001what the scenario was here. Mr. Really good summarizing the unprepared board member. Fantastic. Fantastic. So, the unprepared board member is a dentist and he's busy in his dental practice. I don't remember that. and he remembers that he has a board meeting and he but he hasn't looked up the materials and he tries to read something at lunch but gets interrupted and then he rushes off work and comes to the board meeting and he has no idea what's going on and there's a topic that's really important to him and he hasn't prepared for it and all of a sudden the board president says let's go around the room and let's have uh each person share what their their viewpoint is on this and they start with him and he's unprepared and it's terrible habit number 13.
002He'll come unprepared to board meeting. Very good. But the good news is that when lack of prep preparation becomes a habit, it's a problem. That's you go. You're not there yet. Right. One one of the pieces here that kind of struck me in under plan B, it says um you don't know if you can ever look any of the the other board members in the eye again. I thought that's not that bad. This stuff happens every once in a while. Jane, I think you're exactly right. You hit upon the key thing, right? If if there's somebody who's routinely doing that, that's a problem. That's a problem, right? But if if somebody has a super busy week and they just come and they don't quite have all the information, we're we can we can flex with
003that pretty well and give people what they need to make good decision in most most cases. Um I think we've experienced this with with board members in the not too distant past and it's hard when somebody routinely is not aware of what's going on, but boy, I sure haven't seen anything like that here. I and and this this I I have a lot of empathy for this as well. Um, we're talking about these agenda items to in some level of depth for a month typically before we get to them. So, we kind of know what's going on. But when I was on the city council, we had big packets or oftentimes even bigger than what we asked you to go through and we'd get them Thursday nights and boy, sometimes my weekend was conducive to
004u being able to go through them thoroughly and other times a little less. So, I always tried to do that. I felt that was, you know, one of my main responsibilities, but I get that sometimes life happens for sure. So, what was the what were the lessons learned here? Well, they didn't give you the the answer was no good. There's no good options. You're toast. You should read the homework. Yeah. Resign now. Option five. Yeah. That you have a responsibility, you know, to the public. That's and you should be prepared. And I mean it just goes back to what you're you go and come into a classroom and you know if you don't do your homework you didn't get it done right and you get an F. I don't know you don't pass. Yeah. One
005one of the things it said in here and I I had to look up to remind myself what what state statute was around this. I think it was this one that said if one of the options was to to not attend and it I think it mentioned if I'm remembering correctly if you do that enough a lot of states say that you're not on the board anymore. Anybody know what our our state statutes or policies are around that? I I guessing kind of an educated guess I get I think but I think it's three in a row. If you miss three in a row then you could be eligible for Yeah, it's exactly right. I looked up our state statute. It says if a board member is uh not participating, functioning in their role, I
006can't remember that I'm I'm paraphrasing, for three months. And I clearly that would include attending meetings, but maybe not just attending meetings. It's it's uh kind of open-ended what that means, but you're exactly right. Three months worth of just not doing it anymore. They're removed from from office as a result of that. So, I don't know what that looks like. Certainly, again, we've not had any issue with that at all. And I really appreciate the the depth of preparation. So, anything else we want to talk about there? I think this one goes to one that we did last month also about abstaining because sometimes board members have used I'm not prepared as an as a reason for an abstension, which I don't think is a valid reason. Um, you know, you can ask to have
007it tabled, but if the board chooses to move on, then you move on. So, I I don't know. I I don't know how everybody else feels, but I don't feel that's a valid reason for an obstination. I've seen in the past where where boards and to include this one that not in recent years, but they someone didn't was not prepared and they were supposed to vote for the evening and they asked to table it so it can be more prepared. And I think that's not worthy of tableabling at all, you know. So, kind of just shows that you should have done all of your homework in the first place, right? If you don't, you don't get your bonus for being there. So, that was the that was the first chapter. The second chapter we looked
008at was the opposite problem. Too much not being prepared enough was the first one. The one was being not necessarily overly prepared. The way that they framed it was doing too much homework. But what what was the scenario here? Who who recalls that one? I can do this one. It was since of course Brett told me I do too much homework. Um he meant I come prepared. But um but this person took it upon themselves to write a policy, to do all of the research, to do all of the things because it was an important topic to them. Um where it really wasn't their role to do so. Uh our role isn't to draft all the policy and do all the research. There's people who know more than we know. So yeah, he felt like
009it was his role to do that. Absolutely. I was reading this, the first sentence was innocuous. You know, it's late Sunday night, you're still sitting in front of your computer. That happens to a lot of us all the time. Second sentence, I had a pencil in my hand. I just wrote up to the side. Yikes. No. You've worked for months on a draft policy concerning grounds management. I'm like, holy smokes. In what world is there a board member who is working on their own on a policy on grounds management? The one that I underlined first was grounds management was the pillar of his campaign. Yeah, that's Well, that's that's a that's a separate issue right there, isn't it? Hey, but I mean it's reason they they came up with something that you might have a
010personal passion around. Nothing wrong with that. And there there are ways to go about seeing your uh your point of view or point of view that's been shared with you multiple times by other people to move forward. But they're suggesting that you know drafting your own policies maybe not it. What what does it say is maybe well first of all it says plan B. One of the questions asked what's wrong with this approach and it lists three things that are wrong with it. What recall what those were? Mhm. Left the administration out of the loop. Okay. Left fellow board members out of the loop and left the public out of the loop. Yeah. Drafting something on your own kind of moves forward too far forward in a lane that's maybe not even yours. Right. So
011there's there's a couple of issues and it's not that you know the your your fellow board members will feel bad. Maybe they will or the administration's going to feel bad. That's not it. It's just that you the idea here is we get everybody's expertise and ideas particularly with the expertise piece. Right? If we were going to have a policy, uh, if you were considering, you know, alterations or a new policy regarding transportation, well, we have got professionals that do that. The first people we're going to want to go to is them and say, "What are your thoughts about this?" The board has a vision for seeing this look different in the future. What do you think about that vision? And if if you know, either way, how would we get there from here? And then
012start to build around those discussions, right? Other other thoughts about this? They actually they had some of them when we started off what there were like four A, B, C and D. You could choose one of these. This one had 10 options. Yeah. And where did it go with those 10 options? Do you recall? I think the first five five were listed as no go. Yeah. You know, don't do those things for sure. And the last five were actually reasonable options. Um talk about your ideas with the superintendent beforehand and and administrators. um provide elements of a plan instead of a final plan, which makes a lot of sense, help the board reach consensus, be on a committee, or um make sure there's public time in anything you propose. Absolutely. And the first five in
013and of themselves, I mean, they they're not, you know, like terrible. Don't do so much homework. That's not that's not the idea behind this. You know, stay out of it is not is not what anybody's saying. um don't take a leadership role on this issue. That's not an appropriate approach. In many cases, you'd want to take a leadership role on something that you're passionate about. That's super cool, etc. There there's a handful of things, but doing doing those aren't the right approach that there's there's modes for what what we do and how we do them. And again, we're blessed to have a board, I think, that that uh embraces those roles and and does great great things. One of the things I underline in short, the problem is not that you did too much homework,
014but rather that you seem to want to prevent others from doing their own homework as well. Um, that that's something that I I'm maybe guilty of as a superintendent sometimes. So, I I underlined that for myself and said, "Hey, I got to make sure I don't fall into that category with certain things." I don't want to come and say, "Here, we've got it all baked for you. All you got to do is is say yes, we're moving on." I want to, you know, take a similar approach in terms of collaborative decision making. So, Any other thoughts or ideas around that one? The one line that I underlined that I really thought was was pretty sharp, but says don't start with the product, but follow the process. And I as a board member that it's so
015important if you like what in this example, we started with with the end state and then but if you would have followed it, it would have gotten everybody else involved. And we kind of do that. I think in business sometimes you just get driven and you want the the the end state but holy cow who' you leave out and then it kind of crumbles. So pretty pretty neat line. The the key message don't not share your ideas. Don't not take leadership on things etc. That's that's why you were I mean the probably the primary reason right that you were elected is for your ideas and taking leadership roles on moving us in positive directions but yeah doing it in the process. The superintendent's lessons here I thought were salient but but difficult potentially. Uh it
016says dealing with overzealous board members is particularly challenging for superintendents. I've I've had a little bit of experience with that so far. Currently I don't get a lot of practice with that. So that's good. Um if if she in this case the the superintendent the mythical superintendent is a is a lady. If she feels she has appropriate rapport, Debbie could talk directly with the offending board member. It reminded me of how important it is to have a positive relationship with each person on the board. I've tried to do that whether I'm I have a natural affinity for friendship toward that person or whether I don't. I've tried to do that over the last few years. That's u I think worked to our benefit. And then the other thing I underline the long-term solution is to
017make sure the board has appropriate training and has reached agreement on board superintendent relations. And I I just feel like we we're in a good place with that. Appreciate everything that that you do. So, that's the end of the second of three sections in our book. Awesome. All right. Thank you. Okay. Um, we've got a few minutes here. I'd like to uh do a coin presentation here. And we've got two um two coin recipients tonight. One is uh Kirk Akenbach. Is that right? And uh and then Patricia Leler. Yes. All right. And Kim Barker is the nominee or nominator. Yeah. And I think we have some slides here. Do you want to describe this or describe it? He's the one. This is super cool. Just so you So when I first found out there was
018some some wood laying around, I talked to Chris and he said, "Yeah, you know, we're going to bring it here. You can take some." So I took they were 16 foot long so I had to cut them up and put them in the back of my truck and I wasn't sure what to do with it. So I'm like sitting in my shop going hm. So I'm like I make flags you I'm a woodworker you know hobby and uh I decided to make the make a couple flags and uh it wasn't you know once I planed it and got all the gum off it went pretty well. I'm sure some of that gum was pretty old. So, and then had a little, you know, little saying on the bottom and got a CNC machine. So, it
019was pretty easy to do. So, Kirk, if I remembering correctly, one of these is is at least one of them is hanging in in Mile High and I think one I think the big one's going to go in a gymnasium and the little one I think is in the principal maybe. Yeah. So I was going to make a paddle board of education board of ed. Not too late. I think one of the teachers asked for one. So any idea how old those bleachers are? 40 40 some years maybe. Chris said 4050. Were they original to that building? I think so. I think they probably were. If I had to smelled the wood when I was cutting it. Yeah, I think I think auxiliary's got to be close, right? Maybe a little older, but they're both
020replaced. So, that's very cool. Thanks, Kurt. Thank you. This is really neat. It just adds something neat to the school and ties together kind of our history of the school with where we're going in the future and how we about our country. I just when I first saw it, I walked into Ashley Tetro. She's the principal. Dr. Ashley Tetro's office and said, "That's super cool. Where'd you get that?" She said, "You haven't heard?" I said, "No." Said, "One of our bus drivers is a woodworker. He took some of our old wood from the bleachers and made this." I'm like, "That is the best thing I've heard all day. I love it. I'll probably think of something else. I got plenty of wood left." So, that's great. Very cool. Thank you. I love it. And then
021Patricia. Patty. Yeah. I'll talk for you. I want to acknowledge not only Kirk, but Patty, too. Patty does a lot of our training program for all of our bus drivers. She has just I gave her my ideas of what I was seeing from disgruntled people coming in for training and told her this is what my vision is. Let's get this on board. And Patty's just taken off with it. Um I can't thank her enough. She's now even been acknowledged by the motor vehicle department when we do our third party testing. they have actually asked her to help other schools with the process of what we're doing because it is our system is working. So I just I'm really happy with what Patty's done for our team and the training she's as you can see we
022just did a backing training in this picture where they had to go behind or in between PVC pipe with tennis balls on the end. Um it was a backing strategy to show them what their tail swing would do. Um very eye opening to a lot of drivers. So that was something that she come up with and created herself. So great job. Amazing accomplishments. We just like to present you with govern. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Can I just chime in super quick? So th this is emblematic, I think, of the I think there's a really positive culture that's been established in our transportation department. There's a lot of stability and continuity. Kim has just brought some great leadership and she's surrounded herself with other terrific leaders and and people who are
023are here for the kids and and really have a heart for what we're trying to do in our district and that's pretty neat that it's been an area that in past years has been a constant struggle to to get all the arrows pointing in the same direction. I just feel like we're in a good good spot there and kudos to all of you for for what you do. It's like literally we could not do what we do in our schools without you starting the day off for for a good share work. About a third of our kids every day get to school on our school buses and it's a a huge part of what we do. Absolutely. Right. Well, we're going to start a regular board meeting. Um you're welcome to stay the next four
024hours. They're pretty exciting. Yes, you do. Thank you so much. Oh man. Wow. Thank you. Thanks, Kim. Thanks, Kirk. Thank you. All right. All right. So, we'll start our regular board meeting. Um, welcome everybody to the August 5th PUSD regular board meeting or governing board meeting. Um, we'll start with the pledge of allegiance. Jen, would you lead us? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Right. Move on to item three, approval of the agenda. Take a motion to approve the agenda. I'll move that we approve the agenda as presented. Um, we have a motion. Do we have a second? I will second it. Motion and second. All in favor say I. I.
