001Okay, at this time I call regular meeting to order. Mr. Santa Cruz, can you please lead us in the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call. Governing board president, Miss Patricia Himenez, present. Governing board vice president, Miss Maria Guzman, present. Governing board member, Mr. Mr. Rudy Santa Cruz present. Board member Miss Maria Hernandez present. And governing board member Mr. Harry Garwell present. Thank you. Next approval of August 14, 2025 regular governing board meeting agenda. Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second. Call for the vote. [Music] Okay, motion carries. Next, approval of July 10th, 2025 public hearing and regular government and board meeting minutes. Is
002there a motion? Is there a second? Second. Any discussion changes? None. Call for the vote. Oh shoot. Oh no. I just lost it again. Oh, here we go. I got I forget this button is different. Motion carries. Next, approve of August 9, 2025 coming in board retreat meeting minutes. Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second. Okay, motion carries. Next is governing board reports. First is Miss Guzman. Thank you. Good evening. I just want to welcome everyone here today. Thank you for coming. Okay. Thank you. Next is Mr. Santa Cruz. Yes. I want I just want to welcome everybody here despite the heat. Um, everybody made it which is amazing. Um, the other thing that I don't have enough information on this u maybe uh may Mr. Gurall can inform us a little bit
003but anyway uh the Maropa County judge has sided with the schools that the legislature has not provided us enough funds to to keep our schools um going. So uh I'm waiting to see more information about that right now. That's that's all I can tell you the information. So hopefully u we'll get some more information on that. Uh it'll be a good thing if that happens. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Mr. Garwell. Uh yes. Uh Madame President. Uh good afternoon everybody. Uh Mr. Santa Cruz, you're correct. You know, there there was a lawsuit that was uh recently upheld in opposition to what was being done by the state legislators as far as the funding that was inadequate as we all know. And so, um, I'm sure there was going to be some appeals through the
004whole process or what have you, but at least it's a step in the right directions and I was glad for those school districts that actually ended up, you know, launching that lawsuit. Um, so we'll get more information as we get a little more uh further down the road and I think that's going to be helpful for us in really baking the case for what we need for public education. Um, also I wanted to share that I met with Mr. Sherban on Tuesday. I made up my session for the vouchers studies. Um, so that was good because we had had that study session previously. I had a conflict on that day. So I wanted to make sure that I fulfilled my obligation, you know, to go through that voucher uh review process, which was pretty enlightening,
005especially now that they're more in detail. Uh, also I just wanted to uh share with you some of the things that are going on with the Fiesta Sports Foundation because this is our education site. So, I was privileged to accompany the the foundation on celebrating with Murphy, Wilson, Riverside, and Phoenix elementary school districts last week, and we were able to go in there and provide them the AED assistance program presented by BHS Legacy Foundation. Um, and I appreciate the volunteers that were there with us. So, I'm proud to share that the impact of this year's program, we provided 25 AEDs donated to schools across the valley. 21 recipient schools representing five school districts, 50 staff members are trained in AD AED and usage of CPR supporting the well-being of over 9,400 students and more than,200
006staff. We hope that those uh units never get to uh taken out of the package, but at least the school districts now have them available and they also go with the teams when they go out for a uh an athletic event so that the coaches have the AED units with them in the event that any of our students, you know, get uh hurt or other uh participants there as well. Also, I wanted to um remind our school teachers that to complete the wishes for teachers and a way to support and celebrate our K12 education school teachers, we ask you to fill out your application and uh the the application details. There are $2,500 classroom wishes. So, the wishes are are are selected at random and you're able to get $2,500 that go directly to your
007classroom for the things that you need in your classroom. Last year we did 500 teachers at one point, million250,000. This year we're going to do a million and a half for wishes for teachers. So I highly encourage every Isaac Elementary School District teacher to fulfill or f complete the application and submit it um and get 2500 bucks for your classrooms. With that, Madame President, that concludes my uh report. Thank you. Next is Mr. Hernandez. Uh no report. Just want to uh come in and welcome everyone this evening. Um nice to see everybody here this evening here joining us. Um know it's been hot but we had quite a storm last night. So let's see what the night brings us. So just want to say hi. Next is myself. I want to welcome everybody. Um I
008first want to thank everybody that participated in the back to school rally. Juvia, everyone that uh I know that with you know with our our finances um you guys did a great job with limited resources. So I thank you um for the hard work all of you everybody that that was involved. Um I thought um it was a great rally seeing our our students. I think that was the most powerful um message that we got is hearing back from our students that they came back and and they they're grateful. Um the other thing is um you know you survived what a week and a half already that you guys are on pretty much. Yeah, it's a week and a half. It's still hot. I know um you know hopefully this heat will go away soon.
