001Good evening. I now call the DACAR governing board meeting of April 27th to order. Let the records uh state that all members are present. Will the audience please rise for the pledge of allegiance shortly followed by a moment of silence. >> Good evening. in reflection and remembrance of students, faculty, staff, and community members uh who we lost this past year. Please join us in observing a moment of silence. Thank you. First item on the agenda is the adoption of the agenda. A motion to adopt the agenda as present or presented. Sorry. Second. Motion carries. Next is the address the governing board. Uh first section uh audience with individuals. >> This is the time for the public to comment. Members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda. Pursuant
002to ARS 38-431.01H, action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter, responding to any criticism, or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date. In order to facilitate accomplishing the business of the district in a timely manner, a time limit of three minutes will be imposed for each individual or group addressing the board. When you approach the podium, please state your name for the record. Uh, this is for Jason Chavez. Hello, my name is Jason Chavez. I come here because I was inspired by your students actually because on Friday there was a press release that the students of Daiser High School assisted in filing a lawsuit with the attorney general uh to sue the federal government over the detention over the proposed
003detention center on surprise. Now these feelings of inspiration uh quickly disappeared once I once in the loss in the live stream that I was watching in came like comments like disgusting comments threatening the students and these threats needs to be like addressed seriously. Um the main speaker during that was Cali Overs and she has actually like addressed in the Surprise City Council meeting to Mayor Sar himself that she has been receiving these threats uh like for a long time and that the and that the safety coordinator who if I'm not mistaken is Mayor Sarter himself has just ignored it and another council member had to like step in to so that these threats can be taken seriously. But I also would like to speak to like what the students are like saying themselves in regards
004to the detention center. Again, I speak on the student safety and the students themselves have made it very clear that ICE and this detent center is the biggest concern to their safety as of right now. And from what I know of this board, you guys have not made any official stance to stand against it or to support Cali over's petition to enact a threemile buffer zone. I urge you to to make your stances clear on that. In addition, I do want you to take the threat seriously to the students as well as any as well as taking the safety of any students that could be threatened by ICE. you the staff should be trained in like know your rights and have like crisis procedures on what to do if ICE if ICE comes over as
005well as just general resources for the students and who are affected by this. Uh in addition I would like to to say that I just do not feel that the children themselves had to do this. Why do children need to step up to be the adults in the room? They should have never have been doing in the first place. This board and the other citizens of Surprise should have been doing that. They should have just been worried about you know going to college, hanging out with friends and like going to prom and what you know what teenagers should be. They are the future leaders. They should not be the current. >> Thank you. Uh the next person is Dr. Sophia Marjanovic. Good evening, Superintendent, President, and board members. I'm here as a concerned member of
006the community. I urged the Daart Unified School District School Board to make a public statement that holds the safety of the children within this school district. On your website, it says, quote, "The mission of the Desaart Unified Schools District is to create a safe, diversified, and engaging learning environment where every student attains academic excellence and is empowered to achieve lifelong success. I don't understand how children in the Daart Unified School District can be safe when they see the proposed ICE facility from Daart High School, which is less than a half a mile from the proposed ice facility. Prisons are not supposed to be within a thousand ft of a school. Do you have a plan if you, children, parents, guardians, or community members of this school district will be caught in the crossfire of violent
007ICE officers killing or assaulting people in the streets? Do you have a plan if people who impersonate ICE officers rape, steal, and or break into the homes of you, the children, parents, guardians, or community members of the school district. The ice facility at the corner of Daart and Cactus Road is right across the street from the homes of children in this district and it will decrease the safety, create chaos and increase crime without accountability in your district. Walk your talk to quote create safe, diversified and engaging learning environment by making a statement as a board to denounce the ice facility. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Oh, that's all there. >> Next on the agendum, section C, superintendent and governing board updates. We have number one, student update. >> Thank you, Mr. President.
008Uh, tonight, Craig Mucy will introduce our student. >> Thank you, President Scavara, members of the board, Dr. Croto. Uh, tonight we have Ava Newton, and Ava is a junior at Willow Canyon High School, and she's here to uh provide us an update. It will be the final student update of the year uh from our student uh advisory council for the district. So Ava, floor is yours. >> Good evening, President President Scavara, members of the governing board, Dr. Croto and cabinet. My name is Ava Newton and I serve as the student body president at Willow Canyon High School and vice president of our district leadership council. As we approach the final weeks of the school year, our campuses continue to demonstrate a strong sense of connection, celebration, and student leadership. At Shadow Ridge High School, students
009are preparing for a memorable end of the year with prom on May 2nd alongside exciting events such as Color Wars, Sen senior spirit week, and senior awards. They are also continuing to foster inclusion and service through initiatives like the best buddies of prom and an upcoming blood drive. At Valley Vista, students are balancing celebration and achievement. They are looking forward to prom on May 2nd while continuing impactful initiatives such as positivity day and minute that matters. Students also hosted class elections and recently celebrated their choir earning first place. Their first ever spring carnival and upcoming upcoming senior spirit week continue to build strong campus culture. At Willow Canyon High School, students are actively engaged in both leadership and recognition events. Prom was held on April 24th along with student elections, NHS induction, and the student
010council banquet. Seniors were also recognized at the senior award ceremony on April 21st, celebrating their accomplishments as they prepare for graduation. At Daart High School, students have a full schedule of events that highlight both talent and school pride. They recently hosted Special Olympics on April 15th and prom on April 25th. Seniors are especially involved with events such as senior sunset, senior spirit week, and assembly, senior a senior awards on May 4th, and a field day on May 11th. Finally, at sundown, students continue to stay engaged through a variety of service and campus building activities. They hosted a blood drive on April 22nd along with hosting several fundraisers. Students are also supporting their community through food distribution at the Elmarrage Senior Center and participating in a career fair. Their efforts will accumulate in a DUCO celebration
011and breakfast to recognize their hard work. As we wrap up the school year, it is clear that students across the district are making the most of every opportunity to lead, serve, and celebrate their school communities. In addition, we are excited to bring all of our student councils together for an endofear conference where we will collaborate, share ideas, and continue to support one another as leaders. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Good job. >> Next item, uh, superintendent update. Dr. Croto. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, just a quick things. I want to congratulate our all the heroes. Everybody was at that awesome, uh, DACA heroes uh, celebration and thank you to Renee and her department once again for an amazing job that everybody did on that night. It was a great
012night and it's awesome to celebrate our heroes. Uh, three things coming up really quick. We have the sundown completion ceremony May 8th right around the corner. uh high school graduation, believe it or not. May 13th, Desert Diamond Arena, we are there and our last day of school is May 21st and uh we are right there, believe it or not. So, um here we go. So, that's all I have tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Dr. Croto. Next item is governing board update. We'll start with board members destitch. >> Hi, good evening. I was able to attend the Daart Hero awards ceremony and I was really feel honored to be able to see all the excellent recipients that received awards. So appreciate them as well as I attended the Daart student broadcasting awards ceremony
