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I mean, I think we should be doing that. So, I you know what I mean? It's not that we don't want uh Dr. Cog used to do that, but I I think for us being the board, if it comes out Tuesday, not that we can announce, but if we have to have a special meeting, we just come back here for for a short time and we announce it and let everybody know what that is. But that would give Dr. Chicago n and her team a little bit of time to figure out you know you know statement and put it out and we should do that. I mean this is I guess it's just my opinion. Yeah, I agree. I mean I think if everybody can keep their calendar open for next Wednesday night. Yeah, if we have to have a and if it's not Wednesday and it comes out late Wednesday, we do it Thursday.

We're going to go back to, you know, we're going to stay the way we are. If it goes this way, this is what we want the students and you guys to know that and the and the staff, this is what we expect just so that everybody's on the same page. and and how like will we continue to proactively work those CO mitigation plans continue social distance cleaning and all of that those things will still be in play right if it goes the way as the district court depends some of it may change other than we're asking a lot of hypotheticals we can't make decisions until we have the facts in front of us and then we will develop a plan but what I'm saying the lawsuit was only on mask square. Noac [Applause] and vaccination and uh quarantine time. So it's three levels of of change.

I mean I just think that we should be open and available for that just because I don't think this is this is obviously something that's going to affect the entire state one way or another. And again, it's not our if it goes back to Thursday, then we just imply and we tell everybody that's exactly what we're doing. If it goes the other way, then we tell everybody it's masks that we're taking that out and we don't have that right to enforce that. And but we got to give Dr. K, you're going to have to come up with something. I think that if it goes the other way, how we address, how we inform the public, like we want them to know. I mean, what we want to make sure that when the kids go back to school the next day, the ones that are watching and if we can get something out right away, we just got to be have a plan to say that if it goes this way, this is what's we of expected.

Okay. So that's and again social distance. It's not an easy thing, right? It's not. But that's why I think we should be once we come up with that we should meet a little bit before the meeting should you know if we can and or I don't even know if we can but I think we got to be in public otherwise we break law. Right. Just so we understand, we're on the same page and we are communicating that out to everybody so everybody knows what's going on. I guess I have a question. We have districts that have just gone and done it. How are they handling it? H how are what's going on in their schools? Do they have a bunch of teachers who don't want to come in? Are the students being kept home? I mean, I think we could get a feel for things.

We're going to go back to, you know, we're going to stay the way we are. If it goes this way, this is what we want the students and you guys to know that and the and the staff, this is what we expect just so that everybody's on the same page. and and how like will we continue to proactively work those CO mitigation plans continue social distance cleaning and all of that those things will still be in play right if it goes the way as the district court depends some of it may change other than we're asking a lot of hypotheticals we can't make decisions until we have the facts in front of us and then we will develop a plan but what I'm saying the lawsuit was only on mask square. Noac [Applause] and vaccination and uh quarantine time. So it's three levels of of change.

And I don't know that you guys have heard anything, but there's a lot of districts who just went with it. Said it pertains to everybody. How are they handling it? I mean, are they having issues? If they are having issues, how are they handling it? I mean, I think maybe we need to network a little bit here. Um, because that may may at least give us some idea which way we may be wanting to look at. I mean, I haven't heard any I I'm watching the TV like crazy trying to keep Dr. updated when I can. And not one newscast or any of these legal councils have come on and said ex uh district 000 had 50% of their staff not come in today because of the change. I haven't heard any negatives. Now, that doesn't mean it couldn't happen in this district. I'm just saying is there a way for us to figure out how to talk to some of these districts and say now that you've gone to this what's it like s student attendance what's it like for your staff because the only interviews I saw people were just people being interviewed said we didn't take your right away to wear a mask you can still wear that mask we are giving you the option and that's the only thing that I get any any people saying about anything that's going on in the schools Well, when I heard those districts, I I thought I only heard one district, but you named all those districts, right?

Okay. So that's and again social distance. It's not an easy thing, right? It's not. But that's why I think we should be once we come up with that we should meet a little bit before the meeting should you know if we can and or I don't even know if we can but I think we got to be in public otherwise we break law. Right. Just so we understand, we're on the same page and we are communicating that out to everybody so everybody knows what's going on. I guess I have a question. We have districts that have just gone and done it. How are they handling it? H how are what's going on in their schools? Do they have a bunch of teachers who don't want to come in? Are the students being kept home? I mean, I think we could get a feel for things.

No, there's a whole bunch of districts. I thought you named some 150 that filed the lawsuit. Yeah, but the only one I thought the only one I heard that was kind of close to the demographics as ours was like homeless floss. But I'm talking about all the schools that just have automatically done it now. They've all said it pertains to us and we're doing it. There's lots of schools. I just haven't heard. Let me share what he previous district Hinsdale 181 did. They went into emergency session. They came out and so what they're in what they did was they said students have the option of wearing a mask. Staff is required to wear a mask. You still have to wear a mask on the bus. And I think and again, you know, you you have an option to wear a mask. And so I think, you know, we have to be careful sometimes with our terminology because again, I think, and and Eric, you can correct me if I'm wrong, they're not saying don't wear a mask.

And I don't know that you guys have heard anything, but there's a lot of districts who just went with it. Said it pertains to everybody. How are they handling it? I mean, are they having issues? If they are having issues, how are they handling it? I mean, I think maybe we need to network a little bit here. Um, because that may may at least give us some idea which way we may be wanting to look at. I mean, I haven't heard any I I'm watching the TV like crazy trying to keep Dr. updated when I can. And not one newscast or any of these legal councils have come on and said ex uh district 000 had 50% of their staff not come in today because of the change. I haven't heard any negatives. Now, that doesn't mean it couldn't happen in this district. I'm just saying is there a way for us to figure out how to talk to some of these districts and say now that you've gone to this what's it like s student attendance what's it like for your staff because the only interviews I saw people were just people being interviewed said we didn't take your right away to wear a mask you can still wear that mask we are giving you the option and that's the only thing that I get any any people saying about anything that's going on in the schools Well, when I heard those districts, I I thought I only heard one district, but you named all those districts, right?

They're just saying you can't mandate that you have to. You can still have an option to wear a mask. And I think that's how we present it if if the ruling goes that way, you know, and that. and um that that individuals still have an option to wear that mask. Now, I don't know what to do about the bus. I I would just tell you that I'm in charge of transportation. I don't know what to do on the bus because, you know, that's a federal mandate, right? And you know, it's it's required to to wear it on bus. So, you know, there's no way we can police them either, right? And I think that's the one school is saying you still have the option to wear it. My my question would be even though you have that option, are they seeing students that aren't coming because they're afraid because there's people not wearing masks, are they seeing staff not coming because not everybody's I have not heard any of that.

No, there's a whole bunch of districts. I thought you named some 150 that filed the lawsuit. Yeah, but the only one I thought the only one I heard that was kind of close to the demographics as ours was like homeless floss. But I'm talking about all the schools that just have automatically done it now. They've all said it pertains to us and we're doing it. There's lots of schools. I just haven't heard. Let me share what he previous district Hinsdale 181 did. They went into emergency session. They came out and so what they're in what they did was they said students have the option of wearing a mask. Staff is required to wear a mask. You still have to wear a mask on the bus. And I think and again, you know, you you have an option to wear a mask. And so I think, you know, we have to be careful sometimes with our terminology because again, I think, and and Eric, you can correct me if I'm wrong, they're not saying don't wear a mask.

I'll be honest with you. I haven't either. That's what I have seen and the the stuff that I've looked at and researched and all that. I have not seen that's exactly what I'm think are just all over the place. Right. They're all over the place. I am I am hearing the few districts that I have uh had some information on the districts that went in that direction, the majority of the community supported that. So that's why there wasn't so much of a push back. That's why they went that direction. And that's why I said the demographics, you know, again, it is what it is. I just haven't heard too many demographics like ours that says, you know what, we have um accepted and for the district to have options for the kids or the employees. I just haven't heard that other than I heard Homer Fostmore.

They're just saying you can't mandate that you have to. You can still have an option to wear a mask. And I think that's how we present it if if the ruling goes that way, you know, and that. and um that that individuals still have an option to wear that mask. Now, I don't know what to do about the bus. I I would just tell you that I'm in charge of transportation. I don't know what to do on the bus because, you know, that's a federal mandate, right? And you know, it's it's required to to wear it on bus. So, you know, there's no way we can police them either, right? And I think that's the one school is saying you still have the option to wear it. My my question would be even though you have that option, are they seeing students that aren't coming because they're afraid because there's people not wearing masks, are they seeing staff not coming because not everybody's I have not heard any of that.

Not saying that's right or wrong. I just haven't heard it. And I think it makes a difference where that school district is located at. I think it make a difference in the in the de demographics as far as community support, too. I mean, again, I saw with the survey that we just saw with employees, 50-50 split. Yeah. Yes, she did. 5050 split. No, she was going around showing all the board members before the meeting and you were talking. Well, well, I say I say this. If if we do have a majority, a a good number of staff members who resign, let me know what buildings you all are going to be teaching in so I can bring my observation to. So, all right. So, what do we need to do now? anything going to wait until when's it we find out from the court? Is okay.

I'll be honest with you. I haven't either. That's what I have seen and the the stuff that I've looked at and researched and all that. I have not seen that's exactly what I'm think are just all over the place. Right. They're all over the place. I am I am hearing the few districts that I have uh had some information on the districts that went in that direction, the majority of the community supported that. So that's why there wasn't so much of a push back. That's why they went that direction. And that's why I said the demographics, you know, again, it is what it is. I just haven't heard too many demographics like ours that says, you know what, we have um accepted and for the district to have options for the kids or the employees. I just haven't heard that other than I heard Homer Fostmore.

Okay. Any other questions for Eric? Okay. Does anybody have any other new business? Um, okay. Okay, we do have a need for close session. Can I get a motion to go into close session for the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals for service, independent contractors? Uh, we can go on. I think that's it. So moved. Second. Roll call. Um, Brown is an I. Mrs. Galbbert, hi. Dr. Hall, I Mr. Sales. Hi, Mrs. Walters. Hi, Vice President RP. I, President Albert, I. We are in close session at 7:51. Eric, thanks for coming. Okay, we got four. That's good. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Hold up. Bill, Bill, Bill and a second. Second. You do realize that we're being taped. So, Bill, you I want no part of this act. Let me turn. Okay. Second is sure. Okay.

Not saying that's right or wrong. I just haven't heard it. And I think it makes a difference where that school district is located at. I think it make a difference in the in the de demographics as far as community support, too. I mean, again, I saw with the survey that we just saw with employees, 50-50 split. Yeah. Yes, she did. 5050 split. No, she was going around showing all the board members before the meeting and you were talking. Well, well, I say I say this. If if we do have a majority, a a good number of staff members who resign, let me know what buildings you all are going to be teaching in so I can bring my observation to. So, all right. So, what do we need to do now? anything going to wait until when's it we find out from the court? Is okay.

i have submitted my written testimony and stand by it i am a nearly 22 year old 22 year resident of the state of hawaii and a person with epilepsy for the past 36 years seizure safe legislation like this provides students with epilepsy and seizure disorders the reassurance that should they have a seizure during the school day educators will know what to do witnessing a seizure can be a very scary event witnessing a seizure and not knowing what to do can be even scarier this legislation would give educators the confidence to respond appropriately not if but when a seizure occurs in their presence my first seizure was when i was 12 years old just a month before the school year started fortunately was at home and my mother who was a nurse was able to respond that was not necessarily the case if i was at school so please i encourage you to support sb 2071 to provide our students a safe and enriching environment thank you marine members that concludes our oral testimony we have 22 pieces of testimony for this bill and all in support um that concludes the bills that we have members are there questions on any of these bills and the testifiers please any questions [Music] chair k o hokulele any questions from the health committee okay hearing none um can we go into breakout reconvening the committees on education and health we are in decision making and the recommendation for senate bill 2187 relating to school-based health services for the education committee recommendation is to pass with amendments taking the amendments offered by doe and doh in their testimony to replace the word aids with the word assistance on page 1 line 4.

he came here with a consulting company and helped kind of gear up our technology and then we hired him in 2007 he was a professional friend that we could always depend on i'd call eric on the weekend let's go on six o'clock in the morning you'd like his way down he'd pull over and there's nine times to fix what i asked for on his phone i don't know how the heck he did that but he did hand so um which they served last wednesday in glendale it's been sad to see something like that he was a young man compared to me and very young man kova is continuing to ravage our population we've had as high as 15 percent absenteeism here at school 70-100 kids um depending on the day uh but they're we're worried that have uh covered symptoms we were averaging over two two staff members educational staff members out a day with no subs so dr jim boltz is spending a lot of time in classrooms and that's that impacts impacts us all so and one of the downsides of being in a rural and somewhat isolated community is i don't have a lot of time to talk to peers about what's going on in their schools as i mentioned one time recently last month i was at one of our payment county soups meeting and usually is a fairly optimistic uh happy group of people we all like our jobs not there it's really sad they've had as high as half their schools quarantined uh because of covenant it's uh it's getting they're just it's hitting them just like it is otherwise magnum flags are bigger schools and and i think maybe they have more contagion because it doesn't say that everybody is trying to figure things out there's no given solution and everything i can read is going to be long term early on i heard someone from the cdc talking about this could be 25 years i used smallpox as a an example and you said smallpox vaccinations i didn't realize this started about 1950 and smallpox wasn't eradicated so i'm afraid my my kids and my granddaughter are going to be the generation that deals with this financially i get frustrated as you all know very fast about money or the lack thereof people ask me what my two biggest worries are about running a district and i talk about the lack of money and teachers and if i have a lot of firsts i might go a bit more excited that's not the case financially well i mean back up about the state develop a new school finance law and it's the same one we use today and it is so much better than the previous law i appreciate the fact that obviously the young person administration this law has passed but it's a thing called equalization for example in ajo because it's not when we talk about rich districts and poor districts we're not talking about the income of the citizens we're talking about the taxable property in that community or in that school district one of the school districts uses a model on a lawsuit it's called roosevelt versus bishop bishop dianne bishop was the school of state state schools in content one time that lawsuit kind of brought about sfb they used cartwright district in west phoenix as a model my mother was a teacher there i lived there it was not a bad neighborhood not a reason to little rocks it was not a bad neighborhood at all but there was no industry it was all tracked homes that's very low on the tax on the taxable state so um we don't have tactical income here tactical property that osborne district does in phoenix for example elsewhere district has four schools four or five schools and they're downtown saddle mountain behind the white tank mountains has the nuclear power plant a friend of mine was the superintendent there for years several years he took over after a person had run a district over several million dollars in debt but they have more money than they have students to cause the use of money so districts like osborne and saddleback now merced mountain their money comes to help out students in schools like us who have a low tax part of the part of the bill the law and this was done well i got a thousand legislation 1982 there was a lot of cross that isl work it was different political atmosphere than i worry we have today part of the bill said they put a ceiling on how much debt or or budget the state can have the purpose of that is to stop taxes from going up we will hit that ceiling on or about march 1st that means the state is going to have to cut 1.2 billion from the budget somehow that means that little aho is going to lose over 700 000 this year now talking to people that are more hooked up with the legislature than i ever will be they have talked to people of the party that's in the majority they were told by one representative or senator this state legislature can vote to override that seal it has to my knowledge it hasn't hardly been talked about yet at the legislature um we if we don't have that vote we're going to have to adopt another budget in march for the remainder of this fiscal year that's gonna hurt seven hundred thousand dollars um the auditors are telling us we're in very good financial shape uh i planned it and a little bit tight with money especially taxpayer dollars because it's not my money spent uh we try to be very cautious on purpose and that's health when it comes to tough times like we had last year with buying chromebooks and things like that so um districts across the state are all going to be in deep trouble what we fear is that there's going to be a lot of quid pro quo in the legislature to get a majority to supersede that they call it ael i can't think of what it stands for now sorry uh for example cutting taxes on the super rich there's a representative named farnsworth owns a number of charter schools he's also a lawyer he's also in the state legislature he got a 20 million dollar check a couple weeks ago because he's picking up tax support of his charter schools his son is the manager the bookkeeper of his organization so his family is becoming wealthy running in charter schools i'm not a fan of charter schools so please accept my bias but there are people involved there that are getting richer and unfortunately in my opinion our kids are going to suffer what this is going to mean if they don't i think they will but i'd be remiss if i didn't tell you this that this could mean layoffs of staff it could mean early in some some districts are talking about ending the school year in march uh i hope i hope none of that happens we're using money right now to tutor kids three days a week because our kids need it i've talked to several of you about the fact that we had to be in my opinion to help keep children safe and healthy we had to have online education most of last year but every district i've talked to i've read about talks about that topic i was talking to someone just yesterday was an educator and they said it's like we've lost this generation uh the kids are having a hard time because they weren't held accountable when they're doing online work as they are when they were teachers they don't have they don't have the expertise of what a teacher's next to them in the classroom to help them and motivate her so and so forth so that's kind of dismal it's something when i can't sleep at night just kind of back here in the back of my mind i hope i hope that they send you folks a board letter about three weeks and say the legislation came through if you know a legislature a legislator tell them tell me support right now that i haven't talked to them for about a year but our legislators for auto are basically very supporting the public debt and i hope that i hope that continues um there are two bills coming out of the senate this year that will increase vouchers vouchers as you all know are tax dollars that go to private schools initially that was sold to the voters or to the to get the thing passed in arizona don't know about other states that they were saying that uh schools in poor neighborhoods were not good schools excuse me i turned this thing off um so they were saying we're going to send special ed kits vouchers are running for special ed kids what they found in one one statistic i read a couple years ago um only about 18 to 20 percent of the students in the low-income areas who are bailing themselves of those doctors they want to be in the neighborhood so the money then was going to people who have their children in two expensive uh three expensive private schools and feedings are xavier uh phoenix country day and um i remember the perfect thank you uh so and the fact the governor's kids go to those schools uh so i worry that key politicians our state don't know what it's like to be a student in an inner city school of tucson or phoenix or a rural school like ajo or gila bed and something like that so that's going to be harmful i think it's going to create more of a homogeneous environment and my belief system that education heterogeneity is important in the learning process so i'm kind of frustrated cove has taken its emotional toll on kids and staff the nea which i was a member for years i did a survey recently wanted to read this so don't forget they talked about the increase in educators losing leaving the profession sooner than later sooner than plan in january they did this survey last month of the people who surveyed are talking about burnout people can say well teachers don't have a bad deal they get weekends off they get most nights off they only work eight hours a day as i told the board member one time i was president teacher associates and said yeah we do work those hours and we only work 9 or 10 months a year but we'd get it done because we're so good now that was kind of being a little live but teachers work hard i don't see lazy teachers in the outdoor school and i appreciate their work and i hope i hope our parents do so 90 are experiencing burnout 55 percent of those people say they're going to retire early as soon as they get out they're going to get out now i don't know what we would do if you were downtown oslo without our international teachers um we have good people i think they're hard workers um but um it's it would have been ugly here for several years if we had one of those people it looks like it could get worse um we talked about that i want to talk about counselors just real briefly i know a couple years ago the board one of my goals was to find the counselor and i was lucky [Music] now we're using an agency called southwest behavioral health services because if you think teachers are rare business managers and counselors are more so and we had a gentleman assigned our school one day a week i didn't think that was enough coming back from the kobe so i talked last spring and i asked thank you lisa i asked last spring can we double that on an idea we can double that our counselor here missed most of the last i think semester six months yeah at least this fall semester because it's a very very severe illness and has recuperated this appears to be okay he's scheduled to be here now monday wednesday and friday so i'm happy for our kids obviously they're not going to see a counselor unless the parents give permission but sometimes our kids just need someone to talk to and sometimes adolescents want to talk about things that they wouldn't not want to talk about their parents offense parents because i wouldn't do that my kids got through it but adolescence was a time and challenge for a lot of us um well on an upbeat i got a letter yesterday and i'm not sure how why we got this but i'm glad we did the tucson optimus club which i wish i could become more so um they sent us a check for 1400 of course to use on a reading program but all right so i really appreciate that um and um i wanted to talk a little bit on monday night's meeting um a statement trying to address very briefly that the first board member had asked for agenda information about the superintendent of search and research search had to hear anything back angelina keeps her email very early um that was about 101 afternoon the questions in that email were answered at 407 418 so i just don't want support to think yeah i think i can respond to something like that but i didn't mention anything anyway long story short i want the board to know that we're trying to communicate okay [Music] the doctor all right so one second mr president hi mr hopkins approval of teacher contracts for the 2022-23 school year the administration's requesting board approval for the insurance for a contract to enlisted teachers john obama april caviaro and claire williams olivia garcia caroline rodriguez amanda yagam charlie barankum chad chidley pamela de la cruz bobby casey jose bruce and york mercy ericom darnell connolly marianne developer richard bill daddy williams manager beltran veronica angela garcia mary grace and kevin wilkins mr president um i mentioned this the other night but a couple of members weren't here this is not our entire teaching staff right now the only reason other people are not included that you may wonder about is because of the visa because of covet j-1 thesis had an automatic three years and then go for a waiver for five or two more several of our teachers had had a way but another wave for the last two years they've been here seven years and it appears that the state department has not gone extended so that's why they're not if if tomorrow they were extended it would save landslides and some worries and we would be glad to recommend those people that's why it's agreed with us okay uh superintendent recommendation i recommend the approval of the issues to contract mr hoffman hi mr cruz richard i miss robertson all right mr goodman hi hopefully thank you very much classified working agreement agreements for the 22-23 school year the administration is requesting voter approval for the issuance of working agreements to be listed non-certified staff members the administrative would be venus governor maria lopez candace moore arcelia linos angelina valenzuela shannon wolfe in the cafeteria martha benavidez sarah ray alejandro ortega and fernando rossorio and maintenance with daniel cotton james davis raphael flores rania actually gonzalez perez richard russell studion jose r young and as parapros we have lloyd daniels samuel hernandez bethany morales evelyn sanchez maria diaziola maria durrant debbie house tristan williams sherry simpson alejandra fingarowa suzanne leon christopher newman bernadette camayo julia gutierrez francisco lopez crystal pacheco andy and the vasquez recommendation is to approve the issuance of working in agreements to the above individuals [Music] ketchup when i was reading them last night that alejandra the figure relatives listed twice was she no i'm sorry oh that she needed alejandro that's the biggest just remind the board it looks like we have two four six eight more uh maintenance workers actually short one two of those gentlemen um are part-time employees they're basically drivers part-time writers mr curtis ms duncan aye mr opponents huh mr robertson aye mr goodley i hope it passes leanne burns has submitted a letter of destination effective april 29 2022 superintendent's recommendation that the board approved the resignation of mrs barbara's past awkward school business manager effective april 29 20.

