001Good afternoon. I'd like to welcome you all to our Crane Governing Board meeting. I hereby call the meeting to order. Just as a point of notice, I want you to know that I'm not... Starting a coup of the district. I just am the most tenured person at the desk right now. Two of our officers actually are not with us today. So I'm going to open the meeting and then we'll move forward from there. So welcome to our meeting. We're going to move ahead to the agenda item two, which is the appointment of temporary governing board presiding officer. Consideration to temporarily appoint a governing board member to preside over the August 12, 2025 board meeting. Mr. Marcos Moore, the president of the governing board, will be unable to physically attend the proceedings of today's governing board.
002Governing Policy 1-103 Governing Board Organization stipulates that the governing board clerk will assume the duties of the president in the absence of the president. However, Mr. Jim Colby will only be able to attend the meeting remotely as well. This policy also states that in the absence of an elected officer at board meeting, the board members present at the meeting may designate a board member to assume the duties of the president for that meeting. To align with past practices, Governing Board has hysterically believed that the member presiding over the meeting should be physically in attendance. Given this, the governing board may wish to discuss, consider, and temporarily appoint a governing board member physically in attendance to preside over this evening's meeting. Would either of you like to step up? I don't mind. I did the last
003one. Okay, that's great. I can handle reading the agenda and getting us through it. Perfect. Do we have a motion then to appoint Kelly as the temporary governing board president? So moved. I guess I can second. Yeah, moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Good to go. Okay, Kelly, I will turn it over to you. Sounds good. Thank you. Okay, so we'll do our Pledge of Allegiance. And then normally we do the moment of silence immediately after, and we do that pretty briefly. I'm going to do a full minute in memory of Dan. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, I'll have it here. Hello? We're doing a longer
004moment of silence. Oh, thank you. Next on our agenda is, can you hear me okay? Am I close enough? There we go. So next is our public hearing. So 4.1, consideration to convene public hearing pursuant to Arizona revised statute 15-905 for the revised expenditure budgets for fiscal year 2025-2026. Go for it. Madam Chair, members of the board, thank you. Dale Ponder, Chief of Finance and Operations. Appreciate the opportunity to present to you the FY26 revised expenditure budget. This is pursuant to Arizona Dry Statute 15905Q, which does allow, there we go. The School District Governing Board has adopted essentially budget forms and instructions that were provided. On preliminary status before the legislature had adjourned, the governing board may revise their expenditure budget by September 15th to include any of those items that may not have been
005a part of that budget. If a governing board elects not to do that on September 15th, they must do that on December 15th. However, we would like to much rather operate under a more exact or accurate budget than waiting until the middle of the year in order to do that mandatory revision. So Mrs. Bosch and I will present a little bit about this information. Before we kind of get into those details, I do want to take a moment to share with you what was within the Arizona approved budget, as shared, I would say to this board, but some of you are new, back in June, provided that we would share more updated information when the state budget had been released at that time. That was June 24th when we met. The budget wasn't approved until
006June 27th. And then we adopted the same budget. in July. And so now here we are with the revision. So a little bit of recap of what took place within the Arizona state budget was approved and signed by Governor Hobbs on June 27th. It did include the 2% of the base level support and also includes the increase to transportation. Those factors were in what we had considered when we both proposed and adopted the budget. So that's nothing new for what we had shared with the governing board. What is new are these next two items, which provides a one-time increase to the free and reduced price lunch, which I will refer to as purple, as well as district additional assistance, which is not DAW. It is just going to be district additional assistance or DAA. So
007we have the furball increase, which was one time as well as district additional assistance. Neither of those were included in any projections by the legislature. The governor did ask that these be considered when she released her budget in January. There was seemingly no indication that legislature would honor that request. However, primarily driven by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, their baseline budget did not include any of these factors. So there was no indication that we would receive these. However, after the legislature approved the budget, these items were included. Of note, these were first authorized in 2014 with the idea that they would grow annually, and they received an issue at the legislature when it came to financial resources. So instead of providing an ongoing annual appropriation, they instead gave a one-time supplemental on top of what
