001[Music] board meeting. Mr. Gwell, can you lead us in the pledge? I pledge to the flag of America Himenez is not present this evening. Governing board vice president Miss Maria Guzman present. Governing board member Miss Maria Hernandez is also not present this evening. Governing board member Mr. Rudy Santa Cruz here. And governing board member Mr. Harry Garwell here. Next item is adopt adoption of the agenda approval of September 25, 2025 regular governing board meeting agenda. Is there a motion? So move. There a second. Second. Call for the vote. Motion carries. Next item, approval of September 11, 2025 regular governing board meeting with executive session minute. Is there a motion? So move. There a second. Second. Call for the vote. Any discussion? Call for the vote. motion carries. Next item is reports, governing board report. Miss
002Himenez is not here. Miss Hernandez is not here. Mr. Gwell, yes, Madam President or Vice President, um, I don't have a report. I just want to acknowledge that we had a great groundbreaking recently and I know that uh you know Dr. Mesma will probably talk a little bit more about that but I thought it was really great all the partners that were there including the Phoenix U Industrial Development Authority, Ulysus who's a developer and uh some of our other folks there and I thought it went very well and it it really bowed well for us as a as a district. So, we're on our way uh moving forward, you know, starting to put a positive light onto the Isaac Elementary School District, and I'm looking forward to continuing to do that in the future. With
003that, Madam President, that's the end of my report. Thank you, Mr. Santa Cruz. Uh, thank you. I have no report. I just want to welcome everybody to the meeting and um and that's all I have today. Thank you. Next is me. Um, I just want to welcome everyone here tonight and I have no report. Thank you. Next is superintendent update, Dr. Lily Messa. Good evening, Madame President, members of the board, and the ISA community. Tonight, I am pleased to share the updates that highlight our progress and ongoing commitment to our strategic plan. Nester under pillar three, stakeholder involvement and community collaboration. This is a pillar that emphasizes two-way communication, inclusive decision-making, and opportunities for meaningful involvement. We believe schools succeed when families, students, and communities are actively engaged and empowered as partners. Isaac Family Connect
004night. Uh last week we hosted that event for the first time as an opportunity to connect with families and share our strategic vision for 2030 as well as information hour about the bond and budget override measures that the governing board has placed on the November ballot. These measures, if approved by voters, are intended to address staff, program, and capital needs in the district. Close to 30 families attended and I was grateful to the participation of some of our board members along with our school and district leadership team. Together we ensured families are well informed about the district's proposed financial mechanisms and how our vision continues to center on preparing our every student for a future of success and lifelong learning. This week, as uh mentioned, our district participated in the groundbreaking Wild Rose Flats, a
005new 72 unit affordable housing community. As part of the Ulysa's development group, the affordable housing development will be built on district land that was recently sold and that was once the home of the David Kasan Family Educational Center. for our district. This site previously served many purposes over the years from housing our early learning classrooms and family support services to hosting professional development for educators and most recently prior to demolishing home of the technology department. These efforts are made possible through the various partnerships between the developer, the city of Phoenix and the Phoenix IDA among other entities. for our district. We hope the sale and repurposing of the land through this project will support the student enrollment growth, strengthen our school and neighborhood connections, and provide long-term benefits that enhance both educational opportunities and community
006well-being for decades to come. our parent advisory committee or pack also on Tuesday. Uh we hosted another successful event where parents representing each of our schools engage engage in a thoughtful conversation about how families can connect with and support the implementation of our strategic plan moving forward. This session will culminate in the development of a families in action description which will be included in the strategic plan implementation guide. I want to thank the parents who presented who represented their schools, our parent educators and the site and district leaders who engaged in this very important work. Under pillar number four, professional growth and staff excellence. We know that our ability to fulfill our mission rests on the strength of our people. Our educators, leaders, and staff are at the heart of this organization, and investing in
