Just to see that they're you know, increasing and seeing that um yeah. It's really really nice to uh to see that in a presentation and we appreciate it. If you want, you can be in a demonstration. My kinder team is ready. >> [snorts] >> Thank you. Does that mean yes? Yes, yes. >> Okay, perfect. You'll have to stand up for this exercise. >> [laughter] >> All the board members. >> you meant later. We're we're on right now. This has got to be quick. I've been told I need to do this fast. We're just kidding. >> [laughter] >> Thank you very much for the presentation. I enjoyed the humor. Thank you. Thank you. Good great job and awesome results. >> [applause] >> We're on to our second item for information discussion, information regarding uh possible or potential bond. Thank you, Mr. President. Um before you tonight is some discussion for the governing board, some materials.
[music] My first year, they didn't even have email. I've had parents who have came [music] back. I know that they I've had their child several years ago, and they still nominated me this year. And so, that just makes a big impact and makes me feel, you know, really good about myself. One of the reasons I wanted to go into teaching [music] was because I felt like it is truly a profession where you can make a difference. It it just makes me feel a lot of joy >> [music] >> that there are students that come back to me year after year wanting a hug or to tell me something [music] that they've accomplished in life that they're proud about. It makes [music] me proud. Those kids are truly not just my student for a year, but they're my kids forever. This is one of my favorite nights of the year.
>> Meeting is adjourned. There is nothing. >> Okay. Thank you again so much for coming out. Make sure you sign in. Have a wonderful evening. >> You are a great timer. Hi, I'm Welcome. I said ready. Wonderful. have additional problems. I ran by Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, I know it's it's in the book. to make a pretty long They are for their seat. There is sheep. What's that? Sorry. Moing around. >> Mhm. I'm not
Hearing none, I will open it up to the public for comment and I'll start with those who are on site at the uh select boardroom if anyone would like to come to microphone and speak. All right. No. Okay. All right. Next, I will open it up to the online viewers. There's anyone who would like to make a comment at this point? No. Seeing none. So, Mr. Lucas, are we uh are we are we good for tonight? Want to move on to continuing this hearing? >> Yes. I think uh we we've got the motion for the Bills and Thomas to review. I've got notes to talk to the applicant about access to the building. Um the commission will send the information we got from the DCR today and uh we'll we'll have a packet to you in the near future on uh your your your staff and the commission's comments on the soil management de.
Going to get Ashley Forrester on the circle with Lily Vitti as well, so Yeah, we're where the game against Hopkinton on Friday night, they scored seven goals and in the first quarter had none. I don't think you could ask for much better starting quarter here tonight. I think Norwood, you know, good team. Hopkinton obviously has a high quality team than Norwood. I think they're got some better players on that team, but still a little little bummed that they didn't quite play as well as they could have on Friday against the Hillers. In town rivals. It's a loss on the draw there Payton. Ashley stepping up. Got Sammy Side has entered the game here on defense. Number 10. Gabby Eng trying to find her player. We are We are still on the penalty, so we are up. We should be doubling that ball and causing some pressure.
So how can you say that you're collaborating collectively with stakeholders when you're already making the decisions? And again, I hate to belabor it, but I need you to be direct in answering these questions. Why did you make significant policy changes without including the collective voices of the stakeholders? So when we have the NBIS, we come together and um we take what we hear from the stakeholders and we had put it and we listed it into the NBI. um if they you know when we found out that they weren't um they wanted to revise the way that the language was written that's when we said okay wait we'll stop because again we wanted to give them that input we do see the importance of it um and there's also um when we're hearing from other uh so I talked to other teachers as well and there were certain concerns when it came to uh the language versus knowing pedagogy as well.
You you can't do that in a school. Okay, it's it's a policy that this board put in place. It's a program. It has to be ratcheted up in such a way so everybody's safe. Okay, and everything's done correctly. That's also a major part of the facilities goals. Water, lead, indoor quality management and and monitoring. We take baseline data in the summer so that when a teacher comes in and says, "I'm I'm coughing a little bit. I don't know what's going on." We can test for different things like mold or air quality and stuff like that because these buildings are older, we'll just say older, we won't say old, right? Um but, you know, we're doing the best we can to make sure everyone is safe and to remedy problems as they come up. I don't know what's going to happen in September or October. That's why I'll talk about a surplus in a little bit that the board's never had before, but it's in this budget because you don't know what's happening, okay?
