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Okay. I have a slightly different question. Why would a district choose not to use your services? >> Let me answer this. I I got this one. Change. In all honesty, change. I mean, if you do the numbers and if you sit down and look at it and you and and my recommendation is the 55 threshold, why wouldn't you want more money? you will get the m money couple weeks later, but it's changed. People don't, in all honesty, people don't like change. So, they'll they'll look at it and be like, I don't I don't want to do this. I want my I I want this payout. But if you're over 55 and you have the opport and you want the payout, why wouldn't you want to save money? And a medical, you can do that as well. Um, even more money. So, that's our biggest thing.
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Um I think it's a very hard read. Uh giving the given like the student example myself I don't this is gonna be I think this would more more be a hindrance rather than a support for our students. Um I think it's very it is a college textbook. It originally was a college textbook and then they went down to the high school level to try to accommodate for uh AP classes. But I think where it is and with the inquiry base and everything that it has, it would make students more confused about the material than being able to synthesize it better. >> Oh, sorry. Go ahead. >> I was just going to ask you, so if you had this year being your first year and you had that first book, that would have been like your ideal ideal. >> Do you know I mean >> connecting with the past?
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And where you're new in town, every Tuesday night from I had to throw a kick in. Every Tuesday night uh since um uh the 28th of June, Tuesday evenings, we have a free concert that started 7 o'clock at the gazebo at Stone Park. So, hope you can be there. We love we love to see you there. One thing I want to also just let you guys know. So, um, on on Zoom is Susan Roby, who you guys are all working with on on all your your everything related to Marathon. Everything is going through going through Susan. So, I just wanted to give Susan a shout out. >> It says Beth Reynolds, >> but it's actually Susan Robbie. So, she's waving. So, I just wanted you guys to I don't know if you've met her in person or not, but just wanted to put a face to the name because I know Susan Susan this is also a labor of love for her >> and she works she works her tail off to to to um make this program go without a >> get some applause going up there.
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So, you have to build the program sooner than later. Uh because later this month is when we go to recruitment fairs and when all these great things start happening and you want to get the best for these types of things or you want to be able to backfill if you have an internal person doing it with really good educators, right? The best investment we can make is high quality teachers period and leaders. Period. Right? That's the best investment. We are a human industry. So, that's the best thing we can do. So if you want to do that, you have to do that upfront. That's like coming up very soon. So now if you put all that money out and then the variable of maybe not getting the enough students in for the prek or not getting uh the students to return to Brookfield that we need.
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Yes. So yes, so we are we are you know well supported and uh and that's that's a really good thing. So, uh, continuing on, one of the questions that you'd asked was, um, what what are some of the things that go into our, uh, we the codes of conduct and, uh, and, uh, about our, um, about the way that we, uh, yes, so these are our leagues. In the middle school league, we're in the Sonoran Desert League. Uh, and in the high school, we're the Arizona Intercolastic Association, AIA. This may be one of the last years that the Sonoran Desert League plays. We'll get I'll talk more about that later. Next slide. Um, we do athletic fees. We do ask ask parents and families to participate in the in this because it is expensive to run sports. Uh, this year these are significantly less than they are in town, but they're still it's still a price to pay.
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Um and also for us it's talking to the talking to the right people. Um you know getting in front of the right people and presenting this because I mean if you sit down and do the numbers it it makes sense but you know some people just don't they want to they want to keep it the way it is. >> So there's no financial aspect or things that like a district would say you know what this isn't the right fit for our district. >> Maybe maybe not not enough savings. >> Yeah. Maybe, you know, maybe you're dealing with a district who has one or two retirees a year. And I mean, you you talk if there's, let's say, there's two $10,000 payouts, it's 20 grand. Do you really want to change all your processes over a $1,500 savings? That could be an financial aspect. Usually, these districts that have I mean, we have some of the larger school districts.
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You can't go wrong with Fabric of a Nation. Uh when I went to the AP training, of course, their spokesperson came in. Um it goes off of the CTE and it the Fabric of a Nation follows it. I didn't know about the other textbook. I kind of just this is the one I was using and I was the one I was given to by the district as I asked for when I asked for it. Um but the other one from what I have looked into and what and what has been presented to me, it's very similar. But yes, I think that one would be if we have it next year, I could see scores either rising or staying at a very high average for students. >> How closely does it do do these correlate with the exam? >> Step by step, um the both the first two have a breakdown.
