It was I refrained from telling him, I've been telling you this for seven years. Um, but maybe it takes, you know, hearing it from a big kid and somebody that he looks up to. So, phenomenal job. It was wellreceived and it it made it into the home. So on behalf of parents all around the district, thank you for for that work. >> Any other board members? >> Mro, >> thank you. That was wonderful. Um I really appreciated everything and just seeing you guys present so well and and just all that's a lot of work to visit every classroom in all the elementary schools. So well done. Um really important. I think there's two things that you said that I just wanted to kind of double click on. Um, you know, one of the things at the beginning was that the what's a perfect class, right?
I don't think anybody's going to be too focused on it now, but I do think when we get to September and October, I think there would be value in in doing that explanation to people. >> to be some marketing plan. Yeah. Okay. All right, as long as we're on board with it, then I'm okay sending that one forward and I'm fine with the rest of it. It better get approved. That's what It better get approved when it does get approved. Exactly. I Yeah. You miss being able to touch the crumbling loading dock, but I'm happy to show you anytime you >> you really want to get up close and personal with the dumpster. Yeah, do I have to go with you? >> you got to get between the dumpster and the loading dock, and that's where you can get the full view. Yes, I need that experience.
As we finish up these last days of the 2526 school year, I want to also acknowledge those who are finishing up their first year of school in AUSD or their last, our TK, kinder and 12th grade. Congratulations to the students, their parents, families, caregivers, and the community that support them every day. Your hard work is admirable, and we have confidence knowing you will continue to do great things. Thank you to school sites who welcome us to your campuses even as you wrap up the school year. Sandia Academy, it was such a joy celebrating with your kinder students as they received awards. I met a young man who was so excited. It was his first award. Apple Valley High School students and staff, thank you for inviting me to celebrate student achievement at your sped senior lunchon. The joy and pride was contagious. and Granite Hills High School Theater.
It was established uh to invest in students right here at Pleasant Valley High. Uh this scholarship recognizes students who have um not just achieved academic success through by maintaining a GPA of uh 3.0 or higher, but who have also been active in their school and community. This year, we're proud to present four Chalmer scholarships. The first recipient is Sarah Porter. Following Zoe Stifle, Nathan Vanlan, and All right. Our next scholarship is the Montgomery grant. This grant honors Fred McGomery, a life a lifelong Durham resident, Chico Rotarian, and passionate supporter of the agriculture community. This award is given each year to the most proficient and inspiring scholar within the uh school district, a student whose academic excellence and drive we know will carry them forward um through their higher education and throughout life. The student uh this recipient is David Ortaro. The next award is the Rotary Outstanding Citizenship Award.
Um, always a great night. One of them being my niece Natasha again. And um, so just so proud to be up there with the rest of uh, the board and my niece just shameless plugged hit a bomb home run on the softball varsity team this week that I missed. Um, but she keeps doing great. The uh, CEA Excellence in Education Awards. Another great dinner. It was so so nice to be up there honoring the years of service recipients and all these the uh, teachers receiving um, excellence awards. Thank you for all that you do. Keep up the great work. Dr. Abbatosi, $27,000 is awesome. And that's the new bar. So, we got to keep going from there. Thank you for that um, for for dedicating um, all your your work, but even um, giving back so much to our students with the scholarships as well.
Any questions or comments? Does anyone want to comment on the superintendent search firm selection? No? Yes. Sorry, I'm just >> [cough and clears throat] >> we're approving a firm to do the search once we've selected? Yes. >> Yes. Who who is that? >> You will New Jersey School Boards Association. Understood. Okay. Um But you're You're I just comment on the selection of the firm. Is he allowed to comment on it? Okay. Yes. You can comment in private. We have two two members that are conflicted in anything related to the superintendent search. So, as far as the approval of New Jersey School Boards Association, um I'd like to thank the other members for their consideration of this, >> [music] >> and um it it will be a big assistance, especially for board leadership. So, thank you. Uh any other If there are no other questions, go ahead, Mr.
And the funny thing about homecoming was that everybody was trying to copy me, but they couldn't figure it out. I get that brolic was just kind of boring. It was a surprise but funny like, "They allowed me to do that?" My favorite memories are just being silly and laughing with my friends. Um one of my favorite memories is being learning from home on the computer. Uh Dancing and singing and dancing and singing in Spanish and music class. A new question appears. [music] What will you miss most at ASDB? The seniors continue to reminisce. What I'll miss most is going to chorus and PE with Mr. Julio. I will miss most about being at ASDB is um being with my friends and teachers. I think what I will miss most at ASDB is the campus layout, the question mark road, definitely all the brass and scenery they have here such as the trees, you know, they have the pine trees on campus.