008they had adjusted before. So that occurred over the last two fiscal years. This one being the second. And so the same occurred within district traditional assistance. I'm going to spend a little bit of time on that. These are the references to the laws and the chapters and the sections of the three specifically related to district traditional assistance. So historically, we'll go back a little bit. We had what was called CORAL or capital outlay revenue limit and soft capital allocation. Those were separate funding sources. Well, they ended up merging together to form district traditional assistance. And when they merged, that dollar amount ended up being $450.76. In FY23, that was increased. The amount was an arbitrary increase. It did not align to inflation or any factor. It was just an increase provided by the legislature based
009on a dollar amount in total that they were going to provide to all school districts and charters for additional assistance. That increased that amount to $502.33, increased again in 24, was supposed to increase again in 25, which was this last fiscal year that ended June 30. However, instead of... I'm sorry, Mr. Coley? It was just a cough. It was a cough, okay. So instead of providing the ongoing, it was a one-time supplement. So it was the ongoing plus this one-time piece, which is the district share of $23.1 million. That is occurring again in 26. So we're seeing this one-time supplement. The idea behind that is the legislature would revisit this in 28 to provide ongoing support from that point forward. So what that really means is we have been able to maintain that funding. When
010we get to 27, which is next school year, we will need to fight that battle or work to restore that funding. Otherwise, it would be a loss moving forward, but then would be revisited in 28. Again, these items were not part of the proposed or the adopted budget that you saw before you earlier. A classroom site fund, no change from what we presented there. That was released in March 31st, and that remained the same. It maintains a state aid supplement of $75 million. That was in our budget. All items that we saw indicated that the legislature would absorb this. This really stemmed from Proposition 123 through that settlement, and with one-time funding, that was the pro-rated district share of $75 million over the state. That was absorbed in the general fund, and so we did
011calculate this impact when we proposed the budget before this body. Another great surprise was that we had the constitutional aggregate expenditure limit. that is overridden over the next two fiscal years. So typically, it would be maybe a year during the time, maybe it was an advance, it was advanced over the last couple of years. Prior to that, we had to wait until March 1st or April 1st for the legislature to determine whether or not they would allow us to spend the monies that have been appropriated to us. So for FY26, the year that we're in now, and next school year, FY27, we won't have to worry about any of that. So any funds that are appropriated by the legislature to the school district, this only for... pertains to school districts, not charters, not the ESA
012program. So the constitutional limit, otherwise known as the AEL, only applies to school districts. So we maintain that spending authority. So whatever the legislature appropriates to us, we have the full capacity to spend without any insecurity or any feeling that we may not have the money and therefore have to make cuts with about 25% of the school year remaining. So we don't have to worry about that for the next two years. allocates anywhere from $500 to $2.5 million to a rural Arizona school nurse access program that is either driven to increase salaries of school nurses, that both the districts and charters and any funds left over could be used to hire more nurses. What is not defined in the legislature, what classifies as rural? In Yuma County, about 75, I'm sorry, 95% of our county
013is considered rural. you know a lot of farmland a lot of agricultural there's really you know uh nothing beyond welton to gila bed right so there's just it's just nothing and so does that really mean that any school district or charter in yuma county i don't know the definition of that so i don't know our eligibility for that program but it does impact k-12 education so i did include it Also allocates $100,000 for teacher retention study. This is something that ADE has to compile. I will share with you some of the parameters that they're looking for in conducting the study. It's to determine the retention rate, includes aggregate data on the number of certified and non-certified teachers, teaching assignments, retention and turnover rates, longevity, vacant teaching positions, and state board of education approved teacher preparation
014programs. This report has to be released to the governor, the president of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, as well as the state superintendent of public instruction and the secretary of state. ADE must also take this information and have it publicly available on an interactive dashboard on their website. This has to be completed by December 31st of 25. So over the next few months, I likely will be pulling information, seeking information from school districts and charters on retention rate. for that program. It does add $183 million to the existing $16.7 million in building renewal grant. That is really just continuing what is already has happened. The baseline budget from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee shows the $17 million or $16.7 million. So the additional appropriation is essentially what's happened in the last few years.