013and congratulations to all of those who did it and it's nice to see our broadcasting um student broadcasting is doing so well. So thank you I attended the uh Daart robotics competition and congratulations to Western Peaks for winning both areas. It was really exciting to see uh so many students um just having fun uh with robotics. That's certainly not something I would have ever imagined, but um it was a lot of fun. Uh, I also attended Superintendent Bog's uh, two-day training event for Maricopa County school board members. A lot of great information presented there. Um, and hope to bring some of that back. I also attended the DiceArt Hero Awards. Congratulations to all of our winners and very appreciative of Renee and her team that uh, uh, put that all together. I also attended the
014DAART student broadcasting award night and it that is always just a favorite of mine every year and uh the parent testimonials this year was something new new and added. It was really refreshing um to see that and it's just such a fun event every year. And that's all I have. Uh I also attended the heroes dinner at Happy Trails uh where the DAART administration teachers and staff were uh honored by their peers for the great work they have done for the students at their schools. And I also attended the Daart Education Foundation scholarship awards dinner. That's a nonprofit organization committed to raising funds to provide scholarships for high school graduates. And the student winners plus their mentors, teachers, leaders, and business owners were honored. The following organizations and businesses provided generous scholarship funds. The Barnett
015medical related occupation, Tyrus Timber Brooks Memorial Scholarship. Elmarrage Firefighters, the Randy Sterna Grant Opportunity Scholarship, SF Southwest Food Service Excellence, and the Subaru Share of the Love Scholarship along with the Desaart Education Foundation Scholarship. That's all I have. >> Good evening. Um, on April 14th, I attended the state of the city and I just want to say thank you for inviting us. Um, it was a great it was great to hear about the progress being made and the vision for the future of the city of Surprise. On the 22nd of April, I also attended the Daart Hero Award. Congratulations to all of our winners. Um, your dedication, hard work, and positive impact truly makes a difference in our district and community. We are grateful for every everything you do and proud and proud to celebrate
016all your achievements. So, thank you Renee for all your hard work for putting that together. And um on the 23rd, I had the pleasure of attending the 6th annual uh Daart student broadcasting ceremony. It is inspiring to see the creativity, talent, and hard work of our students on display. Hearing from the parents um about the positive impact this program has had on their students made the evening even more meaningful and congratulations to all of our participants and to our community sponsors who make this happen for our students. So thank you. >> I'd like to say well what a week for Daarts. Last week was uh very moving. There was nothing more powerful than seeing a community invest in their own success. This week we celebrated with uh staff members at the DARA Heroes Award for
017their tireless service followed by a record-breaking night uh the following Thursday at the DACAR education foundation scholarships awards dinner. Listening to each champion speak about the scholarship recipients was a master class in mentorship and hope. Keynote speaker Courtney Gray Shaver perfectly captured this spirit. as a former scholarship winner now finishing her first year as a Daart teacher. She represents the incredible full circle impact of a DACART education foundation. We were we aren't just sending students to college. We are welcoming welcoming them back as leaders. On a personal note though, for Friday, I had to go to the uh support services center to have an adult grilled cheese. This an adult grilled cheese. It's a hidden gem at Daart. And I would like to thank the kitchen staff for their excellent service. Once again, thank you.
018Next item on the agenda is motion to approve the consent agenda items. I make the motion to approve consent agendum agenda items as presented. >> I'll second I'll second. I'd like to make a comment about one of the items. Um E6. I just wanted to state my support for the uh recommendation to approve the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers Training High School curriculum at Willow Canyon High School. They will provide leadership training and comm communication skills, motivation, discipline, how to positively resolve conflicts, responsible behavior, and respect for others. It also introduces cadetses to patriotism, citizenship, and American patriots, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and history of US flag, and the great American seal. They also provide instruction on health, hygiene, nutrition, and fitness, personal finance, budgeting, job interviews, and college applications. I think this will
019be a very positive influence on the students at Willow Kenyon High School. Thank you. >> Thank you. Call for the vote. Motion carries. Next item on the agenda is information and discussion. First one is go to it. Dr. Croto. I'll hand it over to you. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh tonight we get a summary of our uh IBA uh sessions and and Mr. Mangley will take us through that. >> Thank you, Dr. Croto. Uh uh Mr. President, governing board members, uh this is a a summary of our interestbased uh approach when it comes to uh negotiating with a collective group with the governing board. And so, as a representative, myself, Mary Dale, and myself uh are on this um committee as a host. So, I'll get through this presentation with you. So, uh this
020is we're going to talk about the Oh, sorry about that. Just a quick quick They said I have to point it over there. So, I'm sorry. Um, the membership uh basically has 16 voting members on this group and four out of those uh 16 each group has an alternate. So, as you can see there for and then the bottom two is my myself and Mary Dale. Basically, uh we are a host and a resource for this process. It's about a six-month process. Uh so those are our members and you can see they're representative through DEA uh DESP DSAA and cabinet members. So basically your sports staff, certified staff and your administration. Um so what is interestbased approach in a nutshell? It's a it's a group of people that come together for one common goal and
021that is to create an an opportunity that is feasible within the district through a very rigorous criteria process to ensure that if there's opportunities to uh provide raises or look at different anomalies uh that would allow us to take bring to the governing board. And so it's not about an individual or an independent issue. It's about the overall consensus of coming together of different groups uh to uh make these recommendations that you've already received a few month a month ago in March. Uh so that's kind of what the it is. Uh so the process it is a very intentional process. It's uh starts with the stories from each category, the groups, uh the interests, the options, the criteria. That's really where really big you know is it legal, is it affordable, uh maintainable, etc. And
022then again that last piece I talked just a minute ago is it's about having a consensus among the group to bring to the governing board these recommendations. Uh so as a reminder uh the governing board has already uh approved these two but this these were this is a summary of the recommendations. So a 2% increase in salary for all current employees that return next year to continue employment. uh an increase of 1% um on all the starting salaries and and that's coming to the governing board tonight as well. Uh for any this this basically pertains to any employee employee that's not hired yet that will be hired and it increases the base salary. Uh specifically uh some uh items that the IBA is making a recommendation to the governing board is uh the bookstore manager
023is currently on a grade I an hourly rate schedule. Uh we're recommending to the governing board once we get to that stage uh to increase it to a grade L. Uh for a maintenance worker, the same concept. They're at a current grade right now, which is H. We're proposing to increase that hourly rate to a grade I. Uh also, uh in our mechanics, uh at our transportation department, we're requesting that our mechanic one, two, and three all receive an increase in their grades. Well, increasing their salary rate, which means we're we need to change their current grade to another grade. Uh so that's mechanic one, two, and three. Sorry. There you go. Um also, uh there's a recommendation for high school activity, for chess, uh activity, the tier system. It matches your uh coaching system
024that's already in place. This is uh those numbers that you're seeing now are basically the the highest amount they could receive depending on the tier and the tiers are years of service. How many years have you done this particular uh position? Uh the work calendar, a district lead nurse, we're requesting that uh that the lead nurse currently works 197 days, but once the uh school year is over, we actually create a PO and that lead nurse works an additional days. And so this is budget neutral. It's not an impact on the budget at all. Let's just make this person a 211 calendar. Uh it doesn't affect their pay. It doesn't increase, doesn't decrease, but it eliminates the labor to create a PO and process it so this person can do that job for those days.
