And Danielle Davis, ESS program specialist, Exceptional Student Services. >> [cheering and applause] >> And Lisa Hahn, governing board secretary, Superintendent's Office. Congratulations again to these outstanding Spotlight employees. >> [applause] >> And next, we're thrilled to honor our Spotlight Students of the Month. Each month, school principals select these remarkable students for their outstanding commitment to their education, their school, and community. These student spotlights exemplify the portrait of the graduate by being communicators, innovators, resilient achievers, critical thinkers, principled leaders, and these students set the bar high and shine as role models for their peers, their schools, and our entire community. Congratulate Congratulations, Spotlight students. As I call your name, please come forward to receive your certificate and give a quick fist bump to the governing board and Dr. Lotman, and then head to room 123 for a group photo. Mr. Harmon, give us one more wave. There he is.
I mean, they McDuff's told us when they made their repairs they're looking at the most 3 months. Which but it usually takes about 3 months to get everything lined up and organized and get your decisions with the insurance company. So, I felt pretty fortunate about it so far. >> [clears throat] >> Can't say that too loud. No, it's all right. It's better than We had a uh The roof kind of Yeah, we had a leak out at the baseball field the last week. We repaired that in house. So, that was a that took up a lot of time last week with the staff. So, it's kind of crunch time on a lot of things right now. Yeah. And you didn't show off spring break, so that put us behind a day. >> [laughter] >> I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have said that. Craig told me to be good.
So $1.1 million. What we've done is we've actually reviewed our entire budget. We are reducing staffing by 13.2 full-time staff across the district before we even ask for this override. So these 13.2 positions are not coming back. Folks are like, "Well, you're just going to pull them back in." We're not pulling those back in. Those are those are educators who are retiring. Those are positions that we haven't filled for a year or two. A couple in central office, accounts pay, you know, whatever it might be, right? Um, human resources. Um, we have custodial maintenance positions that weren't filled. So, there are positions that that will eventually have an impact on our schools, but they're not having an impact currently. Um, class sizes have have sort of um leveled off a little bit. So we're able to say, okay, that elementary teacher at the Warren School, while it'd be great to have class sizes what we're used to at the 20 range, it may go to 22 now.
Um, you know, throughout the football field, that would be more of a want rather than a need on that side of it. Um, but that is kind of their um their package that Musco Lighting has in all these companies uh think that they'd be able to get to it this summer. Um, just trying to make sure I'm going through my brain giving you guys all the information that I have with this. Oh, so um, Rough Neck Reinforcers have said that they would put $60,000 to it and that'll be included in the one of the next agenda items. Um they said if we did want to upgrade to the show light package, they would put another $4,000 with that to do half of the show light package with it as well. Um I would recommend from the information that's information that I've gathered on how other districts have worked with Musco Lighting and their um service department and their good reputation that they've had with the surrounding school districts districts.
>> I'm doing great, Robbie. I I love your outfit. I I know Robbie really wanted to go like overboard with his outfit and I said, "Awesome. Go for it." Um we had to reel it in as far as the um reindeer onesie, but everything else looks fantastic. Celebrating celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of our Declaration of Independence. I'm loving it, Robbie. >> Oh, thank you. >> Oh, yeah. >> Super fun. Hey, Mr. Money. >> Hey, Mia. How are you? >> Good. Good. How are you? >> I can't complain. >> Mr. McConey, how are you feeling now that the film festival is approaching? >> I'm really excited. I I'm I've been excited for a long time. There's It's funny because I go through stages. I get excited in the beginning and then I get a little nervous because I see films, they're they're working really hard on them, but I'm not sure they're going to finish.
Because he's serving in this war. Um there's also some cultural things that he was probably dealing with internally based on his heritage and his background and some of the reasons that the US was involved in that war. So um so when I think about that it makes me think about the work a lot of us do and in particular the work that we do here in meet and confer. And so I have not been shy about may not have been super loud about it recently but when I became superintendent one of the commitments I made was to be supportive of our education association. Right. And so some of you again going back to geeky may remember like I staged a superman moment at our new teacher orientation. Kelly was kind enough to give me a CEA t-shirt and I did the introduction for CEA and then opened my shirt up and I had the I had the t-shirt.