025Any opposed? Hearing none. Um, approval of minutes. Consider approving the minutes from the study session, book study, and regular study and voting session meeting of July 1st, 2025. Can we get a motion to approve? So moved. Motion. Do we have a second? Second. Motion second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed hearing? None. Item 5A, protect prescuit or prescuit protect update. Andy, thank you. Permission to approach the bench. Great. Thanks, I appreciate the opportunity to come in and present a little bit here. We have a couple new faces. Uh, also good to see my votes getting put to good use. But anyway, this No. Anyway, thank you. Thank you. Um, so I thought it'd be best to kind of do a uh where we were, where we are, and where we're headed with
026the um Prescuit Protect volunteer program. Um, where we were uh as far as safety and security at the in the district. Um, we had an SRO, Officer Holmes, we had single point entry at the high school. Uh, very good things. However, we had no PD support at any of the lower elementary schools. We didn't have any um anybody over at Granite. We didn't have anybody over at Mile High. Um with Missy Townsen and Adam and Clark, we initiated the launch of a community-based uh volunteer program called Prescuit Protect to basically augment the expanding safety measures that were taking place or that were planned districtwide. folds nicely into what um the district is working hard to do and I'll expand on that a little bit. Um so that's just a little bit of the background. The
027emphasis was, you know, our community members who may have some experience in law enforcement or military, but also just who who are interested in keeping an eye out um on the kids for the kids and the teachers that that work there. So, um, where we are, our pilot program started in the spring of 23 over at the high school. Um, and we worked into PHS and Mile High Middle School during the 23 24 school year. We were able to provide about 243 hours of additional um community support to both um of course there officer Holmes at the high school and it was at the time officer Andrew Loveven over at mile high. So worked together with those two folks in addition to the existing security framework that is over at the high school pretty robust.
028And then um the mile high of course Ashley's taken a real uh forward facing approach to really augmenting what's going on over there from a security standpoint. um where we are headed. Uh oh, so just to back up, so the 2425 school year, um we had a few less volunteers, but overall we're close to 400 hours of um additional community volunteers that are in the schools and kind of helping out, which is which is pretty good. I mean, it'd be awesome if it was more, but you know, that's a good start. Good place to start in the two schools. So, um, I just ran into Karen Hughes over who's principal over at Granite Mountain as I was dropping my son off and we kind of had an exchange. So, we're looking forward to starting over
029there this school year. We have a volunteer already set up over there u who's ready to go and we have a new SRO full-time um who I have not met yet, but I know you all are probably familiar. Officer uh Stoga from the Prescuit Police Department who's going to be over there full time. and then our volunteer and any other volunteers we have uh will work kind of with him. And Karen was um kind of excited about that prospect of just not having to that we could kind of coordinate directly with the SRO on site and then you know kind of work work together to just kind of augment. You probably all know this the layout of granite and by a jud kind of facilitates this two for one deal over there. So if we
030our hope is hey if we can kind of get over there uh in assisted granite it' be perimeter walks and just an extra set of eyes and a radio um in a bio jut as well. So that would be very cool. That's great. Um how this fits I just want to make a quick note how this fits into the greater safety and security emphasis. Um I also just need to note that this is outside the per what I'm about to kind of talk about is outside the purview of Prescuit Protect. That's a volunteer program that I uh help coordinate. But in doing so, I've been I've had the opportunity to speak with um our federal pro our federal uh programs director Jamie Buuna and of course Clark who um working tremendously hard to secure some
031awesome grants for what's going on here in the district. Um just briefly, uh there's three main grants. There's a school safety program continuation grant, which you can see on your sheet, a stronger connections grant, and then a school safety program mini grant. Um, a note of correction. We are actually in year, this is the third year. It says year two, but technically completed year two of those three-year grants. So, we're going into the third year. They're already working hard to secure more grant funding. It's not secured yet, but you know, the hope is that will that will be there. Um, the number three item, the school safety program miniig grant has been used to uh, of course fund the full-time SRO at Grant and Mountain in addition to um the, uh, social worker at Mile
032High. And Clark, do we are we up do we have one over there full time? Do you know? Great, we do. Yep. this uh sheet needs to be updated. But anyway, so that's great. Um because of course the mental health side of this is is a big part and being involved in the schools and and trying to catch kids um that are having trouble and kind of acknowledging that or kind of um identifying that and getting them services, you know, ahead of time. So um you can see the numbers. This is all tremendous. I mean, we go from having one SRO districtwide two years ago to having three full-time SRO's. In addition to at all the lower elementary schools, we have kind of a revolving uh shift, four-hour shift work of various um officers from
033PD, from Presca PD, Chino Valley PD. I think we have the sheriff's department involved that will sign up for for um just extra shifts and then it's up to the individual administrators at those schools to kind of you know delineate when those shifts would be best utilized. Could be before school, could be kind of that after school time, could be a variety. But I can tell you just as a parent from the from the community, we're getting really good feedback of uh other schools. I have several friends at Lincoln who just love seeing seeing that presence there. I share this with Clark and Jamie. I walked the halls last year. I mean, it just was lined with the little kids that drew pictures and thank you notes to the officers who are out there. Um,
034and that's that's awesome. I mean, that was two years ago. And this is not this is not a testament to Prescuit Protect. I'm just kind of reflecting um and kind of, you know, giving the district here a pat on the back because this is two years ago we had this. Now we have this and it's um it's awesome. So um I would say in conclusion uh well I'll just back up one more thing. So I I think that those uh I work pretty closely I volunteered once a week over at Mile High and I work pretty closely with Officer Loveven and I will say that that having him there was amazing. Right. There's two specific examples. There's probably hundred more but I can give you two. There was one instance where there was a Facebook
035threat or something made and of course you know um I had friends that contacted me because I I have connection there and I was the volunteer there. I reached out directly to officer loven who had already um went to the the person's house talked to the parents kind of diffused the whole situation. And so you have to understand that this uh officer loven had been moving faster than the mile high rumor mill which is pretty fast you know um and I was able to communicate with parents and then it worked its way around the chain. So that was an example. Another example is of course the um I guess standoff over that was over at the uh apartments across the street which is very close proximity to mile high course being downtown and he was
036able to handle that seamlessly with the lockdown and it was I mean he's right there it was right there was it was perfect rather than having this kind of disjointed communication I'm sure previous communication with the PD was was great but having somebody there on site who knows the kids was even better in my opinion. And so um in conclusion, I really feel as a community we should expect this level of attention to be paid to the safety and security of the students and the teachers, the people that work in our schools. Uh I also think it's important as parents that we should know that our district is working very hard uh constantly to ensure this dynamic objective is attained and uh I encourage the board to continue this effort and I encourage the community
037to continue to support it however we can if that is in press and protect or if that's however that looks. Um it's a group effort, it's a community effort and there's plenty of opportunities to get involved. So um Yeah. Thank you. Any questions on any of any of that? I had one quick one. You said you have fewer volunteers this past year than the first year. I'm sorry, J. What was it? Sorry. It's I believe I heard you say you had fewer volunteers this past year, but more hours given. We had the first year we had two pretty steady um faces over at PHS. Okay. And one of those their their kids left the high school. So then we lost that. Um, and so the first part of the year we didn't have him over
038there and then I think Jimmy came second semester. So second semester we kind of replaced that. Ours dipped slightly. We had another full-time uh gentleman over at mile high and he um you know as as would be they kind of people may come and go or they they're able to volunteer for a little bit and life changes and they can't. So uh we we had a few less hours over at mile high. So, but we do also intentionally I mean by the by nature of this program you are there is some um independence. So we are pretty careful kind of about how we vet and who you know it's not just just whoever wants to come in you know so that kind of thing. We want to make sure there's positive interactions with both the
039staff and and the kids if that occurs. just want to say thank you for what you're doing. I think um I've had a couple interactions with the folks of PHS and it it's just great to see the community out seeing what our schools are like and and actually being there. I I think it it makes their hearts and minds grow a little bit, you know, every time somebody's out there. So, we appreciate you being involved in putting this together. I I think that's a you know I did I reached out to Matt Dean and Missy just in ahead of this I was giving a little presentation. Do you have do you folks have anything good or bad about the the volunteer program and Matt's comment was just you know it's always good to have an
040extra set of eyes on a radio. Yeah. And Missy's was I thought great in the sense that it was really uh 30,000 foot view in the sense that is she said if as long as there I'm going to quote it because she just said when community members are invested with their time in our schools, it only makes us better. So, I mean, I think that is uh at the heart of this whole thing, too. Yeah. And is heart of what you said, Andy. So, thank you. I think it's important our community knows this is even happening. I think there's a lot that have no idea the amount of time that's invested in helping our schools be safe from volunteers and people like you who arrange volunteers. I think it's incredible. So, thank you very much
041for doing it. And this this is, you know, we I work with the individual administrators to kind of send information out to the schools to try to get more volunteers. So, we're kind of working on that. But I can't underscore the effort that's gone into these grants by Jamie, by Clark. I mean, this is this is big. I mean, this this is a tremendous I know this is recorded and other people view this and things. So, I really want people to know how much effort is going into this and the fruit of that effort is obvious. If you're in the schools, you will see police presence there. And that's not that's that's a small that's one part of it. That's one tenant of school safety. I know, but it's a it's a very visible part
042and I think it's an important part and it's also an expensive part. So, you know, and at the end of the day, all this stuff costs money to do. So, I think that um it's just important that the community knows that that's happening. So, good on you all. I think it's also so key to have our kids around police officers and learning that they can trust police officers because I think a lot of kids have a different perspective about what police do and they have some fear around police officers and things and they actually have formed relationships with our police officers and it's pretty cool to watch and I mean that basketball game where you know they went over to crowd control before the game ended and they just stood there and those kids respect
043him so much that they knew Officer Holmes is here for us like for our protection too. Like it was good. It was I was so impressed. Love it. And that respect comes from connection. So to go back to that Facebook I mean officer loven was able to con speak with that student and he knew that student you know there was a familiarity there and it's not just this foreign you know police officer and then there's fear or whatever else emotionally occurs but that um like you said that's a great example. They they know homes. They know he's there to help and but they're gonna listen to him, too. So, I think it's great. Yeah. So, good. Andy, yeah. Again, thanks for stepping up, you know, and and taking this initiative. You know, one, I mean,