Um I I was asked to put on uh some potential bond projects so the board could have a discussion about future uh bond elections. So, what you have on the attachments um are pretty much projects that um we have a study session about a month a month and a half ago um regarding um capital monies and how to plan for the future. What you see in a list is something uh or are the projects that were not able to be funded in the next future over the next 5 years. Um so, you can see that there with the total of about $71.4 million. Um also attached there is a calendar um for this year. So, that that comes from Maricopa County. There are some strict timelines we have to follow um and so I put those timelines just so you were aware. So, with that, I will uh let you, Mr.
I love celebrating people, specifically the teachers that shape our students every day. So, I am honored to announce the 2025-2026 Teacher of the Year for each BCSE school building. Nominations were accepted from students, staff, families, and community members. The CIC in each building then met to engage in a process to determine their Teacher of the Year. As I call each building level Teacher of the Year up to the front, I do ask that the audience hold their applause in order to hear each person's name and kind words from their nomination form. We will begin with Kyla Lifferth. Kyla Lifferth is a music teacher at Clifty Creek. Kyla's passion for music and her enthusiastic approach inspires students to explore and enjoy learning. Through engaging, relevant lessons and unique opportunities like songwriting projects and the Battle of the Bands, she has expanded student involvement and made a lasting impact on the entire school community.
So I think we're good for a motion to continue if the board's ready to >> one final question. Uh Mr. Lucas, you mentioned certain points that you were going to send answers to. I believe they were four. >> Yes. >> Um what about the rest of them? They were like seven pages that we sent to you. >> Yeah. As we previously indicated, we fully intend to answer those uh once the peer reviewers have chimed in on those um items because there's comments on flood plane and some other details. We think it more appropriate to allow them to comment and then because we anticipate there'll be additional comments and then we'll provide a more robust because a lot of the other comments are related to flood plane resource area storm water. Um, as those are future topics, we wanted to advance the contamination for you. So, our focus is on that right now.
Number eight is Caroline Bramkamp in the game as well on defense. With a freshman. Turnover. Kendall Westerling comes up with it. Kendall got a little bump there. She's going to get that ball. So we can get back on the offense here. I think we have another 30 20 30 seconds left on that penalty probably. Checking behind on Kendall. There you go. Ashley Starting up again. We should be doubling that ball. We got We have one more player than them, so this should be something that we are aggressive. Caroline should be jumping on that ball. There you go, Caroline. Finally got the double team going there. See if we can put a little pressure on and Ashley comes through. Sammy Side on the chase. Getting the body in the way. Good job. Nice check. We got a whistle happy ref over here. That was a little too close to the head for the the refs' liking.
So we wanted to make sure that it was really clear and that they had the standards in place too. So that's why I asked to go back as well to make sure okay what is it that you want when we're talking about um about the knowledge of language about being able to speak because it's hard enough to be able to teach but when you on the add the layer of teaching in a different language and we wanted to make sure that um we were clear from the uh Kaudi programs what do you want from that um when you're looking at educator prep programs um you know and again shortage put aside. Do you want to make sure that uh the language is in place that they have certain things in place um prior to moving on? And you know, when we're looking at even reviewing uh educator prep programs uh for the Hawaiian, how important is it for the Hawaiian to be a piece in there to make sure that how many uh you know, how much experience do they have with the teaching uh with the language, with the pedagogy so that it is a nice robust program.
And then environmental testing. All right, those things have to occur all the time. Um >> [clears throat] >> also maintenance and systems for district vehicles. People forget about the vehicle fleet just like they forget about energy costs, right? Energy costs for the board aren't free. Same thing with the you know, changing oil, gas, stuff like that. Um big cost, you know, gas is almost $4 a gallon right now. Imagine what it is for our trucks, okay? Um outdoor spaces, we're trying to upgrade as many of those as possible. Bus depot enhancements, love to love to move these buses out of here and put them somewhere else. Okay, we're thinking about that. Same thing with lighting upgrades throughout the district. The board operations committee and I we've talked about that ad nauseam. We have a couple of proposals after this budget's put in to try to, you know, systemically change all the lighting.