They were really shallow on that, and she puts it over their head, and that was an easy stand-up triple for her with her speed. That's a foul ball there off the bat of Buterman. And if she reaches, Ava Vendetti will come up for the second time this inning and the Clockers will bat around. They did that yesterday as well. Yeah, they had that one inning where they where they put up a bunch of runs and they're doing the same thing here in the third. As Butermann grounds it to second base. Nice play there from Sullivan and the throw is in time. So, the Clockers will leave a runner stranded at third, but they end up scoring five in the home half of the third and it's eight to one as we head to the fourth. Yeah, really productive inning there by the Clockers taking advantage of some poor defensive play, but you know, a huge triple by Nico is an RBI.
Okay. All right. Thank you. Just curious, how much is the average lunch, the average meal? I'm just trying to figure out how many meals Yeah, how many meals it is to get to $24,000. >> Yeah, not not the cost, but you got to work to accrue $500 in debt. Yeah, I That's a probably about like half the year's, like getting a meal for 90 days, half the school year. It's about like I think $950 to get a lunch every day for the entire school year if you were budgeting. Um that was something we were going over when we we did the increases, like what is the annual cost if you were to get lunch every day. So, yeah, about half the year. Tim. Thank you. Yes, so staying on this topic, I I definitely there are there are people who need the help. Absolutely. But as I recall our conversation from recent years is we don't know if all these people need the help with it, but there has been no enforcement mechanism.
There's, you know, engaging, welcoming, but that that interaction. And I think, you know, that's so important um that you created experiences for these students that wasn't just you talking at them. That was like an interactive experience. And they'll get so much more from that. They'll remember that as you're hearing. They'll bring that with them. So, what a wonderful memory you've made for them. Um, and then being open to learning as much from them as they will learn from you. I think that that's something you talked about here, but that will serve you well in your life. Like being open to learning from all those people that you're engaging with is so important. Like not just you knowledge sharing, but being ready to receive knowledge as well. So, thank you so much. That was excellent. It's going >> um I just want to thank you too.
And just >> [laughter] >> just to to be to be clear in case >> here on that. Yeah. In case this hasn't been conveyed to you, so correct me if I'm if I get something wrong here, but the idea is to expand Yep. the loading dock allowing for additional refrigeration, which what went through my mind is we have a smaller high school population than a lot of time in the past, but we also have different nutrition requirements. So, a lot of it literally is we never had I don't think we had breakfast when when we went to high school or anything like that, and now there's breakfast afforded to many kids. And you had I think we had two options on the line and that was it. There were two two separate lines and >> Yeah. Now they have four, five different Yeah, so there's all kinds of food.
The genuine love and support you have for one another is inspiring. Thank you for including me. I'd like to give a special shout out to seniors as they participate in Senior Sunsets Apple Valley High School last night and Granite Hills High School tonight. I cannot wait to join them in congratulating you and High Desert Premier Academy on a job well done at your upcoming graduations. This year has been a lot and I know many are simultaneously taking deep breaths, stepping forward and reflecting back. Reflection is important to cultivate a growth mindset. Many in the community were hopeful this year when the district organized meetings at each school site to gather input from stakeholders regarding where budget reduction should be made. Families, staff members, and community members took the time to attend and share thoughtful feedback. A consistent message emerged from those meetings. Protect classrooms and school sites from cuts whenever possible.
This award is presented to one young lady and one young man um at the end of their senior year. The Rotary uh the Rotary Club's four-way test is uh the foundation for the presentation of this award. The guidelines uh are uh the guidelines selection can be broad. Each school will select an award recipient using the guidelines. Uh let me just keep let me keep going. We're going to talk about the four-way test. The four-way test is a cornerstone of all uh action that drives um Rotary. Uh it's the things we think of, say, or do. So here are the questions. The first one, is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all? The test is one of the hallmarks of the Rotary. Since it was developed in 1932 by Herbert J.
