001I need to talk into this. Can you hear me? Okay. I just wanted to say how excited I am that all of you are here, not because you're mad at us about something, because usually when we see a crowd this big, it's because we're in trouble. So we couldn't be prouder of the students that are here tonight, and we're so happy to be able to honor them. So thank you for coming, and thank you for your patience. As Ms. Pollan said, yes. If you're upset with something, raise your hand right now so we can run. Anyway, right now we've had to pledge the student staff. We have a student staff presentation. Correct. Three, one. First, we're going to have a recognition of students who achieved a perfect score on the 2025 status assessments. Since 2017
002for the 2016 statewide assessment, the district has been honoring those students who have earned a perfect score on the statewide assessment. This evening, the governing board will recognize all the crane students who achieved a perfect score on the 2025 state assessments. I would like to compare your certificate with mine, but I don't have. All right. So the way we'll do this is that I will call the names of the students that attended this specific school last year with a perfect score. They'll come up here and they'll get a certificate as well as a coin. Shake the hands. And after each school is done, we'll give parents an opportunity to take pictures of your children. And then each school will go in here so that all the schools are finished. Once they're all done, we're going
003to ask all of our perfect score winners to go to the front over here to get one big picture. So we have quite a few names. So if you could hold your applause until I finish each of the schools. So starting off with Crane Middle School, we had three students that all had perfect scores in math from last year. Liam Herrera. If Liam is here, please come on down. Liam. Sophia Tolman. Sophia Tolman was in seventh grade last year. And one more. Garrett Thornton that was eighth grade that is now in high school. Let's give a round of applause for Crane Middle. Okay, if any parents or anyone want to take a picture or if the principal or anyone, wait, if you'll stay up here, Liam. Anyone want to take a picture? All right. What
004we'll do is then, Liam and Sophia, what I'm going to have you two do is go into this room real quickly here for a few minutes. And then after we finish all the student names, we'll let you out front, okay? So thank you. Congratulations. I'll have you come right over here through this door that I'm pointing at to my right. Great. Okay, good job. Right over here. Nice job. Thank you. Next school is Centennial Middle School. Centennial had four. All of them had perfect scores in math, and they were all seventh grade students last year. Starting off with Bailey Farr, Eleanor Hughes, Mason Woods, and last but not least from Centennial was Ryan Young. Let's give these students a round of applause. Parents, please feel free to come up and take pictures. Centennial, great job.
005I'm going to have you follow your colleagues over here at Crane Middle. If you'll follow Ms. Hurt into this room over here. Fantastic. Hi, baby. Good job, Brian. Next school is Gowan Science Academy. Gowan Science Academy. We have quite a few of you, so we might have to do a couple layers. Starting off. with Luca Rossell, and Luca Rossell was third grade math. Saul Rojas, third grade math. Alessandra was fourth grade math. Alessandra Gomez. Alton Nugent, fourth grade math last year. Brandon Onisco, fourth grade math. Brigham Donaldson, fourth grade math. Clarissa Escamilla, fourth grade math. Denise Ethington, fourth grade math. Elena Jurado, fourth grade math. Breya Gad, fourth grade math. Gabriello Carrillo, fourth grade math. Grant Casey, fourth grade math. Jonathan Mitchell, fourth grade math. Joseph Wright was fourth grade, but Joseph had perfect scores
006in both ELA and math. So two coins for Joseph. Lillian Weaver, fourth grade math. Nicholas Ull, fourth grade math. Penelope Bax, fourth grade math. Ricardo Prieto Valenzuela, fourth grade math. Ruby Ronhell, fourth grade math. Wesley Pippensteele, fourth grade math. Xander Cordova, fourth grade math. Let's give all these fourth graders a big round of applause as well, third and fourth. So if I could have these students take a couple steps forward because we have fifth grade and seventh grade to come as well. So let's now move to fifth grade. Hongyi Shen, fifth grade math. Luciano Temponi, fifth grade math. Madeline Hegwul had both ELA and math. So Madeline gets a point for both. Pari Chandra, perfect score in math in fifth grade last year. Drew Sayon. Drew, seventh grade math, perfect score. Jay Chandra, seventh grade