015I will share that collectively the $200 million is not enough to satisfy the needs across the state. The SFD, the school facilities division, is reporting that they're about $400 million short from being able to meet all the needs across the state. So this requires them to prioritize how they will allocate those resources to school districts across Arizona, which does create some hardship. So even when a school district can demonstrate a deficiency and knows that they have dropped below the minimum standard, it may delay funding from the state in order for us to address that deficiency. It does provide the intent that the legislature will allocate $10 million in FY27 for new school facilities for those schools identified at the end of their useful life as of December of 25. Some school districts have submitted this
016information. $10 million is not enough to rebuild a school. For an elementary school, you need about $40 million. Middle school is about $60 million and the high school anywhere from $80 to $130 million. So $10 million doesn't really address the need to replace that school. So is that a study? Is that not actually sure what the $10 million is for? But more information, I understand, will be forthcoming. $3.8 million to eliminate the copayment for students who qualify for reduced-price lunch. In our district, all of our students eat free regardless of their family's economic status through the community eligibility program. So this does not apply to us, but might apply to other school districts in Arizona. $17.4 million for the early literacy program. Up until a couple of years ago, all of our... Schools that provided
017K-3 programs were awarded these funds. They later changed that and said the threshold for eligibility had to be 90% free and reduced, which only meant Salida del Sol qualified for that. We've seen a shift in our free and reduced price lunch, and many more of our schools are now at or above 90%. I don't know whether or not that will increase the eligibility. So our other programs or other schools can participate in these funds, but it is only 17.4 million statewide. So not a lot of money if it does expand the eligibility. 82 million for the school safety program. We do fund three counselors and our new school resource officer at Centennial through the school safety program. ID behind this is providing more resources for school resource officers, for SSOs. Rosie, remind me what that
018stands for. School safety officer, thank you. So expanding that a little bit more so more safety parameters could be at schools and really looking at counselors and those other type of us. social emotional learning positions a little bit more tertiary so really focusing on having armed officers at schools that qualify for that and then lastly allocates about 228 000 for a staff person as well as other needs to work on the administration of complaints of the esa program That's established by ARS 152402. So evidently a number of complaints came through. They're needing staffing resources to address that. And so this budget does allocate $230,000 for one staff member and the other needs to work through those complaints. That is a quick summary of a lot of the items within the approved budget. Jennifer will now
019take the time to go through how those things and others impact our specific budget and where we make changes based from the proposed and adopted budget. Okay, so this is our maintenance and operations budget. So this shows our adopted budget, which was in July, and then any changes that we made for this current budget. Overall, there was an increase of $481,000. So we had, since we were doing a revision, it said that usually we do this in May. But since we did it, we wanted to make sure it was as accurate as could be. So right now we have $2.5 million that we transferred over to purchase services. and the majority of that is safety security measures, our blue point monitoring system, our ESI employees, and then the bulk of that is our special ed
020professional service agreements under that category as well as our workers comp. Supplies and other increase of $284,000 and that includes various supplies, fuel costs, and playground supplies as well and then utilities we had no change from, shall I? Unrestricted capital, an increase of $571,513. And again, this is just to allocate correctly what we have currently in the budget. So an increase for textbooks and instructional materials of a little over $1 million. Our short-term non-instructional software, we didn't have anything allocated there at the beginning of the year, so we adjusted that for current expenditures. And then we decreased the difference from our furniture equipment and technology contingency budget. Classroom site fund, there was an increase of a little over $18,000, and that is due to the interest earned in the classroom site fund from the $25,000.