well i and if you i'm sorry go ahead i'm just going to look at the first bullet let's say each student shall be provided with an opportunity to participate in the pledge of allegiance another patriotic observance each day it's only four through six that includes the preamble okay let's i i whole wholly think that kindergartners are capable of doing this let's just it might take a while for them to learn i mean we can create this policy with the understanding that it's not going to be implemented right away i think definitely for three on up it's and i'm not quite sure about second grade but i really think for grades three and up this is absolutely doable for the younger grades it's going to have to be more of a call and response so we can make that a policy we just have to know that it'll take a little bit for the kids to learn it but if we want to make it k12 then or do we table that until summer maybe i don't know so it's not to disrupt whatever their process is now in class so all of a sudden we change a policy and then they go oh okay now we gotta change it is that what you're thinking no i'm saying to table this and we change it over the summer maybe well other than the fact i would still like you to follow up though on the fact that if the pledge if each student students have provided an opportunity to participate in the pledge of allegiance um that is k-12 and like i said i i i know for sure in some of our high schools it's just on the tv as an announcement and so it's not really regarded like it should be i don't think um because then they don't really have an opportunity if ever if it's in the middle of you know chaos in the morning or um other things are going on within you know getting instruction ready or whatever and a student wanted to stand for the pledge or say the pledge it's really not conducive from what i've seen so i guess dr kellis would need examples and that's what i think you were asking for right yes and i hear you saying that we need to make it a more intentional pause in the day for this to happen do you need me to tell you what high school it is is that what you're saying missing no i mean i'm just okay i'm just restating if i understand what you're asking yes i would i would like that to be more of a mindful practice for whether our teachers make sure that there's opportunity based on what's happening in the classroom work right because otherwise it's just if you happen to glance up at the tv it's like oh there's a flag waving i guess that's the pledge understood thank you so maybe we have a conversation over the summer about adding it to k-12 or expanding it to k-12 for the preamble for the pre-order for the right but the pledge thing should be happening like now should be yeah dr kelly will follow up though okay and then i think that's it for the best and i have something but i have to find it now i'm all distracted sorry um policy 9.47 you want to support miniature horse [Laughter] [Applause] i thought that was pretty cool yeah i always wondered about that i have lost it oh okay i'm sorry 9.29 for school volunteers the um the policy the district shall establish suitable procedures for recruiting approving and managing school volunteers i know that the word managing encompasses um a lot but i would like more built in to this to specifically outline the process of excluding a volunteer that maybe has violated the volunteer policies madame president densmore just for clarification are you asking for additional language to be put in policy or in procedures well i think that we need to start here first so in other words the second sentence should be the district shall establish suitable procedures for recruiting approving managing and excluding school volunteers and i'm open to suggestions on synonyms for that word that might be a little softer but what about removing school volunteers does that say what you wanted to say or is that still too soft that's fine you're revoking the revoking there you go volunteer privilege right i'm sure that there is something built in well i don't see it outlined in the procedure but i'm sure that we do have a process to go through but i would also like to see something available to the public that both staff and other volunteers within the district can understand what that looks like thank you madam president mrs densmore and there's a lot of language in here that talks about in the procedures about the volunteer process and we also require all of our volunteers to go through volunteer orientation so that could be incorporated into multiple places okay thank you madam president mrs densmore also just want to let the board know that our back our volunteers are required to go through a background check and if that background check um signifies a concern then they are denied entry what i'm hearing you ask for is procedures should that need to be revoked once they start to volunteer is that correct they have already been approved okay very good thank you and maybe not just link to a criminal issue but maybe just conduct or disruptions or say thank you anything else i guess i'm just a little confused um are there incidents that we don't know about with school volunteers and being removed any incidents that you aren't aware of but i'm aware of a few that have been addressed okay they have been addressed okay okay but the process is not clear for removing a volunteer correctness okay so would these be separate motions then it's information okay for next time okay all right anything else thank you we'll go ahead and move to information discussion g2 information on employee complaints and grievances dr kalis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kellis tonight we have the opportunity to outline our governing board policy 7.17 employee complaints and grievances when we start tonight it's important to outline the difference between a complaint and a grievance and if we can go to the next slide that would be great to begin tonight as i said it's important to know the difference between a complaint and a grievance the complaint is an expression of dissatisfaction by employee regarding conditions or circum circumstances that do not allege a misinterpretation or violation of governing word policy procedure or our certified mou a grievance is an allegation by a district employee of misinterpretation or violation of government government board policy procedure or the mou so the difference is the policies and procedures the mou a violation of that would constitute a grievance and things outside of that are complaints very important as we proceed through this policy addressing concerns and complaints if employees have concerns or complaints we like them in writing we do that through an email obviously we encourage our employees to face to face with their supervisor if they have a complaint and do that so also if they have a complaint and they need to take care of it hr they can email their immediate supervisor or hr we'll be glad to assist them in getting that concern or complaint resolved it's important to know that in the complaint process we always address our employee concerns and complaints uh matters fairly confidentially that would allow that law let's lets us do quickly and at the lowest organizational level so all the times even though they come to hr oftentimes we we turn them back to their supervisor to start there and discuss the complaint and solve it at that level grievances is the violation of a district policy or the mou on working conditions it is a multi-level process begins with the informal process that you see there level one level two and level three in the informal level this step is obviously missed sometimes but before you can file a written grievance by our policy they have to the grievant the person filing the grievance must attempt to resolve it by one or more informal conferences with their immediate supervisor as in policy times we refer the grievance back to this process to begin that the first informal conference has to be conducted within 10 working days after the employee or the grievan knew or should have known that an omission or act has occurred to file the grievance so that's important timelines are important after the informal level comes a formal level one so without within five working days of the informal conference if they cannot have a mutual acceptable resolution it's not agreed to then they must present the grievance in writing to the immediate supervisor again level one is for the immediate supervisor the informal level and level one is for our immediate supervisor this time it's in writing in that process in writing it we are very clear that it needs to state clear concise statement of the circumstances giving rise to the grievance and includes a citation or specific article section or paragraph of the policy procedure or mou that directly and specifically governs the employee's terms and conditions of employment that has been violated that the decision rendered in the informal conference what was that decision and the specific remedy sought a lot of times we have complaints or grievances and we always want to know what remedy are you looking for this is an important step if you do not include that step we often will call and ask you what remedy are you looking for in this process also in level one the immediate supervisor shall communicate a decision to the employee in writing within five days so after they hear or look at the level one they have five days the immediate supervisor does it is important that the party requests an imperfect conference or attempt to resolve the matter in the above time limit so time limits are key in this whole process moving on to levels two and three so the appeal levels after level one if you're not satisfied it goes on to level two which is to the superintendent at that time again there are timelines there are forms to fill in the procedures and timelines must be met you have within five working days to file level two appeal if you do not agree with level one with the immediate supervisor again all of this we can talk about besides listing it here tonight you can find all these procedures outlined in 7.17 procedure one it's very specific on the timelines i will be glad to help anybody through this process that needs it and doesn't understand the exact process they can just call hr and we'll be glad to walk them through that there are some general provisions again 7.17 lists all the general provisions but if you have failed to do any step in this procedure within a certain timeline then it is deemed that you accepted the decision of that level and there's no further right of appeal so timelines are important um and failure to file the grievance within 10 days after you should have known or know of circumstances that shall constitute a waiver of the grievance so those are important pieces again they're all outlined in 717 in the procedures and with that um i mentioned that you can find it for the third time in 7.17 and if you need help you can call hr we'll be glad to help you um through this process or determine even sometimes they're unsure if it's a complaint or grievance and we can talk through that process there's no problem with that so with that i'll be glad to answer any questions you may have thank you questions sorry i do have a question so what do we have in place to protect our employee employees when they file a complaint or agreements madam president uh member chaffin are you talking about retaliatory yes um a lot of employees are afraid to file a complaint or agreements against our administrators because they're afraid that of retaliation right we do not we have a statement i don't know exactly where it is but we do not um we are against that practice we do not take retaliatory actions very lightly we deal with them and that's not going to be done so that is the district's stance on that so what would you suggest to an employee who is still not even confident to you know an employee after hearing all this and hearing you say that what would you say to an employee who is still afraid to file that complaint or agreement i would say they need to call and have a discussion with me and talk through that process and i will be glad to guide them through that process and talk them through that and provide them some resources if they need that thank you anyone else well crystal really just asked my questions for me um so and thank you for saying that that if there is a discomfort for whatever reason with going to that immediate um immediate supervisor that they can contact hr directly have that conversation at least and you can at least you know try to guide them through that process and help them to be more comfortable and confident in in having those discussions and giving that feedback maybe maybe that's all it is hopefully feedback um to their to their supervisors um you know i think in looking at the grievance uh policy and also the procedures i i think it is important and i'm grateful that the statement of you know non-retaliation is in there but i'm not sure that everyone is is confident uh in that process but um you and i talked earlier but can you kind of just mention how many grievances you might get in a year on average madam president um remember dinsmore on average uh i've been here this is my third year here so i i've had one which i inherited when i come in since i've been here so we don't have a lot of grievances do we have complaints i'm not going to sit up here and tell you we don't even have complaints we do have complaints so it's human nature um you know things don't go right and we solve them we strive to solve them and make our employees happy so um it's important to us that we take care of these situations that they're handled correctly and we're here to help so we'll be glad to do that thank you very much for that um i think that's in some ways a very good thing you know that we've only had the one in three years but it does make me wonder though if people just aren't familiar or comfortable or confident in that process so having this discussion tonight hopefully people are listening and watching and uh can pass that word along if um if there is ever a concern it is definitely a complicated process um and sometimes there's a complaint that the word grievance is used often for when it's a complaint or vice versa so i would say if they're unsure ask we're here to help and they can even come to you with just a complaint so if an employee comes to you and says wow my supervisor was just downright nasty to me but they didn't really break any policies it's not right that the administrator the supervisor is just nasty to them but at the same time if they technically haven't broken any policies then what happens uh well if they contacted me and asked i would first ask have you spoken with your supervisor sometimes things are taken out of context and it's not meant that way or they're not aware that they might have hurt your feelings or made you feel uncomfortable and so that needs to be addressed if they're not comfortable with that we give them some encouragement and tools to use um you know they can often bring somebody with them just to listen we don't let them advocate but they can bring anybody they want with them to talk to an administrator at any time but we encourage that communication it's very important that we have that open communication back and forth between supervisors employees so they understand where both people are coming from and i will tell you 99 of the time it gets solved that way if they just listen and hear each other um and and figure out what went wrong so um and it's that communication piece oftentimes if people do not communicate it just sits and brews and and builds and makes things worse so we encourage to have that communication quite a bit and then one more question um so what if an employee their supervisor they have a complaint their supervisor was just nasty to them they go to the supervisors and say hey uh i don't know what your deal was i don't know if you just didn't have your coffee but what you said was inappropriate it was wrong and the supervisor says okay i'm sorry let's let's work it out two weeks later supervisor does it again employee goes okay hey what's going on oh i'm sorry and then two weeks later happens again so what happens if it becomes cyclical um at that point um then i think it progresses to the next level we have other assistant superintendents that supervise schools and supervise their supervisor so if they are unsatisfied with an outcome they tried to work it out then they need to go to the next level and and try to work it out at that level and resolve it the best they can thank you and again i just want to reiterate that timing is really important in this process you can't just let it stew for two weeks and then decide to do something that is correct thank you you're welcome i just had a quick question regarding um if there is any difference between an employee who is a dues-paying member of dea and those who are not in re i've heard lots of times saying well i'm i'm part of dea but only for the representation or only because you know but but what does that really mean because i thought the way the way we um associate ourselves as a district with the ea is that that representative or that liaison is supposed to represent all employees regardless of whether they're dues paying dea members so can you speak a little bit to what that comment might mean or is there even a difference between how um grievances are handled by a dea member versus one who is not a dea member member madam president that's a great question from an hr standpoint and a district standpoint there is no difference on how we carry out this policy with a member or a non-member if a non-member files it they will be treated the same way the difference with representation is oftentimes they like somebody to come with them and support them through the process so that person would be in there to take notes oftentimes they know the procedures a little bit more than the employee and they can assist them in those meetings but they are there for support so there is no difference on how we process it whether it's a member or a non-member we will do the same um we will do the same thing we also afford employees they may bring anybody they want it doesn't have to be a dea member it can be anybody it can be a colleague that's not a member or a dea rep to support them and we often tell them that every time they're welcome to bring somebody that person is not there to conduct the meeting they're there to listen take notes and assist the employee but we deal with the employee equally across the board but since we fund the salary of that dea membership or that liaison technically the understanding is they should go with any employee and sit with them and represent them i'm present that is correct so there's really no difference there's no difference whether you're a de member or not correct okay thank you other questions i i just want uh ask one to uh dr croto the complaint and the grievance processes are all listed within the employee handbook correct or online that can be referenced at any time that is correct thank you all right thank you next we move to g3 school reports dysart high school and sunset hills elementary school dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board of members of cabinet dr dean and dr pauline will introduce these schools good evening madam president members of the governing board dr kellis and members of cabinet and our community this evening i am pleased to welcome dysart high school and their principal sonny resh who will be presenting uh the information regarding dysart high school and we'll look forward to mrs resh presentation and we'll ask her to please introduce any of her team who are here as well good evening i'm madam president board members cabinet members and and guests um here with me this evening is uh miss jen chernikov who's one of our assistant principals over curriculum instruction uh miss gino royal is also here who's one of our or is our family outreach specialist um and tracy kanan is here who is with who is one of our teaching learning specialists for the district um so she's a dicers high school's representative um like dr uh dean said my name is sunny rush and this is my first year as president at president isn't it sorry i'm principal at dicers high school go sonny congratulations on that by the way um deicer high school's uh current enrollment is 1423 students our school colors are red and white with some black we tend to add a lot of black accents to our our uniforms and things our school mascot is hot stuff what makes us unique are some of our specialty programs which are signature programs our automotive program uh which is one of our definitely one of our cte programs that continues to grow just got a nice new renovation and so it looks fabulous i know you guys have all been there so you know how great it looks for the kids the kids are super excited about it and they have enjoyed um all the new renovations to the um facilities we also have avid and i know a valley now also has abbott but we are one of the original schools that started avid we do have rotc so there are many students across the district that do attend rotc first hour at dysart high school and then we have the cte photo imaging program as well one thing we love about cte and and the avid program in rotc is that it allows opportunities for our students to be successful for college and career readiness so it gives them those different skill sets that they are going to need whether they are going into a workforce or if they choose to go to a university or community college so we're pretty proud of those signature programs that we have on campus so we even though we do a lot of great things there's always areas for growth um and some of the areas that we really need to grow in one is um since we've kind of been back in person we're struggling a little bit with the tenants and tardies um our tardies have started to kind of grow and so we started kind of looking at our tardies and we noticed that first hour especially we were tending to have a lot of tardies so i kind of looked at with with our team what's going on why do we have so many targets first hour and i noticed that we were having a large back up into dysart road so what the team has started doing and we've only been working on this about a week and a half we started tweaking our um traffic flow so if you've seen our social media you know we posted um our new traffic load that we're trying we've actually cut our tardies down in half already in just a week and a half so we're going to take that so that's awesome so now we're getting more kids to school on time which is awesome but our other challenge is our tenants our kids that are missing so many valuable school days and so our family outreach specialists and our counselors they have been working hard to provide resources to our community to find out what it is that they need in order for kids to come to school and be successful what what what do we need to do to get you in our doors every day because we know once they're there we can educate them it's just getting them there one of our areas for opportunities of growth definitely for us a re-teaching students now how to have academic conversations at those higher dok levels when we came back in person kids were not used to having conversations anymore they're used to that online piece and not really having to have conversations with their peers and things so we really have had to uh work on re-teaching students to have those academic conversations at those high levels so what we did was are what we are working on currently is really making sure our teachers are lesson planning with intentional discussions built in um and then making sure teachers are teaching kids how to have normal conversations that then can lead to academic conversations and then we can continue to increase the dok level of those conversations another area of opportunity for us is our student involvement and that would be our athletics and our arts in terms of both participation numbers and the number of students that are attending those events so recently i we ran a town hall through our monday advisory period to find out why students were not participating in athletics in the arts and why they were not attending events why were they not supporting their peers with those things and we got some amazing feedback from our students they were very honest with us which which is extremely awesome so we have some new things that we're going to implement for spring sports and spring events in the arts and then we'll obviously carry those over to next year if they are very successful for us but um what i did was i took the student feedback portion and gave it to my athletic department and then i gave the activities and student involvement piece to my stuco group i give it to the kids so they can see what we can do in order to get kids involved get them back into being being involved with the school because we all know if kids are involved with their school they're going to graduate with us and they're going to graduate on time so the whole key is to get those students back involved so leading back into the arts our arts programs definitely need to encourage kids to continue in the arts to to take those higher level courses so an opportunity growth is definitely for us to continue to increase the not just the number that are attending our sorry in the arts but taking the upper level art courses how do we keep them going into three four and five six and maybe those ap art courses as well um we have increased the number of kids who are getting the art seal but we're still we we need more we need more kids into the arts um so that is definitely an opportunity for us for growth as well um oops sorry um celebrations so we have a lot of things we can celebrate i picked a few for us to kind of talk about one is our family outreach position that was started a couple years ago now that we've been full-fledged back in person that position has been a very key position for us at dysart high school so miss arroyo actually created a classroom on our campus that is open to students and and parents during the day and evening to provide supports for them so she offers courses for parents so like schoology courses um like how to operate schoology and how to look at kids reports and those things how to look at courses that we have how to help navigate any of our infinite campus features any of those type things she tries and run and then the parents need help with financial aid all those type things ms ariel runs through that particular classroom so we're very grateful to have that family outreach position because it's really helping us reach our families not only does she run that room that has the academics side of it but there's also the side of the need of like making sure if kids need clothing they get to the clothing closet if they need food making sure they're on our food list to make sure they're getting food for the weekends and things like that she provides snacks in that room as well so if kids need snacks during the day they can do that as well so we're pretty excited about miss arroyo and all the things that we have going on with that um she also makes phone calls home to our kids that are struggling so our kids who are not attending to find out why they aren't attending is the transportation is you know are you watching the kids at home why is it that we're not coming to school so that we can get the resources to the parents so that we can get the kids in the doors she also calls home for positive calls so she calls home for kids who pass ap exams she calls home when they finish their financial aid process she calls home if they are earning distinguished demon cards she'll call home if they have really good grades just to keep the positive communication going on as well as the other needs that we have for our kids the other celebration we have is we we have really worked on our school culture this year we have a staff member who started a committee that's called the the culture wars if you will or color wars excuse me if you will and each member of the staff that's classified certified everybody is on a team and we they run a monthly challenge with the staff and so they compete for points and prizes and then they get bonus points if they attend student events so if they go to arts shows if they go to athletics if they are running clubs and activities for kids they get bonus points because the whole goal is to build that culture and to make sure we're providing for the for the students that we have the other thing that our school culture or our group does is they recognize a pbis staff member of the month and pbas students of the month so teachers give kids pride points we have a pride mantra on the wall and when kids are following those pride monitors teachers can award them points they can take their points and they can redeem them for prizes okay and then at the end of the month we randomly do a drawing and then the kids get prizes from us all of our prices are donated by our staff so each month when you look at our social media when we post our two pbis students of the month you'll see what group has donated the prizes to those students and what they have donated so our staff definitely is giving back to our school which is totally amazing so we really appreciate that our athletics our winter season has been phenomenal we'll take it all four of our um team sports are girls and boys basketball our girls and boys soccer are in the playoffs this week so that's that's pretty amazing our girls right now girls soccer team is down in tucson so that's why brad's not here because brad is down supporting the girls in their soccer game um tomorrow night if you guys aren't busy come on by the boys basketball team is playing at 7 p.m in the gym so you can come support them in playing saguaro high school for their first round of the playoffs and then girls basketball is at saguaro high school playing their first round and then saturday if you're still not busy saturday at dysart high school at noon our our boys soccer team is playing in the playoffs as well they receded in the top eight so they actually have a buy so we don't know who they play yet but we will after um tonight so definitely proud of our athletics we were going to have a wrestling qualifier but unfortunately in a match recently he may have dislocated his elbow so unfortunately that's not going to happen now but we definitely wish him a speedy recovery and everything um we did have a girls basketball players score 51 points in a single game which set a school record for us it's going to be really hard to beat but that was pretty amazing to watch an individual score 51 points in a basketball game um the other thing we're really really excited about is the fact that we have a high teacher retention and we believe that our high teacher retention is because we have a lot of supports in place for teachers the peer mentor program the district has in place for our teachers in their first three years is amazing it helps keeps teachers in their fields and helps them feel extremely supportive because we know if people feel supported then they're going to want to continue to do the things that they are doing so we're really proud to be able to have the peer mentor program and love that it's keeping our new teachers um in the profession and providing supports for them um the other thing that we're also trying to do in terms of our culture pieces is we're trying to make sure we're providing those sports for them as well because we know if they feel like their colleagues support them then we're family it's going to keep that environment going and it's going to want them stay with them to stay with us and so i'm proud to say currently it looks like our staffing looks um again to retain high number of teachers for next year um the other thing that we're extremely proud of and if ms pacheco was here i'd give her a shout out our social media and websites if you don't know ms pacheco she is extremely extremely tech savvy person and so she has our social media on fire she promotes about athletics she promotes about the arts she promotes about um athletics and then community events that our kids are doing like our produce on wheels um when we do parades and things like that so she she probably posts three four five times a day but really keeps things current so that everybody knows what's going on because if the community sees all these positive things that we're doing and the kids continue to read it they're going to want to be involved with what we're doing so we're pretty proud of that as well um our focus for for the year our focus this year has been on plc's school culture and our graduation rate um our focus this year in terms of plcs is that we were trying to to ensure that teachers were writing daily learning intentions and then they were backing that up then with success criteria so we began with making sure teachers knew how to write a good success or sorry a good learning intention and then we worked on okay then what are the little steps that the kids need to have in order to master that particular learning intention so now that we've worked all semester on ensuring those things are going we have now implemented a new challenge a staff challenge for february and our staff challenge for february is if every teacher has their learning intentions and success criteria posted and when we walk in rural rooms excuse me and kids can articulate that they can tell us what the learning attention is and then what the success criteria looks like how the teacher is going to know that they've mastered that if we master that as a campus there'll be a school-wide reward for them if we don't master across the campus it's okay we'll take the top department and we will reward the top depart the top department for achieving that award so we're pretty excited for that because we found out through all these color wars and challenges we have very competitive staff extremely competitive staff um our third area of focus is our graduation graduation rate last year our graduation rates dipped a little bit and we want to get that back up so our goal issue is to get it back up above either at 90 percent or higher so our family outreach specialists and our counselors have been working hard to really reach out to students who are struggling to make sure they can be successful provide all the resources possible so that we can get that graduation rate right back up the other partnership we have is with sundown sundown is is just such a great program for our kids that are missing a credit or two towards graduation and because we value that partnership so much and we've worked really well with sundown there are kids that are going to graduate with their cohort that normally would not be able to to achieve that so we're pretty proud of the the partnership that we have with sundown this year and and how successful the kids are being because the whole goal is for kids to get the things that they need for that next chapter in their life and so with that um that kind of concludes my presentation are there any questions for me thank you very much i appreciate your presentation um you ended on graduation rate and what your goal is what is what is your graduation rate right now i know you're trying to get to at least a 90 but what so this last year was slightly above 87 okay um well and just listening to you i think for me the big takeaway is just your your energy and just um how proud you are of your your school and your students and your staff all the different um things you're doing there to build culture and kind of like how you alluded to as well that students if they feel a part of something or they're excited to be there and they feel supported obviously that's going to contribute to their success academically and build a positive learning environment so i felt that the whole time you were talking so it sounds like they're very lucky to have you there and i wish you the best thank you so much anybody else just a couple of things miss fresh um with the family outreach that gina is doing i'm just curious have the other high schools contacted her to see what secrets she may have in order to um so they could probably steal if you get my meaning oh some of the ideas that were used ideas that you're using yes i don't have them no they're not they're not maybe they should well right so the the that program is funded by title one so the other schools don't necessarily have that position right and so i was just wondering if they happen to they may have a student um whether it's the school counselor or the social worker and i was just curious if they happened to contact her and say do you have any inside scoop on on the the clothes gathering or the um the food and outreach and stuff like that so i was just curious because i know it's it's going very well for her and i know you're keeping her busy and uh which yeah i know so i hope that continues gina and um the fact that you cut the tardis down by rerouting traffic flow and that that's amazing because i know that that little area is kind of uh yes you go in and then but the fact that you've actually cut it down it within a week and a half that's that's phenomenal it took a team for sure it took a team for sure so um keep up the great work sunny i know you had big shoes to fill with miss hartjen but uh just like miss pitcher said your energy is just up there and i know you're excited about what can lie ahead for our students so thank you thank you i do have a question um as far as oh sorry as far as the family outreach position do you say you would you've noticed a significant increase in student and parent engagement just offering that service i mean are you seeing a lot of kids coming back onto campus a lot of parents going oh this is how you navigate schoology this is like have you noticed a big increase so we have noticed in certain areas that we have parents that one it helps that gene is bilingual as well for our community um but yes we every time we offer services we do have families that come in um a lot of them are working families because we offer the the events at night obviously uh for them but we have noticed i wouldn't say it's like huge huge but definitely an increase in numbers and gina's been able to get some kids to come back to school that haven't been coming to school and to me that's huge and even even if that's one child that's one child towards our goal we'll just keep taking them so i definitely believe that we definitely have an increase i wouldn't say it's huge huge but definitely moving in the right direction and we're going to keep working on that as well well thank you and now is this the first year you've had the position or is this your number two this is year two okay so it's still fairly new yes okay thank you you're welcome thank you so this is more like your first normal-ish year yes yes been able to fully use that position yes right right i just i am so in awe of your your positivity and your glow and just you know everything so positive about your students and your staff um i really wanted to just note that i i appreciate you still i mean even though we're you know into the second semester you're still talking about that transition back to normal normalcy because i think it's going to take a little while it might take you know beyond this year so um and and just you know with the with the outreach that that that you all are doing um i'm so impressed by that you know just the positivity calls that you're making that makes such a difference to a parent and to a student i mean they're going to want to come and they're going to want to learn and and get more of those positive calls so thank you for doing that thank you gina thank you gina poor gina we have so many questions about gina i know um is there a thread that she is finding a common thread that she finds when she makes those calls as to why students are not coming to school or why they have an attendance problem because i mean they may come and then they may not come is there a common thread so and gina can speak more more to the if i'm not correct but some of it is just like some of them are taking care of siblings and things like that so parents are kind of using them for babysitters or whatnot or the motivation factor we have several that we just got to get re-motivated to come back to school every day you know that whole waking up in the morning um and getting there but to me those are the two big things i see gina do you see anything else yeah we do have some that are still you know not wanting to be here due to covet as well for sure and then the other question i had was when you did your survey what what were some of the things you learned from those students as to why they didn't attend student events was it a job was it again they had to get home for other reasons or was it so i was really shocked to find that a large portion of it was like i'm lazy oh okay there you go um but they they most of them said to incentivize it so saturday we're trying to do a gray out for our soccer match that's on saturday we're trying to do a gray out if they buy a ticket then we'll give them a free t-shirt to motivate kids to come so a lot of them want things for coming reduce rate they said that they felt athletics was it cost too much to go to the event could we reduce the price of the events some of them were not aware of our punch cards so we're going to do a better job of making sure they're aware of those punch cards for athletics because then they do get a reduce right because they're buying so many at one price so they get a couple games for free with with the punch card so we'll make sure we advertise that a little better next year um but i was kind of shocked with those so essentially they want to be rewarded for coming which is we can do that we can find ways to get them there give them little things and then once they're there and we're winning all the time they're going to want to come back thank you very much thank you ladies thank you president rush thank you very much [Applause] madam president members of the board i will introduce principal joey toki if she would of sunset hills and if she would introduce her team and then present yes absolutely good evening a member president members of the board dr kellis and cabinet i'm thrilled to be here to talk about sunset hills um i love my school as well and i have an amazing team with me today this evening so i want to introduce i'll go this way mrs dougherty our assistant principal thrilled to have her a part of our sunset hill staff we have lisa moberg she is our sixth grade teacher she's also our language acquisition mentor a support for our teachers um and our students as well in terms of our ell students we also have miss jackie older who is our teaching and learning specialist truly the best of the best and so just appreciate your support being here with me tonight as well so with that being said who are we we are sunset hills um we are pre-k through eight school our enrollment is one thousand five students i checked before i left we're actually at one thousand eight we truly are growing almost on a daily basis at this point in time so we're excited about that um our school colors are blue and gray we are the home of the bobcats um our signature program is the arts and i included our vision and our mission empowering learners and leaders to benefit our world and our mission truly encompasses everything that we do day in and day out sunset hills community shows respect ownership achievement and responsibility in the pursuit of excellence in academics athletics and the arts some opportunities um we have closing the learning gap we have the data up there as far as our 2021 spring testing we did see a decrease in both ela and math from 2019 to 2021 with an overall proficiency in ela 60 or 48 our goal is 64 and math is 38 and our goal is 62 so we know that we have a lot of room to grow um in those areas and we've been very focused this year in order to do so um we also um focus on our english language uh learner subgroup uh in 2021 eight percent showed proficiency in ela and with math zero percent and our special education subgroup ela 11 math 10 so those are areas um that we are targeted and focused on ensuring that we are improving those subgroups along with ensuring that we are focusing on all of our subgroups one thing that was very interesting with the next piece is our clarity of goals we took a look at our staff student and parents survey with our staff and parent survey what stuck out to to our team our leadership team and myself was um that the there wasn't a clear understanding of what our goals were what the data is that we used to to assess those goals and how we progress monitor those goals through the year that's our continuous improvement plan that's what we we live by every day that's what we make connections with but the fact that um that it wasn't higher in the percentage of those that knew that we had that in existence essentially that was a concern so um we did create a continuous improvement plan it's quite the document what that we'd provide um and work through but we did a one pager and the one page we call it the one pager and our teachers were thrilled to have that as just a guide and to be able to have that next to them when they're doing their planning when we're at professional development so that we can not only just have that one pager it's one thing to have a page of what our goals are our action plan and our how we're going to monitor that but also making sure that everything that we do that we are connecting to our goals and being very specific about that very targeted just as much as it's important for our students for us to do that for our students we need to do that for our staff as well and communicating our goals to to our community as well as well as updates visibly improving teaching and learning we went through a training with dr hall from west end in and this was about our professional learning communities but that plus piece that plus piece being the teacher and she provided us with information as far as how we we know we set learning goals for our students but we also know that our focus area as a teacher impacts how what our teaching looks like impacts how our students perform and so that plc plus piece is um setting up goals teaching and learning goals so how are students going what what do we expect from our students but also um what are we going to do to impact that that learning the scope and sequence has been provided from educational educational services has been a great support to us with this as well another opportunity was data analysis and discussion so in past we looked at big data big data big data was more of our focus those are our benchmarks our state assessments and so the focus is really looking at small data which is the unit assessments that are built into the scope and sequence but it's also looking at when i'm teaching what do i what data am i collecting to see if my students are showing proficiency during that time frame as well and how do we respond to that so we really wanted to focus on frequency of how often we're discussing data and what we're doing with that data have a focus of that and ensure that those teaching and learning goals that we're setting we're constantly reviewing that when we're looking at that small data and setting new goals to ensure that again our students are growing but as a professional as a teacher i'm growing as well and i'm setting goals for myself um staff wellness is another area of opportunity we know these last few years have just been really tough and in order for us to be good for our students we have to be good for ourselves as well and so um we have an amazing team that put together a staff wellness calendar for each month and part of those things we have yoga mondays talk about it tuesdays where there's goal setting as far as how am i going to be okay what are those self-care things that i need to do for myself so again that i'm okay and i'm good for my students and it's also been a great way for our staff to connect with one another where i may not see somebody in the hallways because i'm upstairs in 8th grade and i'm a kindergarten teacher downstairs we've had an opportunity to build that network within our school and build those relationships and turn um supporting with our overall culture um celebrations um i've listed some percentages as far as our deizer instructional protocol we knew that in order for us to raise the achievement to to meet the goals that we've set for this year um we need to be very specific and very targeted on the areas that we're looking at and so a celebration would be that we have improved in each of those areas that we've that i've listed from the august walk through data to the december walk through data um and then there was one academic conversations that didn't go up as high as what we would have wanted to see it we want students to be able to be having those academic conversations to be using vocabulary to be learning about learning from one another so that's still a focus of ours response to intervention we had a team that went and learned from one of our sister schools as far as how to strengthen the rti process we had it but we needed to be more efficient more targeted more specific and make sure that we were tracking and seeing how students are proceeding through that response to intervention um so we went to a sister school of ours it was west point so thank you to west point for um sharing their learning with us um and got some coaching from dana noble as well and um we did a rollout this year and it has we've gotten a lot of positive feedback and we've sought that feedback from our teachers what's working what do we need to still work on um to ensure that that time is useful for them but in turn is useful for our students and our students are growing and we have seen a decrease in our ti students due to tiers one two and three of instruction um being in place monitoring that progress and it's positively our students are positively responding to that um positive behavior interventions and supports those are our roar expectations so our bobcats roar we show responsib respect ownership achievement and responsibility um and one thing i want to highlight from here is um that we have started a student ambassador program so that our students when they come onto campus again we're getting a lot of enrollments almost on a daily basis maybe a little less but it seems like we're always getting new students we want to make sure that they know about our school-wide system of support for behavior but also who are we at sunset hills and connect them with somebody so they feel connected with the school and so our student council and jhs members are helping to facilitate that and make those connections and again just make sure that they start getting acclimated to our climate and culture from the get-go we have some academic celebrations as well um data chats these have been super successful that's that's small data we've done that at a grade level um sometimes it's grade level especially for k four five eight we're a little bit more content specific and we can look at different content unit assessments and have those conversations with teachers and we have a protocol that we follow and at this point since we've been doing this almost um pretty much we started about in october where we started get real specific with this our teachers are now coming to us where they know exactly they're kind of running that protocol themselves and coming up with those ahas and what are the areas of strength what are the areas of growth and what is my how did i do in my teaching and learning goal had my students do how did i do in meeting that how did that impact and then setting additional new teaching and learning goals for the next unit so um just being again very targeted and specific um we also have our arts program again that we we are an arts focus school uh beauty and the beast i know that you're going to be really busy with dysart high school in the next week or two so come february 24th 25th and 26th we will be that will be our school play beauty and the beast junior so we would love to have you join us for that um it is always every year is an incredible experience for our students for our families our community and it will be at the vista so for anybody to attend our choir we have 62 students of the enrollments there um we will be attending disneyland to perform so thank you for approving that as well it's been a couple of years since our students have had that opportunity and it truly is an extraordinary experience for them and again for our families as well we have art club garden club also miss moberg i forgot to say she is our garden club leader and that is for students in first through eighth grade and it truly is it's it's a it's an art um i remember a couple years ago a family member um had taken things from the garden and um they made a meal at home took beautiful pictures and so it just i don't know it just came full circle for our arts program i know it looks a little bit different but it's it was it was amazing athletics i'm thrilled to say that we were the district baseball champions this year and thank you for inviting us to celebrate that it meant a lot as well to our family our communities our community our families our students and our staff just to have that recognition this year that was great um we have gotten um to the semi-finals in all the other sports so we're going to keep working on that and see if we can make it to the finals and continue to do great things with athletics focus of the year again that professional learning community plus excuse me professional learning communities with that plus piece being the teacher having a focus on the teacher um and how that impacts um my practices impact the the students and the student learning the dysart instructional protocol academic conversations being a focus um as well as we are going to roll out checking for understanding and what that looks like and sounds like to truly check for understanding before during and after a lesson and how do i respond to that our ess and el subgroup growth is definitely a focus continuing our positive behavior interventions and supports we are working on tier two training this year um but with the the pandemic the implementation looked different we started our we built our roar expectations and the the pbis tier one in uh 2000 1920.

