001[Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Oh yeah. Yeah. [Music] Yeah. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Good evening everyone. Uh welcome to our June regular board meeting. We're glad you're here. We appreciate you being here. And uh before I call the meeting to order, we want to uh recognize that Kelly Boyer's not here. We miss her. She was on the telephone. We got her on the phone, but we miss her in person. Hope she's getting to feel better. And also Angela's husband. We want to send out prayers for his health also. And um I'll call this meeting to order. We'll have a pledge of allegiance and then I'll uh entertain a
002motion to approve the agenda. I aliance 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, we'll have a moment of silence and then I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda. Thank you very much. I'll now entertain a motion to approve the agenda. I'll approve the agenda as presented. Second. Motion and a second. All in favor? I. Motion passes. Item 3.1, approval of meeting minutes from our regular May and our work session. A motion to approve the agenda. A second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. Thank you. 3.1. Oh, sorry. I didn't Sorry. 4.1. ratification of expenses and payroll vouchers, tax credits, and activity accounts. Anybody
003have any questions or anything? They're just extremely high. We're at that time of year, end of the year, lots of payments, closing the POS, finally getting end of salary payments. I move to approve the expenditures as presented. A second. I have a motion, a second. All in favor? I I motion passes. 5.1 culinary presentation. Mr. Crawford. Oh, I thought he was bringing us I thought you were bringing Danishes tonight. I thought that was the Oh, that was hoping to have a student to have a student with me, but they decided they couldn't make it. Okay. This is my don't know if I have to do this annually or not, but my annual presentation about the school-based enterprise for culinary arts and the CTSO FCCLA culinary arts. Um, we're going to be trying to do a
004few things this year, expanding some, trying to get the community a little more involved so we're not always hitting the same people for for financial assistance or whatever you want to call it as fundraisers. Um, one of the differences I've put in the in the letter was uh more of what the student involvement is. The students actually have to do all the pricing. They have to figure out how much everything costs to determine what they're going to sell it for, what actually gets sold at each event. Um, an activity. Our first event we're going to continue with tailgating. I do have a very good news for tailgating. We are getting uh through the uh either the Perkins or Priority Grant. Jerry would know where it came from. We're getting two branded canopies that have our
005sponsors who give us the biggest donations and things like that. And a lot of it's just time spent with the students and stuff like that. So, they'll be advertised on there along with some really nice tops and a and a permanent pricing list that we'll be able to change as costs of food changes. So, it won't be like we have to buy a new one every year. It'll be velcroed on and off. So, we have our tailgating which we'll be doing pretty much the same thing. Uh last year we experimented with uh doing quesadillas. The public really likes quesadillas, so we added quesadillas. Um, the other one is Friday breakfast. Uh, we used to do Friday breakfast where we would serve one item per week, like we'd have a regular breakfast, then we'd have biscuits
006and gravy, and then we'd have burritos. Uh this year we're going to expand it to where we're going to do pretty much all three items that we do. Regular breakfast, biscuits and gravy and French toast andor burritos, whichever they want with a graduated price scale to cover the difference in cost between biscuits and gravy and just a regular breakfast. But we're also going to serve it until 9:30. I still have to get with food services to see if I can use the cafeteria portion of their kitchen for the public to actually be able to sit down and eat at a table and not sitting on a bench that's up off the ground feeling like a little kid cuz their feet don't touch the ground. Um, but otherwise I've got room in my kitchen that they
007can eat, but I wanted to we're going to serve it until 9:30 this year, giving the public more chances to come in. Uh we're also going to use the uh public service announcements and the what's happening announcements on the five perfect uh radio stations that I listen to one of them to advertise to the public to get again more involvement of the public getting more ways of drawing people seeing what we're doing in the culinary arts department expanding the footprint and letting the community know more about what these kids are actually doing. Um other one is food products. We found that we had mediocre success with food products. Um, but again, the students are going to do more advertising, what's up, public service announcements, getting the community more involved with helping to raise the funds
008to fund the program and their FCCLA activities. Um, last one is two catering projects. I'm hoping to be able to do two catering projects this year where we would make it available for anybody, a school, to say, "We'd like to have the culinary arts department cater a food product." Um, standard food pricing. It's not going to be like, "Well, you're a culinary arts department, so you should be doing this for free." I I that just doesn't make any sense. We're trying to get the kids to understand how to run a business, and businesses don't make they don't succeed if they don't make money. So they have to understand that they make money. Uh this is also this is part of their school-based enterprise. All of these activities also meet their work-based learning requirements. So we
009get to that 120 hours a whole lot easier than trying to come up with goofy ideas of things to do in class. This is stuff that they'll be doing. Most of it is outside of class time. So it does involve a lot of their involvement. Um with that again students do all the pricing. um anything that they want to do over and above any of this they would then have to come and present as a additional fundraising item but we tried to include as many of them as we could. Do I have any questions from the illustrious school board superintendent Courtney or Shaye? I just love the involvement of the students because they not only participate in preparing the food, assembling it, but they also take it a f step further with, you know, someone
010works behind the register. It's food service at its best. So, thank you. Well, that's one of the benefits of culinary arts. I just went through back in May, no, first part of June, the uh yeah, May and then June the rewrite of culinary arts. One of our standards which works really well is we we kept school-based enterprise as one of our profits. So, it's not just something they okay, you have to do a school. This is part of their standard running a cash register, deciding on what pricing is, having to figure out what their base cost is so that they can determine what to sell it at to make money. So, it it involves quite a bit of of math and and skills. And then they've got to put their selling skills together. They're they're
011upselling. They're talking to the public. Kudos. I uh I really enjoy coming in for the Friday breakfast. Uh it's an opportunity for me to get a breakfast. I actually uh am usually off on Friday, so I'm able to take that to my wife and we're able to have breakfast together. And so I really appreciate that. I I love when you walk in, they greet you and you know, they do their best uh to make it a a true experience and I know you coach them up. So I appreciate it. Thank you. We we do what we can to make sure that they're the ones running the program. It's not it's instructor advised, student led. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Let us know what you need. I will give us a phone call. Got my number
012right. Yeah, I know who you are. All right. Thank you. Let us know. Thank you. Thanks for coming in. Item 5.2, principal reports. Mr. Dr. Farnsworth. Sorry. So, I want to excuse all of our principles. Uh they are in Flagstaff at the moment attending a a legal conference put on by our insurance company, the trust. I was there with them and drove back for the board meeting tonight. And so they're not going to be here in person, but they've submitted some of their reports and so I just appreciate what they do and that they're getting trained up and we were learning a lot. Perfect. 5.3 Superintendent report, Dr. Fworth. So, just a few highlights. The the end of the year, as you know, was was pretty busy. We had a lot of end of the