007them drives student success. This month, our commitment to professional growth has been evident in several ways. New teacher induction program is a continuation of our July's new staff orientation which provides ongoing differentiated professional development for teachers who are new to teaching or new to Isaac peer mentor teacher training aims to equip peer mentors with strategies and tools to support new teachers with the day-to-day resources they need to succeed. That training started this uh month as well. We launched this week as well uh a free of charge to teachers that are seeking their SEI endorsement the structured English immer immersion course. This course focuses on teaching foundations of English language development. Also this week um we offered administrators with timely information through our human resources lunch and learn in which they engage in practical tips and
008tutorials on HR processes. Leadership skills development is has been introduced as well this month and is now going to be a regular feature of our monthly leadership meetings providing leaders with opportunities to participate and apply critical skills in real time. Lastly, our attendance clerk continues building on their intense summer training that they received from our data manager in order to provide in ongoing learning and support to ensure that accuracy in student data which then equates to accurate per student funding. This highlights and exemplify our values of excellence, access, and collaboration, strengthening partnerships with families and the community, and ensuring our educators and staff have the tools and support needed to thrive in their roles and ultimately serve our students well. That, Madame Vice President, concludes my report. Thank you. Next item, new business information discussion,
009action. First item, financial update. Mr. Jim Ser Serban, chief financial officer, information discussion. Mr. Serbin, Madame Vice President, um I was asked to um come up with a PowerPoint presentation for the um budget and expenditures overview. Um so you'll see that on the next slide. Um, this pretty much is a summary of all of our funds um, in a condensed format versus a a complex report format. So, it's easy to follow. It essentially so shows the fund number, the description, the budget as it stood on 918. The accounts yearto date is what we've spent and paid for as of 918. And the encumbrance is all the open purchase orders, meaning commitments that we've made, but we have not paid anything on them or been build at that point in time. And the uncommitted is the
010balance remaining as of September 18th. This gives everybody at a glance pretty much all of our fund activities for that period in time. The next page is the cash balances uh according to the Maricopa County Treasurer. And at the end of uh 831, we had $8.6 million in cash at the treasur's office. The sec the last section is basically an update of business services department which includes grants, transportation, maintenance, accounting. Um and it it's all the things that at that point in time when this report was done we either had just completed or we were going to complete and work on. And that is my presentation. Any questions? Thank you. Any question from the board? Madame Vice President, Mr. Gwell, just a comment. Uh, Mr. Serbin, first of all, you I applaud you and and
011and the rest of the office for, you know, putting this together because we went from this, you know, humongous eye chart that we used to look at down to something that's reasonably easy to understand and to review. Um, so what I would suggest is because there's so much need for this type of simp simplification in the process that may we may want to consider putting in a proposal to for the Arizona School Boards Association annual conference to be able to demonstrate this and and share it with some of the other districts around the country. I mean around the state, you know, as a model for them because right now ASBA is looking for best practices and I think because of all of the different things that are going on and we've heard of all couple
012of different school districts now that are going to going through the same process, right, of understanding their financials, this would be a great model to be able to share with our our our public school community and help some of our schoolboard members who either haven't had the time to go out and really understand how it works or for those that are new coming in. So I would propose that we actually seriously consider putting this in Dr. Nema that for a proposal to ASBA as a best practice so that we could demonstrate it at the annual conference in December. Thank you. Next item, attendance and behavior performance indicator. Dr. Dennis Lalton, executive director of teaching and learning. Information discussion. Dr. Lalton. Thank you, Madame Vice President, members of the board, Dr. Mesa LMA, and Isaac Community.