moving down the list you can see the representation throughout the district uh second on the list you'll see n a that at 16 percent that represents uh community members that took the survey due that do not have children within their school um one that we we made a conscious effort to really get this survey out to the trilogy community and we do believe mr teresa joffez joseph did make contact with trilogy and their their responses are included in this uh survey as we and you'll see their responses as we move forward all others there it just summarizes the remaining schools at 14 so question number two asked in order to help us revise the previous categories from the 2021 bond election please indicate whether you support or did not support the following categories so in this question we listed the categories as we presented them in last year's proposal starting at the top we proposed in our bond last year to purchase one of the two lease middle schools looking at the results it's clear this this was a sticking point in the proposal with only 41 percent strongly supporting this category i will note this category has the highest percentage and the need more information as we know this is a complex topic we've discussed this several times but the complexity of this lease is not traditional i will note the combined if you combine the strongly support and the somewhat support percentage the total is 63 uh which looks and sounds better but as we progress further through this presentation you'll notice a theme with the leases the next category was major projects which showed good support at 59 percent being strongly supported next technology had the highest strongly support percentage among all categories at 67 percent major maintenance um this category had the second highest strongly support at 65 percent uh moving to the transportation category we find this is the lowest strongly supported category as well as the highest uh do not support percentage at nearly 20 percent uh it's clear this is not a priority of either our community our staff or our survey respondents and then lastly in 2021 we proposed the budget category for a land purchase in the northern part of our district due to projected enrollment growth survey respondents indicated this was not a priority with only 38 strongly supporting this this category um but this does kind of lead us into the 2022 [Music] categories and our question three so question three asks please read each potential category for the 2022 potential bond and indicate your level of support for the category what you see represented on the on the screen there is a snippet from our enrollment uh projection that applied economics did it's now going on two years you'll notice this graph is already outdated what they projected in these uh 24 to 25 um the five year period from 24 to 29 um is is extremely outdated the the building on warner is already well above what they projected to be and so we're working we did have them go ahead and start to redo this graph and update it with those new builds and permits that have been taken out but when reviewing this category that we proposed in 2021 we took a deep dive internally within the district budget as we're doing holistically through mno and you'll see later tonight capital and bond it was one category you will not see in this next question is the land purchase that i'm alluding to we know that the northern part of our district is going to see the most growth in the next five to eight years the excuse me the the district currently owns a piece of land that we've kind of discussed both you've seen it on an executive session agenda item and we're currently looking at researching a land swap to better utilize both internal resources that we have available to us as this category was clearly not supported in the 2021 election more information will come on this as we continue to research what both our current land will pro appraise for and if it's possible to land swap to a more advantageous piece of land that would be better suited for an elementary school or a new school build so transitioning to the the survey results for the 2022 category we can see that the middle school leases similar to the 2021 question it is clear that there's a lack of support and knowledge regarding the missile leases 40 percent strongly support this potential category and 20 percent again need more information the complexity of these lease agreements combined with the cost of the potential buyout works against the district in relation to other bond categories that provide tangible district needs this is why you will not see this proposed as a category in the 2022 bond i will note since i was hired now over a year ago i knew about these leases in fact it was and still is well-known example of what not to do regarding public leases for either constructing buildings uh and or purchasing buildings um the initial conversation surrounded about using bonds to authorize to pay down these leases now it's clear that the bond avenue is not the direction that we will be going both because there's no support for that but because we want to be conscious of our taxpayers as well um the district is now focusing on working with a third party owner which was jmf higley and looking to move these leases under the district which would then save millions in regarding to fee savings as well as enabling the district and then refinance those current bonds also potentially saving millions or more money on interest earnings so as a reminder those leases were taken out in 2012 so interest rates are not the same as they are in today's market mr moore can i ask a quick question yeah since we're looking at removing that piece from our bond um is there something we can put together just in general that educates our community on these leases what it does to our district the financial impact it has to our district how it prevents us from doing many other things that from mno or capital because we have this additional cost and we've talked about it several times that no other district has so when people try and compare what we pay our teachers what we pay for our maintenance what we just operating costs and different things no other district has this expense that we do that has to come off the top and so we start less than what we would have to offer so if there's just some in general information that we need to educate our community whether it's on the bond or not to understand the negative financial impact that this lease has toward for our district is there something that and for people to understand we don't own those schools we they're not ours so if if there's some information that we can put together just to have available have on our website in general so that people can understand that we are in a different situation than any other district um from when we entered into these leases um which i mean we won't necessarily go into the the devil is in those details um when we entered into these leases as our our community approved a 40-year lease but they didn't approve the financing and and here we are with this and it is a financial burden for us so i understand the the community response regarding our leases and and removing it from this bond this bond election but i do think we need to have something out there that that does educate our our community on the impact of these leases and as long you know i appreciate and i know you've worked so hard since you've come here and that has been a question over and over again how can we help um free up money that these leases are taking and what i know you we've worked over this and over this the long term cost of it what what the actual cost is as we continue with these leases president kaler board member rhys without stealing any of his thunder i think one of the things that we're going to get to here when we talk about it in a minute is one of the things that came clear to us in those comments is a true misunderstanding of what funding bonds can and cannot be used for and and quite honestly this is quite complex and very difficult to explain but one of the themes we heard over and over and over again is what is the essential what is the most needed what you know what are the greatest priorities uh trust transparency clarity trying to make those clear it was clear that that was not going to be how we would address the greatest needs that we have long term however one of the things we feel is is that through this process when we do explain where it's going to be an opportunity for us to address some of that misinformation and misnomers and understanding the uniquenesses of higley because when you do scale it down and you're talking about your priorities you're looking at your greatest growth your greatest needs that you can use this funding for again we asked the community we want them to see that we heard them and we're listening and were responding to that and through this process we learned a little bit more about other things we need to help people make sure they understand but it's going to take us time to i think to help them understand um and addressing the greatest need and we'll be following the theme that we reoccurringly heard from multiple people in multiple ways that he will continue to kind of go in further into but higley is unique and it is very different but being that this one is so complex it is clear in the feedback well that we got is this one won't garner support president taylor i want to just echo what what board member rhys has said i read all 38 pages of the question both five and six i went through and read every single one of the responses it was an underlying theme they want to know more about this middle school what happened a lot of people some of them weren't even here when this middle school project i'll say um started all the board members have switched out since then so um i think it is something to just echo that we need to get some information out to our community about these leases so they're under the understanding that we are on these leases just so they know where we're sitting thank you president kaler uh though the misinformation was the entire theme of the reading the survey results um are you going to elaborate on the third party um direction that you want to take with removing it from the bond and is it decided that you're going to completely remove it from the bond the middle schools i just think information and misinformation is what's caused the problem not necessarily being against the middle schools but just having no idea and just listening to what hearsay too yeah president caleb member schultz i think at this time um is clear like in this proposal uh we would not garner this would hinder our our chances of passing a bond and and i would hate to risk losing out on other capital needs that we need in our district over the next five years um at the at the expense of of one item that we've already been paying for eight years this is not to say i swear it must it's weekly that i'm talking to our bond attorney to try to figure out a solution for this um if it's not a bond this is not to say either too that we don't propose in the next five years another bond to take out this lease but it is clear at this moment in time the middle school leases are not going to garner support and i think taking a five-year break or conti we're continuing to budget for this yearly um and annually but reapproaching this maybe in five years once we have established a new level of trust with our community we're still trying to breach and get out of the birdwell era and build trust within our community fiscally and from a leadership standpoint um and and yeah the general theme was just misinformation but i think i can certainly do a just a straight information agenda item on the leases um as i get more information on potentially bringing those under the district um and and talking about refinancing and what options we have to reduce our annual obligation from 4.4 million to a lower amount so um yeah that's my comments on the leases so thank you for working on that i am with board member schultz that the hard part for me is understanding and and i know it's hard to communicate and the it is a very complex situation but i also look at it financially for our district excuse me what we would be able to do in our higher priorities over the next five years by being able to use these funds and at least pay one of them off freeze up our regular funds to be able to i want to kind of say self-supportive for those projects for those maintenance concerns and that we we would be able to handle those expenses on our own easier out of our normal budgets without this lease payment and so i i look at that too that with the five year i think we would get more out of it financially on our own by being able to pay this lease off i think the district would be financially better to be able to handle those major issues maintenance and not just major but our day-to-day because what happened and we're handling this and you're doing a great job is that some of those day-to-day things didn't get handled and then they become more of a major issue so um i i know it's hard for people to understand and and i've had more years of understanding this lease than most but it does it concerns me to have to continue to rely more on a bond in the future just as individually to rely more on a bond in the future that that could help provide us some financial freedom without having to rely so much on bond and overrides because it would free more financial resources that we already get up and president kayla remember reece one option we were looking at was a potential two question option on our ballot which would separate the middle school leases from our our core ask that we will present later tonight that is a legal option we can't do that we have to prepare multiple tax tables and we've already looked at that so i do have that ready if you would like to see that in the next board meeting i can certainly present that option seems like there's a consensus yes i would like to see at least as an option i would like to see it just as an option and i know uh that your road shows you put together were very poorly unattended and so i'm hoping we can reach the community to convey the message and like uh board members said with um to educate them more so it's not face social media and where you're getting your misinformation from over and over again president kaler board member schultz one of the things we talked about is we may have fewer road shows and more road we may go to more community a parent teacher organization events that are meetings that are established so that we can speak more we'll get on their agendas we'll be part of staff meetings and a little bit more explicitly attending those events we'll have road shows but maybe not as many road shows we'll do more um attending of events where those are already in process and what we can do is be part of the end of that so that we are on a captive audience but we're holding them for a factual information where we we provide that i love that mr moore um i echo some of these sentiments as well i know that social media is probably the biggest place of misinformation but yet we could use it for good and we could we could make our own videos that are factual and get those out as well so i think there's ways that we can reach the community in a positive way as well with some basic facts too so um people like quick and fast so they have to be short and sweet to the point but doing a ticket yes we could start your own tick tock channel the tyler moore show tick-tock no but in all seriousness i think that that social media area can damage us more than help us in some ways because the misinformation is being spread yeah i do have one quick question it was a few slides back you said we had around 900 ish people respond that seems extremely low to me and i i get it you guys did everything you you could to put it out to people i just want to point that out to our community that we only had we have 60 000 voters correct ish and only a handful i feel like um only that 900 responded so it is information that we are using to decide future and it is it's sad to me that that was such a low and i don't think it was anything you guys did it was just something to point out to the community so president kayla remember wilson i will note if a member of a community wanted to do this survey because we hosted this internally they would have to navigate to our website um and while we tried to advertise this as best we can that this was an internal effort within the district so um if yeah i mean not to say that's the reason why the numbers are so low but just to point that out mr the survey is closed correct it is close yeah all right picking up where we left off so coming down to category two on here technology um again we noticed this was the highly the highest strongly supported category was 64 uh being strongly supported um it also has the lowest percentage of need more information indicating that you know there's little to no questions regarding technology this is a known need for the district next safety and security is the second highest and strongly supported category with 61 percent the support for safety and security is very parallel with technology fourth down the list is major maintenance category which again is a has a lot of support with 59 responding strongly supported and 23 responding somewhat support the total of those two categories is over 80 percent in the general support for that category fifth down the list is the transportation category uh it's a clear this category is not again a high priority of our community with only 35 percent of responding strongly supporting that category lastly the final proposed funding category is major maintenance over 53 respondents strongly supported this category 22 somewhat supported this category um this category did have the second highest votes and need more information which we intend on presenting at the next board meeting um moving forward president tyler i have a question for you and i apologize it's already been given to us uh the transportation the new fuel efficient school buses um what sort of information was out there like what why were we wanting that what what was the benefit of of switching to that were the big cost savings or the the maintenance like what's the benefit of having that in our district dating our fleet i didn't go to any of the road shows so if that's just given i apologize no uh president kaler uh vice president anderson that would be simply updating the updating the fleet adding more to our fleet as we use it to support the transportation and driving it's one of the capital components that is it's where you buy those and ongoing buses is a part of how you keep your fleet from all aging out at the same time and it's part of a maintenance component we have some that are and hence this is a one of the things that have historically been part of the bond proposals yeah i think i remember not talking about so these would be replacing like you said replacing the old ones and then i'm assuming do they cost more initially but the savings is more beneficial is how you how you propose for that okay thank you i believe was one of our buses didn't even have air conditioning at one point so we had updated to all have air now which i thought was a huge thing a few years ago um but that was a big deal that we didn't even all of our buses didn't have air and so i think that's something that our community probably wasn't aware of that and those buses do get old and we cannot buy parts efficiently anymore those parts are unavailable they're either unavailable or at such a high rate just like if you were gonna replace an air conditioner and you have a 30 year old air conditioner it's not going you know the parts you can't find them so i think that was part of it am i misspeaking dr foley um for president caleb board member wilson that was probably prior to me being in this compass i am sure that if that was shared with you that was true i am not aware at this moment that that is a condition that we have a concern that we have but i know that maintaining them and ensuring that they're all in working order and that we have new buses is absolutely uh an important component and it's also your your whole fleet your white buses your your vehicles that are used for the district i am sure that that was a problem that at this moment i do not believe is currently a problem so all of our buses have air now so that's a fantastic feat that we have overcome all right i'm assuming in other districts it's more of a concern because there's more distance traveled we have such a smaller district there's not i mean we use buses but usually it's easier for us president kaler vice president anderson we've got planes trains and automobiles our interesting 24 square miles has multiple components that make transportation one of the things that is an essential component for safety and therefore although you're a small small space because of the transportation you provide to prevent people from crossing train tracks or other things does increase your your travel all right moving on the question number four asks if the 2022 bond proposal results in a potential minimum property tax increase how likely would you be in support i'm not going to spend much time on this because as you'll see later in this presentation we're proposing to maintain if not decrease the tax rate if we do add that component of a second question with the middle school leases we may be looking at multiple tax charts because if you add a variable if one question passes then you're going to go into this tax rate if two questions pat then you go to this tax rate so i will bring all that information at the next meeting so you guys have that with that said the the 53 of the respondents said they would be very likely to support a bond if it were to result in a minimal tax rate increase and the remaining 46 percent uh either somewhat likely or unlikely question five asked what modifications would need to be made to the 2022 bond proposal in order to increase your level of support so this was an open-ended question allowing the respondents to share their modifications in more detail fashion summarizing those responses we came away with some key takeaways so number one was transparency the main areas in which the district needs to address transparency all right keep pushing this question are providing a detailed spending plan for each bond category uh the detailed spending plan needs to include where the money is going what schools are receiving bond funds and ensuring the bond funds are going where they said they would be going another area in transparencies which i thought we did a good job at addressing was clearly explaining the financial impact to taxpayers but again we can we can address that with a clear slides and or information indicating the level of tax impact to various housing residential property values etc so the second takeaway address in the proposal and the proposed spending amount and how it was too high so the main areas regarding this takeaway include ensuring the district was only proposing needs that are of high priority also there were several comments about how inflation in the current state of the economy is affecting several of our finances our families within our district and our community members likewise the district should be sensitive to those impacts and look at its spending i do want to note that with both the open-ended questions we're just summarizing the responses i will respond to some of these areas that indicate there is a misunderstanding of how schools are funded the rules regarding school bonds and how they function so question number six the last question asked please share any comments or suggestions regarding the proposed bond the proposed 2022 bond categories similar to question five i'll similarize those with some key takeaways so first a common theme fiscal transparency uh that included much of the same as question five a detailed spending plan is needed and it needs to indicate where the money is going and what schools will be affected there was again a common theme regarding explaining the financial impact to taxpayers and as i alluded to i will ensure that is very clear in this next presentation second improved communication was a common suggestion regarding the 2022 proposed bond uh you did allude to social media and maybe making it more of a social media presence from the district in terms of factual information can be a possible resolution to this and also communicating the detailed spending plan with clear examples and messaging as well as possible illustrations um and what schools could potentially receive or put uh illustrations regarding class builds etc and then lastly there was an overwhelming number of comments regarding increasing security measures at our sites um higley has had a fair share of security incidents lately and it is important not to only the district to ensure our students and staff are safe while on campus but is a clear priority of our community okay so that summarizes the bond survey um again we we thank everybody who took time and filled out that survey we we're taking the input into consideration and through this process so transitioning to what i'm calling lessons learned and some common themes uh from what we're basing our proposed categories on first it's clear there's a misunderstanding about how schools are funded and why districts ask for bonds um a common request in the bond survey was increasing teacher pay and while our goal is to as a district to provide a competitive pay for all staff voter approved bonds are capital funds and cannot be used for teacher compensation or any staff compensation second the leases as i discussed earlier are a frustration of many they're very confusing and difficult to provide an understanding to our common or any anybody really in that regard on what they mean to the district and what the impact is third the district is still in a state of rebuilding trust within the community and staff while the district has officially and legally established closer to the middle school lease wrongdoings from the birdwall era we continue to work on rebuilding that trust one way we intend to do this through this proposed bond program and through transparency and a scaled back approach we have reviewed the 2021 proposed bond and squeezed down categories into what the district needs to maintain the current classroom conditions as well as address growth over the next five years as i alluded to earlier the district is utilizing its internal resources to fund previous items proposed in the 2020 bond such as land while we don't have a lot of resources to work with we're focusing on maximizing what we have in the interim what is clear the district will still have large capital needs over the next five years and the phase down bond proposal is aimed at addressing those greatest needs so with that we'll look at what we're proposing for the 2022 bond the 2022 proposed bond categories are a culmination of the bond survey results utilizing our internal resources when possible and focusing on our absolute greatest needs the big items you will notice that are not being proposed in the 2020 bond are the ones i've already touched on the possible purchase of middle school which i will add that to the next one though as well as the need for land while i believe again there's an understanding a misunderstanding of the lease knowing it's hurting the district fiscally at this time we just don't feel it's the right time to include in this proposal president kaler members of the board and again he will be talking on this a little bit further in when we talk about our next presentation when we get into we're talking about capital one of the things we were looking at when we were looking at those themes and i know that we keep in mind that we're hearing from a targeted population but this is a this population took the time to share with us their opinions we were grateful that this time when we sent these to our families who would be most impacted um by our growth i mean what we're talking about our potential growth our ability to have buildings facilities resources technology safety security the things that we use bond funding for what we were our fear was jet we have a real need the amount of money that we have every year allocated to this is so minimal that potentially potentially jeopardizing the ability to have the funding to address those most immediate needs is a concern and so your administrative team is trying to look at how do we how do we balance the feedback we got with perceptions with also trying to be very thoughtful about our reality and our current growth needs that we plan for just as you know um these things take multiple years to fruition and the planning for allocation of those resources starts now and moving forward and these are some challenging times as we talk about the different pots of funds from budget to mno to aggregate expenditure limited to capital these are challenging pieces we're also wanting to hear our community with those who responded with concerns mistrust um you know it there this has been a challenging um a challenging time and higley has unique challenges that no other district has during this challenging time so one of the things we're trying to do is be very thoughtful look at explore all options hear what we need but make sure we set ourselves up so that we are able to address those needs coming forward we hear you though in wanting to explore potentially two questions and we can take a look at that but when we looked at the initial feedback and looked at what we saw our thought was this is our our our safest bet to ensure that we would likely have a proposal pass on the areas based on the feedback we received wanting to go toward being able to be received as we've heard you and building trust and transparency obviously that is something we really want to be sure that we address i think i asked this before but i wasn't sure what you said the alternate um option that you were talking about buying the leases and putting them into highly i can't remember exactly what you said you said you were going to tell us a bit more about that next time or exploring in this presidency remember schultz we're still like that is a conversation that's ongoing right now so it's just in the initial phase yeah okay before i bring anything back i would like to have all information um much like the landslide you know there's a lot of information gathering but the the lease is it's been an ongoing process on whether legally in the lease agreement we can essentially buy out jmf higley who's the owner of the leases and bring it under the district um and so that's an ongoing conversation you've all seen the lease document i'm not reviewing that her attorney is reviewing that um and ensuring that is legal and before we do anything regarding that um we would bring it back to the board thank you so now i can go into the details of this bond proposal as i alluded to on the next board meeting i will have a detailed budget for each of these categories much of these are the same core needs of the district that you saw in the 2021 proposal we have adjusted the dollar amount slightly the biggest dollar amount adjustments in major projects and that is due to a lot of the enrollment growth in the north in which we are projecting we'll have to build another school earlier within the next five years again i'll touch on these in a detailed fashion the next meeting so some of the highlights of this proposal uh include the following so the total bond amount of 77 million which is a decrease from the proposal 20.1 proposal i can confidently say there will be no increase in the tax rate as our assessed valuation has increased as i alluded to in the first bond presentation we can we can ensure that this new debt would not result in a tax increase to our community it may potentially result in attack we may be able to reduce the tax rate um which would be again a benefit of this proposal the bond proposal impacts every student in school over the next five years we have worked at addressing the inequities as well as ensuring every student staff has an adequate facility to teach and learn in this proposal has a cost benefit of also reducing maintenance and energy costs as we know when equipment goes beyond its useful life as you alluded to ms anderson with transportation the same thing is for our facilities it costs more to operate said equipment and therefore by replacing those items well past their operating life there's an indirect savings to the operating budget because they operate on a more efficient basis finally the bond proposal will ensure higley unified remains the destination of choice for our families and allow us to continue to provide education in our current facilities for our students and staff mr moore please remind me we are tasked even though they're not our buildings we are tasked with repairs and maintenance of the middle schools yeah so that's complicated as well we technically pay into a capital repairs fund but unfortunately we are not previewed to use that at the current moment because of the lease documents when they were signed they obligated us to a 40-year capital replacement plan and so none of that meets our current needs so we have to fulfill those needs currently we as part of the research that we're doing we are trying to reevaluate and tap into those funds to utilize those to address those two middle schools but currently we are not privy to those funds that we are currently paying into okay so if so so the bond money for the major maintenance that would could be used on those mills we actually not proposing i feel confident that we can by the time this would pass and we'd be able to sell bonds we're not proposing to um have any capital repairs or maintenance funded from the bond for those two middle schools we believe that we'll be able to tap that capital repairs fund by that point in time um great so yeah okay thank you president kaler dr foley um in the past i've read through i obviously i mentioned i read through these um people have said they've experienced where a bond has passed and then the money just kind of dissolved is there any way that we can create maybe a website or a chart that says here's you know if this were to pass just in the future just so we have some transparency for our community hey go to this website and it'll say this is how much money we got this is what we used it on a b and c this is what it cost just so then they're more i know we do this a lot in our board meetings but a lot of people don't know how to access the information or don't watch the board meetings don't come to the board meetings so if there's any way we can get the information out to our voters so then they feel more confident with us so because it was it was a big underlying theme the lack of transparency and where our money is going and i think having something like that might be useful president keller board member wilson a point we'll take and one of the things annually we have to do too is come and do these presentations one of the things we've talked about is how important it is to capture that information on our website even to the point of we are also talking about infographics of how we can show by school by category basically what you'll get and how you'll get and when you'll get it and how much and those are the kind of things that visually help explain it and then also then would match our annual presentations to you on how the funding is being spent so i think that there are a lot of ways that we can help make that clear particularly with your administrative team here is doing a very different process than may have historically been done with how we evaluate need how we prioritize need what is our decision making tree what are those priorities in just a minute we're getting ready to go into the capital budget of which this is the second year that you have had a capital budget that is so explicit and where and how the money is being spent and that has kind of been the theme under um under tyler and leadership um and with the support of of of your administrative team so i think that transparency and straightforward where we're spending how we're spending has been a theme that we have done over the last year and will continue to do it is clear in the feedback we've received um how we share this information is very important person um i love that idea to be able to show it and one of the things i think would be if we showed up a percentage of how we're a visual than people would see like a progress report and then when it's 100 done like thank you you know for the bond um to show that it's being done that way they have a visual and can just see where we are in the plan president keller we haven't done this in a while and maybe it's worth going back to undoing at least an annual mailer we used to send out an annual report it was very nice colorful and it went to all the households in within our district and while i would like to see something quarterly but at least annual like mrs wilson was saying that when we do these annual reports if we can send some type of mailer out with these reports that show the snapshot that will show what we're doing and then obviously have four more information and being able to direct them so it could be more detailed but with hearing you know and reading there is a lack of trust and people don't know people don't know but the information is out there it is our the presentation you do for our bond and our override that's on our website you put our annual budget on our website we even our monthly report we get um financial report is on our website that information is there and people aren't going to it and i get it i'm not one who like i wonder what they're doing i'm not one to do that either i'm just going to say i don't know but i'm not going to be one to go out and search that information but at least with a mailer we're putting it in front of them and they can they can look at it and most of the time they're gonna at least peruse it and then toss it i get it but i think it's very important for a trust perspective that we are being transparent we aren't hiding anything we get more financial detailed financial information now than we ever have these uh presentations and how many times you go over our mno budget presentation how many times you go over our override or our capital presentations we as a board and as our community are getting more financial information than we have ever had and in some cases more financial information than some people can even understand but it's there and so it may be to our benefit i know there's a cost involved but it may be to our benefit that we start doing at least an annual mailer to get that in the hands of our our entire community and maybe with the assurance of with our with this new bond maybe we do send a quarterly report out to all of our community via mail with information that they can connect and get more details on our website but i think that's one of the first steps of rebuilding trust we are getting this information to you we're not trying to withhold anything and it's here it's available and now we're taking one step further to put it in front of you um i remember those mailers but i also and i love that that you bring information to people you don't have to rely on them being super proactive and trying to make sense of everything it is over information and no we're not always going to understand everything but i do recall a lot of concern about the expense for for those mailers especially whenever you know the resources in schools weren't being given you know and it seemed like them you can always construe that money's going to the wrong place so that would be my concern in that situation i like the idea but i'm sorry president uh maybe an email would be more cost efficient or something which i know but or some sort of get the information out without sending them out because they just are so this would reach our entire community not just our school community that was the difference as it went out to the whole district and we're reaching our school communities as best as we can through email and and as we can see through the survey but we're not reaching our entire community and like mrs wilson said there's there's a lot more voters out there than that took the survey and they probably it's probably a thing it it's it's a snapshot but it's probably an overwhelming theme so and i agree mrs anderson there was a lot of discussion and and now we have you know we're utilizing our own print shops here too and um and our sites have what they need now i mean they don't have everything that's why we're talking about this but back then too parents were sending in paper for their classrooms and you know things like that so we're in a much better position to i i would hope that it wouldn't be we're taking away from where we're trying to provide president oh sorry were you finished okay can we have like maybe a cost is sent in the superintendent's report on how much a mailer would cost us i don't i don't remember ever seeing a cost on those so i have no idea if it's how much in the scale of things it would cost so if we could have that that would be fantastic president kaler board member will said no problem we have done mailers and so we can show you the extent of it and there's different types of mailers and costs you know one of the things now too with qr codes you could send something smaller that links to an electronic website web page that allows that so that you're not printing as much so there are all kinds of different options but we can we can include in the superintendent's report an example sample and our pr department really does have a budget for these kind of things not a huge budget but that's one of the things that we've done a really good job at the other thing i'm sitting here smiling as we're talking because um myself and your cabinet team have been immersed in the work of strategic planning and one of the things in there is communications and fiscal transparency and protocols these are some of our strategic anchors in which we're developing action steps based on feedback we're getting from our stakeholders as work that may have been done but needs to continue to be done even better and and will fit into the work that we're doing as we align the work that's coming forward that we are actually very excited to share with you in april when we bring it back to you but this fits perfectly into the work that we're doing with our strategic planning and our goals and visioning for the future so yes more information can be coming and yes communication and fiscal transparency is a key piece and we're going to be looking at ways that we do that because trust trust and being able to share your perspective being heard sharing information in multiple ways some people like to read it some people like to hear it um we're going to try and be able to provide that response and i will say president kayla remembers that board that we we are working i i think kudos to the pr team like they're they're doing we're we have some cool things coming up some cool infographics um that are if you don't want to read into the fine details of each number these will pop you know these will be for that person um and we're working hard to update the website to be more transparent and also have more detail easier to recharge like you mentioned ms schultz percentages of spend etc so we do hear you and like we are working on making those adjustments because that clearly was a concern in the survey as well as as well as dr foley alluded to in the strategic planning so with that this is kind of the rundown of what will finish the the bond information on so the 23rd as i alluded to i will bring back um a detailed budget of what i propose i'll also add in the additional of a pestle question two with the implication of the middle school leases both we can say one school and both schools so we can look at multiple tax tables and how that will impact the overall bond um and then also in terms of communication we are you know looking at maybe scaling down the road shows and doing more um you know going to schools and being there for those pto or or staff meetings um actually yeah you know if they won't come to us i'll come to them so um you know we're looking at different ways to get the message out regarding the bond so with that that concludes my presentation and any other questions or concerns on the bond for mr moore one quick question sorry president kaler um how do we get our parent or the older community involved in making the decision because i heard a lot the 55 and older um they wanted more information more how do you guys have a plan on how to get them more involved or more on board maybe president kaler board member wilson one of the things you noticed is that there was an influx in responses because again we networked with that community leader she had been out ill and so it delayed it for a little bit but when she got it out to her team we were able to get that information so obviously working with them to figure out the best way to come to provide that information to them whether it is at a one of their events or specifically held there for them and working with them directly on how to best get the information to them the way they're interested they've also been very clear when they've told us no no this is not the time and this is not the place so being sensitive to working with our our contact in that community that helped us get the information out to plan events will be how we want to proceed great thank you yes our older community they've made it clear in some of their comments they're also very supportive of us but they're also our most faithful voters in our community as well and so they do make a huge impact on things that happen in higley um they are the faithful voters and they understand the importance of a vote so okay mr moore you can just keep on moving on we are moving on to 7.2 keep the ball rolling in terms of fiscal transparency we have the first review of the 23 capital outlay budget looking at the capital budget highlights you'll notice that they are very similar to the mno budget highlights that we covered at the last board meeting the reason for this is our main capital fund the district additional assistance or daa as it's also also known as is is state driven by a state budget formula so we like we covered in the mno budget highlights we do not anticipate any additional covert relief funding for the excuse any additional coveted relief funding for mno items neither capital as well the increase in two percent of adm will also affect the daa budget in a positive way much like the m o budget this will be the second year in which the daa fund will be fully restored from recession area cuts from the state as a reminder the daa fund was one of the funds that was cut back in the 2008 2009 recession it took 13 years to restore this funding back to 2008 2009 funding levels um so we are only being funded in our state allocated capital budget at the 2008 2009 levels so that's why the ael is back correct it is a portion oh we funded you fully for the last two years so let's let's throw another wrench in there okay yeah this restoration is playing a little bit into the al um aggregate venture limit issue as well unlike small inflation with mno the da is not subject to inflation just another example of the outdated k-12 funding formula and just a note charter schools get inflation on their capital budgets while districts do not last year we discussed how the capital fund balance grew over time and how we acknowledged the balance was excessive and we were creating a plan to bring it down i will review those balances again and show how we're bringing those fund balances down to a recommended carryover percentage so first we have the capital budget history here's a little recap as i mentioned um the last year last year the capital budget grew over time to to access mno to capital transfers with no intended spending plan the first four bullets are the same numbers i presented last year over those four years you can see the capital budget balance fluctuate slightly in overall growth over that time in 2001 we had some one-time cobit funding offset some of the technology spending we had budgeted for which kept the budget balance high higher than anticipated as we discussed with the m o budget those are one time dollars while we well there was a slight savings to the 2021 budget those one-time costs are going to be back into the budget in 2022 and you'll see that represented tonight the sixth bullet takes into consideration the current year projected ending budget balance and next year's state allocation we are still making expenditures but this is a safe estimate at this point in time it will be the basis of the capital budget for this presentation lastly in the seventh bullet you'll see a drastic drop in estimated beginning capital budget balance a large portion of this drastic drop is associated with the higley high school classroom edition and the fact that because we did not pass a bond we are forced to budget this classroom edition out of our annual capital allocation um this was a large bring down of the budget it was necessary in the fact that we're completely out of classroom space at higley high this is the student need for reference looking at um or excuse me this was the only funding source the district had to fund those project needs so for reference looking at the 2024 estimated 12.7 million dollar capital budget this represents double the state allocation of roughly six million dollars this district receives annually uh this budget is conservative still but will limit the district ability to to fund future major projects as we continue to see growth if the district does not pass a bond in the near future so now looking at the 2023 budget as a whole you should be familiar with the following template the slide details the three main capital funds and the budgets for 2023 fiscal year i will go into detail of each one of these lines on the preceding slides but i do want to touch on a few areas in this template so first on the very top column reading left to right you'll notice the page number of the slide in which you can find more detail on next you can see the spending category next to that is the daa fund also known as our annual state capital allocation next to that is the adjacent waste fund which is a levied fund that's not a budgeted fund next to that is the remaining 23 2013 bond authorization which you'll see is going to be fully expended this next fiscal year so now i'll go cover all the detail in between on the preceding slides but i want to touch on the bottom while you'll see the total expenditures this is the second to last blue highlighted roll it's the total expenditures per capita fund and you'll see the budget is 22 excuse me 20.9 million which is the same as i present on the previous slide uh 1.9 million for adjacent ways and again we don't anticipate leveling level levying for more adjacent waste funding and 3.8 million for the 2013 bond authorization okay so now if you're looking at the capital budget summary we're going to start at the top and work through the detail the district-wide capital budget is a culmination of a variety of district departments including sped hr public relations and so forth there's a total budget for all those departments of 56 000 from the capital budget this addresses any capital needs they may have throughout the year next is the adjacent ways budget which has been set at district wide because currently there are no designated adjacent waste projects we there may be some expenditures in regards to the higley classroom edition but we are still early in the design process we don't know if there may be implications to the fire lane that proceeds on the back of higley high's campus the district next the district is setting aside 500 000 and unallocated for unforeseen circumstances the times where the we have had to tap into this budget are when we have large emergency maintenance needs such as the lift stations that we occurred at d.o in higley high and then lastly we talk about this at every financial conversation the middle school leases we are budgeting 4.4 million but as i discussed in the mno presentation this will be funded from an mno transfer to the capital budget so proceeding on to some of the departments that have large capital budgets first is educational services and first up assessment and student informations they have an allocation of 465 000 this supports our student software needs canvas as well as enrollment software synergy there are also other assessment softwares the district uses that make up the majority of this funding which also includes florida virtual schools which is our higley virtual academy student instruction software next is the instructional aid budget of 450 000 this is used to purchase annual curriculum not included in textbook adoptions so this includes supplementals such as hda's traditional curriculum as well as we just discussed this dual language immersion curriculum and then lastly you'll see we're taking a year off from the textbook adoption the textbook adoption we're choosing to renew some of our adopted adopted curriculum and prepare for a 2024 adoption right transitioning to the i.t budget first we can continue to see support for the maintenance of the one-to-one student-to-device ratio in the amount of 1.3 million the district earlier this year completed the one-to-one device initiative and any ongoing budget in this category is prioritized at maintaining these devices and or adding new devices as students as student growth continues to occur at higley unified the schools presented are approaching the five-year lifespan for the levano laptops and the replacement includes higley high school in power ranch for next year moving down the list we are starting to slowly address the outdated teacher laptops that are no longer supported what i mean by no longer supported is these devices are no longer under warranty and the supplier will not repair the devices if they break so the district has said 1.3 million to start to replace these outdated laptops you can see the schools that have been identified for replacement include williamsfield cortina chaparral hta and santan mr moore about what's the life of these laptops so five years for technologies is a typical rule of thumb i'm not a technology guru but i can tell you if i don't replace my phone in five years it's outdated the similar philosophy for laptops and student devices they get a lot of wear and mute and use and by the time they approach five years they're either outdated or like i mentioned not no longer supported because that's how fast technology moves okay next is the district's annual software budget that supports a variety of district functions the main ones include microsoft so microsoft 365 all the applications that go with that our district email that we utilize visions is our district financial software this supports payroll allows us to cut checks every year frontline is also another big one that is a human resource software that supports the hiring of district employees lastly the 75 000 allocation budgeted for safety and security is intended to hold status quo and only replace video cameras as needed the allocation does have a budget to slowly replace the aging school intercom systems but wide scale replacement is largely largely contingent on a 22 bond proposal do we have i'm sorry um president kaler mr moore do we have the school picked because i was out of school this week and i was shocked to hear the intercom system so i there's two or three i've heard and none of them are good so i don't know if we have the school picked already for that or if we're still working on picking that yeah i believe it's still assessing the greatest need i mean there's a need throughout our district but they're still determining that okay moving on maintenance and construction the maintenance and construction budgets the annual capital maintenance budget is 1.5 million next year and addresses general hvac replacements we have approximately three roofing recoats one exterior building repaint some general flooring replacements custodial equipment and other various capital items that are incurred throughout the year one thing i've been working on with our interim maintenance director is really coming up with a heart a list much like we've talked about tonight a detailed list of what is being funded from this budget our schools have been in dire need of knowing what is going to be happening on their campus and we've done we're close to sharing it with them but we've done a lot of work in identifying every single dollar within this budget and knowing where it's going to go so again part of that rebuilding trust we need to also rebuild our trust with our schools and let them know what needs are going to be addressed and when moving down the anal grounds budget of 142 000 is budgeted to replace equipment only if it breaks and really only maintain the current conditions of the district landscaping again any enhancements are largely contingent on a 22-20-22 bond and then lastly understanding schools have large capital needs and cannot be funded from their allocation that we provide at the district level we set aside 250 000 for schools to submit a capital request that can be funded from this allocation these requests are prioritized on greatest need and are in a group setting we narrow down these needs and let the schools know which requests are being funded for next year so we just received all the requests so we'll be moving through that process in the near future all right then as we we've discussed um multiple times we have one big construction project planned for 2023 and that's the classroom edition at higley high school we've identified higley high school as the greatest need to student growth earlier this year and began down the path of hiring an architect and now as approved tonight we have a contractor on board we are able to budget 10 million for this project which has a district fully exhausting the remaining 2013 bond authorization and allocating 6 million from our annual capital allocation our daa budget towards this project in this proposed 2022 bond we would have a phase 2 for this campus and that would be addressing some of the other needs that the campus potentially needs including exterior paint a potential gym expansion to accommodate the additional students and other various items that are being discussed at our community meetings that are set aside previously and then as we've already mentioned tonight the next community meeting is tomorrow night at higley high school from 6 to 7 p.m i will note the picture in the slide is an early rendition of the classroom edition a full in-depth presentation of the design win final will be presented to the governing board as well as the total cost of the building so through the the cmar process that you approve tonight with the contractor we begin negotiating what the building will cost and what we call a guaranteed maximum price or a gmp this does not allow for any change orders once they set the gmp that is the final cost we do potentially estimate this may come in under budget but contingency and being safe we set 10 million aside for this purpose so this does include all furniture and equipment into this building so yeah the total building cost will be approximately probably eight million um with another two million of potential furniture equipment everything needed to make this building operational president mr moore the meeting tomorrow night is that online um streamed as well it is not is in person only we do share if you were to provide your email address and you can reach out to me we do share a follow-up of meeting notes through that we do also share that with mr fields and i believe he pushes that out to his parent group as well through his communication thank you there's a third meeting and there's a third meeting so there's this is one of a series so if you can't attend this one there's still another one for you to be able to attend and we're actually also looking at a fourth meeting so there we go we've had a lot of input so we'll actually everybody is heard i can actually not attend tomorrow is there any way you could send the email to us during the superintendent's report because that would be fabulous i'm actually going to the queen creek state of the town so if we could get that push test that would be fantastic or at least me i don't know if everybody else wants it okay i'm like i spoke for all of us i'm sorry we can certainly get that information to provide you the information all right moving forward um in the 2013 bond uh we there was a transportation allocation what is remaining is three hundred thousand uh josh crosby the director of transportation has identified his greatest needs of being two 84 passenger buses uh we're currently in the process of drafting a board agenda to bring to the next meeting the reason you're seeing this item budget in 2023 as well as the bus purchase currently taking place is because there's anywhere from a four to six month lead time on school buses and this money was budgeted in the 2022 capital budget as well it's just taken a long time to identify what the greatest need was so um the 300 000 remaining budget as i alluded was included in the 2022 capital plan that we presented next is a 50 000 allocation for furniture fixtures and equipment this budget is largely used for engine replacements that we can do in-house any other repairs and maintenance needs are funded by the mno budget that is an mno expense so and then lastly 150 000 allocation is budgeted for the replacement of the maintenance vehicles so this is our white fleet our support service vehicles the budget is prioritized by replacing the oldest vehicle in the fleet typically in excess of 20 plus years and they're no longer cost effective to maintain okay our schools so new last year was a priority to provide schools with more resources to address those smaller needs that don't get prioritized within the district level budgets i personally established quarterly and budget meetings in which i meet with each principal to ensure spending is appropriate but also help them guide the proper resources to address their school needs through their school allocated budgets the largest budget available to schools is the their ffme budget which stands for friendship pictures and equipment 572 000 equates to 45 dollars per student and that's based on 100 day adm which is also where we're funded from on our annual budget every school has done something different with their current year allocation and this allocation has been well received from principals schools have also received a designation for library books and resources and to the to or we're budgeting for that for 63 000 which requested five dollars per student this allocation is designated to replace library books and or digital resources as well as enhance their library spaces mr moore does the librarian have full or our media specialists get control of that or is that a principal decision it's a combined decision yeah it's a it's immediate well i should say uh our some of our instructional coach ms valerie thomas has worked with our media techs and our media i believe they're called tax on excuse me if i'm but yeah they they set the priorities for this budget and they communicate that with the principal great thank you all right moving down the list capital athletics this was the established last year and will continue at the middle and high schools and the same amount of a hundred thousand the budget was used largely this year to replace aging and warren athletic uniforms and equipment i have a question um it has to do with and maybe mr lotzenheiser can speak into this as well um because he was so wanting us to ask him a question tonight um uh the the helmet budget for our football teams does that come out of this hundred thousand dollars every year i know that's a huge expense yes i can you want to say okay okay he's got it mr moore's got it so this isn't the only budget um ads have in turn in terms of um addressing some of those needs such as helmet replacement i can tell you the high schools have utilized this to address um the helmet replacement conditioning and such like that and they've then um transitioned to using some of their participation money for other needs throughout the sports so thank you i just have a quick question is our is the athletic fund the equipment is that um dispersed evenly among the teams as far as no okay so this is first to the athletic director and then they determine the greatest need at this at the school okay but it's based on need not want okay i do believe and mr lots and i can certainly address that but so when we break down our allocation for the athletics when you look at the hundred thousand actually when the the two high schools each get forty thousand and the middle schools get ten thousand because of the relative size of the departments and what they need to do 40 000 for capital specifically goes to the athletic director and they're going to determine what happens from there one thing that we have done and mr moore talked about other funds that become available when participation fees now are paid it traditionally it would all go to the athletic director and they would have sole control over it however we have split that now so that fifty dollars per student goes directly to the uh coach and within there so they have some direct control over the spending of what that is and so they're getting an allocation directly determined based upon the number of students so the coaches have control over that so that might go more toward wants rather than needs because the coaches are looking at that where the athletic director is looking at the whole program as a whole from the school perspective thank you president kaler members of the board we wanted to talk space about that instrument replacement some great work happened in this 2019 school year bob edgar kind of took the lead with the conselmer group and he worked with all the band and orchestras teachers throughout the year throughout the entire district in that year they did an inventory of of of the state of the state of our instruments band and orchestra and they utilized a rubric that actually didn't just go by value of year but actually conditioned so that we had an understanding of what was our inventory and we determined it was pretty extensively in disrepair in old age or in great need and so from that inventory they prioritized a multi-year knowing if we could create an allocation every year which had not happened previously an allocation every year we've determined the highest need that we use across the district for this program which is a huge thing and so this truly is to the work of the entire uh in our employee group in this area who work together to help us figure this out and to put this together and prioritize so that's something that's a success for us because this is a a big piece in our district that didn't have a dedicated funding source every year too that this will now be our second year where we're being able to revitalize replace and improve our condition of our instruments and this is huge huge for us so it summarizes the school's designations in which they receive capital funding finishing up here we have financial services overseas the warehouse and we have identified an opportunity to increase some efficiencies of the warehouse operations as well as potentially save some operating budget so a budget 50 000 has been set aside to address additional racking within the rare warehouse which would allow the district to purchase larger volumes of supplies potentially recognizing mno savings by buying in bulk this will also allow the district to ensure supplies to schools stay the same in which we can get a leg up on supply chain issues by stocking up more on those high demand items such as toilet paper trash can liners etc and then lastly the budget item a bunch of balance carry forward of 1.8 million this represents about 20 percent of our district's annual capital budget which i've alluded to is approximately 6 million dollars a year this is still a conservative carryover amount as i mentioned earlier we're projecting to take a bigger jump down with this capital budget a big portion of the jump comes from one-time expenses that we are funding from our capital allocation so you can anticipate that we maintain at least a similar level of carry forward in years going forward president kaler members of the board though you can see the the importance though of us getting a bond to pass to prepare for the growth because the chunk of our budget coming down to get ahead of this you can't rely on our capital budget to be there to to build classroom space at the cost that it costs to build classroom space if we don't have a bond to address that so hence hence looking at our priorities at this point being connected to this piece too as well when we talk about both of these funds and again this should look familiar this is our budget calendar on the next meeting we also have um the third review of the bond but we do have as well the second review of the mno budget i think we're going to focus exclusively on the aggregate expenditure limit we still do not have a solution yet but we'll focus around the district's plans and how we attend to address the limit within higley this week one of the things that we proposed or put on our website under our announcements is just a little infographic about aggregate expenditure limit and and encouraging people to reach out to our our pr department our public relations department for more questions one of the things we're trying to do is there's this delicate dance between keeping people informed and causing pandemonium and panic we've obviously shared this with our our employees we'll be sharing it as part of our summary again obviously as we continue to move forward this next our next meeting will spend an awful lot of time on what does this mean to us if we don't have resolution resolution from the state at that point dr foley um superintendent hoffman spent her whole presentation on it and it was very good i hope that it i hope it reached those people who are making the decisions just finishing up real quick march 9th we will tend to we'll bring a third review as well as a tentative approval so we can allow the issuance of contracts for next fiscal year um i understand a lot is still up in the air but it is important to get ahead of contract issuance so we can ensure we are not only competitive with other districts but also so we can staff accordingly for next fiscal year at that time i'll also present a second review of the capital budget that i reviewed tonight i will present a scaled-down approach i won't go into so much detail but if something were to change i will bring that up april 20th much like the mno review we do ask for a tentative approval of the capital budget so we can get a head start on some of those long lead items that take several months to procure and then lastly to start our state or legal dates in which we have a to propose and adopt our 23 budget so with that i'll take any questions i think we're good thank you so much for the detailed report we always appreciate your wisdom and sharing with us all the things finances all right we're going to move on to 8.1 i move that the governing board ratified the updated 2020 1 2022 certified performance pay plan second this was presented to us already is there any other questions or comments all those in favor aye aye motion carries 5-0 moving on to 8.2 i move that the governing board approved the award of pre-construction services for requests for qualification the rfq number 22 22-03-23 for the higley high school project to chase building team second any comments or questions president kayla remembers the board i just want to make a brief comment this this agenda item is uh authorizing seventy thousand dollars for chase building to come in and establish where utility lines are um where they need to do drops network drugs etc so they can propose us a gmp that is final this is a different process in which we're building this than the field house that was built at williams field and also in addition this is under the board's threshold but we just want to be transparent in this process as we proceed through this construction project yes the behind the scenes rfqs are very in-depth so that we may not see here but it's been going on and we appreciate that was there a second okay thank you any other questions comments all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero future agenda items again we have a lot coming up in the spring besides just our finances our strategic plan and life behind life beyond high school portrait of a graduate our wellness initiative and our virtual academy updates coming in the summer is there anything else the board would like to see in the upcoming months president koehler dr foley is it possible to get an update with um the safety plan um especially with some instances that we've had recently just how things are going is it working are there i don't know if that's to be an executive session or not or what we can say president kaler board member anderson those are some of those annual things that we'll probably bring back to you so we can do is establish it into our annual calendar that we will have those updates for you um a lot of work has been done um in social emotional as well as safety and so we will be bringing that information to you but we'll add it as part of our annual component too so that we'll get that to you as soon as possible okay i didn't mean to sound premature i was just knowing there's a lot that happened and i just curious how it's going how we're coming we will be happy to provide you that update some of those again those annual ones may have to be an executive session during for summary but some can be whole group so we'll determine what we can do in like a work study session and what we would do in executive session also meet our annual calendar i know board member wilson talked about the 1.6 million dollar cuts that the schools could face and i know that if 16.1 sorry i just what did i say oh sorry it's 1 billion sorry um i just encourage people to pay attention and to encourage their legislators to vote properly for that so that the schools i know we aren't facing furloughs as we talked about during last week's meeting but other schools districts could face a devastating pillows yes don't get me started i think i stated my opinions last time on that um also dr foley i know that there was [Music] we we talked about it briefly and it was in our status about some damages happening to our southern schools and i think it's really important that our parents of those areas are made aware that this is you know this is costing the district money and i don't know if this is something that goes out in a newsletter or if it's something that is a separate um you know just notification that you know we need to be we all need to take the village i know that in cortina alone there's parents that are always posting do you know where your kids are because i just took a picture of them um and you know then you go into the hole well that's shaming the child and you shouldn't be putting their picture out and so there's a lot of things that go with it but our schools are very important to us and we we do so much for our safety and our security and our cameras and following up but just maybe if there's some kind of communication that could go out to our communities just stating that this this is a problem and it needs to stop if at all possible and it's costing us a lot of money yeah president keller one of the things earlier in the year we had talked about particularly when social media had specific tick tock challenges that were being prevalent we were seeing an increase and it seems as though while there hasn't been a specific tick tock challenge the social media presence of um devious or social recorded acts are are still prevalent um an awareness of that and report and asking people reminding them of our safe hotline to report information for us to investigate so that we can do so i know that individual school sites have also been sending this out in messages from the principal but we can also continue to look at a global communication and just reminders one of the things we also notice how important it is to as we approach toward um our seniors in graduation and senior prank season all those things and reminders those are sort of timely topics to continue to keep on our our communication with our families thank you very much president kim yes along those same lines when we have areas that have some vandalism crime some issues maybe could we reach out to the hoas if they have newsletters that they put if they have newsletters that they put out to their community maybe just a small information hey watch out you know the school was you know vandalized or or something like that just just as i know our community puts it out if there's a particular area you know like this park we're seeing a lot of activity and you know maybe we can reach out and partner with them for them to drop a little note in their hoa communication cortina hoa has put out a lot of information because they were breaking um kids were destroying our lights in our gazebos in the park so there was um a lot that went on in the last couple of weeks on that topic i don't know about soseman so much but i know like cortina did um put some stuff out there and our hoas are in the same boat as we are and they're very upset so yeah so maybe sharing some of this information to make other community members aware as well okay with that said i move that we adjourn all those in favor motion carries 5-0 have a good evening you