007math. Taylor Two, seventh grade math. Anthony Coleman, fifth grade ELA. Olushi Anaba, fifth grade ELA. Zara Anwar, fifth grade ELA. Eshaan Nathan, sixth grade ELA. Clara Dugan was eighth grade last year. I don't know if Clara joined us in ELA. Perfect score. Good job, Clara. And Clark Saldana last year was at Gary Knox and got a perfect score in math. But since Clark is now at GSA, let's have Clark join his new school. Although he got the perfect score at Knox. Clark Saldana. Let's give all these Gallengators a big round of applause. Parents, feel free to take pictures. there you go right this way sir congratulations parents feel free to come up and get pictures they'll stay here for a few minutes Okay, Gowan Gators, I'm going to have you join the other students in
008here. If you'll join the other students in this room, that would be fantastic. Thank you so much, Gowan Gators. Next school is going to be Gary Knox Elementary. We already mentioned Clark Saldana that had the perfect score last year. We now have two more students from Knox. Jaylene Ibarra was sixth grade in math last year. Jaylene Ibarra. And Juliet Hall. Juliet Hall was fourth grade ELA. Juliet Hall. Congratulations, Juliet. See Mr. Colby here. Yeah, don't miss me. And Juliet, if you'll turn around for a picture too. Perfect. Is that our only one? Only one that shows. Will you show your certificate? Perfect, Juliet. Excellent. Congratulations. Yay. And Juliet. If you'll come over here as well, that'd be fantastic. Thank you. We're now going to HL Supercrop. Last year in third grade, Catherine Rios Burgos had
009a perfect score in math. Ezra Johnson was fourth grade, perfect score in math. Olivia Compt had a perfect score in math in fourth grade last year. And Ella Mesa had a perfect score in math. She's now at the middle school. Ella Mesa. Let's give these big bulldogs a big round of applause. Parents, feel free to come up and get pictures. Feel free to come up for pictures. All right. And then once we're done, we'll go this way, all the pictures. Okay, perfect. You'll wait over here for a few minutes over here. Thank you so much. If you'll go into this room as well. Fantastic. Now moving on to Mesquite Elementary. First student had a perfect score in math in third grade last year, Muhammad Abdullah Saljana, third grade math. Also, Muhammad Yusuf Saljana also had
010a perfect score in math. Samara Reyes-Velez, third grade math. William Riddle, third grade math. And Myla Gomez had a perfect score in ELA in third grade. Let's give these students a round of applause. Feel free to take pictures. Great job, Mesquite Stingers. Mesquite Stingers, if you could walk over into this room for a few minutes until we take the big group photo, that would be fabulous. Moving on to Pueblo Elementary, starting off at Pueblo. Isaac Ortiz, third grade math. Isaac Ortiz. Jesus Moreno, Aramburro, third grade math. Richard Berrigan, third grade math. Scarlett Saavedra, third grade math. Colton Morrison, fourth grade math. Everett Jones, fourth grade math. Robert Della Betta, fourth grade math. And Anna-Lizia Segura, fifth grade ELA. Let's give the Pueblo Panthers a big round of applause. All right, Panthers. Great job. Pablo Panthers,
011if you could do me a favor and join the other students in here just for a few more minutes. We have one more student left from Valley Horizon. Valley Horizon, Santiago Ibarra Rosas, third grade math. Good job, Santiago. Santiago, perfect. Let's get a good picture there. Yeah. There you go. Okay, what we will do next, we will ask these students to all go out front. Parents, you can join them to have one huge group photo. One huge group photo. Yes. So they're going to go around and meet you out front. So you'll take them around and they'll meet you out front. Great job, everyone. Hey, you're doing a good job. yeah um Good thing you paid attention. Okay. 3.2, presentation by Valley Horizon Elementary School. Valley Horizon principal Leslie Moemer will be presenting on their
01221st Century Clubs. And LaVon Pena actually is going to take over today because Ms. Mommer wasn't able to attend. I couldn't look up while I was reading. Members of the governing board. I'm LaVon Pena and today I'm going to be presenting. about our 21st century program for the 25-26 school year so far. We have some exciting highlights to share, and so I just wanted to share the wonderful opportunities that this program brings to our school and our students. In looking at the scope of our program, we currently serve 85 students. This is made possible by our dedicated team of eight teachers. To provide flexibility and diverse opportunities, we offer two programs in the morning and six programs after school. It is also exciting to note that we currently have 24 students who have already met
