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I want to say I appreciate the district um bringing an additional benefits for the employees for consideration. I also know how termination and separation fees can be very expensive. Um, I also know that in our district there's a lot of people like me that are still young, but we have been here for a long time in the district. So, we're coming up on retirement. So, I can see the idea behind of let's save those money in in there so we can use when those people retire using all the areas of our districts. Totally appreciate that. However, personally, I think it's restrictive because I have been taking care of my health I have managed my money and so at the end to be says no you will not get a payout. You only have these two choices. I think it's restrictive and after almost 27 years of service I don't want that.
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So they would be released on the 16th per statute. Uh they have I think it's 15 uh they have 15 business days. Uh if you count up days uh April 3rd would be the 15th day. However, that is Good Friday. Uh it's our spring holiday. Therefore, we're technically closed and so it doesn't count as a business day. So they would be returned back April 6th. Um and our next meeting is April 8th, which is when we're looking to do recommendations on the budget. So it would align with uh classified and administrative psychologist if we push it to the April 8th uh meeting. I think the the bulk of the contracts that we need to make the decisions on the budget are really the certified staff and so that we could go ahead and move forward with our decisions on the budgets and then we'll bring back um the other sets of uh contracts on the 8th of April.
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Joanie, >> citizens participation. >> Oh, yeah. >> Do that now and thenbody else. >> And anybody else, right, >> we're going to we deferred the u citizens participation uh at this point, but Joan, you had a couple of questions. Uh, I think you're able to unmute yourself and if you have questions now. >> It took a minute, but I I'm there. Okay. Thank you. Um, Joan Friday, One Shore Road um on the historical commission. Speaking as an independent um resident, um I'm hoping you've had a chance to review my calculations on water capacity. Um I'm wondering what your thoughts are. Um will a plan be put in place to increase our capacity? Will the developer de developers be asked to contribute? Um could we have a moratorum? I'm very concerned about our water and um I um I I'm just wondering what your thoughts are.
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>> Next Tuesday. >> Thank you. >> Wednesday. Sorry. Wednesday. >> Correct. >> Joy. All right. Well, I guess we will move on to new business then, which is going to be >> lot of >> Yes, ma'am. Yeah. Can I um I just want to make a motion to um amend the agenda to include discussion and possible action on forming a special education subcommittee under the new business item. Tapped >> second. >> I'm sorry. You wanted to say that one more time or I'm sorry. agenda. >> Yeah, I just want to amend the agenda to um include discussion and possible action about forming a special education subcommittee >> on the new business. Okay. >> Did anyone second? I'm sorry. Oh, >> I did. I did. >> Oh, you did. I'm sorry. Joy second. >> Um All right. So, we have a motion on the table to add um discussion to uh under new business for the uh formation of a special ed subcommittee.
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Oh, we also are also asking uh this Mr. Bates has been very helpful already with this one. I'd like to get a guest Wi-Fi pass opened up for all of our athletic events. When we have visitors in, they're coming south to Pawa. A lot of times their cell service is spotty and they need and they they go looking on their is there Wi-Fi and they see five different uh Wi-Fi networks, but none of them are available to them. It would be great if we could have one at the athletic events. >> It's a wish. Yes, sir. >> That's also true. When we go to the when we go to state tournaments, uh we do need we do need Wi-Fi, which Mr. Bates has already provided for us that when when I thought we were having a nice AIA game, turned out we weren't, but uh when I thought we were, he made he came through in a big way.
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I want to have my freedom to ma manage whatever benefits I get. >> Wait, do you mind if I >> go ahead Daniel? Yeah. But Avon, so what how the plan works is so if you have what's the what's the rate that our payout is like? What dollar amount is it per hour for our PTO? >> It really depends on the person. You get up to 135 days of paid time off. And then if you have administrative vacation, that's >> if you have 135 days, that could be somewhere in the ballpark of like $50,000. If you do this plan, you are going to get three thou an additional 3,000. You're gonna it's gonna give you $3,000 more dollars and then you can just take that money out right away. >> Like there's no The only downside doing it is you might have to wait two weeks for the paperwork, >> right?
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Um and uh there's no statute requirement for classified. Uh we would have them return them on the 24th of April for um administrators and psychologists. Uh statute under 15503 requires um them to have 30 calendar days. So if we release it on the 9th, they would be due back on the 8th of May um to to meet the requirement and would still be forward would still be able to move forward with that. uh we can release the contracts for administrative staff all the way up until May 15th if we we so desire.