that was only possible because of the teaching i received from mr taylor finally i wanted to talk a bit about how my interest in this career came to be i fell in love with the idea of being a journalist after producing two segments for the rundown both were feature stories on combs alumni velvet wall and austin villegas it was through this program that i finally found the thing that made me happy and and what i do now may look different to what i was doing on the rundown in the sense that i switched to still image photojournalism rather than broadcast video this program taught me all the skills i need to continue my education at the walter cronkite school of journalism i'm eternally grateful to both mr taylor and the combs cte program as a whole for everything they have done for me and giving the chance to find what i love thank you mr the coolest thing is if you've ever been to a phoenix suns game and you see the photographers down on the floor alex is one of those guys it's really really cool anyway the last thing is that our students are fortunate to have a staff that cares about them we adopted this realizing that if it's important to our students then it has to be important to us as teachers and so sometimes we have a lot on our plate as educators but if those little things like student organizations and competitions and community service and all those things are important to our to our students or for our students then we as educators realize they're important to us and we need to support our students in those things so again thank you again for for the time tonight [Applause] that's a that's the superintendent's report so we're on the next agenda so we're on uh school and staff recognition ms paschall with uh simonton elementary good evening madam president dr wyman and board members and our fabulous large audience tonight thanks for being here tonight you didn't know you're going to get to hear about catherine sue simmington elementary and some of the great things that we're doing with technology um i do have our fabulous teacher maybe claire who's going to join me up here along with some of our students from fourth and fifth grade so jace you want to come up piper madison alexis um we're going to share some um of what they've been doing the last second quarter our students in grades one through six have been working on coding and tonight we're going to share a video that highlights some of the things that they've been working on as well as they would like to personally share some of their personal projects involving coding so we will start with our video clip and then we will turn it over to our stallions to share technology vision is that we come to technology to learn computer skills that will help us be successful in school and prepare us for future careers we work hard and play hard work is to treat other people kindly part of the safety is to walk in the crossing keep all four legs on the ground and no food or drinks in the sponsor ability is to stay an appropriate website responsibility is to keep focus and stay on task voting is basically telling the computer what to do coding is a fun and entertaining program and make it do stuff and make it move around directions and make it speaker and what you tell the computer to do when you like to tell the characters to talk to move to and to say something coding is a type of blog that you can put together to make really cool games and you can make a big project coding is to make your ideas real my name is bennett and i made a story about two friends going on an adventure and finding a witch i'm new here okay i'll leave them here's the technology room what do we do here we put educational games on the computers here's the hallway it's a little bit in our class i used coding to create a game where a butterfly has to block the clouds and if you touch the clouds i i do coded games on code.org when i made my background i was excited to help others i like sharing my stories with my class and seeing everybody else's videos i use critical thing to make my sprite jump and scratch and it's really hard because i make it land in the perfect spot where it jumps use math and technology to figure out how long my sprites need to wait for my story on my jumping game um i i needed help moving my spot across the screen so i watched a couple of videos and was trying to trying all the boxes until i got it right then i finally got it right it was hard but then i kept on trying and then it got easier [Music] okay so jace is going to share about his story with coding we use this program called scratch to create our stories use these coding blocks to tell the computer when to move talk or wait my favorite part is when they chase each other around the world the hardest part was when making making the snake change directions i use wait blocks talk blocks switch backdrop to say blocks this is my story a snake please don't eat me boss gonna be so happy [Music] yes yes yes no don't get me ha ha okay i give up [Applause] all right we would like to have our friends from fifth grade come over and share i think they're gonna use the mic actually okay piper and madison and lexus are gonna share more in fifth grade we did something fun things like creating our own jumping game on scratch we did lessons on code.org and jumping game and coding with roblox this is our evo bot ruby when we start using ruby we have to calibrate her so that she is ready to adjust to the color and lighting in the room this will help her to recognize the code we put on our map to do this we hold down the button until it turns white and put her on a black circle the robot is now calibrating on our map we use several different patterns to tell ruby what to do for example this code is fast this coat is slow the robot will also change colors with the patterns of the code this code is tornado it will spin fast it will spin and then start spinning even faster this code is back walk it will turn back into it singing and come back give us a minute now this code is nitro boost this code is zigzag we have nitro boost again and then next we have spin now ruby is going to the oz car wash for ruby's final code she has a back walk and now we are at the finish line that's ruby's world thanks for going on an adventure with us [Applause] do you guys have any questions for us [Music] [Applause] as you could tell these kids loved coding and i was shocked at what they can do at such a young age they were so creative in their stories and their perseverance coding is hard and it's tricky and it takes a lot of problem solving skills and they stuck through and did amazing jobs on our board we have a saying that says you have more power in your fingertips than generations before and it is so true i'm excited to see what these kids will do with this basic foundation of coding that they're learning well let's give a little treat to our fabulous students who helped us tonight too thank you i don't think they were shy either i think they did a really nice job and then miss claire if you say we're going to celebrate you also so um we just i want to say thank you maylie has been and continues to be part of the combs community um in many ways and this year we've been blessed that she is a technology teacher at symington and harman and she has jumped in with both feet and worked very hard to make it very engaging and fun and something that the kids enjoy and build on and like we said building a strong foundation for future things like i hear about with cte so very excited to have maylie with us this year and um just appreciate the creativity and the kindness that she brings to our students [Applause] and then we would like to celebrate a couple more people that are here tonight um this lady is so flexible um probably wishes her phone was not on in the morning because i'm texting and saying so how do you feel about this today and miss jamie is who we would like to celebrate miss jamie um is second year with us is actually a certified teacher and works as a paraprofessional for us but has been a teacher many days this year as a substitute so she probably really does want to turn off the phone every morning and not get that but she is just so kind so giving so warm like i said flexible but always with a smile whatever's going on helping staff members helping students so we really appreciate miss jamie and everything she brings to simonton [Applause] well i'm worried about my favorite thing bags i got them and i'm supposed to be giving you the blue apples so i have a blue apple for each of you so i'm going to give you yours i'm gonna put it back in here and then i would like to have maybe come up and i will give you yours in your bag are just some of your favorite things to enjoy i forgot about these nice apples okay one more we would love to celebrate is our lovely miss emily so miss emily is our go-to person in the very front the very first person that you're gonna see when you walk into simonton [Applause] always with a smile on she is the queen of attendance and registration she is amazing she um can multitask like no one else and i've never seen her um i guess frazzled she's so calm i just figure out how to frazzle you i don't even know what it would be so um just calm giving caring always wanting to know what she can do to help our staff our families always looking at what is best for students when we're when we're doing anything across the campus so i really really appreciate having emily a very front person again that everybody sees and works with so polite and giving thank you [Applause] um i love love love symmington and feel very blessed to be there if i could fill this audience right now with our entire staff and bring each one up so we could celebrate them tonight that's what i would do they give and give and give we actually have several people in the audience that are from symington tonight too and everybody is so giving to each other and they make it a special place so very blessed to work alongside each of you and thank you for letting us share tonight and celebrate and for our fabulous students for bringing some of technology alive for everybody to see what we do when we go to technology class thank you thank you [Applause] so we have a student of the month madam president board members dr wyman and uh all members in the audience thank you for being here faculty and staff thank you and of course the leaders i'd like to have uh from combs center of success isis stellwagen come up oh come on over here right here next to me out there sorry didn't see you there the idea of fairness is an ever important in today's society for all citizens she is fair to all people she comes in contact with students staff community members she's always willing to place others before herself countless times i've seen her allow others to go ahead of her in line to pick up lunch on many occasions i've seen her ask for help for understanding the questions that she got wrong she doesn't do this to change the answers for a higher score but instead she does it so that she can learn the material and grow as a person congratulations isis for being a wonderful student [Applause] could i have amy hansen from the high school come up could i have michael turnage come up from combs middle school michael is an exceptional student who routinely pushes himself to succeed when it comes to classroom collaboration michael demonstrates an elite sense of fairness by always treating others the same with kindness and respect and patiently helping them to succeed michael is a loyal student committed to his campus community who is always willing to do the work he's responsible open-minded and always goes the extra mile to contribute in class congratulations michael we're all very proud of you and that of course is from miss guzman could i have sawyer nash come up from cta there you are [Applause] this is miss nash she's a great example of the character trait fairness she's willing to share in the classroom as well as recess she treats all of her classmates with respect respect and make sure that she listens to everyone's ideas sawyer plays by the rules at recess and treats everyone fairly if she sees someone who's not treating others fairly she'll talk to them and make sure that they follow the rules of the game like everyone else we're honored to nominate sawyer for the character trait of fairness and of course that's from your school congratulations [Applause] could i have lacy francois come up from ellsworth i thought i saw lacey earlier could i have ariana ramirez come up from harmon [Applause] there she is ariana is caring and kind towards her fellow classmates teachers and staff at harman she's respectful when speaking to others and is always polite the other children look up to her and she emulates these traits ariana is responsible and trustworthy she is mindful of what is what is right to do and has been witnessed and by helping her peers and making good choices ariana is always willing to help she has a positive attitude she works hard and is a great example to those around her congratulations ariana could i have isaac lopez come up from ranch [Applause] how are you nice to meet you isaac came to mind immediately for this nomination isaac is respectful works hard as a role model for his peers he's willing to help when needed and volunteers to help his peers always isaac demonstrates the traits of the pillar of character every day by listening to others while keeping an open mind not taking advantage of other people and telling the truth isaac is a pleasure to have in class and ranch is grateful for his contribute contributions congratulations isaac [Applause] could i have mason lucas come up from symington hi mason how are you this is mason mason is a perfect example of respect and we're rewarding him this from last month he's always listening and paying attention to his teachers when an assignment is given he is the first to get busy working he works diligently to finish all of his work and follows the directions to a t he raises his hand and asks for assistance when needed and when work is hard to complete he keeps at it he is a great example to his classmates and is always willing to help out mason is polite and kind to everyone around him he is truly respectful and a kind human congratulations mason [Applause] i believe that's it for this evening time to take some pictures yeah you guys can get up and take pictures of them and do what you need to do whatever you want good congratulations [Music] was outside all right okay i just great yes i did my job thanks okay okay we're gonna go ahead and um proceed do we have any citizens comments no we do not okay so it brings us to the consent agenda does anybody have any questions comments concern on the consent agenda chad lisa you have any questions on the consent agenda uh no madam president no not at this time okay so then i'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda i move that the governing board approved the consent agenda as presented all in favor aye aye aye okay motion carries five to zero so we're going to go to our one huge action item and it's discussion and consideration of approval of fee schedules for the 22-23 year madam president members of the board and the tens of people who are watching this at home tonight they're very excited we're very excited yes and i just flew in from charlotte so my arms are tired [Laughter] you have three fee sheets in front of you tonight one of them is the normal fees that we bring to you at the high school what i'd like to say is that over the last several years we've really tried to go through and adjust the fees that we're charging our students and to really focus on the needs of what we have so you have the high school course fee schedule you should also have a second fee schedule that focuses on technology and then community education will be bringing a fee schedule to you tonight that will include some increases in their fees so i can answer questions on the first couple and then i'll let ms carly answer the questions on uh anything related to community yet um just i noticed in the information we had we talked about the thief for the computers and how a parent can opt in around so i understand all of that yes is there anything uh different any fees that have changed from previous years to what we'll be approving tonight no the only fees that changed is as we added a new course for ag4 we added the fees that go along with that other than that all of the fees remain the same for the course fees and then dr wyman can speak to the uh the the computer fees now the computer fees and and with community ed we increase the fees um about ten percent just to they're still below the neighboring costs but but it helps to run the program so those did go up but the rest is as mr cox said he did not okay looks good thank you for your time any questions any other questions no no no questions perfect okay do we need to so i've moved did you say that we needed to do something with community ed too or no no okay we increase the fees and if there's if there's questions ms carley's here to answer but otherwise not but i will remind you on the recommended action please read the motion exactly as it is because there's understated statute um uh authorization for principles and it has to be read in this manner got that bob dr wyman oh yep sorry i just i noticed that part that said that uh giving uh giving some authority to the the principles to make that decision is that is that has that not been the case previously or is that just part of no it's it's always been the case and this is the same motion that you read every year i just point it out because sometimes we'll make a motion that's not that just kind of summarizes what the talk is this is just one that we specifically have to read as it's written because the state statute requires it so but it's the same one we've used for years perfect thank you all right i'll take a motion okay i moved to approve the 2022-23 fee schedules and authorize the principles to waive the assessment of all or part of the fee assessed if it creates an economic hardship second all in favor aye aye motion carries five to zero now we get our informational yes the first item we have on if you remember back in september we went ahead and proved applied economics to do a demographic and enrollment analysis for the district and so we've asked mr rambert come here and give us a report on what they found so we'll turn the time over to him and there's a presentation that will be part of the his discussion good evening uh president hargis members of the board dr wyman um and distinguished guests very distinguished very very very distinguished looking group over there but anyways uh we're uh we're we're here tonight to share with you the results of of the of the update of the study really we certainly have uh been here before um so we'll just get right to it tell you what we figured what we found out this time study scope just for people may have not seen it is it's been pretty much the same but obviously we're looking at enrollment trends and punishing enrollment data every way that we can looking at grade level distributions geographic distributions right down to the neighborhood level and then um in this day and age we're also tracking enrollment at all of our alternative providers basically charter schools uh in the area even though we don't have a direct way to correlate how many of them are your students we can infer and so we do a lot of we you know we do a lot of that um demographic characteristics of the existing population unlike you know when in the period between 2000 and 2010 and between 2010 and 2020 there was enough of a population that you now actually have an aging of some of the people who moved in during the last boom so we're all we are looking at household type and characteristics and the age age hold ages of the householders don graves with our office is our residential development guy expert and he and he tracks um active projects as well as things are coming down the pike in terms of you know final development plans and platts and and all those kinds of things and then further out talking to the developers you know about their idea of their timing for their projects which we don't take verbatim but we do definitely open that door and then finally we do two models a macroeconomic top down how does your district fit into the southeast valley how does it fit into arizona and you know the bigger economic picture and then a bottom-up model sub-district model where we use these geographic areas so we're actually modeling the households and the population and the school age population and the enrollment in all of these red boxes and here they just happen to be colored according to the current attendance areas but these the idea with the grids we call them is that they don't change over time like the attendance areas might change you might move this there to that school and these don't so that we can actually get you know over a good period of time a handle on how enrollment is trending not only at the district level but really down about the quarter section or so level which you know breaks up gives us enough detail to understand what's going on so first of all we'll start back at the top with you know kind of the big kind of the big picture and i've got enough notes on this page i'm going to have to turn the page for a change but you know enrollment grew by about 4 000 students between 2010 and and 2011 and as i noted there has only increased by about a hundred since then and the interesting thing about these two periods is if i break it down into the 2000 through 2010 period there was about 9 000 new housing units built in the district during that period of time and that generated about 6 500 school-aged persons that means all persons 5 to 17 living in the district whether they went to one of your schools or any school that's just population impact with 6 500.

