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[cheering] >> [cheering] [applause] >> I am so proud of you. Class of 2026, it has truly been an honor. Parents and guests, please stay in your seats until the graduates have processed out of Clon Arena while they will pick up their diplomas. Then you can meet your graduate outside the arena on the east side of the ice rink parking lot. Staff at this time, please exit the arena to perform perform form the reception line for our graduates. >> Junior attendance, will you please move to your positions at the end of the back row of the graduates? Cadence and Barton, will you please join me on stage? >> [cheering] >> Emma, Luke, and Adiel, will you please join us? of 2026. Would you please stand? >> Oh, I think she's [cheering] >> We have the great privilege of announcing to all our families, friends, and staff of the Academy School District that we are now graduates of Pine Creek High School.
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Um, so I wanted to acknowledge that and thank you all so much for the effort overall throughout the year. Uh, and I didn't get and I'm sorry if I Well, I guess I can't. So, I'm just going to say thank you so much again for for the um presentation uh your presentations and your reports. Um, but maybe Mr. ideas. Um, and I know we do have to, um, there is still a process when it comes to graduates this year, but I just wonder if you might be able to get us at least a ballpark number of graduates this year, Mr. Diaz, later. Not we don't have to do it now because we're already beyond the secondary campus report, but um, you can just follow up with us with an email. Okay, >> absolutely. >> Thank you. voted number letter sorry letter F this evening is our our report um just for the record I'm going to go ahead and read my report I just want to make sure um and I know board members if you you may submit your reports in writing if you if you wish to um and of course if you don't have a report this evening not a Um but if this opens which it is not opening.
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And the answer that was given was similar to the answer we just talked about because if we have to do things we're going to go back we're going to have to go back soon for another bond versus really fixing it down to the um systems level where you know we know it'll be good for this generation and probably a whole another generation of students where you know this building was built in 1963 and if you know our HVAC units are 30 years old right now I think we should be able to get a few classes through brand new because hopefully the techn I don't know. Sometimes things are made with plastic now. But hopefully the technology is just as good, if not better, than it was in the '9s when these AC units were. But at least it's a fresh start, you know, with some electrical things that are obsolete, some HVAC units, some plumbing, you know, getting the ceiling tiles and and doing that all together at once.
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So we still have to have a psychologist and we still need um you know our director and we still need our paras but we can fluctuate with safe we used to pay half the salary now we pay a third so that's how those federal dollars work when you say you're in risk three you say you're subsidizing subsidizing by the M but then in like risk now further you say you can't do that anymore or >> no, we still can. But what we're saying is that we really just So with risk three, we're talking about um >> I just felt like it was you're saying you're saying one thing, right? That's what I'm saying. >> No, it's one of those, you know, we're doing everything that we can to make sure that every student's need is met. And right now in order to do that we are having to subsidize through M to get there.
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Yeah, and I I think it's important I really want to be abundantly clear. We are not doing the same things we did three years ago. Like, we've been through massive shifts in practice and we're not just taking what Osborne did or what Scottsdale did. We've looked at best practices throughout the country. So, if you look at a lot of the things we're doing, there aren't a lot of districts in Arizona that are doing them and they are intentionally selected based on what we feel is best and most likely to move our students. So, a great example is I don't think you could find, you know, a half a dozen districts in Arizona that are using the data-wise process. But, the data-wise process comes out of Harvard, right? So, uh I'm not saying just cuz something comes out of Harvard it's good, but there's there's a ton of research behind it.
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Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Mr. Brainard. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Ms. Humphreys. Uh all those in favor of moving into executive session, say I. >> I. >> All right. We will move into executive session in the first floor conference room and then we will likely adjourn our board business meeting from that uh from there. So, we'll open the door up and we expect everybody here to come pouring in to make sure to uh be there for our adjournment. So, thank you very much. We're in executive session. >> Mhm.
