully not too much about what a time to be on a school board all the things we've been through in the past four years and just the events of the last two weeks I feel like you know here we are again I remember when red forehead started and there was you know a roomful of very nervous people of staff members and thinking about people looking to their leaders and I remember that some districts were eerily silent out of fear of rocking the boat and if it were left up to them nothing would have changed and because of red farad we've seen great changes as a result of that movement and I will forever be proud of this board in our administration for not being scared at the end of silence at that moment but I feel like we're also at another one of those moments so I just want to take a minute to let people know that I see what's going on around us and like so many millions of others deeply affected by I have a son in Minneapolis Saint Paul that goes to school there so he knows the area the people the community the police we've had a lot of conversations very heartfelt and you know I'm talking about the peaceful protests that are going around around the world right now galvanized by the murder of of George Floyd and so you know I just wanted to reiterate I'm a citizen I'm a descendant of immigrants I'm a husband I'm a father I'm a teacher but I've been listening I've been willing to learn I'm willing to lead I'm willing to grow I'm willing to change and I am committed I'm telling you and everybody who happens to see this that I am I'm committed to doing more that's that became the message that I'm getting is everyone has to do more and America needs to grow and evolve as we have since since the birth of our nation we need to be actively more inclusive we need to be anti-racist and thankfully we live in a place that as a system that set up or we can mature and change if enough of us decide that it is time to change and every time as a nation that we've been more inclusive we've gotten stronger allowing non property owners to vote allowing women to vote or on people of color to vote eliminating poll taxes letting 18 to 20 year olds vote standing up for human rights standing up for civil rights we've gotten better and stronger and I hope that through dialogue that we start to have these difficult uncomfortable conversations that we need to have in order to grow stronger and face the current realities in which we really all do live an American public education that beloved cornerstone of democracy that I always talk about is it has been the envy of the world for many generations because on its face it's open to everyone so once again public education will be needed to help fix what's ailing us and I don't mistake criticizing the status quo as being unpatriotic I would argue that working to make the country a better place is very patriotic very necessary work and it's one of the principles upon which this nation was founded to form a more perfect union it didn't say we were perfect so it's going to be teachers that's why I wanted to mention it here it's going to be teachers that are once again being asked to do more and rising to the challenge as we've always done which is what I wanted to mention it here now today and so I hope that people teachers students will look into their hearts and into the eyes of their neighbors and decide that yes can do better we must do better and black lives do matter it's it's hard uncomfortable work but it's worth it and when of our teachers never been afraid of hard work what did we do over over the course of two weeks we retooled an entire industry to to deliver online instruction we did that so we all have to rise to the challenges and the promises of American public ads so that's why I knelt during our moment of silence and I felt compelled not to be silent on this issue today and I'm glad Thank You president Kaler for saying something and I just sincerely hope that my colleagues our teachers our students our parents in our community will join all together in this fight for justice Thank You mr.

Rowley seconded by mr. bender the board voted unanimously to deny the claim of gender number one and Jane Doe number two what a total tally of a vote of 5-0 [Music] recognition yes thank you it is that time of the year it's our final board meeting and we have a presentation or our retirees that will be leaving our system and many of them take many many decades of experience serving our students serving our community this one's been a little unique typically you'll remember we bring all these folks in front of us and we read about them and they get their gift and they sail off into the new adventures of their life well this time you know over the last couple months with kind of no contact and pandemic that we've all endured our public information officer Zoe Widener and also my executive assistant Jordan Wells have spent a lot of time reaching out to the retirees to try to gather that information and have them write their memories there are their accomplishments and some special and funny moments many of them I have a slide at the end of this press that I call the shy retirees because they were like no I don't I don't want to send anything in but you know we've got their name will recognize them as well some you know you can imagine the personalities we come across some have very few words to say and they say it brief bang bang and they're done others took their time and what I want to share things so I'm excited that we did it in this format because the slideshow I will be working with Zoey to post on our website so that the retirees can go in and read or you know publican view but what I'd like to do now is go through this I'm going to read a lot of what they had to say some I'll point out some highlights and in what they've represented but I'm gonna take over the screen here real quick and honor these people with their would you like half the lights yeah mr.

clay dressed like Santa Claus for the lower grade students also when it started snowing during a Christmas assembly and we had to stop abruptly in order for students to load the buses it looked beautiful that day but like a true winter day immediate plans after retirement her real plans were to take a nice long cruise however that has really changed she'll be traveling to her home in Oklahoma not sure when and also spending time with all nine of her grandchildren long term she'd love to travel to the Great Wall of China but have to be patient to see what the future holds Belinda Gagnon I'm she funny poignant memory sorry I've lost my place on my notes here she talks about a project where she asked students to draw well who they are now and who they are in ten years she did herself showing you know and explained to the class that well ten years from now I plan on being retired so this is what I would look like when the students were done one of my young boy decided to draw a picture himself today and that picture was him sitting playing video games and eating snacks and his picture ten years later was him sitting playing video games and eating snacks and she questioned him saying you you'll only be eighteen and you're just finishing high school how can you retire if you didn't work and he said well I am working and you're my boss so that was enough centers most significant accomplishment after teaching middle school for seven years she took over a k4 SDC class it was very challenging but she was able to celebrate successes large and small to teach one grade of elementary can be challenging she stepped into a class making lesson plans for each grade level and soon the grade level lessons were building upon the great prior all at the same time she learned how to take one lesson and turn it into five and still address the needs of each student she thinks her most favorite moment was when she observed her class solved the first CGI math lesson to see them think for themselves and work with each other to share ideas was wonderful her immediate plans to sit back and relax cherish the memory she has made at AV USD and spent some quality time with her family to reflect on the next chapter of her life long-term she lost her on July 4 three weeks after we started the school this school year she lost her brother she since become her father's caregiver her father was adopted years ago we met his biological family and it's huge he met most of his family now that it's just my father and I were thinking about moving to Kentucky to be closer to his family and set down new roots Lisa Hoberman most significant accomplishments you can see she's had a 35-year career with us a navy USD has worked both at middle and high schools Vista Campania she has worked with organizations like NASA through her career nets obtained a National Board Certification for her credential I was admitted to are accepted on the California mathematics frameworks committee when Common Core was rolling around and got to spend a lot of time both informing our district on what was coming and be instrumental and have a voice up there to implement the you know the state all around as she looks back she feels blessed that she has turned what she loves into the best career a woman mother and wife could ever hope for it has allowed her to follow her passion her dreams and set an example for both Joanna and Bill that a parent can fulfill their dreams as well as helping their children attain theirs and for that she is very grateful her funny are most poignant memories Minh she alludes to is I guess she met some guy while she was teaching in this district ended up marrying him a wonderful marriage to her her husband our former superintendent Tom Hogue urban she shares stories of crazy bus rides and once again recognizes the changing world of Human Resources and admits to things happening throughout time that probably can't really seeing some of the drunken sailor songs they used to and get away with it in today's world but she has those memories she said mentions enjoying times where you know being a parent in the district and having children's and to your own children in the district is a direct line to any time they step sideways and had that immediate response of colleagues to help her through that yes to two wonderful children and I know yeah she should be proud Lisa immediate plans after retirement well honestly it's been sort of a trial run she says she's had to start being home 24/7 with mr.