013I'm happy to be here this evening to talk to you a little bit about some of the um systems we have in place to monitor attendance and behavior data and to so that we can respond in real time to the patterns that we're seeing. This work connects to pillar two of our strategic plan, specifically priorities 2A and 2D. Uh before I get into the behavior and attendance data, I just wanted to share a little bit of information just so that the board can have a good sense of the students that we're serving in the diversity of the students that we're serving in our district. So we were looking at this data for another purpose, but I just wanted to share it. And what it is is it's showing the students whose home language is something
014other than English or Spanish. Um the the amount of students by each site. So you can see at zero there they have 64 students that speak a language other than English or Spanish. That's about 13% of their student population or five students in a in a class of 35. So they have amazing diversity at Zeta. And then just thinking about where in the world these students come from. So we can see we have students from central and east Africa through the Middle East and Turkey and across Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and um Myanmar as well as the Philippines and um some other parts of the world that are not shown on the map. About four years ago, we really started using the educ platform as our data warehouse. So, a lot of our student data goes
015in here, including um state assessment data, our benchmark data, our common summitive assessments, and then as well as the academic data, we also um pull in our attendance and behavior data. So, I'm going to talk about a couple of those pieces right now. And you can see once you sign into Edgie Climber, you'll see uh some dashboards. So the data is really accessible to district and site leaders when they go into educ to to pull it up. This first view is attendance and this is showing by site. So we're looking at the orange line that is the synergy reported rate and that's what we report to the state. And so we can see over on the right Esparanza is above 96% with Mitchell uh close behind. So having the highest attendance rate, you can see
016that you can slice and dice the data different ways. So I'm going to jump over. This is the same data now, but we're looking at it by the day of the week. And so we can see that on Mondays and Tuesdays, we're struggling a little bit more than on on the other days. And so again, this helps sites to be able to look at the data and kind of try and figure out, do we have um recurring absences on Mondays and then how do we work with those families to support them to make sure students are in school because if they're not in school, they're not learning, right? Um this is another one of the dashboards is chronic absenteeism. So it gives us a status of where we are currently and then the graph on
017the left is like drilling into that number 12.58% and it's showing uh the data for August and September of 2025 and 2526 is the light blue bar and these graphs are interactive. So, if a site leader clicks on on the light blue bar, it'll open up and it'll show them who are those students that are um chronically absent. This is another view of of the chronic absenteeism and Jamie and Gary at uh Mars UD Doll have really jumped in and tried to use this tool a lot. And what it does is we set up platforms, sorry, thresholds at different levels. So we have zero to five, 0 to 4, 5 to 8, and then 9 to 13 is what we're looking at right now. So when a students hits nine days, it automatically they pop
018up in this report, it automatically sends an email. So there's an alert that we have a student who's who's hit that threshold. Um, and so right now at this point in the year, we or when I ran this data a couple of days ago, we had 11 students that that were at the 9th to 13 days absence rate. And again, these graphs are are interactive. So if when a principal clicks on the the light green bar, it'll show who are those three students at Butler who have hit that threshold already. And then we see some other demographic data like the grade level data. we're seeing a spike there at fourth grade. So again, that could be something to look at to see what's behind that. Like why are we seeing a lot of absences at
019fourth grade? And so a lot of the sites are doing things to to really incentivize students to be here at school. Like I talked to Miss uh Kuret at Zito and so they're doing contracts with parents and families and with the students. And so when the students hit their attendance goals, then they have incentives in place to reward them and to reinforce that that good behavior. So the other piece that we look at um that I'm going to talk about tonight that we look at in educ climber is the behavior data. So edge climber gives us the what, when, where of of different problems that might pop up. So you can see here this graph is showing the different types of problems that are are showing up and and the number of occurrences and this
020graph is showing how did we respond to those? How did the school respond? And so you can see that first bar is that the students had to complete uh some kind of a task over one or two days, maybe a community service task. You can see that bigger bar in the center is for detentions. And the one we want to keep down as much as we can um keeping safety in mind is the removals and suspensions because again when the students are not in the classroom um they aren't learning. Uh this is showing the when of the behavior. So we can see Wednesday is the highest day and it also shows us u patterns of what the time of day when the behavior occurrences happen. And again this can help sites to allocate resources maybe