021This just gives you a graph of the total budget expenditures with the maintenance and operations almost 45%, and then classroom site fund almost 12%. Our capital outlay percentage of about 9% and then so on from there. But just to give you a visual of all the budget expenditures for the current school year. And then in summary, the main changes are due to the changes in the average daily membership of about 4.4%. In addition, the one-time supplements that Dale talked about, the district additional assistance was about $132,000. The group B wait for free reduced price lunch around $253,000. And then our estimated carry forward amounts from the prior year from this year, 25. And then any anticipated changes for the budget revision more likely will be in May. We have the option to do it in
022December, but we're looking to do that in May. So we will look at any changes in the average membership there, any changes in the group B weights, and then we'll have our actual carried order amounts that we have from the AFR that's due in October. By October 15th of this year, we'll have those actual carried order amounts that we can allocate at the end of this year as well. That's all. Any questions? Just a quick, back to the pie chart. The 44% for M&O, is that pretty much? Where we've been? I haven't kept track of what that number was. It's actually a little bit higher than previous. So the past three, four years, we had a lot of federal funds through the COVID emergency relief funding. And so that skewed that percentage. So the amount
023of money remained pretty close. In fact, it's increased every year. But the percentage has adjusted based on the overall structure. Primarily, that's driven by federal programs. I do have one comment. I didn't realize before just now that there is life without acronyms. I do want to add what Jennifer shared. This does include the reduction of average daily membership at 4.5%, 4.4%. We were able to capture some of that through looking at the budget balance carry forward. It's taking a look at actuals and then seeing what that might be projected moving forward. So we're able to stabilize the district's budget using that, even though we had an anticipated reduction of student accounts by about 4.5%. may lead to challenging conversations moving forward and what we do for sustainability in subsequent years. But they want to make
024sure the governing board was aware that this is reflective of those anticipated ADM counts at the 100th day, plus what we believe to be the most current information available for the budget balance. And like Jennifer said, any changes, we were able to take that from our reserves or our contingency funds. But then we do rest on other funding sources to address any needs that may not have been revised. So with that, we've just asked the governing board to open up the call for public comment and then allow that opportunity. And then following that, I'm asked to adjourn the public hearing. Thank you. Can we get a motion to officially convene the public hearing? So moved. Second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, say nay. Hearing none, we will move to convene the public
025hearing. So if anyone has any questions or discussion from the public. How many have we had? Anybody? I move that we close the public hearing. Okay. I second. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. Hearing none, we will adjourn the public hearing. Moving on to 5.1, we'll have a presentation by our curriculum department. Good evening, governing board members, ladies. Welcome back to our two new members. Thank you so much for the opportunity for us to share the great work that we're doing in our current curriculum department. Our team is committed to high quality instruction across all schools in our district. And tonight we'll be walking through who we are, what we do, and the goals we're working toward. So first I'll start with our team. I'm so proud to be the Crane
026School's Curriculum Director. This is my first year in the position, so... Grant me some grace. So I'd like to share our incredible team with you. And we have two, our first two members are here with us tonight, which is awesome. They're back there in the back. Judy Munger, she has been with us for several years. She takes care of our ELA and EL curriculum. And then we also have Tara Fulton, who has a huge job this year as she is rolling out a brand new Amplify Math curriculum. And she has been doing so much incredible work on that rollout and it's gone really great. Also on our team, we have Lynette Humphrey, our tech curriculum coordinator. We have Breanna Chavez, which I put stars because she's really communist and she'll be happy if I put
027her as my own. But she is our ES coordinator and we like to reach out to her for questions that we have about our social education inclusion within our schools. Amber Major takes care of all of our district data coordination and she is absolutely incredible. Jalissa Flores takes care of our EL data to ensure that. We're capturing those EL students and ensuring that they're getting the services that they need. We have Robert Diaz, who's in charge of our 21st century programs that exist at six different schools. And then the one that keeps us all sane and all put together is Clementina Espinoza, our administrative assistant up in our office. So I'm very blessed to work with such an incredibly talented team that is dedicated and they all truly care about this district and it shows
028in all the work that they do. So with our curriculum department, we have two goals, and they're clear and focused on impact. The first is strengthening Tier 1 instruction. That's where it's at. We have to strengthen our Tier 1 instruction, as it's the core instruction all students in our district receive. And to do this, we're aligning practices and ensuring that every student has access to high-quality, grade-level instruction every single day in our training schools. And then the second thing we're doing, our big focus is our successfully implementing our new Amplify Desmos math curriculum across kinder through eighth grade and making sure that we're implementing with fidelity and instructional effectiveness. So those are our two big goals in our department and they're lofty, but I know that we can achieve them because we have a number
029of honorable districts that can support us in that. So with that, I wanted to share two documents that we use throughout our curriculum department and across all campuses. The first that I shared with you is the curriculum resources, and you do have these links from Lori's email, and all the links are... clickable and you can access the different materials that we have for teachers. This is out to all teachers across our district. It's clear, concise, and consistent across all campuses. It's not, well, you go to Gary Knox, so you receive this, and you go to HLA, and you receive this. No, you go to Crane, and you receive this. This is how it works. And when a student moves from one school to another, they don't have to learn new programs. The teachers have great
030foundational skills when they move grade level to grade level because they're not having to learn. a whole new program or if they move from site to site. And these are high quality instructional materials that are vetted, researched, and we know they work. So we want teachers and principals and leaders across our district to be using the resources that we know work. That's what's so, so incredibly important to us from a curriculum department perspective. And then the other document that I wanted to share with all of you, this is very, I'm very passionate about this, is ensuring that kids have the same instructional minutes regardless of what school that is in our training district. So again, just like the curriculum resources, we want them using the same materials and getting access to some more quality materials.