i think that's actually the important thing yeah that's a good that's the opening day so i think i think it depends on what the event where the venue is but i think once that is solidified my understanding is that will help determine if um and so they i was not given the impression that 2425 was not a possibility um but i think they need to decide on where first and then go from there have they given us any estimate when solidity might come yes great question so today's wednesday i was kind of left with the impression move this will be a little bit more crystal by the end of the week and so i'm hoping in the next couple of days we're going to hear again like that path i think it'll be a little clearer thank you thank you that's all i have i'm sorry you're welcome to stay over there i did the best i could he can't tell me what he doesn't know and so um the next report i just want to speak to is i'll start from the top now superintendent goals update family school and community partnerships i did share this update in our community relations committee last night but i want to ask dr selig to provide an update regarding our district website survey many families may have seen this survey and i just want to provide an update for the board and then also for our community the intention behind it so the district just embarked on a beginning of a fairly long process of reviewing our website and the first one was to put a survey out to the community to get some feedback about what people want to see and more importantly how they're going to use the site to make sure it's optimized whether it's prior to mobile the languages that we want the information to be available in if there's certain things that should be available to download versus repositories so that survey went out to parents in our letter uh two days ago and we've already gotten about 160 people to respond to it across all three different languages spanish portuguese and english that survey is going to be open until the 16th of february at which time i'll close and the reference we have doing this it's an agency at a program called looney they're going to run the analytics on it and incorporate that feedback into the proposal so from february through may we're basically going to see a whole lot of mock-ups wire framings and you know sort of test test pages and to get a sense of what it's going to look like and how it's going to feel i can tell you it's going to feel a lot more like the danbury city website and a lot less like the current school website which if you've been on that homepage lately you know it's a very busy page and there's a lot of different things competing for your attention so we're going to have a very clean very modern design and it's really going to be optimized around the way people really want to use it so you don't have to go clicking five six seven levels down to find a little bit of information so yeah the uh surge will be open for about seven eight days and uh thank you mike so the the next area i want to focus on is voice for change and next time i need to do a better job coordinating with students because greg had also provided an update but let me just share when i put my glasses on because i wrote some notes for myself so voice for change number one is a first of its kind student civic engagement invitation offered by our commissioner of education uh charlene russell tucker um in this invitation is over 1.5 million dollars of federal relief monies available for districts across the state of connecticut as part of the invitation students are invited to write a proposal on how to change schools um and and modernize schools in the way in the post post pandemic and we have a number of students here at denver high school have who have written a proposal students who the winners at a school will receive twenty thousand dollars on behalf of danbury high school dan barry i think we have eight or nine students who have submitted a proposal i'm making the board aware because i would like to invite principal donovan and some of the students who may submitted a proposal and share some of their recommendations uh for change at our next meeting so just wanted to provide that update for you voice for change is a a great initiative for the state of connecticut and it's been a wonderful it's been wonderful to see our students right here in danbury high school engage in a civic civic opportunity so i just want to provide that update for you the next one is the legislative agenda mr ryan bingham who is our lobbyist he has agreed to join us at our next board meeting on the 23rd and at that time he'll speak to some of the conversations with some of our local legislators and obviously the city of danbury and kind of give us a forecast on number one reviewing with you some of our focus areas for this year i have pushed really hard again for the state to escalate our payment schedule given which has been well documented in our presentations our enrollment growth over the last one two three five years and as we continued as enrollment and danbury continues to grow we will continue to see a decline across the state of connecticut it was made very clear to me by the legislators that um you know it was made clear kevin if danbury is um escalated on his schedule that means someone has to receive one last year of funding and i then made it clear then we could make a very good case that given our enrollment in a declining enrollment across the state of connecticut i think someone could lose a payment uh while we are awarded um an escalated payment um so i don't know how well that's going to go over with some school district that might miss it but i think it's our our job to advocate for danbury and then certainly the facts are there that enrollment continues to grow while they decline across the rest of the state so he will be here for the next meeting and kind of walk through maybe i don't know if he can really forecast how reasonable it is how reasonable the ask is in terms of we won't be awarded any additional monies um but he felt confidently like if it was gonna happen this would be the year given the surplus at the state with some of the release funds across the districts in the state of connecticut so i'm looking forward to having ryan at our next meeting and it's always a great opportunity to ask some clarifying questions as well and then last but not least this was not on agenda but we did have um just want to acknowledge the governor's announcement on monday afternoon um and i know we had a question from one of my parents earlier and frankly it may be many families in the danbury community we actually prepared the letter that went out on monday on friday and it is true that our masking poly as of right now is still the same until at the very lea until the board makes a decision otherwise but you are right and i can understand how there may have been some um mis-messaging given the timing but we are i will be working with the board to schedule a policy committee committee meeting as soon as possible certainly prior to the 28th and hopefully in time before the 23rd of february with the policy committee i think will be important for us to review um and and work with and speak with our local health department get feedback from the local health department and and hopefully also invite have an opportunity to invite someone from the mental health community get get some feedback from both agencies across stanbury um and inform the best decision for us you know and i it's my understanding that a lot of districts are you know some of our bigger urban districts have already made a decision some other districts are made other decisions to mask or not mask and certainly i understand right here in our community we're going to be divided over this topic um we're going to do what's in the best interest of danbury and so i'm hoping with our policy committee meeting we can have an opportunity to discuss those things um and certainly invite in the various viewpoints and then ultimately we have to make the decisions in the best interest of our danbury community and so i'm looking forward to scheduling and my office will be working on some dates with the policy committee and we can get started with some discussions and i'm hoping we can have a some a clearer clearer understanding of next steps uh no later than unexplored um and i know we had a question this even from public speaks but from my office we'll be pushing something out to the families regarding the next steps in the process because i understand that question um not only the parent from this evening but we may have many parents who are asking questions about next steps so we'll make sure we push something out from my office to the community and then for me that is it in terms of my the superintendent's update um if there are any questions i'm happy to answer are there any questions for the superintendent from board members we'll move on to chairperson's report so on my report actually i did want to check a date or policy meeting i have the 16th that may work i'm trying to find my policy list rachel to the extent that we were talking about it before i can make it work okay okay so that is theresa michelle kate joe and bridget so i'm i'm looking at uh wednesday the 16th at 6 30.

