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>> Gotcha. But it's facilitated by dees >> but it would be facilitated by dees. Yeah. Okay. So and and dees I did speak to my counterpart in dees. DEES has not filed an official position but they are taking the unofficial position again of neutral with concerns. So we are we are trying to um work with the department of economic security and make sure that we're all on the um on the same page here with this bill. >> And this is board member Bob. I did have a question um to clarification on what you just said Mike uh regarding the fiscal piece from the grant. Um so the money is that open to different bids and then see which one receives it? Is it that kind of process? >> Yes, board member both it would be that kind of a a process. So dees would issue a request for proposals and then um individual uh agencies or other um care providers would apply for listening and spoken language.
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So, um, uh, you you will notice that there is one librarian position on page two that would be moving over to classroom site fund that would take that position out of M, but it would allow us to keep that position. Well, why do I want to keep it at one site? Two of our elementary schools, Diamond Back and Sunrise, will have three classrooms at each grade level. For us to maintain a a planning time, a common prep time for those classrooms uh for those teachers at least three days a week. I need three specials. I need places for those three classrooms of students to go so those three teachers can meet together and do planning and do the things we want them to do. Okay. At the other three sites, we need four specials because we have four at least four classrooms at each grade level.
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that that's you know sufficient where I think if you go by the 1x8 our 289 gets us somewhere around 36 trees in the parking area and obviously you can see from the plans you know we kind of far exceed that already. So sometimes this flexibility to allow a condition like this where it's just not appropriate to put the trees there or they're going to die or be shaded by the forest to the left already. So, let's put them somewhere more functional or which again we've kind of already done with this distribution of trees proposed in the main parking court. >> So, what I'm hearing Jasmine say is moving those four is counter to the whole point of having them be integrated in the parking lot. What I'm hearing the applicant say is having those four there doesn't quite work for the design of the parking and the snow removal.
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Okay. And then I have a follow-up question. Yes. >> To ask. Um is Is ASDB able to apply at that point? Um I just I don't know if that's a clear question, but >> no, it's a very crystal clear question and um as of right now, yes, we could apply. Um so if the if the bill goes through, I would certainly encourage ASDB to be applying for that grant funding because we do have um certified teachers. >> Yeah. Again, there's so many unknowns about how it would work with dees. Intergovernmental agreements would need to be reviewed. Policy procedures would need to be reviewed. It's it just doesn't Yeah, it's very >> any other further. >> Okay. So, Maria, you need a um you would like us to make a position. I I'm I'm respectfully requesting that the board um permit me to enter a position on this bill.
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Art, music, PE. And for those two sites, something that is the equivalent of library. So for Desert Valley, we have a librarian. Move that over to uh move that over to um classroom site fund. So, it takes it out of M, but it still allows us to have the four specials. For the middle school and the junior high who have not had librarians, um, they could either have keep a CTE position, so they had art, music, PE, and CTE, or have art, music, and two PE classes to give them their four. So, they had lots of input into this decision making. Okay. Uh uh Fox Creek is uh opting to keep us the CTE and have only one PE class. Middle school is opting to have keep two PE and have art and music. So there's equity across our our uh six our five schools in terms of having the appropriate number of specials for the enrollment at that site and the number of classrooms.
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So to me, four trees can somehow creatively get a new home somewhere on the site that works for the applicant. I'm okay giving them up in that one little location. And I don't know if the solution is just don't plant the four. I mean, it's four trees. I'm not hearing enough of a case that we just get rid of the four and don't worry about them because there's other trees on the site. I say just find a different location for them. >> Yeah. given that the I mean when we when we make parking regulations for trees and parking lots, it's it's kind of taking into account that it's a sea of asphalt and you're trying to break that up. In this case, yes, it's a sea of asphalt, but the whole um what is it? Western edge of it, northern edge. um where the uh um where the retaining wall is is forested.
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>> Perfect. I will make a motion um to direct um you, Maria Murphy, to make a position on behalf of ASDB um on House Bill 2188 as a neutral with concerns. >> That would be my recommendation. as a neutral with concerns. Board member Bo, I second. Uh, we have a second. All in favor? I >> I. Motion carries. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Uh, that takes us down to 8.1. A call to the public on the non-aggenda items. We're remember both. You have them. Okay, it looks like we do have quite a few Um, it looks like the first one we have is Christine Hodgekin on the non-aggenda item of the move in closure. Hello.
