If we don't spend send them we're able to amend the uh the report for a particular building and then we can address those funds um and you make use of those funds at the appropriate time after we've closed out those projects. >> All right. >> Question. when we paved um the high school um did that fall under this process? >> No, ma'am. That um those proceeds were taken out of the sale of the alternative revenue bonds. That was all included in the Sportslex project. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Yeah. I believe we never I don't to my knowledge ever had concrete or or paving considered life safety. >> So this is this is the first >> but it's evolved. I think life safety regulations have >> have have >> somewhat evolved since >> yeah since the last time. >> Yeah. Five 10 years >> and windows and roofs and things of that nature.
Um, so, but getting cut, you know, is hard, right? And making cuts are difficult and and really taking a hard look at programs and positions and and and things that we just buy. Um those are those are hard conversations. Um our administrative team, we've already kind of started to have some of those. Um and so those are hard, right? Because we we all certainly have things we feel strongly about and other things that maybe I don't feel strongly about, but you feel strongly about. And so having a lot of those hard conversations. So sorry I've completely gone from A to C. Uh but happy to talk about, you know, item C financial update um as well. So Is this something that we can share with everybody? >> Yeah, that that is public knowledge that that's just comes from the legislative services agency. So, um that is not like that that's a that's a forecast, you know what I mean?
This type of behavior wouldn't be allowed in your doctor's office. wouldn't be allowed in in in in hospitals and wouldn't be allowed in dentist office, in any other professional setting. These wouldn't be allowed and we should not be allowing them to be taking place again. And and the joke in my the the team over here knows I'm a shopper at TJ Maxx and I was at TJ Maxx the other day and they were escorting a woman out who was vulnerable and arguing and they were taking her out, taking around the store because we just can't take any chances nowadays. We need to make sure that we are providing safety for all of our students and for all of our staff. So I'm asking everyone here on school committee and I'm asking every team to not allow this type of behavior to to be taking place in our district.
Um, if you have any questions as I go through the presentation, feel free to ask me any questions. Um, yeah, let me get right into it. Um, so as everyone I'm sure is aware, uh, in November of 2024, GLTS suffered a major cyber security incident. Um, sensitive data was breached, critical IT systems were compromised, and ultimately we were out of school for a week. Um, following the breach in January of 2025, the director of IT resigned. And a month later, uh, a network server administrator also left GLTS. Um, the remaining members of the IT department, Jason and myself, uh, in March of 2025 started the process of conducting a NIST cyber security audit. Um, with the goal of seeing where we were at in terms of cyber security posture and where we needed to improve following the breach. Um, NIST stands for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Um there was also again on February 6th a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. The CNA Northern Regional Band Festival where students had to audition to get their seats was on January 16th and 17th. And coming up soon are all state auditions for those qualified students. And Yale Science Olympiad works on Saturday the 7th. Very successful event where students went down to Yale on the Science Olympiad team competed taking college level tests. Upcoming for the high school we have the choir concert tomorrow night. The CHS math team also has a meet tomorrow and like we said the musical is under production with multiple rehearsals a week and state conference tournaments are starting to soon for qualifying participants. Moving on to CMS they also performed at Yukon on February 6 doing the same as the high school. Uh the student council hosted hosted a Witcher dance with the theme of New York.
So um these three amazing ladies right here are actually all juniors. So they're definitely setting a solid foundation for building next year's program and continuing this great success. So, thank you for recognizing these amazing athletes that I have. I have a certificate here for you students. Isuzi Unified School District Certificate of Recognition is proudly to present to Carmela Cerna. Hope I'm saying that right. um presented is rec in recognition of being named Mountain View League One team all league for girls volleyball and an honor reserved for the league elite performers selected by the consensus of league coaches. This distinguished celebration consists of excellent, exceptional skills and significant cont significant contribution to team success. Recognizing the recipients of one of the region's top competitors today, February 10th, 2026, signed by Superintendent Ortega and board president Sandra Benavas. >> We now have board vice president comments. if you know that volleyball is my game.
Next item on the agenda is a call to the public. We would invite anybody that would like to come and address the board to do so at this time. We'd like you to uh tell us who you are and where you're from and what you'd like to address the board. We can't act on any of those things today. We can all just direct staff to do something in the future about that.
