And I that comes back to how it's really we should be sensitive about what we're reading and and getting from really any source, but particularly about government. And I think you you and I both want to have that better communication with the public. It's not just it should not just be one way from town hall to the people. >> Yes, we need two too. At a minimum, we need to and it'll probably be even more because the more people that are involved, the more information different people bring to the conversation or someone might translate something a little bit different in their head. And I I don't know. I think it's a a product like for a private product, they always because I work for a private corporation and they they work closely with the customer to make sure they're getting what the customer wants and I mean we are the customer but you you never know that.
And this was in September 2025 after the talk for the override started like eight months earlier. As for example, talking about a 2 million deficit seems a lot less scary when you potentially have over four million in additional tax revenue coming from new developments, including 340B projects. And that was one of the story lines of our most recent call. Okay, so we are being told we need an override because we don't have enough new growth when right here it says we have potentially 4 million. They're only putting 900,000 in the budget and I've a couple of people not only just me other people have gotten up and said we've got these apartment buildings all over the town coming in that have been approved. So, I'm I'm really to me this is the most glaring contradictory message. We've got apartments. We've seen them. We know they're coming, but we're being told we need an override.
Liliana Cordani went down looking in the first inning. She's certainly going to be up ready to hit here in the top of the third. Yeah, both teams now with two hits each. Um and um on top of you Ashland had had two walks, and Norwich only had one walk. So, you know, things right now are pretty even between the two teams. Cordani takes the first one low for ball one. Bella looking to see what she can do here against the Mustang catcher. That one looked good, strike one inside corner for Bella, that's the pitch I said that she needs to get to her. That is. That was a That looked like a nice fastball, just right in there. Next time we do a game, we have to go behind the plate so I can actually get a good look at these Woah! There is not a chance you can do that with somebody else.
So that's >> it's great that we have approved it. Thank you. >> Report. >> I'm the second half. >> First half is extra >> crippling. I sure probably the biggest piece was the distinguished awards in there. Then there's little there's a little summary of each season >> season there. I'd say our highlight might be the some the eighth grade boys went undefeated. Um except they lost one game to Iowa and then revenge it later on back to back champs. Um eighth grade girls had a pretty good basketball season also. pretty good group of kids right there that that do a little bit of everything. Athletics, activities, and academics. I would like to ask a question about this report. This is all data that I have to get from I don't mind. I'm not really sure why I report on direct participation and so there's explanation for that.
>> Any discussion on that? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve the increase in pay rate per hour. >> So moved. >> Motion by Allison. >> I'll second. >> Second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> All right. uh we're going to propose having Are you talking about adults or kids or you want all together? I can break it down for you. One, two, three, four, five adults. Um some of them are already in the district uh work in the district and we have three students right now that we're going to propose. So, >> and what does the summer help do? Um they'll do anything from uh technology helping with technology to maintenance in the buildings um mowing um in the buildings and it could be a combination of mowing and maintenance too. >> So we do have a motion and a second.
And so we don't have we have really no good way of knowing how many students are going to private schools or whatever. But this gives you like students going outside of the district to another um publicly funded school. Those are all the colored bars. That's fairly consistent year-over-year. Um but that the ESA number alone almost accounts for the bump from our the data we presented last year to this year. So I think it's important to share that the ESA data is available on the Arizona Department of Education website. The registered homeschool numbers um I have obtained from the county school office and these are for um the numbers for students that live in our two zip codes that are part of the school district for Chino Valley and Paulen. Um >> what is our current ADM? Our current ADM ADM is sitting slightly over 2,000 because remember students with special needs have a higher uh weight, you know, weighted value.
So, they should always ask their teacher before using it. Um AI should not be doing the thinking for them. They should never enter PII. They need to fact-check everything. They should be able to articulate and be transparent on how they used AI when they do. And then, using only district-licensed AI tools. Uh again, very similar. Appropriate use and what they cannot do is the same same idea again. So, they cannot use it um to submit AI-written texts as their own work. They shouldn't be using it on tests, assign- assessments, or quizzes. They shouldn't be using it to solve outright assignments or problems. We want to stress that they're still doing the thinking and owning their process. >> So, we'd like to just call it talk to you a little bit about our next steps. Um there's obviously a variety of pieces as we roll this out and continue to solidify what it looks like here in Dysart.
