i would say and on our side over there we've already talked to some parents about that this is a possibility of provision coming true that it may be best and in two cases the child and guardian and and um just have no no vision of the future for themselves inside we should they'll give this a shot and we can utilize their coaches and those people that they talk about um yeah and i've put in for with ade and entity number to apply for any number to give us this alternative education on site and so that's in the works there and so i said have you checked with any other schools that have done this and see how they've comes for them um actually i wasn't able to talk to the county superintendent but he has offered a conversation with myself mr hopkins if need be and he's just he's really involved he's seen great work as county superintendent for pima county but i just haven't been able to make contact with him with his schedule in our schedule but uh but i do know that from the email i got he was real positive about it now most of the concerns i expressed last monday i think will be dealt with having that physical presence a couple questions i have about that is uh how long is this a one-year contract with them to do it is it did we set this up is it a long-term thing that we're looking at or are we i think they'd like a long term but i'm having trouble hearing so if i'm repeating myself i'm sorry but was the cost ever mentioned um there'll be no cost there'll be no cost tonight in my understanding we're providing facility so it's in kind but it won't cost we don't have to pay the next amount [Music] bob said that the only the district's contribution to it will be in the space and that there will be no other financial cost on top of that that grad solutions will cover the rest that's great yeah another question another question i have about it is knowing that we've had students that went to grad solutions before that it didn't work out with will they be able to re-enroll with they can come back here up until the age of that same age too uh yeah okay i know they can continue with resolution after that age for 90 a month but i also figured i was like well i don't know if that i don't know if we'd be able to have those older students on campus they would probably and i think that's up to the board for an administration i think that uh i think you may run into some of the same fears by families like when i came on board i've read some prior coordinates from a number of years back i remember the time the district was talking about closing curly school and consolidating all the student populations of site there was some fears by parents of elementary students that they would see things or hear things or have something done that wasn't safe to them because of being on the same site with students considerably older um and that uh on everybody else i think for the most part that has not happened i'm sure that once while they see someone getting the kiss or holding the hands or something like that but you may hear some language but i see our older kids being pretty supportive of the younger ones but i would want to make sure that if we had a 21 year old here 22 year old that at the same time we had pre-k 12 students here that's a district and no students were aware the fact that you know whether you're a guest district are using our facility you're still going to comply with the behavioral expectations of all the kids so as a parent i'd be more worried about possible influences of the 27 year old student on the 16 17 18 year old student on the elevation i agree all depending on the students two things i recall that would benefit from the district was the district will receive some funding from this company right the second thing was they had the option of enrolling kids or somewhere else in the state and the district would benefit from that enrollment correct then the third thing is if a kid was not going to graduate from high school and got into this program and then failed this program it would be on them it wouldn't count against the district all right those those students that were enrolled in a program that nature we would get adm for them we would get a fraction i think we're getting at maybe 50 or a quarter or something like that of the admin and uh so it wouldn't we wouldn't be rich but it would pay to keep the room clean the computers going that's my only worry i mean that's my only worry that that these kids have already had issues at school and now we're expecting them to come in without all that and and succeed maybe they will because they're older right you have better experience with all this than i do but but i just wanted to look there that we could run out of kids real fast right i mean in a year we might not have enough kids to justify having a teacher in our classroom and you're talking about regular ed you talk about the program the program well i know we're going to have all of high school but i mean i just you know someone trying to say i just worry that a lot of these kids will enroll which doesn't stop us from doing this because we know the benefits to the district but my worry is a lot of these kids will grow and and won't be successful and and we will come to a time where we're going to run out of out of kids out of people that are trying to get into this program right understand again you have a lot more experience than that than i do and you probably answer and talk to that better than i can i know in the ged programs i know it's the average ged graduate has enrolled and left the ged program two times before they finish it because they you know get kind of bogged down with it and think oh this is and then they kind of take time off realize like oh wait there is some benefit at the end of this and so even even the ones there i will say the majority of people i've worked with their adult ed programs didn't graduate high school it wasn't because of the classes that they didn't stick with high school sometimes it puts social things sometimes it was finished and one of the things the guy made a a point of saying this isn't a rich quick scheme by the student they still have to do three years 15 credits worth of work in order i think with grad solutions they simply have to finish whatever classes they needed to graduate they don't start over and that when i've had ged students come in and i found out they were just a few credits short and tell them like congratulations is a much quicker route to get where you're going and it gives you a better potential because i said if you're doing ged then you're you're having to take all five of these tests and you're having to study to pass them but if you left high school in your senior year and had you know two classes that you were halfway through go to grad solutions knock out those two classes and they'll be done with a lot and as i recall from their presentations they said were they in communities where they had a hub and the hubs typically been in urban areas for those a lot more children a lot more students than children students um they've had a higher success rate and they think they they've started the hubs in a couple of rural communities and i think they're going to be one of the first ones but they also said most urban centers they had close washing facilities and yes and kitchen ads and and stuff to attract those especially the home kids to those schools ours would be more face to face just an alternative and then they can go home work all night if they want to sleep during the day you know it gives us just an alternative education for some of them and we're always we'll never run out of kids that need that they just aren't made to come here and sit for eight hours in a class and i think that's fulfilling and this is what they want to do just like the kids that we saw in schools shut down over codes you know those handful kids that just succeeded four graduating four juniors are graduating this year and they were ones that from what i've talked to people would have never predicted they they were the ones it's like they were the last ones like they were in the office all the time a couple a couple of them um maybe or maybe not kept not speaking about anyone i know obviously so uh but um so yeah we're hoping that they'll always be that that group that'll succeed with this i'm thinking too we might also end up getting students from the western edge of the reservation too that left from their school from this group still if we have that hardware that has that support it could be a draw for something listed too i know out there i've got a couple students that my school is not close to graduating question can you talk a little bit about the process for getting there i mean this is really our our last step for trying to find a different path to graduation it comes before that like we still have credit recovery program yeah that works so i see this there's going to be some kids that just want to volunteer probably board and they kind of know themselves but there's the the others that we've talked to parents already about they've been like multiple parent meetings the letters on the starts of the team with the teacher they caught the conferences and getting them into credit recovery and the meetings that we've had and just you know this isn't working this isn't working what can we do maybe see a little success here and what was it that'd be what was it that worked for that one particular ingenuity course for others um and then you know well it doesn't have to be a last strong kind of setting but you know let's give this up let's give this opportunity a try and see if it fits better for you so yeah there's it'll be one of the steps that we would normally take but they end up in credit recovery touched on this a little bit but i guess my concern is for the want for the students where it may not be like what we're trying last there isn't a support in a program like this as there is a traditional classroom or what's in between that in terms of credit recovery so we wouldn't want students to end up in a situation where they needed more support than they were getting in this program are you incredibly dramatic are you worried about is what you're saying are you worried about a student that's a 17 year old sophomore that's being successful and just says you don't want to do this faster and it could work for some but it also it it's not that's not going to work for everyone because it doesn't have the support um and along those lines do you have a physical space in mind it sounds like okay and it will be staffed so there'll be staff during the school day what's happening okay until you get some stuff because i'm gonna bring any of these kids on campus because i'm trying to compete with that adult staff one question just occurred to me because i've seen it happen in other programs because the door of this program was open both ways if we have a student who has left and goes into grad solutions and after being there for a while realize it's like wait i could have i could have done this i've had students in ged program and they realized like oh i'm more capable than i thought maybe i should go back to school and be like yeah you're young enough that i just did i just can't do it the short answer is yes they won't be able to depends on their age if they're 22 years old sorry yes but otherwise it's not bad plan we can't say we're full it probably still takes whoever comes to our doors yeah i knew that was an age i just wanted to make sure if we had somebody who left 16 gets into the program and if it works for him that that person wants to go back into the classroom we can make sure that that was still going to be an option because we have to have our goal is to have kids graduate it's kind of like the surgery system the surgery success patient diet you know we feel successful when kids finish high school i wish we had control whether they went to trade school uh university or college whatever the case may be i think we don't uh but without that high school diploma it's a ticket that gets in and objects including the military they could have some uh junior college credits will help uh get them in the military but a kid ken i had a student i met with a parent and a student three four years ago and the student already already joined and wasn't going to graduate so i wasn't meeting with a parent and i she said well parents said well he's going to be going to the military here in june seconds and no you're not because we're going to say he has a graduation i'm going to graduate the way he's going he's not going to make like three or four months within a year he said go call your recruiter your kid came back he's right and he's right here and then right now we're going to the military's much much more sophisticated than it was when i was 16 or 17.
yeah it is so school's out uh two hours three hours early that day okay yeah so that's that two o'clock allows for all the bus drivers to get off their routes and then our first day of school is the third wednesday august 3rd track update so we had um someone asphalt is the subcontractor of support services that is going to be doing the sub base or the track they had uh people here on friday kind of surveying the site um there's people there today i believe um looking at the site to kind of do things or check things out tentatively we have on may 18th existing track demolition and then on june 1st we have temporarily payment [Music] and i am so excited about this so um we are you know we already have one possible change order to allow for javelin on runway and do some other stuff but um it's exciting so we're excited about this moving forward again with the goal of hopefully finishing everything by and i know you've been trying even longer thank you and that's my report thank you any questions comments thank you all right item 6c one our financial reports mr lavista for the month end of march april 30th i've got a couple of key figures our operating budget is 78 spent and the percent of the year gone is 83 percent we like it when the years use that fast right here criminal budget uh we've actually done a little revision we'll see that later uh we have capacity for sixteen point three million in our mono budget and we have to mail with capital for some just reserves [Music] our cash fund uh look at the cash flow pages there you see six ninety one you're going to hear more about that as time goes back that's our building renewal grant fund so far we've received from the school facilities board state of arizona 590 and paid that to our architect and a couple of western michigan assessments again new equipment we're working through it all right so the assessment stage is done and the design phase is 98 done and then following that will be the construction again if you approve the next items coming up for the contracts for sfp contractors then our architecture will be able to work with our design team folks from their team and also with the roofer and the extract installation so that that will just grow sure so i guess it's been a few years we've been looking for better air conditioning in our classrooms well the definition for the school facilities for swinging into action is when there's a deficiency so we have maybe substandard or inadequate air conditioning and once they identify there's a deficiency we did that the last year then the school facility board fund will swing into action and we've spent i spent 16 months doing this to try to get these in place and funding in place and we've got four visits from school facilities for staff right to the district and we have four people there now that i speak to usually once or twice once a week just so they get this next step approved and funded because [Music] them they think that we've got a design that will last and provide adequate air conditioning plus we steal the roof our assessment came back to produce the receiving data that will be repaired as well the formula is set up so that we don't pay anything upfront we just wait for approved invoices from these contractors that are under true grant awards there's actually three more that we're anticipating funding or two of them have already been approved and one of them is they call it um critical need award for twenty two thousand dollars to put banned covering on the banned high school the vanderbilt you get in there just for hazards based on carpenters failed and then there's a fourteen thousand dollar award to utile the science lab and i'll have hopefully on the side of these the night shows acceptance belongs to this one we're waiting on a 61 000 or i want to just polish the concrete at the del rio gym and that one's on hold a little bit it's a 61 000 assessment design procurement activity fund great so student activity provided revenues so far this year twenty six thousand expenses twenty thousand cash thirty eight thousand the friends are very active i know we've been talking with this uh high school for a while and i think it's is it tomorrow or the next day it isn't that true um it's um wednesday night after senior awards and then they're doing an overnighter back the next night to this where she's been working just tirelessly has it been fully funded for the kids i wouldn't entertain the motion to accept item 8 8 through 1.
aspen which is uh our food service 2500. there was a check for ms grimes it was reimbursement check for 211 a check to mr perlman for 110. um so conical and although i mean the vouchers agreeing the bachelor's already been approved we all signed off on it if i could just get a list of that i mean i see the funds the funds that they were assigned to i just don't know the individual expenditures and i'm looking at the entire thing so this piece here was not included it's on page five yeah my apologies not a problem sir so i have a question you've added a new column a cleared column are you are you using that for reconciliation i haven't added anything to the voucher which page are you looking at so i can kind of i'm i'm looking at the actual um well maybe somebody else uh put it in there the checklisting oh are you talking about the the the report that we showed that where we check off the checks from that we've received yeah um i haven't noticed that before yeah it that's that's actually it's always been there it's not nothing that we have added generally we just go through and check off as as we see that things have cleared are there any other questions on the vouchers no not for me okay this is alan yes this is yes mr mcgivern yes mr joshua so i before you deny this the district finance report as we do every month this was ran i believe on the 4th so i will open it up to any questions that you may have on district finances i don't have my glasses on but isn't that the budget one there that this is the budget versus actual that you asked me to put together with the with the finance report to follow protocol we need to have a motion in a second i will make a motion to approve the district okay i'll discuss what may be unassigned still remaining i just want to make sure i understand that as of the 30th of april we still have almost a half a million dollars of unassigned funds in the mmo account okay so let me go ahead and explain that one to you that very first column the regular education we just unencumbered about two hundred thousand dollars that was encumbered to cerritos school district for tuition so we made that final payment on the vouchers that you permit that you've opened up so that freed up so those months were not available until a week or so ago okay so but so we do have yes half a million dollars of unassigned funds in the mno account correct um also 142 thousand dollars of unspeddester funds so far that sounds about right okay and 274 000 of unsigned food services funds yes i'm sorry we expect to have that uh much on the side at this point in time food costs this year have not well food costs have gone up for us um but with more students actually eating meals we're having higher and higher reimbursements so our reimbursements have outpaced our expenditures and speaking of the food service i believe it's next wednesday they're getting a new oven you know so that's a 75 000 expenditure but that's already within that encumbered it's not included in that unencumbered amount so okay uh okay i mean they're they're eight hundred thousand dollars wasn't the food paid for wasn't the food free this year for students from federal funds yes so we really didn't have any reimbursements no our reimbursements were federal funds our reimbursements are always better funds it's a federal program but but all students were eligible for the federal program correct but we only get reimbursements on meals that are actually served as students so we get four dollars and 33 cents per lunch that we serve to each and every student although the student doesn't have to pay anything so we still get that as a reimbursement from the federal government so but again because it was free to all students this year we prop what would we have noticed what would we have been reimbursed last uh prior to the pandemic i believe a fully refunded a fully funded meal so on the on a free student that reimbursement rate is 2.82 it went up last two meetings well no that's so and what about how many of our students would have been getting that we were we were lower than average because um the free and reduced forms that's what mr marianas was talking about that we had less parents fill them out this year since it was free it was really difficult for us to get our parents to fill out that free reduced form so typically we have 37 31 31 of our kids um we've had our highest year is 37.
so all these variables that we shared with you as we start to filter our way through it here's some positive things look at the elementary we're going to start increasing get up to 7 000 students that goes back to where we were in 2018 2019 so where we're kind of on this downward trend at the elementary we're starting to come up go back to page 16 page 17 you see the story what's happening with the junior high in high school there are larger grades leaving the junior high and smaller grades coming in to the junior high and even though those larger grades in the junior high are moving into the high school they're smaller than those senior classes that are exiting so this is the story of elementary is going to start increasing junior high is going to decrease and start to stabilize high school declines and continues to climb through those five years we can change some of these if more kids come back by birth rate changes um the inventory that's being built um attracts households that have school-aged children those are things again that's why we do this every year we try to understand what's happening we do break the enrollment down by building and we break it down in different ways lots of information on this table so i'm going to kind of talk you through this so you can be educated on what all this information means each of the buildings listed on the left-hand side the grades that we're forecasting the enrollment for are listed and the instructional capacity so this is kind of the way i would uh classify this how the programs are working in the buildings um so is there special education there is there ell are we using some of that core space for some of these other program needs in the building when we look at the past enrollment we show it three ways so the middle row is reside so we know where the students are when we geocode them we've associated that to the attendance memory so they reside in that attendance boundary is k5 student we know from the student data the number of students that are actually attending the building that's the bottom row for each building blue pond and we also for those past years dig a little bit deeper into the reside enrollments so this purple font top row where red slash att is the subset of reside do they actually reside and attend that building so it's always going to be smaller than the result let me talk to you about boulder hills that's the first gold we have 469 kids that reside as k through 5 in this boundaries in 2122 but we have 641 that are attending that building so there's an infusion of kids from one of the other elementary schools but there's more movement than just this 469 to 641.