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I see. So, the other thing um real quick is we haven't discussed it or decided it yet, but we typically do a runner's breakfast the Saturday of Memorial of um marathon weekend. >> So, we haven't voted it yet, but I expect we will. So, Susan will keep you posted if we do that. >> Yep. Breakfast at TJ's. >> Yeah. >> Everybody along family's welcome and all that. >> Come on down. Fuel up. We have to ask it which we'll do at our next meeting, but I expect it'll happen. >> I think Susan unmuted herself. >> Great. Sue, if you have anything you would like to add to that. >> No, I just unmuted myself in case somebody asked me a question. >> Thank you. Well, thank you all very much. We appreciate it and we will see you soon. >> Yeah. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Hope all that snow goes away so it's easier easier to train to train.
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So it leaves us with no variability to manage that risk. We have no no risk management when the budget gets tighter and tighter and tighter. Does that make sense? >> Yeah. Absolutely. >> Absolutely. >> I have to think about that because I have to be responsible with the budget that we're given and and so I wouldn't feel >> I wouldn't know if I could be responsible enough with some of the other things too to be able to make all that happen and I would air on the side of caution with uh taxpayer dollars. >> Are there any grant opportunities with prek with that early childhood stuff coming forward? Is there any grant opportunities building special ed programs? I know it's not guaranteed, right? >> But I'm just wondering wondering long-term sustainability. >> So, more of them are for right now, like space uh in in materials and resources, things like that that we would be able to access more immediately, but we're pretty good with that.
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Um, it does help offset the league fees. It's we don't have 100% participation by any means. We have a lot of folks that that are that are not are not accustomed to paying their athletic fees. We're asking for it more regularly and we are asking for them to ask their district for support which very which the districts are really helpful and do step up to help and more than that I'm asking them to please don't don't feel bad about it just ask Johnson Ali they are ready to help you uh so we are working on our partnership with Johnson to see if we can get all all of our athletic fees paid that would be lovely that would be a personal goal next slide so in terms of academic academic eligibility This was one of the questions you asked. What do we do for eligibility?
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We have Poria, Deer Valley, Chandler Unified, Scottsdale, Tucson. I mean, they're paying out a few million dollars a year. There's some pretty substantial savings there. But really on the employee side, that's where the benefit is. Having an option for tax-free medical, having an option to just at least at the minimum get an extra 7.65% your payout. That's great. The other reason too, I will say a big issue that a lot of these school districts will run into with special pay plans, paying out the money this way, there's been a little bit of a shift in our industry. So, um, Nationwide used to do plans like this, but if you were a school district who wasn't sending at least $5 million a year, instead of getting an actual person, you would just get a phone number to a customer service line. So, if you needed someone to make a determination or one of your employees needed help, they would get a customer service line.
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So when you look at it, so right now we're going into period 8 and every period there's nine periods and there is a weight per test per period. So in the test period 9 is like 5 to 8% roughly. Um the bulk of your uh percentage is going to be periods 2 through eight which is roughly anywhere between 20 to 30% of the test. And these books break it down if it 8.1 8.2 8.3 the biggest one like 8.1 talks about all the contextualization which uh for that is how do I use my background information to help myself with uh short answer questions, long essay questions, DBQs. How do I bring in the outside information or the information prior to that period or after that period to help me build a strong base for my writing in the beginning? And that gives them that point, but it breaks it down section by section, period by period as if it was they were pretty much taking the test.
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>> I know, right? Oh boy. >> So, thank you again everyone. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And thank you all for your personal uh stories as well. >> Yes. >> It makes it so much easier for us and so much to uh appreciate your sacrifices. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Take care everyone. >> Good night. >> All right. >> Well, that was fun. >> That is always fun. >> It's always a fun thing to do. So, do you want do you want a motion to reopen the >> Yeah, I was going to ask if someone would uh provide me a motion. >> I will make that motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> Okay. Uh the public uh discussion and hearing is open for Smooth Rile Premium Car Services LLC. And I would ask um if uh Dimmitri is here.
