Same thing as you mentioned we check as the manufacturer's letters right that does say that hey what kind of tobacco it is you know if there is any flavoring or not flavoring like flavored tobacco is banned in the state right so so we for any tobacco product that's sold right we have those manufacturing letters letters from the manufacturer right that states what what exactly is in the product right so we check that >> so similar to what we're talking about so right >> coa yeah >> that that's that's the first visit that we And and can sorry to interrupt but th the mandatory the the twice a year visits are those written in the tobacco >> bylaw or is those just things that we do? I I am not sure right if it is written in the in the regulation itself right but like that's what we >> that's under the uh grant that we got that you know that that's from the state because the grant is from the state right I guess I guess it's $150,000 a year that we we get that right >> and then second visit is our compliance checks right under and there where we hire youths right that are that are young right that we hire them and that's what we we send them to to our vendors, right?
Furthermore, I want to circle back to last month's um meeting about mental health and social social emotional concerns that have been characterized as not appropriate for our district. In any professional environment, proactive behavior management and emotional intelligence are keys to productivity. In a classroom, they're keys to academic proficiency. We need to stop using the full plates of our teachers and as as an excuse to keep them from the tools that actually make their jobs easier. I want my daughter's teachers to have the same right to professional growth and modern frameworks that any state analyst or business professional enjoys. Let's start treating our educators like the professional experts they are. Finally, it's one thing to have a different vision for our schools. It's quite another to manufacture a crisis using alternative facts. When it's claimed that 50% of our students are not proficient, it isn't just misrepresenting a spreadsheet, it's actively disparaging the hard work of our teachers and the achievements of our children.
Um so tonight I'm going to present to you the April 2026 update of the BPIP and then the Pelum uh specific data. So as I move into the next couple slides here, this is just just the agenda um the intro which we just did. Um and then the brim data update. So the next couple uh three slides will be the pelum data that you have in that slide presentation. Um and that's just three slides. Um then we'll go into the policy or the plan overview.
So, and then then then the fines, right? So, that we have done, you know, and um and then we have one uh this year as well, right? So, uh that that's how it's followed. >> Um so, I that raises another question now. Um so, Jay, just getting back to section 9 um D. Um again the ashen board of health shall adopt standards for testing Raj what does that look like does that mean we need to send you for training for this do we have to purchase pro product to be able to do we >> like to my understanding chief that's a harder part you know so like that's a lot of stuff if you're going to get into that you know so >> well it doesn't mean you have to do it correct >> but there's you can adopt the standards like this is a product if it were tested needs to be done with, you know, mass spec or whatever the standard would be.
The Arizona Department of Education tells a very different story. For the 2024-2025 school year, every single in-person Higley school in Higley earned an A rating. We don't just meet the bar, we set it. With a 61% proficiency rate in math, we are outperforming nearly every neighborhood district in our county. To call our performance a failure isn't just a lie, it's fear mongering. That is the end of our request to speak. So, this brings us to consent agenda items. I motion to approve consent agenda items 6.1 through 6.18. Second. Uh, going to give that to Mr. Glover. For the second. All those in favor? I. I. Miss >> I. Thank you, Vince Van Hook. Uh, motion carries 4 to 0. We would like to thank Cane's Chicken, Higley High School Parents Unite Booster Club, Power Ranch PTO, Bosch Building Technologies, and Concord General Contracting for their generous donations to the district and its students.
um which is just an ex explanation of the improvements and edits that have been made to the bullying prevention inter intervention plan and then the implementation plan for those updates and how that aligns with the larger social emotional learning plan and alignment that we have for the districts and then next steps and any questions that you might have. Um so for Pelum Elementary the brim data uh reporting period that we pulled for this was February 1st through March 31st and we had four total reports filed during this period and those four total reports are actually represent two distinct incidents. So, two of those reports ended up being duplicate reports, which means that different individuals filed separately about the same event, which is actually a great sign that people are paying attention and using the system as it's intended. Um, so once we remove those duplicates or close them out as duplicate reports, we have one confirmed bullying incident and then one closed as unfounded.
And it sounds like if we were to do it this way, that would be a separate document or SOP. Um, I don't think that anybody would ever imagine that we would be the ones testing, >> right? >> You know, we would send it out >> per our standards. >> True. You know, then only concern I will have then is the resources, right? Like I mean our department is very tight with what we are doing right now right like I mean there are other some some other regulations that are kind of you know u other other committees are working on right they're trying to bring it to us you know if you ask me manpower wise right I'm very tight uh u with our inspections and all that right like where we are right now so that'll be just again I'm I'm for whatever board want to adopt right that that'll be like my concern with staffing and all that we were very limited.
