001stepped up to be a volunteer coach for our chess team, excuse me, for our chess team. And recently he has saved the day by volunteering every week for Ice Cream Friday. Our students love you and appreciate you for that. It has been an honor and pleasure to get to know you and see how much helping out has meant to you as well. We couldn't do it without your selfless giving of your time for all the students at DVES. Congratulations, Peter, on your recognition and award. We're very proud to have you as part of Desert Woodstock. Okay, we're on item 2.4, my favorite part of the meeting. I was going to say, I love that I get this one part every month. This is the best part. It is. Student of the Month recognition. Yeah, we'd
002like to introduce our November Students of the Month and thank, as always, the Elks Lodge number 2349 for its support of students throughout Apache Junction Unified School District. Sherry Coker of the Elks Lodge will be handing the Students of the Month their medallions. Students, please wait on the stage after you receive your medallion so a picture can be taken. First up, we'll bring Desert Vista Principal Pat Smith back up to the podium. Well, hello there again. So, again, it's always an honor and privilege to present to you two amazing Mustangs for this honor. This evening, the first student who I'd like to bring up is Jordan Barrett. When you think about what it means to be responsible and kind, it is easy to think of Jordan. His homeroom teacher, Mrs. Short, shares with me that
003he is a wonderful student who works hard in class. He demonstrates kindness consistently towards his classmates by always looking out for their best interests. I know personally that I have witnessed Jordan being a wonderful citizen at DVES through his positive attitude and always willing to help during lunch to make things easier for our building manager. Yes, I have noticed that Jordan. We at Desert Vista are very fortunate to have Jordan as part of our Mustang family. Way to go Jordan. I am very proud of you and congratulations on your award. The next student who I'd like to join us on stage is Lillian Mendoza. Lillian is an amazing young lady who I have known since she has been little wee in kindergarten. Over the years, I have been able to witness her caring ways and
004kindness at DVES inside and outside of the classroom. Honest, hardworking, and responsible are three words that come to mind when I think of Lillian. Her teacher shares with me that she is a great student who comes to school ready to learn. She participates in class and works hard on all of her assignments. She is very kind, helpful, and makes great choices daily. Lillian, I am proud to be your principal and all of us at DBS are proud to see you grow to be a leader on our campus. Congratulations on your award. It is well deserved and congratulations to both of you. I couldn't be more prouder than I am tonight. So continue to do the great work you do and be those Mustang leaders on campus. Thank you. My mind slipped. I'm like, who's next?
005So without further ado, I'd like to introduce Mrs. Clement, the principal at Peralta Trail. Good evening. I'd like to present our two students of the month for Peralta Trail Elementary. The first one is Joseph Jojo Caravella. Jojo is a conscientious, hardworking student with a wonderful, helpful attitude. He is committed to learning. He asks questions for clarification when needed. He is a leader on campus and a friend to all. He can often be found helping others and assisting staff members. He sees the best in everyone, looks for solutions in every difficult situation, can be trusted and to be honest and accountable. JoJo is an asset to the Peralta Trail Elementary community. Our second student of the month is Isabella Quiroz. There she is. Isabella is a sweetheart. She puts her best foot forward, she tries her
006best, and she doesn't give up. Even when learning isn't easy, there is no quit in Isabella. She's extremely responsible, she exercises integrity in everything she does, and she isn't afraid to ask for help when needed. She is a great role model and exemplifies our growl philosophy, working hard to grow in everything she does. She always respects others. She overcomes the challenges that are in her path. She works hard and strives to be a leader. She's a wonderful student to have in class. Her teachers appreciate her, and she is a great friend to all. And thank you, Isabella, for being a great role model at Peralta Trail. Now I'd like to introduce to you Phyllis Bellemere from Four Peaks Elementary. Good evening, Madam President, members of the board, Superintendent Wallace, and our community members. I'm very
007proud to recognize our November Students of the Month. Caleb Van Winkle. Caleb is always eager to help any peers in the classroom, as well as his teachers. He is responsible and hardworking. He works hard in all classes and adds depth and insight into a discussion. Caleb always seeks understanding of material he is learning by asking questions that are beneficial to not only him, but also his peers. He has a positive attitude and joyful personality every day. We are proud to honor Caleb today for his great achievements so far in sixth grade at Four Peaks. Our next awardee is Sophia Lovato. Sophia is a model student. She works hard, takes her responsibilities seriously, and is available to help other students with assignments. Sophia has been a great student from day one as she works hard and
008is focused on improving herself every day. She is artistic and sets a good example for high quality work. We are happy to have Sophia in our school this year and are excited to give her this award tonight. I would like to add that both of them were so excited today when I saw them in the office. I said, you're going to be there, right? He said, oh yeah, oh yeah. So I'm very proud of both of them. Thank you. I'd like to introduce Kenny Deloria, principal of Cactus Canyon Junior High School. Madam President, board members, and Superintendent Wallace, I would like to introduce our first Cactus Canyon student of the month for the month of November, Raymond Dinozian. Raymond is a true joy to have in class and an ideal student. He has a strong
