I had lots of errors. Each year it's gotten less because I've learned more. Number one, and I learned how to interpret what these things mean. So, um uh um it's part of the puzzle. Um but yeah, and and you're not expected to know all of that stuff. Nobody else is expected to know. The whole the whole reason why I brought this up is because when we get to that auditor's report, it's going to be interesting to see. Yes. Because I wanted you guys to know that that's what the auditor was talking about. Okay, good questions, Melinda. Just trying to be educational here. Well, and I'm sorry you asked me the time and I told you how to make a watch, so I'm sorry. I I enjoy carried away listening to watches being made. Okay. Sometimes. Okay. Can we go to the disciplinary incidents? Do you want the summary?
um is you see this here everything in blue is uh accessible uh per code. That is not to say that the red or pink uh is not usable, right? And I say that um specifically here uh this area here is just slightly out of compliance. So, you know, you think about some of the folks that that are pushing strollers or or or however um they're using that space. There may still be an option, you know, where they they would prefer to just go up a little bit of a steeper hill. Um but either way, uh we've continued the the walk all the way along Memorial Drive with a fully accessible walk into the site. Um and then this is your path if you were going to that Nature's Edge area but not going to the YMCA. So, so just to um reiterate um if say you're in a wheelchair um you can follow the blue path and it be a perfectly accessible route >> but it's longer so you might choose the pink path if you're up for it.
And, uh, you know, hopefully this time next year, we continue to inch along with this. This is, uh, this is a marathon, right? Race, you got to pace yourself. It's not a not a sprint. um you know over multiple budget cycles we hope to improve as we're able to bring in more resources to support the kids at scale. Um what I know about the team is that we have a lot of expertise to apply and to support. It's scaling that having enough people to do the work um over the course of the year is is at the heart of kind of where we'd like to see this go. Um, so again, more not the first conversation we'll have on curriculum or programming or the work that we're doing and and certainly not the last this year. So, um, you could certainly follow up with with myself or anyone else.
They will present us with their findings and recommendations and we will have to address um and make changes according to their recommendations. We are getting ready for that because we do have some idea, some sense of what that feedback is going to look like. We expect that we will be working with the state legislature next year in 2027 because again the question of the continuity of ASDB our continued operations will be brought before the state legislature again. So we are preparing for that conversation as well and then we have our succession planning to consider. We will be starting that soon because I am currently in my last three-year contract with ASDB and I am doing my absolute best to set the agency up for future success. To conclude, I would like to introduce our leaders. Um, one board member asked me who all of these people are, who are our leaders.
Uh yeah, this one. Why is Why is there yellow on my sheet? Uh I don't know. It's pink on my sheet but yellow on. It's preschool. Okay. Uh it may be there because this is the first time. Okay. That we have included preschool discipline report. Okay. uh the state decided that for our preschool uh disability or our preschool program that we now must report disciplinary incidents from our preschool. Why did they not show up in the total? Uh because I I don't know. I'm guessing because Jenny used the spreadsheet that I developed, added those rows, and didn't put the formulas in to add them in. 104. I'm guessing that that's the reason. Yeah. So, am I seeing this right? Seventh grade has had no issues. Uh, no. That does not look right to Oh, at the middle school they wouldn't we don't have any seventh graders.
>> Yeah. And you know accessible route is like 5% I forget and you know Andy kick me if I'm like way off. I think this is like six or seven. So it's not like it's a 20% grade. It's just a little bit out of compliance. So, absolutely. And when we think about, you know, the the Hoy um strollers and and folks that might be coming off of Trolley Brook to be running, they they may, you know, these are people running marathons, they may not even notice, right? Um but we do have a compliant route, but also um some kind of uh path of least resistance routes. We also um added back, we had originally had this um >> this sidewalk over here and then had taken it out when we recognized that Dunkin Donuts didn't have a walk. And then I think through conversations it was uh brought up that you know it doesn't really matter because kids are going to come up there.
Um, and more than happy to help more than happy to help unpack some of the data that you saw today. Okay, Al, as a since you opened, I might look to you to to close us up if you're okay with that.