025Um so uh so aggregate wise, this is about $4.4 million uh that is impacting the budget. And specifically, you can see uh the salary increase, that's your 2% salary increase that the governing board has already approved. And then those classified salary schedules changing from a current grade to the to a higher grade. Uh that cost is uh roughly 36,000. And then the stipens, and this is uh when we do stipens that have different tiers, we always submit the highest tier possible. So, if we do find somebody with experience, that would be the cost, but it could be lower if somebody doesn't have that tier three experience. So, that cost is uh roughly uh just a little south of 11,000. And then the benefit cost insurance that the trust Mary overseas have basically uh determined that
026they're picking up the cost of that $1.2 $2 million and not passing that cost to the employee so they can enjoy that 2% raise and not have to use that raise to pay for their insurance. Uh so with that that concludes it. I am done with that one. >> Mr. President, if I could add so these come to the governing board for approval all at different times. So this report's not approved but you will see tonight for instance um you do have salary schedules on there. So those increases are on the salary schedule. um we've already done work calendars, but the district nurse uh lead nurse will I believe need to come back on that work calendar um to change that. So throughout the process in the year, the governing board does approve all this
027just in different pieces. >> That is correct. Dr. Croto, >> thank you very much. I open it up for questions. >> Can I ask what a the bookstore manager do they work here? What what is are there bit I just kind of want you to explain what that is. >> Uh Mr. President, governing board members, the bookstore managers, we have four of those uh positions, four fts, four physical bodies that do that and they're all assigned to the high schools and they oversee a tremendous amount of inventory. Uh they also oversee money incoming and outgoing cash receipts as well as checks. uh they play a big role in managing uh our different events that uh deal with money incoming and outgoing cash handling. It's a big responsibility. Uh so um it's it's a situation where
028uh uh the IBA has bringing this recommendation to the board, but there's a lot of responsibilities and you usually see them right connected that office right to the library. When you go to the high school, they're connected to that the main media center and they have a big kind of a big some mini miniature warehouse closet of all kinds of stuff in there. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> And then I just read about the is the chess activity like kind of a new thing. I read about it in the community magazine which it sounds great and so this is just to help the chess team or is that >> m Mr. President, governing board members and I'll definitely invite Mr. Musi to come in on this one, but this is something that was brought
029to IBA and and I think Mr. Musi can explain a little bit more. >> Yes. Um, thank you, Mr. Madding Lee. Uh, BA, basically I would I would tell you that um because we started uh really supporting the chess element at the middle school level. Um, when you get to the high school level, those stipens did not exist before for chess. Chess is an AIA sanctioned um I'll call it activity um because I think we think of AIA as as only sports but it's been around a long time in Arizona. The participation is was extremely high and we had many many parents that were beginning to knock down the door at the high schools asking are you going to offer this for our students? There are required events that they attend. I mean it's a
030it's a very it's a it's a structured schedule that you would see within any of your other sports that you have at the high school. the fall season as well. So, >> thank you. >> Hearing no more questions, we'll go to the next item on the agenda. Item number two, information on career and technical education, CTE. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, tonight we have a presentation and I'll let Mr. Musei kick this off. >> Thank you, Dr. Croto. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, uh we have our director of career technical education with us tonight. Uh that's Tom Ludman and his first year serving in this and so he's had an opportunity to uh to really get his feet wet with it and uh really uh bring bring uh to a lot of
031what we saw happening over the last several years um with CT and now he's going to be able to present on that and give us a nice update on what's happened this year. >> President Scavara, members of the board, Dr. Croto cabinet. Uh thank you very much for the time this evening. Uh just going to give you a quick update about what CTE has been up to over the course of this year. Uh so before we begin, I always like to start things a little bit of excitement. So we got a little bit of a hype video we're going to show you about some of our CTE programs here. There we go. It's got really cool sound, too. So, Daert CTE has some really cool stuff going on. There we go. Um, so this is
032a quick snapshot. I thought this was a a valuable piece to get kind of a full picture of what CTE looks like in Daert. uh both in district and also with our our partners at Westmech. Um currently in the district we have 19 pathways. Um that would be a program like sports medicine if you will. Um they are offered at all four high schools. Um those 19 pathways employ 37 teachers currently and three instructional assistants. So it's a pretty big department. Uh we have five student organizations, CTSOs, and we have 39 independent programs. Adding the uh Marine Corps ROC for next year, we will have 40 independent programs through our 19 pathways. So really excited for that new program to start over at Willow Canyon. Um with our partners at Westmech, there are six campuses
033and they offer 37 programs. So as you can see here in Desaert, uh we offer more in-house than than anything that's offered out of house. So the feel of very, you know, that's a big accomplishment. We've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of of uh pathways for our students. This is a comprehensive list of everything that's offered currently. So that's this year and across the four high schools. Anything with an asterisk next to it is one of our signature programs. So, one of the things that uh makes Daart unique is that we have some programs that are offered um at multiple high schools or across all four high schools, but we also have programs that are specialized to each individual high school. Uh the advantage of that and one of the things that we've
034been able to work with principles on for next year is that those individual uh standalone signature programs be offered either first or sixth hour. So, students don't have to transfer high schools to be able to attend one of those programs. they can attend their home school and travel to the the sister school to attend that specific signature program if they choose to do so. Um, so we're looking forward to that. Hopefully that increases some of our participation in those signature programs moving forward. Most of them don't need any help in in participation. However, they're very well attended. We have done uh a lot of work in the uh last year um through our CTE middle schools. Uh, one of the things that was a goal of mine moving into this position last year was that
035we get early exposure to our students. Uh, we know that CTE is driven on what they refer to as completers. Those are students that complete a year 1 and a year two in a pathway. We know that statewide the metriculation rate for completers is about 30%. Here in Daert it's about 36%. So we're outpacing the the state. Um, a big part of CTE is also figuring out what I don't like. Um, wow, I really want to be a welder. That doesn't happen in air conditioning every day. Maybe I don't want to do that. That's okay, right? Um, and so helping kids figure out their lane, figure out their path. And one of the goals was to push this down into the middle schools so that we could get some early exposure. Kids could start figuring
036out maybe what they didn't like in middle school, and by the time they get to high school, they'll be a completer for us. Uh, we're hoping to increase that completer rate over the next couple of years, and our goal is to be over 40%. Um, so that's a that's a big push. As part of that, we have career exploration. We have CT exploratory laboratories at all four of our uh middle schools, Ashton Ranch, Simmeron, Daert, and Sonoran Heights. Um that is where a student goes from module to module. They usually last about two weeks, uh 10 days give or take. And they'll learn everything from culinary arts to plumbing to, uh you know, uh 3D um architecture. Um they've got a bunch of different modules that they do throughout that class. Uh we also use
037major clarity. We start doing interest inventories at the middle school level so that when they get to high school, they're ready to jump into the ECAPS and start their career planning, start getting into those pathways. Uh this year we were able we've had on the books film and TV. Um but the best piece of equipment we've had at the middle school so far was an iPad. Um which doesn't really mirror what we're talking about in industry. We had an opportunity with some of our early tririccasters that we purchased uh when the DSB live program came to Desaert six years ago that were aging out. They no longer can connect direct to the internet and so they were no longer of use to the high schools, but they're still good units. So, we moved those down.