um it would be nice to have two states yes um henry eichmeier eden gover menisha mahanti kennedy reed sam seaboard sophia wills adelaide wright ellie tips sam croissant luke farrington luca dabiza sofia pashore pato amucha stegi rowan kessler jack netzer samuel bosley cree keifer uh mason lewis zed morsi and grayson denoyer so um i want to congratulate these students all season long they worked incredibly hard and you know coaching math goal over the past so many years these kids really came together and they showed that they're very passionate about math they loved working together and explaining to each other and just being able to work as a team and it was like i just couldn't give them enough to practice and to work on so they we are incredibly proud of them i know your parents and your family and your school district and your school and all of us we're very proud so we loved your hard work and it showed it paid off so congratulations to all of you guys yes okay we're rolling uh congratulations to our matt holstein always and uh we appreciate the patience of our entire age adults in the room for allowing us to celebrate the great accomplishments of our kids on that note we are going to now recognize our retirees dr clique good evening at this time we will start by viewing the screens in the room to display the video that mr burnett put together to recognize our retirees so [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] thank you together we learned tonight how to celebrate and recognize some great amazing students and teachers and support staff members and administrators um really didn't seem like that along the list until watch the video we do we are going to recognize 45 employees that will be retiring 13 certified and 32 support staff members and these retirements could have taken any place the beginning of the school year to this point so um but with that what we're going to do is just when we saw the students up here matthew the bowl team all of us it's all possible because of the great staff that we have we all come together together to learn and together to meet the needs of all of our students so at this time i'm going to call up not all good attend but i feel like i want to recognize that still announced their day so i'll be announcing their name in the years of service to bcsc so when i call your name you come up here and we will line up and get recognized by the board and at the very end you've learned the pattern now their bibles stand up and clap and then the board members hands and then there are red boxes with apples for you to recognize your retirement please grab one of those before you exit so with this time i'll announce julia byers 33 years lynn kane 38 and a half years cam chamberlain 24 and a half years amy dixon 25 years sherry heshman 37 years dad paul 13 and a half years tammy leclair 41 years greg lewis 29 years greg morris 31 years 41 years david rogers 34 years shannon tompkins 29 and a half years and teresa weidman 36 and a half years i'll just keep coming around right here so bessie angel 22 years cynthia multi 15 years jerry buchanan 19 years eva cagwon 25 years jackie kane 23 years jerry lew cole 17 years betsy cross 35 years donald trump 32 and a half years william davis 12 years phyllis urban 26 years paul garland 21 years sharon gone 33 years terry grant 18 years sharon horn four years ronald hoskins 13 years barbara huffman 28 years francis hundley 23 years leslie jones 22 years chris cleffman 30 years bruce leslie two years carol pennington 28 years mary pratt 24 years eleanor routine 14 years sheri sanders 11 years mark schottmer 25 years john shireman 26 years carolyn shoot 15 years steven spray 21 years monica sylvia 24 years ellen wentworth 16 years and suen willie 33 years i told you there were 45 of them all together 13 certified and 32 support staff with that i can tell you a few facts that i think are amazing and very interested in another reason to celebrate them certified teachers a total of those 13 413 years 13 years of service the average years for each level 31.8 years of service remarkable our support staff 32 of them there are total years together 679 and a half years average years 21.2 years of service so all together these amazing people and the ones who couldn't make it tonight they have served our students and helped make csc the choice to learn work and play for 1093 years so at this time if we can please congratulate them okay um smarter yes foreign okay agenda is clicky creek elementary school right well thank you and we've done a great job of clearing out the room so excited so many people are here to see our presentation but no we are very excited uh my name is michael larson i have a unique opportunity and privilege to serve as the principal of clinton creek elementary school which is also the home of legato spanish immersion academy so we're really excited to be here and before we kind of get in and go through what we like to present and show you today i feel like it's also i believe this is the last school board meeting with students stolen and i feel like this has been phenomenal we have been in school and i know that has a lot to do with the people sitting here in these chairs and just from my heart and from our school corporation thank you for what you've done it has been a wonderful school year with our kids this year and we get to present to you all today because we have our kids all year and so kudos to each one of you and thank you for your service it really does matter so we thought our way through our process of what would we like to share about what we do at clip decree because there's such a small part right you get to hear a small part of what we do over 180 days there's so much the one thing we started this process was we love the arts by clifton creek and what we want to speak specifically about today is music and art and how it impacts and drives our school in so many different ways we know that the research behind it from academic achievement through cultural responsibility from the social emotional positivity of embracing it into the school but also bringing equity into students that may not always have the opportunity to have a guitar host to give a really high class painting experience and these are such great examples that we've been able to give our students not only this year but we've been doing it for many years um after dr pleacon here for the shout out has hired two of the finest teachers that you will hear from today that are just outstanding um but one thing that i've realized is art and music is about play and one of the things that excited me about bcs is we adopt a division of learn work play the two work and play because as my daughter started playing the piano i realized you don't work the piano right you don't go saying go work the piano what do you say go play the piano because play and it's our art in its playful form is supposed to play we want to do that and so far uh at clifton what we're trying to do is stop that bridge that seems to be merging play and work and separate the two because they activate two completely different sides of the brain inside a child and we feel really passionate that we want to activate both that left side and that right side and you can only activate both sides by yes the academic work but also the play inside of the school building and what we do with our music and our art and examples i can give is think about dancing i don't know if you like to dance but when you go on a dance floor and you're with your spouse or whoever your partner or whoever you're dancing with you don't sit there and say okay when the music is done we're going to stop right there that's where we need to stop at our dance no because that's silly the part the best part of the dance is to dance and we don't have an end in mind in everything we do in music we use our skill sets to allow our students to activate that left and that right side of the frame so they can enjoy what they do and so the presentation you're going to hear today i hope it also takes you back to some of your playful times when music and art really change your life because as we get older and as we become adults we forget that when the music is supposed to be played we're supposed to sing and we're supposed to dance we're not supposed to study the song we're not supposed to analyze the lyrics we're supposed to enjoy the process enjoy the movement because we each have heard a song that has moved us in ways and today you're gonna have an opportunity or this evening an opportunity to hear from two of the finest uh teachers we have how they embrace the arts at clifton creek so we're gonna invite first up our music teacher uh this is kyla liver well first i would like to we'll thank dr jennifer and also i think dr parsons and kelly for giving both vanessa and me the opportunity to talk about our programs it's so frequent that the arts get crushed under the rug so to be able to highlight what we're doing is really an amazing opportunity so um we've done a few different things at clifty creek it um arose out of the need to change a few things because of copen and um and also from just listening to what my students wanted when i first started teaching this kids kept asking me why can't we learn how to play the drum center why can't we learn how to play the guitar and so i started listening to them and we now have a full-on rock band at clifty creek and the students are learning how to play guitar and they're learning how to play electric bass and along with strings i mean our music program is thriving because i because of our students and because we have the support to be able to get them the things that they need let me make sure i'm holding this directly so this is the music room um because through donations i've done donor's choose we were able to get quite a few things and then through the budget that i had through my school we've been able to outfit our classroom with just an incredible offering of instruments for our students uh our program like i said the main goal of my program of this program is that it is student-centered every student that comes into my room i want them to know that this is their program music is for everyone it is not for the gifted and talented i mean i i truly do not believe that i am quite an average musician myself and as a when i first got started as an educator i saw that as my biggest downfall but it is i have learned that it is my greatest strength that i am no better than any of my students that walk in i just had more experience and so with that we learn and then we explore together i did not know how to play rock band instruments until this summer i took a bunch of pd and i could play the guitar and over the summer i learned how to play drums and bass guitar so our end goal well it says our engagement we decided to do a battle of the bands and there was no intent initially on doing a battle of a band we started out writing songs and the students decided that they wanted to have a competition and so we got this incredible man to come in and uh dress up as freddie mercury see if i can find it here i'm gonna just bump ahead where did he go oh there he is so we had a freddie mercury impersonator come in he was incredible singing and playing i mean this was our battle of the bands it was a riot and our students just had a ball um and i mean it was the first time i think it's going to be a pattern i'm going to scroll back now i just wanted to make sure that i got that uh i'm gonna i'm gonna i don't think i like five minutes but why am i teaching modern dance um student choice uh it's an opportunity for students to improvise every class from grades two through six this year wrote their own original song and just released their album today so you can find that by going to clifty creek music on facebook and you can listen to all of their songs they wrote those songs they improvised the melodies and so the songs are their lyrics their melodies and it's all i mean it is it is there i mean when you read the lyrics you'll know if they are not high lyrics they are definitely the student lyrics uh the great thing one of the many great things about doing modern man is all of these different opportunities it's culturally responsive i think for too long we've had this huge emphasis on western classical music and i mean i was raised i i did opera as an undergrad and there was this uh view that western classical music is the pinnacle of music but rock and roll is american i mean it's it's come out of our own country in jazz and when we ignore those that music we're denying the music that they've grown up to they've grown up with and they've listened to and the other thing is that my older students are astounding so much more because we are talking about the music that they love and that speaks to them and they're learning how to write their own music um this i want to talk really quickly about this student right here this is a kid who no one would have ever expected to get in front of the entire 600 700 people and she wrote the melody of the song that her classmates say and she wanted to be the one to sing it and she did that girl got up in front and she just nailed it just beautiful job i mean this is a girl that for years would come to my room and um just would be so overwhelmed with the sound that she would have to leave and she was soloing up in front of a rock band so it's been an incredible opportunity for growth for me as an educator and for our students um i don't think i have much time to go on this more but um feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about what we do and i'm gonna pass the mic over to vanessa so she can tell you about art there you go that's the right way she's pretty amazing [Music] this was our amazing rocket show i had [Music] this is actually a project that was in collaboration with the fifth grade teachers to bring some color to our corridor so one thing that the main thing i'm going to talk about tonight is how to embrace the culture of our building and how color and art can change an environment and change sort of the climate or create a welcoming atmosphere for kids so these are just some of the projects that we've done some of them are adult-based so the ones on the left are the large mural that my husband actually painted so this sort of started with a project with dr fleet in the cafeteria um she commissioned my husband to do um our school motto which is be respectfully responsible for your personal best and then when dr carson came on and the legato program came into play we wanted to find a way or he wanted to find a way to sort of merge the two programs together so our traditional classroom plus our new spanish speaking classrooms and a way to make it a welcoming environment for all of those children and all of those families and so we came up with the idea of sort of taking what was already there in the cafeteria and bringing in the cougar which is painted like an allergy which is a spirit animal from latin america one thing you'll notice is lots of color when working in clifty it's very white and that was something that the architect had in mind so i wanted to keep that i do keep that in mind as we're creating things um the architect wanted to showcase the colorfulness of the children and so i think that's important so that's kind of what i'm going to talk about um we've done some eyes fly boxes these are paintings that the kids have done with help for me this is a welcome sign that we've done and we've also this is the back side of the piece um just the benefits of our education before we get to the fun part i guess um students who participate in the arts not just visual arts but vrs like music and other fine arts they have improved academic support performance they are more likely to graduate from high school they're more likely to be recognized for their academic achievement and attendance awards it really gives them a reason to come to school um we have a lot of kids that maybe struggle in other parts of academics but in our in the special classroom like she's saying some of the students can always shine and one interesting fact is that 72 percent of business leaders say that creativity is the number one skill they're looking for so as we create 21st century workforce it's important that they have those creative skills and there we just have some kiddos working on some art some color vomiting and some building and crafting and things like that um there's also developmental benefits of art education just starting out small letting kids play talk about work and play they don't realize they're working when they're playing i talk to the kids a lot about that they can develop math concepts language development motor skills self-esteem is a big thing being able to see themselves and artists that we're looking at being able to invent new things um visual learning if i would let's just these are the main things that i try to do to promote a positive environment for the kids so it's important to me to teach the students about art and artists from a variety of cultures and backgrounds so that they can see themselves as creators so we do have a diverse population at clifty and it's important for me as the art teacher and our other teachers to embrace that and to showcase art and other things like rock and roll that the students can relate to so that they can really be engaged in what we're doing another thing that i like to focus on is collaboration and cooperation when working on large art projects we just did a mural this week with sixth grade um sometimes kids can focus on their own individual work but it's really important that they learn to collaborate and cooperate with one another and that also gives some of those kids that maybe aren't quite so sure about their art skills that they can feel successful after we did this painting this week a lot of the kids that maybe weren't normally pumped up about their work really we're proud of the wall and then another thing that i try to do is which i'll focus on in the next couple of slides is to make sure that we're showcasing that work when the students be proud of the work they're doing and i want them to see that i'm proud as well so these are some projects we've done so this one is about creating a welcoming environment um it's really important 850 when you walk in you'll notice the pop of color that's there and i believe that that's really important that really makes it sort of fun engaging um the kids are excited i think the adults are excited i think that's one of the things that art can do and so that's really what we've kind of focused on so this is our entryway here and this is actually something that dr carson has done well the creed which i love okay and then again the fence post bringing the kids artwork here we're just working together and then those large paintings the students did um those hanging libraries so there's also another cover another thing that was a project i took on was to do this peaceful so um it is in the four languages that our girl was in so it is in spanish hindi um english one of the things when we were merging the legato program in our traditional classroom was to bring that black american color it really plays well with the white um this is where we do collaborative learning so it's important that we work together create together and learn together make everyone feel comfortable together so that's one of the main programs or one of the main things of my program is to make sure that kids feel comfortable working together so sometimes we're doing lego builds where they're working together sometimes we're working on a large project where it's more learning to cooperate together sometimes we're just peeling crayons and melting new crayons and learning that and then when we showcase the work displaying the work makes the kids feel proud of themselves and so all of this is work that is either hanging in the building or um individually and then they've shown or talked about with one another again we do learn about other cultures this is a project to send to sometimes we're just putting some color up there and having some fun so again working playing learning to work and play together and to accept and love one another through the arts sorry next [Laughter] and in closing i could say a thousand wonderful things about our special team these teachers work every single day super super hard um they are proud of their kids it shows in their classrooms but i argue that you could say that about any one of our classrooms at flipping creek and legato i encourage you guys to come our school is amazing to walk through it's colorful it's bright it's engaging and i really truly believe all of our teachers embrace the whole child um teaching she's a whole child um because of the importance that that is um embracing music and art at clifty is evident but i i would say that that's evident in all of our classrooms as well do you have any questions the teachers have touched on a little bit but i'm wondering if you could focus for just a couple of sentences on the some of the differences that i might see in the musical arts and visualize programming because we do have the spanish immersion there are some differences but i'm going to actually invite mrs l to come up and speak about that um in my program i have i am not a fluent spanish speaker but i have worked really hard talking with the legato teachers and i collect songs and so one of the things that i've done with them is i've collected some of the songs from their cultures i have a lot of books in spanish so with our legato classes as well as our traditional classes i do teach a lot of songs from latin america we also do different things on latin american um holidays and things dia de los marcos talk about the color arts and crafts from there i do try to use spanish and english with all the kids when i'm discussing color and things like that so that as a building it's not these kids go to this school when these kids go to the school but so that we're all one family that's what the art is for that's kind of what the music program's for that's what we're trying to do is to bring everyone together and so i'm not looking at them as two separate things but embracing what those have to offer thank you any other questions that's quite an impressive room is there like an instrument of choice is is that those tall drums look really different they aren't very alluring especially with the characters so um i'll just use my voice it's loud um i the students are actually allowed to pick their instrument so i teach them all how to play guitar will focus but then i have students that really like playing on keyboard and i didn't mention this but all of the instruments are color coded and i actually brought a guitar if you want to look at it and ukulele and they're all coded they're all color coded with also the letter sign because i learned my first year that there are students with uh that are colorblind so they have the color of the chord so like the g chord is all blue but it also has the letter g and the g the g is also blue on the piano so everything is matched so it's really easy for them to go from guitar to bass to piano i just i have i make youtube videos where they play along and they just follow along with the color code i will say it's very difficult to go into a room and not touch it but i just want to thank you for not ignoring music there's research has been out for years many years honestly about the student success and art music and the fine arts so thanks so much for incorporating that into your program i visited 50 creek and i remember now you so much thank you so much [Music] so i think i said this last meeting that i'll go ahead and say it again i i really do believe that um you know in light of the celebrations tonight i really do believe that there are very few other corporations in the state that have as many celebrations and great news to report about student council accomplishments as there are in bcsc and so you know the ones that we mentioned at the board meetings and the ones you see in the newspapers and so forth i sincerely believe that those only scratch the surface and there are lots and lots of success stories going on on a daily basis we don't hear anything about um i have three to continue with uh to dovetail off of the success of southside and lincoln for mr payne at central the central academic teams april 30th competed in bloomington and at the regional level central place first in math english social studies interdisciplinary they were third and the math team is state champs at central english social studies both placed in the top ten and thanks to mr ping for sharing that information and beth flemion the math coach in the summer's english coach carly udy social studies coach and vanessa mayaha science coach another bit of academic news the fine arts team at columbus east just on saturday competed in the academic bowl competition at purdue and so congratulations to mr lewis in his last year uh i know he might be slightly disappointed but the fine arts team second in the state one point behind the state the state champs members student members of the east fine arts team zoe barnes father lo craft lisa jesus ken smith neal smith and madison valentine and the last one i'll share some news from autumn streetville uh more good news from c4 [Music] autumn street the c4 business partner uh liaison a little bit about career week the last week of april in c4 mrs street shared that over 20 businesses community volunteers helped with career week of which this was a first lots of connections were made between students and community partners many have already applied others are currently waiting on tours and internships from businesses several seniors plan to apply for jobs at columbus regional this summer classes during the week c4 classes during the week focused on resume interview work ethic skills throughout the week and mrs trible shared that certainly this event will happen again next year with plans to grow the career week and uh she also shared that there's been a lot of positive stupid uh feedback that the interviews and workshops very beneficial particularly the financial literacy workshops which arguably is one of the areas where you know the adulting 101 skills that sometimes get left out were worked on during that week i would like to share that uh two weeks ago both north and east unified track teams participated in their uh it's called indiana conference uh columbus east received fifth place at the hoocher hills and columbus north also uh placed fifth at flemington north at the indiana conference this past week uh north and east 10th dual meet where columbus north east but uh the athletes have actually all the efforts did a very good job one comment that i'll share is that brian north where the coach is a first year coach she was probably particularly proud the fact that they you know they may have gotten fifth at conference but they're a small team and uh having smarter set was [Music] she was most proud that the kids had a great time they can't wait till next year the other thing was that uh majority of the uh north athletes uh received their pr so they were very excited about being faster and jumping longer and shot putting further than they have in practice so uh they all both teams north and east will be traveling to wilmington north this coming weekend where it's sectionals and uh wish both teams want to represent bcsc there and i think both teams will do very well and give all the other kids that are in our sectionals thank you meeting it would be on the uh we would be crossing into a territory that i don't want to go to and that would be based off the opinion of our attorney general tom keita and indiana code 20-30 and you know all i'm asking a short comment if you could allow that or if anybody could motion to them allow that i would beg you to do that our policy stands adoption of social studies on there so i don't believe that it would fit perhaps under that category but uh ricky was on here again and i think you begin to go down a tough path if every time curriculum is a topic the topic was breaking that i wish to speak on tonight yes right yeah so i would refer you guys to the second amendment of how his parents killed rice for specifically he cites birthday to allow parents to speak at curriculum uh public meetings that are publicly addressed prior to that this is the only forum i have to do that so i just would like i think you have stated the current policy accurately and it does include the restriction that public comments limited and that is the policy that is in place today [Music] facilities just real quickly here at the school foundation uh the school foundation continues to be it's a very busy time of year for them successful event uh last saturday april 30th for the good better best out of the box award at 5k held at south side uh very positive event good turnout um let's see oh nicole cunningham the foundation's executive director may 13th and may 18th will be traveling to to the high schools to deliver student scholarships um and then also would like to say the partnership with donorschoose continues to be successful thus far in 2020 two 52 projects have been funded through the partnership with dylan streets one of which you saw tonight music program at clifty uh which is a direct uh you know directly benefits from that program and so i believe that's it mr dyers all right now move on to cabinet reports okay thank you mr uh so we have the referendum metrics uh to share with you so as i go through these slides we'll be talking about metrics that we had set up prior to actually having the community public vote on the referendum and we believe it's appropriate to hold ourselves accountable to that given the tax dollars that are being invested in making these improvements and these changes specific tax dollars so i'm going to run through these but certainly rely on my fellow cabinet members to help out if we have questions as we go through each of these slides so just a background back on june 2nd of 2020 a couple of years ago now amazing the times went that quickly 61.3 percent of our voters approved a 15.6 increase in the school property tax rate uh published revenues and expenditure budget budgets they've been trying to give you we plan to give you totally board updates that's what this is um and then we provide annual updates for our website uh where the recreative goals and targets are situated in gcses.org one of the goals uh was in regard to teacher retention and it was specifically to increase the percent of teaching staff retained each year the goal for for the current state in 2019 20 got into that referendum was 87 percent uh our target for 2122 was 89 in our actual given where we are at least today and going through the retirees um that was just a reason somebody might um not stay with us but investigations try to at least make sure that 90 of our staff are returning to their positions with teacher retention um that may include people perhaps being a promotion for the account of that position uh or retirement as i mentioned we did have a deceased individual and then we had 45 resignations of those resignations the top three reasons were receiving a certified position elsewhere and either as an administrator or teaching relocation or career change so those are the top reasons i had a person from the teaching position another goal was in regards to mental health and specific to mental health providers it was to increase the number of mental health providers in each of our secondary school sites in order to serve more students in 1920 we had seven mental health providers so we had set a target 10 for 21 22 and we actually got a lot of work done ended up with 32 we'll maintain that same target of 32 and 20 to 23.