013year ceremonies and I attended as many as I could at all the different campuses. Um, we had our last visions committee meeting and I that's going to be a later action item as we talk about our visions committee process. Um, I enjoyed the end of the year process of meeting with all the directors, all the principles, reviewing the smart goals that we established at the beginning of the year and seeing their progress. Um, a couple things that I would just like to bring to the board's attention is our next board meeting. Well, we have a joint city council school board meeting at the city council June 19th. So, please make sure that's on your calendar. Um, you have the time. It's going to start at 6. 6 pm. Um Courtney and I met with the
014city manager and some of his staff this week just to make sure everything was was planned out. And so they're they're ready. They're excited. And uh so that's going to be June 19th at the city hall, not here. Yes. Across the street. Across the street. I'll be out of town. Would you be able to zoom me in? We will. We will. I'll ask Courtney to help me with that. If not, we can probably phone you in. Okay. But we'll we'll do something. Thank you. Um you might get with the city. They might have make that happen. The the summer's going quickly. So new teacher orientation is is basically five weeks away. And then the back to school all district is July 25th. So, if you want to put that on your calendar, we're going to
015do the same thing as we did last year. We're going to have everyone meet in the auditorium July 25th in the morning. I don't have an exact time yet. It's it's probably going to be 8:30 or 9. Uh we'll we'll introduce all the board and then we do have a special speaker by the name of Julie Schmidt who will speak to the district. I personally hoping to be gone most of those days. So just he needs a vacation. Are there any other questions or anything for Dr. Farnsworth? We move on. Anything else? No, sir. Thank you, sir. Okay. Moving on to um 6.1 vision, mission, and guiding principles. Dr. Farnsworth, um I don't know if you want to um I know there's some people here that that uh helped out were part of that committee.
016Do you want to visit with them before or after you talk? You know what? Let's just have them come up and and then we can kind of fill in the gaps after they they're done. Okay. I got Susan and then Joel and then Pastor Hex going. Is that in that order? Is that okay? Sure. Thank you. So, my name is Susan Midkiff and I had the pleasure of working on the visions committee and I just wanted to say and I recognized some faces. Um I wanted to um recognize the leadership of Dr. Farnsworth and Charlotte Cosgra. um first of all that we were able to accomplish finishing the vision and mission um within our time frame um really speaks to their leadership, but also um if you were not in the room, you did not
017hear um all of the passionate voices. Um the the committee really was comprised of people who are just so passionate not only about the school district, our schools and our teachers and our students, but also about the town of Xolo, the city of Xolo. And um a lot of them had a lot to share. They had a lot um to talk about. And um Dr. Dr. Farnsworth did a great job of balancing letting their voice be heard and letting them share um how they felt and their concerns and their vision um but then also keeping us on track and keeping us we always um ended on time and that we were able to finish the project on time. And so that's all. Thank you, Mr. Weeks. It's good to be with you all. Thank you
018so much uh Joe for the opportunity to serve on the committee. I think uh we had good representation and it was a real enjoyable experience for me. I learned a lot about some people I didn't know. I was there with a lot of friends as well. But it was uh it was a wonderful experience and uh I think the product that we came up with will serve the the district well for many many years to come. At least that's my hope and it was a pleasure to be a part of it and thank you so much and I appreciate what you as schoolboard members do and you as staff do and it's a rough job. The uh four of my six kids were educated here and you did a pretty darn good job back then
019as well. But I think this hire of brother of Dr. Farnsworth is amazing. He's uh he's brought some some amazing tools to the table, I think, and you did a good job in searching him out and hiring him, and it's a pleasure to be a part of this community and a part of this school district. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Well, good evening. My name is Steve Heckor. I was asked to be a part of this committee, which uh kind of came out of the blue for me. And my first thought was, well, you know, what can I impart? And the reality is, you know, I raised kids, put them through school. I've been a citizen of SH since 2011. And so, as I thought about it, I realized, you know, the school
020district is just a microcosm of the community it's in. It really is. And as somebody I've been in show since 2011, as somebody who's moved here from another community here in the White Mountains, one of the things about SH is I love its dedication to excellence as a city. And what I saw in this process was a complete dedication to excellence for the city of Shol, the school district, excuse me, the school district. And what I saw in that was just we want to be the best we can be. And as somebody who lives in Xolo, I I think that the Xolo school district is just a reflection of the city of Xolo as a town, as a community, and who we are as people and citizens of the community. I know the process was
021a dedication of excellence for not just we as as people participating but it was a process of excellence for the administrators for the teachers for everybody involved. One of the things is it's one of the most strategic best strategic programs I've ever been a part of. I've been a part of strategic planning in in many different cases but this is probably one of the best I've ever been a part of. Uh Joe, you're a great facilitator. You kept us on task. She kept us on course, kept us con completely active and engaged and and it was truly just a great process. And what I found out is there's a lot of people in Chol that love the city and love the school city the school district of Cholo and that you don't see that in
022every community and I came from a community where there was not so much of that involved in the process. So for me it was probably one of the greatest experiences I have ever seen in a consensus building program and that is key to building something like this. Can you have consensus and Joe I think you led us greatly in that. I want to thank the uh board itself the facilitators Joe and your your uh team that put this together. For me this was pure joy and I enjoyed every moment of it. And so I thank the school board and the administrators for even letting me be a part of this. And I'm like Joe. I learned a lot about people I didn't know, a lot about people I did know, and what I learned is
023this school district is dedicated to excellence, and I want to be a part of that. Thank you. You Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. If you if you didn't attend this, you missed out on something special. It was truly enjoyable to to see all those people come together and and the product that came out of it. So, can I can I make a comment? I'm just really thankful for each and every person that participated. Well, I want to thank the three people that are here. We we did have a much larger group. Um, I want to especially thank Charlotte. Charlotte, please stand. She She was my thought partner and we bounced ideas off of each other. But just for those of you who are at home, what what we tried to accomplish was bring in community
024members that are well respected across all aspects of life. We had a fivemon process where we met once a month and the goal was to look at our vision, look at our mission, re-evaluate it to see if it still holds up to today. and and the committee decided to to craft a new vision, a new mission, which we're going to recommend to the board to officially adopt tonight with guiding principles. And and what was really neat about the whole process was the community was telling me and telling the school board this is what they value. And and Mr. Heckor, I I agree. We we want to be excellent. I I want when people hear the word Xolo school district, I want them to once again feel like that is a premier school district in the