038I wrote a grant uh which was secured through Westmech. We brought in some additional funds. All four of our middle schools now have a full film and TV studio. They have the tririccaster. They've got Panasonic cameras. Uh they've got teleprompter. They've got lights. The whole deal. Everything but the desk and the kids is ready to go. And the advantage of that is that's the equipment they're using also at the high school. The high school kids have that plus some more. And we're really moving them through a pathway there. Next year at one of the board meetings this last fall. Um you folks had the the foresight to approve our marketing course for the middle schools. Again, that's going to be an early exposure class that provides students an opportunity to learn the basics of marketing
039and figure out if that's a pathway through the the sales and marketing course that's offered at the high school, if that's something that they would like to continue. The CTE program model, um there's four parts to the CTE model as it's presented for the state of Arizona. Um across the entire thing, we have classroom instruction. I think that one's pretty self-explanatory. Um teachers give instruction on the content. We have lab instruction. That lab instruction needs to be 50% or more of the classroom time. So, what you'll see in a CTE classroom that's different from a lot of other classrooms is kids got their hands dirty. They're out there doing it. They're selling the things. They're building the things. They're they're getting involved. U we also have professional uh personal leadership development. Those are our CTSOs.
040Those are things like DECA and FBLA and FCCLA. Um where students learn in leadership. They have the opportunity to do those pieces. And then finally, our work-based learning, which in the state of Arizona right now is a little bit in flux. Um, we're actually going to be at a conference the next couple of days at the national level about work-based learning to try and figure out um as that transitions from the Department of Education, the Department of Labor exactly what that's going to look like moving forward. But the idea is internships, work-based learning. Couple of data sets that I think are really uh interesting here. So, this is CTE enrollment. You can see DAERT uh as a district, we went from uh a little over 4,000 students to just over 5,000 students in the 23
04124 school year. That number fell back just a little bit in 2425. We don't have current data yet because the year is not over and we don't report on it partway through. Um so we'll have that to share when we see you next time. As you can see in comparison, Westmech, which gets wonderful press. They do great things for the community. They served about 250 260 270 students in Daart. So when you talk about CTE and DAEART, we are educating the lion share of our kids inhouse right here in Daart, which we're really proud of. Uh graduation rates, um DAEART CTE graduation uh completers you can see was 98% 97%. We've had a little bit of a a decline there. However, on the right, you can see that the state uh graduation rate for our
042CTE completers is 84 um and 86%. So, we're still outpacing all of those programs. CTE student placement uh 2223 uh DAERT is on the green bar there for uh that the state level goal is 76. So, as you can see, we're uh we're outpacing the student uh the state level goal. Um, in the 24-25 school year, the state changed some of their uh categorization. So, everything dropped about 12%. Um, we kept the same spacing, but you see a decrease because they stopped counting some things as placements versus what they counted in the past. Okay. Uh, state assessments. So, we take what's called the TSA. It's not what you do at the airport. Um, technical skills assessment. Every time I say TSA, anybody not in the CTE world goes, "What?" Um, so technical skills assessment, it
043assesses the technical skills the kids are learning in their coursework. Um, we have pass rates that have gone significantly up over the last couple years from 85% to the 2425 school year. We were in the 91st percentile and you can see the state scores have stayed pretty flat over that same amount of time. We have credential attainment. Um, so these are our level two kids. These are year kids in year two. So they're at the 34 level. And when they complete the coursework, they're eligible to receive a credential for uh each of our pathways across the district. Um you can see that credential attainment in DAERT went from about 480 up to 560. Uh Westmech had kind of a goofy drop there in the 2324 school year, which affects our overall data, but we're approaching
044900 kids um in the 2425 school year that attained a credential. I can tell you that we expect to see a significant jump in that number this year. We have made that a point. That's been a a personal goal of mine that every student in every CTE class have the opportunity to to earn a credential. We pay a 100% of those costs so that every every student has their first try is taken care of uh by the district through our CTE funds and we feel like that's a good use of those funds because that's what prepares them for their next job. This was a piece that I thought was worth also sharing. Um, so if you look at ACT performance in CTE completers versus nonCTTE kids, the CTE completers are off to the left there.
