Sure. Right. Right. >> Right. On behalf of me and my church. I would do it like that. So I could just read the definition. It's a formal written document or speech that officially recognizes, honors, and pledges support to the family in this when it's for the sake of a funeral. Okay. Um of the deceased commonly within church communities, but it highlights the departed's good works, legacy, whereas clauses to list their accomplishments. So we would say something as a board, you know, we're providing this resolution to the family of blah blah blah. Or statement. It's It's really a statement, so resolution is just a high-level word that could be applied in any setting. I think that's where I was going. That's the definition I think. We're thinking resolution cuz I'm in the same boat. I'm like a resolution is you're coming here and doing something you know, legally or passing that.
There's more details into that. Just being good eye contact and having a really good handshake. What I've learned back to the intermediate school is that to be more confident. Don't be shy and get out of your comfort When meeting Ron Clark at The Ron Clark Academy was I felt really excited when I first met him because when we first went on to the flight to go to Atlanta, I was actually watching the previous Amazing Shakes. And when I saw him, I was like, "Man, I just can't wait to meet him." So then when we flew to Atlanta and we went over to the school, we actually had a coaching session with him. And after the coaching session, I was confident enough to take a picture with him after everything he told me or told everybody in the coaching session. So I took a picture with him and after that I just felt so relieved and so happy to actually finally meet him.
>> Yes. What uh would equipment under nonoperational? We know what equipment might be like. >> So this is going to be nonoper is going to be like our our land and buildings, right? This is going to be the equipment would be like our um some of our maintenance equipment, right? So our our tractors and our right our um some of those kind of different yeah different pieces. Um, I do want to uh recognize that on So, this is going to be showing you our average teacher salary. And before I we go through this, I want to show you that there is a there's a mistake that was noted and it we've already been in touch with the auditor general on this. Um, and it's a a change that has to made be made in our AFR. Um, so we had to make an AFR revision.
We've We've worked really hard to make sure it's small. Good job. Good job. Yeah, and especially no increase to the dental, and the vision, and life, and So, we need a motion to approve the employee benefit proposals. I move to accept the employee benefit proposals for 2016-2017. I second it. Ms. Peters? Yes. Ms. Honorias? >> Yes. Mr. McGivern? Yes. Mr. Ashworth? Yes. And next is a motion to approve the adopted updates to policy um DI and >> So, So, we have a whole stack of them that we needed to go over first three of them last month. They are really just, as we mentioned before, just trying to clean up our policies because of all the policies, 19 were deleted. That is why the the packet is so thick. A lot of the verbage to make it dense. So, they're not anything that we need to be alarmed about.
It's like a statement of support. It's a statement. >> I think is misleading. Yeah. Yeah. Statement of support, that might be better. >> Yeah. But again, it may be it may it may be again if I were to do it, I'll keep any type of spiritual, biblical scriptures, and things like like that out of it. So it's one it's not to be offensive. >> What the board might consider if you're looking at looking at our policy, we could do an administrative procedure where we could have a generic Yeah. statement Yeah. that could be read so it's >> You You can list it as res but then in parentheses put statement so that Yeah. >> certain people will view it as a resolution. Some I would view it as a statement cuz that's what you would go up and do. Yeah. So Dr. Hall, I'm good with that.
Good morning, spectacular. Right now our students are in the work the room section of the amazing shake. It is their job to literally work the room. They have to seek out the judges and they are judged by the way their ability to shake hands, say hello, and introduce themselves in a way that nobody else can. So, if you'll look, we have Gavin inside and Bethany as well and they are now working the room. >> [music] >> First, I'd like to thank my family and the board members for letting us take this opportunity for us to go visit the Ron Clark Academy because I got to meet a lot of new people. I met this one girl from Hawaii. Her name's Nora and she made this token at her school. The school was amazing. My favorite challenge was work the room because I met a lot of new judges from all over.
If you notice on the right hand side um under the percentage of teachers in their first three years, it shows $31,777. That is not correct. It should be uh it's I want to say if I remember the dollar exactly $36,872 thou872. So that was a big change that is not our accurate um first year teacher average. That is a correction that's being made through our AFR. It was a reporting error in the codes. And so we recognized that as soon as we saw this report and got in touch with the auditor general. But um if you go to the left side of that screen, thanks Mr. Doogie. Um the district average teacher salary that is that is um that is accurate. Um and then the um the CFF CSF that is our classroom site fund and that's our 301s that are um that are given to teachers.