044you're you're a husband, you're a you're a father of students, and you know, it's important to remember that you're also keeping your our staff safe um as well as our kids. And um and it's no small feat what you've done. um you know and and anytime that we can announce that there are different layers of security in our schools, it's a deterrent to anybody that may possibly think to do something harmful to our staff or kids. And so by you stepping up, it just adds an additional layer um a voice for if there may be something coming at us that we don't know. Um so we appreciate we appreciate all the efforts that you've done. And my wife works my my wife works for the district also, so that's right. Some of you may know
045her, but So I have yeah full family there. Thank you all. Appreciate Can I make a quick comment if that's all right? So we we've got a lot of great community partners and advocates in the community uh for PSD. I don't know if we've got a better one than Andy Stickle. He's he's there doing all kinds of things for us and this is just one example of of his heart and how he's brought people together. There's a lot of effort on his part. He's kind of downplaying all the organization on his part. He's met with us multiple times. His question is always how how can we help? How can we make it better? how can we make it safer? And I I love that and thanks for pointing out that, you know, the other efforts
046that we're making as well. But what you and your crew do to augment our our safety is is meaningful. Not just in terms of the, you know, the actual ways that we've talked about extra eyes, radio, communication, etc., but just the feel that there's people in the community that have our back is huge. Thank you for what you do. Sure. Appreciate you, man. Yeah, I think it's an attit it's it's an attitude, you know, it's an attitude of of um just care and concern. So, it's a group effort for sure. Thanks, Clark. Thank you. Thanks, Eddie. That was great. Um, moving on to item 6A, summary of current events. Mr. Tenny. Okay. Well, I've got goosebumps. That was You have goosebumps? I appreciate you. Yeah. So, the school is off to the school year is
047off to a great start. I've I've talked to the principles and I've heard five different versions of we've never had a smoother start to the year. That's that's fant. Knock on wood a little bit. Uh we're we're still kind of in the start, so we have to get past that. I'd love to, you know, a month from now be able to say the same thing. I hope that'll be the case. It's been really good in in all of our schools in most ways. Little bumps like everywhere, right? Traffic's a little sticky as everybody's kind of learning what's what and some parents say, "I'll just send you on the, you know, we'll drop you off the first few days before we start the bus thing." And so, we have half again as many people as usual
048driving, etc. But, it's been a really good start. I've got some comments from principles I'll I'll share in just a moment. But, um, couple of different things. You know, we've talked about, I've reported to you, some of you were able to stop by. We had our new staff orientation. Uh what's it been two weeks ago? Kelsey, do you mind kind of chiming in and sharing a little bit about this? She's not going to mention this, but I I have had I I can't stop the flow of people telling me this was fantastic. We've had Are you going to mention kind of what some of the feedback you've had? If if you don't, I I will. Why don't you go ahead and I'll see if there's anything that if you're downplaying anything about how awesome you
049are, I'll I'll uh augment. How's that? Okay. Um So, new teacher or or new staff orientation, I guess I should say, is um kind of our Super Bowl week we call every year because there's so much that goes into it and there's so much planning and people and things that we really want to set our new staff off on the right foot. And so, we've refined that process and refined it and refined it, but we have all of our staff join us for four mornings um from about 8 to noon each day. And we have a variety of topics that we talk about. Um, but this year I cannot speak highly enough about the group of professionals we had in that room. Um, they were energetic and they were funny and they were passionate and
050their heart is in this for the kids. So, we could not have had a better group of of people joining our team. So, I'm excited about that. Um, I could not have done any of that without our instructional coaches. um they really are the magic behind that week and the support that they offer um our teachers and our principles as we get them started. The feedback that we got was extremely great. I mean, I couldn't have asked for better. They felt supported. They felt welcomed. They felt like they had enough time to get things done so that they were on the right foot when all staff came back because we know that that turns into a fast and furious week as well. Um but I think they were ready. Um they were I they were
051a great group. They're one of the best I think we've worked with so far as a whole. Going around and talking with our new teachers. I've I've been to each classroom the first few days of school and especially tried to spend a couple minutes with the with the new folks. I've heard several versions of this from people who had been in in other districts. I talked with one person who I think this is their fourth district they've been in over their career and they said, "I I our onboarding was fabulous. I've never seen anything like it. never said it. It's obvious that there's people in this district who know what they're doing. They care. They're reaching out. The time I had with my principal was great. The time we had with everybody in our in
052our um our all staff uh on boarding was terrific. The time you gave me to be in my room and prepare for the school year. Just I love this place already. That what a great first impression Kelsey and her team made. Those those photos there, the top is our group of new um certified staff. You can see there's about 28 30 folks there including, you know, physical therapists and some uh some folks like that, but mostly teachers up there. I think we've got what 28 29 new teachers, which is, again, we've talked about our turnover rate. I think it's 13%, which is about half of what you'll find in other parts of Arizona. Um, and pretty healthy, frankly, because about half of the folks who who moved on before were were um people who decided
053to retire. We don't want to keep people the rest of their life. There was actually two or three folks as well that we said, you know, maybe it's time for you to find something else. So, you know, we we're we're real pleased with the the level of turnover that we had and and like Kelsey said, the new folks we brought in. I mean, we kind of feel this way every year, maybe, but this this was a pretty special group, I think. Great group. I also want to give a huge shout out to our community partners, too, who additionally welcomed them. So, our first morning, we had coffee for them from Method Coffee. We had, if you've never been to Parlor Donuts, you got to look. This is my first time I glanced at them and
054man, they're I think they were intimidating because they're so fancy and pretty. But we had donuts from Parlor Donuts. Um we had the Chamber of Commerce came with goodie bags, not just one, but two bags for each of our new staff of just all kinds of swag. Um and then we had Chick-fil-A that afternoon bring them lunch. Obviously brought the cow with them as well. Um and they gave them a free gift card for an additional meal at some point. So they just walked out of there feeling welcomed and a little spoiled and all of those good things. So they were we've got a great community who's supporting our teachers and our staff. Yeah. A lot of people, man, I'm glad I'm impressed. This is awesome. I've done this a lot of places. I've never
055felt this way about the bottom photo is um Kelsey's instructional uh coaches and and some of our other administrators and people who who uh were instrumental in make in pulling this all off for us. So you can see we almost had a you know one to one correlation between people who were making it happen and people for whom it was happening. It's pretty neat. I would just possibly add that out of the at the teachers closet on Friday we invited the new teachers to come in. We had over 20 there. I don't remember the exact number but I was overwhelmed. It was absolutely wonderful. They were they were excited. They were happy. They couldn't believe that we offered a service like that that the other districts they had worked at before never did anything like
056this and it was just so heartwarming. Jane, I'm so sorry I forgot that but yes, teachers closet was instrumental in this as well. So, um Paul came that first day and we walked everybody through the teachers closet so they knew where it was, they knew what kind of supplies were there. Um and then when they went back to their after their classroom that afternoon, they started to go, "Okay, what do I have? What do I need?" And when I saw Paul afterwards, he said it was like little kids in a candy store that afternoon that it just was it was so inspiring and they were so excited to to have that for them. So, and then Friday you were there for them to come back and actually go shopping. I thought kind of doing that
057in in a twostage um uh method was was really great. I thought it worked out really well. They were they were prepared to shop. Teachers came through and they're like, "Now, what can we have?" Whatever you need for your kids. They're like, "Are you serious?" That's Wow, it was pretty neat. Okay. And then it's um the school year starting like we say we got back to school nights. I'll let you kind of look at those times. If you want to jot any of those down on your own personal calendars, you're welcome to. Oh, great. Okay. Super. Super. Sarah, we'll make sure that you've got all of those times, but we'll try to be at as as many of those as we can. Um and just kind of it's a great time to inter interact and
058inter um interface with parents and kids who are excited to be where they're at. I asked all of our principles, I won't go into depth here because just for time sake, but I asked all of our principles, hey, what are a couple of great things about the start of the school year for you and I had everything from um you know, the the communication between staff and leaders has been super positive. Uh our new teachers are crushing it is is what I heard from a couple of folks. A lot of us, you remember, we did some some shuffling around with uh leadership in the district uh three years ago. And so now we're I guess two and a half years ago, whatever it's been. So, a lot of us are in year three of our
059roles, and you probably have experienced in your own life, year three of something big is is a really good year. It's a, okay, made it through the survival year, made it through them, learning what the pieces are, and now where do we go next? It's kind of how do we level up? And and we had some people mention that. Um, our Genesis, our PSD everywhere program director mentioned that she's got as many kids online as she's ever had. Our Genesis program had the most graduates that they've ever had this last year. That's our dropout prevention program. 45 kids graduated high school through the Genesis program last year. We've had as few as like a dozen in past years. So, that's pretty neat. And the total number of kids enrolled right now is 47. So, we
060had almost as many kids graduate as we currently have enrolled. That's pretty neat. I was I was proud to hear that. Um, less teacher stress is one of the things that I heard uh from from a couple of different uh folks and their sped staff and their school being revamped and happy and ready to go. Those were those were things I know are continual concerns for us. Uh and so hearing that feedback from principles was meaningful to me. So I want to share that with you. And then I just thought I'd share this with you as well. So I was at Shauna Hodance's uh math intervention class. I can't remember when it was. It was either yesterday or Friday. Um and this was this was outside her door and I thought that's super cute. And
061it's kind of emblematic of a couple of things. We have we have people, you know, who say I'm not a math person. I can't do that or whatever. and we just say, "Hey, everybody can do this." And there there's her two-step process for being a math person, which I love. Kind of light-hearted and whatnot, which I think is emblematic of the way that we that we try to approach things in our schools. Uh, but also, we're going to do it. Everybody does this. We're jumping in. Pretty neat to see that happen. Already working with kids at where they're at and where they need to be next. So, I think that's what I got. All right. Okay. Moving on to item 62, governing board members. Uh Brett. Yes. Thank you. I went to Granite Mountains meet
062the teacher night on uh I think that was on the 29th of July and I felt like it was well organized. Felt like there was a good vibe there. The culture was good. Lot of excited little ones moving up to a upper elementary school. And then two days later, I was there for the first day of school. Um had a neat experience. Um Clark was there and he said, "Hey, why don't you come visit some classes with me?" And this is just the kids have been in fifth grade for five minutes. And uh and Clark walks in with me and it it was it was interesting. Um the the fifth graders were like deer in headlights. They were they it was they looked they looked a little nervous and uh but it was it was