oh my thoughts are kind of like all the changes and stuff that's going through and configuration and you know the possibility of having the daycares and maybe having to bring stuff into the daycare if that's something that we can forget having the district conference associated with where we're at the daycare or too many things are still up in the air for me to want to sign any kind of long-term agreement with anybody because i'm kind of leaning towards thinking just a one-year call i know it's not ideal but again well i think i think you will no matter where honestly is that i hesitate to buy another building knowing that [Music] you know ideally we would like to have the district office at one of our attendances so knowing that we will probably move in that direction in some form or another i don't want to decide that's the discussion of what does our district look like in five years what buildings house what do we have space for how many students do we have we need to live don't have to go what i say but um i certainly don't want to move again in another year yeah and moving in july is going to be stressful enough if you know how busy the district office is it's crazy busy i don't i know people think we don't do anything in the summer but we do a lot that's like one of our busiest times so we're going to have to pack up everything and move and then you're asking us possibly to move again another year i mean the capers are looking really nice yes uh on the long-term side i just want to point out because of the exit clause in our contract it's actually kind of a two-year lease so that you hear a lot of that technically two years that goes until 2034 so because that is positive it can't be few heads here but the shorter term in one high school secretary one superintendent one principal so now we've got diane bobby uh jamie and one in and work out where debbie is and then i'd have is i'm just asking what places to go i thought the band room but it's used two hours a day i can't i'm not going to kick the baby so there's nothing out i'm talking about there's no classrooms [Music] well bobby and i also talked about that mobile unit out of colorado springs too we kind of looked at that we could put that outside the elementary building but then that's a purchase but it would be there that would be attached to school or adjacent that that would be the district office you could use it for other things too so it's going to take some money up front to buy it water digging sewer and i think on any of them if we i would guess we might be able to use some s or money because it will be getting us away from providing more room for students uh i'd want to click i have not cleared that with the state yet but if you can make a just cause they'll usually approve it but that's something to think about too was that a new building yeah it didn't look like it now no it's not new it's used if you recall i gave you the price of a new one a few months ago i didn't even attach it to this group because it's way too expensive yeah and you know what you know you know like mobile units like that they're worth half of what they are the second you hook it up put it where you want it so you better plan on using it until it falls apart i think i think what the motion said last month once again this one uh we need to make a decision to know if we push it to get them on um so i mean we need to have something for some kind of understanding of what we would like them to do i guess omnicommotion for comparing to concrete apartments motion on the table for concrete as far as uh technically you have to wait but if there is no second then the motion fails as far as all those carpeting and updating and stuff that is proposed how much of that is really how much fiscal 100 need on carbon um yeah well paint i'd say need to well the carpeting we looked at it and actually the carpeting in the office that we would be at looks fine to me but the carpeting down the hall is worn and i have spoken to kelly nixon and they put that in in 2012 which isn't that old but they went on the sheep route just to get it replaced so you know you get what you pay for so it doesn't match which is fine painting would not be that expensive i told mr clark on these splitters that can wait because they got window air conditioners in there so um i you know they have been used or they've been used but we'd have to check to make sure they don't work um the bathroom facility hasn't been used for quite some time where the nurses section nurses station is so um we can get a rep key and go down and use the restroom by the rec center because it's just right down the stairs for our employees if we need to just i mean to get it started we don't have to do it all i mean it would look nice as the district office to have the carpeting all the same throughout those four rooms it's one two three i wasn't gonna do that last room yeah i was not gonna do that so then it would just be those things yeah so yeah no i mean and and like i said i i steve said that was his bid on the paint but and doing a little fixing up i told him i can hire my painters that i hire in the house and summer for probably a little cheaper than that kayleen is a great painter so those are options that carpet that kelly quoted was like a medium gray carpet and we're handicapped accessible yes i got it like i said i gotta see if that lift down there would be okay i've got to call into the architect but don't think he's doing something i'll throw this out if you're gonna have a special meeting in the near future you might want to find out the ada expense well i know if we had to put in a chair lift it's about four grams on that stairwell going up they're building a ramp there so do we want to find out for sure on the well accessibility we've got to have a special meeting my question i mean i we're gonna have to whether we put it in or use the one down at the end uh i mean you'll you're gonna have to have some sort of handicap you know accessibility to it so it's just or we can have to spend four thousand dollars on a chair lift for us or be able to use the one that the museum if we had to and these quotes of electricity uh those are for the mini splits we would like to say that's an option too do we have a current utility quote on any of that i mean you're talking about window units which use twice as much electricity yeah then well i've got for sure on our price i've got uh bills and i just got them here this afternoon late in the day uh january of the gas and electric at claflin the old elementary school was sixteen hundred dollars sixteen forty two so our we pay hundred and sixty bucks february was nineteen hundred so we pay a hundred and ninety march twenty five hundred so we would pay 250 bucks well in all fairness though um their office is not open by people and this is for the whole building right gas won't go up and that part gas doesn't change on electric some of those windows are being used anyway at the end of the day too you're talking an extra maybe two window units running a little more full time but you know they just will pay them on the temperature you know you're getting a we're offering this space rent free for 10 for prorated utility and that 250 that mr park scooter is actually on the high end let's just say it's 650 that's still compared to upwards of a thousand or more a month that some of these other offers you're getting the cost savings over the course of a year and a half is enough to pay for the carpet to do it all the way you take some of that i only do what's needed in less than a year to make that possible across the facility for you if you're somewhere else you're paying those costs you've reached past that threshold where you would have saved money with us cash you want to think about it wait till the special meeting we have to have a special meeting anyway because we're going to have to republish the budget and the location of the virtual fund so we'll talk about that later but since you just looked at this tonight's brand spanking new to you yeah you can kind of go through piece by piece and take a look and give you a little bit more time we don't know yet we're going to talk to you about that tonight right if no i don't think it will be next year it's going to have to be 10 days right so we're trying to figure out the time and i just found out today so yeah so that's just my opinion we don't have to make a decision for me i mean having an answer on the list if that works i think is important and if we can't use one that's currently there an official let me look here and see because i call for company three companies on the lift i hope it's in this notebook knowing my luck it'll be one of my other yellow legal pads that i have but um let me see um [Music] oh it's in this one right here uh carl of home solutions uh his was 39.95 or 41.95 with an on off switch which would allow us to control it so like a kid was in there they wouldn't be able to take rides up and down the chairlift home elevator company was like 4 800 installed said less than 5 thousand so i've got a couple of not hard bids but that's i think that's just kind of like the price it is so how are they gonna have to run electricity to that uh i don't know those are plug i don't i didn't ask that question because that's a good one to ask because that's that's additional expanse uh whether they do it or we gotta hire it out or whatever i'll take a week or two if we can just follow up on those action items and we'll table it for now and we'll have a special board meeting for a couple reasons uh more discussion on the air conditioner and real estate i think we need to do fees before that oh i'm sorry that's all yeah sorry board approval for the school fees for the 22-23 uh really we have three changes we are lowering uh the three-year-old cost per month the 35 dollars was 50 because we'll be getting some state funding for some of the students that are in that program we are raising the adult uh lunch to four dollars and 20 cents for four dollars and we are had done a little experiment after spring break with allowing the seventh and eighth graders to take home laptops i'm not gonna lie to you it has not been without some damage so we would like to have a laptop fee of forty dollars for grades seven through twelve where per bore it was just nine through twelve and the rest would stay the same how many oh top of my head i couldn't tell you uh well goodness gracious right there's teresa or street heinrich she can tell us exactly how many we have we started with 16 central plains and now we're down to 13 central plains and we started with 15 here and we had no sorry we had 14 here and we're 13.
resolve bound brook board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in financial resolutions this is 11.2 through 11.9 every motion option i'm going to give it to we're going to give it to eat it and we'll what might be the second comments or discussion thank you for the donations any other comments or questions okay hearing none can we have a roll call please mr bail yes mrs gazina yes mr januzzi yes miss miss lima yeah mr minhas yes miss mussoon yes mr zipko yes mr dawson yes motion cap okay we are up to other matters to come before the board which i don't really have which puts us in new business is there anything that any of the members want to raise at this time the only thing that i will say and i apologize i probably should have included it in either my president's comments or any other time when i was rambling during this meeting dr freeman is again here with us this evening he has started uh some work to transition into the district so he's been here uh at least for the last few weeks a couple of times per week we expect that to persist through the end of the school year as he gets himself up to speed meeting with administrators teachers principals everybody that really he needs to talk to in order to do a good informed job starting with july 1st so um [Music] i don't want to downplay the excitement i think we had a lot of good news to share tonight but that was one of the bigger news items i wanted to make sure everybody was aware thank you rich at this point we are open to the public uh for discussion um there are no items online great mr paxton hello lauren paxton president of the education association uh when did we stop giving uh we're sending out the covid positive letters would it have coincided with the coincidence i'm sorry i i think nominally the answer is that it coincided with when the mask mandate was withdrawn by the governor i don't have an exact date for you is there any way that we can uh continue that other districts uh still do that other districts still contact trace and all that is there because we had a increase the past two weeks and the stakeholders had no knowledge of this being a parent if i knew that i would uh i may be more inclined to tell my kid to at least wear the masks in in the hallway setting something like that but if they don't have knowledge how are we going to prepare and defend ourselves is a fair suggestion thank you thank you any other comments okay uh i believe we are into uh executive session dr gallagher can you confirm we are under one three and uh one two and three where is it one three and five seven nope it's one two and three i thought have a motion motion thank you mr powell a second second thank you mr zepco all the paper all right you're unmuted and good to go excellent we are back in session uh 16.1 resolve the poor bamboo board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in approval of hiv cases under high school [Music] this is 16.2 i have a motion motion thank you mr bowell second exactly thank you mr zeno uh give [Music] mr zipko yes and mr dawson yes thank you 17.1 resolve the bound brook board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in approval of hiv cases under middle and elementary schools this is 17.2 and 17.3 have a motion motion thank you mr powell a second step giving it to david mr vale yes miss casino yes mr januzzi yes miss lima mr benham yes miss munson um abstain from 17.2 yes to [Music] thank you i will now entertain emotion motion to adjourn mostly thank you ms lima all in favor [Music]
for years now they haven't they won't take you if you just have a gdp mm-hmm they want you to have gdp and score really high on the asthma yes yes or have some community college credits because they they're aware some people see that as a shortcut more than one in short letters so anyway i think it's good for our kids i think it gives our kids some options it's going to create a little bit more work for the district and having another classroom to provide perhaps and perhaps in the staffing but i think it's i think it's worth the cost to help people successfully i don't know higher rails feels but i would certainly be more comfortable with a one-year contract than a multi-year market see how it goes essentially i'll try to get ahold of him before crunchy night and find out that's possible i think he did though okay more questions on bad solutions now we're on to the adoption of political goals this is an annual function of asbo i think two weeks ago i sent a copy of this out with this fact that i was back up uh so because that's not something you think about hearing word being ready to vote on the meeting the political agenda for the arizona school board association comes from members i mean not every school district is a member but a of districts in the state of arkansas so it's something that's totally up to the five review um and so if you wanted to have something to submit uh they wanted that submitted by uh the 23rd um 23rd of may so it's before the next morning so i thought perhaps if i gave you some great time you had some ideas if you wanted to do it otherwise um i'm bringing this on you but i'd be curious what what your top priorities would be thank you my top priority is always funding kids i think is an embarrassment i love it here i've lived here all my adult life but i've got a friend that works in practice school in california that gets seven times per kid what we get for kid but then no i'm sorry the parents pay tuition seven times what we get for child we're we are funding we're funding kids 49th in the nation one of the reasons arizona is losing teachers and big districts uptown districts people think well the law or the novel reservation the reason they're hiring international teachers people don't want to go to this place is wrong they'll have sent four administrators two years ago to philippines driver group teachers and dr g bulls was telling about an acquaintance who knows people in paradise valley they're sending people they're trying to recruit from international students international teachers i'm sorry u.s news world report had a research about two years ago that said arizona funding teacher salary was 48th in the nation following oklahoma and mississippi who get more funding per capita than we have um but for your cost of living we're 50th i've got a granddaughter and i want these young people to pay my social security someday i think it's an ethical and moral thing to do and people say well they're not my kids well someone paid your way through back in the 1950s or 1960s or 1970s so it's not i think we're able to get i got off on soapbox i'm sorry but i think i would be constantly looking at ways to rate increase funding for students the legislature here prides themselves on low taxes but in the 80s people came to arizona because dirt was cheap and the climate young parents today see things a little bit differently they're looking at what does the university system look like what is the public school system looks like and i think so i think so i think the short answer would be funding you're going to find funding i think maybe some certification requirements for charge schools i am not a big fan of most charter schools because they don't have the requirements of traditional public schools on teacher certification or how administrators treat teachers in charge schools last year i chartered school and feel like feel good here avenue that general geographic area the teachers and the kids went to school monday morning close eye on the door they've been funded i believe for the rest of the year so there was an investigation going on in the meantime those teachers were out of jobs the students had to find a new school that shouldn't happen so i think we need to firm up maybe um teacher requirement or administrative requirement in the in charter schools as well so i think i'm sorry the schools that i have i'm talking about school funding we're talking about we talk about poor schools not talking about the income of all of us we're talking about the real estate values and in the early 1980s about 1982 arizona passed the current school finance law which is a good law pretty good luck and it brought an equalization which meant that districts like osmond in downtown phoenix has four schools four five schools they have all the high rises to collect taxes saddle mountain had started out with one school roof fisher school they called it fisher district that time when they built the nuclear power plant they had more money both those districts as examples to me had more money than they could spend on kids but the funding law came in okay they have to earn that funding so that they have kids what they can't spend both in state equalization helps out districts that low uh capital base like cartwright school district in the west valley is a k-8 district it's all bedrooms bedrooms don't make money like commercial buildings and things like that so but typically low-income urban schools and rural schools in arizona have the highest poverty level and the lowest funding in the state i don't know there's a way to equalize that i get my soapbox real fast our kids deserve the same benefits that funds can buy that the the larger districts of tucson phoenix flagstaff wherever it's it's unfortunate so i guess that one looks like we have an article yesterday where the state is expecting a surplus that almost equals the yearly budget and education is screening the money we put into school districts from everything from infrastructure to teacher salaries yes and in that article they were estimating that it's possible that as many as of the teacher positions will be unfilled next year or filled by people that aren't teachers and so and they quoted all the things you voted and so um so i don't know where that occult i don't know that money will end up in education or not but but the money's there they're just not spending on education most of them went to the rainy day fund this year by the budget that the governor's proposing now he got politically uncomfortable a few years ago when read for red hat because 40 000 teachers marched on the capitol wearing red um but um he made promises for funding what was it his math and our math were very different because he didn't he based it on the original year so for example instead of if teachers supposed to get ten thousand two years wasn't that or something like that it was twenty percent we got like eighty five hundred because the math we couldn't grab these math the way they did but it helped but it took that political pressure from teaching organization to do that and that's kind of gone to rest a little bit apparently about people my age range their retirees and they want to pay taxes and i understand fixed income but we still got to know our kids i've always been amazed by the self-interest and narrow focus that tells people that public education is for my kids it's that public education is for the public benefit yes you know good your kids are tremendously entertaining everybody else in the area where you live doesn't have it yet it's not good for society and that's why we have education and it's kind of a vocals that you codeposition still basically describe for politicians too no because i know this has been something that arizona's had a serious problem in arizona for a year five years ago when i applied for the job here i left the teaching jobs in arizona in december there were 2 000 classrooms in arizona that did not have a qualified teacher that's right and yet they were halfway through the school year directly to my in my mind directly with that low teacher pay and low appreciation from the state entities towards education too many days a week if you want to find lunch to bolts you got to look in the classroom not this romney's in classroom be subbing in classroom because they're not subs and we raised a salary last year starting budget at 200 bucks a day 15 years ago that was a georgian salary um i was talking to a district the other day that the teacher for the 10 years experience could get 80 in arizona now in california you understand that you know teachers over there making 100 grand but then the cost of living is absorbed equally so this whole thing i'm sorry but i get really angry about the fact when i find kids that i think they need to be funny well if you want to make big money and not where you got to work at the copper news i thought it was daniel's company so my priorities were very similar here a revised finance formula to ensure it addresses the unique needs of rural impoverished and remote schools maximize state funding to attract talented teachers funding for infrastructure exceptional student services funding um those are probably my top five and then on the other page there's talk about english language learners and social emotional wellness which is important but without funding for it okay so be mine pretty much pretty much as well um this is something that has to be submitted later in the month so we're going to be interviewing yes so next week we will get together for our next two minutes from now we'll get together but we want our priorities to be better with us does anybody have any other things that they would like to see themselves i think every one of our priorities the same priority of every school district and people with a lot more power and prestige are going to put those out the last i haven't heard it in the last couple years but kind of what you touched on on you about when you came to arizona in the last two years i heard the account i don't know what they used for the first day of school one year or 2700 teacher vacancies when school started following years only 2 500.