009work ethic and his work is always done on time. He actively participates in classes and assists his classmates when they are struggling. He's a great example of integrity, honesty, and responsibility. He is polite, kind, reliable, and very respectful to everybody he works with. His work ethic is visible. Not only inside the classroom, but outside as well. He's an active member of the NJHS. He also works as a manager for the girls basketball team and an active member in Cactus Canyon basketball team as well. He's also an avid volunteer for organizations outside of school, such as the VFW, and he's an exceptional student. When asking his teachers about Raymond, they all say that having a class full of Raymonds would be a dream. Congratulations, Raymond. Our second student of the month is Natalie Ann Forth. Natalie
010is an example of what CCJH has to offer. She represents the best of Cactus Canyon. She's an amazing student who's always on task and always prepared and focused on her work. She exhibits great attention to detail and is always polite and respectful. Natalie is a major part of our school culture as she serves on both our NJHS program and our yearbook staff. She has been on the yearbook staff for two years and her work as a seventh grader has earned her an editor position because Mr. Davis knows that he can trust her to make good judgment and good decisions and do her very best. She also helps others at the same time. Natalie recently received several state awards as a finalist for the National Photo of the Year. All is well-deserved recognition for a superstar
011student and a superstar person. It is a true joy having Natalie on our campus. Congratulations, Natalie. I would also like to introduce Apache Junction High School Principal Dr. Lineberry. Good evening Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the board, Superintendent Wallace. It's an honor to be here with you tonight. Tonight I get to introduce two of our outstanding students to you. Our first outstanding student is a senior. Her name is Avery Fisher. So other than watching our football team win on Friday nights when we play at home, I think one of the other real joys of those Friday nights is hearing Avery sing the national anthem. She has a beautiful voice. She's an outstanding student. If you were able to catch the student production of Puffs, she played Jay Finch and six other roles. And she
012did a really good job. Ms. Matlow says that she is a model prospector. She participates in class, works with her groups, completes assignments on time, and scores well on assessments. She participates on the volleyball team. She's active in drama, uses her musical talents to sing the anthem at several events, and she's a pleasant person to talk to and helps to create a positive prospector environment. Congratulations, Avery. Our next student of the month is a young man who's in 10th grade, and his name is Raymond Dawson Blank. So Raymond has been a model student this year. This is what Ms. Warren writes. He completes his classwork, he helps others do their classwork, he even asks for practice work to do at home. He's a very polite young man, you saw him take his hat off there,
013although that may have been for the medal. He opens doors for other students and teachers. A couple weeks ago he came up to me and said, you know, I sometimes see trash on the ground here at the high school, what can I do to help? and he ended up organizing a group that weekly goes around and picks up anything that may be left behind. In the past, he's had some behavioral struggles, but this year, he's rocking it. He's striving to be his best self. He has so many excellent days and nothing less than a good day all year long. Congratulations, Raymond. The board will take a five-minute recess. Okay, we are going to resume. Okay, we are on item 2.5, public comments. I'm going to read a little spiel. Speakers are asked to limit their
014comments to three minutes so that everyone who wishes to speak will have the opportunity. ARS 38-43102H prohibits the governing board from discussing items which are not on the agenda. If the item you are addressing is not on the agenda, the board will not be able to answer questions or discuss the issue with you. We will begin with Ms. Mary Gregory. Good evening. I'm here again. I'm really thankful that I've started coming to the school board meetings. As a concerned grandparent, I think it's really important for us to know what's going on in our schools. I think it's really great to get to see the children. And I'm really thankful for you guys and all the teachers that work with children because I know that takes special people to do that. I'm here again about my
015concerns because I read and hear more and more about CRT. And so I thought it was on the agenda for tonight. So I guess I'm wrong. We have the policies that are going to be on the agenda for rescinding. Is that what you're addressing? Is that the CRT? There's that one. Okay. I just wanted to say how, I mean, after learning about it and really studying it, is how detrimental it is to adults and children as well. And having us... look at ourselves as a racist nation is very, very alarming because most of our nation has become interracial in marriages and just attitudes. So I think it's very, very detrimental. And also, I started learning more about... common core curriculum. And so I just wanted to know how effective is that in our schools? And
016I really don't know. So it's just something I just need to educate myself on. But I'm just asking you, too, as a board, sometimes if we go off on these directions of social justice and... sexual orientation and those kind of things being taught in our schools, I think we miss what really children need is to know, to have academics. So on that, again, I just thank you. And again, I just really want to become educated. And I also just want to really ask you to really... look into this CRT and those social programs for children. So thank you. Thank you, Mary, for your comments. I'm going to move on to Ms. Donna Weiss. Good evening, and thank you for all that you do. I also want to express that you do not teach critical race