009And I just want to thank everybody. We had our also our board retreat um last Saturday. So uh we uh it was very productive. Thank thank you uh Dr. for memma everyone that um in the retreat we are going to update our board share commitments that's coming up too in the in the meeting so it was very productive and like I said we're we're moving forward there's no going back we have to move forward and work together and just remember we're not here to like each other we're here for the students so that's something that we need to remember I'm personally here for the students and I'm very committed and I I'm I'm a person that's going to talk the talk. So, just remember, we have a lot of things ahead. There's a lot of
010things targeting us. Um, like my colleagues mentioned, the funding, there's just so many things that this is the time for us to be together because they're targeting our schools, our public schools. They want to put private schools. So, we need to see the big picture here of what's going on. So, I just want to kind of thank everybody for still being committed uh making sure that our district uh moves forward. Thank you. Next is Miss uh Miss Alma. Madame President, members of the board is community, I continue to being all on the resilience, the determination and the resource resourcefulness of our staff. The start of this year has been not the typical start and many of you have heard me say before. Summer is always busy for um district personnel and this year brought a
011significant transition with reduced district level staff and multiple school building moves. Our team packed up, relocated school offices, libraries, nurses office, and they're working on wrapping up a few final tasks. based on the executive team meeting that we had earlier this week and considering the scope of these transitions. All in all, the summer went remarkably remarkably well and it's a testament to the team's ability to be able to have patience to trust the process and to be flexible in adapting through funding from the school facilities board. Butler, MKU, ZTO, and Mitchell received a much needed building weatherization project, including the replacement of windows and exterior painting. And now with the ruling that was uh mentioning earlier on the capital lawsuit in favor of school districts, we hope to see more building upgrades uh down the
012line. As we continue the journey towards that financial stability that we're seeking, the start of the year brought some delays in getting certain systems up and running, which affected the purchasing and supplies and some uh repair materials. But despite those little obstacles, I continue to witness firsthand the relentless dedication of our staff in ensuring that classrooms remain places where students are both cared for and challenged academically. We may not have the extras that we had before, but we have what matters the most, and that is the care, the commitment, and the focus of providing highquality learning experiences centered on humanness, curiosity, and the joy of learning with the small but mighty teams. Uh we ensure that schools receive the curriculum materials that they need were needed for the first day of school and that student
013technology was delivered as well. We also hosted a successful new staff orientation. Although in my eyes it feels like it was uh years ago. It was just about three weeks and we welcomed 26 new members to the Isaac family. Our old staff return week um re had a reini reinvisioned community engagement day and our annual rally where optimism for students and our collective work was strongly felt. We already uh begin to see bright spots this summer. Our students in the advanced math outperformed their peers across the Phoenix Union High School District feeder schools. I want to spotlight our algebra qualifying tests that required our students to earn high school credit and to continue in advanced math. Isac students uh represented 72 of the 173 test takers citywide and achieved 81% passing rate compared to 29
014for their peers. That's amazing. Similarly, thank you. Let's applause for them. For the geometry qualifying tests, uh, our ISAC students made up 25 of the 40 citywide, I want to emphasize citywide test takers and perform with a remarkable 26% passing rate compared to 70% for their peers. So I want to extend my heartfelt congratulations to our students for representing themselves and also representing our districts with excellence, one of our core values. I also would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Cantonese, Miss Pacquel and all the teachers who have worked tirelessly to prepare our students and maintain the strong belief that our students can achieve at high levels. So thank you for your commitment and your excellence. I am grateful for the dedication of every staff member in our district family. Your work continues to