Anderson hi mrs. Anderson I misspoke I misspoke I'm mr. G Bailey mr. Bailey aye mr. hunt [Music] mr. Han I chair votes ient that's unanimous 5-0 that brings us to organization reports see you ta mrs. Mason thank you very much that brings us to mrs. Huggins CSEA greetings greetings I echo what Vanessa had to say in regards to CSEA wanting to be a part of the conversations about how our new normal is going to look we know that that can impact not only the teachers and the students but also support staff and so we're definitely wanting to be involved in those planning sessions to make sure that our people are represented but also that we can be as adaptable as possible to the needs of the district so we want to be involved in that also about a week week and a half ago we submitted a request let me go back farther in the fall we submitted our initial proposals to the district for negotiations and those are called sunshine proposals for a reason because they have a sunshine date and we last negotiated in January and so since we haven't been able to negotiate since January we now need to be able to have a sunset they fund our initial proposals for 1920 so what we're needing to do is get together for negotiations we realize that would be in order to be able to complete out the 1920 a year and then be able to move forward for that 2021 so that's our request at this point is just for us to be able to move forward to be able to do that okay I know that some of the stuff that ended up at the field office for the CSEA they can't go to the field office so he's having to do everything on his little phone because they hold anything back they don't let anybody vacuum in the field offices to work so all of their associations stuff everything that they did prior to March got locked down okay I appreciate that [Music] okay I just didn't see that asking about this and he said yes please go ahead so I appreciate that thank you so much thank you these update got a couple of items tonight our full-day kindergarten program our drawings are going to to DSA up to 19 so we're getting pretty close we're wrapping about or having our our contractor look over the plans so that it is input and we'll be ready to submit those on June 19 I met with the landscape architect today with my decided so they're working on figuring out where the ballot boxes are the main water right when they start looking around down in there and how they're gonna relay escape that there are the cool yeah so the kindergarten rooms are going basically they're going behind the kindergarten playground so they'll be down in that area that drops down behind were there where it comes over closer to my dream another red one if it's going to campus if you're looking face onto the campus you see kindergarten and then there's an open space that has like a round it's going right there okay it's going to stay up at the height of the current playground so it's going to kind of they're going to move a lot of dirt and builds a retaining wall so basically the kids from the from the new buildings are going to be able to walk straight through that fence onto the playground so it's going to give us a nice easy access I know it's the fence that surrounds the playground area it goes back into the nature center area which is where the buildings are going to go so we tried to get all that squared away and then tonight before you have a piggyback purchase order if approved by reflects is a modular construction company and they are the ones that are going to modular buildings they're not portable buildings modular built on-site and they look really nice they're going to manage the same the same book that the current buildings have that's going to be did and with our CTD application we are expecting to hear back from them by the end of June we did give some 15-day letters that cfw is helping respond to with some questions that they had it's looking pretty good for for us I think it would be best if we got one or two and with the bond sale we should be able to fund our portion of those projects so we should be hearing that they do about that the new school we did have marketing interviews yesterday and we had three of our seven firms interviewed and it was great experience we did pick an architect but they don't know yet so we will bring that their contract to you in August for that and then as far as land acquisitions go you know we are working on CV approval for that site and and after we get CDE approval we will purchase the property and we do plan on bringing you a land purchase agreement at the apt over Courtenay is a ton more than that so that's about it as far as the current projects we never did want to run through just a few interesting development of activities so in the last month Gibson Crossing is the is across Alberta Road from Walmart it's at noon area there that it's kinda by the storage area in fact a supply they pulled 13 permits which means they're getting ready to put their models in which means that's going to start movement there Westbrook is in the northern portion of our district actually within the stovepipe so after you get up to the top where where West Park and the current other roads those school districts are if you go around the corner to the right and up the stovepipe there's a section in there and they pull some permits they pull eight permits so they're going to be put there models over there in that area and then jmz pulled another 16 permits that's just in the last month so it just tells you that construction isn't slowing down the economy what's that problems JMC has been see resistance yeah so construction is kind of still still moving along just to let you know in this 1920 school year AMC's pulled 234 permits and 1.8 million dollars worth of developed reviews this year thank you finally do you really think those kids are going to never come in here with the best right and everything are they just going to res oh yeah they will once we get them here you know that went steady so we I talked to families because they all have my cards at the sales offices and I talked to those packets we have new information it's up there and then Craig and I have been up there multiple times talking with the realtor the actual person in talking about it and so yeah so we're doing the best we can some will sneak over but we're doing our best to show we can and Craig has done a great job of you know the most recent one sharing everything with her she was a little sorry I rate with Craig Craig waited until the next day came back at the very professional response that evening she sent a nothing I'm looking forward to being a part of the district so to me that was a win because usually I Mike we're never getting this one back in and he said to get it what are we gonna charge buses wouldn't miss this one we're gonna have enough buses and hopefully in August I'm going to be bringing you some purchase contracts for some electric buses that are going to be a screen to deal so I'm also working on putting in charging stations and I've got to update out for contractors put in 11/12/12 charging stations of the innovate mature and what believe we have a possibility of getting finding places online electric buses all of that we currently we have 13 routes and for every electric bus I get I have to turn into ballooning Passport because I'm getting a lot of money from the Air resource board to purchase these buses so we have an electric fleet we saw a gas leak because we saw some that would be outside of our typical bounds of electric so we don't want to send on a cold snowy day colfax for sports or fair river or whatever on a electric bus that they may not have charging stations they were we're stuck company that we've never built before we can start the school well we need to have we need to have at least 120 Tunes so where we are now if you remember what the bond presentation so we're entering a plea by the end of this month we'll start with purchasing or planning will purchase the property so it isn't in the mix and at that time line will be three to five years for completion and ready but I've been up there today because I've been up there it seemed like a month and there are people living across the street from where school will be already I mean physically living there was but one had a shuttle both of against whenever you haul and the other had people I ain't know how this could happen fast yes and I drove through actually today too and I went through an area where you know the homes are in process still and every single one at once I says so I've asked my past 40 homes that were not completed but that's all science knows now they provide if you it's gonna be a CEO homes and then so actually my next topic here is I I've been up in the JMC and if you go west you'll be at the top end of the Lennar developments over when our development is the one that if you go up why happening to the end and you looked across a little bit to the right you see roads that they're putting in you'll see block walls that they're building but if you go up to JMC and go around the back you gonna wrap around block there you go all further in there's earthmovers there's there's excavators they're working on infrastructure they've got paint groans back there we've got sidewalks back there and they actually are starting to have some pads shelling up with you know with the a little electrical wire sticking up so so they're getting ready these people for a bit so pretty soon too and that's that's 1200 hubs and then across baseline is another one our development that is an adult living community it's going to be 12 1250 homes something like that and they you know the ones that had all the road graders out there as you drove up little arrogant you can see it now they have excavators they have my 30 excavator giant excavators out there they're putting in water lines and sewer lines it's what smaller we get commercial fees from so that's really it except then they're also this is a big deal for for this one our community they're putting the water line across baseline this weekend so it's a it's like a 16 or 18 inch water line it's gonna it's gonna allow them to do their 1,250 own development but it's also going to allow as they go start to go down baseline it's gonna allow for classification to start you know do we have a sign up on the property future we don't own again we're dead we don't that's that question in October okay but yeah look we do have an architect on board we do have a site plan an additional site plan you put the site plan on that big board and you stick it out there face it this way to this development that way to that development show what's coming it's just gonna help you to get people psyched up about I was in school I had we just has to hit well maybe [Music] the questions I think like yeah the question was the question was can we look at re mileage just gave me here the property next to will surround [Music] and that is possible let me look at it any other questions great thank you that brings us to reports presentations 2020 month school year planning updates that used to go I start with me and that mr.

melodic can hear you I'm just real quick though what I read today they remember computers and everything else they just say go for it yes so there's a lot of conditions on that right now they're saying go for it but like 25 percent capacity there's still restrictions with it it's really open and that's part of the planet Michael shares we're looking if we have to open partially or a social distancing or whenever that may be what could that plan because we still have almost two months and if you go back two months from today things have changed rapidly so we have two months we have and I'm going to propose that we get together the third July and third Wednesday in July that still gives us five weeks a lot is going to change in five weeks so we're just trying to get our plans and orders so when it comes we can get it communicated and we can get it in the Linnet but without that tactics I feel like we'll be behind the 8-ball mr.

Dubey regarding some of this behave you got back with him regarding some of the projects that were going to be funded this year absolutely militants we may expand on that we will be taking this back off and discussing it but between the change in city administrators and then cope with 19 hitting there was a whole lot going on it's been a dinner rodeo for the city administrator he is finally starting to settle in a little bit more getting his swimming legs and we pretty much in normal daily contact with him so this will be taken up we just weren't anything was gonna be something that was going to be adopted in this year's budget we had to cut nearly 5 million dollars from this year's budget along and we're looking at a 10 million dollar shortfall next year so it was just can just wasn't gonna I was gonna fall on deaf ears if this was brought up in our budget talks this this April in May because of Kobe 19 and the budget cuts happening all over the place so you know it's it's there's a lot of good work that's been put forth and there's a need still that exists and we'll get through this and we will take this up again and get you some discussion on council about and hopefully incorporated in the experience budget but that's where it is right now I wish had a better answer but that with the budget cuts in fact when we adopt the budget we cut one point two million dollars that night from the budget itself so could I just jump in alley really quick and we received information from a City Clerk's office that this needed to be presented to City Council by the end of December that was forwarded to the clerk's office on time and we didn't get any additional feedback so in my follow-up with the City Clerk's office I knew that the council a city council policy committee was having some trouble initially setting up meetings but we were asked to forward it and prompting and asking additional questions I didn't get anything back from them till just maybe a couple weeks ago so I only say that we're asked to move a project forward and were asked to submit the information it should have gone on a council either in January or February far in advance of what was happening with coalbed okay well that's good to know and I will just take that with me and and there's that's unfortunate you know obviously you know during that time there was opportunity to to do what was was asked and this Commission did their part so all I can do is just apologize for you know not being taken up on our side thank you through the budget process within public services budget we continue to have funding for the City Council art gallery that it's just like now you're going to test my memory but like 15,000 or 20,000 a year for that so we're going forward with that and there is a small piece also in there for quote-unquote staff time if we were to hire another intern to to carry on the project with identifying art cataloging and doing signage there is a small piece of money in there for that so we did preserve those items going forward through the budget times right um that's really great to hear it does indicate the support of the council's work as well as the support of public services continuing to work with us and we counsel council person that you are continuing to work on this request down the road yeah I mean it just to be honest with you it has slipped through the cracks and I wish they didn't that which had a better answer for you well one of the things that's that's I mean this is incredibly uncertain times and one of the things that is always pretty horrifying is when you look at the big number the number of having to cut one point you know five million or five million or whatever it is out of the city budget but on the flip side you know the ask is extraordinarily modest even within those constraints and so I think the the Commission just needs to continue to work well with our staff counterparts and to continue to build credibility with the community so that such a request will be met you know positively in the future I think going through the motions of putting this document together and figuring that out amongst ourselves I'm in working with Lee to do it and having it forward and getting it time that's all important work that we've done that we can build upon in the future it's a little discouraging that we did all this work we got it in a time and nobody put it forward where it really needed to go but I'm glad it's continuing to have life through Welli and that we can bring it back to the table and give it new life next year hopefully we can do that in the right format and timeline again next year and on the plus side no one said no so we haven't gotten to know so that's that's also a positive thing yes great um any final comments on that before we move on to report from staff Oh all right next we have report from Seth and that will be brief as was alluded to previously their world that in within city government has been a swirl basically dealing with crisis as minor major and otherwise so we have no real report on our projects there were some attachments to our men our agenda that led me to believe you guys are really talking about a couple projects like the Allen Creek project as well as the first in Liberty Street is that related to something else or is that those were part of our minutes from March okay okay so then so do we have any update on the Yellin Creek project I know that it got some about dog and Great Muta Craig Craig your muted weird I'll give you a brief update we are divorcing the third from the construction so that there isn't a conflict as the to go forward there is a spot reserved on a retaining wall for the art and dis lection and teaspoon of the art can occur separately and be placed on the wall after the heavy construction moves out okay great and then the other item that I guess I just must have missed it in the other meeting the first in Liberty Street that's a DDA project mostly streetscape type stuff we looked like benches and things is there any specific public art projects or just enhanced design of the benches and things like that I can't speak to that that was going through the DDA so I don't know exactly what they have conceived for it okay I'm not sure how we get our information about the DDA of projects I know that there was some money's allocated to the Arts Alliance recently for a project I did reach out to Deb - Deb Pollock who is the head of their signs to come present at this meeting do not hear back up sir she's very busy right now but I don't know I know David you were meeting with the DDA for some CIP related stuff I don't know what our channel of communication is when they have projects kicking off that have public art involved in them how we ensure that we are looped in or part of that conversation David your Munim there sorry about that the process hasn't worked very well so far the the first first Street streetscape was part of our one of the items that were identified in the CIP the City Council kind of approves it that they don't have any control over the EPA spending so it doesn't really matter if the cedilla approves it the DDA has been very supportive as you know on public but trying to make that connection and figuring out how we would incorporate it has been a challenge benita is somewhere in the paperwork I was looking at before the meeting had a report about some things that they hadn't set aside to do this there is I mean maybe Vanina we can Justin by Amber to come to one of our upcoming meetings and do updates as it pertains to public art related or public enhancements at our sites most definitely yeah I was just really interested in it and you know that their projects and things they're doing I know they are highly supportive of the public art projects and they might be the only ones doing any other than this Allen project would be bored this year so would like to stay engaged with it great alrighty so then we will move on so I don't actually see on our agenda we had talked about adding to the agenda which we could do it somewhere within these working groups that we had recently asked legal to give us a finding and whether or not commissioners and our public art commissioners could professionally be a part of calls for art within the city and then we had gotten word back that they could not and then shortly after that we lost Mary from our Commission who we miss dearly she was a great asset to our group and I think having artists a part of this group is very important to us and especially artists who have experienced within the public art realm and tying our hands in that way seems very limiting and definitely debilitating to our work so we just wanted to push that back into legal and see if they could relook at that and potentially give us some more feedback or if they had questions for us because you have some dialogue to potentially remedy that so that we could have commissioners like Mary people's are I will speak to that Bernie's opinion was pretty firm that a person bidding non-work or proposing work for the city cannot be in any of the chains of approval or review of that work it's black and white we have a conflict an ethics policy conflict that the city attorney looks at very carefully Deb um I just wanted to say that there are a couple of things that I would like a little more clarification on as firm as the city councilperson was first of all conflict of interest at least additionally in the state of Michigan has been very broadly interpreted and he evens dog gone so far as to separate spouses who shared a mutual interest from each other in terms of conflict of interest second I now don't understand why recruit --all recusal would not have been sufficient under those circumstances and allowing them to move forward with a project but not having decision-making as far as that particular project went and the third piece that I'm confused by is that considering that the Commission is primarily advisory and is making recommendations and can disclose conflict of interests ahead of time which is usually all that is required I don't really understand why it would have precluded her from continuing on the Commission under reasonable and disclosure there disclude disclosure circumstances so I actually believe that the city attorney while in looking out for our best interests considering the advisory position of the Commission considering the broad conflict of interest recusal process and considering that everything has to be approved by City Council anyway I am concerned that we might want to need to look at this again Daniel looks like you had through the end oh yes I agree with Deb and I can totally understand given the bylaws written as they are now can only be interpreted the way the city attorney did that one other point and I agree if the city attorney can find a way that what the result is is that we've lost a very good art commissioner she wanted to be on she wants to be a part of this kind of decision-making in process and and adding sort of her knowledge and her voice and she's been very effective in doing that we've lost that not because she doesn't want to do it and not because she wants any kind of special deal just because it would really preclude her from earning a living so I agree with Deb and I don't know how how that would work out one thing I would like to add is in the ordinance not only does it say that commissioners are precluded from bidding on that but it also holds them back from doing anything for one year after they resign I think that's particular odorous and and it really does punish as a personal example fievel's who was trying to earn a living and we I think should care about that and I'm wondering if that could be sort of adjusted so it's not it's not one year I mean that they you know so I add that to the list mister Hoopoe if you could possibly and Allie I don't know how you feel about about that but I don't think that would diminish the effectiveness and as Deb pointed out we are an advisory group that that particular bylaw was put in place when we were principal advisor for a multi-million dollar art program so things have changed however lawyers are lawyers I just I had a discuss with Mary and I told her that I would advocate on behalf of that change if it would be at all possible you know work we're punishing her for a year after she's already left so that's all like yeah I'll leave your hand oh yeah I know it's it's really troubling to see that somebody being punished for giving back to the community and you know it's it's obvious we all know Mary very well and we don't feel like this is it's not the spirit of what is being being addressed and you know just be a recusal should be you know a pretty powerful tool and you know the additional one year of prohibition after serving is just it seems to be extremely unreasonable so and I you know to be honest with you was my conversation with with the Commission on this I missed the last meeting and we haven't had many since Kovac so I have some work to do on this Commission obviously and this is something that I'll take up with mr.

