Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes unanimously. And next, um, thank you so much, Josh. Have a good night. Uh, we are at item 7.06, some updates and requests related to the Hartford Elementary design fees with Mr. >> Good evening, Madam President, members of the board. On September 13, 2023, the governing board approved all via one GPA contract 23-8P-9 in the amount of 1,730,160 for the design of New Hartford Elementary School. District is requesting an increase of 400,000 to cover related design services including traffic impact study on-site civil design, building energy performance, food service design, special systems design, structural special inspections, and ground regulation testing. Approval of the use of the cooperative contract is for the procurement method only and does not oblige the district to expend funds or guarantee any level of purchasing. Any expenditures made utilizing this cooperative contract remain subject to budget availability approved thresholds under district policy and Arizona law.
Recommend approval for the increase of 400,000 for estimated expenditure utilizing one GPA contract 23-8P-9. >> Thank you for that, Mr. D. Um, let's get a motion on the table, folks. >> Madam President, I move to approve for an increase 400,000 for estimated expenditures utilizing one GPA contract for elementary design. Do we have a second? >> Seconded by Mr. and we'll open up to discussion. >> Mr. D, I was not here on the board when that one get approved. Can you offer some comments as to I mean I see the bullet points but >> sure um the increases in anticipation of additional expenses so what changed between I guess in the two and a half years a lot can happen yeah a lot a lot has happened yes so the original p uh agreement of the 1.7 is for your basic design of architectural and consultants which then the consultants at that time would be your mechanical your electrical and your plumbing engineers and then from there once the design is uh uh in schematic.
Then they bring on further consultants and then we meet the city of Chandler and they in this case require traffic impact study. We then work with the civil design for all of our drainage um food service design. We have to have a kitchen consultant come on after the architect has engaged our community. We have schematic design to know what type of kitchen we're designing. So you bring on these other services as the design process for others. >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Kind of had the same question. So, these are all add-ons kind of after the fact because other entities require them or something. >> Correct. Or and just the process itself um up front. We don't know um what the city might u require or what the design might entail to know what other services would be required or what the amounts would be.
Typically, that's really the issue is the amount. >> So, they were unanticipated, I guess. >> No, they're anticipated. This is a part of your normal design process. We just don't know the amounts of the amount. >> Correct. So, once we uh we accumulate them, then we bring them to you one time. >> Okay. So, can we put an estimate next time or >> we certainly could. >> Yeah. Just so we know that half million. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> All right. I'm excited to continue with our progress on the rebuild of Hartford Elementary. Uh we will take a vote board members on item 7.06. All those in favor please say I. >> I. I. >> I.
>> Any opposed? Hearing none. The item passes unanimously. >> And that brings us to our last action item everyone. 7.07 07 is the safe contract 33-23-27 that's screen printing banners graphic wraps embroidery and awarded letters presented by Miss Madam President members of the board requesting governing board approval for $300,000 for state contract 33-23-27 screen printing banners graphic wraps embroidery and award letters awarded to MC Square Wraps Marty's trophies and awards game one and think for projects at various sites for the remaining of the 2526 fiscal year. The total amount spent districtwide to date for this fiscal year is 224,51,000 or 5001, while the amount falls within the district's delegation of authority threshold of 250,000 and did not require prior governing board approval. The requested amount will cause the total expenditures to exceed that threshold. The due diligence for this cooperative has been reviewed by the purchasing department and is compliant with the Arizona school district procurement rules.
Approval of the use of the cooperative contract is for the procurement method only and does not obligate the district to expend funds or guarantee any level of purchasing. Any expenditures made utilizing this cooperative contract remain subject to budget availability and applicable approval threshold under district policy in Arizona law. We're recommending the motion to recommend approval for an increase of $75,499 with a total estimate expenditures of $300,000 utilizing save contract 33-23-27 for the remaining of the 2526 fiscal year. Now, I just want to kind of remind you again um when we get to those thresholds, we come back to the board for approval. Um as we approved a lot of the projects that are coming up and as people are awarded or additional dollars come in from boosters or we have amounts that we spend those thresholds go up for a lot of those projects. So, uh just coming back to the board for approval center.
