001[Music] the time is now 4:30 I will show that we are in session for the special meeting on March 26 um we are at the Jerry roie District facility board members present are Chris Kenyan Sarah Schmidt Brian cerron and myself um we'll go ahead and move on to 1.2 the Pledge of Allegiance Mr cerron can you lead us to the flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all we'll move on to item 1.3 discussion consideration to approve the issuance of remaining contract workk agreements for FY 26 Dr Mahorn good afternoon Madame vice president governing board members um I'd like to present to you the remaining contracts for issuance the remaining groups are Administration instructional coaches Rene interventionist psychologist
002exempt support staff and hourly support staff and ATT attached you have um all the names and salaries and again it's current salaries with uh no raises attached okay we'll open it up for um comments or questions Mr Kenyan no I looked them all over and and I I don't have any issues with them and thank you for bringing these and so we can get these out to them mmitt I don't have any questions Mr shinon no questions okay I have a couple uh two questions um I noticed that Dr SLO um and I just want to say this has nothing to do with you uh personally but um you know um I noticed that he's on there for a 0. five and you know uh we all know that his position is Grant funded and
003um you know we're not sure from what we heard on Monday night about that so um you know I'm just curious how how we're going to proceed with that uh vice president Zimmerman members of the board we do know now that we will have some project momentum monies and a grant we don't know what that quantity will be but in discussions with Dr SLO the idea was to have our director of research as he's getting near the end of his end of his career to spend part-time with us with the hopes that we could uh bring on another Dr Sloat that we could find next year and I'm very optimistic we can pay him out of project momentum grants we just don't have that balance quite yet however this year we were able to pay
004for Dr slot's full-time salary in addition to other things so I'm very confident that we'll be able to cover his part-time salary in addition to other things that will help even offset kind of some of our budget things so he does a great job we're really committed to him I know that the board supports him and the staff respects him and so um we're we're committed to finding a way and and this morning I I remembered that project momentum communic that I had saying that our grant won't be discontinued however we don't know our balance yet okay do we did they give you an idea of when we could expect to know that information that was my question this morning so I I'll know hopefully sooner than later so I know last year it was
005it was pretty late I want to say it was like April but hopefully they can get back to me and we'll know uh but I think in my view it would be easy easily enough to cover Dr Slow's part-time salary okay um and I uh you know would be thrilled to have Dr SL back so I really hope that that Grant comes in because I think he's incredibly valuable um so I'm happy to hear that we have some of that um the other thing I just kind of want as on record is that you know for these administrative jobs um these job descriptions are going to have to be revised based on the cuts that were made and so you know I just want to be clear for those that were offering a contract to
006that you know know those job descriptions are likely to change based on you know the the cuts that we had to make on Monday night and um and you know I want our employees to have security but you know I'm hesitant uh as a board member because it's our job to approve those job descriptions and and they're not current as they stand so that's just yes uh yeah vice president Z members of the board our plan is to bring revised job descriptions at April 15th um as some jobs are being dissolved or aren't being filled to make sure that uh those Duties are covered and so our plan is to bring those to the board on the 15th there'll be multiple and actually that work is starting kind of in a small committee tomorrow we
007have that work starting as we dissect those job descriptions so including communications director and some of the other jobs we've we've talked about so there may be a slew and we'll probably like leave it in red or something so the board knows the additions so that we account for those things okay thank you um if there aren't any other questions questions or comments I'll uh take a motion motion to approve the issuance of contracts work agreements of remaining contracts workk agreements for school year 2025 2026 a second so we have a motion in a second I'll call for the vote Mr Kenan hi Miss Schmidt I Mr Sani hi I'm going to be a a and I'd like to explain my vote um but it will show it past 3 to one and I'm only
008a aay just because of the job descriptions and as my responsibility as a board member I feel like I needed those before I could approve the contracts for administrators uh we'll go ahead and move on to 1.4 discussion consideration to approve principal at Blue Horizon's Elementary School for the 2526 school year Dr Mahorn on uh Madame vice president members of the board Community um it is recommended uh that the governing board approve the motion to recommend Mr Brandon Valdez as the new principal at Blue Horizons Elementary uh principal interviews were held on January 29th the committee consisted of teachers parent classified staff instructional coach and administrative Personnel um candidates participate in a screening interview process and then were selected uh for a committee interview um Administration is proud to recommend Mr Brandon Valdez Mr Valdez
009is coming to Liberty Elementary School District with 5 years of administration experience if approved Mr Valdez will receive a salary of 101 366 it is recommended that the governing board approve Mr Brandon Valdez as the principal for blue Horizons Elementary School year for the or school for the 25 26 school year okay thank you very much we'll open it up for questions or comments Mr Kenyan yeah I'm just glad um can I how many applicants did we have we had I believe it was eight eight okay good so that means people want to come work here and uh I'm glad we were able to find Mr Valdez I I like love his resume um all right thank you Miss Schmid out of the eight applicants how many were interviewed that went to the final interview
010uh we had three sign up for the final interview one was a noow and so we ended up with two okay thank you Mr serenon I have no different questions okay um I have a couple questions um how many of the applicants met um the full uh job requirements that the district posted which included 3 years of principal experience three years principal experience uh five okay and so um through the screening process um so did you only interview people that had three years experience three years as a principal experience for the full interview yeah correct those they had three years as a principal three full years as a principal no we only interviewed people that had principal experience that they had they had to have at least principal experience they didn't have to have three