[Music] a survey i would like to propose that we try to get we may get attempts to get some some information from our employees about uh around their sort of their economic well-being and status by surveying all employees with a anonymous survey distributed through the by our administration and mr schultz office i have given a an example or a draft of what that would look like i have since thought about it further and have sort of modified that draft and this is a draft so i'm certainly open for discussion i am going to pass out the second thought that i had about what that survey may look like i just added one question relative to housing which i thought would be important when we were taking a look at our employees economic well-being status etc um i think this could be useful information for all of us to use um for personnel reasons for budget reasons for policy reasons for i also think it'd be good information for the general public to hang out since there is a lot of discussion about the status of teachers and employees of the district throughout rural arizona which i consider that's important so um i thought this would be useful for us and for those reasons and so i guess that's it i'm open for discussion one is when are you wanting to decide well um that that that can be discussed but my first thought was um if this was approved you could get john to do it right away so i think it's a really great idea because i do think that this information would be helpful however i just thought it's all time of year right now answering this or not answering this might be dependent on their salaries or does that mean they're going to get an increase coming to life first i was actually thinking maybe once the teachers get on board it would probably be a more opportunity for a little more not stressful if you're getting clearer than they are right now i had that done also it's a different type of stress yes very much having this information at hand what completed board or administration do now i hadn't thought about any stuff but letting the community know how important these issues are to their their teachers maybe the best thing that this could be for because again we all recognize the financial stress many of the people in this community have and particularly our staff but we also know how limited we as a board for the district administration is and making substantive changes so what i would think that we want to do before moving to put it forward is to have an action plan as to what do we do with the information once we have it rather than just taking it and then say okay here it is now you see right now absolutely yeah that was so a couple of things that were on my mind this this this this is a thought after uh i asked john what he would report on intentionally um and so um this was sort of an outgrowth of that thought i actually wondered asked myself so that makes some sense um some kind of action plan the other thing that came up in my mind was this time of year we are often asked to respond to the asba with regards to uh agenda legislative agenda um and i think there might be discussing that tonight i don't know when this has to come about when we have to give the feedback in the next month or two but this kind of information this kind of data would help us to formulate how we might want to respond to that the timing of them i understand now may not be positive so that seems to be part of look pretty part of an action plan whether it's now or a year from now or whatever well michael let me ask that this would be okay with you yeah uh as we were talking just a minute ago probably is more appropriate to do this next early next fall rather than immediately and now could we what are your thoughts about continuing this item and let me put together some thoughts on that action plan and bring the package back to this next month oh yeah absolutely yeah and i think one of the things that i thought about that is in one of our resignations but anyway it just people they were bringing their letter to the resolution because their bank account raised like 13 to 16 percent and they no longer find themselves so i think that this would be very helpful for sure right yeah and and so this also was generated from some resignation letters that i received in the last effort sent to the board members in the last year which makes this really really relevant to me the other thing that i want to want to be careful about and all of our employees i think are important in terms of getting data our paraprofessionals our classified staff our teachers and when we when i think we talk about all of our employees we need to ensure that we're including one we oftentimes speak about just teachers but the rest of our employees and staff are extremely critical in how effective our teachers our schools are functioning and uh have great future that uh student achievement as well so let's get that let's keep that in mind all right so quick comment um one of the things that might be helpful you know if i was an employee and i saw this i might just kind of blow it off because you know it can it may seem a little bit intrusive because there's some fairly personal questions on there and so one thing that i think might be helpful in this is trying to get some teacher and staff buying and maybe run it through c which is the superintendent employee advisory council um bring it to their attention and maybe they can add some questions that might be that we haven't thought about and that might be relevant to them but getting that buy-in may ultimately lead to hopefully more or better participation in the long run [Music] right it's brilliant this is the addition yeah the other thing that i want to point out is that the sort of the introductory paragraph that would go along with the survey hasn't been included and how you set that up and your tone and the language is used but that also could be important in the effectiveness of health and i didn't conclude that but that would certainly help [Music] i know we have a july meeting we already have a study session set for july if you want to include a short period of that study session to as part of the discussion that's when we're going to go over um the asda kind of board procedures that was that was what was decided and we could piggyback on that if you wanted to and i would not be opposed to that i'd like to have mike's additional talk very much you know both how to communicate this and also how we can make we can implement some of the thoughts that come out of it because i think we need that in writing rather than just talking because when this goes forward it will all be like also so that to me is going to be as sensitive as the actual questions themselves have to do so the cf meeting anymore august this year no not until august so [Music] you know how to be working in the box well um it seems to me before they want to vote on it and before you maybe have a recession that's my i i think personally i think there's enough to generate good health and thought on the part of our staff i think your interactive paragraph or whatever would be helpful though yeah it has to be developed and i think that that would their input might very well help to develop okay i mean i'm now seeing this as a broader project collaborative project and pulling it all together and so when you ask me peter you if i'm i'm really trying to pull us into an idea where we're uh or a concept um sort of a project we're all including a field treaty well again it's just my way of thinking it's easier to start with something that's in writing first that we can react to rather than just have this extra channel uh i tend to agree with that you know so that that's that's the only reason i was suggesting that is your thoughts and ideas which i think are wonderful but i'd like you to go forward with that new set and put some of those thoughts both the introduction the application everything we've been talking about down in paper you've been sharing with us informally before we get together next i think that will help our next generation of discussions what's the appropriateness of me doing this um through email uh it needs to be in an open forum because otherwise the open meeting law would be um [Music] the june agenda that's an item do you want to want to be part of the study session where you can just talk and kind of put together a document it wouldn't be approved in a study session it's just kind of a time to talk informally in a public setting um or do you you know how i guess i need some direction on how how you would like the next step as a board yes so i would suggest you give that to jennifer field and i will have more details for your suggestions peter and we don't have to act on that day but we're just launching the process and getting uh more articulate so much able [Music] anything else uh so currently we have our ingenuity which is our cbi coursework student can do credit recovery um so if a student gets behind we can go ahead and schedule their time in the library and they can go ahead and take care of those classes that they need to do because sometimes for some students it's hard to go to summer school they may be helping their family or doesn't work into their schedule so in the past we've had maybe a couple teachers taking periods and with the influx of students we meet our teachers in the classroom plus i'd like to have some smaller classes as much as we can do and also miss lucy who has spoken who's awesome she's been helping out and her really number one um job is to be our uh library para so we really need somebody to be really on track with the kids and keep because it seems like it always at the end of the semester we're catching up with them and getting them on track so i'd rather not worry about that have somebody responsible and knows the program will open up the tests when needed and can also monitor them and make sure they're on track now would this be a permanent position are you just looking for catch-up or i think this would be a permanent position at least for a piece i mean it makes sense yeah because i think that um we've seen that you know um some of our students not all you know think that you know a gift is going to be given and the kids really have to finish these courses this this funding is through sr3 and really it fits well within sf3 because it's basically helping kids get caught up that are behind that's that's exactly what this is this money is for uh it would last uh potentially until september of 24.
this year we're at 31. okay and they don't it doesn't break down for me how they would be many okay but we do have to really get those forms in because in order to be a title one school you typically have to be at 40 free and reduced and we've been between 35 and 37 38 and this year 31 so that's part of the reason why our federal funds are decreasing and we were down 58 thousand dollars this year in our title grants so that's why mr rabianis was saying we have to get students to at least fill out the form and try to get as many kids as possible to qualify um can title one title to a title four funds unspent be carried over to subsequent years yes thank you okay this is alan yes this is yes mr mcgivern unfinished business the gifted education scope and sequence and then go through the gifted education scope and okay no it's just in case you have questions oh you know i was talking about future cities we were waiting to see how much that's for the middle school it's 25 dollars flat registration fee for all our students doesn't matter how many and how many teams make so i just came across that data for us so they could go if our teams middle schoolers end up competing they will fly them to washington dc and they'll end up competing in washington so more information on all of this that we're going to be rolling out but we're very excited do we yeah do we have a feel on how many dollars out of the mmo budget we're going to need in order to practically fund this in addition to the wonderful i don't know what 600 or 500 or 400 that we're going to get from the state on this one so we will miss roman alley and myself along with miss stacy schaefer berkshire will be going over the needs of what we will be and i did already speak a little bit about it with mishriko and mr schubert so he can start crunching numbers but i would say there's a lot that we want to do with our students is coming to school here and it would be wonderful if to start we would even be able to get three thousand dollars to start but we will have it's not that's just a number i'm going out right now but we will have a itemized list as to things that we want and it might be a little more because we also want to make sure that as we do this rollout next year our teachers are also going to be getting professional development as well because they're going to have to also be teaching the students that are gifted in their class but knowing the strategies and techniques to make sure that they're meeting their unique needs as well so we might be adding some stuff on there that we may need instruction wise for us to be doing with our teachers and not just them but with our parents because we also need to make sure that the parents of those that are in our gifted education program are also going to be getting educated throughout the school year about what does it mean to have a child who's gifted and how to support them throughout the rest of their educational career what's the first draft of the budget for next year dude one so received an email today from add in the auditor general's office they will um if the legislature is looking to have a budget prior to june 3rd they will send it out on june 3rd if they see that the legislature will have it done within a week of that they will hold off and then issue them once the legislature passes a budget so they answer that question right now it kind of depends so june 3rd or sooner if the legislature moves on it june 3rd or a week later if they don't so it would be submitted to us at the june meeting yes so you'll get a proposed budget at the gym meeting okay and then you'll have an adopted budget at the july meeting and then you'll probably have a revision one at the august meeting because of the budget forms being updated things like that okay so you guys went to so free a couple weeks ago which is where serena does their get to the program so david so what the model that they utilize from our understanding is they use the cluster model in their classrooms district wide and saudita but what they do is once a week they transport their student transport transfers not transport their students um to sobering and they get all once a week one day a week full out per grade level uh and it's about three hours a day it seems like because they also have them do physical education in the time that they're there and then they also give them one and then they take them back to their to their sites but um the instructor that we met with we thought it would be really important she does know has a wealth of knowledge as well that if it's possible for some of our pds next year to be able to bring her here to to put some pd's on for our teachers in regards to not just differentiating for our gift education students but our students that were in the 7th and 8th stage 9 for testing which is high average students and it's it's important that our teachers know how to do that i know as a teacher myself when i first started off you never know as teachers really what to do with the students who finish very quickly and they don't feel that they're challenged and they don't always train the teachers on what to do so i'm sure if you look some teachers will have like the baskets of oh this is the students that might finish the work and these are challenging worksheets that they can utilize but we really needed to know the exact needs of the students that are gifted and those that are high achieving so that they can continue to be challenged in those areas whether it's mathematics reading writing etc but we were also thinking that it's really important that we want to grow our own gifted education program here at continental it means a lot if we can do that here and we're striving to do that so mrs romanelli has her provisional certification she will be focusing on teaching the third through fifth grade students and i have my full endorsement in gifted education and i'll be focused twice a week on doing the middle school students but all the other days during the week it needs to be where we're training our teachers to provide those services for our students in their classrooms throughout the day so it was a wonderful program that they have set up there we're excited that we may be able to network with them and collaborate with saurita school district in the next school year and beyond thank you okay mr allen yes mr kai yes mr mcgivern all right new business vitamin a about the new ela curriculum that's not good doctor the new ela curriculum for 2022 a second any discussion i have some questions um i think we made the right choice um i actually went through all of the recommendations and evaluations of each one of the teachers that was on the curriculum committee on this as to why this particular curriculum was chosen uh versus the other two that were under consideration and i think that due diligence is evident and and i appreciate their work on this um some of the numbers were a little different than what was originally proposed uh for the benchmark advanced ela i had about a hundred and a hundred and three thousand dollars for uh the print and digital english version and another thirty seven thousand dollars on the spanish version for 140 yet this request says uh 122 000 dollars is uh where where's the difference coming from so that quote was higher this was higher yeah there were original presented so they based it just um on 25 students per class and then when we actually got down to narrowing it down and they tailor the quote specific to our numbers so it kind of fluctuated at different grade levels based on number of students per class so that's where the savings comes from and they also um because i had told her that it was we she negotiated because i said that we were this was our limit and that the other company had come in right about the same and so they freed up some pd free pd for us and some student materials so that's why the cost is a little bit lower okay and we are recommending to purchase the spanish version it comes yes so the one i mean we don't have to um no i mean there they're two different options here right and yeah and the recommendation is to purchase the spanish version do our dual language teachers recommend and want this spanish version of this ela curriculum they were super excited that this curriculum that the committee chose had the parallel spanish component because they teach spanish and right now we're using other resources but they are very excited that the leveled readers will be in spanish and um so they they were really just intrigued that the fact prior to companies did not have a spanish parallel so now that the spanish companies that the companies have been developing parallel curriculum it's very helpful for dual language programs because teachers it's not a separate entity and they can continue the learning on content that the kids are receiving in english okay and final question um i remember with reveal math that we when i turned we got nickeled and dimed and we continued to a thousand years thousand years twelve thousand there so are we protected against that with the ela curriculum yes we made sure of that so we said okay final best and final and that's why we did the five year um contract with them so that it'll stay the same the only way we would have to pay more is if we get this huge influx of kids because i did budget for three kids above what we already have so if we get this increased enrollment it may go up a little bit but for the most part we're good yes budget revision number three you guys have read this any motions move uh to approve budget revision number three basically a second discussion um couple sorry um i noticed that all that every item on the mmo budget changed except for the bottom line we just moved money between the various line items and that's what it is is we budget for certain things in certain areas and it doesn't happen that way so we move that money to where a need comes along so i i could be moving money again tomorrow out of something from one spot to another spot of need so yes pretty much everything within the mmo budget is changed yeah we you know except for the total except for the total it's still the same amount it's just reality okay um capital expenditures for technology declined by forty three thousand dollars given what we got from uh we have social we have other sources so when you look at that technology you're looking into the 610 page okay so we had other sources to pay for those okay so we were able to reallocate those funds someplace else okay and last and the big one debt service i mean it like went uh from 200 and somewhat thousand dollars up to a million and a half i'm actually getting better figures from the county so that i can budget that for correctly actually um i think miss rico was on an email chain that i had with the county one you know after we got our bond refinancing done i asked them for give me everything that you have for for that fund 700 701 and there were tons of stuff that we didn't receive from the county so so we may avoid something the thing that came out in the audit for the statement of the debt service last year okay this is alan yes mrs kaise yes mr mcgivin yeah technology and differentiation support okay look promotion perhaps so you have our rationale and so just wanting to restate the fact that as you saw mr marianas and all the infrastructure things that he supports and is in charge of in terms of our website our megabytes our phones the security the cameras securely um we really do need an instructional technology teacher that can help support teachers um even during testing time if computers aren't working then you know mrs huevos mr nathan mr mayanes are running around trying to help ensure that technology is working if the teachers get frustrated if you know for some reason the curriculum is not popping up on the screen and sometimes it's very minor and it's an easy fix but we really do need someone that can work with our teachers in more of that coaching and being able to show that professional development in terms of instructional technology we've seen the roll out with rebuild mac and mrs has done a great job in assisting teachers in effective implementation which we're hoping with our new benchmark events it also is going to be an online curriculum with resources available so we really feel that mr marianas that our leadership team needs this support to help us in the teaching and learning side of the house and also with the differentiation of instruction in our plan to have professional development for our teachers and how to differentiate not only for gifted students but looking for special needs students miss stacy shaffer bertram has been working in that area also in providing pd for spent teachers but we feel that this teacher can help with the professional development implementation in the classroom we put boots on the ground to say okay we learned this now let's see how you're using it in the classroom in real time like on-site tech support yes on-site tech support and then um adding to this differentiation differentiation piece to also help us with our reteach and enrich model that we are going to provide because we're going to provide services for our identified kids during that enrichment time as well and mr schubert has already looked at funding so we will be able to do twenty percent out of title funds and eighty percent out of the minimum which is approximately twenty four thousand to our eminent budget so when you ask the amount of money that we're trying to allocate for a and differentiation would be that 24 000 or so because it is a teacher's salary so based on who applies and where they fall into place i just have a [Music] and not that i don't think we could use this position or that we may need this position i'm just not sure how this fits in with our strategic priorities if we spend this money here we're taking it away from somewhere else what if we hire two new teachers to get our student teacher ratio down we're making a decision to hire another certificate position here and i don't know how it fits with our other strategic priorities that i think we need to look at and address i i'm struggling with just saying oh we need it so let's buy it i'm i see it more as you're taking stuff off the teacher's plate so they can you know have more mental bandwidth to help the kids i don't know what's that i see a real dichotomy in what we're trying to do here i see on one end where often we're offering avid and avid really doesn't even go toward using computers avid focuses on the note taking on organization skills and it doesn't focus at all in any of its strategies does not focus on computers and yet at the same time we pride ourselves and having gone one to one which is great but how much of our in time in classroom are we really on computers because you just said yourself the student the fitness is too early we have a couple of baskets lined up with additional worksheets why would they have worksheets if we were one to one why would we do that yep [Music] and also as mr suevas is going there all of avid is digital so it's digital note-taking it's digital organization no it's not digital we have yes we have templates who have it and kids are doing note-taking that's not the technology of cornell note-taking it may be what you're doing well it's not necessarily cornell the cornell notes you can use cornell notes as your focus note taking template or you can do two column three columns it's it's what we decide to use in the classroom that best fits what these kids are doing when you're talking about binders we talked about data binders if you go to a lot of other schools you'll see that have their binders full of their work so instead of having physical binders now everything is a digital binder something that's created and done on the computer which is really the digital portfolio that's the challenge that i'm having so that's when we talk about when you talk about using it digitally that's what we're using well i'm seeing it on the other side so i'm seeing the people that are coming out of our schools in our colleges and universities and i'm going to tell you straight up it's alarming it's alarming what i see and and i guess what i'm confused about is we're putting so much emphasis on technology in the classroom where we're having to train our teachers to be able to do the work and have kind of tech support if you want to call it that i i get that but but the importance of the harvard study that i mentioned earlier