045So our ACT compliant uh completers have a composite average of 19.42. Kids that don't take a CTE class average of 17.7 across the district. And one of the pieces that uh we know to be true is that CTE helps prepare kids for career and learning, but it also helps increase their academic achievement. And you can see across English, reading, math, and science, it holds true in every category. One of the things that we're real proud of this year is that we uh have come up with a uh what we call career trees. So the career trees are um it gives him a brief description. And I've provided a sample here of our nursing career tree. It tells you what nursing uh services CNA pathway is all about, what certifications they can earn, and then we
046actually build out their recommended four-year plan. The reason for these are things like in 9th through 11th grade, we want to look at foundational biology, chemistry, algebra, and anatomy, and physiology. We know that these are courses necessary to be successful in the nursing pathway. If you haven't had those courses, you're going to have to be learning those competencies while you're going through the nursing program. uh in 12th grade, the CNA program has the clinical experience, has the certification, prepares them to move on past us. That is gives us alignment so that we know that each of our 19 pathways students are receiving the coursework necessary to be successful in their CTE pathway and beyond. This is a quick snapshot of our middle school film and TV. I talked about that a little bit already, so
047I'll kind of skip over this one, but some nice stuff going on over there. And a big accomplishment for the district this year is we have every fifth year we have AD monitoring. Uh AD monitoring goes over all 19 pathways in each of our 39 programs. All pathways and programs this year were 100% compliant. That's not something we can say about every school district. So we're really proud of that that we met every single one of those standards uh at great effort in some instances, but everything we are doing is is right on track with what the state expects and and is holding us accountable for. One of the pieces um and I actually just had a conversation today with uh some folks over at Grand Canyon University. Um Dr. Croto when I moved into
048the position, we had a very candid conversation that TSMC's up the road. We got to get some kids ready to to be able to step into careers there. We know that that's going to be be a big employer in our in our community. And believe it or not, building a semiconducting pathway is not cheap. And we started kind of grappling with that. We had a guiding coalition and we came to find out that uh here early spring that GCU has stepped in. TSMC has a partnership with GCU to provide some training. I connected with them right away. Um and they offer a 10-week class. Um we're looking at doing it spring of 27, so it'll be the spring of next year. Um it'll be at Valley Vista High School. It is 100% free. Students registration,
049application fees are free. The 12 credits they earn are free. And when they are done, they're more or less guaranteed a job as an operator at the the semiconductor plant up the road. We put out an interest survey. Um we had over 60 kids expressed interest. We did a tour down to Grand Canyon to see about those different pieces. And we actually had a meeting today. Um we're going to do the pre-esting to know which kids qualify so that we can modify schedules in the fall so they're ready to take those courses um starting next spring and are ready to move into that role. The other piece we have is a new work-based learning. Um, so this is upcoming and this is a piece that uh again heading up to the national workbased learning conference
050to get some better direction and and pieces you know get some information here. But in the past work-based learning has really been something that's been more or less reserved for upper level students. Uh juniors and seniors have jobs. They're coming back and uh earning some credits for those pieces. Uh the state of Arizona has provided some guidance that that needs to now start in nth grade. Uh which you can imagine creates some some struggles because a lot of employers won't hire students if they're under a certain age. And so uh what we're really looking at are there's a spectrum of options, but we're looking at simulated workplace. We're looking at studentbased enterprise, student opportunities, things like our DECA stores where kids are going to work on campus and earn that work-based learning and internship through
051our programs. um that student-based enterprise exists. The Deca Store is a good example. We've got a couple of f a couple of programs that we're we're working on. Um they're not fully fleshed out yet, but one of those is the Monsoon Cafe through our culinary program over here at DAERT that would serve staff and potentially community members down the road. The other would be our Demon Automotive program where we would put a storefront in and they would be able to uh provide services to our staff members initially potentially growing that. and then through our graphic design programs looking at different print shops. Uh we're working in coordination with our finance department who has been fantastic and it opens up a ball of wax because uh you'll hear about the 535 fund coming up, but it
052means that we have to do some things a little bit differently. Um so when you start hearing about the 535 fund, you'll know it's about this student-based enterprise and being able to work around some of those those requirements. Um that is all that I have for you. I wanted to say thank you to Dr. Croto to our teachers, counselors and staff. Uh our business and community partners which are extensive. Um we had our annual program review. We had uh a couple hundred people here for our annual program review. Many of them are community partners and industry partners and then our CTE students family as well as our Westmech partners. I will stand for any questions that you have. >> I just I have a couple questions. Yes sir. >> Um I thank you for the
053semiconductor part. Uh that kind of leads into my first one is uh because I see that we offer software and app app design and also engineering besides the semiconductor. Are we looking to also include any like like they call it infrastructure for it the the routers the servers I mean we have data centers going up everywhere. I would love to be able to suit our kids our students with that kind of technology going out the door as well. >> Absolutely. We we currently have a device and tech maintenance program at Valley Vista High School um that uh you know we we are have had for a number of years and that's um you can imagine with tech that morphs over time um it changes so darn quickly but one of the other ones that we've
054talked about we haven't begun work um intentionally around it yet is a um logistics um that's a big piece especially for this 303 corridor all these warehouses are going up to supply something like TSMC And there's all kinds of different opportunities for kids coming out of high school in those different jobs there. Um, all of those fall into what they call the logistics category or pathway, if you will. Um, so that's something that we've talked about. Like I said, it's kind of on the horizon. It hasn't launched yet, but that would be if if we were going to move to another offering, that would be my my uh suggestion. >> Awesome. Thank you very much. My other question, um, there it's kind of a two-part because >> it's it's awesome that we're doing a lot
055more internal and not having to rely on Westmech, you know, all the time, but do we offer, and I've heard it both both ways, so I'm just trying to get some, you know, an actual straight from the source. >> Sure. >> Um, do we offer uh transportation from our high schools to the at least the Westmech that's local to us? >> Yes, sir. So, we uh we have a grant through Westmech that we secured under uh Mr. Greaber, the previous CTE director. Uh we have been told that it is being carried forward through at least next year, but it is a year-to-year grant. Um that grant we purchased the uh white buses, so it's the 15 passenger white buses. They're the ones that are wrapped that say CTE and have the firefighters and all the
056cool stuff on them. Um that grant pays for an extra security officer who then is also our bus driver. So their primary role is bus driver. When they're not driving the bus, they can be available on campus um to kind of serve those two roles. That has been uh approved again for next year. It has been approved for the last gosh I want to say six years, three years, four years maybe. It's been a couple. It was Yeah, I was principal for two years. I've been here one, five or six, I would say. Um and the um those buses provide transportation for all of our high school students to the Northwest campus. So, um if a student is at the and that the Northwest campus is the one right up here on Grand Avenue. Um,
057if we have a student who's in a program other than what's being offered at the Northwest campus, they have to provide their own transportation to other campuses, but we do provide the transportation there and back. Um, I will tell you that some kids take advantage of it. Other kids are happy to drive themselves. So, it really just kind of varies. Uh, but it is available. Yes. >> Awesome. And you may have you may have answered this one, but I just want to get clarification because you did say that uh other students can take advantage of like if I went to Shadow Ridge, I can take advantage of the culinary arts at Valley Vista. Do we offer that transportation as well or is that something they have to >> that would be something that they're going
