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All these issues with concerning drainage have have been resolved and have been closed out. That was just regarding a little over prep apron at the end of a pipe which we were which we've removed. And were all these end comments or those uh ones that were was that part of um >> these are all concom's approval? >> Were they a part of concom or things that the >> things that they went through with concomrainage and >> I whatever >> no >> whatever has been approved for drainage with conservation would be reflected in these comments from Mike Carter. >> Okay. Yeah. I mean the um concom >> Yeah, there was a concurrent there was a concurrent um review for for drainage for storm water and drainage that was being done by GCG for both planning and conservation. So conservation Monday that they're >> yeah conservation gets the same reviews that we do we do.
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Uh, I continue to have some concerns about the bill and at this point I think what I would like is for the board to uh be able to allow us to take an official position on the bill so that we can continue to work with Whough and so that we can continue to advocate with members of the Senate to hopefully see some continued changes. Um, I have Dr. Kendra Benedict here to discuss some of the reasons why uh we have concerns. If you would like me to bring Dr. Benedict up, >> I would like to hear this. >> Okay. Dr. Benedict, >> do you have a question? This is board member Buchanan. Actually, before Kendra gets up here, Maria, um obviously you said that there's concerns that Kendra Benedict is going to address. Um would it be should we ask what your recommendation would be before this and then we can hear the information supporting from >> Certainly.
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And uh and then of course then it means that we need them to push them as opposed to just not have not have much skin in the game, if you will. So it's just a it's actually two different things. What she's saying is two different things. But the thing is, you know, we have representatives from Bullhead from this area. Yes. That can actually submit bills. So, you know, maybe some of us should be getting good at writing bills and get somebody to at least submit it to committee. Chat GPT will tell us how to do it. That's right. Yeah, there you go. You could do that. Anyway, sorry. Sorry. I got on my soap opera or soap opera. Soap box. I'm having a soap opera that situation. Uh that was first reading. Just No, that's that was 6.3. Uh 6.3. We're not doing any action on that until next month.
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Yes. >> But they are looking obviously of things that are in their right >> purview and it was approved I believe. Okay. So, and then there are a few things in here. Deep, did you see anything else or anyone else that um >> there are the DPW related? >> That's what I was going to say. There's DPW related things. I the fire uh police and fire are all resolved. Is that right? >> Yes. Yes. >> Um >> and then the 70 I guess it's the same landscape buffer that we're talking about here. I think >> um what is this? Yeah, that's I think that's 70, right? 70 is the same >> buffer, >> but what about 68? 68 um is looking for trees in the parking area. Um so if I un and I may have gotten this wrong, but what I think happened is that was going to be the snow area, then they paved it, which created 26 more spaces.
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Um so most state agencies do not file official positions unless it is one of their own bills that they are trying to advocate for. So like obviously if um our third party financing bills had had preceded we would be filing a position on that um because this is something that really affects dees more than um necessarily ASDB. were were sort of affected adjacent. Um my recommendation would be that we file a neutral position and filing a neutral position means that we are not advocating for it. We are not advocating against it but it would allow us to say hey we have some concerns and we can put those concerns on the record in the request to speak system and we can share those concerns with individual legislators. So that would be my recommendation is neutral with concerns. >> Okay. Thank you. And I'm sure is Kendra going to be sharing the concerns >> specific specific questions or >> um >> can I explain anything for you?
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Uh 6.4 for ASBA recommendation to change policy de DIE audits and financial monitoring first reading. We talked about this in workshop. Um it was nothing more than just removing a date as far as I could figure out and I so you know read it again and see if there's any kind of discussion and we'll we'll talk about it next time. 6.5 use of insurance proceeds. This is interesting. Yeah, madame president and board members um uh Arizona financial um regulations USFR um allows us to use uh insurance proceeds. So if we file uh an insurance claim and then we get, you know, for something that's been broken or damaged or whatever, um and we get those proceeds. Okay. Well, we've probably already fixed or replaced or done whatever we needed to do with that uh with that situation, but then we get the insurance proceeds and they have to go into a separate budget.
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So, because there's 26 more spaces, then technically we could ask for four more trees. Am I understanding that correctly? >> That sounds reasonable. >> So, is someone from the YMCA can explain that one to us? We're on 68 where it says board approval required for 68 about trees in the parking area. It's look, it looks like GC is >> I mean, I I guess I guess I I understand. And I feel like we're getting we're getting punished for doing what we were asked to do. But if it's going to take four trees, we'll make it a condition and we'll add four trees to that parking lot. It's not a big deal. >> Does it have to be that parking lot though or can it just be like >> That's the intent is to break up the pavement. So that's why it's specified how many trees per pave per parking space because it's meant to not have an an island of parking.