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>> Um >> and I have one. >> Yeah, thank you Joanie. Uh I we all receive that. I did I did read it over. I am far from being an expert when it comes to water sources and um the supply and demand aspect of it. I haven't had an opportunity to speak to uh Degie Small and uh Dan about the water supply and and what we should do to help uh keep that capacity uh available. Um, I know that we have an emergency uh pipe installation uh that would uh if we had to uh utilize that that would be part of the MW uh water source. Uh and that again that is just for emergency uh purposes only, not for additional water source to add to our current water source that we have so we can deal with the future or potential developments down the road.
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you said right? Just want to make sure. Okay. Um any discussion questions? >> So um I think this is the first time we've been in this situation about like creating a subcommittee here. So how does that work? Do we >> first we have to vote to add it to the agenda? >> Yep. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. All those in favor of adding that to the agenda, please say I >> for discussion. >> Sorry. For discussion. I >> Any oppose. >> Okay. Cool. All right. It's been add to the uh agenda. Yeah. Um, sorry I >> should do the calendar. >> Calendar first. That works for me. So, as we all know, the school has at the the end of school has been pushed back and I just I'm just going to open the floor to everyone. I do want to thank Stephen and and actually have you start because I know you had laid out some options which were very difficult for you to come across and put together.
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And I want to say thank you to you and the tech team uh for making sure that we did have Wi-Fi so that we could use uh the AIA passes right there at the at the game. >> And then it sounded like Mr. B just shared they just need to know the schedule for your Wi-Fi access. Correct. >> Yes. Because we don't need kids on it all day, but but we do for others. Thank you very much. I will get you the schedule and thank you for helping make that happen. So in closing, I think that athletics is one of the strongest ways that we can help kids connect to their school. It only makes kids ac academics better. It makes school fun. And um I'm really really happy to be here and to step up for our kids in this way. Thank you so much.
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>> That's it. >> Yes. But if I'm not interested in a deferred plan or an account because I have other other plans after retirement. >> Yeah. >> I can still you can still get the money unless you owe someone like a gambling debt that you got to pay off like tomorrow. Like I'm con like I'm guess I guess what I'm asking Ivon is like why >> it's a cash payout. Yeah. >> So, it's no longer will be a cash payout. Right now, I will be able to walk away with my vacation in 135 days out of the 200 days that I currently have of leave time. >> Mhm. Yeah. >> And now instead of getting cash, it will be like, oh, you put it into a health account or you put it into a 43b. >> Yeah. But why? >> I don't want that. >> But so, but once I take it out, then I pay the taxes.
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So that would be the recommendation that I would uh craft, but I'll be more than happy to answer any questions. >> Okay, you guys, any questions? No. Okay, I'll take a motion. I move that the governing board approve issuance of employment contracts required under Arizona Revised Statutes 15-536 and 15-538.01 01 to meet the March 15th statutory deadline for certified teachers and that consideration for all other employment contracts including administrative contracts governed by ARS15-503 and classified staff employment under ARS15-341 be tabled pending completion of the district's reduction in force review and final budget planning. >> I second. Oh, do we need to add to and allow HR to make any minor changes if necessary? Yes, please do. Just in case, >> move to amend to include any pending additional changes by HR. >> Just so the board knows, what that just means is when you have for any big situation where you might have 300 people that are getting contracts, if we inadvertently miss somebody, we wouldn't have to wait to bring it back to me, you guys, for a meeting.
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Again, they're just for emergency access. So, I would have to talk to Doug and Dan about uh about those figures, and I haven't had the opportunity to. Uh they've been a little tied up with respect to uh the uh the blizzard and the uh the contributing factors of keeping the roads open and clear and and sidewalk maintenance at this time. >> Okay. Okay. Fair enough. I did send um I did send an email to um the um planning board also because in the HPP um it says that um that it says that we have plenty of water and plenty of sewer capacity and I don't believe that's true and I think that that should not be written as it is. I know we have to talk about that probably in the HPP and and we need an HPP. Um, but I would say um that um that the references that are in there are not correct either.
