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It's the proper way to to handle things. So, if you feel that a committee member oversteps their boundaries, engages in appropriate discussion, or makes underhanded threats about how long they have left on their term of office compared to the remaining time the superintendent has on his contract or attempts to involve staff matters. Staff matters staff and matters outside their role. Employees need to feel comfortable saying no and redirect us to the proper channel for that. The district runs lean. Everybody performs multiple jobs. And when a committee member acts in a manner inconsistent with policy or procedure and takes away your time, it's like stealing from taxpayers who contribute and pay your salaries. Staff time is for students, not for indulging boundary issues from adults who should know better. If you need to say no, say it. We'll survive without the latest gossip. And I'm confident that most of the committee would support you in doing so.
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Good evening everyone. So we have more important news. I we would like to congratulate Gustavo Balera who was recognized on the house floor alongside Mr. Nelson ad and coach Sarcis. They spent a few hours with state representative Frank Moran and other legislators from throughout the Commonwealth. Sports wrestling milestone. Caleb Reynolds and Isaac both recorded their 100th wrestling match wins. Girls basketball. Girls basketball team competed against teams from other states in the Hoopla basketball tournament. Sports. Boys basketball. Current record 105 with a few games left before state vocational and MIAA state tournaments. Girls basketball current record 96 with a few games left before state vocational and MIAA state tournaments. Indoor track, cheering, league, state meets, competitions are coming up in the few in the next few weeks. Swim season saw huge growth. Boys finished fourth at state. Vogs with seven podium finishes and many PRs. Young team, bright future.
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I'm not going to get into a lot of this, but Rotary is going to start collecting plastics. They're hoping that they can plastic bags and there's some unbelievable statistics. Um they they have a goal of collecting a,000 pounds of plastic and uh I turned in Thank you. Thank you. I turned in um I turned in a bag at least two pounds. So, you can you know how long that's going to last. They're hoping that we'll be able to put a receptacle in uh in our high school building and maybe at CIS uh for parents, kids, cafeteria that want to put uh plastic in there and then they'll come and collect it. So, but I just wanted you to have this as a statistic as something interesting. Um you know, we've been trying at home to cut back on a lot of things like that becoming more green, but I think what goes on with plastic bags and in Miami Sound and out in the ocean is just atrocious.
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So we have all of that in the public record. Um our ask of the city this uh for this coming year is a $2.99 million increase which is roughly 1.75% uh of an increase over the previous year um for a total ask of $175 million. Um, and with that, again, I would just like to thank the board and the cabinet for their hard work in the development of the budget and um, I hope to see it pass tonight. >> Thank you. Okay, I need someone to make the motion. Motion A. >> Okay. >> I make the motion that the board of education adopt superintendent 2026 2027 budget. I make the motion that the board of education adopt the superintendent's 20226 2027 budget in the amount of $175 million for submission to the mayor as a required by the city charter in accordance with exhibit 26-23.
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So I'm so proud of you. Congratulations again. Thank you for all your hard work. Much success in the future. Thank you. Moving on to item 6.2, recognition of Isuza High School athletes chosen for Mont View League most valuable players. Mr. Fernandez, I turn it over to you. >> Thank you. Uh to speak about the success of our fall sport Mont View League MVPs, I would like to introduce Albert Sanchez, our athletic director. Good evening, board president Benvitas, uh, Superintendent Ortega, cabinet, and board members. Um, it's always a good good time to come back and boast about the girls, athletes. So, thank you again for having us. Um would like to say how proud of the Zuza League MVP girls for volleyball. Um Charlotte Lenda Nega um and league MVP for flag football, Priscilla Liberado. Both student athletes have distinguished themselves on their teams and in the league.
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Thank you. You know, and for as hard as teachers work with 25, 30 kids in front of him, I think it's harder to have 80 kids behind you. And Frank does it all with grace and a smile on his face. Yeah, Frank is well loved by his students and everybody. All right. Now, we have our volunteer of the month award. Who Who do we have presenting our volunt This Butler is presenting our volunteer of the award. I don't have a lot of words like Dustin. Maybe I'll I'll get that someday. But um Katherine was unable to make it tonight. She is at her son's ball game, but Katherine comes in every week to to Blige Elementary. She covers a class so that I can meet with the team every week. Um she does that consistently. She works with kids with flashcards. She works on math facts with them.