013their 30-day attendance goal this school year. This demonstrates strong commitment from our students and our family. A significant key to our success is our community partnerships. We currently have partnerships with the FEMA Fire Department, Jack in the Box, and McDonald's, which provide unique experiences and resources for our students. Additionally, we want to recognize the volunteers who support our program on a regular day-to-day basis, which are Mr. Zaragoza, who supports our Sports Sampler Club, Ms. Navarro, who supports our Cheerleaders Club, and Mr. Ardonis, who supports our football team. Our 21st century program is fully inclusive. We welcome all students in Pichinco to general education, our English learners, and our students who receive exceptional student services. We are also excited to announce that we'll be extending our program to our youngest learners, our kindergarteners, come January. We
014offer a variety of clubs designed to appeal to different interests and support academic skills. Our offerings include key academic focus areas like STEM, strategic thinking, and coding. To support self-regulation, we have mindfulness and yoga. And to encourage creativity and physical activity, students can participate in band, arts and creativity, and our sports sampler club, which also includes football. While our clubs cover everything from STEM to coding, one of our most visible and incredibly popular clubs is the Valley Horizon Cheerleaders Club. This club is successfully led by Ms. Preciado and Ms. Navarro. This club is a shining example of how we build teamwork, school spirit, and leadership skills within our program. At this time, please help me welcome the Valley Horizon Cheerleaders. Thank you. We appreciate all of them, girls. Hi, can I make a comment, please?
015I just wanted to say to the girls, I'm so excited that you all are active. I'm so excited that you girls are active and physical and coordinating with each other and doing something positive. It's so great to see you out here with all this enthusiasm. Does anybody want to tell me what you like the best about this club? Anybody? That's a great reason. Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you so much. Thank you. Nice job. Thank you. We appreciate your time. I've got to read something. Thank you. Okay. Next on the agenda, Superintendent's Current Events Summary. The superintendent needs to provide the members of the governing board and residents of the crane schools with a monthly statement of current happenings and pending events, including information about student academic achievement. Ms. Loring. I'll give about 30
016seconds for those that are leaving and then I'll start. Okay. Ms. Osborne, can you still hear us okay? Yep. Thanks. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. I'll go ahead and get started. 2025 DoD STEM Ambassadors. Congratulations to trained educators Angela Rico and Liz Colton for being named the 2025 Department of Defense STEM Ambassadors. They are two of the 30 overall recipients and the only two teachers to represent the state of Arizona. As a part of this award, both teachers will have peer educator support and DOD resources to develop and execute an impact project that advances concepts of science, technology, engineering, and math. This is an incredible opportunity, and we're so proud of our Crane teachers. Yuma County's top two schools. In Yuma County, there were seven elementary schools that received a letter grade of an A and
017Crane had two of our schools earn an A. In fact, not only did these two schools earn an A, these two schools were the top two performing schools in the entire county. Congratulations to Gowan Science Academy, which was the top performing school. and HL Supercrupp Elementary School, which was close behind to secure the second highest performing school in the county. Congratulations to you both. Gary Knox Elementary. Gary Knox kindergarten through third grade students are learning all things dairy. They have adopted a calf named Rosie from Stoats Dairy in Buckeye, Arizona, so they can learn how dairy cows are cared for, how they are milked, and how the milk they give us is processed into many various dairy products that we eat each day. They voted for her as their favorite dairy calf in the National
018Discovery Dairy Program, and they sure hope she wins. Gowan Science Academy. Gowan Science Academy raised $692.50 for the American Cancer Society during their October family night. Students and parents volunteered their time running carnival-like games and selling homemade items like bookmarks, origami, and more. Gowan is excited to host their annual barn bash on saturday november fifteenth from eleven to two an event the whole community can enjoy including games static displays and food they hope to see you there parent survey results during fall break we conducted a or during um Fall conferences, excuse me. We conducted a parent survey on five different topics. School culture and climate, instruction, school safety, discipline and citizenship, school leadership administration, and homeschool communication. For those results, 96% of the people agreed or strongly agreed that their family is treated with courtesy
