Members, any questions or discussion? >> That's right. And then thank you. And the committee report will also note the committee's reluctance to rely on giving away free money to developers to stimulate housing construction and the need to focus on more fiscally sustainable programs that compensate the state and its taxpayers appropriately for their investment. All right. Any further discussion or questions? >> Um question or clarification. So you're are you cleaning the date or is still defective date? >> There will still be a defective date. We'll just adopt DOTA tax's um suggestion of an effective date to provide s sufficient time to make necessary form and instructional changes. >> Understood. Thank you, chair. >> Thank you. >> Further questions? Okay. If not for HB2385, chair's recommendation is to pass with amendments. Chair votes eye. >> Members, chair recommendations to pass with amendments. Chair votes. Any members voting with reservations?
I think I speak for the board >> in that regard. >> Okay. Next item on the agenda would be item u the consent agenda, which is our our items 2.1 through 2.3. Are there any items in the consent agenda that any member of the board would like to take out and vote on independently? If not, then can we have a motion to um >> I'll move to approve the consent agenda as is. >> As is a second from Margaret, a motion from Mike, a second from Margaret. All in favor say I. >> I. That looked to be unanimous.
Any members voting no without others voting? I recommendations adopted. Thank you for HB2515 HD2 relating to workforce housing. Chair's recommendation will be to pass this measure with amendments. We'll adopt OHA's amendment to include the chairperson of the board of trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs as a member of the advisory council in section 4 subsection B. We'll also adopt HHFTC's suggestion to expand the waiver authority to include certain state approval processes including um the state historic preservation division and department of health to maximize program impact and um in the committee report we'll further note the appropriation request of $1 million. Do we have any other questions or discussion members? If not for HB2515 chair's recommendation will be to pass with amendments. Chair votes eye. Members, sharers, recommendations is passed with amendment. Share votes I any members voting with reservations. Any members voting no without others voting I.
Next item on the agenda is Thank you, Dr. Wright. Let me never mind. That's all right. That was that was years of trained response. >> I've been called Mr. >> Um we I'm sorry not to butt in, but as part of our new hires, we have one of our new hires in the audience tonight. >> Um >> we we have new hires coming up in 3.1. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I'm I'm jumping ahead. >> That's all right. That's we would like the new hires to stand up. Go ahead now. Take over. >> Okay. Hey, we want to welcome Trudy Foen. She's our >> Hi, Trudy. >> You know what? She started up at our uh district office receptionist here. We absolutely love her. She's uh she's a sweetheart. She is a bright shining light and she's she's really good already. She She was a quick learn.
Recommendations adopted. >> Thank you for house bill 1724 HD2 relating to HHFDC. Chair's recommendation will be to pass this measure with amendments to further defect the date. We'll also take SMAS's technical non-substantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
So, we're happy to have Trudy join us up there. So, thanks Trudy for coming tonight, too. >> I want to know who's the hardest one to work with on that. Take that off the record. I'm just kidding. I don't think of her as being that. >> All right. Thank you.
Are there any questions or discussion members? Okay. If not for HB 1724 HT2 chair's recommendation is to pass with amendments chair votes I >> members chair recommendations pass with amendment chair votes I any voting with reservations any members voting no without others voting I recommendations adopted >> thank you very much thank you all for your stamina and for your patience this hearing is ajourned
So, the next item on the agenda is a recommendation to approve the new hires as Trudy is one of those. So, we have a motion regarding 3.11 recommendation to approve the new hires as indicated. >> So, have a motion from Margaret. Have a second from Bridget. All in favor say I. >> I.
Any opposed? That also appears to be unanimous. Item 3.2 two recommendation to approve teachers and counselors contracts for the school year. Jonathan, do you want to take over? >> Yeah. Can I make a an amendment on that because um the counselors are grant funded and um a lot of their funding is based on um the school safety grant. So, what we would like to do is put their approval with make sure we get that grant funding because that's quite a bit of chunk of money when we're talking about being efficient. So before we uh we want to make sure we get that grant. So if we could amend that motion and do teachers now and then um non-certified administrators and counselors at a later meeting, but what we would like to do is we would like to talk about getting all of our teachers a raise this year.
Um is that appropriate to talk about at this time? >> That was attached. We had we were privy to that and and boy, anything positive is something to talk about. Yeah. >> Anything negative we'd want to talk about. Anything positive is >> Okay. Well, we've talked about enough negative tonight. So, we we excited to talk about the fact that we looked at the salaries.
And I I really want to thank Miss Hoffmire. She worked hard and is ringing out the dish rag to find uh pennies in all of our funds. And so we're going to be able to provide all of our teachers with a uh $1,000 raise for this year, which comes out to between 2 and 3%. So we're excited um on average. And so we're excited to do that. And by doing a flat thousand, it also helps the starting um our beginning salary, which is pretty low. And so attracting teachers that want to come to our district, we thought that doing that raise for everybody was a good place to start. So, >> so in item 3.2, we need to remove counselors from those from this. Is that what you want to do? >> Amendment. >> Amended to just be teachers contracts only. And we'll vote on certified I mean class.