>> Thank you, Miss Barry. Um let's get a motion on the table. Madam President, I motion that we approve the increase of 75, $499 to the total estimated expenditures of 300,000 utilizing state contract 3-23-27 for the remainder of 2025 26 fiscal year. >> Thank you, Mr. Heat. Do we have a second? I'll second. Seconded by board member Men.
Um, with the motion on the table, I'll just check in to see if we have any questions for Miss Mr. Rice. >> So, just want to make sure I think I know what the answer is, but this would be all the banners and stuff see football games or events and all this other stuff including, you know, the big paper thing that the football players bust through and destroy every time that we can't reuse, I guess. So, is that what that's all for? >> Mr. Roor, good great question. Actually, a lot of those items are bought by the boosters, but a lot of these are like the wraps. When you go into our schools, you'll see the wraps that are at the schools right now that are on doors or other places. They're related to trophies that are related to our big scoreboards or things that are actually district purchase.
But capital items all come through the district. So, if the booster has to buy an actual capital item and it's required to come back through the district, we have 195 boosters if you can imagine that. And all capital items have to go through us. But supply items or consumable things go through the boosters they are able to purchase through our Chandler school boosters. Uh but uh most of these are things that are are more expensive. It's wrapping some of our vehicles, our um doors, it's trophy pieces, it's signage, it's different things that we have throughout um that are capital items or that we have that are usually longer than a year. >> Okay. In that big nonplayable pool that very run through. Okay. Or is that the boosters? That one I think because it's capital on but some of the ones that are like the paper stuff that they run through there's different things but the big I think that one is a capital item the blow up inflatable line.
Yes. >> Oh okay. >> Unless it was bought years ago before we put we made sure that the money's gone back. >> Okay. >> No Mike knows he probably purchased some of those items. >> It was more recent. >> Okay. I thought I jumped a little le >> great. I think we're clear and excited. supporting these um baneras and more. So all those in favor of item 7.07 please say I I >> I.
>> Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes unanimously. This brings us to tonight's item eight. I'm sorry, agenda item number eight, information items. And we have 8.01 1 science curriculum specifically for seventh grade is open sed presented by Dr. >> President Serrano members of board open sed is an open educational resource providing high quality science education materials for K12 students these standards align curriculum include unit and lesson plan student videos simulation library and on demand teacher support while the curriculum is free of charge consumable consumable items will be purchased to further support students in a hands-on learning environment the total cost for materials is 77,42186 including estimated tax, shipping, and processing. In accordance with ARS 15-721, the curriculum will be placed on display for the 60-day review period for comment at the Palima Romero Instructional Resource Center starting April 9th, 2026. After the 60-day review period for public comments, the curriculum will be presented for approval.
>> Thank you, Dr. Ed. Um, and we'll open up for questions if that's okay. Um, I I was just curious. This seems very vast uh curriculum K through 12 and I mean the amount doesn't seem like it's high for covering K through 12. So I was just wondering is there a focus on the curriculum even though it's available K through 12 but we know we're going to utilize it a certain way. >> Yes. So this is actually just for seventh grade which is why so minimal but we have it in sixth grade. We rolled it out to sixth grade this year. Seventh grade will continue to eighth grade in the future. >> Okay. Thank you for that. Um any other questions from the board members? Miss, is this just for one year um for seventh grade then or is it also for um the sixth grade consumable because you said consumables and non-consumables?
Um so obviously there's going to be an ongoing and a nongoing for the non-consumables. So could you explain to all that? Yes, the dollar amount right here is for consumables because um this is an open education resource which means it's free. So the actual textbook or the the teacher pieces, the student editions is open education, but this is just for the consumables for the actual labs. So this will be an ongoing charge for every year to make sure that there are new labs and the consumables. Okay? because our our item here says consumable and non-consumable items will be purchased um to further support student hands-on learning experience. So, so it's so clarification is it's only consumables at this point. >> I should tell you I should revise what I saying consumables but a non-consumable item would be like a Bunson burner that we need for that would be the noncon.
>> Okay. So then so the amount should be less the following year because you'll be able to reuse those type things. >> Yes, you are correct. Thank you. >> All right, perfect. Um, so we will see this on a future agenda item for approval and that brings us to our CUSD board agenda road mapap. Um, as we all heard, we've been celebrating our A+ celebrations. So those will continue over the next couple of weeks, everyone. Um, this uh the 17th we will be at Navarret. um a reminder about Saturday's inaugural powell that we will be celebrating here. And then leading into the end of the month, we'll be back here on April 22nd to hear um some updates on workforce development followed by some more A+ celebrations over at Conley and Knox Gifted Academy. And then we'll arrive to May which is our last month of the school year.