031but we also want them to have the same amount of instructional minutes across their day regardless what building they're standing in. And what this does is it doesn't create inequities across our campus where if you go to this school you receive 60 minutes of reading instruction and if you go to this school you receive two hours of reading instruction. We want that consistent across all of our campuses. And it also ensures that our teachers are using the appropriate amount of time that is dedicated to the content area, which is aligned with state expectations and best instructional practices. It helps our campuses make informed decisions about how to prioritize instructional time and maintain a balance throughout the school day. And I also want to take a moment to recognize how incredibly supportive our principals have been
032with this document, as long as along with the curriculum resource document, because they're the ones that can make it happen. We can offer the suggestions, but our principals have been incredibly supportive on board. They have worked. many hours on scheduling. I know, thank you very much for all of that. Scheduling to ensure that their grade levels are meeting the instructional minute requirements and using the high quality resources that are provided for the district. So I feel very blessed to be able to work with such an incredible team of leaders that strongly believe in high quality education for all kids. And I mean, those are big documents, but that is all that I have. But I would love to take any questions that you may have. Mrs. Haynes, what does it look like with the recommended
033times for 7th or 7th and 8th graders? Yes, not that that's a personal question. So we have four 7th and 8th grade programs across our district, and those minutes have been aligned based working with the principals, and they're all very similar across our four campuses that offer 7th and 8th grade. So it being my first year, I didn't want to tackle middle school yet. We tackled 6th through 8th, kind of through 6th grade this year. But they're very consistent. I've looked at Frank Centennial, Gallon, and Pueblo schedules, and the minutes kids are receiving in each subject area are probably similar across those four campuses. Any other questions? I invite you all to come to schools with me, or if you ever want to talk to curriculum, my jam. So thank you for that. Thank you.
034Thank you all. And then we'll move into 6.1, the superintendent current events. Lori. Thank you. Welcome, board members. We are thrilled to welcome back Brenna Pollan and Audrey Garcia. Both have previously served with distinction and bring a deep commitment to student success, a thoughtful approach to diverse perspectives, and a clear understanding of the board's vital role. Their return is a tremendous gain for our entire district. Welcome home, ladies. The 2025-26 school year opens. Our school year has officially begun and I can't tell you how delightful it is to see so many smiling faces from staff members, students, and families. I'm glad to see everyone back on our campuses and district facilities energized and engaged to help our students learn and grow. I have every confidence that this year will bring wonderful opportunities and growth. Memorial
035tribute. And next is this somber message. It's with profound sadness that I share the news that Dan Farr passed away. Dan truly exemplified what it means to be a dedicated public servant. His kindness, passion, authenticity, sensitivity, and zest for life were rare and deeply inspiring. He loved fiercely, lived fully, and gave generously of himself. Everyone who had the privilege of knowing him was better for it. Dan will be deeply missed. always remembered and never forgotten. Each day reminds us that the true meaning of our life's journey lies in the people who touch our lives. And I end this report with a congratulations for Apple Learning Coach. We're pleased to share that Delaney Roof is now a certified Apple Learning Coach. After a rigorous combination of self-paced learning and virtual workshops, she's gained a deeper understanding
036of how to support teachers as she integrates Apple technology into learning. We're so proud of you, Delaney, and know that you will be a tremendous support to others. Congratulations. Members of the board, this is my report for this month. Thank you. Any questions? Okay. Then we will move on to the superintendent's update on legislative or other governmental actions. Dale? Madam Chair, members of the board, not much to remark here. The legislature did adjourn in June, and so I understand there's some interim meetings that are likely taking place to form some legislation for the upcoming school year. The JLAC, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, met at the end of July, likely to have some legislation coming from that that would further... provide and I think the spirit is further accountability and transparency, but maybe felt as
037more burdensome moving forward as well. So solely Dale's opinion, but I did want to share that JLAG did meet and from that conversation, I think there'll be some legislation that will seek more accountability of school dollars. Thank you. Any questions? It's a pretty short report. Okay. And then 7.1, we'll do oral reports on conferences, workshops, and school visitations. I don't know if we have any with our newly welcomed back members and we were on summer, but if anybody has any updates. Not really an update, but I'd just like to say how happy I am to be here. I really didn't see this on my retirement. But it was an honor to be asked to. to come and I hope that I have some experience to offer. I'm just really happy to be here. I think