015inspire hope and demonstrate that even in challenging times, we can deliver on our promise to our students. I look forward to continuing to report on bright spots because I know that there's many more um for our district and celebrating our students, our staff, our families and community for demonstrating through their actions our core values of access, excellence, collaboration, and accountability. Uh with that, Madame President, that concludes my report. Thank you. Next, new business information discussion and action. a treasures cash report as of 7:31 2025. Mr. Jim Surman, chief financial officer. Information and discussion. Mr. Surman. Madam President, members of the board, our as of July 31st, our cash position was about $7.5 million. Um, it has grown since then. Um, so we are in the $8 million range and, uh, we continue to do business
016in two years now in 2025 and 2026. Um so we are moving forward within the the office and getting 25 with closed out which that will happen next week. Um what do you questions what what can you just go more further deep of um closing out the FY25 you said so the end of the encumbrance period happens next week and effectively at that point in time all all bills and all books clo close um and that's the end that's when the county treasurer shuts down or the county schools shuts down the 25 year and at that point in time we begin doing adjusting journal entries when it comes to expenses and we get ready to file our annual financial report that's due in October. Just really quick, so you're talking about um also every all
017the people that that we needed to pay the vendors, everything that's going to be closed out or is that going to that ends all the people that are owed debt at as of the June 30th that we have a liability to, all those have to be paid and closed out by next week. Okay. Does the rest of the board have any questions? No. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Next is year uh year-to-day budget and expenditure rollup report as of 842025. Mr. Jim Surman, chief financial officer. Is there um Go ahead, Mr. Surman. Uh thank you. So the the year to date for 20 2025 school year is is again about to close. The um M account at this point in time is starting to, shall we say, go down in liabilities as we pay off bills.
018We've also had some income come in that has um uh helped as well with the balances and we are predicting to have obviously a positive balance for carryover into 2026. Does the board have any questions? Mr. Surman, I do have a suggestion if if uh for for the audience and for the uh future. Um we're used to having slides and I know with paperwork and this is for them. So in the future for the next board meetings whenever you present uh this information can you guys please put it up in the slides so it's available for our um you know people that are watching us on YouTube and for the audience here just kind of uh the numbers or even even these sheets. Okay, we can do that. Okay, thank you. Next is approval uh
019to terminate US agreement with Aspen Mojave Food Service Cooperative. Mr. Mr. Jim Servin, chief financial officer. Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second. Okay, Mr. Servin. When the district ran their food service program and we were purchasing food, we used Aspen Mojave, the cooperative to purchase our food and other food service items. Um, as part of that, they required a deposit from all districts that are participating in the program. In return, they got us um pricing that was much more competitive sometimes than what we would get from other food service companies here in the valley. Um in order to participate in that program, they calculated a deposit and that deposit's $121,000. Now that we have outsourced our food service, the food service company provides the food and does the buying of the goods
020and we get the rebates from them. So, we no longer need the deposit with Aspen Mojave. So, with the board approving this item, uh that will allow the the deposit to be returned to the district and put back into the funds of the food service account. Okay. Does the board have any questions on that, Mr. Garwell? Madam President, Mrs. Serbin, so there there wasn't any provisions as far as, you know, penalty or something for getting our refund back? None at all. Okay. Yeah, because sometimes they're written into the fine print. I know you're really good about reading all fine print, but I want to make sure that you know there's not going to be any clawback or something else in the future for that amount of money. No, that is the amount of money that
021uh uh we have coming back to us. There is no penalty. Okay, very good. Thank you. Okay, call for the vote. Okay, motion carries. Next is approval of grant award request from Dick Sporting Goods Foundation, Mr. Jim Servin. Is there a motion? So, is there a second? Second, Mr. servant. I'm pleased to report that that Dick's Foundation, which is a uh more or less the foundation for Dick Sporting Goods that have retail stores within the Phoenix metropolitan area, has donated $10,000 toward a program that they call Sports Matters. And that money funds will be available for our students to um uh participate in sports programs. So, it will go to help cover transportation costs um and equipment cost for that effort. So, we thank Dick's um Foundation and Dick Sporting Goods for their generous donation