Congratulations to Autumn Sumpter, preschooler from Butterfield Elementary School. Autumn is a resilient achiever who has grown tremendously while bringing kindness and curiosity to the classroom each day. And Caleb Sabalan, first grader from Maricopa Elementary School. Caleb is a principled leader who shows responsibility, treats others with kindness, and comes to school ready to learn. Maddox Wong, preschooler from Pima Butte Elementary School. Maddox approaches every new challenge with a positive attitude and the confidence to keep growing. >> [gasps] >> Anais Alarcon, fifth grader from Saddleback Elementary School. Anais is a resilient achiever demonstrating determination, kindness, and academic growth. Maria Rosales, first grader from Santa Cruz Elementary School. Maria is a principled leader whose positivity and strong character make her a role model for her classmates. And Riley Wall, fourth grader from Santa Rosa Elementary School. Riley is a critical thinker whose hard work and determination have led to achievements like GATE acceptance, honor roll recognition, and completing all math Navi competencies while staying active in her community.
I'm sorry. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. Yeah, spring break summer breaks are always a fun time for the staff. You really get to know So, anything else? It'll probably come to the board next month for approval. Um Wayne has to fill out the documents yet, but you know, I'll brief the board a little bit later, but they're going to have that active shooter drill at the junior high on June the 4th. So, >> Thanks. And so, I know you'll have to work on your staff to keep them out of the building and stuff that day. So, So, we yeah, we have a with [clears throat] Craig had talked to me about it and I'm going to split that staff up to Mac elementary. And you know, there's a lot of things at the end of the softball, baseball, and track. There's a lot of clean house things that can be done.
Um, so there will be some impact there, right? Uh, a high school chemistry teacher, science teacher, um, is retiring. We've decided not to fill that position because it was a retirement. Um, well, what does that do? It means class sizes are going to be a little larger at the high school, potentially less elective offerings at the high school. So those are things that that are immediate impacts. But how we viewed it from a administrative standpoint and before we went into asking for an override was okay, we have to show that we're acting in good faith here from a budgetary standpoint, a fiduciary standpoint. We're we're really I'm a fiscal conservative, just so so we're clear. I I am. and and I want to make sure whatever we are offering to our community, one doesn't impact kids, right? We have to make sure we're not impacting kids and families uh in their ability to take classes in opportunity.
I would recommend moving forward with Musco lighting. Um especially with the 25-year complete warranty where the tech lighting is a little bit um less at $224,000. That's only going to give us a 10-year warranty rather than the 25-year warranty with Musco lighting. So um thoughts, concerns, questions? Uh yeah, go ahead. The last one said they would put the bracket in. >> The last one said Yeah. Musco Lighting said they would put Kayla, can you still hear me? >> Yes. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. Um Musco Lighting said that they would put the additional bracket in just in case when we get to the point of the track um if we wanted additional lighting. We might not need additional lighting. Um but on those curbs if we decide we needed one, the brackets would already be there. So to give you guys a little more information, all these companies talked about they would come in with four still poles.
um because we only have 10 12 weeks to put these together. Uh and then all of a sudden like it starts happening. The the films start really taking shape and then I get excited again and and I'm really excited about tonight. We have so many great films. I wish I could put more in, but we're already going over our allotted time and so um you know I I we're going to be here till like at least 9:30 tonight. Um but it's all worth it. It's a great fundraiser for the Clifton Education Foundation. Um all the proceeds go to them. Um I don't use the money for um a new car or uh we don't you know have pizza parties every year um or every week or whatever. Um but the the money goes to a good cause and and from the education foundation that money gets channeled out into the schools to pay for programs that maybe the budget didn't cover or maybe they come up with the idea after the budget was approved, you know, things like that.
I am nobody's Superman, but it was kind of fun. Um, so but one of the reasons that I'm such an advocate for CEA and and uh value the organization so much is because one of the things I learned from Kelly um actually I knew this earlier from my work with with James and Dorothy, but Kelly really drove it home for me was that CA and I don't know that this is unique, but it's unique to my experience with associations and school districts in many districts like when I was in Paradise I there were three separate associations. There was an association for teachers, an association for classified staff and an association for administrators. And they all negotiated separately. And that can work. But just because of who I am as a person, I love the concept and I feel it's a powerful concept that CA represents the district wallto-wall.
Charlie Rogala, eighth grader from Desert Wind Middle School. Charlie is an innovator and leader who uses her talents to make a meaningful impact on her school and community. And Aaron Cox, eighth grader from Maricopa Wells Middle School. Aaron exemplifies a principled leader through integrity, involvement, and the positive example being set for others. Travis Adams, sophomore from Desert Sunrise High School. Travis is a resilient achiever who approaches every opportunity with dedication and a drive to improve. And Michaela Armstrong, senior from Maricopa High School. Michaela is a communicator and leader who encourages those around her while making a lasting impact on her school community. 29,000 votes. >> [cheering] [applause] >> Linda Gagner, eighth grader from Maricopa Virtual Academy. Linda is a principled leader who consistently treats others with respect and leads by example. And Mark Montero Gutierrez, junior from Ram Academy. Mark is a resilient achiever whose perseverance and determination continue to drive his academic success.