058to have to provide uh on their own? Um and that's a that's a bit of a shift. Um we have had I would say a relatively few number of students take advantage of that in the past. It's not that it wasn't available, it just wasn't out and advertised quite so much. Um I would say the majority of our students who were transporting themselves from their home campus to another campus uh typically fell into our ROC program. We're super excited about the new Marine Corps OTC program on the west side of the district. Uh because that'll create a little bit shorter pathway for those kids. Uh but it's available for all of our CTE pathways. They're either offered that one two level course is either offered first hour or sixth hour on every campus for next
059year. >> Awesome. Thank you very much. >> Yes, sir. Any other questions? >> I just want to say thank you very much. It's was really informative and I appreciate all you guys do for the students for CTE. >> Thank you. >> I just wanted to say thank you also and I I guess I I'm just surprised at the difference in number of K students in Daart compared to Westmech. So you're actually getting them a lot more students prepared for careers than >> well and not to cut you off I apologize but um the the reality of the CTE landscape is that Westmech only has a finite number of seats available. It's the reason they're doing a lot of the expansion that they're doing right now. Um but there's a there's a much greater need than
060what they can serve at this time. and the the uh CATED and the the ST they call us satellite campuses. Um the state refers to us that way. Um it's a partnership and so they have programs that maybe we can't afford to offer or don't have the space to offer but the lion share of the kids are educated right here in Daert and we're really proud of that. >> I have a question regarding the semiconductor pathway. >> This is awesome by the way. Um, is it certain grades or can 9th through 12th apply? >> It is 12th graders only. >> 12th grade only. >> Yes. And so that is there's a couple of reasons for that. This is actually a pathway that we're going to offer during the school day. So, a student has to
061be on track for graduation to have enough space in their schedule to be able to move things around to make that available. Uh, we've come up with a system where they'll be able to earn four credits both in the fall semester and the spring semester. the semiconductor pathway will count for some internship credits um which we then can provide so it keeps them as full-time students but uh GCU um if we have 15 or more students qualify we don't know that we have them yet uh because they have to take some pretests to qualify for the program uh right now I just got all of that stuff literally right before I walked in here um I have my email up um so they we're going to have GCU has been a great partner they're putting
062a boot camp together for those kids to practice get prepared for that exam. It's an hourlong test and if they qualify then we'll have our short list of these are the kids in the program and we know who to move forward and take care of in the falls they're ready for the spring. >> Wow. Okay. Thank you. >> Yes ma'am. >> Just a quick question about the CTE and middle school slide. I know that there's the four middle schools true middle schools listed there. Are we exploring um doing any CTE for our K through8s at this time? >> Excellent question. Um, so we do have uh I explore at each of the K8s and they do go through the major clarity part where they do the interest inventory. If I'm being 100% candid with you,
063they don't get the same level of opportunity as our true middle school kids right now. Um, we're brainstorming some stuff around that because it's not an easy answer because they don't have a dedicated class like the middle school cls do. Um, one of the things that we're looking at is creating a CTE focused month. So, we would select our pathways and and in the middle school they actually have what they call career clusters. Um, so a little bit different in middle school than at high school. Um, we would take the career clusters and we would make September career cluster X and we would create a uh resource of banks, opportunities, connections in our community where individual teachers could bring folks out because this isn't something necessarily that'll happen in full school, but it might. So,
064it's going to look a little different at each of the K8s and and we don't want to dictate exactly what that looks like, but we want to make sure that they have access and opportunity. Um, so that is something that we're still exploring. We're still trying to figure out the absolute best way to do that. Um, one of the things that I was excited about, um, having just been at the region 5 conference is I was able to, uh, speak with a CTE director out of Washington, uh, Washington State, and they've created, um, for lack of a better term, it's an old bread truck that they put a bunch of workbenches in, and it's the CTE, and they had a cute name for it. I don't remember what it was, but it could be booked
065to come out. Now, there's pre-work that has to be done the day prior. The kids get there, there's 3D printing, there's drones, there's uh Raspberry Pi logic boards, there's all kinds of cool STEM CTE stuff, and then the day after they have to do some career planning around what they learned on the truck and is this something that I want to go into or not. Um, they shared with me, you know, in the conversation that that has been so successful that they had to get another truck u which is a great problem to have. They said, "Man, those trucks are expensive to set up like that." But the second one is the mini. I want to say it's like something like the Winnie the Mini Winnie. and they they bring it out and set it
066up in the cafeteria and then classrooms come out and do the activities there. Um so that sparked some ideas in my mind. Hadn't really thought of that until I kind of saw it. Uh which is the benefit of being able to attend some of these conferences, talk to educators from other places and see what's working. There's no point in reinventing the wheel. Um so that's something also that is on the horizon that I think could really help with the uh with the K8 option. >> Thank you so much. One last question. Um, do we also open our CTE programs to nondiceart students at a fee? >> Um, so we have um if we have a nondicart student like a homeschool student for instance >> or ESA >> ESA student I don't know the answer to
067that. I do not believe that we do. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you very much. >> Yes ma'am. Thank you. >> Just a quick comment if I could, Mr. President, you you know, um this is Mr. Ludman's first year at this. He had huge shoes to fill coming in with Mr. Gre Shaver and replacing them. Um and he's hit the ground running and has done an amazing job. So, want to say thanks to Tom and to his staff. Um his staff does a wonderful job putting everything together and all the career festivals that you've seen few months ago and um they just done a good job. So, thank you for all your attention and thank you for what you're doing. >> Thank you, Dr. Cronto. Thank you board members. >> Thank you very much.
068We go ahead and move to the last item for information and discussion. Exceptional student services preschool program location. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh tonight we have a discussion a quick uh info discussion on Kingswood uh preschool relocation and Mr. Musei will do this one. >> President Scavaro, members of the board, Dr. Cronto, thank you. Um, and yeah, I want to uh be able to provide you a uh an update on on this uh information regarding the Kingswood preschool relocation and growing minds. Um, and give you some background um to this uh to this topic. And really, we're going to start with talking about the reasons for relocation and and what's going on at Kingswood. Currently, we have two preschool classes over at Kingswood. Okay. Um approximately 60 students are in this uh preschool class
069that is made up of both ESS and general education students that enroll. Um the enrollment growth over at Kingswood overall though has added two additional teachers to the campus. Um the school capacity sits at around 1100 and we are projecting not counting the preschool kids at around 950. So I'll get into some more specifics about that because you might be asking well 950 plus 60 a little over a th00and what do you mean you got 1100 and I'll explain that in just a minute but if that element and you look at the size and if you've been in Kingswood's campus you'll know the design is a little bit different than our other schools as well. Okay it's a little bit older uh built in the late 80s uh doesn't have the same structural model and