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That's not our issue. It's more personnel. Uh and usually you can't offset. Um, we might be able to do some in the arena of special education uh through some uh IDEIDA or title funding like we could in some of the training through title funding. So, we could do a little of that. Um, so there's a little offset there. Um, you know, once you have a full day prek, you can apply for things like through the state like care for kids and other ways to reduce the funding for uh that that would be impacted for parents. Um, yeah. So, good question. We'll always look for those >> and and take advantage of all that we can. >> Anyone else have >> and we are in the middle of a cost analysis for all of those which I'll be able to share very shortly with you all.
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AIA says that kids need to be passing their class in order to participate. We do the same thing for the sonor and desolate for the middle school kids as the high school kids. Uh this is the structure that we have for the first four and a half weeks. Everybody's eligible. After that, we run eligibility through synergy once a week on Mondays. And this week, I'm holding firm if this this year if you're ineligible on Monday, you've got a week to get it ready. uh that does mean that you're ineligible for play that week unless there's some sort of a special circumstance. If it's a if it's a teacher problem, come see me. If it's a you problem, didn't do your work, then you got a week to get it ready and that's that. And we'll we'll check eligibility next week. That's the way it goes.
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You would get routed to a call center. Obviously, we're a little bit of a smaller company doing this, so you're actually going to talk to someone in person, which is going to be myself or Ben. You mentioned a few school districts that are used. I was wondering, Linda, was it used in your previous district or maybe I don't know if Vanessa is still in here. Um, if any of our current employees have or you have too, Alexis, yeah, if you could speak to that. >> It was not. >> We're not in No, we're not in Madison. >> It is in PV. That's question. It is not in Madison, >> but it was discussed. So, >> yeah. And this is um just so you understand this is a part of the process that the district's going through right now to um look for uh savings in all areas.
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>> When you say there's a digital option and they can take tests and stuff, do you are you able to see their answers? >> I'm not a I'm not sure. But with AP classroom, there is testing that we do in class as well where we go over it if they have questions or on the MCQ multiple choice questions, sorry. Um, it will tell them like we can go through and I can show them what's the correct answer, what's the non, you know, um, why they may have chosen this or if this is a distractor question or a distractor answer. uh with the the digital one for American history, it didn't tell me if I I'm going to assume, but I don't. >> So, like if you if you sign like the first chapter, you don't know whether they like I just want to know if you are able to see whether they did anything.
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>> Yes. >> How are you sir? If we come to the podium, please identify yourself and explain uh why you're looking for a delivery license, please. >> Um yeah, good evening everyone. Uh my name is Denitri Schustster and I live in town since 92. >> Nice. for a while and been doing different things uh working in different fields and uh this is my kind of the last uh tenure and uh so I start doing this um in beginning of the year and one of the requirements is uh obtaining license from the town to do it um the way it should be legally and uh so that's u primarily a reason I applied for it. >> Very good the right way. >> Great. >> Thank you. I'll open up the board for questions. I just previously I have spoken to Susan prior to >> and uh there there are no uh letters uh against uh Demetri opening up or supporting it either or.
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>> So then I guess my question would be to reiterate the areas to build on the prek special ed offerings leverage of leverage of the eval system multi-tiered systems of support. >> Correct. we would be okay at a 486 to implement your initiatives for >> correct. >> Okay. Just want to be clear on that that yes, >> which again goes back to you exceeding my expectations. So that's it's that's well done. >> Thank you. >> And actually before we move on, I think it's important that the community really really understand that >> one of the um primary budget drivers, one of them has been special ed costs. This is a this these are first steps to kind of slay that dragon of seeing which what kind of programs we can begin to build here and hopefully draw students uh back in district and provide them the services they need more um in a more financially >> huge cost savings.
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So, uh that is our standard at the moment is is passing. I beg the kids to please have at least a C because life happens and when it dips then you're still eligible and you can still climb up at the at the moment a lot of kids will ride there at the D and when troubles happen they end up ineligible and that's well it's one of the things that we use as teachers to spur kids to be engaged in their academics. You need to be successful academically before you can be an a student athlete. The student part comes first. Next slide. We have a code of conduct and uh we do we do it's this basically the same one that we have at school. Uh the uh if you are if you have been suspended you are suspended fully from from practice and play. If it's your second uh infraction, the second time you've gotten an OSS, you get removed from the team.
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