today the importance of the interaction between the teacher and the student and and all of the studies are starting to come out and say the digital doesn't work and yet we seem to be really leaning heavily in that direction and i'm not opposed to have it i get it it's a set of strategies to learn how to learn it's to get yourself organized it's that structure that we probably all have had with our sons particularly in getting your homework back to school bringing it home getting it done and getting it back to school the organization skills and good critical thinking skills and creative thinking all the competencies that we measure success by but i don't i feel like we really don't have a plan as to what we're going toward we seem to be doing a lot of different things but we can't say and this will be the outcome i don't see outcome-based education and we are working with generation network schools that's who we talked about and we are this summer developing the continental way of how everything comes together all of the systems all our curriculum how we align avid with the standards and what we're teaching so that will be a product that we will develop by the end of the summer working with generation network schools and our admin team because we we have felt the same thing and we've had these conversations i see so many different products and i don't see how they're interrelated and i see us adding fte to try and support that and again my apologies i go back to the old school you know one teacher 25 students um you know i get that but i now work a lot with with organizations where we do have computers and when it comes down to creative thinking when it comes down to organization whether it's digital or it's a hard copy you know all of the things that you're talking about in avid i understand all those very well but then to go and add you know keep saying we're going to add more digital and more people i'm not i'm not seeing the benefit so i mean i may be wrong i'm just i struggle i too struggle with this so just when i mentioned about the crazy that's when i started teaching i remember we weren't trained as to what to do with the students who were the quick finishers or so you would get you know extra work or extra worksheets and there was all these things back then before pinterest like you would people stuff and there was all these great ideas of how to increase you know assignments for your students that were the quick finishers so they wouldn't just be sitting there reading a book that's not necessarily what's happening here on our site but i was using that as an example so i love what you brought up about how everything seems like there's this this this this yeah so we have an umbrella an umbrella that we're working with and what avid will do for our umbrella here as a site is if you think about the culture and climate of our school what are the things we do for culturing climate so for culture and climate we have the pbis program which is positive behavior interventions and supports okay then we have the math i mean benchmarks reteach enrich how does it flow um we'll have the start of the school year where we have students that are we have initial benchmarks we have their work that's coming up we have their weekly formative assessments it's like this web of things okay and then the next part is um there's there's so many pieces with avid that would be the top of our umbrella to piece where everything is so you have the weekly formative assessments a scope and sequence that teachers are supposed to be following standards state blueprint for our core content areas that would fall under the instruction piece of the avid umbrella then you have pbis that would fall under the culture piece of the avid umbrella um we have there's three other pieces here we have the instruction what is our curriculum here at the site how do we expect the teachers to utilize the curriculum to um do their collaboration when they have collaboration daily is it just sitting in we don't know what's going on there's going to be those expectations for those monthly collaboration notes that they have to give to us so we know what we need to support that would then fall under the instructional piece of the abbey umbrella so we're trying our next step and i'm glad that that we are having this conversation is to now we've had all of these pieces and all of these things it's now to make them align and for this position here it's okay we have newsela that we've that's been approved for us and our teachers to utilize which is a great resource for our teachers to have you have i excel which you hear a lot about and you have um i'm forgetting i'm forgetting another one right now well we're going to have reveal yeah this is what's important right now is there there's these things that when i got here that the the district has like you've mentioned there's all these pieces and what do we do to make them fit is it's just like oh here we have new zealand here we have excel there's amazing pieces to this puzzle that need to be taught and coached to our teachers and sometimes it's it's throughout the day so for i excel teachers were just assigning when it first began you know exciting this is the area we're at we're doing area perimeters we're going to assign area perimeter on excel so they have additional enrichment or interventions now this year with the help of speaking to one of our teachers here she was studying through it which we were looking because this is just an example with i excel it's constantly changing that program is constantly changing how can we utilize it so it's not just busy work so it's intentional so when the teachers roster their students they get their benchmarks done it automatically i excel automatically filters in our map data filters into ixl so i excel then matches exactly what the students need so when we do we teach enrich students aren't just doing busy work it's work unique to their exact needs based off of their benchmark data newsela is the same way muzella it can link to the student but yeah we are a one-to-one district and with avid when i taught avid years ago avid was everything paper-based everything was paper based you had the binders which we've been discussing now it's digital binders it's digital portfolios of the students taking accountability for their work posting creating their stuff digitally and that's important because in the real world that's what we're doing every day everything is digital so being able to facilitate not not everything no not everything is no but you know what i just i understand everything you're saying but 51 of our fifth grade students in reading got low or very low and some of those students on maps the whole class is going to be retesting because they hadn't triggered them for finishing too quick and we're going to be retesting some of those students which is what matt allows us to do when we can see that students have gone too quickly because they're just pressing to finish well and 43 of those same students uh they were low or very low in math yeah so and i mean i went through and ran the percentages here this is just shocking i mean what is this first grade 43 of our kids can't read i mean basically that's what this is telling me and if i go to third grade which i know all the research and all the studies tell me that if you can't read in third grade you're headed down a bad path and in third grade they're at 61 64 and 63 in language usage so we're getting we're making waves it might not be as quick as we want to make those waves but we're making them so if we can continue next year they should be in the 70s by fifth grade there shouldn't be a dive there shouldn't be a drop where they're dropping where we had a slide of seven students from winter to now now we have 18 students 20 students that should not be happening so our tests are all digital the state assessments are all digital and that's something that you know we have to prepare the kids for because everything that we are tested on everything that we are held to in the state of arizona through arizona department of education is digital instruction because that's what they end up testing us on so it is a big part of what we're doing here so it's taking a test digital it's not digital instruction but there's for taking a test digitally is different than digital instruction taking a test digitally is different i mean our kids are taking their tests online yes that's not digital instruction it doesn't mean they know how to use it i mean it doesn't mean that they know how to i mean i look at our very own excel sheets here and i think my gosh those numbers have been hand jammed into that spreadsheet i can go in the background and i look and there's just a few formulas and that's not how you use excel so i mean i i guess that my only concern is i don't want us to go so far into digital instruction that we lose that that that relationship between the student and the teacher in the interaction and and you know that i think that's what it really comes down to and that's if you look at any organization the problems we're having in organization isn't that people can't come in and use software the people is they can't the problem is they gather and communicate with each other communicating interpersonal communication skills um you know the ability to give a presentation without reading the slide you never do that so i guess that's kind of what i'm looking at when i see we keep adding fte but we need to we need to take a holistic approach to this i if i may just add nickels worth i if there's anybody on this board who's anti put a computer in their face it's me i i think textbooks are the way to go but obviously i'm living in a you know 20 years ago i i have to i have to realize that that's not how it's going to be down the road i also realized when i when i went to the uh the classroom tours a couple months ago i also realized that one teacher spending three or four minutes figuring out something wrong on a computer or what's not on the screen that should be is very valuable time wasted in my mind i can support a position that would help them get that done now if it gets to the point where we have to have a whole department to do that then i think that's i agree that's a little more i think that's really large if it in my mind if this person is efficient at their job wherever this may be efficient at their job it helps the teacher spend more time doing what miss kaiser said um being more of a one-to-one teacher instead of having their face at a computer screen trying to figure out why this doesn't work and this isn't plugged in in that i mean i think it's a gamble worth taking at this point beyond this i would have a hard time probably uh supporting it much more but but don't we have a technology director now that's handling some is happening in the classroom there are a lot of classrooms there yeah and i think that would uh take a lot of work i don't think one teacher is going to be able to fix it because the purpose of hiring this teacher is so that he can go back to his administrative duties so it's still just one teacher no not and so i just want to clarify when we talk about digital instruction so if you notice during our walkthroughs we are still heavily focused on teacher questioning higher level questioning student interaction student engagement teachers not selecting one student at a time how do we optimize that time and it's the instruction being delivered effectively but they may be going on to the computer to demonstrate and answer the questions that are being solved or so it's not just we don't just put students on a computer and say go forth and do because there is instruction deliberate instruction that occurs prior to the okay now logged into so it's like your digital curriculum student workbook so you know they go in and the pages align to the curriculum so if you find go to page 23 you'll see it on the computer and you can put in your answers and do your work there which is submitted to the teacher right away to get results versus the let me do it on a piece of paper turn it in and the teacher has to take it home and grade it so it's optimizing the efficiency of the teacher's ability to also be able to modify instruction as needed but it's also optimizing the digital resources that we have in terms of ixl and zella to make sure that teachers are using them appropriately to update so we could get a bigger bank for our but to make sure that they're following up on the standards so who's in charge of that right now he has to do all of it no i don't know i mean not right i did a large part of it yeah yeah no it's this is it's mr nate was available to try and figure it out it's the professional development in instructional where we teach the teachers but we need help to be able to have someone who can be in the classrooms rotating on a regular basis setting the team meeting agenda to say today we're going to talk about we're going to do pd on new zela and let's divide and conquer and let's differentiate for even our teachers on their level of implementation so that we could get everybody up to speed at the same time so that's our plan i just think that our instructional support budget is getting bigger and bigger as it relates to the instruction budget and we're adding staff we added the math coach i'm not saying we don't need this position i'm just not convinced that we absolutely need it now when we haven't put together our budget for the next school year yet um to to see how this fits in to whether we ought to be spending more money hiring more teachers or on the on the instruction side of the budget as opposed to the support side of the budget i i again i'm not i'm not saying that we don't need this position i'm just not prepared to say that we need to do it today and i would argue that this is the most important piece of what we're what's missing in order for us to move forward next year and looking at our data supports the fact that we need additional help in order if we're going to implement our gifted and talented when you look at our students that are falling far below and average versus our high students we need additional support for our teachers and it's clear in the climate surveys where they they don't understand the infrastructure piece of what albert has to do in terms of the teaching and learning board we have an instructional technology committee and the teachers identify the need but they're in the classrooms teaching so they can't have that impact out you know to influence everybody because they're in the classrooms working so we really need most schools have a math coach a reading coach a technology coach and we have we have a math coach which we didn't have that's a new position for us and when we look at the feedback from the teachers on the rollout and the pd specific to math that mrs colett has been able to do they they need more support so i clarify that i just want to be clear that the math position is the math coach is not a new position to our district we've had it for a long time and went on filled because we didn't have any interest in applicants for several years so it may seem new mr rory um because if you came in we felt we're able to fill that with one of our own that we kind of worked for several years because we saw no interest and we built that capacity within our own staff to fill that spot but we did have for several years previous to that we did have a math coach going back previous to me even being in administration i i'd like to say something as the millennial in the room um speaking of like climate surveys and stuff a good um okay let's look at internet memes my kids make fun of me for calling them internet memes i guess they're just memes um every third or fourth one posted by a teacher or anyone in education is some kind of joke about how um people just keep piling on top of them and they have to carry all of these plates balance all of these balls and wear all of these different hats and that's why teachers are leaving the industry and this position takes one of those hats off am i correcting that well mr also you were here when we presented to our staff that we were proposing this position how was what was their reaction they were all smiles and um applause this may not make any sense but to behind every soldier how much support staff is there tons right so the actual soldiers in the field is a minuscule part of we're sitting right here for 100 staff members right yeah so hang on i think we've probably beaten this don't let him confuse you greg we know you're a marine thank you ma'am i knew you were right i've been trying i've been trying to be better at more meetings i'm not correcting i didn't want you to have to say anything sir all right i think it's time for a real classroom this is alan yes mrs yes mr mcgivern yes mr rashford no and we have some new items which is were pulled from the consent agenda the first one is item c is in charlotte the statue agreement between continental and uh oh so i'll okay a motion [Music] i'll make a motion to approve the staffing agreement between uh continental and esa discussion this was see here the staffing agreement kind of i just want to make sure i'm on the right thing um the only reason i wanted this pulled is i just want to understand process a little bit on this thing and i'm probably being overly influenced by the debacle in pima county uh with the executive that retired and hired and then didn't tell anybody and so on and so forth this contract must be approved between us and esi before we can or any one of our employees can in essence become a contractor um but any employee that wants to become either through a retired rehire process to become a contract employee that will also have to be approved would that contract then be able to be amended or are we absolutely frozen into this agreement that we are in conjunction with esi on so this is the staffing agreement between us and that basically it's stating that if we have a retiree who wishes to come back to work this is the agreement for the district and the company that they will abide by now the actual teacher contract or employee contract will come at a later date when and if we actually have an employee that retires and retires right so that's it necessary if we wanted to could that contract or the actual employee be amended when it's presented to us or are we stuck with what we approve here and the reason i bring this up is i think we made a change in mrs rico's uh esi agreement we did so this is just a step so this is just a staffing agreement that gets done every year the contract itself it's just like any other contract it's open to negotiations okay so we could say oh i would like this change for this particular person when that's presented at a later date yes thank you why is it negotiated through mohammed economy because it's it did how can i put this when you're doing a retiree card contract it's already going to be above the procurement limit for to go out for bids and things like that um there were two companies that were doing retiree hire within the state of arizona it was esi and smart schools esi bought smart schools so because it is a procurement that is over the 10 000 limit they have a mojave contract so that nobody has to go through and get it and get bids and everything else to go to do them here and and pima has an interagency agreement or continentalism interagency agreement with mojave that we can do that yes yes we belong to the mojave procurement system just about everything that we do within food is done through mojave because they have contracts with shamrock and u.s foods a lot of the other procurements that we do are done through mojave because what mohave does is they send out the rfb's okay mojave goes through and they do all the due diligence and everything else and then we as a district do our diligence on what they have done yeah and so it's just an easier procurement for districts yeah it's a multiple award schedule and we buy off of it correct and they've already negotiated their rate with mojave so and they're in the rate for something like an esi is their their performance fee so you know going through mojave they can charge up four percent um be on the contract whereas they do it through one gpa which is another procurement source you know one gpa they could be approved four and a half percent so just whatever's best for the district is which procurement contract you would go for yes mr mcgivern yes mr ashley all right yes okay now we're going to go down to the new 13e is edward which is actually e on the consent agenda additional days for the principal and student service director so we can work them 10 more days a year so we need a motion i move to approve additional days for principal and student services director secretary discussion please well if i'm not mistaken this is the second or third year that we've done this and so my question is should this be a year-round contract and we don't have to address this anymore part of the reason why they're not year-round employees is because they would be limited to their days off in the summer and we've talked about the fact that they both have children and families that want to take their vacations that would exceed more than 10 days in the summer that they would not be able to do and it is more cost effective for the district to pay them the per diem for 10 days because if they become month employees then they would receive vacation time and they would be technically 21 days of vacation time so they're gone a whole month and a half which was the which is what would happen before when we had the prior principal she was on your contract and she would be gone all of june and part of july and not available to help with summer school or special days that we had designated together to work on and i see the days that they're going to do that during summer school it's dirty so they get to flex their days so that we can so they can tag team summer school and our when i talk about our work with generation schools network and our prep for the school year is when they'll have that flexibility for us to do our admin retreat and for us to do our summer work as well so we don't want to we don't want to set policy on personality or preference right we want to set policy on what's best for the organization yes so if what you're telling me is that in the past you've had year-round principles and it was not successful then that's good enough for me yes and i think that there may be a time in the next you know upcoming years where they may come and say they are would like a 12-month contract and they're ready for it well that's that's setting policy on preference and personality and we don't want to do that so if they're if you're saying in the future then you know because it's it's mr lathan and mrs cuevas we may want to do that that's policy and preference it'll be based on organizational needs it'll be based on need and budget so there is not a need now for a year-round principle no i think we've got a year-round superintendent here okay all right this is gentlemen yes mrs yes mr mcgivern yes mr you're doing a great job you're almost done you're doing good so we're looking for a motion on the uh overnight traveling um i'll move to approve this uh 13f agenda i'll second okay i think there's probably discussion since we moved it well i i pulled this one from the consent agenda because it feels like like just signing a blank check i think part of the responsibility of the board is oversight of finances and as oversight of finances i think understanding when and where different trainings are going um where different trainings are who's going how many are attending things like that i think that it is our responsibility to have oversight of that and to monitor and control that funding this is just signing a blank check so what typically happens um annually this is common practice and where you approve the administration because the conferences that come up through asba or through the trust or through arizona school administrators this is the time where they start to give early registration they start to get agendas out to get lower rates than waiting until the actual conference occurs but we do notify the board of conferences that are coming up the cost and where everybody so putting together a travel budget with all of that data would be an effective use and then asking us to approve an amount maybe not to exceed a hundred thousand dollars wouldn't be inappropriate then no except for a lot of times we don't know and again it's based on what's being what conference it is what's being presented who are the best people to go so it's hard to predict do we need two people are we gonna send three people but that's what good budgeting is good budgeting is predicting what the needs of the organization are making a forecast and then managing the budget this is just asking for an approval for whatever comes up over the next year all the asba contracts or conferences for next year are planned we know what they're going to be they're going to have a law conference in september they're going to have a fall conference in december they're going to i mean we already know this uh we know that they're going to be at different locations we know there'll be a summer conference and we don't know and like when you look at reading professional development and the math professional i mean we could put that together but in terms of being able to have this approved so that we can start to plan and look at what what's going to happen and where we're going to go and what we're going to what we're going to do like i said it's standard approval and then we can um propose a budget to you i don't recall proving something like this before which is what kind of threw me yeah no it's it's every year that monika rolled this over from prior board meetings so it's something that she does every year well i think you know greg's done an amazing job with finances he moves money around he knows how to do this we saw that tonight with budget revision number three so i don't think asking for a proposed travel budget and doing some forecasting would be unreasonable up on the screen there's your travel budget and your and everything else it's under s6800 category that's where all that travel comes from that's where conferences are paid for for hotels for overnight stays are basically so your own you already have that so when you submit a budget to us on june 3rd that projection is already going to be in there and we would approve it so why would we approve this now you're not all you're improving so generally when we have students leave campus we have the board to make that approval for field trips what we're asking you to do is approve mr maggianes to go to tucson for the asvil conference in june for him to go to the asbo conference in laughlin that's all that's all this is this is but you're going to put it in the budget that you give us on june 3rd that number's already