good afternoon calling to order the joint hearing convenient on education and committee on water and land welcome to the senate committee on education and committee on water and land today is wednesday february 9th 3 pm this meeting including the audio and video of remote participants is being streamed live on youtube you will find links to to viewing options for all senate meetings on the live and on demand video page of the legislature's website this zoom meeting and youtube live stream event will include the three o'clock pm agenda for the committee on education and the committee on water and land in the unlikely event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties the committees will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on friday february 11 2022 at three o'clock p.m in this conference room 229 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website i'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when i call your name unmute yourself and your time will begin after your minute is completed staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner should you experience any technical difficulties when it is your turn to testify we may have to move on to the next person due to time constraints your understanding is appreciated and we would like to remind you that the committee has your written testimony we apologize if the closed captioning does not accurately transcribe the audio broadcast if you wish to review the written testimony submitted please go to the legislature's website you will find a link on the status page for the measure thank you and let me introduce my committee to my right is our vice chair senator donna mercado kim and on video we have senator donovan de la cruz and senator kirk favela would you like to introduce yourself yes sir yes thank you chair uh for the committee on water and land in attendance is the vice chair uh senator keith agaron as well as we have two senator and senator favela on zoom land and we are expecting some to revere soon thank you thank you and we are here to hear senate bill 2186 to public school land transfer this directs the conveyance to the department of education of certain lands used for public schools and owned by the counties of kauai in maui the state and the department of land and natural resources requires legislative approval prior to the sale gift or alienation of the fee simple title to lands owned by the department of education appropriates funds to the department of education to effectuate conveyance and manage real property to testify keith hayashi interim superintendent please not present chair thank you that is the only testifier we had we have written comments from craig huy director department of budget and finance oh i see randy tanaka randy do you have testimony for senate bill 2186 please yes hello uh cherokee donnie vice chair mercado kim members of the committee thank you very much for your time we have submitted testimony and standby testimony i am here to answer any questions that you may have aloha thank you uh randy members any questions for the department of education uh yeah i have questions sure um randy yes senator the bill calls for uh kawaii and maui and then the tmk's attached um includes most of all the schools in the state and i see hawaii island schools there so is uh the hawaii islands um lands then were already transferred that is my understanding senator all right thank you chair thank you for that and of course the purpose of this we started this a couple years ago with the uh county lands of honolulu and um to date i'm not even sure how many titles have been turned over but i think this is an important process to make sure that when our schools need to do rebuilding or building of their campus that they have the authority and the right to do so and thus this bill as well as the previous bills that we have already passed members any further questions thank you do we need to go into research okay ready to go we've got just one i'm ready to go thank you so we are going to vote on this measure now the recommendation of the chair and education will need to pass out senate bill 2186 amending that sorry amending the tmks as noted in doe's testimony and some technical and non-substantive amendments um vice chair for the votes passing out senate bill 2186 with amendments chair votes eye the chair voting eye on senate bill 2186 with amendments uh slight should also votes aye senator dallas cruz aye senator kanu excused senator favela i chair four members president voting i one excuse the recommendations about it thank you okay yeah yes thank you the committee on water and land same recommendations to pass sb 2186 with amendments any discussion committee on water and land uh hearing none and vice chair for the vote chair goes aye sir both sides senator mr lucha thank you and thank you to the uh chair vice chair of waterland senator rainey noy and senator gilbert p alderaan and the members of their committee for their support of this bill thank you hearing is adjourned calling the committee on human services joined with the committee on education 315 calendar um we are this meeting is being streamed live on youtube present for the committee for human services we have senator binet missaluccia on zoom as well as senator kurt favela and myself and would you like to say the president's attendance of your community yes and for the committee on education myself is chair senator kidani our vice chair to my right is senator donna mercado kim and on video we have senators donovan de la cruz and favela and also on my far left senator drew panojo thank you yeah thank you very much and we i'll also have the presence of senator laura acacio by zoom for um human services in the unlikely event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business at the 305 pm calendar february 15 2022 room 225 and via video conference and a public notice will be posted on the legislators website your audio will be muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify each testify will have two minutes to testify if there's a technical glitch during your time to testify you we may move to on to the next person due to time constraints we appreciate your understanding and we remind you that the committee has your written testimony i'll be reading a list of individuals who submitted written testimony for each measure we apologize if the closed captioning does not accurately transcribe the names if you're interested in reviewing the written testimony please go to the legislator's website and you'll find a link on the status page for the measure so first up is our only bill that's joined and as sb 2701 relating to early education establishes and makes an appropriation for an early child care work subsidy pilot program makes an appropriation to the hawaii early childhood educator special fund first up we have the executive office of early learning in support colleen hi thank you aloha chairs and committee members and vice chairs um eoel stands on its testimony supporting the intent of this bill and would like to clarify that there is pay parity in the public funded pre-kindergarten programs but compensation is not this is not the case for the private sector compensation issues exacerbate the workforce workforce um challenges that these community-based programs encounter we wish to also reiterate that appropriating excuse me appropriating funds to the early learning special fund rather than the hawaii early childhood educator special fund would benefit the early childhood workforce via the stipend program thank you very much for your time okay thank you very much okay next up we have nathan mulatti for the university of hawaii and support oh good afternoon uh chair kidani chairs sam bruno ventura vice chair kim advice teri hara and members of the committee on behalf of provost michael bruno and i we thank you for the opportunity to testify and strong support of sb271 relating to early early education we stand by written testimony and i'll be available for any questions thank you okay thank you very much i'm testifying for the hawaii status state commission on the status of woman power jabola carvolos and support mr president chair my president thank you very much i see yvonne law for the hawaii state public charter school commission providing comments please proceed good afternoon chair sandwin ventura chair kidani vice chair kim and vice chair ehar and members of the committee we offer comments basically just to clarify that the commission does not actually employ early childhood educators our individual charter schools do so we just offer those comments and wish this bill very well so thank you very much for the opportunity okay thank you very much we also have from department of human services um scott nakasone or dana lucca providing comments uh good afternoon chairs and committee members financial uh department of human services uh department of stands on instagram comments um and i'm available for any questions thank you okay thank you very much um craig your honor the department of budget and finance provided comments and we have kathleen algar hawaii children's action network speaks in support kathleen uh thank you chairs and women chair kabani vaisher uh ihara and vice mercado kim uh you have my written testimony and strong support i just wanted to highlight a couple of uh key pieces of information for you um the intent of this bill is to recruit and retain our early care and learning workforce um over the past couple of years we've seen a steady decline especially in in child care um the number of people um that that are in that workforce that um has decreased the number of spaces and programs available to our families when we've looked at the reason why people are leaving compensation is often than is often listed as number one uh conversation programs aren't unheard of there are a number of states already doing it uh most recently washington dc just passed a measure to give between ten thousand and fourteen thousand dollars to childcare workers and to permanently raise wages we also make sure that folks entering into the profession are supported and that's why we support funding into the early educator stipend program so we're asking for your support today for children families and for our dedicated early learning and caring professionals thank you hey thank you very much next up um we have early learning board and support is that you for early learning board no chair not present okay not present so next one is terry law an individual in support please lucy good afternoon senators thank you so much for um for hearing this bill i'm in support of this bill i do want to point out a few things so i am testifying as personally but also i am at the university of hawaii college of education manoa college of education i am a instructor there also the director of a project called hawaii early childhood educator excellence and equity project and this these are one of the issues that we are really con concerned about um i do want to just mention that research has shown that a diverse well-prepared well-supported well-compensated workforce is is essential for the delivery of high-quality early childhood programs there are the cornerstones of our communities in our state and we want to support our youngest children as well as our working families however for decades they've been faced we've been facing a crisis that is only getting worse though compensation has forced dedicated professionals especially those working in community-based and home-based programs to leave the field and this has prevented others from joining i also want to point out that as we consider a pilot wage program to really consider looking at those who are especially caring for infants and toddlers in home base and center-based programs because as we consider or as well yeah could you please wrap up and we do okay yes everybody is in support by the way okay so anyway i stand on my um testimony thank you so much okay thank you very much so as stated um there's hope anybody else on zoom land who it who wants to testify um regarding this measure sb 2701 okay saying that those who are providing written comments or support are in support hawaii mother's healthy babies coalition of hawaii aauw of hawaii and support early childhood action strategy and support special education advisory council and support and we've got 22 other individuals all in support and we have no opposition um members any questions of the live witnesses um senator missaluccia i have a question for dhs is there somebody yes okay so in the testimony it was interesting that you wanted to determine whether the first cohort for the pilot will use the subsidy to either supplement their income or to uh or if they're they're using it to further their professional development why is that important um i think it's just for us to get some clarity in terms of the intent of the measure because it it in our reading of it we weren't clear in terms of if it was to to further to further um enhance the workforce through um through the offering of professional development or trainings or of that nature or if it was something to do with retention um of the workforce and so that was our comm for our question is that easy enough to get that information um i think um well again i guess it's our question to um to the measure the intent of the measure and so that that's what we're trying to just get clarification from um through our reading of of this draft of the measure okay thank you thank you chair thank you any other questions members three men um may we have a breakout room all right recalling um the 315 calendar on the joint committee hearing for human services and education voting on 20 sb 2701 relating to early childhood education hms's chair's recommendation is to amend the purpose to reflect the clarification of purpose requested by dhs on page 1 lines 12-13 saying that the purpose is to retain existing early child care workforce accept all of the eoel amendments on section 1 line 14 subsection 2 basically deleting hawaii early childhood educator into and replacing it with early learning special fun and on section four line same deletion of the hawaii early childhood educator and replacing it with the early learning special fund pursuant to section 302 1 or 302l and um and the state accept also state public charter school commission amendment on page 2 lines 10 to 12 changing the um or state public charter schools by removing the word state and removing the word commissions and adding a plural to the schools um otherwise it's a blank appropriation so there there's no need to do a defect date any questions comments hms okay so for hms we are ready to vote um vice chair ijara on sb 2701 sheriff's recommendation is the password amendment chair votes eye all members are president chair uh chair votes aye vaishevo's eyes senator cassio senator mitsubucha aye senator favela recommendation is adopted thank you and for the committee on education with all members president recommendation of the chairs to pass out senate bill 2701 with the amendments share both sides chair boots eye on senate bill 2701 with amendments uh vice chairman senator de la cruz hi senator kanoha senator favello hi members president of voting and affirmative recommendations adopted thank you members we are again good afternoon calling to order the committee meeting of the committee on education on the committee on health it's wednesday february 9th 2022 it's 3 30 p.m we're in conference room 229 [Music] welcome to the committees on education and hell today is wednesday february 9th at 3 30 p.m room two to nine this meeting including the audio and video of remote participants is stream live on youtube you will find links to viewing options for all senate meetings on the live and on demand video page of the legislature's website this zoom meeting and youtube live stream event will include the 330 agenda for the committees on education and the committee on health it is uh in the unlikely event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties the committees will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on friday february 11 2022 at 3 o'clock p.m and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website i'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when i call your name unmute yourself and your time will begin after your minute is completed staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manager i'm sorry manner i've read this so many times you're recording should you experience any technical difficulties when it is your turn to testify we may have to move on to the next person due to time constraints your understanding is appreciated and we would like to remind you that the committee has written testimony we apologize if the closed captioning does not accurately transcribe the audio broadcast if you wish to review the written testimony submitted please go to the legislature's website you will find a link on the status page for the measure that took five minutes of our committee time okay first measure is senate bill 2187 relating to school-based health services includes advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority in the list of health care professionals authorized to administer medication to public school students requires administration of medication to be approved by the department of health or other on-campus school-based health care provider pursuant to a written agreement with the department of education [Music] to testify please interim superintendent hayashi oh hi good afternoon um good afternoon chair kidani um chair keoho kalole chair mercado kim vice chair baker and members of the committee i'm heidi armstrong from the department of education testifying on behalf of interim superintendent keith hayashi the department stands on its written testimony offering comments on senate bill 2187 the department supports the addition of the aprns to the list of practitioners who may prescribe medication for students the department also supports the intent of having a school-based health care provider approve medication to be administered at school however new protocols need to be developed and coordinated with the hawaii state department of health in order for this transition to occur and training and record-keeping processes would also need to be developed in addition should this bill move forward we respectfully request a revision on page one line thank you heidi next to testify laura reichheart director hawaii state center for nursing laura please uh good afternoon cheers kirani and keoho kolole and vice chairs kim and baker thank you very much for hearing this measure today the center for nursing scans on our written testimony related to section one and we are available for any questions related to apr and practice thank you thank you laura next to testify day tree bar told us executive administrator for state council on developmental disabilities good afternoon chairs vice chairs and committee members we are standing on our testimony in support i'm sorry my name is danger bartholos i'm the executive administrator and we stand in support thank you dangery next to testify dr elizabeth charr director of health for department of health please not present chair thank you they are in support next to testify we stand on our written testimony in support and offer amendments um school health aides are now called school health assistants thank you can i have your name i can't see it from you i'm dr glenn wasserman chief clinical disease and public health nursing division for department of health uh representing um the director director's health thank you next to testify clementine career syria you left interim dean and professor for the university of hawaii please good afternoon cheers vice chairs kim and baker and members of the committees uh my name is clementina sergiulep interim dean for the university of hawaii at manoa nancy atmosphere watch school of nursing and thank you for the opportunity to provide strong support for the senate bill 2187 i stand by my testimony and open for any questions thank you very much thank you that concludes the list of testifiers and we do have written testimony another eight or nine pieces of written testimony members questions if not moving on to the next item senate bill 2822 relating to asthma requires the department of education to offer optional asthma education courses to students and provide mandatory asthma training to teachers and other department employees who interact with students to testify superintendent hayashi please hi good afternoon heidi armstrong again from the department of education the department stands on its written testimony offering comments on sb 2822 and i thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you hayden next to testify pedro harold executive director testifying for american lung association in hawaii aloha chairs vice chairs and committee members uh we the american lung association stands in full support of this bill we have been happy to have been working with the department of education on similar initiatives for the past uh two years and that we have been coordinating and providing asthma education courses and of course what we know is that the unfair burden falls on native wines and pacific islanders who have uh an undue burden of asthma in children so we think that this bill will truly go a long way towards health equity thank you very much i'll be available for questions thank you pedro next to testify nicole wu director of research economic policy testifying for hawaii children's action network speaks aloha chair hi thank you aloha chair vice chair members of the committee uh thank you i'm nicole wu again from hawaii children's action network speaks and uh thank you for hearing this bill asthma is a chronic problem among the children in hawaii and we do want to make sure that those with asthma have a real chance to thrive in all environments including our schools so i stand on our written testimony in support of this bill thank you thank you nicole that concludes our oral testimony we do have a total of 12 percent testimonies members questions if not moving on to the next bill senate bill relating to health requires all principals guidance counselors and teachers to perform self-review of seizure safety materials annually requires a seizure seizure action plan for every diagnosed student and distribution of the plan to employees charged with supervising the student requires public schools private schools and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer caesar seizure disorder rescue medication exempt schools that do not have a student with a seizure disorder makes an appropriation to testify superintendent hayashi please good afternoon chairs vice chairs members of the committee again i'm heidi armstrong from the department of education the department stands on its written testimony offering comments for sb2071 the department does have systems in place to support students with chronic health conditions such as seizure disorders and we have shared these systems in our written testimony thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you heidi next to testify yvonne lau interim executive director hawaii state public charter school clinician good afternoon chair kidani vice chair kim chair ke oho kalole vice chair baker and members of the committees thank you very much for the opportunity to provide this testimony we support the bill but we have some concerns with the implementation of the requirements in our public charter schools um just as a some background we do not have many schools of our public charter schools do not have health aides and at times their access to the public health nurses is a bit spotty additionally we don't have a we don't have a centralized system to support our schools like a keiki nurse program like the department has established we actually have been working with the department of health and also with our department partners in trying to stand up a similar program and in fact we are so grateful that the department of health has provided some foundational funding for that and it's just really due to the way that our schools are structured and the funding streams we our schools are do not have the financial capacity to employ thank you yvonne next to testify evan oyer for hawaii association for justice evan please uh aloha kidani okolole members of the committees my name is evan oye on behalf of hawaii association for justice or ahj we stand on a written testimony supporting the intent and providing amendments to remove the liability immunity language will be available for questions thank you thank you evan next to testify naomi manuel executive director testifying for epsilon epilepsy foundation of hawaii naomi please and members of this joint canadian education and health i stand on my written testimony and strong support of senate bill 2071 but would like to just put comment um epilepsy is a disease or disorder of the brain which causes recurring reoccurring seizures it is a spectrum disease comprised of many diagnoses with many different types of seizures and varying levels of seizure control not all students with epilepsy have a seizure every day not all students with epilepsy have seizure rescue medication prescribed to them but for each student with epilepsy the risk of a life-threatening seizure is present every single day of their lives they know this their families know this casting a seizure safe schools bill would greatly improve the care and safety of students with epilepsy so they can reach their full potential with as minimal disruption to their learning environment as possible 1 in 10 will experience a seizure and 1 in 26 will develop epilepsy it is vital that school personnel are prepared to appropriately and efficiently respond to anyone having a seizure i just really want to thank you for allowing this opportunity to testify on my comments and i will be here to answer any questions thank you naomi next to testify maureen ballard individual maureen please aloha uh chairs vice chairs and members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to speak today and provide support for sb 2071.