017theory in our schools. It is very divisive. to our kids. And in this time, we do not need more division. Also, I hope that you do not mandate vaccines for children. Our children are at no risk of dying from COVID. They are at more risk of dying from flu, accidents, car accidents, many more things. And I thought I had seen that volunteers were required to be vaccinated if they wanted to help in school. And in light of seeing how the grades have been, I don't think that you should be alienating those people. I don't think you are mandating it for teachers. So I don't understand why you're mandating it for volunteers at this time. To me, you're cutting out a whole bunch of people who could be willing to help, and I would think you
018would want more help in the schools. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Roberto Reveles. I'm Roberto Reveles of Gold Canyon, native Arizonan. I've lived through all but 20 years of Arizona's history, and I live by the saying of those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. Arizona's history is an uncomfortable history for some people, as we've just heard two speakers state. But think of how uncomfortable it is for those of us who have lived through racist history of segregation and who continue to fight for equal justice under the law, even though it may make some adults and children uncomfortable. Think of those of us who have been subjected and continue to be subjected to racism. Truthfulness is critically important to education and it is unfortunate that some people are politicizing critical
019race theory, which is a high education specialty that is not taught anywhere other than at the university and legal schools. So again, I urge parents and teachers to teach truthful history, uncomfortable as it is. I've lived it. It was lived by others here in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, California, and here in Arizona. It ended in our public school systems only in 1951. I've lived it, and I continue to preach, teach truthful history. Thank you, madam. Thank you. Okay, we are going to move on to item three, consent agenda. Somebody like to make a motion on the consent agenda? Madam President, I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? Second. Mr. Bowers seconds. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Concio? Yes. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Bowers? Yes.
020On me, yes, that motion passes 5-0. On to information and discussion items. 4.1, AVID program update. Not Ms. Gonzalez? Mr. Cantrell? Ms. Gonzalez couldn't be here tonight, so they worked together on the presentation, and then he's here tonight to present. Mr. Cantrell. Good evening, Madam President, board members, and Superintendent Wallace. My name is Chad Cantrell. I'm our Director of Educational Services, and I'm excited to talk to you about AVID. AVID's a wonderful program that we've been rolling out over the past few years, and so I'd just like to give you an update on how that program is going, especially as we've been expanding it recently. So AVID, we're going to, you know, as we talk about AVID, I'm going to cover the site leaders because we've had some changes in who's overseeing the sites, some
021of the accomplishments that they've made over the last few years, the current enrollment in the program, just some budgetary information, as well as some upcoming events that we have going on. So before I go too far, I did want to kind of just give a brief overview of what AVID is. So AVID is Advancement by Individual Determination. It's essentially a structured college preparatory system working directly with schools and districts. Now that's not to say that a student who has other career paths after high school can't join AVID. It's prepping you for those skills that are needed in college, in the real world, for any job that you want to go into. And so AVID, while focused on encouraging students into college, certainly does prep them for any path in life. It provides a direct support
022structure for first generation college students as well as providing a school-wide approach to both curriculum and rigor. So AVID works through a few domains. Those are instruction, systems, leadership, and culture. So at the end of each year, our AVID program at each site has a, they have a site team and they go through those, they go through each of those. Those areas and they grade the school on how things are going they look at Artifacts they upload pictures throughout the year they upload projects they upload all kinds of different things Throughout the year so that way they have artifacts that they tangibly show what? what the school is doing what they're covering and those kinds of things and so That's a that's that's kind of why those domains are really important when it comes down
023to the end of the year the mission for avid is that AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in the global society. So recently, we've been able to add the high school to our AVID program. And so this year, we have a new AVID teacher. Her name is Liz Sevolt. She's been a wonderful, wonderful addition to the AVID program. She's doing a great job, especially in her first year. She really has taken the reins of the program and has done some amazing things along with support from the site coordinator who is Mr. Barner. Richard Barner is an academic coach for us, but he does support the program as well. Over at Cactus Canyon, we have Tina Jada, who's our coordinator and a coach, as well
024as a teacher for AVID, and then Lisa Smith, who's our other AVID teacher. So they split 7th and 8th grade and both do AVID. Since that is our older program, it is growing definitely, and so having those two teachers has been good. It also allows that duty of the coordinator to be... to be done by one person because it is a big job. It really should be its own, but we've been able to do it with the two of them and having one teach as well. So the high school has some great fall accomplishments this year that we're really excited about. They've been doing their monthly site team meetings, which is a part of making sure the program is functioning, growing, looking at the next year, how do we recruit more students? But their Wednesday