So I would like to ask um those leaders to come up to the microphone here and introduce yourselves please. So asking for the principles, directors, all of our uh leaders um director of operations as well our executive directors come on up and please take turns introducing yourselves. >> Good evening. Oh, good evening. My name is Albert Duff and I'm the director of operations. >> Good evening. I'm Kim Bitrich, director of business services. >> Good evening again. My name is Jason Lenn. I'm the director of itinerate services currently. >> Good evening, board of directors. I'm Paul Crey. I'm the executive director of IT. Good evening, board of directors. My name is Maria Murphy and I'm the director of policy and government relations. Sorry. Hi everybody. I'm Lisa Yankarelli and I'm the director of blind programs. >> Good evening. My name is Anita Payet. I'm the executive director of human resources.
Well, we do, but they didn't have they're in special ed, but they they didn't have any incidents. Thank goodness. Right. Same when you look at Fox Creek and you see some fifth grade and sixth grade. There are fifth or sixth graders at Fox Creek in uh at least one of those programs, but they didn't have any discipline. Okay, that explains that. Okay, so what can a preschool student do to get on the disciplinary chart? I I would ask Kate because this is so new. What did this child do? Well, I guess yeah, I guess there's two of them. Yeah. I mean, is it We have to we have to identify removals. That's what AD wants to see is when we remove a student from the setting in which they're supposed to be in for their IEP. So if we take a preschooler, we put them in timeout in my office for a little bit, that's considered a removal, right?
So if we can capture them once they enter our site then let's do that. And so that's what we've done here. >> And there's also a full sidewalk along the street now. Is that >> uh to our property line there's not a site there's this is the corner of Dunkin Donuts. They do not have a sidewalk >> in front of the YMCA. Not in front of Yep. All the way here. Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> On that map. Sorry. on the map that on or the picture on the top. Can you Yeah. Is it possible to indicate just with your mouse like where that property line is? >> I think it's somewhere like right here. >> Okay. >> It's not a ton. I think if if Dunkin Donuts was interested in putting or the town putting a sidewalk here, that's not overwhelming. The issue is on the other side of this drive aisle between there and the crosswalk.
>> If there if no if no one has any questions, uh I'll entertain a motion to >> Well, I would just like to I would just like to say that uh the present >> Oh, you went on mute, Glattus. >> Okay. That uh I said earlier the presentation was great. It's a lot of information to um of sort if you're a new board member anything and I would encourage our new board members to really read your material and not depend on the answer that someone else gives you your in your minutes everything that you needs to know want to ask a question and you can always call someone and I know that they always take your telephone call and answer your question read your material so with that Oh, did someone take minutes? >> Take minutes. Anybody take minutes? >> Oopsie. All right. So, we're going to have to figure out We're going to have need some minutes for this, I'm sure.
Good evening, board of directors. My name is Paul Saunders. I'm principal for the ASDB Tucson campus. Hello. Good evening. My name is Sarah Barbara and I am currently the director for special education here at ASDB. >> Are you hearing or deaf? >> Hello. Good evening. My name is Michael Olivier and I am the organizational development division director. Hello all. My name is Sabra Taylor and I am principal for PDSD campus. Hello. Good evening. My name is Kendra Benedict and I am director of the early learning program. >> Are you hearing? Thank you.
Um and so they want to see that. So, we um you know, we have some students that are having a hard time using nice hands, um making appropriate body choices with their peers in class, um things of that nature. So, um we now are having to document all of those removals when they come to my office or Miss Alberta's office to sit Mr. 's office or Miss Brookke um at their sites um so that we are tracking better what these students are doing and what we're doing um to so basically the discipline is growing up discipline it's typical behavior if it's a typical behavior of a three four or 5year-old that's in preschool at the Canyon they don't have that referral right but these are the ones that are more extreme behaviors where other students are probably getting harmed med or teachers um are getting harmed in the process.