Um and like so we'll get notified of things from you know, like something happened in the district and it's sent to all of us. Um but we're not responding. So we're able to to gather the information collectively, but we can't talk board business um amongst the seven of us. So that's it's pretty pretty strict, I guess is kind of my point and we you know, adhere to that. So if we ever call each other, it's one-on-one. And you know, so most of the discussion is is happening here or at the committee meetings or uh so is uh I think we all have a lot of things outside of you know, being on the board as well. So um Dr. Kilgatti lets himself be uh very available. Um you know for us to >> conversations >> you know, if we have conversations and you know, we need to discuss with them.
I move that the board of school trustees approve new policies 6120 and 6250 and revised policies 1106 3340 4018 4322 4540 610 0 6130 and 7030 as presented on second reading >> second >> motion by Jennifer seconded by Kim is there any discussion All those in favor? That motion carries. 5-0. All right. Next, we'll move on to new business. And first up, we will hear from Dr. Finley regarding the Avon online 2026 27 student handbook. >> Thank you. Previously at the April board meeting, the board approved all of our student handbooks. And at that time we were still working with Kelly Rodkkey and her team on the Avon online parent and student handbook and it's finished at this time. So we're recommending approval.
Well, does anybody else have I don't disagree with what you just said. The reason why there's an argument in a or the perception of an argument and that's a little bit defensive on my part is we started this meeting uh and led into not asking the question of why did this come up? Why are we doing it? So we're not even establishing why right now and we're we're we're talking about the semantics of what is a ECA fund versus a BCSC fund and all that, which which can be talked about at some point, but I mean, like I just said, we we we spent a lot of money, and my goal with this was to the intention was to ensure that we're as transparent as possible to the community in how we're spending the money, and there's no concern for fraud anywhere because we're monitoring and managing it with trained people uh accurately and adequately.
But when we're consistently in the top 10 in reasons, that's very big improvement. That's our our goal was reasons throughout the year and we got consistently better. >> All right. So we had an invitational that we went to. Uh it was the Louiswis cast invitational and we ended up high team overall at that contest. And then the regional contest which you had to qualify to get into state. We were a third high team there. Um so then state uh that was our goal we've been working for all year. I'll start with individual finishes. Um I ended up 10th in sheep and goats, eighth in swine and fifth in reasons. And then I ended up fourth individual overall. Um Clayton was eighth in swine second in reasons and then fifth individual overall. And then team finishes, we were uh third high team in sheep and goats, high team overall in swine, and then second high team in reasons, and then we finished third high team overall.
You know, I mean that's simple, but they will be willing to lead those kinds of tours. So And we do plan on having a lot of community meetings through this process of where we invite the community to come in and really take a look at the facilities and and and even possibly do some field trips to other schools to kind of show them what what our school needs to have. So just get them thinking. Okay, going on. Next up this evening, um we have the consideration for the amendment to renew the food service management contract with Aramark. Um this is kind of an annual thing that we do. Um so nothing really is changing with our contract. It's just an amendment to renew it for another year. Uh but as you know, Allison does a fantastic job with our food service and just cannot say enough about it.
So I would be happy to entertain any questions. >> So um I know for community schools had was testifying down at the state during this time because they've already went through this process. Have we reached out to them and said, "What can you tell us and what have you learned?" >> We have. And so I'm chuckling because what we've learned is students are very creative and they find cracks in any policy. So um one of the things that we've considered is actually following the middle school approach, which is in your locker and turned off, which satisfies the core components of the law. Um, Fort Wayne Community Schools adopted um, pouches that you can place in there and essentially lock and some of them are even as advanced to not allow a signal. Um, what Fort some Fort Wayne Community Schools administrators would say is students became very creative and they would put a phone in their pouch for the day and have it locked and it'd be a burner phone and they'd still have their other real cell phone where they could access and work around it.