025morning college visits is an area that's a real point of pride. So every Wednesday morning, the students in AVID have a virtual college visit. They're going to do some in-person ones as well, but they've been doing virtual college visits every Wednesday. So they've seen U of A, DeVry, Oregon State, Southern New Hampshire. ASUNAU, Rio Salado, CSE Texas A&M, and those are planned to continue. So it really gets students in the mindset of College isn't just CAC. It's not just Maricopa Community College. It's not just ASU or U of A or GCU. It's giving them that global perspective that there's a whole big world out there of different schools, different thoughts, different schools that specialize in things. A lot of students don't really realize that if I want to be a doctor, I don't go to
026ASU necessarily. There's no medical school there in the same way that there is at U of A. kids don't understand those kinds of things sometimes and so this is a great opportunity to open their eyes to the different opportunities they have you know students who love being out in the woods may not know that they can get a forestry degree here in arizona and so this is the kind of opportunity with these visits that gives them that that wider viewpoint of opportunities for them and so that's an area we really wanted to emphasize because we're really excited it's a lot of work by mr barner and missiveld but they've been doing it every wednesday and it's just been just been great for the kids Ms. Sevolt attended the regional training, so we got her onboarded
027really quickly. They did a virtual family night in October. Looking forward to the spring semester, we're really excited about continuing the work that's already been done, but also having an ASU AVID night and having NAU and GCU campus visits as well, while also completing some service projects. That's a part of AVID as well, is completing community service projects. So last year, Cactus Canyon did a road adoption cleanup. So those are the kinds of things that they do. So Cactus Canyon had several fall accomplishments as well. They actually do monthly, they meet twice a month as a site team. They've started implementing school-wide AVID, so that means not only the students in the AVID program are getting the AVID strategies, learning how to work a calendar, certain types of note-taking, those kinds of things, they're actually
028doing that school-wide now. So that's the long-term goal of AVID is you don't just have your AVID students doing AVID, everybody is getting some piece of AVID. Now they may not have the tutorials and they may not have those things going on in the same way in the classroom they do, but... they're really learning those strategies to be successful at that next level, whether that's technical school, college, or career. So the Schoolwide AVID is a great first step for them towards that Schoolwide AVID certification. They did their in-person family night on September 15th. They did a skate land field trip on September 24th. They've done college and career displays around campus. They've got the kids researching them. They work to make the displays around the campus. The AVID program on October 30th had a booth
029at the city Halloween event. Mr. DeLaurea talked about what a great time it was, how much fun they had. So that's kind of part of their way of giving back. They're also going to continue their street cleanup program that they have. I believe it's Apache Trail just east of Idaho. So they do take about a mile past. And then in the works for spring semester for Cactus Canyon, they're going to continue the work that they've built. They'll have an ASU Avid night as well, along with more field trips. Sometimes colleges are really accepting of having the junior high kids come to the college visits other times they're not so much and so that changes from time to time what field trips they can go on so they have had that opportunity to go to colleges
030it was great for the students but they do some other focused stuff. like going to sporting events so as you might have a girls basketball avid night and or women's basketball have a night and so everybody can go or men's basketball night that kind of thing the phoenix suns have done it before and so the arena is really filled with avid students from all around the state so it's not just your school so the kids get to see oh my gosh i'm part of this program that's much much bigger than i am and so that's a great thing for them to see and then they'll continue with their service projects as well We this year have added four peaks as our newest school so far Peaks is rolling out their avid program right now Their
031site team attended regional training September 24th and 25th and right now they're building their team, but it's their principal miss Bella mayor Miss Porter miss Davis miss burn and miss Mortensen, so they're developing a really strong team to lead their AVID program and get that going and built there. In November they're going to do their site goal setting and start building those programs up. So right now the enrollment for AVID, so in seventh grade we have 20 students, in eighth grade we have 22, ninth grade has 27th, and 10th and 11th has 25. So those are the classes right now. They are definitely growing from where they were especially with COVID kind of not being in person Really hurt out of it because avid is a very collegial program It's very much about the person
032sitting next to me being able to do the tutoring sessions in class with my peers That is very much what avid is built on it is built around being a support system for each other and Being having that teacher as with their support system and that was that was really difficult when we weren't in person and so That that definitely stunted the growth a little bit, but it really came back pretty quickly this year being back in person and the students are are seeing a lot of the fun pieces of it the trips learning about the colleges and you know secretly we're teaching them how to be responsible how to calendar how to take notes how to be organized and all those pieces so um you know it's been it's built around these things as