They have added information on mainly on safety, I mean, emergency operations plans. So, 19 were deleted. There's a few new ones, but they pretty much condensed them. So, that is it, Mr. McGivern. So I move to approve the updated updates to the policy and regulations. I'll second All right. Ms. Peters? Yes. Mrs. Ammerman? >> Yes. Mr. McGovern? Yes. Mr. Osborne? >> And I'm a yes. And what we are waiting for is the district financial. All right. So I'm going to do my best to try and figure out how to get this up on the screen. Um All right. So within the M&O fund you can see that here at the bottom we are still sitting with $771,000 that are unencumbered. So uh please remember that the majority of those funds are still sitting within uh benefits that have not been paid yet. Um but it is looking like we will be able to finish the year with about 100 125,000 left over, which is up from our previous estimate of 50.
I just didn't understand the choice of the word I'm good with all of it. I just wanted to And I And I think what happened is because I think Janine asked to the question when I said, "Yeah, we we do things acknowledge and we do things what we call resolutions." And And that was just an example that I threw out there. But the intent is board recognition Okay. And now just support. something that happens like in a church setting, which is why I would Well, I think like what Dr. Hall was saying, we could we could have provided a resolution to the migrant community, a statement of support saying, "Hey, Right. Well, they they definitely wanted to. That was part of why they got mad at me. Mhm. But But I I viewed it different like you did. I didn't view it as a statement, I just viewed it as We have a policy.
Well, my experience was like at the Global Amazing Shake was it was very intense. I was nervous, but I had the confidence to think I was going to go to the second round. Unfortunately, I I not make it to the second round, but I'm still happy that I got to go to Atlanta and see landmarks and meet new people from around the world. And I just want to thank my family and the board for letting me to go on this trip. >> [applause] [applause] >> Go ahead, Mr. Diaz, and then Mr. Please, before I forget, I'm having a senior moment. Uh Congratulations. You were our ambassadors. Um you were not all the only ones from uh Arizona, but the only ones from the Navajo Nation. The The moment that you left, um you you were an ambassador for the nation, for the community, and for the Baboquivari Unified School District.
I do want to recognize though uh the average years of our teacher experience. We've got one of the highest teacher uh indexes in the state of Arizona still. So um that is a kudos to Blige um and the teachers um that is that's a big deal. This is going to show you the district average teacher salary compared to the state average. Um and then so you'll see that there is there is a discrepancy and that is something that we continue to strive for and continue to work on. Um but this is giving you from 2017 through 2025. This is showing you that uh that average compared to the state. Um and then again a comparison with between um Arizona, Blige, Xolo and Snowflake. So you can see those comparison dollars. And I don't know if you can um zoom in just a little bit more so that we can see that a little bit easier.
Um we received our check from the solar so we were able to transfer those funds that we spent on electricity to cover that check. That was like $170,000. So we are we are in a good spot right there financially. Um we do have some food service expenses that have been popping up within M&O. Um one of the things that we're going to have to consider for next year is increasing prices for school lunches and breakfasts. Um just the cost of food it keeps going up and with our prices being where it's been for the year so it's not So we've been covering some expenses within food service with that all funds.
>> You already have a policy. That's how I understood the determination of what resolution It's the way I think about it. >> Yeah. So, when I look at it, I'm like, "Why are we doing a policy when we already have one in place?" It didn't make any sense. >> But I don't know. Yeah, I think in this case it was four organizations that came up and read resolutions doing this doing this time. Mhm. Thank you. All right, so I'll put some things out there for, you know, for the board. I'll put something out there, I'll work with uh Janine on it, and and we'll pass it by, and I will only do it move forward if I get everybody's consent on it. I don't want any ill will, any bad feelings, or anything, because that's what we are a highly effective board, okay? All right.