And Courtney even presented today, the state only funds half day kindergarten. So, we want to continue funding full day kindergarten. We feel like it's a good service for our community. We want to continue to offer um elective classes, a wide variety of elective classes both at the elementary and the high school. And um and then when we talk about this, we're talking salaries um teacher salaries as well as class sizes and class offerings. So that's the big thing we'll be looking at. And with that being phased out and our carryover is really diminishing that if we have to start at looking at cuts, half day kindergarten is obviously a big one that we'd have to look at. And we're hoping not to be in the situation where we have to decide between half day kindergarten, special areas, honors classes, um, and teacher raises that those are those are what we're looking at.
The general fund operating reserve again this is this is all those those four funds that I had talked about and the cash balance on hand. So next category budget limit reserve capital budget. Um again showing that we had $42,000 left over within our capital budget. So we spent all but $42,000. They wanted that to be be more than that. >> That's the 3%. They want at least 3%. >> Which would be >> but see we're showing a history we're showing a history of it being low you know so we're spending our capital dollars and just and remember with this year only that 25 and 24 school year had funds that had move moved out of M or out capital and into M. So even in 23 when we didn't move any we ended the year with 56,000. 22 we ended with 40,000. 21 which was which was the the co years you know there wasn't a whole lot of capital expenditures going on.
at the high school. However, we do have some summitive assessments which are our final exams. The way that high school classes are with state standards and um being given credit, uh obviously there needs to be a summitive measure. So, we implemented final exams a few years ago and on this slide you'll see that we have some upward trends going on in all of our English final exam courses and our four areas of math have been steadily increasing. Um, we do note that algebra 1, although is a little lower than we would like to see it, you still see that positive increase. And again, we believe that all of the interventions and uh curriculum supports that now are in place, all the other data points show that that's going to continue to have an upward trend. And then this continues on into our science final exams and our social studies final exams.
And a fun fact about Braden is that he and his younger brother Bryce currently hold the distinction of being the only sibling pair chaperel with perfect attendance. Currently, [clears throat] [applause] >> we are we are very proud to honor Braden as our points of pride student. And who did you bring with you, Braden? >> Um, my mom, my dad, my brother, and my grandma and grandpa. [applause] [laughter] >> [applause] >> Yeah. Thank you. All right, to finish up the superintendence report tonight, uh you can see the upcoming events. Uh tomorrow we have two different events going on. We have the elementary cheer competition as well as the Lunar New Year concert. One of them's at Williamsfield, the other at HCPA. Our business partner breakfast is Thursday, February 19th at Kulie Middle School. On February 26th, we have a school visit from Superintendency and the board to Kulie Preschool and Middle School.
>> Makes perfect sense. Thank you. Uh, one question for you. You said that we are uh increasing our new teacher pay to I believe is 57,000. Do you know what it currently is off hand? >> 56,000. >> Okay. Great. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Harmon. >> Thank you. >> All right. We call to the public and I do not have any cards. So, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? >> So, move. >> I'll second. >> Lisa, I have a motion in a second. >> Shante Rothschild. >> I. >> Ben Owens. >> Hi. >> Lisa Garcia. >> I. >> Carolyn Lopez. >> I. >> Patty Catra. >> I. >> All right. Action items. Discussion and possible approval of personnel schedule. Mr. Beckett. >> Thank you, President Katray. Members of the governing board, and Dr. Lman, you have the personnel schedule in front of you tonight.
So now this is probably a good thing. >> Mhm. >> You know >> in the last 5 years they're now adding what HV uh >> yeah roof and >> rooftops and window like you know stuff for >> Yeah. >> Obviously the air quality is a huge thing now since co so that's probably why they included that. >> Great. Yeah. And and Jason, we have I think the life safety survey coming up in 2028, I believe, for the high school and the Mooney Elementary. >> Yes, sir. That would be the last two. >> Last two. So, that's shortly. That's right around the corner. >> Yeah. And as Yeah. As you pointed out, you know, 2028, it kind of goes every 10 years with the opening of the building. So, you know, those two are our newest buildings, but we are seeing, you know, that they are roughly 20 years older.