033well over here writing inquiry collaboration organization or reading if you ever hear wicker that's what we're talking about not the furniture so but it is built around those concepts And so that's really where AVID focuses the academic piece. The expenses for the current year, AVID costs about $16,000 for the year, just over. So there's a yearly fee for each site. We get the AVID weekly newsletter, which has instructional strategies, encourages professional development, gives our teachers idea on what professional development to take back, what to focus on, how to calendar out the year. So that's a great resource for us. And then this year there was the additional training over at Four Peaks because that's a new program, as well as the books that are involved. And then we did have the new teacher at the
034high school, so that training was $600 this year as part of that $16,000. But we found a really, really wonderful teacher over there at the high school, and so it's money well spent and a great investment in their program. Finally, what we've got coming up next, just kind of like we talked about, is the service projects and the field trips. The long-term goal is to go school-wide, meaning every student is touched by AVID in multiple ways. Right now, they kind of are in different strategies that get implemented into the classroom, but truly doing AVID lessons, whether you're in the class or not, is really that goal of school-wide. Demonstrating across campus rigor and all the pieces that make up AVID, the WICR pieces, the Writing and Query Collaboration Organization. Those are all kind of the
035pieces that we want to make sure. that are seen in all classes and that's that school-wide goal. We're working, we've created tax donation accounts for AVID so that way people can donate their tax credit to AVID. We have quite a few teachers who actually do direct payment into those AVID accounts. That's used to go on those trips that we talked about, get the kids up to NAU, get them down to U of A for those in-person visits over to GCU. So that's a great place for tax donations if anybody's looking for an academic program. Maybe something different than the sports or the music, which are all great places to donate to, but Abbott's one as well. They're working on developing professional development for those best practices for teachers and students. Continuing to do the college
036visits. Student goal setting is a big part of it this year. That's a big part of social emotional learning and student goal setting is huge for that. What are you working towards as a student? Knowing what I believe in academically and what I want to achieve is a huge piece of what drives us, what's our why. And so that goal setting is a big part of AVID. We want students to set those long-term goals of I want to go to college or I want to get a 4.0 or I want to get a job that's right out of high school that I can... move out and be successful. So those long-term goal settings, the short-term goal settings of each week, those are a huge piece of AVID. The site team collaboration is just continuing to
037grow with Cactus having those two times a month as opposed to once because they do have a lot to talk about and a lot to plan. High school's developing their program as well, so they're going to be there soon with the multiple times a month. And Four Peaks, like I said, has a great, strong team that they're building from. And then we have an ASU night on February 17th where they're going to tour the campus. They're going to have student-athlete speakers. And then they get to attend the basketball game versus the University of Oregon. So that will be a really fun night for all the students from Abbott who get to be involved. And, again, those are one of those nights where the students are going to be around. kids from Tolleson AVID, they're going
038to be around kids from Mesa AVID, they're going to be around kids from Tempe AVID, all these different places are going to see how big the program truly is and that they're a part of something really special. And our 11th graders right now are really one of our first classes, so they're really that foundational group for this AVID program that's going to keep living beyond them that they got to help start. So that's really exciting for those students as well. So that's basically kind of an overview of AVID. Did you guys have any questions on the program? Anything? So at the secondary level, AVID participants are in an elective class, right? Yes. So how is that going to work at Four Peaks? They would have some sort of elective class as well, but those are
039all the pieces that they need to plan. certain students who are doing band get pulled out during different times of the day depending on the sites that they can work with the band teacher out that's separate from that music like or Special that they do this would this would be that long term. It would be great to have an avid special So that way that's just part of their weekly rotation that they go to that Abbott class But that's that long term school-wide goal as opposed to the right now getting the program established and having that foundational class Just want to make a comment from the beginning when we went and we were exploring this avid program to see how the programs grown and how the students are excelling is really exciting and I'm I
040as a board member. I'm really happy that we implemented and brought this to our schools Yeah, it was very exciting when I was a principal to have avid at my site. It was It's it's really built around our students in many districts. It tends to be heavily with minority students whose parents haven't been to college but here it's we have you know a lot of first-generation college students so it's been a great program for our students to really you know they have parents who are excited for them to go to college pushing them to go to college and this program supports what those parents at home are wanting for their kids and so it's absolutely an exciting program to have I don't have any questions at this time. I just want to make a comment.
