001[Music] Liberty Elementary School District governing board meeting is called to order May 27th, 2025. The time is 4:30 p.m. Members present in person are board member Schmidt, Vice President Kenyon, myself, Michael Todd. Joining us remotely tonight will be board member Zimmerman, board member, and Dr. Mahorn. Members, the next item of the agenda is item 1.2, pledge of allegiance. Miss Schmidt, can you please lead us? I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Our next item of business is 1.3 approval of the special meeting agenda. I make a motion to approve this agenda consistent with board policy BED and temporarily suspend governing board policy with which this agenda may be inconsistent. I second. Okay.
002I have a motion by board member Kenyon, a second by board member Schmidt. There's no discussion. I'll call the vote. Board member Schmidt. I. Board member Zimmerman. I. Vice President Kenyon. I. Board member Shinion. I. I'm also I will show that I approve five yes zero no. Our next item is item 2.1. This is pursuant to ARS 38431.03A3 and 4. Call for an executive session for legal advice from attorneys for the public body concerning the employment of Dr. Courtmanroe and to instruct attorneys for the public body about its position on contracts that are subject of negotiations or as to the terms of settlement of possible litigation regarding Dr. Courtmanro's employment. Take a motion and a second. Mr. President, I make a motion uh pursuant to ARS 38-431.03A3 and 4, call for an executive session for
003legal advice from attorneys for the public uh body concerning the employment of Dr. Court Monroe and to instruct attorneys for the public body about its position on contracts that are the that are the subject of the negotiations or as to the terms of settlement of of possible litigation regarding Dr. Courtman Rose's employment. Okay. Okay. Do I have a second? I second. Okay. The motion and the second for the executive session for ARS 38431. This will be agenda item 2.1. With the motion in the second, there's no discussion. We'll take a vote. Board member Schmidt. I. Board member Zimmerman. I. Vice President Kenyon. I. Board member Finsion. I. I'm also I will show us an executive session at 4:32 p.m. with a five yes zero no vote. Board members, you'll need to log out of this
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005Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. Heat. [Music] Keep a [Music] Down. Down. [Music] I'm happy. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Somebody. [Music] I'm happy. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Take [Music] it. Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay, the time is now 5:28. We'll show the Liberty Elementary School governing board back into general session. Uh we will move forward now with item two. That's 2.2. We'll move to item 2.3, direction of the board's attorney to take action as instructed by the governing board. Mr. President, I make a motion to authorize legal counsel to negotiate settlement agreement as directed in executive session and give President Todd the authority to sign an agreement on behalf of the board. Okay. Do I have a second? I second. Okay. Have a motion by
006board member Kenyon. I'm sorry. Correctional motion by Vice President Kenyon. A second by board member Schmidt. Is there any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we'll go to the vote. Miss Schmidt, I. Miss Zimmerman. Nay. And I'd like to explain my vote. You may do so at the end. Vice President Kenyon. I. Member Fenc. I'm sorry. Did you call me? I did. I'm asking for your vote. I. Okay. I'm also an I. We'll show that approve four yes, one no. Miss Zimmerman, please proceed. Um, I am not in agreement with the terms that were directed to legal counsel in executive session. Okay, we'll move to item 2.4, uh, which will be approval to pay hourly staff to attend Alice training. And Dr. Mahorn. Uh, yes. I would just Oh, good evening. I would just like to um
007have permission or or board's permission to pay on June 2nd. Uh we are having uh the Arizona Department of Education is providing free Alice training um to all of our admin staff and they also asked and they wanted their office managers and their secretaries and their health assistants who also um assist upront um and for safety. They wanted them to be able to join for this Alice training. the the office managers are all on contract that June 2nd. The people who would not be on contract on June 2nd would be the secretaries and any of the health aids that so choose to attend. And so I would just ask for the board's permission to pay any of those people who would choose to attend. Of course, this this is not mandatory um for people who
008are not on contract. Um but just for safety's sake, um we would like to invite them to also be able to um participate in this free training on that day. It's Monday, June 2nd. Okay. And and for those who are unaware, Alice training is our safety training that the police departments utilize if there's a serious incident at a school, school shooting, hostage situations, anything significant that requires a law enforcement response. Uh for most likely a larger response, I don't believe that our district has attended this training in maybe forever. It's uh certainly hasn't been in any recent times. So that's um but because these people are off contract, we need to give board permission to pay them for that day. Mr. President, may I have four? You may. Um Dr. Mahorn, is this pay in
009hours or is this a flat u kind of like a stipen? It would be pay for their um their hourly pay. It's a five-hour training and so we would pay them of course before we wouldn't just pay for their start. So they would arrive about 15 minutes early and then about 15 minutes afterwards just for the wrap up wrap up as well. But it's a 5h hour start to finish training um as well. Thank you for that. And I I am very much in favor of any of our staff wanting to um be more brushed up on the Alice training. Um, I I like Alice. I know that there's other programs even uh speaking with Buckeye Police Department. They they're taking Alice and kind of modifying it a little bit for for their campuses. Um,
010and so I think it'd be good in the future to reach out to them and see what they're doing. But, uh, I as many as many staff members we can get on the same page when so there's not a bunch of chaos. There's always going to be some chaos, but not as much if everybody's on the same page. I'm very much in favor of this. So thank you Mr. President. Yes ma'am. Um after the training after the just you know the people that are attending the training are they going to be giving it um giving kind of like giving the training themselves then to the rest of the staff or is it just meant for people that are upfront? We are focusing Oh sorry no go ahead. I didn't want to interrupt. We are focusing
011on the people who are upfront. um just because an active shooter, it's most likely going to be those people who are upfront. And oftent times they're left out. Most times, you know, our principles get trained, but how often are our principles upfront right there when that happens and our office staff is left out. So, we just want to make sure that they're included as much as possible. Of course, we're not forcing them to, but we want to make sure that if they choose to come that we are compensating them for their time. um if they if they choose to. Sure. Absolutely. Have you calculated the approximate you know budget consideration to pay these additional people to come? Um not exactly because I don't because it's different um for different people but the most people um
012that it would be at max and that's if every single person said yes I will come. Um, we already know a few people that said no for one reason or the other, obligations, um, that they just wouldn't do it. It would be 20 at the absolute max. I'm guessing that at most we may have 10, unfortunately. But even if it's 10, even if it's one, we we want to offer it um, we'd like to offer it to everyone that would like to engage because we just don't want to leave anyone out of that training. But have you calculated like the budget cost of it um for those people? We have not yet. Okay. We wouldn't know until we know who is going to come because it'd be different because different hourly people make different money.