going to be in there and that line item 6800 yeah so why are we double approving it you're not approving you're approving the physical travel you're proving this rico to go to phoenix for an azialis conference you're approving mr lane to go to flagstaff for a taa conference that's that's what we're asking for in this approach what we're really asked what you're really asking is that we give the support to the administration to make the travel decisions for the staff that's what we're really trying to do yes and i don't okay so if we're only asking for the authority um superintendent rico has the trust of this board to make decisions to allocate her resources as she sees necessary i think we've said that all along i'd hate to start handcuffing you now but this is a standard beginning of the school year request for districts because schools cannot we in terms of auditing purposes we cannot issue pos for any travel prior to governing board approval of certain people going certain places so then you are asking us we're asking you yes to approve the travel for the barrier in these cases yes so but we do let you know what's coming who's going when we ask about asda so you're approving the funding when you approve the budget exactly okay but this is the approval for the employee to be absent from physically being here at the district at this location and being someplace else to be at a conference because that's what this ask is right and so my point of discussion will be that i have full confidence that you will utilize your resources in the best manner possible to attend functions okay this is alan yes mr kai yes mr mcgivin yes mr ashley yes all right on that of 14 board of school events i believe barbas went over these um earlier our next meeting is on june the 13th any comments on the agenda if you want to come play with fire truck water come here on uh half day on the 19th ms cuevas would you tell us one more time when the concert is yes the concert is this wednesday no i'm sorry it's it's yes it is yes it's this wednesday it sits in the gym i did update updates and times on the weekly news where it says important upcoming dates i put times in for the preschool little promotions the eighth grade promotion everything i i input the times to date so that way you have not just the dates but everything that's going on in the times that they take place thank you and number 15 is um future agenda looks like we've been talking about doing governing board goals so yep kind of time to put up your shut up yep right so we're proposing uh may 31st or june 1st okay there's a vote for the first you guys yeah [Music] uh preferably afternoon morning too busy i don't care anytime after like two is fine doesn't matter that in the morning for me my friend can come here three o'clock in the first place looking at a two-hour session three-hour session [Music] and then um we can probably wrap that up at our retreat which uh we're just kicking around july 8th or 11th it's going to be a good half day yes at least four hours can monica make that lunch again yes definitely have provide food so the 8th is a wednesday no the eighth is a friday and the 11th is on monday and that's our our board meeting july 11th so i wasn't sure if that would be too long of a day first have a retreat and then go into a board meeting so so within my extended release so the eighth of the friday that's the week of july 4th so monday would be a holiday right if we have a lot of people being out of i don't know no everybody's usually back by tuesday or wednesday and then we have a board meeting on the 11th so um can you make the one o'clock shelly on that day because i know with your work schedule yeah i i think so i don't know the eighth we're talking about yes so we'll see can we say one to five yeah and we can talk about it i mean the next one first okay okay perfect so it's july 8th on friday okay [Music] that's about it any uh discussion um i know you have an announcement so may 26th the buses will be delivered um to campus and i would like at the next board meeting if that's available for you guys maybe a little bit earlier before meeting start so you guys can walk through them and see them and see our new deliveries five of the six months of dating again may 26th is the delivery date from tucson to canvas five of the six buses will be delivered on that day the uh sped bus has to go through some uh state regulations to make it regulated in the state um in regards to the wheelchair um where the wheelchair snapped in where this the buckles and stuff this wraps um and then it's got to get a step installed for one of our students for their iep um so we're looking that must probably be here it'll be here way before school starts but probably knowledge on this venue okay this is somewhere in all these dates yes okay yeah that would be good my notes are golf here can we afford the diesel for those anymore now that we've purchased them oh my god yeah i have confidence in our yes related but i'll have all the right now the next board meeting we'll have our buses up here so you guys can walk through them okay discussion um i just like to say i'm sorry mr cruz was in here to receive his award my son used to take taekwondo from him oh he is just such a good role model and influence for kids um he always at the end of every class he would always say make sure you thank your parents for bringing you here they didn't have to bring you here this is a privilege and just all kinds of stuff like that so sweet guy thank you mr mcginner uh just hats off to everyone that took care of the kids in dc uh to me that seems like hurting a bunch of straight cats it's going to be a lot of fun we said that a couple of times actually yeah it seems like those words anyway nice job there's no way i could have ever done it that's up to you um i unless i didn't get that issue of the green valley news i don't recall seeing any press release about the refinancing of the bonds is it funny you mentioned that we had a little you don't have that news briefs in the middle it was in there so i called the publisher and said we need and it was the same day they had a yoga teacher going to a contest on the front page and i said you can't get us on the front page she knows i mean we need to get something up to jamie who talked to greg so i'll circle with her again how many governmental entities ever tell the great taxpayers that we just saved you money i think we need to really trump this uh yeah and the public needs to know what we've done here yeah um and he sent her the press release too yeah and it's gone nowhere i noticed on some policies on some policy we're required to send a letter or a notice to every employee giving their total compensation including all their benefits and and everything that we've done there yes we actually i got it set up two weeks ago could we see a copy of one of those with the employee's name whacked i'd appreciate that and lastly i'd just like to uh give mr mcgivin uh some kudos uh boy i saw his kids and their cattle at the fair on april 30th and man i was impressed uh uh you know he's got uh i mean number one the the cattle weren't as good looking as his kids are but uh but but i enjoyed seeing the uh the livestock it's good seeing it [Music] and now we get to sign
we also have movements only 430 of the 469 are residing and attending so it's from 430 to 641 and older picked up kid as we move into the projections we show you it with the reside we show you it as a 10. ideally we have kids where you reside you go to that building programs and other choices are moving kids to different buildings where we have this orange shading this is where we exceed that instructional capacity on this page box chase elementary has two years while we're over the instructional capacity we go to the next set of elementary schools on beach elementary also is over capacity with the reside but as they settle out we don't have an issue what this means we look at the flow of kids go back to when we did your boundary changes now i think it's three years ago um they're holding where we have enough seats for students in these buildings what is starting to become a concern is our total elementary capacity we look at this we have 8 900 instructional capacity of students we can serve and we have about 7 000 elementary students there's quite a bit of space now i talk about that that may be seeming like it's a negative could actually be a positive there may be things we've learned through cobit on how we use the building that we start using spaces differently maybe we need two health rooms so we have those that are maybe kind of just not feeling well and other places where hey i feel sick like flu-like symptoms we might want more professional development spaces we may need more conference rooms we may have the ability to expand some stem programs in some of these buildings so we do have some opportunities with buildings it's not always that you take buildings offline there may be a way you use it differently so we move into the secondary buildings no challenges here with being too full but again if i focus on our junior high capacities we have about 5500 students that we can serve and when we look at this projection we're down at about 3 500.
uh there'll be there's a shortage of mental health providers and we're trying to seek additional funding though to help out with that this particular slide shows the additions that we had made under uh other things we knew were affecting our students and those highlighted ones are additional positions and as a part of that summer in regards to those mental health health services we have a large increase in the total number of students receiving services that 592 members decided there is the 2020 2021 school year the entire year actually comes from an evaluation we did at the semester so that number is going to be into the thousands over a thousand now [Music] so 592 over two semesters 913 get a semester some challenges for our kids social emotional learning was something that was addressed in the referendum and we're looking at developmental assets of our kids and increasing the percentage of teachers trained in developmental assets and or social emotional learning six percent of our staff in 1920 our goal for 2122 our target was 16 we actually are 34 or over a third and we'll raise we'll move that up a 10 in terms of the percentage goal for 22.23 to 40 percent um with just a couple of extra notes in terms of the social media learning we have provided quarterly resources to enhance found skills of all our stakeholders and families that increase participation by teachers administrators and our teachers assistants in toronto the transportation side of things this was also likely broadcast in terms of reasons that we were looking for a referendum success with running a referendum and that was to reduce the number of buses that are greater than 12 years old so having buses on the roads that'd be more efficient and appropriate in terms of being safe supporting our kids in 1920 we had 41 buses more than 12 years old we hope to reduce that to 32 4 21 222 we were able to accomplish that target our target for 22.23 as we pump that down again and take nine more buses off the road that are 12 years old or older it goes down to 23.
to approve the fees for mine to 23 as percent thank you for being here mrs heinrich now the uh board discussion on the air conditioner uh brian pettigo is here from ruby's i think larry larry's here from larry's heating cooling here in wilson we had marvin kermer larry brian all out looking at mini splits you've got uh information in a folder on mini splits from train which was very very expensive because they would have to do the air handlers and everything with it uh brian anything you'd like to share um your bid was 77 well excuse me well i've got 67 000 up here and then set six i i can't read 67 000 down there too sorry anything you brian just had knee surgery so he might talk from over there if that's he's right back over there i these units are very efficient they [Music] they heat very well as well as doing they're 100 percent at minus five degrees and they've heat down to minus 18 degrees and they're very i mean 26 here is their um i forgot to hand out the sheets that i made copies of i apologize to my board i'm like why do all my copies say the same thing well that's why did i attach those in an email to you yes they're coming around so i apologize to my board there is train today and here is marvin estimate on electric and i apologize for not getting all that out to you right now yeah i'm sorry brian so these units are made to uh so each room will have a unit a high high wall unit it's an outdoor condenser and control each room fire remote control the 26 here like i was saying before so i mean they're very very efficient and down to minus 500 degrees i'm sorry uh minus five uh at 100 efficiency so the chiller that you have now i understand you have four compressors out um i don't know what took those out but uh it's very quick very expensive to replace them or mix it so those christian questions only have a one-year warranty to replace those what would happen if the other four went out there's eight compressors at chiller so use seven thousand or six seven thousand dollars to pixels with these mitsubishi they have a 12 year warranty on a diamond dealer for an inspection i proposed to a two-year labor warranty on those as well so anything would happen with uh between those two the installation and just two years i would cover uh so i don't have any questions one of the things i have a question about is when we were all here we spent a lot of time back in the mechanical room do you feel like there is enough power in those i mean are we going to have to run dedicated power to those units because that i had called rolling hills and what i know about electricity is shockingly little uh our peak day in august and larry you'd help me hear 175 kilowatts or 355 amps over 480 volts can you help me with that i don't understand what that all means well the school has a large voltage coming to it and then it's messed up in different the unit on top that runs the heating cooling is uh 480 which is used with all the electricity that comes with the classrooms and everything else lighting that's all reduced down and used in a smaller amount of voltage to light and run things into classrooms when you did the ones at silva did they have to have electricity run over to the each unit or how did that work we did that we had enough power to run those okay those units are uh the mid species are verbal speed and vertically driven compressors so they run at a very low hertz so most air conditioners are at 60 hertz these units run at 20 hertz and they go on a load so it's up and down so depending on the load outside uh it varies from the that's how the compressor is driven so they're very very efficient so are these for eyeball mounts or cassettes they're high wall mounts you put in one eye wall mount in each room or except for the library we put two uh 36 so it'll be six times the air in the uh library and that was not including uh this room right we're in right here it's still run off the big unit uh but it would include like the interior rooms over here i think we had was it 15 total yes so we're talking that over there yeah nothing over nothing over there it would still run off of this apartment for now so what type of uh is there any estimate on the cost of electricity to get the power to all these units uh yeah you should have a sheet from marvin he had a rough estimate of like 49 000.
and it doesn't it doesn't get better as the year progresses um it just doesn't get better and and like in beautiful downtown the equalization formula that we use means that our our district is financed only about 20 of our monies come from the property tax now if the mine was still operational unless they've got some kind of a deal with the state i don't know they were gone before i came here if we had a heavy duty industry here and we lost across the street we lost taxable dollars we have taxable dollars because the hospital uh hospital inside the ambulance company olsons gives us tax and development those types of businesses offer a lot more taxable income for schools than my house and so uh if you have commercial property they pay for so if you don't have that then you then you don't reach that level when the state supplements your taxes basically through equalization so some districts receive no equalization at all they totally fund themselves and live because can creek do that yes so if you don't have enough tax base the state fees back some of that's based on the property too assessed me wonder valuation seen property values facing pretty radical jumps locally in the last year that will lower everyone's tax bill because the property is worth more the rates are still the same unless something changes [Music] okay the last last item to discuss from the president's agenda is the adoption ratification of the certified conditions um we've been working on this for several months we met again last week um the three members of the committee uh signed off on the presentation that they went on board to approve the one of the one of the members of the committee dr connolly will be here tomorrow night she'd like to speak to this um so we're recommending uh certified recommendations [Music] as it sits right now after your review was superintendent does it meet all policy matters yes we took a couple things up uh we're changing slightly that these things are emotional because they've been adopted by teachers committees over the years and by boards over the years and mean confirm in ajo was much more rigid when i came on board the association was much much stronger but that doesn't mean that any form of leadership to take advantage of that of the lack of association also the changes we made were we met the day of about four or five slight changes i thought but they were changes in statute or policy and the changes are in color pictures and policy i'm sorry the policy these were in line alignment policies so the mean confer is the line of policy the best my knowledge we don't we don't know of any place it's not i would just like to say that i know there were some her concerns from the staff that they didn't want to go over again i understand that these can be very difficult to lower specialized policy but i don't think any speaking for myself you know what foreigners say but i for myself both i just wanted to make sure this lined up with policy and that we were proving it because in my opinion this all had to be done made sure it was gone over in that policy before it came to us okay so and we're in this i hope i'm not i'm talking about the same thoughts no i shouldn't know i made a long straight there's two of these documents that we were approved of we would we would have two on the agenda for wednesday night we just didn't administrate we have time to get it to get it all done it's done uh it's done as far as our work with the employees but not as far as getting the uh the print the printing done things like that so we'll have that any other questions no i just thought we had one issue one big issue in the whole thing that was paid time off right and um so was that changed the paid time issues can you be more specific well the way that paid sick time worked in and the way that different um days off and the way it was i know lindy brought you a thing from tucson unified school district excuse me you got about the extending holiday and also paid sick time and all that was involved in that and so that was the only reason why we didn't approve that last time was that one part and so did that market get changed or did it remain the same or sick leave is in policy how many days we can give various levels of employment so we're consistent with that um we took one thing off that i did some research on last week in fact yeah last week and it's been on there for a long time and one of the frustrations that the principals and i have had is people who take sick leave to extend the holiday and so we had a provision in there that if a person this man we're all we're all familiar with that we took that out we've talked about that many times we took that out because the law says the law and policy say three days that i cannot as an administrator ask a teacher okay why would we have you have you taken this to doctor for one day illness and that did slow down absences a lot and we need to think about kids but the law talks about three stories eggs we took that out that's something we'll make most of you so if a person has a bad cold or after christmas break and they miss the first day of school because if not they miss three days we can say less i want to see a doctor's excuse but it's got to be up to three days one time we lowered it down to two uh that's we didn't get away with that last year because the long support the policy on the while and scores on three okay so it's your it's you you believe that we're aligned with the state requirement basically now yeah i don't know perfectly i might yeah it says medical documentation is required we can't do that until after the third day but it doesn't say that it says require period so that that all right that's just one thing that jumped out of me that already doesn't tell you we took all that away as far as yeah there's a requirement so the name part of god and where that exists uh we believe days are again that's going to be only after this is going to be the only the only way we can do is hold people accountable for three or more that days one thing that needs to be changed i'm also seeing league days 1.04 okay it's not it's up to 12 days and it's so slow and that's i mean those are just already just jumping out at me one play before i thought it was a nine number i thought that was probably something i would fill up with years ago but um you did a lot you did a lot of policy that got changed i believe in 2011 or 12 because i remember we discussed that when i was on board initially because everybody's getting loaded up on leave on day one like they're getting the sick leave day one but not accrued but the vacation time itself well even except they should be getting 40 hours paid sick time on day one so i i think this is a perfect example it needs to be legal but it also needs to be clear like eric and i don't even agree with what this means oh we always want we're not trying to to overregulate anything or to mess with the teachers we just want to make it so that that a teacher look at this understandable policy understands what they have and what they get we certainly respect and admire all our teachers and we're happy that they're here and there's a board we would never do anything to hurt the teachers we just want we just want to document that that the teacher can look at it and say okay this is why my rights are on pages and so they know it right up front so when they're standing before the man here right talking to us about why they got dismissed the board that this document is clear as can be of why they got dismissed and so there's no there's no reason for it to come in because they've already seen the document we're certainly certainly not doing anything at all to the teachers right we're not going to try to do that we're trying to i've never seen a teacher dismissed in my career over sick leaves whatever that includes all you know we kind of been accused over the last couple months of disappointing the teachers and first time this hasn't ever been agreed with and you know and it's been it's been said several times and i just want to make sure that we stay publicly that we what we were doing was to to help the teachers not to hurt the teachers and so that's that's all we were doing and we certainly weren't trying to make things more difficult and so and it's been two years last year we had the same issues with the same thing you know we and i it was my second board meeting and i voted yes because i didn't want to go against the norm but at that time know conversation was added we need to get this fixed we need to get a fix and that that was our purpose and not not approving it right and so not to be difficult just because we wanted it to be a good document we write a good document we never have to change it again for forever right i mean it just unless you just apologize because legislative case law and so we're just trying to put a good document out there so that it so it's clear to everybody everybody knows what's going on if this lines up with policy that makes any changes in the future that much easier to do looking at how this one policy affected this one section of your uh reviewing role so we're not good at disrespecting [Music] eric how do you feel about all this you haven't said anything i've sat in bergen unit negotiations they last long time and you are there until it's done hashed out everybody is tired everything is cranky i understand that um this isn't the bargaining unit i understand it's communicate i'm glad we have this for our staff but all sides they take this very serious because it affects them affects the district and it's important very important that everybody's on the same page and has the same understanding of what's written here black and white you know i mean we would have eight to ten hour days sitting this i mean it was a lot more in depth than just this but it could be long days of just sitting at the table hashing it out and making sure everybody understood and understood the word um it seems that overall i think everybody's doing a good job but it's just these little tweaks that need to be done i was thinking to talk that's my recollection about that time went to policy which was this school year lindy and i are not on the same page i thought i saw it one way but i'll check it again tomorrow thank you we appreciate that and i do appreciate over here so far next time this is something the teachers feel pretty strong about approval because they're tired of doing it and frankly i understand so it's been tedious we also need to provide them something that's aligned with policy that's legal and that's fair they think it's not up to them to make it so okay and yeah i mean i can i can relate to that it's also a little bit come up again for two years not lining up the policy i can kind of relate to that experience here okay so the last item on the agenda we still have four uh reports six on the agenda okay this is something thank goodness we have this um we have attached you see a colored sheet sorry 21 tax credit report breakdown and we have various uh areas in which people can donate funds the line share the funds go to as needed um the uh sports that makes it okay we reduce the audience all is needed three hundred eighty one dollars for band probably 890 stem class 10 program 1300 field trips 300 psat testing 200 all sports 1945 health club 200 and non-sport items 2295 um breaking it out sophomores 600 bucks football 1200 art club 200 go off 100.