041I love this program. I really do. And I feel like giving students as much opportunity as possible is what we do. Sure. And a great benefit of the program is it starts building towards those honors and AP level classes because a big piece of AVID is that students are expected to take at least one, if not more, honors and AP classes because those are very high rigor. And so that is a built-in piece to this that's going to start building those programs as well. So as we push those kids into the AP programs, as we prep them with the skills they need, those soft skills, not necessarily the academic skills. Those are gained in the classroom. But do they have the skills to be organized to be in an AP class? Do they have the
042skills, the study skills, the note-taking skills, to be able to test prep and be ready for that AP course? And so really avid. give those skills that that are needed to do those things right and that's what i'm going to say that organizational skills that really are like important when you're on a college campus but also for in life so if you don't go to college these skills are going to benefit you even whatever career you go so i love the program i'm so glad that we adopted the program and I can relate. I sat in on an avid Zoom class during shutdown and that was not a good experience. It was very hard to navigate. online than trying to do activities that you really need to be in person to do. So I know
043like we're kind of like coming off of the COVID and we're building back up again. And I just think that it's just gonna, it's a good program. Yeah. And the tutorial piece being in person's, you know, a huge piece out there. That's where the students work together to teach each other those concepts. So. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. We are moving on to action items. 5.1 possible action on 2021-2022 prop 301 plan i'm going to give that to miss wallace So this is approval for the board to accept the Prop 301 plan that was developed by a committee of teachers, administrators, and district office staff, and then voted on by each site staff as accepted. Within the plan, there's a professional growth. for teachers to grow through their own professional development that they
044attend. There's also an achievement goal based on student academic scores, and there's a quality service goal that's based on student and parent responses to a survey that gets sent out in the spring. So this is bringing forth that plan so that the teachers, if they accomplish these goals, get paid performance pay, which is... somewhat of a bonus it's in addition to the work the pay that they get for their everyday work for this extra work that they've done any questions on prop 301 plan mr babers mr conchio any questions and the funding for this comes from where prop 301 prop 301 fund is that i'm trying to remember if that's a ends up being a tax increase or not I think Prop 301 has been extended to 2024. I'm not sure about any kind of
045limitation on time. It is from the state based on sales tax. It's its own fund that we receive from the state that is dedicated to going to teachers. It's a portion of the sales tax that is spent in the state of Arizona. This is approved, Mike? There's three portions that we have historically used, and I believe all we're discussing right now is the pay for performance piece. This is where we talked about putting more into the base rather than the pay for performance maybe, I don't know, six months ago, close to six months ago. Mr. Conchia, do you have any other questions? Think we had the plan presented in the work session. Yeah, we went over it Well, you would have you would have seen it Usually adopted in November so you did see it
046back in October I can get you. All I'm saying is because it was planned. This was the one that was planned for last year, right? No, this is, this, we do this, we create this plan each year. And then it's adopted each year by the governing board. And then teachers are paid out in the summer. Right. Okay, they're paid out in the summer. What we're covering right now in this one is for next year though, right? This is for the current year, right? We have to have the board approve each current year plan and then the teachers work on their So madame president I can make a motion to approve the prop 301 for 2021-2022 school year Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Conchial? I will yes at this time. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Batters? Yes. And
047on me, I'll set motion passes 5-0. Possible action on employee salary adjustment. The funding source for this is M&O. Ms. Wallace? These are contracts that were there were some salary changes made at the beginning of the school year But did not make it to the governing board to be approved So we're just we went back and cleaned that up for you and then brought those back to you So they could be approved in the contracts reviewed. All right any questions on that? We had this discussion I think at the last work session Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve employee salary adjustments as presented. We have a motion. Somebody like to second? Second. Mr. Concio seconds. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Concio? Yes. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Batters? Yes. Yes, that motion passes
0485-0. 5.3, possible action on the secondary level class coverage pay. So this would be the current. We have the daily substitutes are making 105 per day and the long-term substitutes are making 125. So this is a motion to increase that 105 to 125 and 125 to 140. And that would be funding M&O monies. Any discussion on that? Just really quick. I still think that we should go above 35 for the secondary class coverage. I'm okay with 35 for right now, but I would like to look into that in the future. So does that sound like anything? I agree. Do you want to add anything, Ms. Wallace? We can review that and come back to you based on what's available with our budget. But if we can approve that tonight, we have teachers that have been