019and respect at the child's school. 98% agreed or strongly agreed that their child's learning is a high priority at the school. 96% agreed or strongly agreed that the school provides a safe and orderly learning environment for their child. And 97% agreed or strongly agreed that the principal has a visible presence and is accessible to them when they need it. 97% I strongly agree that the child's school keeps them well informed of school activities through newsletters, email, and the parent portal. The quality of their child's education at his or her school, 80% said excellent, 17% said good, for a total of 97%. We're very proud of those results. Thanksgiving break. Schools will be closed from Monday, November 24th through Friday, November 26th, the entire week. The district office will be open Monday, November 24th through Wednesday,
020November 26th. We hope everyone enjoys their holiday break. Members of the board, that's my report for this month. Thank you. Okay. Oh, yeah, super intense update on legislative or other governmental actions. I would imagine it'd be Mr. Condon. Yes, Mr. Colby, members of the board, not much to remark on. Not a whole lot has changed since our last meeting with regards to any legislative action. We do know that a number of entities, including ASBA, as well as EFRG, for which we're a member of, ASBO too, have developed their legislative agenda for the upcoming year, what their priorities will be. uh as as we continue to try to secure additional funding for the many programs and resources that we we are the needs within our school district community and so those are the initiatives that we'll
021be working towards i don't have much to remark a lot of them is a lot of those ideas are just that their concepts so nothing put on the paper but happy to answer any questions that members may have good for now good ground now okay oral reports on conferences, workshops, and school issues. Periodically, members of the governing board attend various conferences, seminars, workshops, district schools, and so forth, and have information to share with other members. Brenna? Yes, I have a couple of stories. Yes, I hope no one minds. I was recently, I stopped by Mostly Muffins and the event was Coffee with a Cop. And so there were several police officers there and just visiting and answering questions. And so I just took a minute to go over and thank them for our school resource
022officer programs, which I think we're so fortunate to have and make such a big difference. And one of them asked me my name and I told him and he said, do you know? Matt, who is my son. And I said, yes. And he said, I was in middle school with him at Crane Middle School. And I said, oh, who was your principal? And he said, Mr. Klee. And that guy scared me straight. And one of the other four said, Mrs. Klee was my fifth grade teacher. And so I thought it was important if anyone sees a Klee's to note that they helped contribute to Yuma's finest. So that was a fun experience with them. That's all. That's all? Mm-hmm. I thought she had stories. I have another one. Go ahead. I'll hold it. Okay. I
023don't think we're supposed to brag on the schools that we're connected to, but I don't know how we cannot do that. My granddaughter, Emma, is a student at Centennial Middle School. And I picked her up at school one day and she came out and she was so excited. And I said, what's going on? And she said, well. This morning, a whole bunch of us got a call to come to Mr. Top's office pronto. And that's never good news. And I was like, oh my gosh. Anyway, they were HLS seventh graders. Seventh graders this year were called up because Mrs. Valentina is sending a school bus over to Centennial to pick them up so that they can participate in the HLS awards assembly for the AASA. I just think it's so great that they were. I
024don't know if the other schools do that or not, but I think it's really special to bring them back and recognize them in front of their peers. So thank you. Kelly, do you have anything that you'd like to add? No. Okay. I believe this is how slow I was, Ms. Hernandez. I was able to go to the 5k run that they had on the 12th of December at Arizona Western that was kind of partly spearheaded by Lupe. What a great job. I have to, and if that was before, I think that was after our last meeting. It was put on. by the girls here that did a lot of the work and Blue Cross Blue Shield, right? Yeah, okay. And Blue Cross Blue Shield gave all these shirts and stuff. I've proudly worn mine a