so that's when either we need to make a decision that to for the position to go away because lack funding or find some way to put it into the regular mmo budget so that's that's kind of the timeline and that evaluation can be made at a later date but that's kind of the timing that i think you were you were asking about the permanency of this well i think that's what there's not a chance to see how well it's working out during that time period absolutely talk about it again yeah absolutely i would entertain emotion i'll make [Music] thank you there is a supplement so please refer to the supplement as well we have eight new certified staff we've classified six resignations three certified changes 17 certified changes two coaches and a long list of 168 timesheet approvals we have some temporary uh facilities guys or people not they're actually not all guys uh coming on we have uh the likelihood of uh preschool which we're gonna do um a because of some grant requirements we're actually gonna do a preschool program in june and july and those staff members will be on times because outside their normal assignments uh i think we have we don't have other summer schools except high school we're going to have some time sheets at the high school for um the high school is the only summer school program other than three scholars so it's like both ends of our student spectrum that we're supporting and here and there but not i don't think nearly the same number that we have but who knows off there but there'll be some and this is kind of a new requirement you know in the past we haven't really had to approve the time sheets and that's something that's it's been a relatively new requirement does anyone have any questions [Music] a fiscal year 2020 2122 district expenditure budget for equations great this is uh this is actually i think all around this is the last month and what we have compared to the year prior the 2021 year basically driving these changes budget capacities is 161 student growth now that was about 220 students and artists were doing that to 160 because some of them are under age 3 so that 161 students increased their operating budget from 14.4 million last year to 15.8 this year per capita budget and 1.3 our classroom site fund based on some sales tax 1.1 million point eight this year and that's [Music] going into a new um we're not sure is mr mr lewis do you want to explain the 500 dollar transfer and why we did that sure you should have a copy of your package page seven there's a list that shows this vertical landscape spreadsheet and there's a place you can kind of treat two combined budgets as if there were one and it looks kind of like this it's called a big seven of eight calculation of the general budget limit and if you turn it vertically you can kind of read it better so our funds produce and column far left and number one revenue control and that's an interesting word and then there's about 12 different variables you start with that number and all your variable variables in your operating limit and your capital listed down those columns next to it so we put in this case 15.1 million operations and 751 in our capital side and then we've got some additional capital coming in this year and that's why that's from our actual capital uh assessment for district additional assistance we're down the operating side we see that we've got just about 700 000 last year and then we pay off this is our last year for our honeywell energy efficiency project there's a 94 000 negative there and then our properties one two three is 144.000 [Music] they they might get operating fund heavy or they might be capital they'll be able to capitalize if you want to compete very heavily for salaries so they might go low on the capital side and increase the operating budget for power investors so we're trying to reach a balance there and put some reserves into our long-term capital but it's only been the last two years that we're paid close to 100 percent of what we should get on that capital side we've been getting 25 percent of it so there hasn't been a lot of money so del rio how many classrooms this uh how much area you know how big that carpet area is in your school i think i wrote one purchase ordered 44 000 i think it did like six classrooms or anything like that we just haven't really been able to do that but that's more funding uh we've got a mini excavator this year for our maintenance department we're getting ready to buy two more buses so this this money is starting to flow in our capital accounts is uh one other thing i wanted to mention that 500 000 what that allows us to do if you remember we have eight teachers that were paying out yes sir transferring that five hundred thousand dollars but once in two years once we keep that in there we'll pay for those eight teachers so we basically have made up the money to pay for those eight teachers so that when the time comes we'll move them to mnl which is what basically you asked us to do when we move those teachers is that money's ready um [Music] thank you very much all right item 9b is the submission of proposed issues for consideration for the 2023 political agenda this is the asba item that mr goldwater is requiring and you guys have been part of this multiple times or at least three of you have it seems like it's a relatively abbreviated version of silliness and so my understanding is really what we want to do is want you to look at what's there and just make comments on what's there if there's additions we can make a list of additions if there's subtractions we can make a list of the subtractions but there's not a whole lot of input otherwise the process like i said it has been very much more robust in the past so do you have to write things uh if it's okay it's the same sort of ranking that i've seen well is there any discussion on this does anyone want to change or comment on them and they just sent this out to us not that long ago you guys got it in your email to recognize the state submission of the issues as shown on our agenda for consideration the 2023 political agenda thank you a second please all in favor thank you very much item 9c extend the maximum amount of an individual job order for job order construction services in the use of job order smiling because he's extremely familiar with this we spent i think two hours last week i don't know what you're typing speed is but i like that so the the state knows that if we want to prepare services very good process well there's three different state contracts one's uh one gpa one's called the mojave and then there's the state list as well but we selected contractors after leading and what we came up with was this it's a new type that's about 12 years job order construction it's not for building new jobs it's the renovations and what the school facilities calls rehab or renovations for renewal and that's a typical application for job order contracting that's what we'll bring in quarter point would be if you hadn't installed new cabinets same thing retain follow a pattern get it done but not really construction so job order contracting is a smaller job with a highly repetitive nature and what we've done is we've talked with these folks we've talked to school facilities board i believe they're pueblo mechanical i've worked with them for about 12 years in another district uh they're considered hot and watched for the facilities for mechanical or hvac installation work with them under this one gta contract under the job order contracting division and then have four contracts one for school for the hvac installation progressive roofing is also well thought out for your reputation in the city they could rehab the roof should put up maybe an eighth of an inch layer or several bits of adhesive to it they did a pull test over del rio two months ago we had some contractors [Music] so they did the full test that they're bringing that together and they'll make recommendations to the architect so if you approve these tonight item 9c allows the district to enter into job order contracting with these vendors for these projects to exceed the maximum statute is a million dollars per contract the estimate for the hvac installation of the high school is around 2.6 million for all the units to replace all that we got doing the estimates of the other one for the other three schools are all close to the 950 000 to the 1.2 1.2 so if we get approval take it up to that 3 million per roofing board and per hvac installation board member we don't anticipate they're going over that eighty ten million total for everything but they could and we all know with supply chain items we ordered a bus last july of 2021 before it's still not here yet almost 11 months later so with delays in the purchasing and procurement and supply chain prices could almost change we would hopefully get firm fixed prices coming as [Music] we think this is a legitimate um it's effective it's efficient it allows if you improve these motions tonight it allows the current architect and their hvac designed to work with input from the roofing company and the mechanical hvac installation company to instantly get these plants ready to go so they can order because we need that identified deficiency and i'm going to present a letter tomorrow um and it's called the determination to enter and it's under a cooperative purchase so these companies double mechanical tmcr architect and progressive roofing have all defended bids to the one gpa cooperative purchasing cooperative so if a regular architect was going to charge x plus 20 percent per profit margin and a regular hvac installer was going to charge x plus 30 they don't get to do that they submit bids state awards and they might charge eight to five percent so they get their pretty secure business they get school districts from school support due to the creative work so it's very secure that they don't get the problem and then instead of having to explain each and every item i'm just going to read who it is going [Music] extending the forward dollar amount of individual jobs in order for self-ordered construction centers and improving the use of job order construction um thank you with progressive movement for movement of location at territorial approval approve a contract with progressives and under award 128.21-06-3022 at creation dates date 10304 2026 for a little brilliant rehabilitation february early childhood center 63 million first human feminists are welcome school facilities are recycled contract with progressive working for group rehabilitation at del rio and rio school a federal contract with progressive living under award 1 gpa contact 21-0-16-02 exploration gave 0-3 therefore 2026 for rehabilitation in ws both not to exclude millionaires rehabilitation at heritage middle school approval contact with progressive ripping under award 1 gpa contract 21-06 expiration date zero three zero four 2026 for your rehabilitation school contract with progressive routine for roof rehabilitation after the contractor progressively gained under award one gta [Music] 2521-16-32 expiration date zero three zero four two thousand twenty seconds for real rehabilitation at china valley high school not two three three million for pending funding approved for welcoming the arizona school facilities foreign mechanical before hvac installation in calgary school nope mechanical for hvac installation at territorial approval contract with buffalo mechanical services under award one gta storm garden 18-16 pb-05 expiration date zero five seventeen two thousand forty-three for installation of hvac systems at tertiary household center not take c3 million now contract with pueblo mechanical for hvac installation at del rio's upper contract with platform mechanical services under award one cca contract 18-16-0-5 expiration date 0-5-17-2023 for installation of hvac systems at melbourne school not three million for indian funding approval from the arizona school facilities oversight board second speaker colleen contract with pueblo mechanical for hvac installation at heritage middle school approve a contract with public mechanical services under award one gta contract 38-16 tv-05 expiration date zero five seventeen two thousand point three for installation of the hvac system that additionals at two medallions i threw a contract with tribal mechanical services under award one gta contract 18-16-2005 exploration 805-17-2023 for installation of hvac systems at china valley high all in favor again i want to thank john for his uh his work on this because again he's done more in the 16 months that we've had in the past 12 years so yeah i appreciate that i understand [Music] and lauren i'm the district nurse and i've been working with sydney and lauren in getting curriculum in the schools and i wanted to go over that if the family life education is sex education but it's far more comprehensive it focuses on um physical well-being and emotional well-being and boundaries and i am going to let them keep going um so my name is lauren defour i'm one of the health educators for yapping community yeah health center that says and i am one of those that is tasked to go out all over yonker county and teach specifically sexual health education um and a lot of people wonder what sexual health education is um so like it was mentioned that's the knowledge and skills to help the students have healthy relationships avoid stds and reduce unintended pregnancies and it's medically accurate and developmentally appropriate curriculum um it's evidence-based and one thing we don't do is go out and teach students how to have sex i get asked that all the time are you teaching my child how to have sex that's not anything that we do um we're answering what a healthy relationship looks like um we have an abstinence-based program that's for arizona standards and any curriculum that we are tasked to teach in the school is also already been approved by arizona state so it's not a curriculum that we have decided to teach on our own it's not something we've made up it's already been approved by the state um with the sexual health education programs we do find and research shows that the students delay initiation of sexual intercourse they have fewer sexual partners they have fewer experiences of unprotected sex they increase their use of protection specifically the condoms and they've improved their academic performance because like we said we talk about healthy relationships we talk about boundaries and those things translate into regular school settings um we are talking about making a difference which is an age-appropriate evidence-based abstinence curriculum already state of arizona and it's used for students age 12 and 14.
so almost 2 000 students i'm available for space we look at that differently maybe it is those are conversations for for a group to look at with all of this data we get to the high school we have about capacity look we're at about 5 000 students being served um i know many of you on the board you weren't here when there was conversations about the third high school thank god we didn't build a third high school right this would be a real challenge with a number of kids and trying to staff three high school buildings so again some good decisions um here many years ago have had a positive impact on what we're seeing again there's lots of things happening in the district it doesn't appear that we have um too many things related to being over capacity unless things play out but i do want to leave you there maybe some more questions that you guys have but we have to watch this live birth date we need to follow these developments wolf road what's crossing and depending where we are on that road that's a huge expense that's the spine that's where we're going to see some of the outtake of developments in the oswego aurora corridor so we want to keep watching that on playing fields many of those areas are finishing building out but we have like stewart and other places around there they still have a lot of building activity built to fill in there i think what i want to do is open up maybe for some questions comments um that you guys have i like janet passed me back the phone and i'll listen for questions and the other thing i want to make note of there's an appendix there's a lot more information that you can dig into so um feel free to to look at those things and if there's more questions on that and we'll work with the two john's on giving you the the right answers all right thanks okay i know well i'm i mean you kind of answered it so the last time i was here was when we did not build the third high school um 2011.