So, we haven't quite figured out what the balance is going to look like. We're hopeful that it will be as equal as possible. Um, with our numbers right now and the way I have the rosters shuffled, it's pretty even. Um, but we we do have a cushion on either side to be a little bit more or and a little less. So, it may be a little and it's probably going to take us a few years before we figure out a formula that's going to keep it equal. >> How flexible their schedules? Yeah, most of our students are pretty flexible with their schedules. Um, and we are also offering a credit recovery um in the afternoon for students who need to stay all day so that they can get caught up. Um, so we do have the ability for a student to stay all day if they need to.
So, >> well, thank you for uh again allowing me to be a co-host on conversation too. And I I would again encourage anyone to join and talk about issues you care about in town. >> And it's fun. >> It's fun, folks. >> This is really, really fun. >> Wacka TV. >> Yeah. Yes. Thank you, Wacka TV. And we will see you in a couple weeks for conversation number three.
And it took power away from the select board and ultimately the people and just gave it to the strong town manager. And you know, you you can see what they do. They they can do a lot. They sign all the warrants. They can decide money will be spent. Hiring, everything. And when I watch other select board meetings, it's apparent to me that they still maintain power. They're not in a position of just, you know, asking. They're doing. So, I don't know if you were at that meeting. Probably I miss very few, but I don't specifically uh remember that. But here's another thing. We we can say the I assume the advantages that when someone sold strong town managers that the the select board are volunteer. They have full lives already. So, it gives some relief to them of having more decisions. I I can see that, but then when you do that, maybe there needs to be more oversight of like some citizens oversight.
Um, so I want to uh I guess we will wrap this up for today. And um I want to announce the podcast is now on Apple and Spotify. And hooray. And thank you for Paul, the technology director, for getting that taken care of. Uh apparently, you know, it it takes >> [music]
So, are we supposed to do an override and then all of a sudden, whoops, uh there's another two, three million. So, then it's not like we're going to be a it's be really hard to go back and get an underride. Um, so, oops, sorry. Oh, I can't always turn that thing off. All right. So, uh, is there anything you want to say? We're we're we're kind of at the end of our our time here. Uh, is there anything else you want to add? >> No, I'm sticking with Ben Franklin, first responsibility to question authority, and we'll keep that up and asking residents to do the same. >> Yes. Uh, and we want to thank everyone that listens to the podcast and uh, we had a very nice article in the local pages on page 17 and the painting was in there. And if anyone wants to contact us, we're at badg girls.com.
I told you. That was a hot shot over the left fielder's head. That thing was hit really hard. That was the best hit of the day so far. Uh Liliana Cordani laces one over Rebecca Crisman's head for a one hop fence double and there was a runner in scoring position uh for the Mustangs here in the bottom of the second. Yeah. So, George, I apologize that I'm not letting you be behind the plate today, but you you can we got the wireless mics if you want to go back there, you probably can. No, I you know, I mean what I I Well, >> That's going to be another hit. This one to Kriegsman who does not handle it cleanly. I'm not so sure if that would have mattered. I think that runner was going to be there anyways. Uh the left fielder gets it in and it is already two to nothing now in the top of the third with no outs and runner on first base after Amado's hot single.
I just like to have it or I would like to request that maybe like I do a lot of reporting on what we offer in our own after school activity like I have to the federal government like how many hours you do programming, how many hours you do physical education, how many hours you do math instruction, like I would be happy to share that information to ask if this is what you want. I guess let me seems more like >> what you have control. anybody know I just not sure if this is really because they're doing extracurriculars but like not just a question >> my question But that doesn't I don't see a value. >> Yeah, we don't have we don't have any say or any control over any of that from the rec center, right? >> I don't know why we're wasting time. I'm just curious like if I could maybe like next year what I federal or my director report would be more appropriate if that would have lesson >> and I don't go and find sixth grade information from the wreck from like basketball >> that's what this is I can tell you probably has I don't know.