Graduation celebrations um continue to keep us busy. So, let's wrap up tonight's uh meeting with our board member current events. And we'll start with you, Mr. >> Thank you, Madam President. Uh just keep it short. Thank you to the district for inviting me to um the Hartford Elementary groundbreaking. Feel like I'm going to event where I don't deserve any credit or honor and it's wonderful to participate in those. Um, also just wanted to offer a shout out to the principal um at Rice Elementary, Miss Matthews. She's retiring this year and she's still hosting the uh hygiene kit drive that uh they did last year um in partnership with uh the church I belong to. It's just a fantastic way to help uh our community members um that use the Chandler uh Care Center. So excited about that. Thank you for sharing, Mr. E. This yours.
>> Yeah, I'll try to keep it short, too. But the hard thing this morning was fun. The hard hats, shovels, cool deal. It's It was a lot of fun. Um on Monday, we had a dinner here. Uh the schoolboard coalition dinner, which is where we bring school board members from all over East Valley here. It's good to see these people. I don't know if most people realize we all work with we all face similar issues and it's really good to sit and talk with with them every once in a while. So, uh and superintendent come as well. So, I think it's a really great dinner. I appreciate you hosting that. um this Saturday county fair and we have our future farmers in America people particularly out of channel high school is well organized here but um you know we'll be seeing the judging of the bulls and the beef and chickens and the goats and what else we got rabbits and a whole bunch it's a lot of fun so if you can get out there this weekend that would really be great >> yeah well it's tough to step on yeah So, we're really looking forward to that.
>> Hey, Miss M. Um, I will echo the um fun part of going to Harvard and Zenus for the groundbreaking and also uh went to the A+ um award ceremony at Anderson Elementary and it was really great to see how excited the kids were and the staff was and it was um a great day. Um, additionally, I really do like the East Valley Consortium that we had here on Monday because it does um allow us to uh network with other boards in the East Valley and um really kind of share some of the um experiences that we we are all um encountering. So, it has been it was a good good meeting that night. So, thank you. >> Thanks, Missa. Miss Sosa, I selfishly want you to get better. I don't want you to use up your voice, but I'm still going to check in to see if you had anything to share.
>> No, I don't. I'm sad that I had to miss some of these events, but I was definitely there in spirit. >> Thank you so much and thanks for making a a priority to join tonight. We really appreciate that. Um, feel free to drop off whenever you like and get some rest. >> Thank you. Good night. >> Good night. All right. Well, um I just wanted to share we talked about at our last meeting uh the required testing, mandatory testing that was coming up. We are halfway through that. So halfway through mandatory state testing time for our freshman and juniors this week. Um congratulations to our freshmen who wrapped up today. Two straight days of testing. Juniors have completed day one for themselves. One more to go. So, I hope everybody gets some good rest for our last day of testing tomorrow at our high schools.
I also wanted to share um we have been learning about our new grat tracker that is now out and released for some of us. Um you can find directions to access the parent or guardian portal through our infinite campus to review your students grad tracker because this is new to all of us. You'll also see that we're welcoming feedback. Um, so you can test out the system and let us know what you think by April 30th. There's a short six question Google form that we'd love to hear from you about. Um, or if that's not convenient, feel free to email or give us a call and just let our COC counseling department know how that experience is going. Um, I'll just echo I hope to see our community out this Saturday at our channel's inaugural powout. Um, there will be a lot of fun um and performances that we get to be part of.
And then echoing Superintendent Narduchi's introduction of preparing for our operation back to school again this July 11th, please um visit the website. You will start seeing opportunities to support with your voluntary time and donations coming. I have been doing Operation Back to School for a handful of years now and I have attended other operations similar back to school events throughout the valley. And I have to say, gosh, we were outstanding. It's extraordinary the amount of resources and support that we provide at our operation back to school. Um it's not just about the backpacks, the haircuts make all the difference. The shoes, um undergarments, and I'm just astonished at what our community accomplishes through this effort. So if you've never experienced it. Um, please seek out a way to get involved. There's many ways and we really appreciate the continued support for our students. All right, folks.