Wilson I believe has something to say I just wanted to thank everybody who had anything to do with our graduations I got to watch them I know it was at the beginning of this like cycle so it's been a while for us but they just turned out so great and I just want to thank all of you because I know especially dr. Foley on how much time and energy you put into them and I just appreciate it and they turned out really magnificent our administrative team and our H CPA were amazing this was truly a Haley United leadership effort and proud of everybody so thank you for that mister we told it I would just like to say I've been gone for the last three months and everybody doesn't know well my my sons came down with the virus our family experienced this personally he was a healthy 28 year old no pre-existing athletic and he crossed paths with somebody in a supermarket we nearly lost him it was an intensive care for three weeks and when I see sit when you see statistics on television and you do not have a clue what it's like for us as a family to go through when your child is an intensive-care and you cannot go to them and you cannot do anything and just I can't thank everyone enough for the prayers and kind thoughts and people we're sending their way but it's still not over with you still can only walk a block now he's still taking steroids trying to build up his lung capacity so so this is a very evil virus and just because you cannot see it it can strike any one of us and I just want everybody to understand is be safe out here please please please be something because thank you thank you for sharing mr.

Glover beautiful sentiments as always thank you okay we are going to move on to consent agenda items I move that we approve consent agenda items 5.1 through 5.10 comments questions and concerns I have one question and then well I have a couple of questions dr. Thomason I think I don't know I I on the in the vouchers we bought some math curriculum can you please let us know what that was for [Music] president K times the board the math cooking that we're looking at was a math curriculum purchased for our gifted and talented program dr. Foley has more information on that too but it was for special programs throughout the district for our gifted program the Alex on that was on there too and Alex is a computerized program that we have with our math adoption that we utilize that our upper grade levels did you ask a question or did you kid did you question I mean was that an answer or did you looking for more safer come back after but I wanted her up I can provide additional information okay so a couple a couple curriculum pieces on there so obviously we have core programs and we have supplemental programs and sometimes there's curriculum realignment and if there's a gap you identify as supplemental for that so what you saw on the Aleks was an important one because Alex was one of the and you sought for 612 you saw that that was something that had been in part of the original it had been something that would have been thrown in with the original or purchase that was being utilized and sometimes free things end up being well used things that become a core part of our of our curriculum our supplemental curriculum we monitored very closely this year knowing that this was a heavily utilized resource the usage report of that to make sure that it was yielded outcomes it's the kind of the online supplemental part to this I will tell you that it is ideal that we had this particularly as we transitioned into more remote online individualized learning but again this was a heavily utilized resource that was worth continuing as a supplemental there's also some realignment going on in the gifted and talented program to ensure that we have enriched opportunities for all of our students across that we'll probably that will be one of our updated presentations for you in the near future but this is the curriculum that is supplemental to that alignment that is being used for those gifted programs across the district an update for us as a work-study in the near future okay usually that's what I guess was my next questions usually comes before us and we have a little bit more information Alex I know in the peep in the previous that did come with our brief and we always knew that it was probably going to come around and stay because it was such a great asset to our math program yeah so difference between your supplementals and your core program so when we do a core adoption program there's a tight process with procurement that involves reviews committees and a 30-day review supplementals are a little different and they don't go through that same process but there still is a curriculum review and there's sort of an addition to not a part of the core process so those are supplementals to a supplement the core that go through a different process so we can easily probably also do a nice update in the future if you'd like to on the processes for our supplemental and our core programs particularly as we embark on our adoption for science and implementing a I'd be our first core program that we will use a new process with it's very tight and aligned with procurement very procedural so that is something we worked on this outlining this year and cleaning up our getting clarity for me coming and new and in curriculum what are our core what are our supplementals what funding sources do we use what is our cycle what is our processes so and dr.

Buchanan could you hit the one of the switches to your left just not the one that will kill the projector thank you thank you thank so the 2020 retirees I don't know if we're gonna call this the Kovac class or whatever but our first retiree and again that this is in the order that they respond that Cindy Franklin her most significant accomplishment 37 years teaching and learning from young children her funnier poignant memories there's too many memories of time with colleagues and the brutal honesty that comes from very young children I treasure so many memories her immediate plans after retirement her husband and her are leaving California after 30 years to return to Arizona the Tucson area where her first 30 years were spent and where her teaching career began long-term plans for retirement enjoying time with her husband and her mother who is 86 years old she hopes to enjoy her new home cycling volunteering and waking up later than 5:30 next we have Carol brown her most significant accomplishments enjoying every year that she has taught at Mojave Mesa and Phoenix Academy funnier poignant memories years ago a student brought in a rooster for share the cage collapse the rooster ran around the class and the students laughed with the light during the fire several years ago smoke smells drifted into the classroom all her second graders put their shirts over their mouth and nose they look so cute like little bandits or raccoons and the media plans after retirement sort out everything she's bought brought home from her classroom long-term plans retirement her husband and I were in her not me sorry we'll be flying to Washington DC to visit their son and his family a new grandchild and new goldenblatt puppy hmm Mary Wellman funny or poignant memories when she was doing the Renaissance rally's one of her colleagues decided to come out in a coconut bikini without any of us knowing she was doing that we all stopped in our tracks and tried to quietly push her offstage it was hysterical and probably job security for the HR department most significant accomplishments being at the same site teaching for her entire career immediate plans her daughter Emily is getting married in July so she's planning on planning for that her son Matthew and his fiancee are expecting their her first grandchild in October and these two events will keep them busy for a while long-term plans her husband Ron and she would like to travel Ryan Williams most significant accomplishment it took half his career to learn that God wanted me to work with at-risk kids he's very proud of the work he's done at Willow Park and high desert premier Academy high desert premier Academy has become a positive place for students to be and the staff is fully student focused he can't wait to hear the lost results and he expects it to be very very positive funny memories will teach in eighth grade he had a bout of bells Bell's palsy which left half his face paralyzed he would do Sylvester Stalone impressions in class to make fun of themselves in that the students were very good about it and never heard any of them make fun of him immediate plans he'll be splitting time between his four grandchildren doing volunteer work with the LDS Church and working for two of his sons at justice property solutions he'll be acquiring distressed properties for their rehab and remodeling long-term plans he wants to visit every national park with his wife and family Denise Baxter most significant accomplished was working for 80 USD for 20 years funny memory when mr.