070and especially when you start to talk about bathrooms and other things available to kids that need to be in a preschool that are required. So thinking about those reasons for for that relocation and the capacity the lack of space um also deals with and when you really think about we also offer other programs on that campus. So we have one of our programs is our our Aspire program. Um and those are obviously when we talk about large spaces with students with multiple disabilities. Um and and the element of we have to use a large space for that in order to handle you can't put a ton of students into a classroom like that and you also need more space in order for maneuverability in the room. You also have your uh structured teaching classrooms, your
071STC rooms. And because we have um programs over there dealing with STC and STC um that element with it, it also small you can only put a small number of students in there. Now you're using up more rooms and so you start to take up room space. Um the other big piece that I'll mention on there is a need for available bathrooms in those specific classrooms. We have to have it in those special programs. So, we don't have portables at Kingswood. So, there's not additional uh structures outside and the footprint over there only has limited bathrooms in actual classrooms. So, when we start to add new teachers to the to the campus, especially when you start talking about the lower levels of kindergarten and things like that, you start looking at what bathroom space do
072we have available and do we have the capacity to do it. So, those were a number of factors that we really started to see the capacity issues there. One of the things that you start to look at the history of the district is you start talking about uh growing minds and growing minds used to be a full capacity school. So we did start to take a look at Whoops. Apologize. Um what do we have available to us? And Growing Minds actually has currently um they have eight classrooms that are not being used and have bathroom facilities in them because it was built as a preschool. So it gives us that ability. Um the uh uh any type of movement that we would do like this, we automatically provide transportation. We currently provide busing for all
073of our ESS students in preschool. So there would be no difference in providing transportation to growing minds. We also have to remember that Kingswood is a title one school and so you would need to provide breakfast and lunch. Okay. One of the other elements to this is Western Peaks which is right next door is also a title one school as of next year. So we do have the availability to have something in in structure that we could provide the breakfast and lunch for those particular students that are qualified and really all the students in the classroom get it when you say title one. Um, we also would need to provide all the all the resources and all we would basically it would involve the same staff that exists at Kingswood would also be the same
074staff that would be at Growing Minds in the preschool capacity for those students. So that would not change at all. It would be the same structure that you would have just in a different location. And I think this just leads to a larger discussion for us to be thinking about as we move into next year. Um, we recognize that right now and if you drive by Asante, you would see the construction project of us adding portables out in the field. Um, so we're we're working on getting that project done and it it uh it's on schedule to be done in June, but we know that already we're sending kids from the Asante area preschool-wise to Canyon and to Sunset Hills. So that's already occurring and we're already at full capacity there. So, we recognize same
075bathroom issue will occur there no matter how we look at it because of the growth that's happening in the Asante area. So, we're going to have to talk about that one. Mountain View is another school that is reaching capacity as well. Um, and the growth that's happening over there. So, we had to we have we've had to continue the discussion about, you know, can preschool operate there or should we use our preschool facility that was built for a growing minds. Um, so that's one of the pieces that we have to keep in mind. The other one is is that we recognize that we have two different models really. We do have the growing minds model and we have the ESS preschool. So we want to continue to evaluate and talk about what's the uh what's
076what's our possibilities of consolidating into one preschool model. That way resources are provided to families, but we also have the preschool element, but you also can then have daycare if needed. If a family says, "Hey, the four hours, I need more than that." So we're going to be evaluating that as we move forward. that would be a um when you start to look at that, that's the element of how do we handle staffing and the money savings that would happen when you do one model. So, that's a discussion that we need to explore as we move forward. We're not ready to do anything like that. We're just talking specifically right now, how do we deal with the the issues at Kingswood um and continue our our um look at those other schools that are becoming
077a little are really reaching capacity. So with that, I will answer any questions that you might have. >> I have a question that's related to uh Kingswood. So I know you mentioned um you know the restroom issue and there's eight available classrooms with restrooms in them at at growing minds. If we were to move to this model, um, does that, and this is just based on things that I have heard over the years, that the kinder classes at Kingswood do not have a restroom for students currently. Is that true? And would this free it up? >> Yes. Uh, Mr. president, members of the board, and I think uh >> I I we do have the principal here from Kingswood that could probably even be more specific than I can, but I will tell you right
078now it's that has been an absolute challenge that we've been running into is the ava bathroom availability for for kinder with the preschool as well. So, Miss Miller, >> good evening everybody. Um, we do have bathrooms in all of our kindergarten classrooms currently and then we have the bathrooms in our two preschool rooms currently. Um, other than that, we are very limited on options. >> Okay. Was that maybe the truth in maybe the past years or something? >> I can only speak to the two years that I've been there. I know previously we um typically sit around four kindergarten classrooms and so that has not been a concern that I'm aware of. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Thank you for this presentation question. Have you guys gone out to the parents or anything and had
079these conversations to let them know the possibility or is that something that you guys are going to start working on? >> Mr. President, members of the board, uh what I will tell you is is that we waited until we came and talked with you. Well, our our research and work has come more on the end of looking at how this would look and how we would make this happen. We wanted to make sure we had all of those ducks in a row first before we took any action and communicating it and and obviously to bring that to to parents. Um you know, that's the next level to this. our we understand the challenge obviously anytime you start talking about this and we also want to make sure these students are receiving the resources and supports
080they need. Um our difficulty is is that when you add two more teachers to that campus and we really don't have the space. Um we're running we're running into that challenge with those other special programs. So you start to become choices of what you do. you know, what are your what are your another choices and and what we didn't want to start doing was remodeling the library or things like that to put students in in those areas. >> No. Okay. Thank you. >> Hearing no more questions. Thank you very much. >> We'll go to the next uh section. Section G, action and discussion. Item number one, 2026 2027 student and parent handbook and action to approve the student discipline matrix. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, we also have Mr. Mui to uh present this
081item when he gets back to his seat. >> I apologize. I got a little anxious there. My apology, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Croto. Uh I um I do want to say that uh with the the handbook and the uh discipline matrix um the uh the part I will tell you is that there is a we go through an extensive process every spring uh where every department uh within the district does have a look at the handbook to make sure that we look at what updates need to happen. Uh and then also the discipline matrix runs through a committee where we bring all stakeholders are invited that want to be a part of that and also we select as far as the not just community members that are interested but then also we
082bring staff members and administrators into that as well. What I will tell you is is that only uh very minor um uh suggestions were made with the discipline matrix. Uh some of that just had to do with language to ensure that we were embodying really that we weren't too specific on anything. We also made a few adjustments to ensure that we also weren't classifying anything wrong. So there was only a few adjustments there regarding that that were suggested. And also the biggest uh I think the biggest addition within the handbook dealt with because of our new u uh system within our transportation the ability to have IDs with our students so that we can make sure that we have the right kids on the bus. Okay. And that also the kids are getting home safely.