063fun uh to to meet the teachers to be with Clark to um we had usually when Clark walks into a classroom he's like a rock star. The kids are like Mr. Tanny. Um it was a little little different than I've seen in the past but it was fun. I was impressed with uh Clark's leadership and the way that he cares for the teachers. And um as I was walking back to my car to make it to my nine o'clock patient, I saw Mr. Binder and he was making the the rounds too on the first day of school and he was headed into um uh by a Jud and I just was real impressed. Felt like our schools are in good hands. Our leadership team is is second to none. So that was uh that was
064a good experience for me. Uh and I was surprised at how many of the teachers I had never met. you know, a lot of them were were new new uh introductions to me and so I appreciated that and look forward to learning more names and uh getting to build relationships with the with the boots on the ground, the ones that make the difference. They appreciated their their efforts and they look prepared and ready to go and uh inviting and helping out those especially the the vulnerable fifth graders, which is which is fun. Um, and then I the last thing I have to report is the distinguished alumni award page is up and running. Thank you to Sarah Torres for uh that. It's professional. It has all of our um awardees there with their pictures and
065a little bio. And if you're interested in uh checking that out, you go to the Prescat High School page, you go to the alumni button at the top, and then you click on distinguish alumni award and uh very professionally done. So, thank you. I'll just say Sarah has augmented that even further. There's a link just like you said, there's also one from the district homepage as well that's got all that same stuff plus the yearbooks that that Missy and her crew got online and the Hall of Fame and and our Facebook page for alumni. So, we're trying to find a good landing spot and sort of build that aspect of our of our support community. I think it's very helpful. Yeah. So, thank you for your efforts, John. Um, I was able to go to
066the day one of the new teacher training, which was pretty amazing to see and very impressive with your group of coaches and just the people that are involved. So, good. and Stan's video was played of the history of PUSD. No way. And I don't think I've ever seen it before. I apparently missed whatever education foundation event that occurred at. And so anyway, I it was really cool and I think it's something that is really neat to share about our our schools and the impact they've had on our community for a very very long time. We've linked that from Sarah's web page as well, actually. Wow. Well, it is it's very impressive. Nice job. Thanks. Narrating fun doing it. Yeah. Um, and this month I got to be on the radio with Clark, so that was
067fun. And it was good. We had lots of great things to talk about. Um, I'm kind of disconnected. I haven't been around for a month, so I've been traveling coast to coast with my family. So, nothing really that I've done with the schools except just kind of on a personal note, um Claren, my daughter, wanted to go to the high school and run on the track and take take her daughter out to run and see her. And she she said, "I haven't sprinted in a long time, so I want to go sprint." And she um she ran on the new track, which she didn't have in high school, and she ran a 2975 200 meter dash. So I was like, she said, "I hope I can get under 40." And she was under 30. So
068this is that was really cool. After having a baby. Yeah, this is after having a baby. So I was like, and presumably she hasn't been training. No, she hasn't been training. So jeez, I was pretty impressed. And but I guess my point is the facilities are amazing. and my granddaughter loved running on the field and playing in the grass, the fake grass and the track and just our facilities people are doing such a good job especially this dry summer. I mean things look really good when I've been around at the school. So just a shout out to them too. Yeah, a lot of coordination and effort and planning over many years to have what we have there and our folks at the high school and our maintenance folks as well just do a great job
069of keeping it up. We we initially anticipated eight years out of that and it's been what already eight nine and we're we're we're going to stretch out further because the maintenance that we've done and save the district money to put it to other places and all of the schools look really good. I just want to things look really in top shape. So really happy with that. I was actually out of town most of the month of July as well, but I did stop in on last Tuesday, a week ago, to buy a Jud. Spent a couple hours just walking around, touching base with all the teachers. Some of the moms were there, too, and just connecting with everyone, making sure they have what they needed. And I I've experienced nothing but excitement and rooms ready
070to go and teachers ready to go and the school looked great and was proud to be part of it. Great. Well, I didn't do a lot of back to school activities, but um hopefully it'll get out to the teacher nights um or parent teacher nights. Um I do want to mention we um we did lose a longtime teacher uh Mr. Jack or um here just over a week ago and I think we were in the same algebra class, right? Right. Um with him. I feel like it you didn't have Jack. I had him for algebra and and Mr. algebra he or what was algebra man. algebra man. Yep. Like, oh my gosh. Amazing teacher, amazing laugh, coach, just, you know, obviously there was just an article on three generations of ORS um teaching in PUSD
071and, you know, it's uh that's a these are tough losses with, you know, that we've had lately with some longtime educators, but he's another one and he's a legend in his own time. So, we'll miss you, Jack, and uh thanks for all you've done for Prescuit and the community and the Forest Service and everything that you did throughout your life. So, um so item 6B, uh community comments shared with governing board members. Um you want to start, Brett? Sure. We did have one letter come in. So, we've all we all got this letter. I'll just uh since I'm first, I'll just summarize some of the the points of concern. There was the elimination of morning before recess at a bayuded elementary school. This uh mother and volunteer in our schools was concerned with the length
072of the school day, the class sizes and overburdened teachers. And I reached out to her. The the principal there has reached out and sent an email uh which I had seen. So, I wanted to know if uh if her concerns were u satisfied and she said they were not satisfied and she uh talked a little bit more about increased recess duties and um in her email she said that teachers can't drink water during the daytime because there's no time to use the bathroom. And so something I think um might be helpful to to look into with uh we probably already have some teacher surveys or satisfaction surveys I imagine and uh that might be nice to share with the board members. So we have a better understanding is this a is this a one uh
073one parent concern or is this a global concern that we need to look into? And that's the only public formal public comment that I that I had this month. Um same I I would I would just say one note I made is that I don't I don't think the um expectation of duty recess duty is is a singular thing to prescuit. And this isn't to say that just because other districts do it doesn't mean it's right for us. But we also have to look at the resources we have available. And I would love to have a full staff that could manage all of those extra duties and keep our teachers out of that. Um, that's just not realistic. Um, and so I I I I don't want to come across as saying just because other
074districts do this that that it's right for Prescuit to do it, but I also think we have to take the whole picture into account here and know that we can do what we can do with the resources we have and teachers at most other schools are doing recess, bus duty, before school, after school, lunch, everything. And even professionals that are not teachers but higher levels in the school are doing it. So, um I I can sympathize. Uh but I also know that we're in a spot. This is what we have to do. The only thing I reiterated with her was that in the question she had about before recess when kids get to school going to classrooms as well. I do know that the BIAD teacher leadership team last year had decided to go in
075this direction before Dr. break came online and I feel like she has made a decision to take a look, see how it's going and we'll re-evaluate in December and I I mentioned that to the mom and I didn't hear back from her so I'm assuming maybe she took that to heart that it is being looked at. It's not written in stone. And then as far as class sizes go, I was really happy with the what I heard at Aaya Jud as far as what the class sizes are this year. And I got to use the bathroom a lot as a kindergarten teacher. I did find time. So I know you can get to the bathroom. It can it can be done. It can be done even with kindergarten. Yeah. Yeah. And I spoke to this
076parent and obviously understand their concern and you know having kids there and how it's very important especially when they look forward to coming to school and probably getting the wiggles out or whatever out and just it's I mean I can remember as a kid it was was great. You got there and got you got there early so you could at least have that time. And I think that's something it's probably unique to by a jud because I know we're not doing it the other elementary schools, but I I just appreciate that it's being looked at and that if it's something that can be done by a judge that's favorable and the survey is done, you know, maybe we can get back to it if it is accomplishable, if it's that important. So, so Stan, can
077I clarify one of those pieces because the before school piece is actually happening at Lincoln and Taylor Hicks as well on the playground. Oh, okay. And I will tell you, I was the first principal to make that move when I was at Taylor Hicks. This was actually something that came out of co um during that time when we were social distancing we did have kids come directly to the classrooms. Um and just out of necessity that's what we did. So when it came time for the following school year when we were lightening restrictions I brought it to teachers and I said look is this something that we want to continue? Um I've heard good feedback from you. And the teachers at that time were like, you know, we don't love giving up that time, but
078it makes the start of our day so much better. Um, and so it came to be one of the things that is still happening. And then Lincoln started doing it and now Abio Jet and I will tell you it made the world of dis because the playground in the morning with that many children was just unsafe and there were things happening where kids were getting hurt or scuffles were happening or there was conflict and there wasn't enough staff out there to address all of those properly and to ensure that kids were safe. So what teachers saw by having kind of we called it a soft start in the morning. Kids trickled in. They had things to do. They weren't necessarily always sitting at their desk. they could play the games that in during class they
079didn't always have time for and so kids liked it. It was calm and by the time that school actually started, kids were ready to learn. Um so teachers made that choice of you know we see the benefits. We've lived through it and it's it's stuck all these years. So I'm hopeful that that will be the case. I do know that at a judge they swapped duties around too. So it wasn't just adding on this additional duty. They actually removed all of lunch duty for those teachers. So now they have a 40 45 minute block during the day for lunch which they didn't have prior. So they did swap some of those out. Again I agree wholeheartedly that I wish we did not have to do that but it's the reality of first of all making
080sure our kids are safe and making sure that you know we have the appropriate staff out there to do that. Yeah. All great points. Well and I can just say being 12 years at Taylor Hicks I mean it would not be typical. It would be typical that my first hour after school starts is handling things that happen on the playgrounds, which you know that was one fifth of my time that teachers were in the classrooms. It it it it bit into my observation time, my walkthroughs. I was being a manager, not as much of an instructional leader just because we had 380 kids on the playground and we were trying to keep it safe. That impacts teachers as well as the principal. kids are being pulled off pulled in for interviewing on what happens. They're
081missing all that instruction. Um I thought about it at Taylor because I just didn't have the guts to do it. You know, it took a pandemic to make that happen. Yeah. I mean, it really because of the reaction that I thought would have happened, but kids had three recess times throughout the day in addition to that. So, there was a lot more students out on the playground at that time. Their teachers were there. or the staff was there who knew them who could supervise. It was a lot more safe. As far as the time that they are at uh having recess duty, how often is that occurring? Like is it a rotation where they have that once a week, twice a week? Do we know? They go out with their own kids to morning recess