Light bulbs need to be changed. So, that day there's going to be a list where they can just start knocking out what they want to knock out for that day. What's good about that work order system, too, when that happens they can go in there let everybody know what's been completed and what to keep moving on, you know. So, it kind of gives them a direction for the day. Anything else? Am I getting any news? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Item 8.2 donations. Yeah, there's several donations this month. Middle school had First Pres donated $165 for deficit lunch accounts. If you notice month to month there are a lot of different organizations that do [clears throat] that for our kids that have those deficit accounts. The high school has various anonymous donors it's 100 1,675 to the baseball program. Um middle school Sciota 1950 that's 1,950 for Sarah Smith to go to [clears throat] the Christmas Carol so they pay for those tickets for those kids to go.
Do I think we're doing that a little bit? I do. Um but not to the extent where I'm I'm really concerned about it. Um the the next piece of this, which we haven't even talked about, is athletics, right? So, in this override conversation, we we charge families significant amount of money for students to participate in middle school through high school athletics. User fees. We're going to continue to charge user fees. That's just the reality. When they were instituted, I think in 2007, um, in this community, they're not going away. Once you institute a fee, they're not going away, right? But we still have a $300,000 deficit each year in athletics. um in terms of what it costs us to run our athletic programs, transportation, coaching salaries, um official salaries, uh equipment, um prices have gone up to to purchase uniforms. All of those things um are are being absorbed, if you will, again with school choice funding uh andor transportation funds um that we charge families for busing.
They would go approximately the 5 yard line of the football field. Okay, on the home side, they would be about 10 ft back from the track. Okay, at the 5 yard line. Okay, on the visitor side, they'd be at the 5 yard line and they would be about 5 to 7 feet back. Okay. The one concern that I have on that is just trying to work with them to make sure if we expand that track and do the track at some point that we have enough room to meet the needs that we want to do with the track when we would get there. Um so they were all able to kind of work with us on on what that would look like moving into the summer as well. So, um, for the show light package, do you know is that I mean change those song?
So, it's um it's really exciting to see what the money can do as well. So, I know it's tough. You know, $10 a ticket, that's not easy for some students, but um it's going to a good cause. You just have to think like I'm I'm I'm learning to donate young and and that's really what it's all about. >> And of course, it's all about the films, isn't it? >> Of course. Of course. >> You both have films in the film festival this year. >> Yes, we do. >> That's great. And probably will be next year, too. >> Of course. Yes, of course. Definitely. Definitely. Definitely. >> I'm sure. >> Okay. So, >> all right. Did I talk enough? >> Did I take enough? >> Yeah. What is that? >> Can you get a hold of me, >> bro? All right. Hello. We are here with >> Thomas Bman.
So it's it's everyone. It's all groups within this district. and that and CA being the negotiating group that's called out by policy for the district. I'm comfortable with that because the responsibility of meet and confer is also to look at all groups throughout the district and in the options you can see that you have the potential today to touch all of those people wallto-wall throughout the district. So my pep talk is as you're evaluating all of those things, take that as one of your considerations. Like we are stronger together and with great power comes great responsibility. And so I'm going to dump that responsibility onto you as a group. I apologize for that. But like I tell my son all the time, if it was easy, anybody could do it. It's not easy, but this group can definitely do it. So I just again point of superintendent's privilege which I rarely take.
Congratulations again to these outstanding Spotlight students. >> [applause] >> And next, we'll honor our outstanding student athletes. As I call your name, please come forward to receive your certificate and give a quick fist bump to the governing board and Dr. Lotman, and then head to room 123 for a group photo. Congratulations to Chernor Benguerel, eighth grader. He's a soccer player >> [applause] >> from Desert Wind Middle School. Irene Bigbow, eighth grader, flag football, track, and basketball player from Desert Wind Middle School. Arizona Brower, eighth grade baseball and flag football player from Maricopa Wells Middle School. Olivia Venverloh, sixth grader, softball player, Maricopa Wells Middle School. And Aaron Sanchez, senior baseball player from Desert Sunrise High School. Cadence Stansfield, senior beach volleyball player from Desert Sunrise High School. >> [applause] >> Shane Johnson, junior boys volleyball player, Maricopa High School. And Valeria Coronado Rivas, senior tennis player from Maricopa High School.
The high school various anonymous donors $60.71 to the choir. And also at the high school various anonymous donors for the musical $27.94 ask for your approval. Sorry about that train wreck of reading those numbers. Entertain a motion to approve the donations as given. Second? Second.