any questions for the committee on education recommendation for senate bill 2187 pass with amendments chair votes eye sheriff's recommendation for the committee on education on sb 2187 is the past with amendments chair votes i vice chair is excused uh senator de la cruz hi i vote i senator favela hi sure you have four eyes your recommendations adopted thank you chair for the health committee uh health committee same recommendation chair votes eye care votes i'm vice chair votes i senator mauriwaki senator morawaki excused senator sanbuena ventura aye and senator favela are your recommendations adopted four eyes one excuse thank you for the committee on education next bill senate bill 2822 relating to asthma the recommendation of the chair will be to pass this bill with amendments taking the amendments offered by the doe in their testimony questions for senate bill 2822 recommendation is to pass with amendments chair votes eye chairs recommendation for the committee on education on sb2822 is the past with amendments noting the noting excused senator kim of the four other members president annie with reservations or in opposition sure you have four eyes one excuse your recommendation is adopted thank you senator keoughly for the committee on health health committee same recommendation chair bowtie last year votes aye senator mariwaki is excuse senator san buena ventura aye senator favela bye chair your recommendations adopted four eyes when excused thank you thank you for the last bill senate bill 2071 relating to health and the plan for seizure safety materials the recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments defecting the date to july 1 2050 also to insert an additional blank appropriation to the doe for the purposes of increasing health aid and nursing services to cover the charter schools questions members recommendation is to pass senate bill 2071 with amendments chair votes i click on education sb2071 shares recommendations passed with amendments noting senator kim as excused of the four members president any with reservations any opposition cherry or four eyes one excuse your recommendation is adopted thank you for the committee on health chair please members same recommendation chair votes eye vice chair votes eyes uh senator marwaki's excuse senator sam buena ventura aye senator favela uh chair your recommendations adopted thank you very much thank you members of the committees on health and the committee on education [Music] this concludes our hearing i would like to just make an explanation of why we are defecting the date to july 1 2050 for our last testifier and this is to give the ways and means committee an opportunity to look at the blank appropriations to see what they can put in that blank thank you this meeting is adjourned good afternoon thank you for joining us this is only our fourth hearing today committee on education welcome to the senate committee on education today is wednesday february 9th it is 3 well it's 3 55 now and we are in hearing room 229.