025entire state of Arizona. Um, and I think we have the potential to do it. Um, we have pockets of excellence and we have hardworking individuals, but I think we haven't hit our potential yet and this is the first step. So, this now gives me it gives the school board uh some marching orders that now we have to deliver. I have to go back to the whole whole school district uh share this process when we come back in in July, which I plan on doing campus by campus and then just say these are the marching orders and we we're our goal is excellence and um I'm I'm just really excited for the feedback, for the participation um for me to now start executing what the community wants us to deliver. And I know we had several
026board members here. I don't know if you want to make any comments or um I've it was just such a great process. I don't know that I can do it any more justice by speaking good. Well, I was new to the group and I truly thought I was the only one who didn't already have friends in the community that I was raised with. But meeting everyone and seeing everyone work together for the greater good um was very refreshing. It it truly was rewarding um not just for us board members but to come together to a guiding principle as you pointed out. Um I really enjoyed it. It was good. Kelly, um I just wanted to add that I'm so thankful for u members of our community um through all walks and there were former graduates
027who love Xolo schools and there were people who had not been in the community for so long but have learned to love our community and schools and wanted to be a part of this um group effort and I'm so grateful for their sacrifice of time and I'm grateful for their knowledge and the things that we learned from them and came came out with a wonderful product and I too thank Dr. Farnsworth and Charlotte for overseeing it, keeping us on task and um I love what we've developed and I thank everybody. I think you should read it. This is an action item, right? This is an action item. We're asking the board to formally adopt our new vision, mission, and guiding principles, which which it's on the board docs. Every board member has a copy. And
028once this is official, then we're going to look at marketing, producing posters, and all of the Okay. I um I don't want to vote on this until we actually uh you know, get it in the ears of people. And if you're okay, since there's uh three parts to this and we have three members of the committee, would you be willing to come up each one of you and read one of these sections for us? Susan. And then there's one on that one and there's two on this one. You got it. This is that one. What's written here? All right. So, you know what I'm going to say, too? We're going to read this and these two, right? Yes, sir. Whatever you'd like. Or is that the same thing over here? It's the same thing. Oh,
029that's the same. Okay. I'm sorry. One has the guiding principles. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Um Okay. All right. So, I'm only doing part of this gentleman. All right. We are the Cougars. Unified in excellence. Our Cougar culture fosters opportunities where every individual is empowered to achieve their fullest potential. Where academic excellence and high expectations thrive. In doing so, we cultivate leadership and nurture lifelong contri contributors to society. We'll just keep the same order. Okay. The uh You want to read half of the guiding principles and then Yeah, I will. I'll read five of them. We believe respect is at the core of everything we do. We demonstrate respect in our actions and our relationships. We value community involvement. Teamwork with a shared vision creates a united community focused on student success. We believe in clear communication.
030Honest, respectful communication is crucial for student success and growth. We value accountability. We take responsibility for our actions and expect the same from others. And we believe hard work leads to success. Perseverance and effort are keys to achieving goals. Steve, the rest are yours. I hope they're not. Just go five up. Okay. So the guiding principle 1, two, three, four. We value a safe and supportive learning environment. Every student deserves a positive and nurturing space to grow. We believe in high expectation for all students. Every student should be encouraged to achieve their fullest potential, whether academic, social, or personal. We uphold the standard of excellence and strive to continually raise it. We value fiscal responsibility. We use resources wisely for the benefit of our students, staff, and community. We believe learning goes beyond the classroom.
031We support student growth through academics, sports, and the arts. We value and support our employees. Passionate, dedicated employees are key to student success. We invest in their growth, well-being, and collaboration. Thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. Anybody else have any comments? Yeah. uh not being at one of these meetings, I don't know Susan that well, but love to get to know you better. Uh Joel and Steve been involved with them in the community and uh love him. It wasn't by accident that Dr. Farnsworth came here. Uh he's a great man. Uh in the past we haven't had as great a leadership as what we've had now as that what we have now and having the community involved is a win-win because you know what's going on. You know we we might not see everything
032that goes on because frankly the only people we get to see mostly at these board meetings are people that are mad at us. And uh it's nice to see people that aren't mad at us. What a great idea. Something that's been lacking. And I I highly thank you for what you've done and the time that you spent, the time that you will spend because I know you're not quitting whether it be in this committee or in committees to come. We need your input. We want your input and we appreciate your input. Thank you. With that said, if there's nothing else, I'll entertain a motion to adopt. Make a motion to adopt the uh whatever it is we're adopted. Vision, mission, and guiding principles. That one. A second. I have a motion in a second. All
033in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. Thank you again. Thank you. Item 6.2, proposed budget FY26. Hay Davis, please. Well, it's that time of year. So, um, I had the pleasure of attending Heinfeld and Meech's annual conference, and they always have it this time of year. Um, which was wonderful. Uh they gave us some updated information on what the legislature is doing and um they've told us that as we know the legislature has just gone back into session and um they are anticipating to have a passed budget by June 30 for education. Um but the bills that they're still working on will probably not be passed till later in the fall. So, at least we will have hopefully a budget, a a base budget for education. So, we're going to go over that. Now, I
034don't know um how detailed you got into the budget. Um they have changed the budget forms quite drastically this year, so they might be a bit confusing, which I want to talk about a little bit before I get into my presentation so that you can better understand. um a lot of times or in the past we have really looked at the increase and decrease from the prior year to the current year. this year it's way off and the reason being is they added a new line to the budget this year which um is line 31 where it says on on page uh two of the budget where it says maintained for spending after FY26 that is the budget uh carry forward. So they no longer allow us to put the carry forward budget within the
035budget lines. So the only thing in the budget lines is the is the current year's budget. So the FY26 budget is the only thing that is on the line item budgets. So it makes so this year that prior year has all the budget including the carry forward but the new budget year the FY26 only has the FY26 budget not including the carry forward. So those increases and decreases are very skewed. So they're not accurate. So next year when we do the FY27 budget, they'll be more accurate because they'll be one to one. Does that make sense? Okay. So that number um on line 31, the 5,000 uh or sorry 5 million, that is our carry forward, estimated carry forward at this time. um that won't be accurate until after we do the AFR in October.