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Let me tell you, incredible group of young men and women and the places they're going was very impressive. So, it's just our way of thanking you, Matthew, for not only getting this award, which we're really proud and got a nice scholarship that goes along with that, but also for being a part of our school committee for the last year. So, this is just a little token from us to thank you as part of our school committee for the last year. Congratulations. >> [applause] [applause] >> Congratulations, Matt. And best of luck next year. Thank you. I know this is really like crazy. It's like the last 2 weeks of school for me right now. So, it's like the last like final class. I have one more AP exam to take tomorrow. >> [laughter] >> So, we promised him only a 90-minute meeting. So, Oh, was that John I promised?
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th this board of ed and this administrative team. It may look like that we increase staff at central office, but we just move staff from the town to the board of education offices. As you know, I I serve as a chair for children on the state commission on women, children, seniors, equity, and opportunity. Uh this work actually was a lot of work this year that I didn't anticipate that I I was asked to do a a few things. The the first thing that I was asked to do in early September was go to the town of Milford and lead a a community conversation on the importance of adv advocacy across municipalities. not so much about education but but looking at um housing and different things. So I I I led a conversation on that and then I was asked a topic that I've never spoke about and I had to do a little homework on it.
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Um, I I think >> that's why we needed to increase the specials in the early grades. >> I think if we went back to the original world language task force that, you know, Jeff and I were both a part of before we were in these roles, I think originally that was the idea there was to begin this at the earliest ages and then grow that from there. And we just were not able we were not able to do that. I'm not sure that putting Spanish in at the sixth grade was what that task force really found was going to be the best thing to do. I think we did try very hard to make that work and I I don't think it was a bad program. I think if we were to revisit that again, I think I would do it differently based on lessons learned from the years that we had that.
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[cheering] Please move your tassels from right to left to signify the end of this great journey. [cheering] >> Congratulations, class of 2026. >> Uh please prepare to remove your caps. >> Okay, let's all do it together if you haven't already. [laughter] On the count of three. One, 2, 3. [cheering] You guys are done. Graduates, the junior attendants will dismiss you by row. You guys are good to go on stage.
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So uh we'll go ahead. I I did submit my report in writing. Um and if >> okay >> opening but it's opening on the portion. >> Okay. Perfect. All right. So thank you so much. Uh, and I want to just go ahead and read my my written report um, if you hadn't had a chance to take a look at it, but over the course and I know I hadn't done a report since March. So over the course of March, April and May, uh, continuing to work closely with the district administration, the superintendent report, ongoing school and district needs um, including communications regarding the district operations, student support, community engagement, and maintaining a visible supportive presence for our schools and programs. During the month uh both March and April uh I do as required as a board president do sit with a superintendent to review and discuss monthly governing board agendas.
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And we could maybe even do a comprehensive thing because if we're doing a little bit more together, I feel like we can be a little bit more efficient with our funds. though like you said the difference between 30 and 50 million is $3 a month on taxes but I think when you have a little bit more buying power and you're doing things all together I think it becomes more cost effective to do it that way. So we can do probably more than twice as much with the 50 million than we could with the 30 million type of thing if we're doing it all together. I think too when with the last bond, we were in such dire need for buses that if it hadn't passed, we our buses I mean we couldn't take the bond money and buy two or three a year because we didn't we had to have them all.
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If you go to risk area number four. So what this is talking about was that the movement of funds between M and capital. >> Okay. Okay. >> So this one had Yeah. So by moving those funds out of capital and into M it increased what we could spend within our M budget. Um so that was helping to cover some of that shortfall as well. And the good thing is the good problem that we're not having is our budget has stayed pretty consistent with our enrollment is consistent. A lot of districts are dealing with declining enrollment where they're having to, you know, rip teachers and having to um release teachers because they don't have the students um for those classrooms. So, it's been nice for us because our enrollment is consistent. So, with us getting other grant funds to continue operating the way we um operate and to have the programs and the curriculum that we have, one example is we're um now at the time where we have to start to renew our math adoption because we've already had it for four years.