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I know. But there are some options that you have laid out for us that I know you wanted to discuss. >> Thank you so much. So, um I did provide everyone with this sheet which lays out some options as well as the calendar. So, you should have all that. Uh Lisa, I think gave prepared and gave all that to you and um I I prepared nothing. My team helps me with everything. So, I just want to continuously bring it back to that. They're a great group and uh God bless you. >> Offer offer me great ideas. So, um, so with that being said, what I thought would be important for us to do is really just number one, understand where we are right now. Uh, so we are, uh, extended out eight school days, right, from Tuesday, June 16th to Friday, June 26th. Um, and due to school cancellations, graduation was approved for Saturday, June 20th, 2026.
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>> Thank you. >> Any questions? >> Yes. Don't move. >> Real quick, this the slide you shared on the high school where you you mentioned it should say high school. So those grades should be 9 10 11 12 on that corner. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> That's the 201ish students. That was 2011. >> That's nearly half the whole school. >> That was more than half the school at that time. >> Um, thank you so much for all the information. I was really grateful to to kind of be able to see and and I had kind of reviewed and looked at a number of things. So, I really wanted to kind of hear and see um from yourself as the athletic director what you thought and and opportunities for growth. One of the things I wanted to talk to the board about and and and again, if this is something we can have further discussion about, it's not anything to to put into play, but supporting and challenging not only our students as Mr.
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>> Well, so I can pay the taxes on >> You're going to pay those taxes anyway. >> Correct. >> Right. So, and this is this is a plan to help save the FICA taxes that you would be charged when you get that cash payout from the district. So, you are saving, you're getting an extra $3,000 in that payout, and it is deferred, but it's only deferred as long as you want it to be deferred, right? So once it's available for you to withdraw at no fee to withdraw that, you could roll it into another 403b. If you have a different account that you want to put it into, you could take the cash >> and you would get charged those taxes at that time. >> But I'll be I would not be able to withdraw until I'm 59 or 55, right? >> No. Immediately. >> 55.
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We could go ahead and just make the adjustment and send it out. So, it's it's really more those kind of minor errors that may occur. um because somebody was missed. We've checked it and we've checked it, rechecked it, but anytime you have that many names, sometimes there's an error. >> Yeah. Do you have that? >> No, you can do it. I just want to make sure that you have the verbiage. Okay. I'll take a second. >> I second. >> All in favor? I >> I. Motion carries. >> Five to zero. Okay. Just making sure I listen for everybody. Okay. Um so now we're to information and discussion items. Um 9.1 discussion and information on the formal adoption of early literacy supplement reading first read. >> All right. Well, uh good evening one more time. I'm going to go quickly through the first couple slides because you are quite familiar with them.
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So I think that um that should be corrected before the HPPA gets approved. Um that would be my thoughts. >> Okay, Claudia. >> No, I just I know that there was conflicting numbers um in the reports and I think that should we do need to have that clarified, right? I mean it was off by like 100,000 gallons I think. >> Right, Joan? Correct. Yes, that's correct. >> So, I mean, that's a significant right number. >> It is. And unfortunately, I haven't had an opportunity to talk with any of those that uh provided those figures to us. So, >> yeah. So, um Michael, I don't know. Maybe would it would it be Doug Douggey Doug Small that that Joe should talk to about those conflicting gallage >> about water and sewer? Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. Okay. and I did, but knowing what what he's been dealing with over the last >> Yeah.
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So that's where we stand today. And so I I think as we look at these options and engage in the conversation, what would be important to ground us would be these guiding questions. What is the impact on student learning? So we we put in 182 days for a reason for student learning, right? What is the impact of exams at the high school and what is the impact for our graduates and other considerations such as even grad party. Those are all things to consider. Uh so with that I just put um the June calendar over uh to the right and what you'll see is the original date of the 16th there and then I circled the 26th that is now our last day and I just wanted to put what it reads there. I don't know if this is like for me it's really blurry. I should be wearing like readers right now and I'm not.
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Uh Russell mentioned that it is and can incentivize students. Um but I'd like to see if there's an opportunities for us to introduce or to start to introduce making that uh eligibility portion of it. Possibly a C or higher as opposed to a D to an F. Uh and making that the standard as opposed to must have a know there's probably instances where we have to review policy or handbook or whatever it may be. and ultimately have a really very um open conversation with the with the parents and community is that yes, while we do love being at games, we do love seeing winning. We do love seeing the opportunity to to let our children shine, but these are also ambassadors for the schools when it comes to things like finding they have been involved with drugs or they're being cited for these types of things and that opportunity.
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