036Um and then we'll have the the actual carry forward. But this is a very good carry forward. It's what we kind of anticipated. It's very similar to last year's carry forward. Um again, we talked about this in our work session where everybody was very fiscally responsible this year. We still got done what we needed to get done. Um projects have been getting done. um everybody got what they needed in the classroom. Um but we were very fiscally responsible because we wanted to give those races based on that uh salary study and everything, but that's um what we're looking at or close to. We still have some summer projects that need to get done. Um there's bills that still need to get paid. So this is not the final number. So I wanted to explain to
037you what this all means, these um line items. Um, it's like this for the maintenance and operation fund, classroom site fund, and the capital. They all have this additional line now. And they're doing it this way um for each of those funds. So, I wanted to make sure you understood how this new uh budget is, how they're doing it now, how AD is doing that. So, with that being said, I'll go over my presentation. So the enrollment is uh projecting flat. No change in enrollment. Um it's 2302 at this time. Um last year it was 2304. Very flat. Um so we really need to work on enrollment this next year. Bring it up so we can increase our our budget. Um the per pupil funding we are expecting that 2%. Um the current budget that
038I'm presenting to you tonight does not have that 2%. So this is a good budget without the 2%. So with that extra 2% that will give us additional funding. So we're really looking forward to that. Um per people daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa which again is the capital there is absolutely no increase for this next year. So it is flat which that pays for all the facilities all those extra projects. if we needed any new buses, that's where that money comes from. So, that's a disappointment. Um, the TEI, teacher experience index is decreased from 1.0163 to 1.042, which means our teachers, the the experience of our teachers is decreased. Again, this is the second year it's decreased. So, it's important that we try and hire um experienced teachers, which we know is hard to do, but um that's where
039we get additional funding as well. Classroom site fund that did increase. It went from 792 to 842 and that's where the teachers got their additional raise this year. Um so, when that increases, that's good for the teachers because then they get additional money. Any questions on that piece? Yes. CSF, the classroom site fund has a limit. What I'm just asking hypothetically, what do we do when we go over budget? We can't go over budget. Oh, it just Oh, no. Cannot happen. We cannot. Okay. If we go over budget, that would be a huge audit finding. Oh, of course. And then as I was going over the paperwork, uh what is a truth in taxation notice? Can you explain that? Truth in taxation is if we have to um ask for additional taxes because we are
040under we are have over spent our budget. I see. Okay. That Yeah. So when you overspend your budget, that means you have to ask for additional taxes to get that money back. Understand? Yep. And the this school district has done very well and we haven't had to do that in I don't know if we've ever have to be honest. Yeah, Kelly, you would know better. Um but I have not seen that in this district. Wonderful. Thank you. We have a healthy cash flow here. Very good. Um okay. Uh the M budget for right now is 23.8 million. um estimated 5 m million budget carry forward which is a reduction from last year's carry forward of 1 million which again is not bad. Um elimination of Prop 123 um Joe wanted to speak a little bit
041about that. So, if you've been following the state legislature there, the governor has proposed that the the state legislature because there's an expiration date for Prop 123 and they want to extend it. Um there there are elected officials that are holding Prop 123 hostage because they want to enshrine school vouchers in the state constitution permanently. So basically what they're saying is we're not going to give teachers a raise from POP prop Prop 123 unless we get the votes from from other people in the House and the Senate to approve the enshrinement or permanent school vouchers in the Constitution. So that it's it's a political football at this time. Um don't know what's going to happen. I what I've heard is that it's going to go out to the voters in October. Um, but again, that's
042that's kind of where we are with with of the state of politics in Arizona. That's exactly what Hinesfeld and Meech said today as well. So, they're saying that it will probably go out to the voters. Um, elimination of the free and reduced and capital supplemental funding. Um, that was an extra again supplemental funding that we got of about 169. that is going to be um they're talking that that will go away as well. The capital budget is um 3.1 million. Um it's a decrease of 1.4 from 2025. Um it's an estimated 2.1 budget balance carry forward which is an increase from last year. Um so if you remember last year I moved 1 million from the M budget over into capital. Um, so this year I am moving 1 million from capital over into M
043to help with M. So it might get moved back again. We're going to have to wait and see till the final budget is done with the state and seeing how much um we actually need. Um it looks like we are going to need more in capital again because we can do more capital and because we have enough budget in the M to cover all of our expenses without reducing any um money for supplies um purchase services. Um we have to keep up our uh budget for sped based on our maintenance of effort. So everything looks well in both areas. again with that 2%. Sure, we would like the additional money for one Prop 123 and the supplemental. Uh but you know, we've done really well in this district this year. I'm again, I'm very happy
044with what we've done this year. So, um that is the M and capital budget. Any questions on this so far? Okay. So, we did want to um we Whoops. Oops, I'm going to back preview previous. There we go. I went a little too fast. So, we had talked in the um work sessions about the grants and h how those have been um being reduced this year. So I wanted to briefly uh show you the grants and how much we got in 25 the base allocation um based on this year's what we're getting for the base allocation this year. Now on the 25 base allocation this was um after we got the overall allocation which comes in about October, November, December around there. Whereas the FY26, this is right now. So it's there's a little these
045are just estimates, but we are losing quite a bit of funding. It's a total of 473,000 at this time. Um but almost every single grant that we're getting um we're being reduced this year. Um we're losing our rural and low income uh grant altogether. So we got 76,000 last year. We are getting absolutely nothing this year. Um we're our comprehensive support and improvement grant. We had 40,000 last year. We're getting nothing this year. Um so you can see um the reductions that we're getting which is pretty hefty. And so where where do we have to supplement that maintenance and operation? So, we've had to make some cuts in some areas, but um Jamie and I are working very closely together with Dr. Farnsworth on how we're going to uh you know, supplement some of these.