082and to afternoon recess, lunch recess, other folks take care of for them. Okay. Thank you. And typically what happens is say second grade is out there at the same time. Those teachers go out, but the teachers are great at kind of a rotation for each other. So, two might go take a restroom break while the other two are out watching um all of the kids and then they'll swap or trade. So, they do a good job of watching out for each other. Initially, as we're getting routines established, they're all four out there. No question. But as the year goes on, absolutely, there'll be more and more flexibility. And really, that is that came out of, you know, after 2008. Uh it's really resources like you said, Andy. I mean, our pair of professionals by general,
083probably 90% of our pair of professionals that we used to have do that, so the teachers didn't. They're all in the special education classrooms and they're attending to the high needs of the students in those programs. So, there's just not bodies. You would have to take the nurse to, you know, it just there's not bodies to substitute for that supervision. Well, and this is not an agenda item. And if we want to maybe talk about it further, we we could consider putting on an agenda and talk about the p the the teacher satisfaction survey and give us some more information on that and allow the public to come or teachers to come talk to us or give us their opinion. It's kind of morphed into an agendaized or at least a discussion. And so I
084think I think I think it'd be good on agenda. That's down the road. I'd like to I'll just make one additional comment. the the great parent who brought that to our attention is one of my favorite people. That's not just somebody who's saying I want this done and walking away. She is there at that school all the time and given her time and her heart. So I love, you know, anybody who's got feedback for us, I'm interested. I'm especially interested in feedback from people who are in there doing it with us. So I I think it's worth this discussion. I appreciate we're having it. And it is her wedding anniversary tonight. So that's why she's not here. So that's great great lady who I I I don't share her perspective on a couple of these
085things. Nothing wrong with that. I love I love hearing it and man I again appreciate what she and other terrific people do to make successful. Thank you. Thanks for representing her, you know, [Laughter] thanks everybody. Um all right, moving on to the consent agenda item 7A. U does anybody have anything to highlight or pull? I would like to pull 7 A2. Okay. And approve the donations individually as opposed to part of the consent agenda. Oh, all right. So, we will pull item 7 A2. Any other items? Just a question about 788. Um, in the original agenda, I think I had brought up we had originally listed it as Granite Mountain Middle School, but also listed Granite Mountain Upper Elementary School. So, wherever we need to make that switch for what's legal at this point. I
086think Sarah, can you clarify where we're at with that? Yes. So, Mr. Moore has submitted all the paperwork for the the official name change to and it's still in pending status. Um, so as soon as we get that finalized or the final word from them, then it hopefully will be officially Grant Mountain Elementary School. But for now, we have to keep documentation at Granite Mountain Middle School. We all know what school it is. So, right. Yeah. Same school. I was going to pull the three SRO ones just so we could talk about how those are funded. And then we got this beautiful presentation that told us everything of how it was funded. So, if the public I just wanted the public to be aware of how those are funded and they can rewind and watch
087earlier and see that it's I'll put that it was funded this way. Can I make a quick comment on that? That's that's one group of of two groups of of things that you're looking at on the consent agenda tonight that are just terrific examples of of the great partners we have in the city of Prescuit. They have been just so good uh to us and for us over the years and I think they feel the same way about our partnership with them. We've got a representative from the city tonight. Our new parks and rec director is here tonight. Good to meet you. Christy Diaz Trean. Am I getting that right? Perfect. Perfect. Anyhow, so if you had questions about either of those pieces that are that are also part of the consent agenda or maybe
088they're I can't remember. Are they part of the regular voting? Those are regular. Okay, there you go. Yeah. So, when that comes up later, she's here if you have questions and I'm here, etc. But you're totally right. I really appreciate you mentioning that and the city has been great to work with us in uh bringing one of the the three two of the three SRO as Andy mentioned, you've noted, are paid for out of grant funds that we've worked hard to to acquire. Um, one of them has been a cost share directly funds from the city, directly funds from us, and the city has agreed to bring that more in line with what our our neighboring districts are doing and and whatnot. I just really appreciate their their help there. So, that's been a good
089thing for them and for us. All right, I will uh take a motion to approve the consent agenda item minus item 7 A2. So moved. I'll second it. Motion and seconded. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. All right. Item 7 A2. Consider approving the donations. Yes. I would just like to individually thank these organizations. We had one from the Sunrise Lions Foundation for $500 for Discovery Gardens. We had one from the Jewish Community Foundation to Prescat Mile High Grant Cycle for $6,342. We had the James Family Foundation donate a check in the amount of $3,000 for the Prescuit Mile High Broadcasting Studio. And we had a donation from Michael Fresone or Fresone. Do you know anybody know how it fone? I thought donation of $800 for the Prescuit Mile High wrestling
090mats and those are the ones we had this month. We couldn't do it without them. That's right. All right. So, I'll take a motion to approve the donations as presented. I'll make that motion. Motion. Motion and seconded. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? All right. Moving on to um 7B public hearing. Do we have any open call of the public? None. All right. Then we have um item 7 B1 consider. No, we don't do that. We're moving on item 7 C studying voting sessions. Um no public participation in that. Okay. Item 7 C1, consider approving the revisions to the 202526 budget limits for the maintenance and operation and capital budgets. Mr. Moore. Just so for you know all the people that are watching um it's interesting that we just you know adopted
091and uh well proposed and then adopted our fiscal year 26 budget and now we're bringing it back for a revision already. Um uh I felt it was important as soon as uh the budget forms were actually finalized to bring it in front of the board as as quickly as we could. Um essentially we adopted and proposed on preliminary forms because of the the state legislators they had they had not you know had the budget finalized before we had to adopt our budget. Um they uh they had to put out the final forms after they they recessed. And so these are the final forms. Um, when it came to the tax rates, you know, I adjusted the ADM like I said I was going to do so that that bottom line is the same and we're
092about 30 students higher uh projected than we were last year as kind of that buffer in case we get a little bit of a boom of enrollment. Uh the only thing that's different on these is that on page seven, it's kind which is a page that kind of outlines um our M, our maintenance and operation, our salaries, our benefits. what that bottom line is, there's an additional uh line that was not on the adopted budget. And um and that it's it's called uh state aid supplement. And just so you know what that is is I think it was in 2016 uh Proposition 123 went into effect in which it did sunset. And part of that proposition was that um and that was out of the lands money. um if that expired and was not renewed
093that it needed to go come out of the general fund um until a decision was made on what they were going to do with it. And so there is $246,825 that was not on um the adopted budget for our M and that is essentially to take place of that Prop 123 money that sunseted and now the general fund is taking over that funding. So anyway, that was not on the adopted budget, but there's 240,000 that's on this that was not before. So any questions other than that? Um everything's basically the same except for that one addition. How was your summer adjusting this with everything up in the error? This Oh, the federal funding and it was it were you playing with numbers and No, you know, I mean the budget basically shows spending capacity. I
094literally could, you know, and unlike all the different funds, I mean we could put you a million dollars on all of them. If you don't have the money, you can't spend it. Sure. you know, our budget is really should be closer to that, but um it's in affect too much. We still put what we anticipated we were going to get, but until you see uh you know the light of their eyes, yeah, it was good news and our budgets reflected what ended up being the money that was already allocated by Congress. Yeah. Good. Thanks. Any other questions? I'm glad it wasn't my first year in this job because I wouldn't have known what to do. Oh my gosh. preliminary forms and I got to do. So anyway, thank you for hearing out what the difference
095was and with your vote, we will have our first budget revision for the year. All right, we'll take a motion to approve the revisions to the 2025 budget limits to the maintenance and operation in capital budgets. I'll make that motion. Motion. Do I have a second? Second. Motion seconded. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Item 7 C2, consideration and possible action to appoint Andy Fraer to represent Prescuit Unified School District number one as a district delegate to the ASBA delegate assembly clerk. Okay. Yes. So, as you know, we're we're members of the Arizona School Boards Association, and they have um a number of of events and activities each year that help support uh boardsmanship and networking and whatnot. Some of you are going to be attending law conference in early September
096here uh along with me and I think Andyy's one of those folks who's who's going and Andy has agreed to uh represent our board if you if you are interested in sending him as as our district delegate to the what do they call the they call it their congress there you go delegate assembly thank you where they will be as a group approving uh the the political advocacy that ASBA will do on behalf half of districts throughout Arizona with the legislature and other groups uh during the course of the year. And I think we'll we'll be voting on that separately if you you've seen what they're proposing for uh more money for schools and and reigning in ESAs and and uh things of that nature. But anyhow, we were asked to have a delegate from
097our board uh attend that assembly to say whether we're in favor of that or or not. It's usually pretty prevuncter, but it's a it's an important part of of our voice as members of the Arizona School Boards Association. Andy, did you have anything you want to add on that? I not really. I think um I kind of fell into this by default at the last annual meeting um because our our past delegate was not at that. So somebody needed to step in and be the delegate at that meeting and I was available and I was there and I'd taken on another role in leadership with ASBA. So it was easy to just step in and do that. Things will move forward without us if we don't have a delegate there. But it's not a good
098look and I I I like actively participating if we can as a district and Andy was kind to do that for us. Sort of like you say last minute last year in the past we've had a hard time twisting people's arms to show up for an extra meeting and he said I'll do it. I think this is important. So, and if there is anybody that would rather do this, I'm certainly happy to defer. All right. So, we'll do a quick vote. Can we vote twice? All right. Um, take a motion to consider um and possib for consideration and possible action to appoint Andy Fraer to represent Prescuits Unified School District number one as a district delegate to the Arizona School Boards Association delegate assembly. So moved and I will second that. Motion second. All in
099favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Congrats, Andy. I'm not opposed to I know I figured he'd 73 uh C3 governing board to discuss and may consider action to approve in whole or in part the draft 2026 political agenda the Arizona school boards association and district and direct the district's delegate to the ASBA delegate assembly to represent the board's determined position. Does that make sense to anybody? So, you've had, I think, the proposed positions for advocacy on behalf of school boards from ASBA in your packet. You've had a chance to look at that. And if if you've got questions about any of those pieces or concerns about any of these pieces, now is a good time to talk about that. And then at the end of that discussion, we'll ask you if if in
100whole or in part you're in favor of Andy going and representing you to to share, you know, what your thoughts were about that. I had a couple questions. The things that are lined out, are they lined out by ASBA or is that something we lined out individually? Question as well. Um, these were things that districts have expressed concerns about and so ASBA will go back in and say, "Let's reward this kind of like they do with policy." Um, and they will find better wording for that. Okay. So, an example of that, I don't know if Jen picked up on this as well, but they crossed out increased funding for exceptional student services. That's Does that mean that's gone from this particular but it was replaced? That's what I was I'm assuming it was replaced, but