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Um and um so that those are the that's the thought process that went into all of those pieces in terms of where you see that we are giving up classroom teachers. So for instance, Desert Valley is giving up two classroom teachers. That's because they are going from five sections at two grade levels down to four. Okay? From five sections down to four. So that that's two positions. uh and it happens in that case that those two positions are vacant right now anyway. Um that helps us in terms of the way it used to be. Uh but in terms of what they need, you will notice also on on the second page where we've moved some positions from one site to another. That's not eliminating or adding any positions. It's moving them because we have the need for those programs at a different site. So we're trading that position from one site to another.
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So um and trees are being planted along the early learning center. So yes, it's it's a lot of asphalt in the middle. I'm not sure. It helps to carve that up with a few trees actually. So um I guess I guess I would if if we're going to do that, I would I would want Becket away and like how useful is is that um I mean we're doing it other places but >> and it's also the west side of the swan so it's not like you are going to get crazy heat island effect there if it was south it's a different thing but that's also west of the property so >> that's going to be >> yeah so I don't know if it's a deal breaker technically >> all right Um, I think we're okay with the four trees. Can you find a home for them?
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Hello, good evening members of the board. My name is Christine Hodkinson. I am an alumni of ASDB. ASDB is my home. I'm a former employee and student. I am sad I made all my friends here. We need to protect my blind friends. >> I will miss all my blind and deaf blind friends. I'm feeling sad. >> Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next we have Crystal Allen on the cluster sites and closing of the school. >> It's a little loose. >> I'll fix it when she gets here. to see. Okay, hold on. My bad. I'm recording for my parents. Okay, I'm fine. Sorry. Um, so hi, my name is Crystal Allen. I am a student. I am a junior here at ASDB. I am visually impaired and I would like to tell you how it was for me at public school. I was not born visually impaired.
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Um uh and then every department every department is taking a hit. I can't just say we're eliminating teacher positions but gee we're not keeping uh that we're keeping all of the positions at the district or we're keeping all of the positions in transportation. So you see that uh we are eliminating four bus driver positions. Okay. Um fewer students, fewer buses needed. Okay. This would still leave us with a bus driver for each of our bus routes. Uh because we anticipate needing the same bus routes, maybe one less next year, but probably the same. and having two substitute drivers. Um, so that we have less likelihood of things like this year when we have to put out notice to parents at 6:30 in the morning that a bus route has been cancelled. We have not had enough people this year to have substitutes most of the time.
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>> Sure. >> Can you plant them somewhere else? >> Yeah, we can. We have a whole backyard to plant them. >> Okay. >> Just don't have enough island space in our in our parking lot. >> All right, let's let's let's look that we find them at a nice little house somewhere else. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um, okay. I see waiver approval required at 70. What is that one? Um, oh, that's the 50 ft again. Sorry. That's the same uh same re site relief on that tricky corner. Um, I don't see anything on the next page. And then I have the drainage report that goes from pages 14 to 20, which is yeah, got even more technical. Um, but looks like it was fully resolved. >> Did you see anything that we >> nope >> missed? I didn't I didn't take that. >> So the DPW ones.
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I became visually impaired when I was 12 years old. Um, which I was in elementary during the time and um, they did not know how to help me whatsoever. I was going to tell you how I was for middle school cuz that was when I was getting the help but not the full help I was getting. But when I was freshly becoming visually impaired in elementary school, I did not get help whatsoever. I did not have a on andm director. I did not have a braille teacher. I had nothing. The teachers would not give me work or help me with anything. I had to sit there and do absolutely nothing. Um, people would look at me like I was a weird person. People would talk and whisper about me behind my back. They would go to my siblings and talk trash about me in elementary school.