046Again, uh uh title two pays for our professional development, which is huge, and so we're going to have to make some cuts there, but we really wanted you to see how this is going to impact the district. Um and and this is a moving target. So, yes, absolutely. As you can see with the new federal administration, um there's a lot of different estimates that we're getting and so we're trying to be conservative with what we're getting, but it's it's substantial. when you go from one budget year to another and you're going to be down a half a million dollars um that you didn't anticipate for that's it's going to be you know we've had conversations with principles and it's been hard you know because we're talking programs and people and things that really impact kids
047in the classroom question oh I'm sorry go ahead Paul um seeing that reduction in funds uh and this is this is a budget could things happen, you know, like the government can make decisions that would change some of this or is this locked and stowed? No, they can make decisions. This is not locked like you said. Do we anticipate anything better from the legislature or from the other guys? No. Okay. We're not we're not a state that has legislators that value education. We don't. No. That's our That's the problem. And I hope they're watching. Yeah, some of these grants do we are allowed to carry over our balance if we don't use it this year. Um so Title One will have a bit of a balance. Um IDEIDA will have some balance that will carry
048over to this year, but it's not a whole lot. So they already have a shortfall, right? What's that? They already have a small shortfall, right? Yeah. Just a couple hundred million dollars. Yeah. How does that impact us impact us if they don't make their payment like they're they're not going to finish the budget by the 13th, right? Um we're we're okay because we have we have a decent amount of cash. So we're we're fine. Um they will make the payment. It's just not going to be on time, but we have enough cash to cover us. So we're good there. But there are a lot of districts that that's going to hurt pretty bad. But as we go through the years, our cash supply is dwindling. We're, like I said, they they still pay. They just
049don't pay on time. And so, but we we have a surplus of cash, so we're good. Like I said, they pay, just not on time. They're they're like a couple months behind. So, we're good. Now, if they got like a year behind, that might be another story. But this the state has always done that since I mean when Joe and I were in puma they would be they wouldn't pay their last payment till September. They're doing this for years. It's an accounting gimmick that they're using to roll the debt into the next fiscal year so they can balance this year's. So basically they're kicking the can down the road every year so they can balance their budget. But the it's rolling the debt into the next fiscal year because they don't have the money. Yeah.
050So eventually a lot of state agencies kind of do that. Yeah. Yeah. Which is not a good practice. Wouldn't think so. We don't get to do that with our mortgage, do we? Would it would it be right if we like, hey, I'm going to kick my mortgage down a month. Yeah. Don't worry about it, guys. Yeah. Any other question on this grant slide? Oh, and also, so one, because I didn't have the numbers when I did this, Eate, um, they're talking about rate going away. That would be about $68,000 for us. Anate impacts technology. It's the connectivity which is it really does help us with connectivity issues. Yeah. Um recommended new expenditures for next year. So um again classified staff increase due to the salary study. It was an average increase of about 14%. So
051a total of $569,000. Um our classified staff minimum wage. So, as you know, the minimum wage goes up every year in January. Um, it's currently $14.70. That will only affect event workers next year. Uh, because now all our staff, because of the salary study, our lowest paid staff members at $16.50. So, that will not impact any of our staff this next year, except for again the event workers. Um Shaylee, is there an end to the that minimum wage increase yearly? Probably not. Not that I've heard. I know we voted it in. I just didn't remember if it had a I'm not sure. Yeah. Okay. Um the increase in health insurance premium is 9% which is about $357,000. um increase in classroom base pay to teachers and counselors was 2,000 per one FTE which came to
052about $366,000 and then the increase to the administrative pay was about a 4% of their current base which was about $15,000. So those are this is just some of the um new in expenses and then um increasing can I add something right there? I know that we're covering the health insurance. Yes. Increases this year. Yes. Uh have we talked about where we're going forward with that next year? Yes, we will. Can we talk about that a little bit? Mhm. So, next year we will be looking at pushing some of the that cost to the employees next year. Sad. Yeah. Because there's just no way we can continue to um take on those costs, especially if it's going to be 9% or higher. It's typical that um health insurance continues to rise each year. Imagine that.
053And if it does, we may have to look at possibly changing insuranceances. Thank you. So, there's going to be an increase in utilities. It's usually about 8 to 10 thou 10%, but thanks to some changes that should go down a bit. So, we thank we thank those who contributed to the uh fixing of the well as well as the uh change in the meter over at Nicholas. We should see some great decreases in our utilities this next year even with an increase to the rates. Um the again the e rate potential elimination I I put it on this slide. I didn't have the amount at the time. Um increase in sped staffing. So, it's about 117. Uh, we added a behavioral interventionist. Um, we had to add a paraprofessional. Uh, we have a a student
054that we need a one-on-one for. So, that will be there. And there's always changes to sped um depending on new students that come in that need um specialized in uh paras. Um so, that that's always that one's always a moving target as well. Um and then various capital expenses always um technology facilities. Um again I talked about buses. Um again we really want to get those parking lots fixed. So Dr. Farnsworth and I have talked about that and doing that one in phases. Um so there we really need to work on our capital issues this year. So that along with the phase two of our salary study, um we that's going to be I think our focus this next year is phase two of the salary study and really working on our facilities and technology
055for this next year. Any questions on the budget? Now again just to remind you this is the proposed budget. It will be coming back to you in July as the adopted budget. we cannot change it. We have to adopt it um in July and then we can do a revised budget starting in September um based off of what the the legislature approves. So, I'll entertain any questions. I'll move to approve the proposed 2526 budget as presented. A second. Motion second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes 6.3 classified transfers, resignations, terminations. Dr. Farnworth. So, as you can see, we do have a few resignations from the end of the year. Um, but I think we're looking pretty good. We're only looking for two more spots. Um, as far as I know, for next year
056at the moment. So, I move to approve all classified personnel employee actions as presented. Second. Motion a second. All in favor? I I I Motion passes. Want to wish these ladies well. We're going to miss them. They're much needed, but wish them well in their endeavors. Item 6.4, certified transfers, resignations, employment. Dr. Farmer. So, you can see that we are going to be moving some counselors. Uh, and we recommend that the board approve those. I've spoken with with all the counselors. I've spoken with all the campus principles and uh and got some advice from our directors and uh we feel like in the best interest of the district that these counselors be moved to these new locations. Um if you look at the resignation of one of our our counselors, you can see that there's