Hogan earlier than expected it's not as easy as it sounds but doable she wants to enjoy the last half of July and not have to worry about going to set up a classroom or offer to be part of some district PDE that she's presenting but especially know that she had she wasn't she won't have to work on her birthday July 31st ever again sleeping in with a smile on my face on the first day of school well all of a B USD is at work no long-term plans for retirement spending the rest of my life with the love of my life Tom I'm sorry spending the rest of her life with the love of her life Tom going shopping for that new RV and traveling all over the wonderful country with her hubby sewing quilts gardening and actually having the time to do genealogy all day watching and spending time with their children and seeing how they grow and how their lives unfold in the coming years we will have a wedding to celebrate soon and that will be a wonderful party and of course if you know her as soon as Disneyland opens again she's there along with the trip to Morocco Laura Rozelle most significant accomplishment personally one of her most special accomplishment is helping to raise eight amazing kids who are all now who are all wonderful kind and productive adults with families of their own and education she would say one accomplished that stands out as being an avid coordinator counselor for the past 14 years and taking part in leading this her school site ought to being a distinct native avid school-wide site of distinction as well as becoming a staff developer for avid in the summer time when she's involved with training new school counselors she thinks it's pretty remarkable considering that the first person in her she was the first person in her family to graduate college and that she used to be quite shy and afraid to speak in front of groups this speaks to the power of education and what opportunities it creates for all of us funny memories some memories include the thing WA not being thing one on dr.

Berger is gonna make his way up and I just want to say this Mike makes his way up there at alert are you gonna go there laughing that's right yeah while Mike goes up I just want to say that there's a lot of conversations about the coming school year there's a lot of uncertainty there's many guidelines out there I just want to reiterate that no decisions no final decisions have been made we're having a lot of conversations based on those guys out of what what it may or may not look like and our philosophy has been and I'm going to take this at a page of mr. Wilson's book or Tresckow says we need to be nimble and prepared for what we have and so that's the core espect we're looking at so we're spending a lot of our time this summer and even spring trying to figure out what scenarios what could it look like and be prepared rather than just waiting and trying to let it happen to us so with that I just want to reiterate that we do not have there's no final decisions we plan to come back if there is a situation that is unique it's not a regular everyone comes on back we'll come back with for sure with the board to stay here we didn't have improve that we're not just going to implement it we want your approval and understanding of it before such time that we quote implement so with that I would give it to Mike but I'm not going to give you this so that Jeremy and mr.

scientastic gentlemen fantastic thank you so as mr. letter said we are playing looking all different scenarios of what could happen we're attending webinars rotated all the guidance documents with CDE from you know CDC all the different guided segments coming out the idea again just reading what mr.

Glover thank you I echoes the sentiments of both of you and the high school graduation was great and I agree we we have to be you know it shouldn't happen to happen to you to give to have a concern for other people and and I think that's a lesson we all could could learn and so on the way here I was just reflecting and I'm gonna take a little bit of time but hopefully not too much about what a time to be on a school board all the things we've been through in the past four years and just the events of the last two weeks I feel like you know here we are again I remember when red forehead started and there was you know a roomful of very nervous people of staff members and thinking about people looking to their leaders and I remember that some districts were eerily silent out of fear of rocking the boat and if it were left up to them nothing would have changed and because of red farad we've seen great changes as a result of that movement and I will forever be proud of this board in our administration for not being scared at the end of silence at that moment but I feel like we're also at another one of those moments so I just want to take a minute to let people know that I see what's going on around us and like so many millions of others deeply affected by I have a son in Minneapolis Saint Paul that goes to school there so he knows the area the people the community the police we've had a lot of conversations very heartfelt and you know I'm talking about the peaceful protests that are going around around the world right now galvanized by the murder of of George Floyd and so you know I just wanted to reiterate I'm a citizen I'm a descendant of immigrants I'm a husband I'm a father I'm a teacher but I've been listening I've been willing to learn I'm willing to lead I'm willing to grow I'm willing to change and I am committed I'm telling you and everybody who happens to see this that I am I'm committed to doing more that's that became the message that I'm getting is everyone has to do more and America needs to grow and evolve as we have since since the birth of our nation we need to be actively more inclusive we need to be anti-racist and thankfully we live in a place that as a system that set up or we can mature and change if enough of us decide that it is time to change and every time as a nation that we've been more inclusive we've gotten stronger allowing non property owners to vote allowing women to vote or on people of color to vote eliminating poll taxes letting 18 to 20 year olds vote standing up for human rights standing up for civil rights we've gotten better and stronger and I hope that through dialogue that we start to have these difficult uncomfortable conversations that we need to have in order to grow stronger and face the current realities in which we really all do live an American public education that beloved cornerstone of democracy that I always talk about is it has been the envy of the world for many generations because on its face it's open to everyone so once again public education will be needed to help fix what's ailing us and I don't mistake criticizing the status quo as being unpatriotic I would argue that working to make the country a better place is very patriotic very necessary work and it's one of the principles upon which this nation was founded to form a more perfect union it didn't say we were perfect so it's going to be teachers that's why I wanted to mention it here it's going to be teachers that are once again being asked to do more and rising to the challenge as we've always done which is what I wanted to mention it here now today and so I hope that people teachers students will look into their hearts and into the eyes of their neighbors and decide that yes can do better we must do better and black lives do matter it's it's hard uncomfortable work but it's worth it and when of our teachers never been afraid of hard work what did we do over over the course of two weeks we retooled an entire industry to to deliver online instruction we did that so we all have to rise to the challenges and the promises of American public ads so that's why I knelt during our moment of silence and I felt compelled not to be silent on this issue today and I'm glad Thank You president Kaler for saying something and I just sincerely hope that my colleagues our teachers our students our parents in our community will join all together in this fight for justice Thank You mr.

Foley prior to you coming back there was a lot of discussion amongst the board on what was supplemental mr. Glover was probably dying to comment right now so I'll hand it over okay well yeah you know that's one of the grotesque things about textbooks companies is they do give you stuff for for like three years and then you you you do have to just say like oh this is gonna be an ongoing cost until the whole the next adoption I don't love it it's it's part of this this game but I but I get it but we talked about we have talked about supplementals and and what's the other word core core content core stuff can we we've talked about putting those a list online and I'd like to maybe take this time maybe can we shoot for October here's what I'm thinking we do know what math is we do know what ela is I think we have a good sense of title probably and then maybe some what was the other one Oh gifted I think and gifted so maybe start to get those online by October because what what what bothers me about like Alex's teachers get they get used to it and it's you know a hundred thousand dollars okay you just assume that that's gonna that's a hundred thousand we can't put towards health insurance or salaries or things like that so if there was a list that they can know and they and then dr.

clay dressed like Santa Claus for the lower grade students also when it started snowing during a Christmas assembly and we had to stop abruptly in order for students to load the buses it looked beautiful that day but like a true winter day immediate plans after retirement her real plans were to take a nice long cruise however that has really changed she'll be traveling to her home in Oklahoma not sure when and also spending time with all nine of her grandchildren long term she'd love to travel to the Great Wall of China but have to be patient to see what the future holds Belinda Gagnon I'm she funny poignant memory sorry I've lost my place on my notes here she talks about a project where she asked students to draw well who they are now and who they are in ten years she did herself showing you know and explained to the class that well ten years from now I plan on being retired so this is what I would look like when the students were done one of my young boy decided to draw a picture himself today and that picture was him sitting playing video games and eating snacks and his picture ten years later was him sitting playing video games and eating snacks and she questioned him saying you you'll only be eighteen and you're just finishing high school how can you retire if you didn't work and he said well I am working and you're my boss so that was enough centers most significant accomplishment after teaching middle school for seven years she took over a k4 SDC class it was very challenging but she was able to celebrate successes large and small to teach one grade of elementary can be challenging she stepped into a class making lesson plans for each grade level and soon the grade level lessons were building upon the great prior all at the same time she learned how to take one lesson and turn it into five and still address the needs of each student she thinks her most favorite moment was when she observed her class solved the first CGI math lesson to see them think for themselves and work with each other to share ideas was wonderful her immediate plans to sit back and relax cherish the memory she has made at AV USD and spent some quality time with her family to reflect on the next chapter of her life long-term she lost her on July 4 three weeks after we started the school this school year she lost her brother she since become her father's caregiver her father was adopted years ago we met his biological family and it's huge he met most of his family now that it's just my father and I were thinking about moving to Kentucky to be closer to his family and set down new roots Lisa Hoberman most significant accomplishments you can see she's had a 35-year career with us a navy USD has worked both at middle and high schools Vista Campania she has worked with organizations like NASA through her career nets obtained a National Board Certification for her credential I was admitted to are accepted on the California mathematics frameworks committee when Common Core was rolling around and got to spend a lot of time both informing our district on what was coming and be instrumental and have a voice up there to implement the you know the state all around as she looks back she feels blessed that she has turned what she loves into the best career a woman mother and wife could ever hope for it has allowed her to follow her passion her dreams and set an example for both Joanna and Bill that a parent can fulfill their dreams as well as helping their children attain theirs and for that she is very grateful her funny are most poignant memories Minh she alludes to is I guess she met some guy while she was teaching in this district ended up marrying him a wonderful marriage to her her husband our former superintendent Tom Hogue urban she shares stories of crazy bus rides and once again recognizes the changing world of Human Resources and admits to things happening throughout time that probably can't really seeing some of the drunken sailor songs they used to and get away with it in today's world but she has those memories she said mentions enjoying times where you know being a parent in the district and having children's and to your own children in the district is a direct line to any time they step sideways and had that immediate response of colleagues to help her through that yes to two wonderful children and I know yeah she should be proud Lisa immediate plans after retirement well honestly it's been sort of a trial run she says she's had to start being home 24/7 with mr.