025couple of times and I said, you know, it's a long five keys, a long ways around them. I have to, and Sheila, I gotta say, it really bothered me when you guys passed us because we stopped for water. But I have to thank Mr. Ponder for dragging me around the whole course. We made it. I should have gotten an award. I was probably the oldest guy there, but it was really nice. It was a great event. And then I've had a couple of meetings with a couple of principals about different things, and things seem to be going along pretty well. I like that. You know, Jim, I do have one, actually. Okay, you're up. Similar to Brenna, I have to brag on the school that my kids are connected to. So my kids go to
026Gowan, and I got to attend their Halloween parade. And I just have to say I was so impressed with the level of organization coordinating that many kids. It was way more seamless than I would have expected, and it was also just super adorable. That's great. Did they give me any candy? No, unfortunately, but probably good for the sanity of all the teachers not to be handing out candy. Complete success and okay. All right. Consideration of appointment of delegates and alternate delegate to the annual membership meeting issue. The governing board needs to appoint a member and an alternate to represent the school district at the Arizona School Boards Association annual membership meeting. On December 18th, Arizona School Board Association will hold its annual membership meeting in conjunction with the ASBA ASA Annual Conference. All ASBA district
027member boards are encouraged to assign a delegate and an alternate to attend the meeting and cast their board's vote in the elections of officers for the ASBA Board of Directors. I will let you know that it's going to be during the conference in December. There are two of our members that will be attending. Marcos will be attending. He did say that he'd be happy to do it if somebody wanted to nominate him, that he would be the delegate or alternate. And Jim will also be there. So just letting you know that. Okay. Would someone like to make a motion that we appoint Marcos to be our delegate? I move that we assign Marcos to be our delegate and Jim to be our alternate delegate for the ASBA membership duty. Is there a second? Okay. All
028in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. So fast. Okay, good. Should be on 530 now. Consideration of adoption of a revised governing board policy 4-302. Board approval is needed to update policy 4-302 leave. Policy 4-302 leave has been updated to clarify the definition of 12-month full-time employees, ensuring that it includes employees working 37.5 hours per week to align with the district's current policies the administration recommends approval of the revised policy 3-402 as presented. Any discussion? Anybody would like to make a motion? We have to make a motion. I move that we adopt revised policy 4-302 leave as presented. I'll second it. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? So carried. Call to the public. Consideration and discussion of comments and concerns from the public. Those wishing to address the governing board on items not on the
029agenda may do so at this time. Speakers are requested to hold their comments to three minutes. Individuals addressing the governing board may not yield or any portion of their allotted time to any other individual wishing to address the governing board. In accordance with the Arizona Open Meeting Law, board members may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board, may ask staff to review a matter, or may ask that the matter be put on a future agenda. However, board members shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during an open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action. Seeing none, we'll go to the next thing. I hope. Acknowledgement of public request to speak. Anyone wishing to address the board on items on tonight's
030agenda may do so at this time or at the chair's discretion at the time the item appears on the agenda. Comments should be restricted to three minutes, not including board questions and comments and responses by the speaker. Individuals addressing the board may not yield any portion of their allotted time to any other individual wishing to address the governing board. In accordance with the open meeting law, board members may respond to criticism, may be made by those who have addressed the board, may ask staff to review a matter, or may ask that the matter be put on a future agenda. However, board members shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during an open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action. Is there anyone that would