057there's a an option for liquidated damages and I've added some context to that particular counselor. So, I'd ask that you consider that in your in your motion. Can the motion be what's recommended there? Yes, sir. And and that'll and that'll work for our needs. Yes, sir. Okay. I'll entertain a motion. Well, then I'll move to approve the CL certified personal employment actions as presented. A second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion on this? All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. 6.5 classified personnel employment. Dr. Farnner. So, our principles have been Well, this is classified. So, our directors have been busy filling um different spots and so ask that you look at those and then uh approve those for this coming year. I move to approve the classified personnel employee actions
058as presented. A second. Motion a second. All in favor? I I I opposed. Motion passes. 66 certified personnel employment. Dr. Barnesworth. So, I'm super pleased with our principles. They've been very active in the hiring season. Um I feel we do have two spots that are going to be challenging to be honest with you. Um just because we're in a teacher shortage. There's a national teacher shortage and then one of the spots that we're looking to fill is a sped teaching spot which that's like a unicorn. So we'll we'll do our best. But I'm very pleased with with how proactive our principles have been in searching for for teachers. I move to approve the certified personnel positions as presented. A second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion
059passes 67 summer activity stipen schedule FY26. So these are the um summer stipens for the camps, the coordinators, the supervisors. Um so this is for the whole summer um including June and July but they there's the stipens will be split between June and July. So half will be given in June and half will be given in July. So we ask that you approve these. I'll move to approve the summer activity stipen schedule as presented. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. 6.8 8 food service permanent agreement. Miss Davis, so when this is for the state, so when um there's a change in administration and in the food service department, um we have to submit this permanent agreement to AD. Um and so this is what this
060is giving Dr. Farnsworth the authority to sign for food service as well as myself and then the new director and our bookkeeper. So, we ask that you approve this to send to AD. I'll make a motion to approve the Musk 25 cooperative agreement as presented. Second, I have a motion, a second. All in favor? I opposed. Can I add a comment to that, please? Mr. President, um I just John Joiner is here from FSE. Um we have been super pleased with the the change in the quality of food and I just want to publicly thank him um what they're doing for our district. It's been a 180°ree turnaround. Um we've already gotten huge compliments from the wrestling camp that we just had this week. Um, so we're just I just want to publicly recognize the
061change because it was not good and and we expressed our our displeasure because our kids were not getting the quality food that they deserved. And I'm proud to say that with with John and his team, things have drastically changed for the better. And so I just want to publicly say that that we're in a much better position. So thank you, John. Perfect. Thank you. 6.9 Longevity and Cell phone stipens, Miss Davis. So, this is the cell phone and longevity stipens for FY26, so for next school year. Um, as well as, uh, the car allowance for myself for next year that we ask that you approve. Is there any changes from the previous year to this? Um, there were two there was, I believe, two additions uh that hit their mark to get the longevity. Cool.
062Hello. Make a motion approve longevity of cell phone and car allowance stipens as presented. I'll second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. 6.10 cooperative agreement FY25. Miss Davis. So each year um that we have to have the board approve all the cooperatives that we use to do our procurement. Um so these are the list of the of the co-ops that we use. Um so we ask the board that you approve this for FY26. I move to approve the fiscal year 26 cooperative purchasing agreement as presented. Second. Motion a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes 6.11 cooperative purchasing FY26, Miss Davis. So, this is similar to what you approved last month, but this is just the um purchases that will hit over $1,000 that
063are through a cooperative. Last month, it was any vendor that hit over a h 100,000, even if it was through a cooperative. So, I ask that you approve these vendors that will hit over a 100,000 that are through a cooperative. You save a lot of money with the cooperatives. Not necessarily, but seriously. Yeah. Because then because um to do it go out for RFP it take it some of the times it can take three to six months to go through that process. What is RFP? Uh request for bid. Oh. So the time the time and sometimes we don't have that time. A lot of times we don't have that time. They do try and get the best price, but most of those cooperatives are down in the valley and so it's just real hard. I'll
064make a motion to approve the FY26 coop agreements presented. I'll second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes 6.12 soul source vendor. So anytime we have a vendor that we can't get additional bids for, they're the only vendor that provides that service or that item to purchase. It has to be approved by the board by the board, sorry. Um we have to do a lot of due diligence and research before um we do this. uh the auditors really scrutinize these uh because it's very rare that something is sole source. So um our new procurement specialist did a lot of work to make sure that this was soul source. So, um this is for um the um early childhood care program and it's their um doll simulator simulators that
065they use and so we ask that you approve this soul source vendor. We don't have a lot of soul source. No, we only have like three. Yeah. Yeah, we don't have very many. Okay. Okay. Well, I'll make a motion to approve the soul source vendor reality works as presented. A second. Realy. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motions P. Motion passes 6.13 comp payout. So, um, as of last year when I got here, it was decided that we start paying out comp time at the end of every fiscal year instead of letting it accumulate and then paying it out when they leave. Uh, because if they don't use it by the end of the fiscal year, it it means they just can't use it. So, it's better to
066pay it out at the end of each fiscal year and get it off the books um and not have that liability. So, I'm asking that we pay out this year's comp. This is an estimated amount because we still have two payrolls. Um, but it's about going to be about $5,982. So, I ask that we you approve me to pay out the comp time at the end of this fiscal year. Um, I'll move to approve the unused comp time be paid out for the fiscal year 2425 as presented. I'll second. Motion and a second. All in favor? I I I opposed. Motion passes. 6.14 robotics IGA funding. Miss David. So, as you know, we have a great robotics program at the high school. And so, uh, Mr. Gillespie always, um, goes out to the, uh, Arizona
067Department of Education and receives an annual support from them. And so they require an IG for him to get these extra funds. And so this is um the IGA with Arizona Department of Education for him to get uh kind of like a grant for $10,000. I move to approve the robotics funding as presented with AD. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes 6.15 SF renewal for FY2526. Miss Davis. All right. So each year, so we are current we are in a contract, a multi-year contract with SF, which is our food ser food management company. Wow. And so each year we do have to renew that contract. So we are in year two of a five-year contract. So this is just the renewal contract for this year
068for with SF. I move to approve the contract renewal with SF for the fiscal year 2526 as presented. A second motion and a second. All in favor? I I motion passes 6. John, I had a question on um that to I wanted to see if the breakfast and lunch prices have been determined for this upcoming school year yet. We currently are not increasing them this year. Okay. So, we'll be approving them next month. No, no, we're not increasing them next year. Okay. So, they will stay the same. Okay, great. Thank you. do that. 6.16 NAVIT IGA FY2526 Miss Davis. So again um with NAVIT we have to um approve our IG with them each year. So this is our um IGA with them which includes an um estimated budget. So the estimated budget is the