Seuss birthday dressing up for spirit days taking talking like a pirate on the intercom even though it's no longer a piece guests announcing at lunch menu on a bun hula hoop contest with the students and dancing on fun Friday's poignant memories include helping students and staff during crises she will not miss that part so much another one is about three years ago when a young lady came to meet to me to her to meet I'm sorry when a young lady came up to her at an avid conference and told her she had been her eighth grade counselor she told me I was a big reason she decided to go into education and this was her first year as an avid coordinator herself this was a great moment her immediate plans are just starting to build her new forever home in Elbert Colorado northeast and Colorado Springs on 35 acres where three of her kids now live some traveling to see other kids and grandkids working as a virtual avid staff developer Paul and her plan to continue to develop the Roselle ranch she'll have a campground bike courses and Gardens it'll be place for 22 grandchildren to come and fun experiences with their cousins we will even let the grown-ups hang out on that there too she's going to enjoy a lot of the national parks hike and camp when things get back to normal she also plans to take some cruises and travel periodically watching the 22 grandchildren will likely take a bit of her time however she doesn't plan and have an all 22 at once until they're a bit older he working with avid helping teachers counselors create college and career-ready campuses for this next one we can skip I'm kidding but now let me go back there we go Jed snow funnier poignant memories when he first came to the district office as a Toa for instructional technology the TOA office was located in a metal warehouse building within the building there were rats known to reside as well the TOS made light of the situation and had a life-sized fake rat which we began surprising people with by hiding this fake rat in various places such as desk drawers etc this soon became a form of welcome and initiation for some that we're new to the district offices this rat found itself in various places including Tom Hogan's office office he also appreciated those at the district keeping things light and making a V USD a fun place to be most success are significant accomplishments helping to make a difference in the student lives with ABS D for 8 years supporting teachers the integrated technology in the classroom for 22 years and bringing G sweet and Google tools to AV USD immediate plans he's enjoyed spending more time with his retired wife adult children and grandchildren he's also been able to serve various ministries assisting them with utilizing technology in their ministry long-term plans he hopes to travel while serving in various short term mission opportunities as well as increases involvement while serving his local church high desert church Deanna Palmer what unique thing about Deanna Palmer she talks about early on in her career she was a teacher without a classroom she taught in work rooms as she taught in the speech bus apparently us that was used I wasn't aware of but that was a classroom for her the one thing she talks about is she taught in an area that called it was called the nook because there were nooks and crannies that she always went to teach that was where she brought her students but one time in the Nook their way was part of a I believe a teacher's lounge or something that had a stove because one of her students made his way around behind played with some knobs on the stove and resulted in a fire drill for the school that may have had more truth behind it was actually there it's ironic to her one point she makes that her very first year teaching the big news in education was that Apple computers was donating one of their new computers to each public school in America and by her last year of teaching her entire educational delivery system was online for the entire fourth quarter Hewitt from getting one computer in a school to finishing a career hundred percent online most significant accomplishment she started with a be USD for the 8485 school year as the first and only teacher for the new bilingual individualized learning program she served all four schools Mojave Mesa was opening that year she grew the program for the next 30-plus years watching the district grow and become a unified district and the population of English learners grow from 54 to about 1200 she's taught almost at almost all of our k-6 and k-8 schools and taught over 300 of our own teachers when they were required to take the a/b 29:13 course to comply with siddhaye and eld certification she's taught English to a few hundred parents of our students and she's taught three generations of a handful of families when she accepted the position with a V USD her intention was to stay here for two years just long enough to get a good start on her career in education she never dreamt that she'd be here for 36 years and spent her entire career one district her immediate plans are to be able to visit her grandchildren in Washington State and Arizona much more frequently long-term is still being formulated she's waiting for her husband to retire and as she calls for her cares for her elderly parents at Apple Valley she's waiting on her husband's retirement which should be enough time for purge and organized and dispersed more than three decades decades of educational debris John and her plan to do some traveling and pursuit hop pursue hobbies that have been on hold for too long drink next up Ben Shelby Ben Shelby's most ignition significant accomplishment he's he managed to clean up the accounting system and keep it clean with positive audit reports from 2013 to 2019 funny moment he managed to be on stage for his daughter's graduation from a VHS media plans after retirement or to stay quarantined and his long-term plans for retirement I traveled the world Deborah Taylor a media plans after retirement relocating to Marietta and spending time with her new grand meeting and her long-term plans are to spend as much time with family and enjoying the beach as much as possible Cindy bany most significant accomplishment building relationships that she treasures with her students funny moment laughing so hard with her students on a daily basis her immediate plans are to move to Cedar City Utah with her long-term plans to travel huh Judy clever most significant accomplishment raising two great sons and her husband family the media plans after retirement to help with her grandkids and her long-term are restoring her house and enjoying life Marlene vasilenko Squires funny moment when she was singing in class as children had free choice time and one of the little ones said mrs.

melodic can hear you I'm just real quick though what I read today they remember computers and everything else they just say go for it yes so there's a lot of conditions on that right now they're saying go for it but like 25 percent capacity there's still restrictions with it it's really open and that's part of the planet Michael shares we're looking if we have to open partially or a social distancing or whenever that may be what could that plan because we still have almost two months and if you go back two months from today things have changed rapidly so we have two months we have and I'm going to propose that we get together the third July and third Wednesday in July that still gives us five weeks a lot is going to change in five weeks so we're just trying to get our plans and orders so when it comes we can get it communicated and we can get it in the Linnet but without that tactics I feel like we'll be behind the 8-ball mr.