038it's a great team. And my only regret is that I didn't get to spend some more time with Dan, but I did get a lot of time and it was worth it. So that's cool. Well, welcome back. Yes. And then we'll go into the 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 agenda may do so at this time. Speakers are requested to hold their comments to three minutes. Individuals addressing the governing board may not yield any portion of their allotted time to any other individual wishing to address the governing board. In accordance with Arizona Open Meeting Law, board members may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board. may ask staff to review a
039matter 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. Do we have anybody? Okay. Then we will move to the acknowledgement of the request to speak. Anyone wishing to address the board on items on tonight's agenda 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 governing 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
040law, board members may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board, may ask staff to review a matter, or may ask the matter people on a future agenda. However, board members shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during open calls with the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action. Anybody? Okay. Then we will move to the consent agenda. I'm going to request that we pull out, let me find it, one item number. There's a long list of things on here. It's the personnel report. So if we can get a motion. Thank you. So we can get a motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of the personnel report. So moved. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say aye. And then
041I will recuse myself from the personnel report approval, but you're welcome to motion and approve that. I move that we approve item number 9.7 as it states in the agenda. Need a second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say aye. And that is approved. And then we will move. Madam Chair, do you want the record to show that you abstain? Correct, yes. Thank you. Did you get that many? Yes. And then we'll move on to 10.1, which is the consideration of adoption of gifts from the public. So if I can get a motion to adopt the gifts from the public as presented. So moved. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, none. Hearing none, they are. adopted as presented. And then 10.2, consideration, discussion, possible adoption of superintendents 2025-2026 performance
042goals. So if there's any discussion. Okay, so each of the members really honed in on one area. Marcos took goal number one. Brenna looked at goal number two. Jim number three. Kelly number four. And Audrey number five. Taking a look at whether or not these are measurable or any kind of requested edits. I'll open it up to you. It's up to you guys if we want to go through each one or if we want to just. Do we have section? I'll go. I had section five, which was. Which was district leadership. And I didn't have any specific questions. My only question was. On the absences, does that increase or decrease? How are you guys going to go about doing that or talking about that? I know I've asked that question. So the question is, you
043know, how will we go about decreasing chronic absenteeism? So what I will do is like a mid-year report to the board explaining here the things they've done, whether it's incentives, you know, calling parents more often, whatever things we put in place, we'll make sure that we report that to the board. I had item number two, which is district personnel. And I did find all of the. I think we hit everything we were trying to hit. Everything was measurable and attainable. But I did want to make just a couple of comments on course, because I have to. No, I was really excited when I got this particular one about district personnel, because I was remembering back many years ago when the board hired Bob Klee as superintendent. Jim probably remembers this. We looked around the district
044office and everybody there was in within five minutes of Medicare eligibility. And so we said, I do remember. It was a scary time because if all of those people had decided to retire on the same day, we would have been in trouble. But anyway, we hired Bob and we said, your number one job is to come up with a succession plan because we really need to start thinking about when these people leave. And Bob did a great job. He got us rolling on that and thinking some new things. And then Lori came over and jumped right into it. And so coming back here today, I'm looking around and I'm like, nobody is Medicare eligible. And that's just so great. But what that says to me is that. that our leadership has done such a great