069same as this year 40 $470,000 but after talking to um Mr. Butler. Um he does think that that's going to increase. Um he anticipates a an increase in classes due to the um increase in um graduation requirements for this what we approved a month or two ago. Correct. Correct. So um that should increase which is great. It's a good program. So, um, this is I ask that you approve the IGA with NAVIT this for this next year. I'll move to approve the Navbit IGA with corresponding exhibits as presented. I'll second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I I opposed. Motion passes 6.17 designate student activity treasurer Miss Davis. Okay. Again, this is an annual requirement that the board approves the student activity treasurer. Um, that is myself. I'm the student
070I'm the student activity treasurer with Charlotte Cosgra and Jamie Ramsay as the assistant student activity treasurer. I read this and thought they already do so much. Thank you for all that you do, ladies. I'll move to approve the I I move to approve Shaylee Davis as the student activities treasurer and Charlotte Costco and Jamie Ramsey as assistant student activity treasures. A second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes 6.18 student athletic and CTE fee schedule for 2526. Okay. So each year we have to approve the fee schedule. Um so this year there was a slight increase as well as we added CTE course fees. Um it's a small in uh course fee. It's $15 per course for per student. Um so again we just ask that you
071approve these fees for this year. Any questions on any of them? Have we always or is this new approved these? No. Oh. um having the student fees for both athletics and activities. Yes. Yes. We've always had these. Yeah. It's it's a requirement. It's an ARS statute that we have these increase for athletics. Oh, Shayley, can I ask why we added the CTE course fee? Um they needed asked for it. They don't Yeah, they CTE asked for these fees. Is it for administrative costs or or is it a student fee that we pay to um Navet or No, student fee. So, for example, in culinary um they consume a lot of supplies, right? And they're perishable. And so, when we when we talked to the CTE director and the the teachers, there was a desire like
072they need some help in supporting their consumables, especially in culinary, for example. And so we feel like a $15 once a year skin in the game kind of fee will help support all the CTE programs in their supplies. This is not administration. This goes directly back into the classroom directly for the supplies. Very good. Thank you for explaining. And I'm Scott. What was the increase for was there an increase for the athletics? An increase. don't increase very much. Was it maybe like $25 maybe? I don't remember what it was. 10 I think. Was it 10? I think it was like 140 when my kids were here. Okay. Is that where we're at now? 140. 150. 150. 150. Yeah, it was a small increase, Kelly. Huh? Cool. Yeah. Yeah, it was very small. But all the
073other fees stayed the same. I move to approve the student fee schedules for fiscal year 2526 as presented. I'll second. Motion a second. All in favor? I I I opposed. Motion passes 6.19 general stipens FY2526. M Davis. All right. This again is the general stipens um for teachers for the extra duties that they do. Um, we did have to eliminate some of the stipens due to the decrease in the grant funds that paid for these stipens. Um, and we did add a lead health tech stipen. Um, this is something that uh Dr. Farnsworth and I and and Miss March uh really felt passionate about having somebody to really lead the the the health tax and even possibly become an actual nurse for our district. Um we really think this is something that the district needs.
074So, um this person is becoming a nurse, right? She's going to school to become a nurse. So, we're starting out with this lead health tech um stipen and then um the other stipens we did not increase at all this year. Um so, this the they remain the same like I said except for the decrease or the elimination of some of the ones that were uh paid out of grants. I'll move to approve the student fee schedules for fiscal year 25. No, these are the general stipens. These are general statements. Oh, so oops, my bad. It does. Just you want to say student fee schedules in place of Well, goodness gracious. We just did the written. Yeah, it is. Athletics. We just did that. You'll want to do general stipens. This is general stipens. General stipens.
075Okay. I move to approve general stipens for fiscal year 2526 as presented. Thank you that second. I have a motion and a second. Any other comments or questions? All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. Thank you. 6.20 school properties disposal. Miss Davis. So, these are our property disposals. There's quite a few. It's the end of the year, so everybody's going through their inventory and getting rid of the items that don't work anymore. So, um, I ask that you approve the disposal of the the listed, um, items. I'll make a motion to approve the border or board approved the school property disposal information as presented by the administration. I'll second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. 6.21 WMI summer agenda. Dr. Farnworth. So, I would ask
076the board to approve the compensation of two individuals that are doing high school, summer school, and credit recovery. And these funds are being paid out of grant funds. Move to approve the WMI summer agenda as presented. I second. Motion, a second. All in favor? I I I opposed. Motion passes. 6.22 Lead Health Tech job description approval. Dr. as as you've seen over the over the year, the turnover in our health techs is quite high. Um, in my experience in working in in other districts, rural and and bigger districts, there they usually have like an RN that kind of is the lead um health practitioner for all the other uh health techs or nurses in the district. Um, that's something that I would like us to see us go to is is right now the burden
077of training and the burden of compliance is falling on our special ed director, which she's got a lot on her plate already. And so moving in a direction of having a lead health tech hopefully that would be an RN in the future to kind of manage shot records, compliance, best practices in in health, the health industry. So, we would ask that when you look at this job description that you would approve it. Um, that this is this is a new job description. It is a new expectation that out of all the campuses, we're going to have one one individual take on these added duties so that they could start training and supporting and kind of being the expert with our health text, which we think is important because we have kids that come to the
078nursurse's office all the time. You're keeping the hourly pay the same. Hourly pay is the same, but they're going to get we just approved the stipen and so there would be a stipen that goes along with this job duty. And if I may, as well as she's going to work five additional hours. So most health techs only work 35. She's going to work 40 hours. Um, and where will this person be based? Well, it's going to depend upon the qualifications. When we look at the health text, we'll open it up. will advertise and it's going to be internal and based upon who has the the I guess the best resume, the most qualifications, the one that's progressing towards an RN. That would be our thought process to to make sure that they're in the right
079spot to be able to mentor, coach, train the other health techs. Very good. So, we're hiring somebody that's progressing to an RD, not an R. Correct. because RNs are expensive. I was going to say, how can we compete with the private sector? We can't, but some RNs are at a point where they want to be on a school schedule with their kids potentially. Um, they like the routine of a school year. So, I've seen that happen. But in terms of financial, we can't compete. But having different options, we we may be able to secure someone in the future. Right. One of our alumni would be great. Dr. Farzer, did you say this would be an internal? So, you're not going to post this? This would be an internal posting because we want the person to