It's not something that's touching stone and but again, it's just kind of another one of those um pieces of information out there that, you know, we're kind of looking at. So, but it's it kind of matches pretty closely to like what policy analytics um shared with us as well when when it comes to you know um impact on our operations and debt service fund too. So, >> and somebody in the parking lot is enjoying driving. >> It was your kid. >> So, questions on just financial updates or or the bus replacement plan? Sorry. Not for me. >> Um, item B on there was just ISBA quarterly updates. I just uh I wanted to share all those with you guys. Last year we did these in February if you remember. We had um I think it was items like A through double H or something. I don't remember.
It is unacceptable. We can do better. We are the role models for our students every single day that takes place. I also want you to be clear I also want to be clear that I've spoken to our attorneys as well too and to see exactly what I can do in terms of when we when behaviors get um inappropriate as well and escalate to that level and and there are options I have and I certainly don't want to go there but there is there's no trespassing not allowing families to be able to come they drop off their kids they pick up their their students but they're not allowed that and I certainly don't want to do that but I also want to make sure that we're keeping our buildings safe from adults that might not be having the best intentions when they're coming into our schools as well I want to be clear though and make sure you understand this is not the majority.
Um, and really it's just a uh industry standard framework and a set of guidelines that help organizations identify, manage and reduce cyber security risk. Um, so what did the audit look like? Um we worked with a cyber security company uh to provide network documentation, IP addressing information, switch uh configurations, firewall configurations, um and also policies and procedures so that they were able to get a uh a snapshot of what our network looks like, but also how the the department operates on a day-to-day basis. Um and the audit culminated in a 41page report that they provided us um documenting all the gaps in our cyber security posture. Um the the findings were categorized by risk uh from high to medium to low. Um and we were able to use those findings to assess our current posture and also plan for the future and how we can respond and improve um for the future.
Uh it was very well attended and 75% from the middle school came. very successful. Eighth graders have been meeting with members of CHS to learn about the high school experience such as mini lessons in Mandarin and Chinese. Administrators presenting on all that CHS has to offer and seniors sharing some tips that they have learned along their way through their journeys. Upcoming for CMS Unified Sports is in the middle of a very busy season. play the away game versus Grammy tomorrow on the 11th and eighth graders will be registering for their ninth grade classes on February 19th. The intermediate school sixth grade student council members participate in the statewide leadership conference. We want to say congratulations to the CIS kid team which finished top five 23 teams at Thursday night's competition. They missed the conference advance by just three points. Two CIS students were recognized at the CAS Elementary Celebration of the Arts last Tuesday night.
So, you know what? I'm so proud of you students and I love to see that's one one uh game I always like to see is girls competing and young men in volleyball, right? It's very competitive. I know it's a lot of work, but you know what? You girls made it. I'm proud of you girls. >> Word clerk Ramos. >> Yes. Again, proud of you all and congratulations. And for me, volleyball is also my sport being a former girls high school dad. Um, so I'm I'm I'm really proud of the volleyball team and excited that um they continue to excel this sport. Congratulations also to Court Savannah um and and the rest of the staff. So, thank you girls and congratulations. >> Board member Gria. >> Yeah, I just say congratulations uh continuing to just see the incredible excellence of our of our student athletes. what what you are doing and how you are representing us.
Uh if you do have time, we ask you to keep to about three minutes. So we're not here all night listening and we have a lot of time. So anybody would like to address the board at this time, you're welcome to come do so. All right. Thank you. The next item would be uh just an announcement for when our next uh board meeting will be, and that will be March 17th, 5:00 at this location. We probably and we'll most likely have another open meeting about bond or override prior to that which we will get plenty of information out plenty of time in advance so people can attend that. Uh we might make that a little longer next time so we can get a little bit more accomplished. So if nothing else can we have a motion to adjurnn to >> have a motion from Michael to adjurnn.
That could be if we don't pass an override cuts we might have to make in the upcoming years. >> Okay. You have plenty of time obviously to be thinking about this. um wanted to share with the with the board and the community these numbers. Hope this is helpful for you as you continue to think about it. Okay, next page. Next page there. Okay. Um this is this is what we wanted to share with you as a way to uh remind the board and the community because of our you know fairly complicated tax structure in Arizona. So, we encourage people to pull their property tax bills out. We might end up having a calculator at the end of the day on the website and and really kind of go through this stuff. So, what Randy did here, she went on um the uh county website. You all familiar with Jagger Lane, Mule Deer Way, and Lower Ridge Drive.