Madam President, [clears throat] may I just make your comments? So, we just passed what, 6.1 to 6.18, correct? So, just in there, in case anybody was happen to happen to look, um, there are over $2 million worth of, um, savings that our staff has, uh, looked at and, uh, uh, ways to save money in this, uh, in this environment where, you know, every dollar is precious. So, there's over There's two at least two different items where, uh, we're saving probably over $2 million a year. Uh, not a year, sorry. One is over 5 years and, uh, one is about $120,000 a year. So, I just applaud those efforts of people looking at ways to be more efficient and to save money. >> [clears throat] >> This brings us to information items. We have 7.1 lease agreement information between AZ Aspire Academy and Higley Unified School District.
And then zero cases from this reporting period are still open or in progress. And then everything uh from these two incidents has been investigated, resolved, and followed up on, which is great. Both of those actionable incidents took place in within the physical school spaces. One was in the gymnasium and then one was in the hallway. So split evenly between the two incidents. It's kind of a an interesting pie chart. It's just one in one, but 50%. Um and then the behaviors uh categorized were physical contact, name calling, and then in the confirmed case, intimidation as well. Uh these are patterns we'd expect to see at the elementary level, and they were responded to directly by staff. And here's just a key takeaway slide from the the two confirmed uh incidents or one confirmed bullying and and one other uh incident that ended up not constituting bullying by the definition.
>> But it but it would be an issue anyway if you were to ban the whole thing. You would still have to you're you have to test because you how can you ban something that you can't test? So it would it would be the same issue, right? Whether you're regulating part of this or you're banning the whole thing. Um you know the only way it wouldn't be a problem is if you just ignore the the issue all together. >> No no so Dr. I'm not supporting like ignoring it, you know, but just my two cents, right? Like I mean, this is where we are and we'll we'll we'll get this done. It's not like, you know, but if we're going to be regulating, but I guess then we have to do like as we do with tobacco, right? That we do minimum number of inspections to make sure, right, that that our vendors are in compliance, right?
Mr. Lotzenhiser. President Wade, members of the board, I'm really excited today to come and present an information and followed by an action item about an opportunity we have to lease some of our empty space at Power Ranch Elementary School. And so, tonight's presentation is to explain what space we are leasing, uh, and then our rationale behind that. And so, you have copies of the lease, but coming from the pictures, uh, the first one shows you the entirety of Power Ranch. You can see there are buildings and our extensive fields that we already have at Power. Specifically, the information which is 16,200 square feet that we are looking to lease would be in our B building, and you can see that's the smaller map that you can see right there. That's one portion of the B building, and so our job or our goal with this lease is to lease this space out to one of our partners, a private day school.
And a few things I just want to make sure that land here with the group. Uh first is that unfounded does not mean that the incident was ignored in any way. uh that case still resulted in nurse care, a counseling session, a principal meeting, and a parent notification for both uh involved parties. So, the system worked here as it should have. Um the second thing is that the confirmed case got a full response, safety plans, increased supervision, counseling, family meetings, and a plan for restorative conversations. So, this is all completed as well ahead of schedule, which is great. Um, and then third, there were no cyber bullying, nothing online. Um, and then I want to specifically call out that Pelum had named staff assigned in BRIM and is using the all of the full uh detail fields. So, this is something that came up last week and you'll see in the full data that I'll present after these slides for the districts from 2025 is that oftentimes a lot of the fields are missing in in our brim data and specifically the assigned staff.
So that'll be like my only thing, you know. So >> yeah. So let me let me offer a hypothetical that I think maybe gets to the point that Jay is trying to make. So let's say we went instead of with the regulation route, we just went with a ban route. And so we ban all catum products. So then retailers are not going to sell anything on their shelves that uses the wordratom at all. >> But they could sell a product that actually contains or the seven hydroxy synthetic variants, >> which is what why we're doing this. >> Right. Exactly. So, so in that case then someone comes to you or us and says you know someone that I know or I myself purchase this product from a retailer in Ashland and it made them very ill and it gave them symptoms similar to an overdose or something like that.