letter said is to come up with what we're calling the playbook which we will present to you in July but more more closer to the school year so that you can pick which option we're looking for or which option we will build with the three right now that we are looking at three different plans plan one is just come back full time just as a normal school drew so we would come back in regular classes all activities everything would just be as normal plan two would be looking at if there is some type of a social distancing ordering place where we would be coming back and we're calling that the hybrid model so with the elementary school about ESS 4060 model you split the school in half it'd be two days a week for half the school so for example Tuesday and Thursday they would come the other kids to be doing distance learning during that time the other half the school become Wednesday Friday the other groups will be doing social distancing Monday would be for teachers to not only plan to distance learning part in their curricula but also have online meetings with students small group discussions with students those kind of things Carstens the junior high would be on a six period day so that they could split it equally between those two and less than those the class slows down and the high school would be on there ain't period AV but again split it in half so really they'd only be in school one day a week with distance learning the rest of the names again that's if we're in a scenario where we where we have to do that or were that's kind of a necessity to do this little distance apart they've planned three is it for whatever reason that the county or the state go back into a shell someplace we want to make sure that we are ready to go with a true distance learning virtual learning format as organized as possible again we're hopeful we don't have to go into two and three but if we do we want to make sure we're planned up and we're ready to go on the drop of a dime we don't want to be palpable a fluid in case one of these things scenarios happen too we know based and we also have a impetus state option for our families as well we set out that survey about a month ago and it's pretty much split 50-50 50% flexi 47% want to come back full-time regardless of social distancing the rest are are hesitant either they want social distancing or introvert and true independent study in the comments that comment section ranks for look we have we have people going through debt medical conditions at home chemotherapy things we don't want to put our kids at risk so we need an independent study option where them our kids don't go to school we're ready to the other side miss woods just get them back this is very difficult from a mental health perspective on my kids let's get enacted by this week so we want to make sure we have options for all those families so regardless we'll have an independent study option available even if we're back whole time k12 independent study option open so that those families who are not feeling comfortable center gives back they still have an option to get their education that is and then obviously we'll also have home and Hospital for those are really you anticipate especially in some of our populations of students that have IEP use we have something for you medically right now kids or on the hospital numbers make it up a little bit so we're pointing for that as well that is kind of the nutshell of what we are planning I can see if the fourth scenario just out of necessity so let's say everything's cleared everything's back to normal sporting events are back up and they say go back to school especially if you have a kid and risk group you mind just say no so I almost think one farad realistic scenario that I didn't hear would be where we're back full-time but due to kids and different risk groups we would still need to provide them with the distance learning even if everybody else is back and you kind of mentioned it but I didn't hear that as part of scenario to scenario three so there's scenario 4 where we come back full-time but due to the kids that are in risk groups they have the option of distance learning so we have in that first octant we're all back taxes first and second option we have a true independent study where they would use edgenuity which is an online program the advantage to that is that secretary level is are a 30 compliant courses which is fantastic so they are still prepared to introduce the ETSU system we got having more fun at virtual learning the same basic thing is a distance learning option as well and if we're exploring how that would work when we have enough FTE to do that one of the things that we've heard repeatedly in the parent survey was the distance learning as we're doing was not effective but they needed they needed more and that's where edgenuity is more of a self-contained program but we were yes we are looking into it so specifically to answer so if we came back on plan one which everyone back five days a week typical if the family wanted or felt because of medical federal or weapon we will have an opportunity for them to do either way you called independent study or distance learning that option would be open actually for each of those three phases we would have that option open so it would kind of be like that that's a 1 a 2 a 3 a time thing it is concurrent of almost it obviously only gets on things like athletics is CIF gonna let a high school give you a name to kind of study and participate in sports and those people have to we don't have and on on the athletic topic just because I know it's another hot one so we are participating the County had a few districts come together and say hey we want to look at this as a collective so we were invited to participate than that so I think tomorrow is the first meeting to start gearing up so one of the things I think most if not all educators know the value and extracurricular or activities that is especially we come back so we're we're hopeful in that vein that there is a way to safely have those same carry on we will participate so we're actively working with those groups to make sure we're not left behind by many so that there was recently this weekend in six the six largest counter six largest districts in Sacramento County came together and said we're going to put a team together to start exploring that and so we got reached we they reached out to us and said would you like to participate so we're aware of what's going on and not hearing it after the match don't plan out see I have no CIF has already said it's a local control issue and so what what's what my thinking might be is because there's some rumors about well the state way in whilst and mistake CIF what so I believe that plan would then have to be shared with I'm not sure who but if we collectively want to do it and it follows the guidelines I can't see a reason why we couldn't so yeah so went something document but it would be a safe return I know there's been a couple other schools or districts where they shouldn't started like football conditioning for example and there's pretty strict protocols on when and how its conducted so that's what i'ma believing this correct athletics pretty widespread at least in the county and Bible in Placer County I'm not sure about El Dorado County but mister could probably weigh on that we're not practicing there it's been silent or dormant and since we left March 13th not to say that kids are not running and lifting weights and subtracting sprinting and throwing on their own or maybe with their dad yeah so we would look at the guidelines that are presented trying to come up see where we are within that five to six week range for now and have these options see which option was best to get where we want to go as a district and then even enlarge so to give an example what we're looking at for this doctor we looked at the public health orders on a second accounting department felt as Centers for Disease Control their guides for schools the Sacramento County offices of Education this guidance for schools the CDE just came out their Sunday of their guidance for schools and then EAB and Education Advisory Board which we belong to they put out their guidance based on their research as well just trying to get some type of a background of where we're going what works and what has been eclipsed any questions sure Neverland for me I'll take that's it comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda no all right that brings us aboard Superintendent importance miss Anderson I just have some questions the graduation that's being planned to do pay up to date on that cemetery yes the drive-through yeah yes I understand from talking to a few parents the the last they heard it was going to be on the field and with the rapid changing of everything and what's opening them is there any chance of its kids graduate on the village on the field I think that call was if we get to the point of this date I think I'm on the line just that we've kind of make the call going in the future because I'm we aren't seeing that it's going to be able to have a massive 300 kids on the field and also the group as we talked to the group I didn't talk as their stalks grew a lot of the kids were starting to go away and they weren't gonna be there's a sooner we could do it kind of seen the theme so we're not he's starting to exclude people based on going off on the military I know you were on one of the calls not on a visit so as far as making that happen they made a call that this way we could still get the idea our honor of crossing the stage that their name called out and then they will be stitching the whole thing that's the wrong word but they'll be putting the whole thing together with speeches and stuff we're doing it before the night it's I think it's gonna be on Monday it's already been out yes okay yeah and the reason was we couldn't get everyone into the by the time you part get in the stadium and get back to the things a week we'll be able to replicate the vision for it I guess you can say it's not ideal I mean I'm people are doing the best they can with this I know they meant Monday had a big group trying to plan to do the best they can with each of the different ideas it's not going to be the same but at the end of day they're going to get probably three kind of celebrations those and then they'll get the video with it which will have the kids speeches and different things and they'll put together so again we all feel sorry sorry doll this is even more important to you probably than even us with having a senior but we are trying to give them the best we possibly can I know you are just you know there was any way possible we could let them walk on the field so we did have and we did not not encourage this but the field was open at the couple the pickups and a lot of kids were out there on the field doing gallon things and stuff like that so but as far as that they've been right downtown they can graduate you know the other question I had is sports a lot of the teams are practicing in other school districts having football game of their good played on a football so and that's kind of what I just did mentioned is the idea that's we're working with our local school districts and even regionally see there are a few that are I know it's conditioning and so I think it's groups of five can come out and I think you and I can talk a little bit Donald we might go a little more they can come out they can lift weights they can run but there's very strict protocols so that's what we were talking about with this group that will be joining tomorrow to try to figure out what's the best way to get back in fact there's an article today in Sacramento be or it said I'm in the headline island I rolled I've been opened ups and high school sports are coming back and they said the key word is patience because it may even take in fact I saw one of the coaches today and he said are we coming back and I said I'm very hopeful that who's in that group I'm sorry who's in that group that's going the group for I'm sorry what so the superintendent's were asked to start the group and so right now I know Mike is going to be present at it and I - Carol if you could join - it's not coaches right now because they want to get the level and then it's been a role - that it's going to have to progress into then some districts have like activity our athletic directors for the entire district that is their sole job the bigger district and so we're kind of tagging along with these guys to make sure the intent I'm talking I feel is to figure out a way to get back not yet at this point this point it was superintendents and then other districts and we actually got added into it at a later date but I said I want to kind of come along does our athletic or get any prep time or anything to do this job is that way yes yes yeah my question how the other characters not involved to them well this happened just yesterday but we got asked to be involved and right now they had said it was for they wanted to start the planning with superintendents and we believe that we will then ratchet to that but I didn't I didn't want to bring ten people to a group that I had to push my way into so but once we see what we see where it's going okay they really what I'm gonna day but we're gonna we're gonna my brother so cuz they're too tight but later to you and they feel like they're doing their job I mean you know in some cases people feel like their jobs have been taken away from them okay yeah so there's some issues going on underneath the water surface so my intent my example of this was to try and get people at the table and then we'll have to see how because this is the first meeting and again to be very honest we were not included in the beginning it was six other districts and so kind of said hey can we be a part of it because I didn't want to be left out so I feel like we're gonna see so once that I certainly have no problem with athletic directors being a part of it I need to see the lay of the land though before I just start bringing a huge team to something and that that's purely just from trying to go into someone else's house I don't want to bring too many guests at this point but I'm not not opposed to it and hey I just want to add another sound letter that's when you that way I'm sorry oh no no no I hear again and I will tell you that did cross my mind but based on the list of people they said we're coming it didn't sound like it was at the athletic director unless it was district people so my thought on this was since I was I was honing in on it I figured it would be good for us to see it and then come back this is not going to be one meeting and then it's done this is gonna take some time and I don't and that's why I asked actually referring to Knights decision he got us a seat at the table when we weren't fighting so the only reason we're at the table made it happen if if you if you happen to see on Monday night there was a release that went out with six districts that said they were going to solve the problem and left a few of us out if we have reports really collaboratively as a group so I figured glass and got the invitation so I'm not I'm not sure and I will speculate because I got a seat now and so I do want to make sure that everyone understands that they are in everything there's no energy there's no intent to select anyone again I didn't see out of the land before I because I was we were like let's go you know and then I when they said the list of people who are coming it was more of like a district than a principle thing and so I just I want to get delay and then I think as the details there's no way in my I don't think that anything do with you or that group I think this is stuff that's going on at the site that okay people are upset over okay so we will get seats the table will see it then we'll invite the people began to [Music] reiterate what mr. Wilson had a great relationship I'd like to thank cabinets in general I mean you've worked very hard I know mr.

Glover beautiful sentiments as always thank you okay we are going to move on to consent agenda items I move that we approve consent agenda items 5.1 through 5.10 comments questions and concerns I have one question and then well I have a couple of questions dr. Thomason I think I don't know I I on the in the vouchers we bought some math curriculum can you please let us know what that was for [Music] president K times the board the math cooking that we're looking at was a math curriculum purchased for our gifted and talented program dr. Foley has more information on that too but it was for special programs throughout the district for our gifted program the Alex on that was on there too and Alex is a computerized program that we have with our math adoption that we utilize that our upper grade levels did you ask a question or did you kid did you question I mean was that an answer or did you looking for more safer come back after but I wanted her up I can provide additional information okay so a couple a couple curriculum pieces on there so obviously we have core programs and we have supplemental programs and sometimes there's curriculum realignment and if there's a gap you identify as supplemental for that so what you saw on the Aleks was an important one because Alex was one of the and you sought for 612 you saw that that was something that had been in part of the original it had been something that would have been thrown in with the original or purchase that was being utilized and sometimes free things end up being well used things that become a core part of our of our curriculum our supplemental curriculum we monitored very closely this year knowing that this was a heavily utilized resource the usage report of that to make sure that it was yielded outcomes it's the kind of the online supplemental part to this I will tell you that it is ideal that we had this particularly as we transitioned into more remote online individualized learning but again this was a heavily utilized resource that was worth continuing as a supplemental there's also some realignment going on in the gifted and talented program to ensure that we have enriched opportunities for all of our students across that we'll probably that will be one of our updated presentations for you in the near future but this is the curriculum that is supplemental to that alignment that is being used for those gifted programs across the district an update for us as a work-study in the near future okay usually that's what I guess was my next questions usually comes before us and we have a little bit more information Alex I know in the peep in the previous that did come with our brief and we always knew that it was probably going to come around and stay because it was such a great asset to our math program yeah so difference between your supplementals and your core program so when we do a core adoption program there's a tight process with procurement that involves reviews committees and a 30-day review supplementals are a little different and they don't go through that same process but there still is a curriculum review and there's sort of an addition to not a part of the core process so those are supplementals to a supplement the core that go through a different process so we can easily probably also do a nice update in the future if you'd like to on the processes for our supplemental and our core programs particularly as we embark on our adoption for science and implementing a I'd be our first core program that we will use a new process with it's very tight and aligned with procurement very procedural so that is something we worked on this outlining this year and cleaning up our getting clarity for me coming and new and in curriculum what are our core what are our supplementals what funding sources do we use what is our cycle what is our processes so and dr.

Foley and I have had this conversation I have complete confidence in the job she's going to do but if we were to go through an adoption and we're told that gifted math is it's all good it's all covered and then you come to find out three years later it's not covered that's an expense teachers really have to have an understanding that that that means less money to any other things so we have to do a really good job and I know that you have a system in place and it will be good because it is understanding the processes for core and supplemental because some of these things come with consumables that are annual expenses that you have to budget and understand how long licenses are for and as new adoptions happen that are electronic and subscriptions once upon a time if you hadn't if you didn't have a budget for the if you had to cut money for instance you still had textbooks and in the warehouse if you didn't weren't able to afford an adoption when you go to subscriptions and there isn't money they go away so knowing there's always there ongoing costs associated with both but understanding the process and ensuring that we're clear and consistent across the board yes and president Kelley remembers the board in the same vein there was another math program to that we decided not to renew and that was for the younger grades because it wasn't working out the way that we we needed to work out for our students in the curriculum and math programs I think just on the same topic like mr.