022of $10,000. Thank you. Is there any questions from the board? Mr. Garwell. Madam President, uh Mr. Serbin, so I know you you you know the line item budget on on on our our our budget for sports. So, what is that budget right now? What does it cost us to put on, you know, a sports program for our kids after after school for the school year? I do not have the the budget number in in um in front of me. So, if you um I could answer the board with that at the next meeting or in a an email to the board members, but I can tell you that there is not a lot of money uh budgeted for uh sports at this point in time. No, I think it's important. The reason I was asking
023is because I know that, you know, just trying to get um uh referees, try to get, you know, stipens and those kind of things. Uh typically a sporting program that I'm familiar with is somewhere around 20 to 25,000 a year for an elementary school uh district. That includes transportation and what have you. So, if I just kind of use that number off the top of my head, we're about maybe 50% of the way to get there. Uh I think there's been some estimates of sport programs here being made and and the number is probably with transportation costs which everybody forgets to include in their calculations um until the bus department says uh it's going to cost this much. But I would say probably for a middle school sports program it would be between 20 and
02430,000 just for middle school. Okay. Well that's that's about in alignment with what I'm I'm familiar with. And that would not be that would basically be having sports programs with limited distances. So that would m basically be between our middle schools and um our neighboring districts. That would not be going outside of our kind of our boundaries around the district and going over to say Ma the Mesa area or North Phoenix. Okay. Hey, I think I just think that it's important for our uh student athletes to have the opportunity to go compete, you know, and have those kinds of opportunities to to compete even within the school districts around us. Right. It and it's a great it was great to have this get this receive this donation. Yeah, that's why I was really making the
025point, right, that we're very grateful to Dixs for Dicks Foundation for doing that. So, uh we want to thank them for that very much so. Does the board have further questions? I just have a quick question. I noticed this is a grant. So, is there a way because I know I I will echo, you know, Mr. Garwell about, you know, the after school programs. It's very important especially for our families. Is there a way to um I'm I'm not an expert on grants, but to go and get is there more grants available like for to do more programs for the schools? I mean out there that we could we do look for for opportunities to uh get money in any way we can for donations obviously and um I know that Amy Grant has been
026looking for um some other additional money for sports programs. Okay. We are making an effort to do that. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Call for the vote. Madame President, um all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Okay. Motion carries. Next. approval to accept donation from the kids in in need foundation uh for Joseph Stato Elementary School. Mr. Jim Servin, chief financial officer. Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second. Okay, Mr. Servin. Bill, we have another generous donation that was given to us by Kids in Need Foundation and um receiving 408 backpacks that were filled with school supplies. Um that may seem like a we don't determine the amount of money per se. the organization does. Um, and that's consistent with all donations, but when you take a look at
027it, when you realize how much backpacks are um, in general these days, um, and then coupled with filled with supplies and so forth, it was a very generous donation and it the the number of backpacks definitely goes a long way to help kids um, that are in need of a backpack situation. So, we really appreciate that. And it's this organization has been working with uh kids. This one was shipped to Joseph Zto School and they were the recipients of the backpacks. Any questions from the board? Hearing none, call for the vote. Okay, motion carries. Next, approval for virtual educational services continuation for 2025 2026. Mr. Jim Servin, chief financial officer. Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second, Mr. deserving. We um bring bring forth to the board um an agreement to consider. It's