045job of not only retaining great people, but also bringing along those and giving them the opportunity to grow. And I really believe in my heart we have the very best staff in, for sure, in Yuma County and I think up there in the state. But it just, it warms my heart to see. all of the wonderful staff that we have and all the growth and just kudos to you guys. Another of Marcos or Jim want to share anything? If not, I guess Jim, do you have anything? There was not any, but I certainly disagree with that. Not to be a role. Hopefully, um, you can actually implement it. I think we'll discuss later. I'd just like to know, Holly, what the game plan is that we summer school. Sure. Absolutely. Thank you, Jim. Thank you,
046Kelly. And then in reviewing for, again, I think that they're solid goals. They're mostly around improving compliance and efficiencies. I think they're reasonable and if they're able to all be accomplished, will get us in a pretty good spot. Great. Thank you. I just wanted to let members know that Marcos has been struggling to get on, so he is not on, and he did have goal number one. So I could just kind of review overarching of goal number one is student achievement, the business of our business. So we look at a couple of things on here, and one is having more kids pass the test, but also when you take a look at the way the tests are divided, the students that are in the lowest category trying to get less of those students in there
047and having them bump up. So those are the key things. We do have one goal at the very end of goal one I wanted to highlight, and that is 1.19, the district math. Last year, some of the board members were saying we really want to focus on fluency. So last year, we had a goal for fourth grade, which we did not make. And so this year, we've added third grade and fourth grade. So we have two of those. So that continual effort on fluency. So just wanted to highlight that. the board okay yes um marcus telling me that marco's respond okay it's just muted okay marcus is unable to unmute unfortunately okay okay struggling with the mute button okay So I guess the intention is to try to adopt the goals tonight, unless it's a
048major overhaul, then I'd have to make those changes and bring back September. So if you're willing to vote. So I move that we adopt the superintendent goals for 2025-2026. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. Hearing none, the performance goals have been adopted. We'll move into 11.1, consideration of adoption of 2025-2026 qualified evaluators. Do we want to have any discussion about that? It's pretty standard. I move that we approve the consideration of adoption for the 2025-2026 qualified evaluators. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed say nay. Hearing none, they are adopted. And then 12.1, now that we have had the public hearing, is the official consideration to adopt the 2025-2026 revised expenditure budget. Hi, can you guys hear me? Now we can, yeah. Oh, okay. My star and my
049pound button were weird. But anyways, I just wanted to make sure. Is it okay if I talk a little bit, go back and review the goals real quick? Or do you want to go on forward? It's up to you, Chair, Madam President. I mean, I'm fine with revisiting it. We can at least have a discussion on it. Okay. So you want to keep going forward? That's fine if you want to. No, I think it's fine. We can have a discussion. I think the point of the discussion were necessary. Right. So I don't have any issue with the goals. The only where I was with talking to Lori about the goals is that my biggest. Of all of those goals, they're all wonderful, but the one that I think is the most important is the one
050that we did last year where it's like all fourth graders are going to need to know their multiplications through, you know, 1 through 12 or 1 through 10, whatever it was. I think it was 1 through 10. I think if they know all of those. all of the math things are going to fall in place because if you can't multiply, then you really can't do any of the math, any of those standards. So that was the one that I think. And I think what she's doing now is she's like saying, okay, what are we doing in grade three to make sure that they're ready to tackle that goal in grade four? And it just goes all the way, stair steps all the way down to kindergarten. So there are things in place that are. going
051to go into effect from kindergarten, getting them ready for second grade. The second grade can be ready for third and so on and so forth. So I don't have any real issue with the goals. I think there are things that we probably need to do differently than we've done in the past simply because if you keep doing the same thing and keep addressing it in the same manner, you keep getting the same results, then the problem is somewhere in the process. So I think that... changing that up a little bit would help. So I'm in favor of all the goals. I don't have any serious concerns. And that was all I had. Thank you, Marcus. And I believe that was the 1.19 that you had highlighted as well. Yes. You've been able to at least
052go over that one in particular. And so now we'll move on to consideration of adoption of the revised expenditure budget. Is there any discussion? If not, I'll take a motion to adopt the 2025-2026 revised expenditure budget as presented. So moved. Second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed, say nay. Hearing none, the 2025-2026 revised expenditure budget is adopted as presented. And then the last thing is a consideration to adjourn. I move to adjourn. I second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed, say nay. Hearing none. Aye. you