101I couldn't quite find it. Um Um, it's not really like 11 and 12. Yeah. So, so I'm hearing though Andy that that doesn't mean that concept is not something they're going to be putting forward but but different wording to express a similar right same with transportation that that's the other one that I had marked as well. So my understanding is what this will do is we'll provide ASBA um a platform to go to their they just hired a new director of government relations and this will be that person's job is to lobby the state legislature for these items. So if this is something that we feel needs to be included, I think that's a point that should be brought up in this assembly is that we don't appreciate this being removed and we need to
102reconsider adding that back in. Right. Um my my guessing and I'm sorry I don't know more is with the changes to federal funding that's happening with the education department. There's a lot of potential cuts to special education services and possibly to transportation as well. I know that CEDs are very concerned about losing funding based on the the proposed changes to um federal funding for the education department. So my guess is they're trying to do that based off of what they're seeing coming federally towards school districts, but I I I don't have a solid answer. Okay. I can look into it more than find out, but if we have concerns as a as a district, we need to express those concerns. Yeah. So, if there's anything lined out and you're like, man, as a group, we
103feel that's important to advocate for that as well. That's feedback you want to give Andy and he can express in that delegate assembly. Right. Right. Um, I had another question regarding the sorry, Prop 203 that it's it's in the one with the bilingual education. Is that the proposition that's been somewhat contentious about uh full immersion like that students are who are English second language are fully immersed in a English- speaking classroom? Sarah and I are doing that really quick. I got to see the context very very probably but I want to see what um because reform English language learners models of instruction to increase integration of English learners and give schools flexibility and resources to administer them. I thought that the most recent discussions have been around were too integrated in the sense that some
104schools have been not keeping kids in their English speaking classrooms full day because they've been doing more of a half and half program, right? And it was voted on by the public that it should be full day. I mean, these are things I read, right? I don't know. Like I'm wondering it it sounds like they're maybe going to lobby for reform English language learner models of instructions to increase integration and yet I I think I was thinking it was the opposite and so I was just confused. Yeah, possibly. I I don't have the details on this piece, but I can tell you what I I am aware of with with Prop 203 has passed the wording. Um the current superintendent of schools is interpreting it one way and yes, multiple school districts have interpreted it
105a different way. Multiple school districts went ahead with a little bit more integrated approach than Superintendent Horn was um comfortable with. He tried to sue directly, was told by the courts he had no standing, so it was thrown out. So he had his wife sue on behalf of certain people. Uh and that's also he's that has been recently decided. I'm told that his interpretation told by the courts his interpretation was wrong and the school districts are okay. This may be an an effort on the part of ASBA to to have that more clarity. Yeah. That proposition done away with and clarified to to meet with what current research models suggest is is best. I don't have a lot of direct information about the model that we use in PSD was totally okay with superintendent horn.
106I do know that what's going on in other districts and how it how it affects as recommendation to to advocate for a certain point of view on that. I don't have the details on that. I think some of this also may be removing some that are duplicative in there. So I I look at that item about increased funding for uh exceptional student services and at the very end of the document you'll see a note to say fully fund individuals with disabilities education act. Okay. Okay. So as opposed to going specifically for that ESS related one they're just saying fully fund special education covered elsewhere. So there I'd have to read it line by line to know for sure but I think there's some double Gotcha. Gotcha. Two of the same things being said just in
107different ways. I had picked up on that, but I think that's probably what's going on. You're probably right. But I I will find out more. I um I will ask more before we go to vote on this. But if you have we have a meeting before the law conference. So if you have concerns, I'll try to find that before and we can share the concerns and that as the delegate, I can take that back to ASPA. Great. So, just email you if we have a concern with another particular item in question. Yeah. And I can ask questions. You have a meeting with this group before the law conference. No, we have a board meeting before the law. Do we? I think it's on the September. Oh, no. It's No, the law conference is while I'm
108gone and we don't have another board meeting. It's in the very beginning of September. Let me look at the date. Okay. So, yeah. So, if you do have concerns, please send it to me by email so that I can Okay, we can do that. And some of my concerns are things I just don't know very much about. So, it's not only that I'm not necessarily saying I don't want that on there. I don't I don't know. I don't know what I don't know. So, some of it I haven't had a chance to research. So, I I guess a question then to ask would be, do do we vote on this tonight if people are unsure about the document or are we comfortable waiting until people ask their questions and then I get a consensus from
109the board and go forward with that. That might be a good way to That's what I would rather things if if that is legal. I'm not sure if we can do that since this is an agenda item. Yeah, more can you know the motion is to approve in whole or in part of the draft, right? So we can still vote on it, you know, as the delegate. We decide that we not that we have concerns, you can bring in as delegate, but not as a not as an entity. Okay. That makes sense. Does that make sense to do that? I think so. Okay. So you have the power to do so. Okay. Maybe maybe you do that. Maybe just if if you have that level of confidence in Andy, and I certainly would if it
110were me, vote to approve whatever pieces of this you're comfortable with tonight. And then in addition to that, over the course of the the month, ask questions, share concerns, and he can get back with you on those. And if there's pieces, say, "Hey, we voted yes on this, but I'd like you, Andy, to bring this up." You could certainly do that. Okay. Right. Sure. Okay. I'll take a motion to approve in whole or in part the draft 2026 political agenda of the Arizona School Boards Association and direct the district's delegate to the ASBA delegate assembly to represent the board's determin determined position. Okay, I will make that motion. Motion. Do I have a second? Second. Motion second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? hearing none. Um item 7C4, consider approving theou between
111PUSD uh Granite Mountain Upper Elementary School and Emery Riddle Aeronautical University Federal Work Study Program. Okay, I'll try to be brief on this. Both uh C4 and C7C4 and 7C5 are related to each other. So I'll just kind of make comments about both and then if you've got questions as you vote on them or before you vote on them, let me know. This is super cool. what's been maybe two months ago, Kelsey Ambry Riddle reached out to us and said, "We've got a program we started at our Daytona campus in Florida and we're looking to roll out here. We're going to work with the federal work study program. There's some federal funding that comes with this and then Emry Riddle will be funding some of this. We're going to pay some of our students to
112act as tutors and we want to interface with two of your elementary schools." And we said, "Oh, we've got four. Could you do a No, we're starting with two. We might expand to four later on. Which are the two that you'd like to target and why? And so we reached out to principles. We looked at test scores and areas of need and whatnot and decided, you know what, the two places that we probably need the most to start off with are Lincoln and Granite Mountain. We want to as far as elementary schools are concerned. And so, uh, they they've sent us memorandum of understanding is not something that always has to go to the board. Very often we'll do that on an administrative level, but I wanted to a highlight this in public, b make
113you aware and give you an opportunity as a group to ask any questions about it and then c Amber Riddle has asked us as well if we could bring it up in this format in this manner. So we're we're doing that. IGA's intergovernmental agreements we always bring to the board uh in one form or another. Butus memorandums of understanding where we're not working with another governmental agreement to do something similar. We sometimes take a different approach but this time in this case we're doing this. The idea is that they'll have a certain number of kids that will have a certain number of hours each week that will come to the schools. And as talking to the principles this morning, they're already starting to to schedule what that would look like. They don't know how many
114kids exactly or which days exactly, but they're looking at their schedules. Oh, this could fit this could fit perfectly here. It would look like that. But the first step is to get your approval for us to start partnering with Embry Riddle in this way. I think it's super cool. We we've had some great partnerships with them in the past regarding, you know, their science outreach and field trips there and neat things like that. They've they've they've been more intentional about recruiting local kids for scholarships and whatnot recently as well. Their new chancellor, who's terrific, and I have met a couple of different times. He's on actually on the Chamber of Commerce board with me, so I get to see him frequently. And uh he's really into making them a a better, more intentional community partner
115than ever. And A lot of that starts with our schools, our public schools in his mind. So, I'm excited about this. I think it's neat. It is really neat. I think it's really great. Super lucky. All right. Any further discussion? All right. Uh, take a motion to approve theou between PUSD Granite Mountain Upper M up Upper Elementary School and Emerald Aeronautical University Federal Work Study Program. So moved. Motion. Do we have a second? Second motion. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. And then moving into item 7c3. Consider approving aou between PUSD number one uh Lincoln Elementary and Emery Riddle federal work study program. Any further discussion on that? Okay. And we'll take a motion to approve theou between PUSD Lincoln Elementary Riddle federal work study program. I'm sorry, Stan. Can
116I ask one question before we go to a vote? Um, so a little difference between the upper elementary school and Lincoln. Do we do we have an idea what this tutoring relationship is going to look like at the elementary school as opposed to kind of more I'm assuming more specific at Granite Mountain since they'll have math classes. They'll have, you know, h how will this look? Will they be in the classroom for periods of time? And that's my understanding is they're looking initially at during our school day certain number of students remember it'll coming in and and helping with the tutoring in ways that work with the the schedule of the school. So whether that happens during their their win time or or whatnot, I don't know that all of that's been worked out quite
117yet. Okay. I Yeah. I'm just thinking, is there more opportunity for free time for the students at Granite Mountain as opposed to at Lincoln when they're primarily in classrooms all day? Yeah. But during the school day, we can be very flexible as far as what that looks like. It could be, you know, a reading buddy who's working outside. They could be working on math facts. could be, you know, just there's a variety of things they could be doing. It'll probably depend on individual student needs and the time that the students from are allowed to come. We've already got intervention time built in for certain students and for all students during the course of the day. I see this fitting in well to what that structure is already like, but in both cases, the principal said,
118"Send us some folks. We'll put them to good use to to make sure that we're helping kids." Okay. We've used volunteers in that same kind of format for years and years at elementary schools. So they they've got plenty for for them to work with. All right. Thanks. They can be reading group homes. Yeah. Right, Jane? Very excited. All right. Um, anyone would like to make a motion on 7C5. Make that motion. Motion. Do we have a second? Second. Motion seconded. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Uh item 7 C6, consider approving the J between PUSD and the city of Prescuit for the use of maintenance of certain PUSD properties and city properties. Mr. Tenny. Okay. Super. I think you've got the the draft of the IGAs in front of you.