083So, um, to and from school. So, those were the the biggest parts about the handbook and with the matrix. And with that, uh, I'll take any questions you might have. >> Hearing no questions, I motion to approve the 2026 2027 student and parent handbook discipline matrix as presented. >> Second. motion carries. Next item for action and discussion, recommendation to approve an appointment of interim high school assistant principal for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh we will have Mr. Mangley present our recommendation. >> Thank you, Dr. Croto. Uh, Mr. President, governing board members, uh, administration is proud to recommend to the governing board for your consideration to bring aboard Erica Jay as an interim assistant principal over at Valley Vista High School. A little bit background with uh for Miss Jay
084is she's been with us since 2016 as a teacher, progressively working her way up as a TLS, a very successful TLS teaching learning specialist and now serving as a TOSA teacher on assignment over at Valley Vista High School. Uh so with that, we're excited to bring her board as an in assistant principal under the conditions of your approval. Thank you. You got to stand up now. >> Thank you. Motion to approve the appointment of Erica Jay as interim high school assistant principal for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Second motion carries. Congratulations. Welcome All right. Item number three on action and discussion. Recommendation to approve salary placement schedules for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh tonight we bring you it's one of the IBA pieces uh that you approve uh
085separately. Uh Mr. Manley will present this to you. >> Thank you, Dr. Cotto. Mr. President, governing board members, as Dr. Croto said thi this is the reflection of the recommendation that was brought to board to the board previously that was approved that reflected 1% across the board on all base salaries of all the salary schedules here presented tonight to the governing board again it's an IBA recommendation that's been consistent with the recommendations annually I have a question with regards to the psych school psychologist we there's a comment here nationally certif certified board psychologist and board certified behavioral analyst will receive 5% of base salary. I thought that they all had to be certified. Is that not a true statement or am I misinterpreting? >> Mr. President, govern board members. Yes, they all have to be
086certified but there is another condition that they can get certified nationally which is a different process uh for these particular individuals in these fields. So just like teachers, they're certified, but they also go through a different format to get nationally board certified. >> Thank you. >> Hearing no more questions. Motion to approve the 2026 2027 salary placement schedules as presented. >> I second. Motion carries. Next item for action and discussion. Approval. Oh, I'm sorry. Recommendation to approve the district extra extracurricular supplemental assignment contract amended pay schedules for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Manley will present this. >> Uh, thank you, Dr. Croto. Uh, Mr. President, governing board members, uh this uh is an annual event that the that we bring to the governing board for approval uh that you
087typically see an attachment uh to anou that you will see in May. But these are the extra extracurricular activity pay schedules as presented. Uh but I would like uh Mr. President, I'd like to ask for before a motion is made that that if the motion is made with an amendment to the um certified extracurricular uh salary schedule specifically for the community ed uh site stipen to reflect uh $15.15. That is the minimum wage. It was an oversight. It says $15. So, we need to increase that uh under those stipulations. >> Yes, I I'll accept that amendment. Hearing no questions. Motion to approve the amended uh the district extra extracurricular supplemental assignment contract amended amenda pay schedules for the 2026 2027 school year as presented. >> Second. motion carries. Action discussion number five, approval to reinstate
088district athletic director position. Dr. Croto. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Tonight we are asking to uh bring back a position that was um reduced in 2016 and Mr. Mattingley will present uh this item. >> Thank you, Dr. Cotto. Uh Mr. President, Governor, board members, this is a a request that we uh reinstate the athletic director position. Uh this is uh the proposal is to reinstate full time to improve our leadership, coordination, and program effectiveness. Um right now the it's important to note that Daizard Unified School District does not have a district athletic director at all. Uh a district this size, it's important that we reconsider reinstating this position. Uh the background is in 2016 the role was reduced to halftime from a 1.0 FT to a.5 FTE. Uh and then a full-time athletic secretary position
089position was added at a 1.0 OFT. Uh, as I stated just earlier, the current situation is, uh, we have no dedicated athletic director at all in the school district, uh, nor, um, a dedicated athletic sear in the place as well. Uh, these duties are absorbed by existing district staff throughout the district. Uh, it's, uh, it's all hands- on deck to help make sure this is successful from a variety of staff members. Uh so right now it's increased a lot of workload outside of the scope of someone's daily operation as well as reducing the effectiveness and efficiency of their daily operations expectations of their their job. Uh the scope of the athletic uh director role is to oversight all high school athletic programs and I think this is really important. The second bullet is to also
090oversight all elementary athletic programs. This is not a high school initiative. This is a K12 initiative. Uh so uh also oversee the facility rentals coordination as well as the oversight of the athletic trainer program uh as well as supervising all of our uh site athletic directors or assistant principles. Uh the additional responsibilities uh will be support uh the elementary athletic coordinators, collaboration with booster clubs, assigning officials for our athletic uh events and also managing the DART student broadcast or DSB live uh operations. uh current leadership responsibilities uh right now of the assistant uh superintendent of support services is is what's seen here on the um on the presentation here you can see it's quite a a big responsibility uh that this uh Mr. Musei overseas. Uh the admin administrative support strain is truly handled uh
091well somehow by Jenna Bowen who is also the board governing board secretary as well as well as the administrative assistant of Dr. John Croto. Uh so uh there's a lot of things going on uh with Jenna. So thank you for your hard work and all that J. I appreciate that. Uh so why re reinstate the position? It provides focused leadership, improves uh the program coordination. Honestly, this one right here is the consistency, support and feedback, communication, collaboration, cooperation with all of our schools coming, it's all becoming mainstream. Uh so it also aligns with the responsibility uh appropriately with that person's responsibility and not just everybody pitching in. And it's also it's a dedicated focus on our athletic program, the quality of it. And again, not just our high schools. It's it's grown it from K
092to 12. So, u and then lastly, an appropriate representation for our AIA, which is the Arizonaic Association committees. Uh right now, that is minimum and that's really important that we uh be a heard and seen member as Daizard in that committee. Uh the funding plan uh as far as this position being 1.0 know is 50% of it uh the funds will come from facility rental revenues as well as uh 25% enrichment program funds and then 25 will be come from maintenance and operation your M fund and uh this is a minimum impact on the M as you can see 75% is not coming out of the M sorry so in conclusion reinstating the full-time athletic director will strengthen our athletic programs it will improve our operational efficiency and better support our students and our staff
093across the district at all grades. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you. >> Can I ask what um 50% of the facility rental revenues where would that come from? >> Uh Mr. President, governing board members, I'll let allow Mary help me on that. President Scavara, members Iola. So, a portion of it since the the job oversight will also be responsible for overseeing some of those facility rentals. It is appropriate to use some of that revenue that comes in um from our community education fund. Um we do have specific kind of segments of funds and one of those is facility rentals. So, we'd be able to draw from that revenue stream that's coming in to help support that that position. >> Okay. Thank you. Mr. Mattingley, you mentioned that this was part of a cut um
094or maybe reduction in force in 2016. Um how many positions were impacted at that time or do you recall? >> Uh Mr. President, governor board members, I might ask for some hysterical historical help on that. >> I do not have that answer. Yeah. >> Available. I I can get it. I don't know what their cuts were. >> Could we Could you just follow up with with the whole board on that? I would just like to see >> um the history on that or the hystericalness of it. >> Thank you. >> I will get that. >> Thank you. Hearing no more questions, I motion to approve the reinstatement of the district athletic director position for the 2026 2027 school year. >> I second. Motion carries. Last item for action and discussion is discussion and action to
095set a date for an executive session for the superintendent's year end evaluation. >> Thank you, Mr. present. Uh we are here again. So I asked at the May 11th meeting, we set the executive session um for my uh year end evaluation. If you remember time frame, we went through this last year. But time frame is crucial because uh in the June meetings or soon after the May 11th meeting, we will start setting goals again as a governing board which we use uh for the new staff which comes back in July. So there's a time it is time essential um to follow that whole process. So I'm asking for May 11th for executive session. >> All right. Motion to establish an exe executive session on May 11th for the superintendent year end evaluation. >> Second. Before
096I vote, is this the regular time or is this early after the meeting? Okay, thank you. >> Perfect. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Not at 4 p.m. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> After me. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes. Motion carries. Next item. Item H request for future agenda items. >> I would like to um find out what the DACART students um are taught about US history like specifically about the founding fathers, the Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, Revolutionary War, and the Bill of Rights. And in what grades is US history taught? and um especially since we're going to be celebrating the United States 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. And I also wanted to add an agenda item about how much time do Desaart students spend on computers um in the
097grade schools and high schools and is there a set amount of time set by teachers or is it a standard thing? I just would like to have a discussion on on the computer time of students. >> I will get those scheduled. >> Not hearing anything else for future agenda items. I motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Second. Meeting adjourned.