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I mean, I don't want to speak for my fellow board members, but um specifically looking over this bill, I mean, Maria, I kind of outlined exactly what you know, this is dees mostly, but obviously we have a 0 to3 and 0 to five ASIP that kind of thing. So this is so I guess like what what specifically would this bill as written compel us to do currently? So and that's my concern because it's not very clear. The way it's written right now does not follow IDEIDA part C um processes that we have currently set up in Arizona. Currently, anyone can make a referral for any child, a neighbor, a parent, a doctor, makes a referral to ASIP and then if there's a concern that there is a hearing or vision concern with that child, then all of those referrals come to ASDB. We determine it's in our intergovernmental agreement with ASP and in our six state agency intergovernmental agreement with DHS DCS all of them that that we decide ASDB decides eligibility and eligibility for part C is much simpler than part B.
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Okay, so remember a few minutes ago we were talking about budget 01. Okay, totally separate budget called insurance proceeds. Totally different fund 550 money goes in there. So right now we have about $22,000 in there. We can use them according to uh the law and USFR. We can use them to construct, acquire, improve, repair, or furnish school property. Well, we have some things that need to be repaired in our district that don't qualify for SFD. Okay. Or that I have not budgeted for in our in our capital budget. So, um, uh, USFR and the law says I just have to ask your permission to let me spend that money, uh, for, um, these kinds of things. So, I'm asking for your permission to let me spend that budget or the money in that budget, some of it, um, uh, for some replacements or repairs in our district that we either have not already budgeted for or uh, SFD will not pay for.
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That's the intent. I I don't see the need for that. And just seeing the winter we just had like those I just those 26 spots along that back row aren't going to be enough to hold all the snow for this huge parking lot between you know if you're if you're trying to store all the snow in that one spot um from all 289 spaces um that's be really tough if it's a winter like we just had. I think it's just to prevent heat islands, it is quite a bit of >> but if you start jamming all the snow into those trees like >> I mean I'd rather if it didn't have to be in that that's I mean it's also if I'm if I'm not wrong that's up against the um what is it that called the retaining wall is going to be right on the other side of that right >> correct >> do we have a planting drawing.
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It is simply is there the presence of a hearing issue or a vision issue there. There's nothing else. Okay. So typically, unless it was just a an error in the referral, children qualify. And then this is so this is what the language the way it reads now is confusing because it says that all referrals that come in would be given to the sent to the listening spoken language providers for listening and spoken language and ASDB for visual language. So my question is then who's determining eligibility? Because it doesn't clarify that. It doesn't say after it comes to us for eligibility then that those that referral goes out. Also as ASDB we do have providers that do listening and spoken language. We as ASDB have a responsibility to teach parents all of their options and support them in whatever it is that they are wanting to whatever approach to language acquisition they are wanting to take with their child.
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Does everybody understand what this is all about? I'm glad that was explained to me because I thought, why are we talking about this? Um, so I need a motion to approve using the insurance proceeds to construct, acquire, improve, repair, or furnish school property. I'll make a motion that we use the um insurance proceeds. Is there a second? Second it. All those in favor? I Melinda Subski. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene Diaz. I Barb, I Sheila Barnett. Item 6.6. I've kind of kind of sad about this. Um, you want to explain it to us? Sure. Um, excuse me. Uh if you all recall last month I indicated to you uh and shared some data with you about um uh anticipated budget for next year and said at the time that I had already been meeting with uh leadership team and directors um uh to u try to determine some ways that we could cut um approximately a million dollars out of our M budget and um and cut some fund cut some planned funding out of capital um uh that is funded for us through the district uh additional assistance um and uh that I would be bringing a plan to you this month.
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Have we seen that? We had a design review board who did that, but >> I think this is the >> Yeah, in one of her slides earlier, she mentioned how like the front row only had to have >> x number of trees, but they really have 49, you know, across the front. >> Um, and some other notes like that. So, there's a bunch of trees. I'm just saying in these specific areas where this snow piece is supposed to be, I think it'd be weird to try to force the four trees into that specific space. >> And I think that's why the number of parking spot calculation is important. Um, do we have more than what we need? >> You mean total trees? >> No parking spots. I think he was saying, "Do we have >> more parking spots than we need?" >> Yeah. In that ELC area, he mentioned earlier that they only needed >> 30 or 40.