119Again, I want to underscore, you know, our partnership with the city has been great. We've had an IG with them particularly around the use of recreation facilities for years and years, but we went through and kind of tightened it up just a little bit. typ and typically if we're just renewing an IGA, it'll be on the consent agenda. In this case, again, we wanted to highlight it. We've changed a couple of things to be more specific about. Yeah. Yes. They say we can use the golf course and we say they can use our gyms, things like that. So, uh there were a couple of recommendations that were made from principles uh that we that Christie was great said that's a terrific idea. Let's say not just the high school, but the high school and mile
120high, that kind of thing. So, do you do you have a couple minutes? Want to share a little bit about your thoughts around this? Hi, good evening. Thank you. Um, so I'm your new recreation services director for the city of Prescuit and I can tell you that um, in the last hour I have learned three things. Um, first and foremost, our kids are in great hands from looking at from hearing our um, SRO program. Um, and then the com the depth of public of public safety and school safety and teacher safety to the onboarding and the level of care and commitment that you're giving to the new teachers and the feedback you're getting from the community. Um, and then also just the the way that you all communicate and respect each other and your opinions
121and collaboration. So, so to me our kids are in good hands. Second, I expect our track team to set records this year. She's well graduated. She's well beyond that. No, but she's she's recognized a fast track and so girls did win state last year. Right. There we go. My daughter is a track and field athlete in college now. And so I will be out there. I'll probably volunteer to work some of your meets. So put me on the hook. And last but not least, I realized I'm a math person. I know how to do math and I'm a person. So, thank you so much for that. Um, anyway, I just I it's I've been here for two months and I had just the greatest welcoming with Clark and Andy and talking about collaboration with recreation
122services and the school district. And there's so much continuity there. We serve the same people, the same families, the same kids. And so I just look forward to continued relationships with you. Um, one of the initiatives we're taking on this year is a master plan for parks and recreation. The last one that was conducted was an 07. So it's technically an update. Um, but but what I the reason I'm bringing this up is we will be going to the community. um the day of the community coming to us on a certain time on a certain day. That just doesn't work anymore. It checks a box, but it doesn't get us to where we need to be. So, um I'll connect with Andy and Clark in terms of where we can um table events and be
123at some of the um a a football uh game, a parents night in any and above that we can hear from our families and our kids to make sure that um our future planning for parks and recreation in this community are um are being the voice of our youth and our families is being heard. heard and will be implemented and um roll out in terms of long-term recommendations. So, with that, please approve the IGA and um I I guess I'm done. You can see why we love Christie already. You know, we had we've always had a terrific partnership with the city. Joe Baines was at the point uh for recreation services for years. Great. Just I mean, couldn't I just thought it couldn't get better and I'm thinking, wow, wow. Anybody who makes you feel
124like you're in as good a hands as we were with Joe Baines. That's that's pretty special. We're so I'll tell Joe that when I meet with them on Friday that they they did better. We a thanks Christie. Yeah. And please, you know, when you're thinking master plan, you know, we're part of that. 100% always have been. I'd love to be a part of it. I love we may be looking at on the city level even increased focus on kids and families that we've had in the past which is pretty neat. Love that. All right. Well, we'll take a motion to approve the IG between PUSD and the city of Prescuit for the use and maintenance of certain PUSD properties and city and city properties. So moved. Motion. We have a second. I will second that.
125Motion and second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Um item 7 C7 consider approving the IGA between PUSD and the city of Prescuit for use operating and joint programming of the Prescuit Community Nature Center. Okay. Super. Another example of our partnership here with the facilities piece. I mean the city has a total of one gym. So they rely on us a bunch for, you know, city league volleyball and basketball and whatnot instead of charging them, nickel and diamond them. And I don't think we have any golf courses in our uh in our district. So instead of them charging us, we just have that great partnership and that's what you just voted on. Here's another example of that. The the school district owned the community nature center for years as you probably
126know. Sold it to the city many years ago and for a long time it was just super lightly used and I think the city wasn't super satisfied with that. We weren't taking advantage in the last few years. We have worked with them to jointly hire uh a community or excuse me an outdoor rec or outdoor education um coordinator I think is the is the there we go there you go and um Ellen Basher has been doing that. Ellen has presented to you a couple of times. You leave the room feeling like man I didn't realize I had as much energy. So and anyhow we we've um shifted to a new person this year. We're s super excited about having Casey on board for that and we're continuing our partnership with the city and that. So
127this is just kind of an update of that. Um actually what we've been doing with the city was kind of an extension of the broad IGA that we had and sort of a handshake piece on on the sharing of of uh resources around the community nature center and we thought you know what Christy had a recommendation let's not just include it in the broad let's have a separate IGA around that. I thought that's a terrific idea and so she got with her team drafted this asked hey what what uh tweaks to language do you want? We made a couple recommendations. She said, "That's brilliant." And so, this is what we've got in front of you to basically keep doing what we've been doing uh again with full city partnership with with the the district. It
128benefits them on weekends and other groups coming in on on uh on school days, etc. to have a person who can oversee that facility and others and and bring kids through and then our kids uh learn directly uh from state standards around science around wait, I mean, not just science, right? You'd think they're going to go outside and learn about science and sure they do, but Kelsey as well, right? And there's some in a lot of intentional pieces around Yes. ELA, math, even social studies pieces that that are parts of the the program that that Ellen and her crew developed and that that Casey's going to carry forward this year. So, pretty neat program. Which schools are taking advantage of that site? So, right now, all three of our elementary schools, Granite Mountain, and then
129we're working on a different plan. and they're starting to develop that for mile high in the high school. Um and that's really around exploring opportunities for um future careers using outdoor ed or elements within there. Very cool. That's just in the beginning stages, but more to come. It's been largely our four elementary schools that have done that, but all of them. It's not just the two that happen to be nearby. Yeah. All right. Take a motion to approve the IGA between PUSD and the city of Prescuit for the use, operating, and joint programming of the Prescuit Community Nature Center. So moved. Motion. Do we have a second? I'll second it. Motion and second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Thank you. Thanks, Christie. Appreciate it. Pleasure. You can go home now
130or stay. Either way, what works for you? Item 7 CA, consider adopting the proposed changes in the ASB policy service advisory volume 37 number six for May 2025. Andy. All right. Uh yeah. So, uh this is again a second reading of some proposed polic policy changes. uh just to review what those policy changes are around uh really uh one is around uh cell phone usage or you know kind of digital technologies in the schools uh one of the things that is included really I'll say all of these uh really come from recent legislative changes uh but uh the main kind of factor is uh putting some limits in what uh schools can uh do uh in terms of limiting uh cell phone usage in schools um I mentioned last month that um the policy recommendation
131is that we we put a limit on it, but we've already done that um in our schools. And so, uh this won't be a major change to to any of our school sites. We already have limitations on how how students are allowed to use it and when they're allowed to use it and things like that. So, that's uh that's the one on cell phone usage. There's a a change on um mandatory reporting for child abuse. Uh the biggest changes there really revolve around uh who's required to uh be trained in that. Um as you should have received an email that includes board members uh now as well as substitute teachers uh and also some requirements about where um kind of how the reporting takes place around school resource officers. they've they've put some limits on
132not you can report it to school resource officer but it also has to be reported to um basically DCS or the hotline. So uh some some requirements around that and then the last uh policy change is around um how we um kind of change our student or report out our student records um what's what's allowed in what's called the directory information. Um, and so we've again we've made changes to what we share and what we notify parents and what we can share out in terms of student information. Any questions on any of those? Our schools still have directories. We have printed directories now. So this directory information is actually a legal term for information that might have been years ago including directory. Here's where the burger means live. Here's our address. Well, we used to
133have them for sure. Yeah. All that information is is essentially sharable. uh unless a family chooses to opt out. We give people that option when they're when they first enroll with us. But yeah, the definition of what's indirectory information has changed slightly under the law and this policy reflects that. Do they have to do a public records request to get the directory information or can anybody just contact the school and ask for contact information? Yeah, public records would would make that available again if a family's not chosen to opt out of that. Okay. Typically, if somebody says, "Hey, can I get a hold of the What our principles do is they call you and they say the Smiths want to get a hold of you. Are you comfortable? Right? They've shared their contact information. Can
134you get with them or are you comfortable with us sharing your contact? If somebody does ask for public records request of, you know, what families are where unless people have opted out of the directory information technically. I can't think of scenario in which anybody in years and years has family information. We be real cautious about that. Um, I have a question just because I actually did the the training that I do. Hey, so got it done. Yeah, there's it it's kind of I I feel like it's conflicting in the in the new policy and I guess in the law it's conflicting because it says a report to a school resource officer or a school safety officer does not satisfy the reporting requirements. But then in the next paragraph it says when a report is received
135by our school resource resource officer school safety officer they shall immediately notify a law enforcement agency. So whose responsibility is it then? Because in the in the exam I the one question I missed was and uh whatever the other one was uh DCS and they said no DCS is wrong but it says in here you should report either to DCS or the the law enforcement agency. So, so, so I looked at that line too about um my my best interpretation of that is that uh as a school employee uh if you're aware of a concern it shouldn't go directly to a school resource officer. Um however, can't just Right. Right. Um however, that doesn't mean that a school resource officer may not hear something from a student, from a parent. you know, they're not going
136to say, "Oh, nope. Sorry, parent. I I can't take that information. You need to go somewhere else." They will they could receive information. And in that situation, they would then report it to their, you know, supervisor. So, they can facilitate our report to the law enforcement agency basically. That's my understanding. Yes. Yeah. again. And my understanding too is that we are to report and our our employees are to report to DCS if the child is still in the care and custody of the alleged abuser versus if they are not in the care and custody, then it should be reported to police. Okay. The DCS only gets involved if the child is still in the care and custody or other children are in care and custody of the abuser. Correct. Is what I understand it to.