013So we'd have to know who is coming. Okay. Mr. President, if I may just you may in regards to the the cost just throwing just I don't know what everybody's salary is but just looking at just doing some rough figures. If 10 people show up that's probably going to be between a,000 to $1,500 for 10 people um is my thought, you know, just guesstimating. So it's not like we're going into the tens of thousands of dollars for this training. Like I said, everyone else except for these people are already on contract, so it's a non-issue. It's just um these two small groups that aren't, but we did not want to leave them out um and wanted to offer them the opportunity to engage as well. Right. So, just for clarification, there's a lot more people
014coming. It's just these folks that were not on contract aren't currently coming unless we can pay them. Uh but we have we'll have more than just the front office people coming to the training, right? Or everyone else is already on contract, so it's not an issue. These these people just are not on contract for these for that day. Okay. Any more questions? All right, I'll take a motion. I motion to approve the paying of approximately 20 hourly staff to attend Alice training on June 2nd, 2025. Do I have a second? I'll second. Have a motion and a second to pay up to 20 people their hourly pay to attend the Alice training on June. Is it June 2nd? Correct. Correct. It is. Yep. June 2nd. Okay. Uh if there's no further discussion, we could take
015a vote. Board member Schmidt. I. Board member Zimmerman. I. Vice President Kenyon. I. Board member Shinion. I. I'm also I would show that proof five. Yes. Zero. No. Next item is item 2.5. Uh job description. Director of school improvement. Dr. Mahorn. Governing board. This was um one of the job descriptions that was tabled at a previous um board meeting and administration was given uh the task to go back and just do some research on that exact title and um if that title was in other districts, if there were similar titles um in other districts and in looking in other districts, some districts do not have um a title or a position similar to that. There are districts I did find um at least one that did have uh that exact title. Um looking around um
016the most common um job title for a uh title or for a job that was similar to this was uh director of school improvement. And so what you will see in front of you today is um uh the director of school improvement. So, a rename a renaming for a proposal renaming for um that position that was previously the executive director of school effectiveness. Um so that's what you will see uh the proposal before you after doing research. Um there are districts that don't have anything similar. Um there are districts that do have uh director of school improvement. that is uh the most common title um that matches with what that job description is that you see before you. So if there are questions I'm open to questions as well. Just a question that the the
017districts that do have a a position like this I believe you told me most of them are are larger than ours. Correct. That is correct. Yes. So most of most of them are okay. That's what I had always assumed and felt from my research. Okay. All right. Mr. President, I have a question. Go ahead. Um, so when I see the job description, does this include the duties that um, you know, were added to it originally when we dissolved the um, coord uh, educational services coordinator. Remember how we dissolved that position and we kind of reassigned? Correct. Yes. So essentially it is the the job description that was brought before the board. We're just It is correct. Yes. And so then if the position or the the change of the title is approved tonight, would then
018you then post for this position? Correct. That's Yes. If it's approved tonight, then the plan is to post. Okay. Thank you very much. Yes. And we'd post tomorrow this to get hiring going. Correct. That's our that's our hope. We would like to Okay, that's great. No, I just like to get it posted and get somebody hired that's qualified for the job. All right, if there's no more discussions, we can take a motion. I motion um to approve the director of school improvement job description. I'll second. I have a motion, a second to approve item 2.5, the job description for the director of school improvement. There's no discussion. We'll go for a vote. Uh board member Schmidt. I board members Zimmerman I vice president Kenyon I Mr. Board member Serencion. I I'm also I will show
019that approve five yes, zero no. All right. Next up item 3.1 board comments on agenda topics and items for future consideration. We have everything that's already been requested. We're working for getting as much as possible on the next general meeting. Um and some updates via staff uh superintendent update emails to the board. Is there anything else that uh you would like? All right. Hearing none. Upcoming meetings. We have the Saturday, June 7th meeting, special board meeting that'll be reviewing uh trust policy chapter 5. And then we also have a meeting for Tuesday, June 10th, the regular governing board meeting. There's no questions on that. We'll move to item 5.1. That's the ajournment of the special meeting. Having all business complete, we'll show the meeting adjourned at 5:42 p.m. [Music]