011full years but they had to have some principal experience to go through the full interview okay um you know I just want you to know has absolutely nothing to do with you I'm just talking about policy right now and and the job description has um recommended years of principal experience and the only reason I'm saying this is because I want our vice principles to feel like they have the opportunity for succession in our district and you know we spent money on PD specifically for vice principles and so if we have a requirement you know that hasn't come before the board in that job description that makes it very difficult so I just you know I had some very concerned teachers reach out to me and so you know to honor that um I I think
012it's just important for that to be noted um but other than that I don't have any further questions any other questions or concerns okay I'll call for a motion I'll make a motion to approve Brandon valz as the new principal at Blue Horizons Elementary School for the 2526 school year second we have a motion in a second I'll call for the vote Mr Kenyan hi Miss Schmidt hi Mr shon hi I'm also and I will show that approve 4 to zero welcome to Liberty Madam vice president board members in the Liberty Community I'm super excited I am deeply committed to education I had my two kids come through rainbow and I also have my nieces and nephews at Rainbow Valley right now so I'm deeply committed to this community and I am honored to have
013this opportunity to serve it we're glad to have you Brandon we're very excited the blue Community is going to be very excited uh we uh I think Mr namsky is probably sending out the calendar invite right now for the uh the staff to meet U Mr Valdes tomorrow morning at 7: am. we're going to introduce him he's going to spend the day at the campus getting to know the staff and uh he is raring to go and so uh I know a lot of the blue teachers are going to be very satisfied especially the ones on the committee so I appreciate the board's support we're excited welcome welcome Mr Kenyan yeah just uh thank you for your interest in in the district and you've been around for a while even looking at your resume you've
014been in the West Valley for just about ever um except for those couple years when the government stole you and thank you for your service sir appreciate that um and I look forward to what's going to happen in blue thank you mmitt I just want to say thank you for your um interest in the position and clearly your commitment to the district having family your own children in it um and welcome Mr s oh yeah just want to say welcome and uh glad you're here appreciate it also want to say welcome and I I meant to say earlier that you know the committee spoke very highly of you and the teachers and the parents that were on there reached out to me and they're so excited so we're so excited to have you here at
015Liberty and um I know you'll be a great addition to Blue yes thank you thank you okay we'll go ahead and move on to item 1.5 discussion to consider uh discussion consideration to approve FY 25 hourly support staff wage schedule Dr Mahorn thank you this one I'm going to turn over to Crystal good evening vice president Zimmerman and members of the board um what we bring is some changes on the hourly support staff wage schedule um this is mainly due to the fact that we have some openings in the business services department um we've been unable to fill some positions in payroll those are very highly valuable positions that the district cannot operate without um so we've done the work to uh move those positions to a higher level um you've seen some of the
016summary information in the executive summary and I know there's other things that you've seen in the board updates so I stand ready to answer any of your questions thank you Miss moer we'll go ahead to go to Mr Kenyan yeah thank you for this and administration for for doing this um I saw that by doing this it's actually going to save the district some money um and getting away from contract stuff having to hire out help for payroll um and so you know I I always love where we can grow from within we can elevate what we can um and I agree this is a very important position that all staff in our whole District needs to know and rely on their pay you know it drives why they're here part of the reason why
017they're here but um they have to go home and and have a steady paycheck so thank you thank you thank you Miss Schmid yeah I'd like to um Echo some of what Mr Kenyan said it it's always better to be able to hire someone with and not have to contract things out right we know we spend so much more money when we're Contracting things out uh so moving things around in order to make it um a more desirable position is is going to help us in the long run um and yeah we all we all know that payroll matters and uh so having someone in there again that we we know is our employee is is a good thing thank you Mr s yeah going third it's going to be like a broken record um
018but it is important I also don't like paying contractors like to keep it in house and throughout this year I know we've had issues cuz we as a board received a couple emails so I know if we received a couple there must been a ton more out there that we never seen that with issues with payroll so hopefully this this fixes a lot of those issues um I I agree with my fellow board members I think it's a critical critical position that we've seen struggle um this year and so you know I'm too anxious to have um you know uh qualified person in there um you know I just uh I added up like the levels like at the lowest point so you know if they were to be placed on a it's like $44.50
019across the board more but um we're saving three hours a day with the the just the general payroll specialist correct that's correct so the proposal is moving one of the positions to more of a parttime roll 7 hours per day 4 days a week um so that's how it's a savings but that doesn't include the amount that we're actually saving by getting rid of the consultant as well so that I didn't include that because it's not something we normally do okay and um and even with that jump in like the 450 across these three positions um you know it's still that savings because we're losing 3 hours a day correct okay okay um if there are no other questions or comments we'll call for the or call for a motion I apologize motion to approve
020the FY 25 hourly support staff wage schedule effective March 27th 2025 I second we have a motion in a second I'll call for the vote Mr Kenyan I uh Miss Schmidt I Mr s i I'm also and I will show that approved 4 Z okay we'll move on to item 2.1 we will adjourn the special meeting at 4:46 [Music]