028an extension of the agreement we had last year. Um when the district began to fall on bad times, um one of the situations was the um confusion regarding the online schools. Um part of that was done internally uh which was referred to as uh IOPA. The other subgroup of that was um a online school that offers services uh throughout Arizona and they market their um programs through advertising mostly on targeted Google ads. When the when the troubles happened at that point in time, they were just starting to really ramp up with students and their counts were increasing. But during the confusion and also the fact that we didn't know anything about them to speak of um the program basically died out last year. But as we started looking at the program and also people were
029coming to us that needed an alternative program for our homebound kids. This program seemed to fit the bill. It was um it was minimal risk to us. They took on the responsibilities. They It's our students, but they account for them within Synergy and we receive revenue from them. They receive um basically based on the agreement 95% of the the already reduced revenue because the formula reduces online school um revenues to begin with and we receive then 5% of that amount. Um it's it's not a lot of money. It's not going to not going to solve any big holes in our budget, but what it does is it provides an alternative not just for our students, but the students all around us, the students in Arizona, and there is right now a very few online schools
030since the largest one uh fell on hard financial times. It's operated without any infusion of money or any commitments by us. And this agreement basically uses the old agreement and then adds on to it a um addendum that essentially protects us from any uh claims, audit claims and so forth it that might arise from AD moving down the road. So it does have a provision for clawback of anything that they're overpaid. And this time they will be paid every month based on a calculate calculation that is in their uh agreement and that's shown as addendum one. Does the board have any question? Yeah madam president uh gwell Mr. Servin. So you know u because I remember the confusion between the two you know so with the with this one which is um the IOPA it's
031no the well so it's done through the through the online school that I that Isaac district has called IOPA but it is not the IOPA model that we had the IOPA model we had had teachers that worked for the district and those teachers had minimalsiz classes this program. They're the ones paying the teachers. Okay. It's there. We have no we have no finan direct financial investment into the operation, but it's done under the IOPA um school that's still registered with AD. Okay. Yeah. And part of the reason I was asking the question is because they'll be tracking the ADM. We're not going to be responsible for that. But how do we put the data in? We we still have it's still our D. They put the data in. It's still still our data. So it
032shows up under Isac school district. Okay. So but we have a way to verify that right? Absolutely. Okay. Because you know me like trust but verify on everything. So it's going through synergy and the reports the public reports are come out every month from AD. Okay. Thank you much. Okay. Um call for the vote. Okay. Motion carries. Next approval to recommend for award RFP R RFP 2025 unarmed security services. Mr. Jim Servin, chief financial officer. Is there a motion? Okay. Is there a second? Second. Okay, Mr. Servin. So, um, our RFP with, uh, Bolt Security expired and it actually expired before the end of the year, this past fiscal year. Um and we utilize both security as ba basically being our eyes and ears and also somebody that's watching over our campuses uh over the
033weekend and into the night. Uh when that RFP expired then that basically left us with making a decision which was no security service or to do something about it. So we started looking for cooperatives out there for unarmed security services that would fit school districts and there were none. U a school district nearby had a contract but they didn't invite everybody to participate. So there is a method when you go out for an RFP to invite all of your the districts that are interested in putting down their interest in participating in such a RFP and how much business and cost they think they're they're going to be willing to incur. So we were the lead district. We posted it. We monitored it and along with one a person from Cartwright we scored it. Well, the
034re the input from other school districts throughout the valley was so strong that we decided to essentially pick all but one of the firms. So, those firms are now with your approval will now be available for other school districts to use and they'll be able to use those for the next five years. And that's that's our service to the comm to the school community because we use some of their RFPs as well. So we took the expense on and in and that's part of the reason it's a shared deal because down the road we're using some of their RFPs. So with the companies that were selected, it's essentially pricebased. So it's a table of prices. If they want one officer and a car, it's this much money. if they want an extra officer, maybe just