it's clear plus driver positions is a challenge for us as well um a lot of challenges in terms of staffing with mental health providers bus drivers at least in regards to the referendum here our goal is to decrease the number of driver rods unfilled or had to be filled on a regular basis by sub drivers 12 percent of our routes were unfilled or had subs taken care of in 1920 we hoped to reduce that to eight percent 21.22 we'd actually get that down to six percent so cut in half we had a goal to have 100 of our elementary students attending the weekly stem lab or or for engaging stem opportunities that was less than 75 and 21-22 most of our elementary schools did have a stem lab but uh if those we had a couple were not able to fill that position and or it was not on a routine basis so less than 75 percent of our students 22 23 that's our target 100 getting back to that goal and we'll see what that ends up being for that year and then we'll take that we'll billboard that we're hiring certified teachers to pull those ten positions and you're all well aware of that for the 20 to 23 school years addressed and taken care of so that on a regular basis all kids elementary will be attending certified teachers there was a connection with the c4 department that's been strengthened by things such as parole and our step kid we have not had a chance to attend either of those look at the calendar pay attention to the county where we can advertise for those and try to get yourself out there we also have a connection with columbus because of an airport providing your non-exploring opportunities community and um classroom activities that do include coding and engineering are being introduced i'll have an update on all this information on our bcsc website at fpcschools.org you can see what the reference looks like down at the bottom uh are gives information about the referendum budget uh the referendum for false goals and targets that were covered here and the referendum taxed impact calculator uh that was eight years when we were running sure people knew how much 15.66 is going to cost some other taxes that covers the um update that we want to provide to you in terms of the reference metrics i would ask if there's any additions or clarifications yeah i've got one in regards to i think i remember seeing 45 resignations that was how many um retirements we had tonight the number of you have any sense or any idea how that compares to pre uh pre-referendum in terms of percentage staff if that question makes sense i'm not certain um i think before we would be around maybe in the high but i can tell you the year prior um for the 21-22 school years of the 1920 we had instead of favorite retirements again 21 retirements um and instead of 45 nations we had 48 presentations so we had more retirements during that year so hopefully the impact of record and illness allow some people to do of making this comparison um that we may have people staying a little longer instead of retiring given the month of the referendum and how that contributes to the teaching pitch um there is a win there with one of the today let's make more of that situation in terms of the percentage of mr drax um i said as soon as i came to the system we started looking at various targets and measures with the strategic plan in place before this one teacher retention was on that and as dr click said that high aids was typically where we were so we had a target 90 percent then target rate in 1920 was 87 percent bumped that back up to 89 so that that percentage for about 21.22 is probably the highest we've had and i've got one more question so you know the mental health statistics up there pretty alarming in regards to students and i noticed the number three resignation uh reason leaving the profession would you happen to have any sense or idea how many of those leaving the profession are related to mental health concerns i would not instead of a career change questions nine items in front of you this evening that starts with the basics of business from the last four meeting on april 25th something little contracts that are in front of these field trips and professional leaves that we have school fundraisers as well as claims in payroll we have two sets of claims apparel there one from data may ninth which is a little over a million dollars one million dollars for april first april 30th that's a little over three million dollars and then we also have our payroll display uh in front of you this time it covers the work days of april 9th april 22nd it is no additions to that so that's a little over 3.2 million additionally we have the policy revision to number 4434 that is in regard to the holidays for full-time staff 12 months staff for us then the edition of juneteenth as a holiday we also have the internal complaint policy that was revised to more fit internal situations or circumstances uh from an employee's standpoint versus the more generic complaint policy that we had so the internal late policy has an addition that have been placed in front of you and then we also have a resolution for professional development flexibility waiver put that out that is the third time it's actually asked to potentially do this based upon a bill that was in place just a few years ago legislation that allows corporations to request a waiver based upon various flexible items ours is time so we're going to investigate waiver from the state board of education and we use time differently instead of days we count them in hours that allows us to have this full day professional development days those days are on the calendar already for next year to first semester to second semester let's take more vegetation let's have to through that waiver that we are increases specifically for high school courses as far as my [Music] so okay all right we'll try this again i request approval to human resource recommendations as presented this evening our recommendations okay [Music] okay all right i appreciate that with these presentations tonight i like the color you know kind of white i understand uh the full architecture of p7 but i also think color tends to as well and also what a great night with stem and governor's awards and retirees may they all have a healthy and long life adventure ahead of them thank you yeah congratulations again to the south side lincoln math state champs matthew liu on his almost uncountable accomplishments um congratulations to mrs thompson on her well-deserved recognition into the circle of deported and dr parsons and the clifty clifty creek team excuse me um yeah it's it's very refreshing to see an emphasis on music at art and i think often times those are two of the areas that are oftentimes underappreciated and valued and kind of put on the back burner times but uh it's it's great to see what they're doing with those programs and then congratulations again to the 45 retirees of nearly 1100 years of service yeah very uh yeah that's great thank you also um i'd like to thank my fellow board members for their support tonight okay i have a checklist on a list person i went through my checklist stuff reverses i'd like to apologize i got so um worried about my check marks i didn't thank you all and thank you for your presentation today and i just like say today it was a hurtful kind of agenda guys upcoming dates next school board meeting is on june 13th at 6 30 p.m right here [Music]
47 or 49 049 pounds i handed all my sheets out i had them all for a little bit now i don't have anything so every night my original thought i have since talked to empowerment a little bit and he said the return air with the mini splits would actually put more load plus noting the cost for those but it's going to hold if you go back to the original estimate of train just to prepare the rtu unit that we have was 30 to 58 which is mr president i'd like to add something the compressor we're talking about didn't go out just boom at one time we had lost some quite a long time ago we lose one we're still able to run because it's so expensive to get somebody out there because you got to do a crane i was not involved in doing those changes but companies were and then we'd lose another one we went as far as we could go losing compressors until we told mr clark that you're going to have to do something so it isn't something that just happened sometimes it could have been blamed on storms like me there's various things that can play a part of this i think many splits are are good for what they're good for but if you try to use an old system with that i think you're just putting more cost in to get bit in and then you're still got this other system you're going to have to maintain and keep up with and like marvin had mentioned you still got all the duct work that goes through the building is on the big deal so when you're needing cooling over here you need to address so it doesn't go any farther and just isolate that into the school there's a lot more cost besides what you're looking at on those papers uh to get the system to work together because right as he was talking about the many splits each one has a remote control like a tv control it stays in that room and that room is getting taken care of by that remote control right now you have a system that at the end of the day it shuts all the classrooms down and goes in a nice setback the next day the big unit comes on the boiler comes on the building's brought back up and no one has to tell it to do it it also takes care of things on the weekends so if somebody doesn't turn things off you've still got a unit that's running when there's nobody here so you're going to have to have somebody go around and check the classrooms out i don't have a bid in i i'm just here mr clark asked me to come i've been with this building since it was built i know it from head to toe i've worked on the unit on the roof i think you still have a good viable unit i think putting some money into the compressor system to me he makes the most sense so that's if anybody has any questions i'll be glad to try to answer their handlers are in there for a reason if we go with the many splits is that it doesn't play a part with the area plus schools are supposed to induce fresh air and i'm not sure the quantities of that and how much and how often but the unit on the roof is designed to put fair share into the building and that's supposed to help with the students [Music] got four compressors out so what took those compressors out i didn't know i said they've been going out for a long time okay so you're going to spend 60 or 70 thousand dollars to replace those compressors you get eight compressors with the other four go out it's gonna be at another seventy thousand dollars i don't think you're gonna see a lot of that in my opinion one of them they're going out is the controller system here but the the control system that we have uh but i don't think the company but somewhere along the line uh this district had had a company come in to take control of those units and ripped out all the train controls this was before my time just want to make that going on and they run it like it was run like a house uh on off on off and they really shouldn't do that it should just be and there's a whole bunch of other laundry list of things that they i've discovered in my working that have been not run correctly this is the only building we still currently have with that control system and am i remembering that the 58 includes some to help with that it does not [Music] will be provided and sold larry i've asked larry just give us a thermostat like because i i just but that that was you can't do that but um the thing is like you take the unit that we had at hollywood you'd have trained guys come out there and they'd watch it cycle for a day and it never would cycle on the exact same way there's oil in the bottom of these compressors when the compressor is running the oil is not to be heated when it is not running the oil is heated it was being heated all the time we it got so bad my predecessor mr runge and i've continued it we would write the date that that was installed that compressor was installed so we would know if it went out within a certain amount of time so there's a lot to that am i kind of speaking right on that larry yeah okay that's amazing how much i've come to know about a big terrain air conditioning unit in eight years uh can't fix it but i tell you what's going wrong with it i think you know i think mini splits they've got their uh place and i think there's some places where we could definitely use them in our district uh i don't know to me it would be more of a long-term fix for wilson but it also comes with a substantial cost so the board has all the information you've heard from heating and cooling experts so the 58 000 for how many are for four compressors wilson has eight large compressors central plains elementary has four large and three small with train controls uh if we had a little issue this morning we've got a little leak in the water heater somebody flipped off a breaker which caused our air conditioner not to work at central plains elementary school until they flipped it back on but i mean i understand what brian's saying in a sense when you you're going to put if you go with the one you're going to put 68 grand in which is excuse me 58 grand 60 grand give or take which is 40 40 50 000 less than solving the problem for i don't know brian how long would that solve we put many splits in that's 12 more 12 year warranty so that's who you're to your labor warranty to your labor versus a one year compressor on all the four compressors so you know to me if if the other four go out then you're out that money you've got one year that's it you're still in africa and the money is electricity the money savings that you'll have proposed you'll catch your bill in half because guaranteed great yes sir you still have to add in to the cost of the management of electricity yes i understand that i understand that all right thoughts from the board as train came in and said hey you have more issues than this compressor problem yeah they know they've been all through these units uh and we're talking coming back to that circumstance of the controls uh you know i i kind of hardly agree with you i think a lot of our issues is hey we got part of well this is important yeah it's like you bought a ford pickup truck and then had somebody put all gm electronics in to control it yeah uh hey great yes i had that those units those compressors they could be contaminated with acid as well i agree that you know too it's hard to get asked out of the system and then terry i'm not here no i'm just asking a question it's very hard you got eight compressors that's a very large each use very large you can't get that acid out there so i mean this just saying i'm not trying to call it issues but yeah we i i gave out that information from that's got everything in it uh 111 000 compared to i mean 111 000 spent with train are we getting anywhere the proposal here is 30 to 58 000 to impair just the compressor just the compressor yeah well then and i like i was saying i know they had other steps yeah the building controls if we spend 120 000 with trains the rooftop unit and would you remember what times i gave that out here [Music] unless we get more duct work and stuff because of the pressure return and like they said if somebody doesn't remember to turn and i was the big proponent the one wanting to check into the ministry mini splits you can you can set schedules we have them in bush they come on at 7 30 in the morning they shut off at 5.
equity equality club 400 we had eight less donors for this year than last year but about 3 000 more dollars so our donation this year was this year being uh 2021 11 8454 um total dollars for 19 was 14 700 and total donors for 18 are 13 three so you can see we had two big years and this year we had um we only had eleven thousand eight hundred so i didn't set up wrong instead of increasing three three thousand dollars we lost by three thousand or twenty eight seventy one be specific any questions about that okay good don't go ahead oh yeah so for things like golf um we haven't had golf for a while just one year yeah so for sure well we have it during code of course so i know for some of these donations if if those accounts sit stagnant for a while then it goes little bit of time we're not but i don't know if there's any exception so yeah because that would make a lot of the funds potentially don't just do counsel right yeah it goes back to their is so so a number of these could be already emotional sorry if we're so inclined we've never to my my recollection we haven't taken away from the account by the general fund uh okay so something we have to do no we don't have to no no no this is a selfish choice okay presenter golf i'm not a golfer but i wish we had a lot of we had a good turnout until this year and with one student and then one student should have the opportunity cost-wise so people my age can go off you might can't play football not they're smart so i think golf intensive more lifetime sports i think we ought to promote those they get expensive we have people colleagues of mine that come through town why don't you have a tennis team the tennis court is right there well right now the cut price of decent cost is at least 200 bucks a round trip to phoenix per game it costs staff time we don't have subs for so i think after school sports are important especially little communities like ours because we don't have the club sports i've always hopefully said that but i'd like to see maybe some earlier advertising or some encouraging of golf and things like i don't know this would be a fact but i would imagine that most of the money they were donated to the golf team was by john burns and he would not have wanted that money to go anywhere else he would rather sit in an account for golf until they were the golf team and he never would have donated that money if it would have been other sports yeah this has come up with with other donations too where funds were donated and ended up in another account because of the timing of the donation i remember and stop me if there's a violation of open meeting laws golf really helps our recruitment for teachers the kids don't have health insurance so they don't play anything else but they play golf and so traditionally over the last 10 years or so the kids that have gone out for golf have been children of foreign teachers so i think that it does help with that recruitment of bringing those little teachers and the retention of those with those teachers well it's i didn't understand that we didn't have to make the funds over i i thought that after two years whatever that window is we were required to move it into a separate fund but now it seems like we can hold on you know it's unfortunate that there is no golf anymore i mean even the country club i was talking about them the other day and they're trying to find money to bring it back to the kid on golf that'd be cool because they don't have the funding for that now at some point it does become kind of weird like when we when we closed track in what 2010 or 11.
so middle school most other school districts and yamaha county teach this at like the 6th or 7th grade level um most uh most of the school districts use this curriculum for seventh grade and they follow up with another um basically phase two in ninth grade so they get something in seventh grade they have a year and then we introduce them again using a lot of the same language you've already heard and built onto that so it's layering so i don't know if you're interested in knowing what the modules are for these different things okay um so making a difference of one that we normally teach in middle school seventh grade level ish that's all up to you how you wanna introduce it um but module one is getting to know you and stuff to make your dreams come true we talk about their goals and dreams and how unintended pregnancies and um or an std could possibly influence that module two understanding adolescent sexuality and abstinence and also why kids choose to have sex and what what that looks like and how um what the choices are that come with that module three the consequences of sex that's hiv infection module four attitudes belief and given advice about hiv stds and abstinence module five consequences of sex um that's also stds module six consequences of sex pregnancy module seven responding to peer pressure and partner pressure and then module eight is role plays refusal and negotiation skills so they're learning how we don't just say don't have sex just say no we give them the tools to if they're in a situation a high pressure situation they're at a party there's not an adult there what do you do because a lot of them don't know they haven't been we just tell them don't do them you know and it's better for them to know hey this is how i do it this is what i say um so that's where the role plays come in we also we get a lot of students don't want to do role plays we have students in every school that want to stay through the classroom and do these role plays they love it so i have a lot of parents or teachers and they're concerned about that what about the role plays they don't they're not going to want to do that they do um the one that we normally like to do in ninth grade making crowd choices is the second part to make the difference again it just builds on what they learned previously again provide students with the knowledge confidence and skills necessary to reduce the risk of stds hiv and pregnancies by abstaining the biggest difference between the one taught in seventh grade and the one in ninth grade is that it's a safer sex curriculum so it promotes abstinence but it also lets them know if and when you decide to have sex here's what a common does or other birth control does and how it works um as in what are the percentage rates um so module one getting to know you and the steps to making your dreams been true again um module two possible outcomes of unprotected sex hiv infection module three attitudes about sex hiv and condom use um and that one is like what if your partner says i don't want to use a condom why would you not trust me i haven't been with somebody giving them again those negotiation skills to say we need to use this uh strategies for preventing hiv infection stop thinking act is module four module five possible outcomes like unprotected sex stis module six possible outcomes pregnancy module 7 developing common use and negotiation skills module 8 enhancing review refusal and negotiation skills um both these curriculums include classroom activities and videos of supplemental modules as well as student workbooks to keep it doesn't cost anything to the school district for us to come in we have health educators that have been trained in these curriculums and we come in we teach it's teachers usually enjoy it because they're not having to do it and they get a little bit of they get you know a little block of time to catch up on grading or something these are eight modules so that's usually a class period you know 50 minutes to an hour they try to give them a few seconds so they get about two weeks to themselves to help catch up on things and other young player county school districts the most commonly followed sexual health education timeline is fifth grade they teach puberty and hygiene which we're able to do as well that's not considered sexual health education that does not fall under sexual health education that's considered um health and science and that's usually like a one day thing we go on there this is what puberty is this is what hygiene is the teachers really like that one um i really like them sometimes they ask us to come back and do a refresher on them um seventh grade again making a difference in the night grade making proud choices and additional presentations or refreshers can be added if desired um there's a lot of statutes there's the executive order that um say how we have to do this um teaching separate genders at a certain age um it is also stressing that pupils abstaining from sexual intercourse since whenever mature adults emphasizing abstinence and is the only thing that's 100 preventable um let's see including discussion of possible emotional psycho psychological consequences um from pre-adolescent or adolescent pregnancies or sexual intercourse and also one of the things that was added in this past year was that sexual health education is an opt-in um policy it's always been opt-in for us as a county if we don't have a permission slip from the parent or guardian your child doesn't get taught so there's never been any issue with that but that's just something that's headed for the state um and also that the curriculum is able to be viewed so if this gets adopted by the board we're able to teach the parents are able to come in and either look at a hard copy or to get online and look at the phone online as well so for clarification yes the 12 year olds in the ninth graders they get basically the same okay yeah i missed that yeah so it's so seventh grader like polish um 12 13 they get a program that's abstinence only that doesn't include birth control that's always um something that you could add on if that's something that you're totally sure besides that you want to do but it's different and that it's absolutely there's not birth control or condoms um and then the one for night grade which is the second part um where they do go into this is what economist this is you know this is what happens if it fails and these are other types of birth control um taught for eight years i thought smart girls and wife dads agenda and coach grouse that was exciting um so we taught that and that was a proof but that curriculum which we loved we really liked and appreciated it um they didn't keep up with their evidence base so it's they failed and so the state cannot approve their curriculum so we were really disappointed about that so we've been modifying most of the schools in um making a difference in making our choices we also have another curriculum because the other questions cover this coverage does cover healthy relationships but um uh safe dates is another curriculum that we teach and it really goes into depth about um a lot of the stuff that you didn't cover with smartphones sometimes guys so before that it was going to start at heritage school yes okay [Music] lastly and you can click on the link and you have to sign up for a 30-day free trial in order to view their own so that's copyrighted so it's up there people can go ahead they've been able to since last week since the board of dinner live um [Music] display for the 60 days and then at the end of the 60 days you can you know entertain public comment and those kind of things before you decide to adopt it i do have one more comment i absolutely support these type of programs i know there's lots of people out there that say that it's the parent's response and i agree with that too however unfortunately a lot of parents don't want that don't have the responsibility correct correct so i think it's very helpful good question uh you mentioned that this conforms to state statute when you mentioned uh that it was approved by the state or some agency what agency was it that approved there was an executive order that was approved last year by governor just to add in that um not anything specifically about curriculum but just sexual health education curriculum in general for the state of arizona is an opt-in policy that they're the parents just for um transparency for parents to be able to see what their children are being taught um so that was what the executive were last year so it's a crucial department of education oh yeah adhd okay so like cindy said this is just approval to put it out for public review and comments for 60 days and then we will come back answer questions [Music] if you want to see this at all make sure you go to our website and you can click the links to see what the corrections yeah come here and see we've had in the past two other school districts that they have our phone numbers so if they have specific questions about the curriculum so that because i know a lot of times it's hosted in the building and it's like no i don't know you know so we can answer these questions about the curriculum so lastly yes have we been devoid of this type of program recently two years old for two years so my understanding is next year we're gonna do the seventh and eighth graders is that a correct set of plans we have the option of both um like warren said there is an addendum if you will to the making uh yeah making a difference right the middle school one um that can be used for eighth graders and since we now have three brain levels that would have gotten it that have not received any kind of sexual health education um that is something that i will be working with the principles on making sure that we are catching as many kids as we can um in the 2023 school year what it looks like in the yeah generally it's like i said generally the other school districts can pick and choose i mean we have some that do seven six seven eight tonight um but sort of the just general that a lot of other districts follow is seventh grade and ninth grade but we have been seeing other schools try to catch those others we're saying we're just going through the seventh and we're not going to do tonight no well what we're hoping to accomplish once the board has approved a curriculum is offering this to seventh eighth graders that will be the making a difference curriculum and then in the high school level possibly more than ninth definitely ninth grade possibly more grades because like i said we you know if you missed two years of instruction the pro the way the programs were set up before we now have three different grade levels that haven't received anything i just want to make sure that we're offering both the middle and the high school level of the and i know they're slightly different programs but i just want to make sure i have this misunderstanding again when you talk about seventh and eighth that we also do the high school version of it also and and i've labeled four public viewing on the hard copies i've labeled one middle school so that everybody knows about seventh and eighth grade and then one for high school that is at least ninth grade possibly more there's two different programs one's appropriate for middle school one is appropriate for high school we're going to try to catch as many kids as we can for public review all in favor thank you um we are now going to go into the secular session however [Music] in my office