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Is all that any questions from the audience and all that? Okay. Arizona taxes aren't, as you all know, they're not the easiest. So, we do our best under the statute to explain it. Okay. So, let's take this 48 cents, and this will be in the voter pamphlet, too. What does that mean to a property owner? Okay, so we calculated the average kind of county valuation. This is not market valuation. This is where this gets a little tricky. Bear with me. We have a nice table. we're going to show you. So, the county has within the boundaries of the Blue Ridge Unified has a kind of a county called full cash value, not market value at $22,824. Okay? You have homes obviously in your district boundaries less, and you have multi-million dollar homes up here. So you take that number times 10 10% residential properties assessed at 10%.
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Now, they are supposedly going to the same finance system as we have, but the county level version of it. So once they have that fully integrated, you should be able to take those those that cash that's actually sitting in fund 610. >> The same language that you're speaking basically. >> Yes. >> All right.
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So, it is easy sometimes to just look at that overall percent passing. Uh but there's so much more to the story and you have to keep an eye on each of those areas. So for eighth grade mathematics wanted to bring some of the data that comes from the curriculum so that the board could see uh some of the diagnostic measures that our teachers and our staff are able to utilize to uh shift instructional practices on the day-to-day. So what you'll see on the left side of this slide is the I ready diagnostic growth data. You'll see this is from fall to winter and the categories uh they mimic the titles that are in the right bar. um on the HMH data. So those color coordinating the red and the pink are below level and far below level. The yellow is going to be more of your approaching and then your light green is on level and the dark green is above level.
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She is our recipient for our student award. Yay, Athena. Yay. You So this is our wonderful bright light just uh brightens the room Athena. She's m she has a magnetic personality um with her peers and staff. You light up the room, don't you, sweet girl? And you inspire growth in others. She has taught other students so much about being inclusive and having a positive outlook. She's taught her peers to understand that each individual is unique and an important addition to our preschool. She's have even learned how to communicate with her peers as you can see um every and to help her with her communication vice she actively seeks out friends and ensures everyone feels like they belong often. She often demonstrates empathy and compassion. So Mrs. Turner, who has she brought? Do you know her family? If you're Athena's family, would you wave? Hi Athena's family.
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I'd like to review our budget calendar for the rest of the year. We have our M preview tonight. In April, we'll have a second preview of the fiscical year 27 budget to include the the classroom site fund and our capital funds. In May, we will have our mandatory final revision for our current year fiscal year 26 budget. On June 10th, we'll have our fiscal year 27 uh proposed budget approval, which authorizes us to publish that budget and a notice of public hearing for our budget adoption that will take place on July or before July 15th. The next couple of slides uh highlights uh some of the projected fiscal year 27 budget. We have some potential fiscal cliffs. The free and reduced priced lunch poverty weight and the DIA formula increase together equal over $500,000 and will require legislative one-time approval for fiscal year 27. In fiscal year 28, both of these formulas are permanently added to the funding formulas and will no longer need legislative approval.
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>> Um some other kind of good news. I was going to talk a little bit about the middle school. Everything is going along really well and weather permitting the exterior work for the final two remaining classrooms will be begin over spring break. So, we're kind of moving along there. Um Dr. Dr. Hall, you'll be happy about some of the other good news I'm going to be sharing. This is athletics. So, we have bo uh four boy wrestlers that qualified for sectionals which will compete this Saturday. >> Pardon me. >> Uh where is that going to be? >> I'll get you that information. I I'm confused between them and the girls, but I'll get you the information. I'll send it to you. >> So, when they have sectional wrestling, is it just wrestling that's the only event or they have other sports going on? uh at that point at the sectional point.
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I mean all the time but you know but yeah every every year it's obviously kind of a whole fresh look again um you know and then it's little tweaks throughout the year. So >> few years ago after co buses became a very long lead time item. Did all that get fixed? I'm assuming it was mostly supply chain stuff but >> I don't want to take the came down the road and then that becomes oh you're two years out on that. >> Yeah. So in 24 um so when I started you guys we were waiting on buses from 23. Correct. Um and so we got those and then we got the 24 buses pretty quick. Um the 25s you know were I mean it it's kind of caught up. It's it's not like you go buy one and it gets delivered next month or something like that.