Hogan earlier than expected it's not as easy as it sounds but doable she wants to enjoy the last half of July and not have to worry about going to set up a classroom or offer to be part of some district PDE that she's presenting but especially know that she had she wasn't she won't have to work on her birthday July 31st ever again sleeping in with a smile on my face on the first day of school well all of a B USD is at work no long-term plans for retirement spending the rest of my life with the love of my life Tom I'm sorry spending the rest of her life with the love of her life Tom going shopping for that new RV and traveling all over the wonderful country with her hubby sewing quilts gardening and actually having the time to do genealogy all day watching and spending time with their children and seeing how they grow and how their lives unfold in the coming years we will have a wedding to celebrate soon and that will be a wonderful party and of course if you know her as soon as Disneyland opens again she's there along with the trip to Morocco Laura Rozelle most significant accomplishment personally one of her most special accomplishment is helping to raise eight amazing kids who are all now who are all wonderful kind and productive adults with families of their own and education she would say one accomplished that stands out as being an avid coordinator counselor for the past 14 years and taking part in leading this her school site ought to being a distinct native avid school-wide site of distinction as well as becoming a staff developer for avid in the summer time when she's involved with training new school counselors she thinks it's pretty remarkable considering that the first person in her she was the first person in her family to graduate college and that she used to be quite shy and afraid to speak in front of groups this speaks to the power of education and what opportunities it creates for all of us funny memories some memories include the thing WA not being thing one on dr.

V will you please stop singing the staff laughed this student is now a junior at a BHS I just got such a kick out of this he asked so nicely most significant accomplishment preparing hundreds of preschoolers for their future learning immediate plans are just being home and getting home projects done but the long-term plans will be caring for three for her three year old granddaughter as her daughter Amy works at desert Knowles in their preschool Diane burn our most significant accomplishment one thing is that she's never been defined as - at 9:00 to 3:30 only person she's usually at school 8:00 to 4:30 or many times later if something needed to be done she would be there to work on it her funny memories she's been fortunate enough to work with several great teachers with whom she's learned so much most of all it was being treated as an equal educator immediate plans after retirement originally her husband and she were going to rent an RV to travel around the states this summer but because of coronavirus they now put those on hold she will now be able to do small trips when he has a time off their time off schedule usually didn't coincide long-term plans she now has time to really organize her house Nadine Miro most significant accomplishment is 30 years serving a V USD and range 24 immediate plans after retirement just getting through kovat 19 after recovering from cancer for funny moments she was extremely fortunate having a job she loved with a new unexpected daily adventure and her long-term prime plans are to travel and visit family in New Mexico Linda Gibson funny memories many days in law enforcement were stressful and tiring with long hours however she really enjoyed her job assisting like working with chief Malina and serving our officers and dispatchers together they made a great team worked hard encourage one another and enjoy it laughter in the midst of it all especially with the many hilarious quote radio bloopers so many good memories were made in great relationships were built along the way she was blessed to be part of this department most significant accomplishment coordinated and updated the dispatch center from handwritten radio logs and manual record-keeping to a more efficient computer aided dispatch exist 'm her media plans for retirement are to begin the beginning of retirement was quite different than she expected she realized quickly she no longer had needed to do multi tasks throughout her days at home but breaking the nature that habit took a few months honestly the stay at home orders helped tremendously she's now enjoying gardening and relishing more peaceful moments long-term and the future she hopes to visit her home state relatives in Maryland and faraway grandchildren and friends she loves outdoor activities and music and plans to learn how to kayak paddle board and play the violin along with many as many trips as possible to the beach both families excuse me Joe waters most significant accomplishment making a difference in the lives of underprivileged kids funny moments did the job long enough to embarrass himself most recently while attempting to break up a fight his pants fell down the video was uploaded to social media almost immediately he had just returned to work from a surgical implant that's back and at waist level had to wear baggy jeans with no belt immediate plans after retirement relax stay off his feet and take care of grandsons long term plans plan on traveling to Tennessee and South Dakota and eventually relocate to Tennessee in the next five years and I mentioned we reached out over the last couple of months there are many more retirees in our system that go for one reason or another didn't want the spotlight but it we can't let this moment go by without acknowledging this list I've included a list of these folks and the number of years they've served our students in our district and I'll just read down that lick this briefly Mike castellane Oh twenty one years Janis Guillard 30 years Katherine Harmon 20 years David Stover 35 years Tamara Kurtz seven years Sandra Rodriguez 30 years Don palazzolo 25 years David Olsen 31 years Donis D cast a lot on 14 years and McClane 23 years Mary Tovar Laura of 25 years Kim allemande 12 years Ronnie I'm sorry Ronald morose 15 years Laura Nunes 15 years lynn staten 20 years diego dee hey-zeus 14 years veronica Krell 20 years Richard Giordano at 17 years Patricia Gomez the Hodges 16 years so I think worthwhile to give them a virtual round of applause for all their work with our students thank you oh yes public comments we do not have any public comments at this time during last week's board meeting there was a question what extra has been spent during Ovid 19 closure and mr.schellenberg has a paper to provide regarding known expenses as of 6:10 2020 and will continue to gather information as they close the books these expenditures fall under the SB 117 monies one-time state funds being allocated for such expenses comments Wilson yeah I just a couple of brief ones I think in the next couple meetings besides the state's temp of instruction give us the requirements to open up our schools we as a board can our support area has already uncovered in its death assistance operations so we needed to sit down talk about one of the concerns that we have so so we feel comfortable you know I even Marcel have make some contact with a bunch of friends there are nurses and my own daughters doctors and in terms of safety first procedures okay and then there was a comment by the president of the classified employee about seeing to stay spent down the rainy day fund I think he got that fund makes up totally with a reserve so I don't think we need to put my answer you did that's a different type of fun that's not a savings account it's just a Sarris I account for state but the stays the revenues down so the governor had to use up that file the rainy day fund okay that's all I have Thank You Dennis I'd like to commend the superintendent and her assistants for all the information and work they put in the last three months on those tedious meetings and also my fellow board members we've had our moments we're getting there thank you thank you just briefly students who was a Kaiser hospital with cancer was actually even texted the reporter who I happened to know and said that was a really good story it was very uplifting and was and I turn a that reached out to and said that she the mother of the student works for the district here it was good to see that the community and the hospital and the district that's no child anyway it was a uplifting story and I wanted to thank the district for reaching out and attempting to do the picture we tried to do that first and it was awesome photography that really stepped up but because she ended up in the hospital it was the hospital that took the lead and did that it was awesome well I'm gonna start by congratulating all those people who retired some of them I have some personal relationships with them and I I couldn't just walk away without stating some of those personal experiences that I've had with them especially since I may or may not run into them again and in the community marry weldment I remember the first time I met her and as a teacher at the time it was Apple Valley I'm not sure if it was Apple Valley middle school or when I was a coordinator for the district that I ran into her Ryan Williams of course when he talked about Bell's palsy I remember when he had that and I remember going to his classroom to go check out his face because that was important I never saw somebody who had it so he would make some faces so that I can see what it really feels like Belinda Gagnon of course I have a personal relationship with her and I had the opportunity to invite her to a virtual coffee just a few weeks a few days ago because I wanted us to have some conversation around what's happening in the country right now so I was able to invite her to a virtual coffee Lisa Hoberman strike you know I can say that my relationship with Lisa is very is very unique in the sense that I just love her smile she lights up every room when she walks in but I couldn't just walk away and not recognize that she was one of those first teachers that I ever encountered who also earned the National Teacher certification and sometimes we only get the state teacher certification but she did earn the national teacher certification and that to me was a source of pride to be in Apple Valley and have somebody who who had that of course Laura Roselle I met her as a counselor here she was one of those counselors when we got her in Apple Valley junior high at the time before Sitting Bull was built who got us all interested in making sure that as employees that we came to work so she gave us we have to earn dog tags so if you came to work the full month you got a dog tag so teachers will do everything they could just to that they will get that dog tag I had a wealth of dog tags because I didn't want to be sick I didn't want to be accent so those are special memories that you gain from these people and when you see them retire you wonder if people still remember some of those wonderful experiences of course as Cindy beanie was my daughter's teacher and so she was able to share with me the stories that my daughter will come to the classroom to share and just before she retired this school year and she invited me to come and speak in her classrooms which was a real honor to go in and speak to those kids about know setting goals and getting somewhere in your life I could go on and on about but really I just have to say that of all of those people that you you announced I have never been more excited to have had a connection with all these fabulous people and I wish them all well well watching the video brought back memories because I started teaching in this district in 1973 my husband convinced me that we had to go to California because he had to learn how to fly these fighters and so we were at George Air Force Base and it seemed to me like I had just finished college and I was ready to be a teacher and over the years it amazed me I had so many different kinds of jobs I had an art teacher job for a while then they did away with art then I would I was a cooking teacher now anybody who has ever been to my house for dinner they know how serious that is it's a problem I don't like to I'm thinking I've never been to a board meeting like this ever we never had this covered kind of situation ever so this is a remarkable change in our circumstance and I can only help a holy hope it makes us stronger and better to help the kids in the future thank you I'll make this brief but there is a on your tables there there's a improperly stapled butt earnestly presented document that just gives us summary without dollar amounts of the El Cap items the action items and the responses from our district Advisory Committee to eat those items when we put them through the process of making the difficult decisions of saying when we look at the budget even at that time in early March we knew we had some reductions so we asked them to prioritize and this is what they came back with and I'll just give you a quick summary of those initial reductions we know that there's been radical changes since then and the El Cap is not due right now we're not taking action on December right not till December exactly we did the operations written report last meeting we are compliant but in good faith to our district Advisory Committee who did this work I think it's appropriate to share with you what they've done so far and we will be tasking them tremendously as well as all stakeholders as we go forward so yes December's the next time we'll actually be bringing a one-year El Cap to you but if the same very time we'll be doing the next process to build our three-year El Cap so remember they get input from students through surveys superintendent Nelson student focus groups we have all staff taking surveys parents give us survey data which we had an incredible response focus groups meet and we ask them these questions and of course the district advisory community comes together multiple times throughout the year to give us their input and I'm sorry for a minute there how do you select your focus group who are the people how do they come in well for example we use the D Lac that's a built structure that's already existing in fact the law requires that they have input so we go to the D lock that's one example of a focus group and there's several like that mrs.