049covering since July that we really want to try to pay out by December because they've done the work and they've just been waiting on the change to see if it's board approved. That's why I'm okay with 35 for now. I appreciate that. Okay, so somebody would make a motion to include those funding in there, the change. So, Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the increase rate from $20 to $35 for the secondary level class coverage pay. I'll second. We have a motion. We have a second. Is there substitutes in here too, right? Yeah, you have to add the substitute safe substitutes and secondary to include substitute teachers in secondary level She doesn't have to read all of that right now. I just want to make yeah Yeah, you were correct. You
050were correct. So we have a motion miss Garcia. Mr. Conti. You still want a second? Yes, I'll second. Yeah the second miss Garcia. Yes. Mr. Cantu. Yes, miss Conley. Yeah, mr. Batters. Yes, and I'm a yes that motion passes 5 to 0 5.4 possible action on the weatherization project in Apache Junction High School at Apache Junction High School Project was awarded to Sun Valley builders in the amount of 1 million two hundred and thirty eight thousand eight hundred and four dollars and seventy eight cents this is school facilities boards portion and the district portion in the amount of one hundred fifty three thousand five hundred and seventy dollars and eighty four cents and that would be the capital fund that balance Any discussion on the weatherization? Yeah, this is the weatherization project that we've been
051working on with SFP for probably a year and this would be our portion for the Excluded spaces that we got to pay for When would the do you know when this would start this project? Well, if we get approval tonight and then that'll all be submitted and then I'll have to wait for SFP Which I'm not 100% sure when that'll be hopefully soon. Yeah. Well, the holiday's coming up, I'm right. Yeah. Yeah. Now, the weatherization is for all the buildings at the high school, correct? Correct. And could you go into a little bit of detail? Because I don't believe the people in the public here know the details as far as what the weatherization encompasses. Yeah, they'll be going through the campus, filling up any holes, cracks. replacing doors if they need it. They're going
052to replace some windows with low-e. And then it's thicker than a paint, almost like an epoxy paint that's going to seal the building, seal the envelope, so no moisture or wind or weather can get in. They'll be doing door sweeps, thresholds. So is this a protective coating then it's painted over is that The paint is mixed in with a protected coat. Oh, okay and then Did we get a I thought we were supposed to get an idea as far as the how long this was going to going to last Yeah, it's about how long how long the coating was going to last I Think it's 15 years 15 years probably 15 to 20 years all right and then after the After the high school is done, then the other schools are going to be getting
053it as well. Yes. Yes, sir. We have Cactus Canyon on the books there they're wrapping up with a roofing because I On the other campuses they want to do the roofing and the weatherization at the same time Okay, we're just going to talk about the high school right now. Okay, I'm sorry. Okay, I understand we're talking about the high school. It's just we've got all this good stuff. You're getting all excited. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to be getting that kicked off hopefully soon. Hopefully soon. All right. And we haven't anticipated completion date at all? No, they predict 17 weeks from the start up. So once everything gets finalized, approved, we'll start having a pre-construction meeting. That's when we'll set the scheduling, the work hours for the construction crews, and so forth. Any other little
054details that we need to come across. Okay. I'm excited. I've been waiting seven years for this. We need to have this happen. Yes, I agree. To all of them. Any other questions or comments? So then all we need to do is just approve this? Mm-hmm. Would somebody like to make a motion? Madam President, I move we approve the Weatherization Notification Award for Apache Junction High School. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? Second. Ms. Garcia seconds. I'm at 30 because I'm so excited. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Concio? Yes. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Bowers? Yes. And on the yes, that motion passes 5-0. Yay! Thank you, guys. Thank you, Mr. Hill. Okay, 5.5, possible action, rescind policy, GBGBR, staff professional security and safety, GCH, professional support staff orientation and training, IBM, teaching about controversial
055sensitive issues, JLCB, immunizations of students, and JLCBR, immunizations of students. these policies are released in response to the recent ruling by the maricopa county superior court judge that parts of the house bill 2898 are unconstitutional and void any discussion on this ms wallace i think i'm going to turn this over to you I just want to make sure that the community is aware that we are not mandating vaccines or masks for staff or students. And I also just want to acknowledge that we realize people have individual beliefs about critical race theory, but I can assure you that we do not have curriculum promoting that, nor do we have teachers that are teaching to that. I can't speak to other school districts, but I can assure you that we are not. And I honestly have read
056about it, studied about it, talked to others about it, and I couldn't have put it any better than Mr. Revels. put it tonight when he said teach truthful history and i'm gonna borrow that from him and use that now when people ask me to elaborate on this because i think he put it that's a simple way but a perfect way for people to understand the importance of what we teach but not changing it with our own thoughts opinions and ideas thank you any discussion miss conley anything no mr batters no miss garcia Mr. Concio. I just want to make sure we are basically doing away with these policies. Okay, that's fine. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to rescind policy GBGBR staff personnel security and safety, GCH professional support staff orientation and training.