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Uh when we're looking at things like student behavior, you know, we chose the ruler method, which came out of Yale, right? So, and there are some districts like our neighbor Madison's using it. They're having a lot of success with it. There's nothing wrong with looking to a neighbor and saying, "They're having success with this." But, we are not just going, "Let's be this other district." We're cherry-picking the best. Now, when you do that, you are going to have a slow initial ramp up because you can't like there's no way for me to run a cable from my head to another person's head and transfer all of my knowledge and experience, right? Um thank goodness for that person cuz it'd be frightening for them. But, um but, we are moving as fast as we can. And right now, while our lagging indicators are still frustrating to us, our leading indicators are looking very promising.
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I'm sorry. >> [laughter] >> Um No, it's really it's exciting right now, especially like our seniors. So, like we're I mean, we have our prom is a week like I think a week and a half from now on Saturday. Um then we have senior week and graduation in June. Um So, it's like a very exciting time for all of us. We all got back from April break. We have like 2 weeks left for our seniors. And then like I said, we're in the midst of AP exams right now. Um so, that's like you know, that's a lot of the school right now. We're all in the multi We're in here taking exams. I have my physics exam tomorrow. And then I think there's like I think there's only one more to take for the major classes Uh and then AP exams are over. And then we've got some fun stuff going on.
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I was asked to go to the Capitol and speak about vaping and not just vaping but vaping and vaping waste. something that I never really thought um that I would have any insight on. I knew what vaping was, but I never considered vape waste as something. So, I I spoke at the Capitol in front of a hundred individuals and the next thing I knew is that I I was contacted by the the National Organization on Vaping and Vape Waste to speak at their national webinar. And I just did that. When did I do that? a few weeks ago on vape waste. It was attended by hundreds of people approaching a thousand on on the webinar um to speak about vape waste and and I also uh took on the role of coordinating the the Farmington Valley superintendence meetings. So we meet on a a monthly basis and it allows us for communication and collaborative meetings.
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I think it's a good thing for us to to talk about for future but not for next year. I don't mean to be a wet blanket. >> No, I I support exactly what you said, Marlene. And I was I I will tell Matt that I was I am a foreign language teacher, right? And I was a huge proponent of getting foreign language at the elementary level. And because of budget restraints, we couldn't do it the way that we wanted to do it, which was starting in the lower grades >> and moving it forward. >> Right. >> And starting it in the in the sixth grade. Um, I'm just going to say I I'm perfectly happy that that went away because I don't think it was really implemented properly. It could have been if it if the sixth grade was at the middle school, then we would have had the time slot to do that, but the way that we ended up having to do it because I I don't think it works very well.
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Thank you so much for joining us to today, graduates. for one last time. Congratulations, class of 2026. And as always, go Eagles. That's a wrap, baby. [cheering] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] Heat. very rers. Riders open. Thank you. >> Watch this. Yeah. >> Whoa. Enjoy your day. >> [music] >> Anyway, so I can show you guys how I'm using Switch control. Hey, hey. Oh yes. Come here. Amazing crazy. Lazy dog. I'm going to let you do your [music] It's love.
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Um district uh district updates um items requiring board considerations and planning. Those types of things include meetings with HRDC andor any needs where um humanly able to to participate. Um the first week of March, I also attended the awards assembly at the Indian Oasis Intermediate School in support of our students and staff. Um again, it's always encouraging to see students recognized for their hard work as we do here, but I think especially at the level of their campuses uh whenever we're able to want to continue to encourage the board to do so as well. Uh I was also uh especially pleased to be able to help coordinate welcoming uh Arizona State Representative for Legislative District 23, Miss Mariana Sandival uh who visited Barber Qi High School uh for the decision day uh signing event which was held on May 1st, 2026. U just to continue to express to the board as a member of the legislative committee for ASBA as well.
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>> We had a fleet of 30-y old buses. >> Yes. And we we couldn't fix them anymore. So, we went with what we thought >> would assure us of the buses. And >> so, >> and our and our 10-year-old buses are getting up there. Here we are in the same spot, but ours were older then. >> But I think staggering I think Justin put together a great plan. I think I think that was a great plan of of staggering them and continuing to use the parts to >> once again to me it's about efficiency and I know this is a big ask for the community but I also think we have some big needs and you know I I would love the opportunity to show how great Blage can be if we can pass this and how we can hit that excellence mark. I'm wondering if um if we could continue the tours.
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