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Uh, and that's why we've had to cancel some of those routes. So, I want to make sure that we do have somebody who's available, that we have two somebody's available. Um and and they would still have tasks and they would still you know they would still have other things to do but when we needed them as a sub the other things that they are doing are set aside for that day so that they can drive bus. Um uh we have uh currently four people in uh the technology department. Dropped enrollment, fewer teachers, less equipment, less need for personnel. drop one computer position from four to three. Um, uh, one that was not on the table originally is the public information officer position. Um, u, Lance's position is a part-time position. Now, it's a 6625. Um, but he's decided to retire as you've already noticed in the consent agenda.
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>> Yes. So what's remaining is the DPW questions which we'll have to go to them. What would >> So the first one I think is 67 that may have been the only one. >> Okay. All right. So, um, so it looks like we got through this, which was the big thing that we were looking for. Um, obviously, we're not going to be going through the decision yet tonight, but all of this will be everything that's we talked about being conditioned will be conditioned in the um in the decision. As I said, we're going to have to go back and look at the changes made um relative to I don't know if especially Anna and Deepa if they got a chance to look at that decision. It was just sent in the past couple days because with the changes on it, it differs significantly. It kind of from our typical decision.
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Then I went to middle school and I was all by myself. I did not have my siblings to support me or anything. Um, I got the&m I needed and the brow t-shirt that I needed, but I only saw them an hour every other week and only for one day. Um, I would not use my cane, nor would I use brow because I thought that being visually impaired was something embarrassing. You shouldn't show it. So, I try to hit hide it as much as I possibly can cuz it was a insecurity for me. I would um hide inside the bathrooms. I would not like to go to class and show people that I had a disability. Then I finally got in trouble for that. Anyways, that's not important. Um, I would also have an aid inside every class, but they did not know how to help me, nor did they ask me what did I need to get my work done.
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And uh so that gives me an opportunity to eliminate a position um uh to put that on this list and help us with our budget. Um have I missed anybody? Oh uh the two uh Diamondback and Sunrise at um have one has anticipated enrollment of 350 for next year and the other 300. One of the options uh recommended uh by uh in the brainstorming by the leadership team including the assistant principles was to combine uh have one assistant principal for the two ele those two elementaryaries. Is it preferable? No. Is it justified? Yes. Okay. Um uh crossing guard position. It's a halftime position. It's not a hugely expensive position, but when you're cutting a million dollars, every little bit helps. We have maybe five students who cross at that crossing on a daily basis. Pretty hard to justify that position for five kids. Okay. Um, uh, Life Academy has had two teachers and four parents for some time now.
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Um, and I'm not sure we're ready to do that on a whim versus >> I think it was just a different way to put it, a different format. So if I may if I may madam chair through you just to explain. So I drafted the decision and then I sent it to Matt Eckle and he and I worked together to get the draft that is before you now. >> Matt Eckle is the applicants um attorney. >> So uh we work together on this draft and it is very untypical to go through every single criteria and answer it individually. It makes for a very long decision and the conditions are really where you're holding weight in a decision. So to go through in each criteria and say individually and answer it, yes, you've met it instead of answering it as a whole at the end of a section is just very unique.
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They would just sit there beside me embarrassing me even further. Um, I would get looked at differently and it just got to the point that I would go home and start crying honestly. Then I got told about ASB and my parents talked to me and they're like, "Hey, you going to be living in the dorms?" Cuz I lived in I live in Maricopa, which is really far and they told me that I was going to live in the dorms and I was just like, "Oh, okay." At first I was scared cuz I was not going to be with my family or anything like that. So I again didn't have the support. So I was scared and new school. So um but I came here and my first report card came and I was I had A's and B's. I was passing and I cried in front of my dad because I was so happy cuz at my old school I was failing all my classes.
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Um uh we want to keep the two teachers because we need a a general ed teacher and a sped teacher in there but have only two pairs u one general ed pair and one sped pair. So one of those uh general ed positions would go away. The other one would the one of the sped positions would have gone away except we anticipate even more preschool special needs students next year than we have this year. And you remember from last month the huge numbers that that um uh Kate talked about in our preschool. We anticipate more. We can accommodate those with at least to start the year with a parah an additional parah. So that's a transfer. That's just a transfer of a par position from life academy to preschool. So that's not a plus or a minus. It's a break even. um uh at district um we have people in our business office each of those people has uh responsibilities that USFR says only uh that they can't cross over that we can't have them sharing uh you know doing two two jobs.
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