president of mr hopkins here mr current president mrs duncan here mr guthrie here uh ms robertson dr dooley here doctor to amend the agenda to include the discussion on the employee agreement but table the vote until next month so we have more time to work on it we can't i couldn't hear you until next month [Music] mr hopkins aye ms robertson aye mr smash is 5-0 and on the agenda before we go before we do the pledge of allegiance i would like to recognize the loss of eric schultz [Music] yes indivisible with the liberty and justice stronghold okay administrators and board members sometimes get criticized for things they think they have to do everything i think they have done wrong that hasn't been wrong so we hate to make mistakes one day i apologize to the board at the monday night meeting the request was made to move an executive session to election board meeting tonight i failed to do so no one else been at busy week is my only excuse i didn't i didn't get it done so my apologies um this week part of our business has been the fact that we've had our annual audit uh we've had others in this room we're worried today they're going to get out the time we have the board meeting uh they left about five o'clock uh we've had audits monday wednesday and friday i'm sorry monday monday tuesday wednesday uh the report uh prior to code was due by march 31st to the other general's office has been postponed to the fall so i think we'll get reported sooner i'd like to get it done in the spring but in talking to the auditors things look good so far nothing is perfect and but the other looks pretty good so angelina venus and ours and marcel you've been busy and i have it because they're the ones who do the daily daily work i think we've done a good job um these are very challenging times um in our business and i appreciate uh the board taking a moment silence for eric i've known eric since 2005.

mr hopkins ms robertson all right administrative employment business manager laura smith laura smith has applied for the position of part-time business manager for the ohio unified school district she served as the district business manager from april through july 1st of 2015. it was the superintendent's recommendation that the board approved the employment was met effective april 1st 2022 that's part time on her school's visitation uh about 50 000. and what's the definition part time uh half time half time so basically half time it depends on the day of the year uh right now for example um leanne was down here two days so she could say well i worked two thirds of the of the audit uh when value was here she'd be here every day just depends on the person's load typically they have several small districts they work for and so we're looking at halftime basically and as i recall from concession monday she's one that does not have multiple districts she had antelope and as i've said a couple of individuals at least i think it's harder to find business managers i think and his principles are super intense because we're all teachers and there's more teachers than our business people and so after i talked to her until i was going to throw the gin and she said three more job offers so it's we need people like this is there is that 50 000 for half time so if she worked all the time it would be over a hundred thousand that's pretty good so i'm sorry so this employee is a part part-time employee so we just don't have the job load for a full-time employee correct the way the budget works uh 20 of my time is on the business as well and so i kind of picked up some slack and that's been we've been doing that since two thousand and thousand three four independent contractor she's independent so we don't provide any benefits okay we have to pay uh income taxes so she basically required to work 20 hours a week did that and 90 of what she does online which one of the things she and i talked about she said i'll be down to oh at least once in the shelter she plans on being here a very important meeting uh i'll assume this board meeting here we have something so much explained before um be here for the space station for example uh one of the things i'm nervous about the whole list right now but one of the nurses about what i mentioned on this potential budget guy that budget has been adopted about just before the transition so right now would be mrs burns you should have to do it next next month and so and that's one of the reasons and i'm glad someone pointed out that i had i had an incongruity on the start dates i wanted both board members or programs i'm sorry both business managers on board the same month because i want ms smith to do the 22-23 budget because that's what she's going to live with she's going to make work and the animus burns will be exiting and so you'll see a change in her letter she comments that i asked her to change her resignation from stephen perry to end of april and that's why and she agreed and so understand i certainly never have a problem with i don't know you gotta shut a lot of it i don't see what she has to do well we can do stuff on nowadays sometimes she'll do a lot of stuff online with a remote desktop she'd be on the same screen we're on or the penis or so you're on i think part of it she just thinks it shows that she's respectful of the district and she wants to support the people that are working around them and that makes them feel like support as well how much did we pay deanna okay leanne well okay we paid leanne about originally i offered i uh she said i only want forty thousand dollars i said no we got a big job leanne came in when we had i mean you recall we had an audit that didn't look pretty and uh i said no you're going to do some work to clean things up so i said i want you to take at least 45.

good evening at this time i'd like to call the regular meeting of the dysart unified school district governing board to order let the record reflect that all board members are present please stand for pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all go ahead and move to recognitions and celebrations um with an ensemble performance dr kulas thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet dr dean we'll introduce this item good evening madam president members of the governing board dr callus members of cabinet and our community this evening we are honored to have two performances from students at shadow ridge high school under the direction of kerwin forest and carol queen we're first going to hear from we're going to hear a saxophone duet performed by elijah morris and ethan anderson and this is a student composed original duet so we're excited to have them gentlemen the floor is yours and i apologize but we'd like to ask for the board dr kellis and luisa to come down to the reserve seats in the front [Music] hmm [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] do [Music] um [Music] hmm [Music] hmm [Music] oh [Music] so [Applause] next we'll have a vocal solo performed by senior shyla sierra shyla completed or competed with this art solo at the amea solo and ensemble festival on january 15th in which she earned a superior rating shyla the floor is yours [Music] gently [Music] and in his [Music] breathed her childhood name her little name her name and in his childhood [Music] [Applause] [Music] to feel her [Music] broke his little heart she covered up the fragments and she told a little lie expounding to the mysteries how the cat died and on the following morning when the shadows [Music] there's one last thing to dust [Music] [Applause] we'd like to thank our students from shatter ridge high school and that concludes our student performances for the evening [Applause] thank you so much for um such wonderful performances i don't think i've ever heard a duet of clarinet before saxophone sorry saxophone that either very peaceful i really enjoyed that and to our vocalist i knew that song sounded familiar and my oldest actually performed that song when she was a sophomore in her music program in college so it's exciting to think that as a senior you're doing college level work and you have a beautiful voice so thank you all for your wonderful performances tonight next we'll move to [Music] item c audience with individuals uh we do not have any this evening okay next superintendent governing board update do we have a student update superintendent update dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet several dysart administrators have the opportunity over the last few days to go to the safety summit and the safety summit was hosted at grand canyon university and it included guests from all over the country in some very prominent positions such as the fbi homeland security the the chiefs of police from significant events that have happened such as the the las vegas shooting of mandalay bay those who have investigated incidences such as the parkland shooting and other areas around the country where they have averted and diverted school threats and so the entire summit was based on trainings from the experts in the field on how to keep our children safe in our schools and so we are looking forward to bringing more ideas and opportunities forward in the future that's all i have to report thank you next we'll move to governing board update um i just like to share that after getting through the holidays and january seemed like a long one for many people including myself with illness and recovering from the holidays it was nice to get back with our students and i was able to enjoy two girls basketball games at valley vista high school of course they won and of course they'll be i'm anticipating them moving into playoffs and then ultimately bringing back another win um so just great to see them in action as always and great to be back with the students i'll go ahead and jump on in had the opportunity to attend willow canyon's production of the mouse trap you know with some of the uh plays and uh the concerts and everything i i'd drag my uh husband or um my children my mom and so i took my husband to this and he really liked the fact that it was a suspense type thing and we were all trying to guess to see who was um the person that committed the murder and it was it was really good so thank you mr walgren for your um theater presence and it was a great play i wanted to also give a shout out to all of the dysart education fund foundation's mini grant winners there were several and i forgot to write down the dollar amount that was given to those teachers so thank you for submitting and winning your grants i had the opportunity to also attend the mayor's breakfast with the pastors and other community leaders the one word that comes to my mind was cold it was cold and it was held at the surprise stadium and i think i think it was two of the heaters kind of went out that's why it was kind of it was windy too yes also attended the superintendent's parent advisory council and um great information to share with parents uh more specifically about the aggregate expenditure limit and how parents can get involved with that also attended the summit on the school safety at grand canyon university and it was great to actually listen to those folks the the former director of secret service director of uh fbi and um one of the parents of the parkland shooting in florida max schachter he has now kind of made it his mission to be an advocate for policy change and the highest levels of for school safety and so breast excuse me best practices and the resources for safer environment and it is it was great to also know that dysart has implemented a lot of the stuff that some of the school districts out there are not even implementing so um it was great to hear that we were doing a lot of that stuff already february always tends to be my favorite month because of cte month and career and technical education and so thank those teachers that help those students that with their vocational endeavors and also this week is national school counseling week thank you to all of dysarts counselors for their efforts and i believe their theme this year is better together and of course with parents and with teachers and the counselors involved with the students everything can be made better together and for success in their future plans so that's all i have what else okay then we'll go ahead and move to consent agenda items i move that the board approved consent agenda items as presented with the exception of moving um item f11 to action discussion second motion made by christine prichard seconded by crystal chaffin motion carries next we move to information discussion items uh g1 board monitoring of adopted policy section 9 instruction 9.25 through 9.50 dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kellis madam president members of the board cabinet and guests uh tonight we continue our policy monitoring with sections 92 9.25 through 9.50 we are bringing to you tonight we do have changes for policy 9.35 and dr pulling uh we'll explain our changes to 9.35 which is honor rolls dr pulley thank you madam president members of the board cabinet and audience our one recommendation is for 9.35 which has always been about honor rolls we want to add the phrase academic recognition so we should recommend procedures for an honor roll or other academic recognition particularly at high schools honor roll doesn't always fit they might do some gpa recognitions they might do some cambridge or ibap recognitions and so just to add some language to support the principles and recognizing you know lots of other academic recognitions so that's our only recommended change at this time and i'm open to any feedback questions or comments i have a question so can you elaborate a little bit more on why we need other academic recognition i think principals like to take the opportunity to recognize you know range of of academic recognition so like really fits in the high school context because we have the cambridge program at willow canyon or or um international baccalaureate and so it just gives some flexibility to have other academic recognitions other than just honor roll because they might want to call it something else particularly if they're you know recognizing like gpas honorable tends to be more of a k8 term but certainly they can still use that term but just gives a little more flexibility to recognize more students academically sorry go ahead madame president madam president ms jaffen i think the [Music] the policies are needed to have academic recognitions we absolutely celebrate student students academic success all the time what this does is also establishes procedures so that there's some consistency when we're doing those academic recognitions i guess my concern is why why isn't honor roll good enough that's my question why is it not enough to have on a roll at the high school level madam president miss jeffen yes there are honor rolls but there are so many other recognitions besides honor roll so honor roll is not a all-encompassing term like academic recognition is honor roll generally is for traditionally grades um but we as dr pulling mentioned also recognize students for their performance on national assessments like like cambridge if they make growth if they get scholarships if they compete academic and academic competitions there's a plethora of other academic recognitions that can happen that are not specific to their grade and so the honor roll as i said is a traditionally grade related but there's a lot of other things that we can provide some consistent procedures for i guess my concern is everybody gets a trophy so you know with honor roll you have to have a certain gpa to get on the honor roll i guess i don't understand are we going to reward students who don't have high grades and president chaffin are there yes there are going to be recognitions that are not specifically related to grades but to other academic accomplishments so would these be supplemental in other words they would not replace the honor role at any of our schools and president miss densmore that's correct there are still honor rolls and there are still acknowledgments of students in their grades such as gpa at the high school top one percent top five percent we don't even call that honor roll at the high school we call it the top one percent and um that academic recognition while it's related to their gpa doesn't carry the title of honor roll but yes there are other academic recognitions all right go ahead i was going to well i was going to suggest something but i'm i don't know if it would um i don't know if it would kind of be in line with the part of it that you're struggling with so maybe not but i was gonna say is there a reason why we have to have honorable slash academic recognition will we just have a policy on academic recognition knowing that honor roll is an academic recognition but are you feeling like the traditional honor roll title is you like that piece of it i just don't want to see us lowering the bar i don't want us to see i don't want everyone getting a trophy i don't want us to see us lowering the bar to where oh hey you got a d let's give you some academic recognition you know certain students they try their best and they get c's that i understand but i just don't want to see us follow suits of some other school districts who do away with grades and do away with testing i want to make sure that if we are act if we are recognizing a student's academics it is for their actual academic success not just lowering the bar i see what you're saying so so initially i was thinking and i i could be wrong but i don't know if i see any high school principals here do i oh yeah sunny perfect thank you so much for coming um so i know and i can only speak to valley vista we didn't call it honor roll it was like the amethyst award you know so it was like the highest like 4.0 whatever so i can understand where this would incorporate um the high schools and and i don't know like at your school is it the same thing you don't have honor roll at the high school level so we have those principals plus kids who score on ap exams maybe they're in that grade academically in terms of the letter grade but they are scoring fives and fours on these ap events where they're earning college credits so obviously we want to reward them for that high excellent so there's that's where i see us being able to reward them for those accomplishments even though they may not have that a or b in the course um because then we have another thing where they do score four or five they get great bumps and they're great standing waves because that exam shows that they have imagination right but what i'm saying is it's not called honor roll right right so that's so i can understand like what dr polling was saying as far as it like would incorporate high school type things but i do as i do kind of see your point now i would hate that i don't think we would create um awards or certificates for anything like have it be a day of just like like kind of like what crystal was just alluding to where everyone gets a certificate for something we're still going to keep it very academic and have very you know our standards for earning those certificates yeah so i i have a question like um s.a.t scores so if someone got a um what is the perfect score 1600 i think it is so would something like that appear on their transcripts perfect essays better present stories bill that is an example of something that um a student could get academic recognition for not necessarily beyond the honor roll but would get some sort of recognition whether it's on the transcript or whether it's on a certificate or a gold medallion i don't know that there's opportunity there for additional recognition okay or like for an example i thought of an example we this would not be the place where we would be giving out certificates for perfect attendance it's not like do that at a spring assembly or something where everyone might er like sports things or different things are kind of incorporated into those types of assemblies but academic recognition will remain academic correct yes that's great do you have any other questions no i guess the growth when you talk about growth what gross you know you want to recognize growth which i think is really important i think that's amazing because sometimes students don't quite meet x amount of benchmark but they've grown exponentially since then do we have parameters for growth and impressiveness is jeff and again this is to establish procedures so as we look at those procedures we can look at gpa recognitions we can look at standardized testing procedures for recognitions those are the kinds of questions that you're asking or exactly what we are asking to be more inclusive of to make procedures for thank you so are we okay are you wanting honor roll to stay in the title or do you feel like academic recognition kind of encompasses all of it i like to keep honorable just for the elementary and i don't know if middle school will have similar practices as a high school but at least for the elementary kids keeping it simple as honor roll i think would be okay a good idea um i do have other policy questions but i don't know on this particular policy nope not the same i have something on a different policy as well i'm okay on this okay okay and so it's from uh 9.25 to 9.5 of the questions yes okay yes oh okay so let's look at 9.46 i asked about this policy about a year ago and it was stated that there was legislation so this policy was in pause and i'm pretty sure that this is not being done consistently in our k-8 schools i'm consistent or on grades four through six they are not reciting the following passage from the declaration of independence and i don't know that every single student is getting the opportunity to parse it participate in the pledge of allegiance every single day madam president yes uh i'm president chaffin if you would like to provide some examples of where that's not happening we'd be happy to follow up i can do that thank you just just to clarify and i i appreciate the opportunity for her to follow up with you but um as far as having um the opportunity to do the pledge i know that we have this policy does that also translate i haven't had an opportunity to look but does it translate into procedure as well madam president mrs densboro if you look at the bottom of that policy in 9.4 point p1 there's procedure that's attached to it i know at the high schools um i know you're asking for examples i it does i know there's been concern before to where sometimes it'll just be the pledge will be on the tv and kids are doing whatever like it just happens to be on tv it's not like a an actual we recite the pledge or stand up i don't know if you're aware of that but i do know that that happens in some of our high schools is the expectation that it be a a period where they they all you know stand or at least remain silent or whatever during that time where it's an acknowledged time madam president the expectation is that while that's not stated specifically here in policy for high school but that every student throughout the district have the opportunity to do so and when you say it's not listed as far as specifying high school does that need to be added then or i would just assume that all of our schools would adhere to the same policy right madam president yes that's correct and this is as you can see the bottom of the policy taken from statute so when it says grades four through six that is why it says four through six it's because that's what the statute says i see so then we would have to amend the policy if we wanted to apply to 12 like 412 or k12 or we couldn't because that's not what's in statute uh madam president regarding changing it to go more i won't say restricted but expand the opportunity beyond what the statute includes yes you can do that the statute doesn't say you can't make it available to all students it just says you have to do it for grades four through six any thoughts on that from anybody else i would like to expand it for k through 12.

um and i'm sorry 2018-19 implement in 2019-20 well we closed down that last quarter and so we didn't get that full year of implementation and then we started off different so we had to come up with like an online rare expectation what does that look like and so it's definitely we've gone through our growing pains but our staff continues to do an incredible job and making sure that this is this is consistent and and used throughout um and then the art signature program i listed those two areas as well so with that i will take questions thank you for all your information sir um how is your uh ess um program going just in in general in general do you have are we um is it staff with a dicer employee or is it contract employee yep great question madam president members of the board i do have um full it's fully staffed i have four resource teachers i have a preschool teacher um all are certified uh special education teachers and so we're fully staffed with um parasupports we have a great quad our quad support is outstanding so those are our behavior coaches analysts and um our ess specialists as well as um i think well miss also brings such strength um being an ess specialist prior to this too so being interested this little bit of time has provided some great mentorship to our teachers um as well so it's it's great good do you guys still have um structured teaching on your campus we do not have structure teaching on our campus is that a change just district wide or that's just a sunset hills no i think this i want to say we had a level c classroom um it was and then there was a trans transition i want to say it was about five years ago don't quote me on that where i believe our program moved over to cimarron springs at that time and i now believe yes so it's just a different school location so we do have students that um that are in those programs it's just not on our campus okay thank you thank you you're welcome anyone else just a couple of things miss toki um i was part of your roars your roared um recognition for the students and you actually had a system going they were coming in they took their picture they got their stuff praises and everything um that continues to be good absolutely yes members sing fell um and members of the board we do a bobcat um uh sorry student uh no student of the month sorry bobcat brewing student of the month um and yes so we made that change we used to have every all the kids come down at once and then akova came and then we did it grade level specific so we break it down k4 and then five eight um and we really like that because we felt it allowed us to give more individual recognition to our students and have that time and congratulate them and thank you thank them for using those um for our expectations so yes it's been wonderful thank you watch them come through and shake your hand and get their their little rewards and everything um the fact that you do a one pager of the school goals and everybody gets to see a copy of that yes awesome yes thank you i mean it truly when we rolled that out at the beginning of the school year it was just like wow this is so great because again the dot the cip document is is quite lengthy and it's great it has great information but how do we clear how do we make that clear and concise for our teachers so that they are laser-like focused on what it is and then helps us to make those connections as well so awesome thank you thank you okay thank you very much thank you next we'll move to item g4 overview and celebration of cte month dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet dr dean will introduce this item madam president members of the governing board dr kells members of cabinet and our community this evening i am pleased to welcome to the podium mr jim gresaber director of cte this is career and technical education month and he has a cte celebration presentation along with some guests who have come along with him this evening i believe former students so mr greece haber you have the next three minutes thank you dr dean actually i said i need he told me i had 25 and i said i only need 20.