031like to fit into that category? Okay. Consideration of approval of consent agenda items. The consent agenda conserves time by limiting the items to those of routine nature, which normally do not require deliberation on part of the governing board. The items will be accepted and approved in one action unless a board member wishes to have an item separated from the consent agenda and specifically discussed. The vote or action on any items moved from the... Consent agenda will be taken separately. Is there anyone who wishes to pull anything? Yes, I'd like to pull agenda item 7.5, please. 7.5. 7.5. Let's see. Where is it? Okay. Is there anybody else who would like to pull a different item? So we would take a motion for passing a consent agenda. Other than issue 75. Do I have that? So
032moved. I'll second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Nay. So moved. Brenna. Yes. This is... We don't hear proof of purchases between 50,000 and 100,000. The purchasing department has issued a purchase order to the following vendors, Safe Haven Defense, Arizona, Bullet Resistant Film for Innovation Lab at Gowan Science Academy for 59,139. I'm just curious what they're doing over there. They need a bullet resistant lab. No, seriously. So all of our campuses, all the exterior windows have bullet-resistant film on them. Some of them actually have ballistic glass. And so we've transitioned to film, which is just as protective, but is more cost-advantagious for the district to do. So that is our typical practice is any exterior glass that's public-facing, we apply the ballistic film to that. So we have this in our own school? Correct. So
033this says... funding source gifts and donations? Yeah, so the Innovation Lab was funded through two different foundations. One was the Bergen Foundation, another the Jessen Foundation, which is technically a gift and donation. So the ballistic film is purchased from those same accounts. Everything tied to that building had to be funded through these various foundations. No strict resources were going to be used to. Okay, so that's reflected in our budget, right? Okay, great. Thanks. No, it's not. It's not. Our money is from a grant or from a donation? Okay. Anything else? No, I would like to say thank you to those foundations who are helping us with those kinds of issues. And with that, I move that we approve Agenda Item 7.5. I'll second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. So passed. So
034let's go to the next one. let's get all the way up to okay item eight one consideration of adoption of gifts from the public crane school governing board procedure federal grants and other funds accepted of gifts and donations require the gifts made to the district by individuals or organizations be reviewed and officially accepted by the crane governing board um yes i would like to move that we accept the um donations from the public with the um Thanks from all of us. I never cease to be astounded by how generous people can be. And so many of these things, most of these things are things we wouldn't be able to do without them. So our thanks to the members of the community for thinking of us. Okay. And I'll second. All in favor, say aye. Aye.
035Aye. Nay. So passed. Number nine, consideration of approval to release staff member from contract without assessing liquidated damages. Board approval is needed to release a staff member from contract without assessing damages. Crane administration is requesting that the governing board approve the item and release Ms. Marla Ford from her 2025-2026 contract without assessing. liquidated damages how do you feel um i move that we um approve this or approve this agenda item to release the staff member from contract um i would like to ask lupi what was the date of that do you know or just roughly that's from october 31st okay the last year yeah okay so i move that we do approve that i'll second any all in favor say aye aye Opposed? Nay. So passed. Adoption of updated compensation package for 2025-2026. Board approval
036is needed to update compensation packet for the 25-26 school year. That's a long word. The compensation packet was created to provide employees and prospective employees with a clear and comprehensive view of the district's salary schedule and benefits such as health insurance, retirement contributions, leave and work schedules. The vacation leave policy has been updated to apply to all regular full-time 37.5 hours or more per week. 12-month support staff employees ensuring consistency across all 12-month positions. To align with the district's current practices, the administration recommends approval of the revised 2025-26 compensation package as presented. Anybody want to speak to that? This is just to align with the adjustment earlier for the full time being 37.5 hours so that it matches the compensation package. Okay. Do I hear a motion? I move that we adopt the updated compensation
037package as presented. I'll second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. So passed. Number 10. Would you like to make a motion to adjourn? I move that we adjourn this meeting. I'll second. I'm all in favor. Aye. Thank you.