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And so my concern is once the a referral comes in the path just isn't clear. I I I don't know what what what the path would would be and so therefore I I can't comment on that. Do I think this is good or not? I I have concerns. >> So, but out outside of the path of eligibility, um what other concerns would we have as a birth to three provider? My concern would be that when a parent hears that their child is deaf for the first time, when the child is a few days or weeks or months old and they are told they can go to the school for the deaf or somebody who can teach them to listen and speak, 99% of them are going to go to the people who say they can teach them to listen and speak. That is my biased concern.
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Uh I have met three times. Uh we've had long meetings three times with the leadership team brainstorming and then discussing uh ways to uh cut a million dollars out of our M budget. Um and then uh I worked the numbers and that's one reason that I have this you know as my example to you for the entire M budget. uh and then met twice with the directors uh to talk about okay here here are some things we can do here's what uh here's what it does for us. Uh this was an unpleasant task. Okay. For years, we have had uh we've either had additional grant funding or we've had um you know the COVID money that we had um uh or we had um uh some cushion in the budget because uh I had to hold back money in case AEAL was not approved or whatever.
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>> Yeah. 30. Yeah. Exactly. And they have actually 89 over there. But of those 89, 26 are that um snow section kind of where his hand is right there going up and down that whole west side. I think that's the west. >> I thought that was the snow section and now it is not. Now it's parking spaces and snow, >> but they're going to be putting the snow there when it comes down is what they're saying. >> Happens to Yeah, we have we have a new we have a new snow storage area to not overlap with that. >> Yeah, that was part of that response from GCG is to actually not use that as snow storage and use it as parking. And then so we were proposing to push the snow over the far side of the curb. Yeah. There. And then along um some of the other areas in the parking lot, the the bigger parking lot um where we have um space between trees and and shrubs that aren't going to get impacted by that.
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I'll be very honest. My that is my my concern where we as an agency have like I said an obligation to tell parents about all of their choices. And then there will be some children, this is in the research now, this isn't news, children who do start out trying to learn listening and spoken language and not ASL. And by the time they're five years old and that window closes and they haven't been able to develop those skills, now we're starting all over again and that window's closed. We can still teach them, of course, but they're not going to have the outcomes that they would have had they developed a full language foundation during birth to five. Um I I appreciate your you sharing your you say biased opinion but as um I mean I myself am a hearing person and I did have a deaf blind child um and so I know intricately how that does work through the ASIP referral and through doctor's offices and things like that and that some doctors absolutely do push for listening only.
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Um, and if we needed to cut positions, we've been able in the past to do it to cut positions where people had either resigned or retired. Okay. Um, but cutting a million dollars from an $18 million budget is drastic. And so it's been a uh they've been uncomfortable and uh unpleasant conversations uh because because we needed to talk about programs, we needed to talk about services and we needed to talk about personnel. When you start talking about people who are part of your uh school family, it becomes very difficult. At the beginning, I said to the teams when we met, as difficult as it is, I need you to brainstorm where we can trim without hurting our kids and think not about individual people, not about the people in positions because as you know about 75% of our budget of our M budget is salaries and benefits.
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I mean, I think the reality to your point, I mean, that would be a great spot to put the snow in winters like this, right? And I think extreme measures um may happen when there are um situations like that. Um but yeah, the goal is, you know, to just take it off the parking lot altogether since those are now considered parking spaces. >> They're parking spaces because you were asked to do that to add parking spaces. >> We we can't hear you. >> Who suggested you to do the parking spaces? >> Parking spaces. So GCG had suggested, we had shown an area that was the size of 26 spaces and proposed it to be unlined so that we could use it for snow storage. And GCG had suggested that if we were going to pave it, we might as well line it. And so we tried to find a new spot for snow storage.
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So I do share that biased as you stated concern but as someone that sits on this board that is a concern. Language acquisition is our job here. >> Yeah. Like communication we need to have a language and communication. I have no bias toward either one. Correct. >> Families need need the option. >> Yes. They need the option for sure. But language acquisition is very it's that's what we do. Yeah. >> So absolutely. Uh thank you. My questioning is over. Um anybody else? This is Linda. I have a question for information for some of us. Um, what what is LSL? >> Listening spoken language. Um, this is Linda Bose speaking by the way. Um, LSL is that um, >> that's a good question. >> I just want to clarify that one concept. Yes, I'm glad you asked that question because people use ASL and LSL in the same sentence which I think is misleading because ASL is not a language.
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