Yes. Classified classified and uh non-class certified teachers at a later date. Okay. Everybody understand what we're doing? Any objection to that or any confusion with that? >> No. But I have a question. >> The funds for extracurricular band, teacher, coaches, u >> the stipens, >> the business, where does that come from? >> I mean, I know these are contracts. You have a different >> That's still all out of M. So that'll that's out of our that's out of our M budget. Okay. So even though they're extracurricular teachers, they're still out of that M budget. >> So will we be approving and voting later on? Okay. >> Well, certified, right? If it's certified, if you're talking stipens, is that what we're >> Okay. So stipens will be a later time. Yes. >> So it'll come >> that will come later. >> That comes in the fall.
Yeah. We I think the September meeting is when we do stipens or is that >> Yeah. In the fall is when we approve the stipens. >> Yeah. >> For coaching. >> Morgan's gonna have a bake sale. >> Great. >> And we hope and hope there's enough money to give them stipens. >> Raise in probably 20 years. >> Our coaches will be working for 10 cents an hour instead of 50 cents an hour. >> All right. So, can we have a a motion to accept item 3.2? two as amended. >> So I'll move to approve item 3.2 as amended. >> All right, I have a motion. I have a second from Margaret. All in favor say I. >> I.
>> Any opposed? Nay. >> All right. That appears to be uh unanimous also. All right. Next item on the agenda is just a superintendent's report. >> Yes. >> We're happy to hear from you again. And I'd like you to talk just a little bit about our junior high basketball team. >> Well, good news. Our junior high basketball team is the champion. They They went through the whole >> season undefeated. Correct. >> I think they've gone through two seasons undefeated. >> Football and B or just basketball. >> Seventh and eighth grade. >> Seventh grade and eighth grade undefeated. We have a proud mom back here. Maybe. Does she? Yes, she's saying yes. So, we're good to go. >> Sitting taller. >> Yeah, she sat up in her chair. No. Um Yeah. So, we uh so our eighth grade basketball thing. I know I've talked a lot tonight, so I'll keep this short.
I'm really excited about a couple projects. We had a leader come in today and meet with our principles and our assistant principles. And when we talk about being resourceful, this is another program that's completely free. We have in Arizona here, we have two principles who are distinguished national principles of the year who were at our campuses today visiting and they're working with our principles about interrator reliability um and instructional leadership. So they're going to because right here we're in silos and so one thing I always appreciated as a principal was collaboration, collegiality with other principles and and just we can always get better at our practice. So, bring in two of the best people of nationwide and they're doing it completely free. They're even bringing us down to Tucson in the summer, Mike. Um, and they're they're well at the El Canistador, they're bring down they're paying for the hotel, they're paying for all of our food, and they're paying all the conference fees for us to come down for that.
So, it's completely free. We feel very fortunate at NAU and Arizona uh a leader taking care of it, and I'm really excited. It's a solid program and if we can continue to get better at what we do and um be good leaders and be great teachers um we're all for that. So >> administration. >> Yep. So each school site gets to have an instructional team which can include the principal, assistant principal, a few teachers that get to participate on their instructional leadership team with the a leader program. We're just excited to bring that resource because sometimes it's hard to get people to come up to the mountain. What kind of speakers do they >> um >> Well, so the people who are leading it are professors at NAU um who happen to be um national like I said uh distinguished principles of the year and they're both here in Arizona.
So we're very fortunate and so they will they're setting the whole thing up and they're amazing. They joined us at our instructional leadership thing today. So our eighth grade basketball team ran the courts. We have a leader coming in. Um, I got to attend a event in Snowflake. Um, it was a community partnership event with Allison Hefner about our um, housing projects. I was able with our district leadership team to go down and see the progress is coming along. It looks like by the end of May the the properties are going to be ready and there was a lot of excitement about that and it wasn't just a Pinetop Lakeside Blige community event. It was in Snowflake so it had a lot of different community people. So there's a lot of energy and good stuff behind that and I was excited. Allison's doing a really good job and we're excited to offer that.
The one last thing I wanted to say another just more great things happening in Blige. So Sada Chudnoff who's one of our parents and took one of our students Ethan Leighton and presented to the chamber of commerce and to the town council about our water wise project where the uh junior high students are going down and helping out the fourth graders and learning about water cycle and and I I have to give a lot of credit to Ethan as one of our students. He did a great job talking to the chamber of commerce. Uh I know Mr. Go's wife was there at that one and and um you know and and they were all just very impressed with our Blueridge students and and how Ethan represented our our community. So um anyways that that's it for me tonight.
Any questions for me? I know. Thank you. I don't have any questions. Nope. Next item on the agenda is a call to the public and we would uh invite anybody that would like to address the board at this time to come do so.
We'd like to keep comments to about three minutes, not seed your time to anybody else and not be, you know, not be somebody that'd come up and point your finger at uh uh Bridget and say, "You're the worst person I've ever met." You know, that kind of stuff. That's that's not tolerable. That is not tolerable. So, we're welcome for anybody to come up and address the board at this time. Going once, twice. You're welcome to come on up. if we could get you to state your name and who and uh where you are and actually there's a piece of paper we would love to have that written down and given to Mary Ford. So, we'd love to hear what you had to say. Can't guarantee we can act on that tonight, but we also can direct staff to do something on it if if it's appropriate.