Um, uh, the Memorial Day parade, hopefully we are not uh rained out for that. It looks like it's going to rain right around parade time, but hopefully we'll make that. Um do not drink and drive, but looks like it's a lot of rain, so I don't know. I mean, you could party inside, but just it's a big weekend for you know, a lot of students go out and do things that they perhaps shouldn't do. So, just do not drink and drive. Last is um this week was uh happy belated birthday to my son Anthony Jr. Um who uh I call Papi Chulo number one because because then tomorrow's my son Matthew's birthday, who's Papi Chulo number two, and uh both Clifton uh Mustangs, you know, products of our schools. Um my son Anthony is a high school counselor. My son Matthew is a police officer.
Compton. Yeah, thanks, Ms. Snow. Um I think year after year this board cries poor every single year. We say we don't have enough money. We keep going to the taxpayer. Year after year, can you give us 25% more? Um can you give us 2% this year? I think we got an email from a a homeowner this year that their taxes have doubled in the last 9 years since they've lived in this town. Um from a property tax perspective, I to to put it straight, I think everyone understands. Every year we say we don't have enough money. We keep burning the taxpayer with our problems. And every year this board hears the same story from our training, from our council, from everyone that a board's number one job is to find a superintendent. Because everything else is done by the superintendent. Like we have one actual job that we do, and it's finding a superintendent, and it doesn't happen very often.
They also have the other trees that are around such as the palm trees. And I think just the layout in general is what will be missed. I'm going to miss a lot. You'll miss a lot of things, all the conversations, talking to everybody like Anthony, Jamone. And then the old students like Michael, David, and Neason. I'm going to miss talking to everybody. Even the teachers having like long deep conversations about how things are going in the world and how the economic economic systems are going, just everything like that. Just I'm going to miss a lot of open-minded conversations. My friends and teachers. Oh, I will miss my best friends and my teachers. I will miss them a lot. I'll miss my time in the dorms. Hanging out, playing with my friends in the dorm. We used to also get together and play and do the Special Olympics as well in the dorms, which was a lot of fun.
Maddie Sanders gets an RBI single. Uh Laura-like Collette again keeps keeps hitting the ball hot. She So, her double was huge. Ruby Kazanjian with a single. So, they they hit the ball. They took advantage of some poor defense and next thing you know, it's an eight to one lead here and I think things might be fairly safe here up seven as long as Nico can continue pounding the strike zone. Yeah, and she has looked good. Three innings. She did give up a run, but it is not earned and she has three strikeouts. Only two walks and I believe we saw 10 yesterday, so definitely looking like an improvement here just the next day. Yeah, that's what we've talked about, right? She has to keep the ball in the zone. She has done that. She's thrown over 50% strikes right now, which she did not do yesterday.
And it seems to me that an enforcement mechanism to pay if you're able to would be good, and if you can't, then you'd have to sort of demonstrate it in some way. I think you have to do the same thing when you're getting like tax credits in town hall here. Um do you Have you ever heard of anybody introducing any legislation to allow for some sort of enforcement mechanism for people who It's going in the other direction, actually. There is they're not really able to enforce it. Um the current legislative session explored um free breakfast for all and eliminating the cost for reduced price lunches. Um and the governor hasn't signed anything into law yet. Like I um we're we're waiting for everything to be signed until it's official. I'm not counting any chickens, but they're moving in that direction, which I think is great, but um yeah, in terms [clears throat] of uh enforcement for those who accrue debt, uh there's really nothing.
I think it was a wonderful a wonderful presentation tonight and I also want to compliment you. Um, I had the um ability to go to the high school this morning um to visit the literature fair and I have to say that in the hallways the students were smiling, were asking me if I needed any help um where I wanted to go and then when I I was there um there was a lot of interaction like well did you like it? do you want to participate in um oh um you know in some of the games and um you could just tell the atmosphere and the culture. So you did a nice job and I'm glad you're spreading it out now to our elementary school. So thank you for that and to the staff and principles administration. It actually comes from the top down and bottom up.
Yeah. But what I will say is um you know, yes, the the loading dock would be expanded. I would say that that's more of a like a side benefit than like the safe the correcting the safety issue and the crumbling rebar is really the primary focus, but part of Bridget's plan is okay, we have seen expanded capacity of our our nutrition program, so if we're going to do this and we're going to have a loading dock that lasts 50 years, let's make it bigger so if we need to put something on it, we can do that in the future and we're not having this conversation in 10 years. And if I recall correctly, he said they're getting daily deliveries from Highland to the high school. So, they're driving food to the high school every day. Yes. Yep. That's definitely an added benefit. Yeah, that would have been a proactive plan.