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And that's what I have to say about that. Next, we have a statement that Jess would like to make. >> Um, so I threw my back out, so I may get up and down throughout this meeting, so I just apologize for that in advance. Um, it's tough to get over, but um, so the statement is my own. Um, it was floating around in my head, so didn't read it beforehand, but I want to make a statement of gratitude for the staff that we have here, um, in Boilston. Um, I myself attended BES and Tanto Man High School and you know I'm a proud graduate as is my husband and my brother and my sister-in-law and and I'm really thrilled to be able to have moved back to Boilson back in 2019 to give my children the same education and upbringing. Um, I am very confident in the staff at the elementary school, the middle school and the high school.
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Hockey qualified for the MIAA state tournament. These are athletes of the month of January of 2026. basketball. Albert Diaz, Diego Hermono, Evie Lopez, Camey Deada, Julian Garcia. wrestling Daniel Estrella, Daniel Turner, and cheering Rihanna Lopez, Jaden Perez, Payton Maxwell, Amar Belz, Shaveley Carabajio, Track, Shamil Fernandez, Swim, Jacqueline, Poss, Haziel, Herrera, Ellie Gazar, Noel Perez, Ipsswitch River Wild Life field trip. On January 9th, the environmental science sophomores visited the Iswitch River Sanctuary. They employed methods used by real scientists to calculate the biodiversity of the sanctuary. Senior awarded prestigious scholarship during NAACP MLK breakfast. Congratulations to Kieriss Melendez for being awarded a $1,000 scholarship. She earned it throughout her dedication to academics, maintaining a 4.0 0 GPA as well as her extracurriculars participating in NHS, Skills USA, and Reggie Leader Leaders. She hopes to get accepted into her dream school, Boston College, and become a pediatric oncologist.
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So this is one way that we can all participate and when we hear things about our schools when when we stand up here we hear so many good things that doing collecting coats and and and being active with Fabar and other things. I think this is one thing our students going to gravitate to. So um I'll talk further with the superintendent and our school administrators about maybe getting more involved in that. But I wanted the board to have that. So that's all I have for the chairman's corner.
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>> Thank you. >> I'll second a motion. >> Second by Glattis. Any questions, comments, concerns? No. Okay. All those in favor? >> I >> Any any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Thank you. Do we have anything else? No. Okay. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make a motion to >> Thank you, Al. Do I have a second? Second by Sean. All in favor? >> I. Motion adjourned. Uh meeting adjourned. Sorry.
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They have committed so much time and effort getting better over the years to take pride in their team's accomplishments and their own individual accomplishments. Beyond their MVP recognitions, Charlotte and Priscilla are good students and contribute a great deal uh to the success of Isuza High School overall. Um, I can add that both of them will be um playing in our CIF game on Thursday at at home. So hopefully you can make it out. Uh, we are proud of them and we want to thank them and their coaches, their parents for all the hard work that they have done over the years to nurture their passion and talent and to support their teams and build the reputation of Zahigh athletics in in any way they could. So, here she is. Um, Priscilla did not make it. So, this is Charlotte. Um, she's a three sport athlete and again, she'll be uh playing with the girls um this Thursday afternoon at home at 3:00.
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She reads with kids. Um, she even last week we had a little ice cream reward and she stayed after her a lot of time and helped pass out ice cream and get chocolate and cherries everywhere and she she just steps in whenever we need her and she's consistent and she's happy and she she just does it with a smile. So we're grateful for Katherine Shamway there. Again, we have the finest people and the finest kids in the state working in our school district and appreciate you so much. You are the reason we are what we are and it's great. The next item on this can is a consent agenda.
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So people go home and get their tax bill and they go to the assessed value number on their tax bill. It's 10% of the full cash value. So that's 20,282 divided by 100. Tax rates are per $100 of net assessed value. And the average annual tax rate to support a $30 million bond for Blue Ridge would be 9851 per year or $821 a month. Okay? And we put a 100,000 in there because that's helpful for people to do the simple math. Uh and then commercial, of course, is assessed at 16% in the middle. And those people who own agricultural vacant land, they're assessed at 15% of their full cash value. And you can see the averages that we have there. Okay.
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