You have done an incredible job, and you have also trained me well because every time I I I speak in public, I remember your words that you told me that I need to work on, not dancing around when I'm speaking. So, I'm I'm I'm working on that myself. But, it's it's um thank you for representing the community. Thank you for your your leadership and your strength and for making a presence of yourself. Let's give him another round of applause. >> [applause] >> Uh Mr. Stevens. Congratulations. That was amazing. It makes me happy. I was had opportunity participate in the amazing shake a couple of last year. I truly enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to the new one coming up. It's good to see you guys out there and out of your comfort zone. And you guys are going to do amazing things in life, So, congratulations.
Sorry, the numbers were a little bit smaller. Um but just so you can see the I need to do that better next year. Make the numbers a little bit bigger. Um but you can see a comparison then between Blige and our local our other local districts. Um and then this is just um this is another graph from 2017 through uh 2025. So you can see it kind of more line uh linearly district average teacher salary from those dates. Um and then you can also see the average base salary in their fourth year or later. And then this is the the what I'd like to draw the attention to though is the student students per teacher in that middle column. Uh this is going to give you that average of students that we have per class and again average of students per teacher. And then average years of teacher experience.
So with that I bring to you any questions and your approvals. Great that 125,000 you mentioned. Yes. Is that going to go in our reserves and help our audit findings? No, what that does is it just frees up the funding that we've already spent with So what it does is it covers electricity bills that we've already paid. Okay. So the check that we get from the solar company just covers the bills or what we were supposed to save with the solar. I understand. I am. How much is school lunches? Right now I want to say I think the full a fully paid lunch is a dollar 25, I believe. I believe. I'd have I'd have to look it up to be sure. I'm like, "Wow, that's pretty." Yeah. I love that. Okay. It's more like three dollars. No, it's not three dollars. That's three dollars.
Okay. >> One more board update. Go ahead. So, I think it was it's been almost a year. So, you had asked to have a student representative on the board. That's true. >> So, I reached out to Principal Grace from Oswego East or from Oswego um district, and he was great to talk to. He sent an email with a bunch of information. So, I'll probably have to get with Dr. Cabaniss to figure out, cuz besides having a school board uh a student board representative, he advises to have a superintendent student advisory committee. And some of the things that fall within that, he showed me the application they fill out, so thanks to Mr. Okrzynski, you know, telling, you know, personal friends with the principal over there, um reaching out to him. He was actually very easy to work with, so and he'll help us with whatever I need.
Miss uh Hendricks. Congratulations and on the experience that you got from traveling all across the country, all the way across country, and hope that you'll continue being who you were there and you're bringing back here. And I'm I'm really excited for you to share as much as you've shared with your with your your classmates and students even younger than you to have that and hope that they continue and want to do the same that you've done and with the experience that you've had. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Miss Leonard. Um I just want to say I'm proud of you guys for going and doing all getting out of your comfort zone is a really big deal and it's going to move um move you guys to a a really good place as soon as you start getting comfortable in speaking in public and learning how to how they said work a room.
Sorry, my Allrighty. Um, and then students per teacher breakdown, which we just we've already another another way for you to view that. Okay. Okay. And then we go into this is going to give us our passing percentages in FY25. And so this is a breakdown between math um at the district level, math at the um our peer group level, and then at the statewide level, and then ELA and science. And so it looks like as far as our um with our peer groups um you know it look we are um average with the peer group and and falling below the um the statewide. Okay. And then our our student achievements since 2019. We'll show just a progression of our this is going to be um by slide math um this is going to be a math and then our ELA and our science um on each slide.
I thought it was three dollars 25. Let me look. Let me pull it up. Up to 30. Oh my 230 is lunch. Breakfast is a dollar 15. What is the lunch price? 230 for lunch. And then breakfast is is a dollar 15. Are we looking at an increase of Probably about 10 to 15 cents per student. That's not bad at all. And are kids allowed to pay cash or do they use the parent account. So they can pay with cash they can give they can give the cafeteria cash and just add it into their account. But most of the previous students Previous ones Any comments? I move to approve the district financial report as presented in the packet. Second. All right, Ms. Peters? Yes. Ms. Zamorris? >> Yes. Mr. McGavin? Yes. Mr. Austin? Yes. And Next is to accept fiscal year 2025 financial audit and question Okay, so let me get back down to Bright Way Elementary.