And so, for a frame of reference, and I can come back to the map if we need to during the question time to be able to look, this is the location. So, you can see where it is located on the lower left-hand side of the map, and those are the classrooms that we're looking to lease. So, AZ Aspire Academy and Ascent Academy are private day schools that are partners with Higley. We already have some of our students attending them. They're private day schools that provide special education programming and related services for K-12 students. These two academies operate multiple campuses across the valley, and we're excited that they were interested in combining with us. Again, is there a partner that we already use and are a trusted group that helps support our students. The timeline of the lease is kind of important, and which is why we were here today.
So for these two specific incidents, granted it's a small sample size, but everything was was there, which is really really really great. Um, including investigation comments, interventions, locations, behaviors, student names. Um, these fields were all populated. So um, Palm is doing a great job modeling exactly the kind of accountability practice that we would love to see across uh, all the districts. Yay. >> Yay. Yay. Yes. Um, so great job. Granted, it's very small sample size. We shouldn't draw any broad conclusions about two, you know, four total reports and two incidents. However, you know, it's probably a good indicator that staff are um doing a great job consistently across the board >> and making sure that they're >> Yes. Go ahead. >> This is Marta just intervening that this is historically what we've seen from Pelum. So I just want to attest that they really have done a great job.
What would we do to establish like so we know the product that they bought because they would we would get that information from the person who's making the complaint. Um what would we do then to uh establish whether or not this retailer knowingly or unknowingly was selling a product that violated the ban that we had on the product >> right on the only thing I will say on that right now if it is food related right that we can take action right away under the food court >> so nothing is allowed any native is not allowed in the food right now again coming back if it is a food product and somebody's trying to sell anything you know that then we can take action you know so if it's some some other form right again it's if it is a powder form right so or it's it's it's like in in the form of tablets right then it's a tough scenario right like for us to take action at least for what I know right now right like I mean if somebody like if now in a pharmacy they're selling it I probably they won't do it in a pharmacy right now if it is sold as a supple suppment or something, right?
We are looking and asking for approval of the lease here on May 5th. The reason for that is there are a couple summer construction projects that we'd like to get started that we can go ahead and get done during the summer should we have approval tonight. We can move forward on them, and those are specifically the parking lot and additional fencing that would go in. And so, if I were to go back to the map, the parking lot would be on the lower left-hand side. You'll see it a kind of a dirt area. We're adding parking in at that location. The reason we're adding parking is we don't want to interfere with any of the current parking that is done for our Power Ranch community. This would add parking for the tenant and would allow them to have a space closer to the entrance for them that could be considered their parking lot.
Mickey needs to be commended because that is our experience historically. So just wanted to say that. Thank you. >> Thank you for that. Uh historical context is really helpful. Thank you Martha. Um so here we can move on to the districtswide data that uh directly informed the BPIP update and as well as a host of other um information. But across 2025 we had 187 uh and this is for all schools across all three districts um 187 reports and um then 46 so far in 2026. So that indicates one thing for sure is that the system is being used which is a positive that we want to make sure that we point out. Um students and families are bringing concerns forward. Definitely worth highlighting. In the majority of those cases, as I alluded to, uh the input field in brim for named investigator was left blank.
There is not too much at the health department level we can do. So, >> gotcha. >> But >> so, so, so, so if it's not a food product, then the health department can't go even if somebody's consuming it like you um cava, right? It's basically considered s the same uh from a from an FDA standpoint. And you can buy that at Whole Foods. Um, and it's probably in the medicine section or whatever as a supplement. Um, I mean, that's the kind of thing we're talking about. It's not necessarily a food. And in fact, the way this is written is it can't be sold as a food. So if um if we didn't have any of this at all or as Dave said, if you were to totally ban the whole thing, but things were on the shelf, they don't call themselves CRAM, they're not an obvious food product, you're saying that that and you knew that somebody got sick from it, that that there's no jurisdiction over that.
The fencing, if you take a look at our picture on the right, the fencing would be basically the upper right-hand portion of that where we would separate, so they would have a smaller outside area that would be enclosed in a fence that would not have access to the rest of the campus. That would allow them to have an outside place for their students. With approval tonight, um should that happen, the tenant would move into the space on July 1st, 2026, and then we are looking for a 6-year lease agreement um for them to be in there to be able to support our students and students from the surrounding districts. So, the financial implications. So, this is directly from the contract. You can see that there's a graduated scale of increasing per square footage uh part of the lease. And so, part of that is that we know that there are startup costs for both us and for them both them early.