035to stand around during an event, they have an hourly rate for that. That's what we're asking you to approve. And as soon as you do that, then the community by tomorrow will know that those companies are out there for the services. And the prices range anywhere from uh with a car about $100 an hour on up, incremental amounts from there. So everybody will be able to pick the level of service kind of the level of service. There are some companies that have much more present in presence in East Valley. Some have presence in the north valley. So they'll probably depending on that company, they'll they might pick that. They're free to use any company because of the efforts that we've done. Does the board have any questions? No, I I do. So, I'm looking at
036the numbers right now and it varies with the I don't know if it's vary it varies because of the school district or what each district is asking. Uh with us it's 180,000. What what are we asking for? Why is it so much money? And then who that's first question. Then second question is who's going to oversee uh because we had bad experiences before with securities. They weren't doing their job. Remember we live in this community. We see things were out there and we were the securities and we were calling hey do you know this is happening in a pueblo am I wrong we know this is happen they weren't doing their job so first question is why 180,000 what are we getting so David you could probably um answer that better but it's it's a
037lot it's a lot more than you think they're out they're out there during the in the evening they're on the here on the weekends I want to get the microphone Please. Thank you. I'd have to look at that proposal to see what what's all included in there, right? Like Jim said, uh, per that and then per vehicle. Then the these it'll all depend on the scope that we want. You know, if we want one guard to patrol the whole district or do we want two guards uh which we typically do, we'll do two guards with with vehicles on the weekends and then during the week only do one. Um and then uh depending uh also what we do have uh we were using with bolt security, we did have a system in place where they
038would go because what we we wanted them to actually get off like you mentioned. We want them to actually we we wanted to know if they actually stop at a certain location and check certain key points that we wanted to those u that system was going to be put in place to where they would go and tag it and then they would go with a little tablet or computer where they can actually see which areas they stopped and looked at. And that way that those reports would be then sent back to us and we could see where they actually stopped versus a guard like before we won't be we won't be able to know that if the guard we just be up to that guard to tell us did he went there or not but
039we'll be able to monitor those reports with them cat tagging those spaces with him. Now the more the more stops you want them to do the more offers you're going to need and of course the more you would pay. Um the with the guards also you're you're covered for the weekends and holidays. There's nothing there as far as that goes. So, because they got it covered 24/7. We do still have one guard, district guard that we do use as well. Uh he does monitor certain stuff during the weekends. I mean during the week, but he doesn't work on the weekend. So, so this would be during the week it would be at night and on the weekend it would be at 20. We we have them from 10 to 6 uh they come in at
04010 10 p.m. and work till 6:00 a.m. Then on the weekends it's 247 starting Friday night till Monday morning. I understand we need security. Um, what fund is this coming out of the 180? We can't use that money for something else. I mean, I understand we need security, but 180,000. Um, and this is for how many years did you say? Or renew. You can always just you can always just adjust the frequency as well. I mean you just like we did with custodial or anything else you can always we can always adjust the frequency to get that the the cost down depending on what that we just use the hourly rate which is comparable to what we were paying before. It's it's as far as the starting rate I think it was $28 an hour
041for rate like that. Mr. Kenny, is this necessary? I mean you're the finance person. I'm just asking because it's a lot of money and like I said sometimes they don't do their job and I don't know if we could utilize we we're in the need of so many things. Um just trying to make sure is this is something that Mhm. Do you want to get the microphone, please? Thank you. I said, think of it this way. We also have two schools right now that are closed and um and in those two schools, if they're not monitored or anything like that, we take a high there's high risk that those could be damaged um just destruction and that cost could even be more a lot a lot more than $180,000 in a year and stuff there.