President, have that discussion or lead the discussion and we will stand for questions where needed. Yeah, so thank you very much Dr. Croto. So, I I was the person who asked Dr. Croto to put this together um going off of our study session that we had for capital spend. Uh there are some obviously some items that uh we we can't afford without a bond. Um the bigger one to me would be the elementary in the Asante area. The population has just continued to expand. Um uh I don't know what exact City of Surprise Council meeting it was, but they just approved another thousand homes out in that area. Um which is just going to uh compound the problem that we have. Uh there are some other items that um when we had that public session that you know, the word hope kind of came in there and we don't you know, we don't manage with hope.
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And those others, we fully plan to address them all in a in a a future response. Um, as we said, we think it'll be more appropriate to have Been Thomas and GCG's review and we can provide a comprehensive package on those issues. uh the comments that we put in that letter we want answered. I I'm not so sure that waiting for the peer reviewers to get involved. That's not going to change our mind. We still want answers to those questions. So, you can go ahead and start preparing those now. You don't have to wait. We we are evaluating some of them right now, but we'd also like the input um you know on I mean there a couple points we differ on. We'd like to see what the peer reviewers say on some of these things as well. So I I think it we we do intend to address them.
Not a free shot, but she is back behind on the 12. Back at even strength as well. That's why draw control is so important. If we had won that draw, we'd be on the offense settled and running a play and scoring a goal. So here we are on the defensive now. Back to even. Nice pass number 15. Allie on defense there. Caroline stepping in. Cutters. Lots of cutters. Switch. It's good defense here. Good defense. Good switch. Good talking. Let's see communication. Strong communication between the girls. Ball behind the net looking for a cutter. Not there. Kendall Westerling on defense. Sammy Side over. In the middle Caroline again. Ooh, big stop by Alana Duffy again. Rebound to Norwood though. Man, that's that's like five in a row. How many saves does she have so far? Got her for four, but the Mustangs must be thinking what do we have to do to get one by her?
So that's why also we we had to ask those questions. we want, >> but you're also not including um the recommendations from this working group, but you're making significant policy changes and we're trying to bring stakeholders, the experts to the table to impose and implement these um standards, but it seems like the board is doing everything but what the working group is asking them to do. Uh, and so I I again I don't want to belabor this, but you have to know that this is very top of mind for me and my community and we don't need more barriers in a Hawaiian immersion program that is thriving in my community. Uh, chair, at the appropriate time, I would like to pivot um to maybe the practice. >> Okay, Senator Fukumo. Okay, let me let me ask I want to pivot to any more questions on this one.
One to save money and two for quality. I guess they're both on the same level, right? But, I don't know if you've upgraded your your houses yet with LED lights or whatever. We have to do the same thing here. Um electric car and bus charging stations through a grant, we're trying to also make that a revenue stream which, you know, you guys have all heard of the cooperative stuff and whatever, but we're trying to do it as a revenue stream. And then classroom and restroom renovation. Whenever I bring up bathrooms, everybody always says to me, "What's the big deal? Bathroom works, you can flush it." Well, I don't know anyone who has a bathroom in their house that hasn't been renovated since 1940 or 1950. If you still have a bathroom that's the same as when the house was built in 1950, please let me know.
So, I I I want to make sure that we can bring in some safety and security items, which is like if you see if you look at the the PDF, there's the ones for the fire panels. Um something that I'm looking for is feedback, the appetite for something like this and um if you know, if you think that maybe a smaller bond would be easier to pass just because we we're in a tough spot when it when it especially comes to that elementary school. Um every year we don't start the construction on it is another year that to me is we're like 3 years behind already, so. I open it up for discussion. I do agree that the schools are important. I'm just not sure that we have the timeline. We've done two bonds in the last two elections. They've been shot down marginally, I might add, but I just I am concerned on spending money to try to go out with another bond and then have it shot down again.