There's a transformer and some infrastructure that makes it a little bit harder. >> No, totally get it. But I appreciate it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Wonderful. Okay. Uh I'm almost done. I'm trying to be quick for you all. Um and then this there was a question about what you would see from the retaining walls. We do have a couple of sizable retaining walls. What's important to note is we will be the site will be at the top of those retaining walls. Um and then again there's that dense forest um layer between there and where any visual um connection would be. So really what you'll see is um is something like this. I think this is actually from the high school where they have a retaining wall. So, it's just, you know, a fence um along the top of the wall for safety and uh they're basically not visible at all.
Um I'm sure we can help with some of that. How about that? >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Well, I'm good. If you're all good and >> good. >> That's the case, then. Good night and thank you. >> Thanks everyone. Thank you.
>> Good evening everyone. My name is Rosetta Hicks and I am the director for region two. Good evening. My name is Greer Martin Parish and I am the director for itinerant programs region one. Hello, good evening. My name is Scott Madson and I am the director of career and technical education. Hello, my name is Jennifer Scarboro and I'm director of deaf programs. Thank you. That is our ASDB leadership team and I recommend that you vote to approve their contracts for the next year. I would not ra make that recommendation if I did not have complete confidence in every single one of them. These leaders have the knowledge, the expertise, the skill, the experience, and they are a strong leadership team. We need them. We need them to lead this agency into the future.
Um if it's a typical developmentally appropriate behavior, nothing we just we go about our business. But these are for the more extreme circumstances where we do have to kind of review a child for a little while um for the safety of themselves and the safety of others in the classroom until they can reset and we can put them back in class. Thank you. Thank you. I just was very curious as how they got on this disciplinary list and okay so it's just a simple developmental timeout so okay um I think this one is for Jen there was a there was an 80 site visit okay that that can be when we do administrative reports is that part of her report. Finish mine. Well, don't don't get away. I'm not getting a book. No, I want to know about it. So, for mine, uh for mine, uh these reports, the one thing I did want to add for you as an update because this was such good news this week, uh our child care center, uh has now received two more two more scholarships from First Things First.
>> And these red areas are where we have those those conditions. And we're when you talked a few slides back about there being like a 30 foot um raid drop to that wetlands in that little weird corner section. >> Yeah. >> Is that just going to be hill right there or is there going to be some sort of retaining wall there as well? >> No, it it um it will it will just remain as is. That's actually all on the on the neighbor's property. It's existing forested area, but it drops down pretty fast. >> Okay. So, it's just going to be like grass on the YMCA side or >> Oh, yeah. Yep. >> and then just >> goes into the woods and then downhill. >> Yep. Yep. >> Got it. Don't kick soccer balls down there. Got it. >> Yeah. You don't want to be playing soccer right here.
So, I will take any questions that you may have at this time. I see no questions. Thank you so much. >> I think right now is a good time to take about a 15minute break and we will come back here at 5:30. 5:30. There we go. Sorry. All right. It's 5:30 now. We're returning from our brief break and we are at 1.5 information item. Assistant Superintendent of Agency Operations and Support Services, Assistant Superintendent Cooper. Oh, I'm I'm just my brain. I'm so sorry. But before her report, um I was informed that Jason Lily, um board member both was able to pull up the numbers that you had previously asked for. And I'd like to bring him up so he can share the numbers with you. >> Uh thank you for letting me come back up. Um in in region one uh which is northern Arizona we have 110 deaf and heart of hearing students that we're currently serving 74 blind and low vision students that we're currently serving.
and also uh another uh uh increase in funding from I think it's from dees from dees um uh for so it allows us allows us to offer some to some of our employees who uh who did not have the you know the ability to put their children in our child care center uh so uh perhaps four more children can join our child care uh for from our employees So, uh, we're we're pretty excited about that, especially happening anywhere in the middle of the year as opposed to the beginning of the year. So, uh, that's a celebration for this week. Sorry, I didn't No, no, it's okay. I should have put a divider. No. And, uh, so that's my only update for uh, for that stuff. And I It was nice to have good news. That's kind of neat. It's very neat. Yeah. And it's nice that some other people can take care or take advantage of our daycare.