scientastic gentlemen fantastic thank you so as mr. letter said we are playing looking all different scenarios of what could happen we're attending webinars rotated all the guidance documents with CDE from you know CDC all the different guided segments coming out the idea again just reading what mr.

lair has really said that as well and then at the beginning of the meeting mr. Wilson did state that we had an evaluation but he didn't say whose evaluation so it was the superintendent evaluation and I just want to tell mr. lair that we appreciate you and you've done a great job that together with this movie I appreciate that mr. hunt you have a report the report today after open report from mr. and mr. tomato he can't report are you telling me that they thoroughly report I just want to thank you guys for supporting me last week some unfortunate healthy he must die except that I just couldn't mean to be be a boner in person and pretty much bedridden nowadays though appreciate here it is report we appreciate you as a Jewish the best keep in touch mr. Nayak report sir I just want to take an opportunity I want to thank at least that she said no here I love to say it's the phone but budget this year has been most unique probably one of the most unique years even before we have cuts and stuff we actually need with the cuts we're now we don't even know what they are into we're trying to plan the best we can so I just have to give a shout out to her and in her office the team for pulling things together and keeping us on the straight and narrow and then it must be at least his night tonight I just wanted to commend both Craig and Lisa two weeks ago we spent afternoon talking with the bond Council which is our rating agency for the bond so basically it helps create the narrative for when people look at the bonds that we want to sell to see how were rated and Craig and Lisa did an outstanding job helping support that and as a result as I say the board our rating did not drop most people thought in the environment we're in our consultants said you're probably going to drop so be ready for it and we maintain the A+ rating that we have which is fantastic which as you all know the better credit rating you have the better interest rates you get so I just compliment them because it's weird it's like one more thing on those duties that we all do and it was thrown in we've got a staff just go and done it now we're doing on zoom' so it adds a whole different element and it just showed that we want them as we as we do and then I think one thing and I've asked mr.

Foley prior to you coming back there was a lot of discussion amongst the board on what was supplemental mr. Glover was probably dying to comment right now so I'll hand it over okay well yeah you know that's one of the grotesque things about textbooks companies is they do give you stuff for for like three years and then you you you do have to just say like oh this is gonna be an ongoing cost until the whole the next adoption I don't love it it's it's part of this this game but I but I get it but we talked about we have talked about supplementals and and what's the other word core core content core stuff can we we've talked about putting those a list online and I'd like to maybe take this time maybe can we shoot for October here's what I'm thinking we do know what math is we do know what ela is I think we have a good sense of title probably and then maybe some what was the other one Oh gifted I think and gifted so maybe start to get those online by October because what what what bothers me about like Alex's teachers get they get used to it and it's you know a hundred thousand dollars okay you just assume that that's gonna that's a hundred thousand we can't put towards health insurance or salaries or things like that so if there was a list that they can know and they and then dr.

Glover said there was a lot of conversation with the board on supplementals and what was being used what was being district provided what was being provided at the site and when we made our math adoption and even really but we had so many different supplementals out there that we didn't know what was being used and different sites used different supplementals even different grades or teachers were using different things and so when we spent and committed those funds for our new math adoption we needed to make sure that the tools that I came with had fidelity we were using it because we do need to know does it work does it not work bottom line is when they're selling a curriculum they're selling and they're touching on the high points and they're not talking about the pitfalls and they're not talking about the other parts of it that when you get into it you use then you don't know and so I think that that's why this particular subjects a little a little touchy is then there was a lot of talk about policy and the board approving supplementals so we know it's out there and I think that that's why the question has come up as we see it in the vouchers but we were unaware of a supplemental because it didn't come before us so I think that that's that's the questions that have have arisen is because then we need to make sure like Alex was part of the adoption we knew that that was part of it and again it's a selling feature they offered to provide it to us for the first year there were some negotiations they extended that time but that is an ongoing subscription but we needed to make time to find out is it working are we utilizing it because do we want to pay for something that we're not utilizing or we can't use to ensure assessments are done with fidelity and you know so bringing all that forward like mr.

Seuss birthday dressing up for spirit days taking talking like a pirate on the intercom even though it's no longer a piece guests announcing at lunch menu on a bun hula hoop contest with the students and dancing on fun Friday's poignant memories include helping students and staff during crises she will not miss that part so much another one is about three years ago when a young lady came to meet to me to her to meet I'm sorry when a young lady came up to her at an avid conference and told her she had been her eighth grade counselor she told me I was a big reason she decided to go into education and this was her first year as an avid coordinator herself this was a great moment her immediate plans are just starting to build her new forever home in Elbert Colorado northeast and Colorado Springs on 35 acres where three of her kids now live some traveling to see other kids and grandkids working as a virtual avid staff developer Paul and her plan to continue to develop the Roselle ranch she'll have a campground bike courses and Gardens it'll be place for 22 grandchildren to come and fun experiences with their cousins we will even let the grown-ups hang out on that there too she's going to enjoy a lot of the national parks hike and camp when things get back to normal she also plans to take some cruises and travel periodically watching the 22 grandchildren will likely take a bit of her time however she doesn't plan and have an all 22 at once until they're a bit older he working with avid helping teachers counselors create college and career-ready campuses for this next one we can skip I'm kidding but now let me go back there we go Jed snow funnier poignant memories when he first came to the district office as a Toa for instructional technology the TOA office was located in a metal warehouse building within the building there were rats known to reside as well the TOS made light of the situation and had a life-sized fake rat which we began surprising people with by hiding this fake rat in various places such as desk drawers etc this soon became a form of welcome and initiation for some that we're new to the district offices this rat found itself in various places including Tom Hogan's office office he also appreciated those at the district keeping things light and making a V USD a fun place to be most success are significant accomplishments helping to make a difference in the student lives with ABS D for 8 years supporting teachers the integrated technology in the classroom for 22 years and bringing G sweet and Google tools to AV USD immediate plans he's enjoyed spending more time with his retired wife adult children and grandchildren he's also been able to serve various ministries assisting them with utilizing technology in their ministry long-term plans he hopes to travel while serving in various short term mission opportunities as well as increases involvement while serving his local church high desert church Deanna Palmer what unique thing about Deanna Palmer she talks about early on in her career she was a teacher without a classroom she taught in work rooms as she taught in the speech bus apparently us that was used I wasn't aware of but that was a classroom for her the one thing she talks about is she taught in an area that called it was called the nook because there were nooks and crannies that she always went to teach that was where she brought her students but one time in the Nook their way was part of a I believe a teacher's lounge or something that had a stove because one of her students made his way around behind played with some knobs on the stove and resulted in a fire drill for the school that may have had more truth behind it was actually there it's ironic to her one point she makes that her very first year teaching the big news in education was that Apple computers was donating one of their new computers to each public school in America and by her last year of teaching her entire educational delivery system was online for the entire fourth quarter Hewitt from getting one computer in a school to finishing a career hundred percent online most significant accomplishment she started with a be USD for the 8485 school year as the first and only teacher for the new bilingual individualized learning program she served all four schools Mojave Mesa was opening that year she grew the program for the next 30-plus years watching the district grow and become a unified district and the population of English learners grow from 54 to about 1200 she's taught almost at almost all of our k-6 and k-8 schools and taught over 300 of our own teachers when they were required to take the a/b 29:13 course to comply with siddhaye and eld certification she's taught English to a few hundred parents of our students and she's taught three generations of a handful of families when she accepted the position with a V USD her intention was to stay here for two years just long enough to get a good start on her career in education she never dreamt that she'd be here for 36 years and spent her entire career one district her immediate plans are to be able to visit her grandchildren in Washington State and Arizona much more frequently long-term is still being formulated she's waiting for her husband to retire and as she calls for her cares for her elderly parents at Apple Valley she's waiting on her husband's retirement which should be enough time for purge and organized and dispersed more than three decades decades of educational debris John and her plan to do some traveling and pursuit hop pursue hobbies that have been on hold for too long drink next up Ben Shelby Ben Shelby's most ignition significant accomplishment he's he managed to clean up the accounting system and keep it clean with positive audit reports from 2013 to 2019 funny moment he managed to be on stage for his daughter's graduation from a VHS media plans after retirement or to stay quarantined and his long-term plans for retirement I traveled the world Deborah Taylor a media plans after retirement relocating to Marietta and spending time with her new grand meeting and her long-term plans are to spend as much time with family and enjoying the beach as much as possible Cindy bany most significant accomplishment building relationships that she treasures with her students funny moment laughing so hard with her students on a daily basis her immediate plans are to move to Cedar City Utah with her long-term plans to travel huh Judy clever most significant accomplishment raising two great sons and her husband family the media plans after retirement to help with her grandkids and her long-term are restoring her house and enjoying life Marlene vasilenko Squires funny moment when she was singing in class as children had free choice time and one of the little ones said mrs.

Nelson can be in a group of parents african-american families and gathered that group because you knew that wasn't a group that needed to have a particular input there's also every school site has a school site Council and so those groups have input through at the school site level which feeds back up and of course the most important is probably parents make up the significant portion of our district advisory they are in the room from every school site and the reductions they came up with at the beginning here but you'll what will be reducing immediately and these are things necessarily to didn't didn't require a layoff or any change they did understand that that was possible for the out years but professional learning will be reduced so that means we're not going to end there's a dual savings to that one the sub costs so we won't necessarily be using substitute teachers to pull teachers out of classrooms for professional development but also we won't be paying teachers for professional learning will be voluntary in the summertime so that will reduce our cost greatly that was at large expense last year maintenance support we had an item where we transferred money into the maintenance account mr.