042So, um I think that we do need security here um from the standpoint. I wasn't involved in the um RFP process. So, um I can't I can't tell you from the dollar standpoint, but my understanding that that is a fairly going rate of what we're paying and the services and stuff there. So, um yes, is there a need? I I think there is a need um for security um around in the neighborhood. So, okay. Well, I I I totally understand. I'm I'm just because of the experience in the past that we have had, they weren't doing their job. I just want to make sure for this amount of money that we make sure that that they are being out there that they are making sure that the schools, you know, anything uh that we're seeing
043um you know, especially in the area that we live in. So, I was just kind of just putting it out there. Anybody else? Mr. Garwell. Yeah, I think there was a point made about being able to track their activities, right? If I heard correctly. So, you know, I know in in in my previous experience in manufacturing, we had security, but they would have to clock in at every station. They would had a key, right? But now using um data a digital Yeah, it's a digital same format where they would go in and I mean you would we would identify key entry points. We you know we want them check these specific doors or place in that. Again, that requires more time, right? Right. I mean, if you have a guard, one guard to try to
044do that through the the whole district, then he will probably not physically have the time to do it, you know, patrolling, getting off, walking the system. So, depending on how we we design it and and have us track it, that's what they would do. So, they typically would put a device at four or five locations and they would have to go physically do it to and that way you know they actually got off and went to locations. Yeah. And typically would be entry doors and gates, stuff like that. No, and I agree with you, Missy Menace, because uh there were times that, you know, I was driving over by JB Sutton and I would see the vault car in the neighborhood. I was like, "What are they doing over there?" You know, instead of being
045in front of JB Sutton, you know, making the rounds, but um yeah, I just never got out of my car to go ask them. But, you know, they were they were in the neighborhood. I don't know if they were chasing somebody or doing something, but Yeah. Now, I don't know if all the companies I'm sorry, I don't know if all the companies have that, but the the one that we did talk to and stuff like that, that was kind of some of the things that we were we're looking for. And like like I said, there's a lot of new software up there and updates now that they can do that with. Okay. Thank you. Call for the vote. Okay, motion carries. Next approval for interim superintendent out of state travel, Dr. Lily Messma, interim superintendent.
046Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second. Okay, Dr. Mesma. Madame President, members of the Boris is community, I bring for your review a request for my attendance at the National Association of School Superintendent Conference. This is a an outofstate professional learning opportunity. And the conference is designed to connect superintendent from across the United States to learn from one another and engage with leading experts on critical emerging issues in education. This is a forward-looking conference that not only provides highquality professional learning, but also fosters valuable networking that can strengthen our district's capacity to address challenges and seize opportunities. The knowledge and insights I gain will directly inform our work through the remainder of the year and beyond. While I have attended other conferences in previous years, this is the one I find the most
047valuable for relevance to my role and my ability to shape our district's direction. Um, as a matter of fact, in the spring, I um paid my way to attend last year as we were going through financial troubles. This will also be the only outofstate uh conference that I will request this year. Um, I respectfully request your consideration and approval of my attendance at this important conference. Okay. Thank you. Is there any questions from the board? Mr. Garwell. Madam President, um, approximately what's the cost? Because I didn't I don't think I saw that in there. Out of pocket last year, I play uh uh paid close to $3,000. That includes the um registration, uh, travel and, uh, hotel. Okay. Yeah, you know, I'm I'm supportive of this because I think it's important to be able to
048go out and have those experiences. Um, so I would I would ask you to keep an eye out for a new concept that just started here in Arizona. It's a AI campus. So, literally, you know, the students um curriculum is established because of the the ability of AI to take a look at where they're at in their proficiency levels and it adjusts automatically. So, it's on a one-on-one uh which I thought was brilliant. In fact, I'm trying to see if I can get invited to that school to go see how that whole thing works. But I know that our um the way that we end up delivering our curriculum, right, is got to be changing. And these are the kinds of concepts that are going out there. And I'm I'm not suggesting we we would
049be the pilots, but I think that it would be important, especially when you're around your colleagues around the state or the country who may already have those kind of experiences in order for us to continue to advance because I know we uh provided some uh software for AI a couple years ago. And I think we're utilizing that for curriculum development for our teachers, which helps us to, you know, uh speed up the process for the teachers so they don't spend as much time handwriting it out. But now we we need to start to see how do we u cascade down and start to provide that to our students so that it gets them competitive in this market. Thank you. Call for the vote. Okay, motion carries. Next, do I have an approval to approve the
050whole consent agenda? So move. Is there a second? Call for the vote. Okay, motion carries. Next, we have request to address the governing board. Call to the public. Madame President, this we do not have any requests to address the governing board. Okay. Thank you. Our enrollment is 4,42. Our calendar is September 1st, Labor Day, no school, September 6th, parent university at ASU West campus. And our next uh regular governing board meeting will be held Thursday, August 28th at the ISA school district located at 3348 West McDow. And if I don't hear any