137Yeah. We we have what would you say? Those of you been principles, how many times a year would there'll be a DCS report from from our schools? More than I want, but right, two or three at least. Yeah, I would I would say we we encourage the employee to get with the administrator. They talk through it together, make sure that, you know, we're not investigating. We look very carefully at what our policy says, touch base with the lawyer if we need to, and then we make sure it gets reported to the right folks. If you ever have a similar situation, we I'd encourage you to do the same. get a hold of me. We'll talk through it together. We'll make sure we get the right people informed. So, you shouldn't have to say, "What do
138I do in this?" Let's let's talk through it. There's always enough time to do that to keep kids safe. And I guess the other question I would have is with volunteers in our schools that are from outside agencies, so sponsored like sponsored through the launchpad or something, are they going through this same level of training so they understand their responsibilities as well? Um or the schools explaining to them, you know, your your reporting. I I think volunteers understand they're mandatory reporters, but their reporting would always be back to that coordinator at the school as opposed to now you have to go to a law enforcement agency to report sometime. Does it include volunteers? I'm trying to remember. I'm school. I'm not confident under the law that says anybody who comes and volunteers in a school
139is a mandatory reporter. No, I don't think they are. I don't think a volunteer it doesn't look like it reads that way. No, I don't think that's the case. Now, you're exactly right. If somebody becomes aware the child may be in danger, they need they should obviously let somebody know. But under the law, you know, grandma who comes and does reading group, you know, whatever. Typically, it would I would say this, it would be very atypical for only a volunteer to be aware of a potential abuse or neglect situation and know your school staff. So, I I wouldn't worry too much about that. Most volunteers would alert staff. Yeah, we do have longer term volunteers specifically this scenario you're talking about Andy where you work with some of our higher risk or higher needs kids
140where you might be first person to become aware and you probably have some protocols that let about that and if we become aware of it absolutely we're going to start we're going to take action on it I think it might be I'll bring that up okay because I think that might be a good point of training for that group in particular that I know of. Good. We'll take a motion to adopt the proposed changes in the ASBA policy services advisory volume 37 number six from May 2025. I'll make that motion. Motion. Do we have a second? Second. Motion seconded. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Item 7C9. Consider approving student recommended students recommended for early entrance into kindergarten for the 202526 school year. Kilson, so we did bring this to you
141in June as well and we've had um three new requests since that time. Um all three were screened. Two qualified for early entrance and one did not. So we're bringing two to you tonight for approval. We'll then we'll take a motion to approve students recommended for early entrance kindergarten for the 202526 school year. So moved. Motion. Do we have a second? Second. Motion second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. I love how you even take turns on motions and second. We're very concerned. So Christie just came from a city council meeting where I think there was probably some a different dynamic and it was clear that she was impressed with the dynamic here. I want to say that I'm interested to read about what happened at the city council meeting today.
142Oh yeah, me too. We do rock paper scissors. You don't see that. We're over here doing Jane kicks my leg to do that. All right. Um so we have um where we at? that 710 7C10 consider approving the fiscal year 2026 capital plan for the school's facility oversight board. Uh Brian, in order to be eligible for school facility division money, there's about six or seven things that we have to do annually. One of them is this capital plan and essentially it's it's gathering data um to get ahead of districts that are growing. We're not one of those. So, it asks a whole bunch of things about new developments. It asks about projected ADM, which on that document, you'll see it's just 10 years of the same ADM because it's how we it's how we budget.
143Um, it asks about tuition in students, open enrollment students, and essentially what they're trying to do is get a get an idea of whether or not there's going to need be a need for any new school uh monies. And so, um, it's in front of you to vote on. I will upload it and we will not be one of those schools. Nice. Or districts. Any questions on that? All right. We'll take a motion to approve the fiscal year 2026 capital plan for the school facilities oversight board. I'll make that motion. Motion. Do we have a second? Second. It's your turn. No. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. All right. Item 7 C11. Consider approving the following overnight travel requests from the PHS or from PHS for the 202526 fall semester.
144Clark. Yeah. So, there's a handful of sports tournaments and and other opportunities for students coming up. And as you know, when we have an overnight uh trip planned, we come to the board to ask for your permission to send kids out of town. And and if you've got uh questions about the specifics of any of these, Mr. Neely has decided to be here with us all night long to just just for that always. So if you do, he can probably answer better about specifics, but the general policy, as you know, is that we we get with you and say, "Hey, is it okay if the bad mitten team heads to wherever they're going for that evening?" And and we've got protocols and policies in place for uh chaperoning and number of adults to kids and
145transportation, etc. And all of those have been in place for a long time, will continue to be in place. This is asking if we can employ those protocols to send kids for these opportunities. So, can we get a little further explanation on the flying feathers tournament tournament? I saw it's under the bad so that he has no information. Do we know where that is? is I never knew that we used No, I didn't. Yeah, I think that would be great. I was just going to ask I wasn't aware that we used Airbnbs occasionally. Do we do that? I didn't realize that for some reason. Yeah. Would you? Very infrequently. Infrequently. Super rare, but occasionally teams have have used things like that if it's if it's uh feasible financially and you know uh depending on where
146they're traveling. Sometimes we end up with some really high uh hotel bills. So, they've been creative in that, but it's always very safe and uh thoughtful when they decide to do that. Just curiosity in that one. I remember wrestling stemma like some of the smaller groups that travel to. Yeah, I would say it's usually a smaller team who does that, but it has happened a couple times and and seems to work out well, interestingly enough. So, I think like I saw the explanation in there and I think it does make sense. You know, if you If you've got 15 kids going and you don't want them separated in different hotel rooms that you have to keep track of, then this keeps everybody centrally located. So, that's a good We always try to be thoughtful about
147what's going to be the best format for for balancing your costs and logistics and keeping kids safe. Yeah, other hotel guests appreciate it as well. They probably do. Yeah, we don't care as much about that, but that's a good consideration. That's true. That is a really good point. Turns out it's Gilbert flying feathers in case you flying love. I wonder I want to know who came up with that. I know the flying feathers. Thoughts or questions? All right. Well, then we'll take a motion to approve the following overnight uh travel requests from PHS for the 202526 fall semester. I will make that motion. Motion. Do I have a second? Second. Motion and second. Do I? Um All in favor? I. Any opposed? No. Okay. Um All right. Additional information and discussions. Brian Moore, chief financial
148officer, has prepared the school board summary budget report for your review. First one of the year as presented unless there's questions. Any questions? All right, moving on to item 7D2, request for future agenda items. Um I I will um definitely would like to talk more about um what was the one that we recess recess maybe give it a few months if that's okay. I'll just see because we're gonna there's going to be something in December evaluation as to how it's going to evaluate before Christmas. Wait for that. Okay. See what they what is what comes out of it so everybody knows. Yeah. And to be clear th those surveys that we do twice a year as as you know are generally about the leadership of the school and the culture of the school and whatnot.
149We don't ask people specifically is your job hard. The answer is yes. Find me somebody who doesn't think their job's hard. It's hard. Absolutely. Teaching jobs are hard, principal jobs are hard, manager jobs are hard, dental jobs are hard, realtor job, everybody's job is hard. So, we don't ask that, but we do get that kind of feedback. We have open-ended pieces to that. We can share with you, you know, all the comments and whatnot. We want to be thoughtful about how we do that. Um, those those surveys are are anonymous, but we've not ever given anybody the impression that their comments are going to be read in public. So, we want to be thoughtful about, you know, how if if that's exactly what you want, we'll do that. We'll communicate in advance with people and
150you want to be thoughtful about if that if that is what you want or if you just want that reported to you individually, we could do that to process. You won't be again to come back and discuss it in a public meeting if you if you did it that way. So, just be thoughtful about what you want. I like your idea of letting things uh settle in for this year, seeing how it feels and then people have points of comparison what we've been doing versus what we are doing and and then it'll give us time for another survey as well. We can certainly report to you on how people are feeling at any of the schools. Sound good? Yes. Um I think we should we'll probably be able to introduce our new student reps by
151the next meeting. So we'll do some interviews and get that done in the next few weeks. So that's exciting. Um then our next board meeting is September 9th and law conference right before that. Right. Convocation and convocation is at on the 29th. That's right. All right. We'll on the data.