057IMB teaching about controversial sensitivity issues, JLCB immunizations of students, JLCBR immunizations of students. And these policies are released in response to a recent ruling by Maricopa Superior Court Judge that parts of House Bill 2898 are unconstitutional and void. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? Second. Ms. Connelly seconds. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Conchia. yes miss conley yes mr batters yes nama yes and i just want to explain my vote i feel comfortable enough to rescind these policies based on what we do here in our district and miss wallace explained that that motion passes five to zero moving on to 5.6 the board will discuss consider and give direction I'm voting on one bylaw change proposal and one core belief addition from the Arizona School Boards Association. This bylaw proposal has been offered by
058other ASBA member school boards, ASBA committees, and the ASBA Board of Directors and must be approved by two-thirds of the ASBA members board to be effective. Proposal A. With unanimous approval of the ASBA Board of Directors, the board recommends that the bylaw may be amended or repealed by a majority affirmative vote of all member boards with unanimous approval of the ASBA Hispanic Native American Indian Caucus and ASBA Board of Directors. This change would create a seat on the ASBA Board of Directors so that Hispanic and Native American interests can be represented simultaneously on the board. Any discussion or questions on this? So else do you want to give this little update I'm gonna turn that over to mr. Bowers, okay, so Historically the ASBA Board of Directors One of their seats was dedicated to the
059Hispanic and Native caucus and they would alternate either every year every two years between having hispanic representation and native representation so basically what this bylaw is doing is giving the caucus the ability to split thus adding another seat to the board that would there would always be hispanic and native representation any questions on that okay would somebody like to make a motion you're good Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the ASBA bylaw change proposal and give direction to board members to vote in the manner the board has approved. I think we're going to give Mr. Bobby the... Yes. Okay. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? Second. Ms. Conley seconds. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Concio? I wish to abstain at this time. Okay. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Bowders? Yes.
060NAMI ASSET motion passes 4 with 1 abstention 5.7 the board will discuss considering a direction on voting on one by law change proposal and one core belief addition from the Arizona School Board Association this bylaw proposal has been offered by other ASBA member school boards ASBA committees and ASBA board of directors and must be approved by two-thirds of the ASBA member boards to be effective after discussion the board will vote to be given direction to a member to vote in the manner the board has approved the following world bylaw proposal and core belief edition to be considered and acted upon with unanimous approval of the asba board of directors the board recommends that bylaw may be amended or replaced by the majority affirmative vote of all members of the boards yeah so this one is
061to change the way that um will approve bylaw changes and amendments Historically and right now it requires two-thirds member boards to vote in the affirmative and this would change it to a majority Okay, would somebody like to make a motion? Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the proposal and give direction to Bobby Botters, our board member representative, to vote in the manner the board has approved. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? Second. Ms. Conley seconds. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Cancio? Abstain. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Botters? Yes. And on my guess, that motion passes four with one abstention. We are on to 5.8 executive session ARS 3-4 3 1 0 3 a 3 and a 7 Discussion or consultation for legal advice with districts attorney and or designate representative
062of the district in order to consider its position and instruct its representative regarding negotiations for the sale or lease of district property Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to enter into executive session ARS 38-431.03.A.3. and A.7 for discussion or consultation for legal advice with the district's attorney and or designation representative of the district in order to consider its position and instruct its representatives regarding negotiations for the sale or lease of the district property. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? Second. We have two seconds. I'll give that one to Mr. Concio. Ms. Garcia. Yes. Mr. Conchia. Yes. Ms. Conley. Yes. Mr. Bowers. Yes. Can I have a yes? We are going to enter into executive session. Heather, do I need my computer? We have the documents in there. Heather. Okay. We
063are going to adjourn executive session and return into our regular meeting. So we are on item 5.9. Approval of instruction given an executive session. The governing board may vote to authorize its attorney or representatives to act as instructed in the executive session conveyed pursuant to agenda item 5.7. Somebody like to make a motion? Madam President. I'd like to make a motion to exercise the right to terminate Superstition Elementary School lease and make this effective for termination in six months. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? Second. Second. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Concio? Yes. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Batters? Yes. Yes, that motion passes 5-0. Okay. Skip 5.10 because we already adjourned. 5-11 discussion and possible action regarding lease of Superstition Mountain Elementary School. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to exercise
064the right to terminate Superstition Elementary School lease to be effective for the termination in six months. Do we have a motion? Would somebody like to second? Second. Mr. Concio, second. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Concio? Yes. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Bowders? Yes. And on me, yes. And motion passes 5-0. closing items, requests for future agenda items. Anyone? Ms. Garcia. So just for clarification, so November 22nd at 1030 Mrs. Golf is our new? Okay. And then remember on the December meeting we have work session before. All right, maybe I'd like to make a motion to adjourn Madam president, I'd like to make a motion to adjourn the meeting Mr. Batter seconds. Ms. Garcia? Yes. Mr. Conchio? Yes. Ms. Conley? Yes. Mr. Batter? Yes. NOM YES. That motion passes 5-0. We are adjourned.