080be an employee, one of our health techs that would mentor the other health techs. So, having an outside person kind of would defeat the purpose at this point. Okay. I think this is a great move in the right direction. And with that, I'll move to approve as presented. I'll second motion a second to all in favor I I opposed motion passes 6.23 veil beyond textbooks IGA Dr. FZA. So, this is an annual um adoption by the board. Um we use we we are a collaborator with the Veil Unified School District and we use Beyond Textbooks which is a a virtual platform that houses all of our state standards for for all of our courses um supplemental supplementary materials. Um and so we would approve ask that you would approve our agreement with Beyond Textbooks. And
081if I did a lousy job explaining that, Charlotte, you can fill in my gaps. Okay. Thank you, Charlotte. I move to approve the veil BT agreement as presented. Second. Motion a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Did we lose? I've voted. I I'm sorry I missed it. It's okay. I didn't want to didn't want to roll without you. Okay. So, motion passes. Item 6.24, second reading policy 1-302. Dr. Farnsworth. So, we've we've talked about this at length with the board about call to the public and different nuances. And so, you can see the changes in uh yellow, highlighted in yellow. We've read this before. I'm asking at this point that you would formally adopt this so then we can make this part of our policy. Um, so for those of you that are watching
082from home, it would it would we would still offer the limited call to the public, but if you do come to speak to the school board, there's there's expectations of no obscinity, profanity, racial slurs, threats of any kind, and you must speak on an agenda item. It's not just a open plat open mic night. If you will, I move to approve the policy 1-302 as presented. Second motion, a second. All in favor? I I I opposed. Motion passes. 6.25 spent special services contracts. Mrs. Marsh, your name is on this. I'll I'll just kind of speak as as you guys heard at our work session. Miss Marsh did a great job explaining that there are services that we we are required to provide that we just don't have the capacity or the skill set and so
083which means we have to go out and contract with vendors to provide those services. And in the work session, I did share with everyone that we would be bringing to you a list of individuals that we've contracted with in the past or potentially to contract. And you see before you what those services are, what the rate is, what they're going to be providing. Um, and we would ask that you would approve those vendors because we we just don't have the those people to do those jobs. I move to approve this bed special contracts as presented. Second. Motion a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes 6.26 out of state traveler. We have two trips that we're asking the board to approve. Um just let me see here. One is to Las Vegas for
084a innovative school summit and then the other one is to Salt Lake City for the National Rural um association conference in October, September. October October and we would ask that you would approve both of those. I looked up the innovative school summit that looks really good. They're going to have a lot of great speakers. I think that they will learn so much. It's going to be great. I'm almost jealous. So, we'll go tag along. Yeah. Tag along. Make a motion. Well, if if I may add, if if there are conferences or trainings that the board would ever want to attend, please tell us. We we'd be happy to look into that and and provide that for for any one of of the board members. Thank you for that suggestion. I'll move to approve the out
085ofstate field trips as presented. I'll second. Motion a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. 6.27 gifts and donations. We we have a length. Again, it it's humbling to be in the Xolo community to see all of the community partners who step up every I mean sometimes multiple times in a school year. Um, a lot of these donations that you see were for the end of the year staff uh lunchon giveaway. We we had lots of donations. Um, and I don't know if Jamie or or Charlotte or anyone want to comment. You kind of helped with the donations, Jamie. I I think I think I heard that this was one of the best years we had in terms of donations. Um, so again, super appreciative. Um, again, I know this was mentioned earlier,
086our our well was fixed. We're now off city water, so we're able to irrigate our our fields at a and have huge potential savings, tens of thousands, maybe over $100,000 in savings over the course of a year. So, special thank you to Xolo Ford. But if you just look at this list, just tons of of donations. It's just humbling to be in a community where you get that kind of support. Absolutely. Yeah. So, there's a big long list. I'm I'm not going to read it, but um for it's it's a it's a very big group of lots of different people. And so we just want to make sure that those folks understand how grateful we are for their donations. Um the uh the well fix is is a real game changer for us. So uh
087expressly grateful for that. Thank you to you all for donating and that's what makes this community so great. Yes. Without a doubt. Yes. And with that, I move to approve the donations and gifts as presented. Second. Motion and a second. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. Item 6.28. Do we have any future agenda items anybody has that they'd like to get on note that we can work on? We we talked a little bit in our our uh our work session about uh graduation and the pres presentation of our students. I think we need to look at that a little further and maybe go into the handbook and start doing some changing with some of the p things we p passed in the past uh to make it uh you know support what we'd
088like our students to look like. Um, is there something specific you would like me to bring back at our next board meeting regarding that? Well, I think we need to study it a little bit. Okay. You know, and and have have the the pleasure of the board go through and what see what they think and see what they think needs to be changed. And maybe some people don't think anything, but would like to talk about that. And would that include the would you want to include the principal in those discussions? Yeah, I'd love to have the principal. Absolutely. Would it be appropriate, and I'm asking these questions so I can deliver, would you like the principal to kind of give a a short presentation on like where we've been, what we've been doing historically, just
089to cuz I don't know. Yeah. And how much we've changed in the past few years. Okay. I think that we've kind of gotten away from some of the things that uh that we talked about during that meeting and would like to get back towards. Okay. Kelly, do you have anything? Um, I would probably I no, but on just to back up our talk about what Paul's uh request is, I would also like to make sure that we have legal counsel probably involved in that as well to make sure we stay within the legal parameters that we would need to in structuring um procedures for, you know, dress code or or what have you at graduation. Perfect. Good idea. I will reach out to legal counsel and see what guard rails or parameters that they have.
090Thank you. Do we need to change the July meeting? We do need to talk about the date of the July meeting. I will not be here on a regularly scheduled July meeting. I have a family event scheduled. I'm asking the board if we could move it up to July the 7th, which would help us also accomplish the proposed budget the adopted budget, which we have to do by statute before the 15th. So, is is that agreeable to everyone if we have our regular July board meeting on July the 7th, which is a Monday? Good for me. Yes. Yep. And we should probably make note. Have you had a Has anybody had a chance to see if this venue is available or not? Yes, I have. I We're just waiting on Okay. All right. So, we'll
091make the date and then we'll have to announce specifically where it's at. It's going to be the same time, but it may it's either here or going to be at the district office. Remember, we have to have a hearing before. Okay. So, um again, it's just for public comment. I don't need to do a presentation again. Okay. So maybe 6:15 public comment and then start at 6:30. Okay. Okay. I really really hope I'm not here then. We'll call in. Okay. With that said, um we don't have any uh any requests for uh calls of the public and I will um enter entertain a motion to adjourn until our next meeting which will be July 7th which is a Monday at 6:15 place to be determined. Okay. I'm entertaining. Yeah. Yes. I'll second that. Yeah. A
092motion to adjurnn our meeting. You move to adjourn. All second. Uh all in favor? I I motion passes. Thank you. Thanks for [Music]