021to be in the hallway or in the cafeteria or on the field if they're seeing at a particular time that behavior incidents are taking place. And and now that we're at the where so where are the the behavior uh problems happening and so we can see that we have some stuff in the hallway. A lot of behaviors are happening in the classroom. And so then that helps us to maybe identify teachers that might need some support with the our our PBIS systems, the positive behavior interventions um and help out with that. Uh Abel and Sarah and um and Benny at PBLO have really jumped in and used this one a lot to track uh even smaller some smaller incidents because even though it's not life or death, it can still disrupt learning. So they want
022to understand when are those things happening and where are they happening so that they can um they can head those off. So uh that concludes my report. Madame vice president, are there any questions? Is there any question from the board? No. Okay. Thank you. Next item. Request to approve the excuse me, request to approve the pay for performance plan for 2025 2026 school year. Miss Sylvia Karisa, executive director of employee relation. And Miss Andrea Valencia, IDA, president. Is there a motion? So move. Is there a second? Second. Um, Miss Garisa, thank you. Good evening, Madame Vice President, governing board members, Dr. Lily and Isaac Community. Uh, we are here before you tonight to provide an overview of the 2526 pay for performance plan. We will review the process, highlight the committee's work, and outline the
023key changes proposed for this year and hopefully for your approval. The purpose of this review is to inform the governing board and of course the ISA community about the dates for our pay for performance plan. Excuse me. Overall, we made a few changes. Most of the plan remains the same. However, the main updates center on clarifying eligibility for certain subgroups of the of our employees. Uh this work was guided by diverse committee represent uh represented there by the subgroups you see before you. Their input ensures a plan reflects multiple perspectives and is equitable across the school across the district. I will now pass it over to Dr. Whiteford who will share the key component components of the plan. Good evening. Um the plan continues to cover various components for eligible employee groups. So you'll see
024here certificated staff will have the evaluation, growth, professional development, and parent communication. Other certificated staff will have achievement, professional development, evaluation, and surveys. An eligible classified staff will have e an evaluation a growth and then also an improvement goal that is determined with their um direct supervisor at the beginning of the year and reviewed at the end of the year. To highlight some uh key changes um you'll notice that a change from last year is that we've removed the administrative staff and site district support staff. Um the eligible categories are now in alignment to staff covered under classroom site fund eligibility um which is cert certified and classified employees who work directly with students for other certificated um staff um we also have we've removed the site level I ready performance component um which was
025the the performance uh uh benchmark so it'll be determined on growth only classified staff professional growth goal payout is now a flat $500 rate rather than a percentage rate. Um and then the forms and deadlines um have been um offset to account for the meeting that we're having today pending the approval. Um so we've shifted those dates um to allow enough time for sites to get that paperwork turned in. And then of course as we do every year language updates we're always looking to streamline for clarity as needed. With that, I will now turn it over to Miss Valencia to share some highlights and teacher input. Now, as you see here, um we with the plan, it is has remained consistent from last year. Um and we uh wanted to it remain equitable um across
026uh the board with staff and we also have it very detailed in the handbook. Um as we said it stays consistent and very detailed with the performance criteria um has been unchanged. Um, as of course we always um want teacher input and so therefore we received 160 yeses with 23 nos um from our staff with an approve so that leaving that with an approval rate. Thank you. Is there any question from the board? Mr. Gwell. Madam uh vice president, just on this last one, did anyone or had we done any type of a followup for those that said that, you know, they didn't agree with the plan? What were there were there specific areas or sections that, you know, they were not happy with or thought were unjust? Uh yes, we are going to be
027meeting again as a committee to go ahead and review over the uh votes. No, we just wanted to make sure that we were able to get this to the board um as we are uh pushing our deadline. But there we do have uh they it is going to be forthcoming. Okay, good. Yeah, I I always think it's good to go back to, you know, the naysayers and ask them, you know, if there was things in there that maybe can be improved or, you know, um just look at it from their own perspective as well, right? So, it's a good process for us to be able to go through. So, thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you. Um call for the vote. motion carries. Next item is adoption of the second reading and possible adoption
028of policy book section B. Dr. Dr. Lily Mesa Layma intern superintendent information discussion action. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Dr. um Mesa. Madame vice president, members of the board, ISA community, we continue the process of updating the policy manual to align with the model policies provided by the Arizona school boards association and in consultation with our legal council. Updating the policy manual ensures that our policies remain current, consistent with state standards, and reflective of the priorities and values of the ISAC community. For this agenda item, I bring the second reading of section B in our policy book on school board governance and operations. The second reading encompasses the revisions outlined during the first reading and it is now presented to you followed by discussion and possible approval. The section has been grouped in
029summaries. Policies with no changes include B A A E B A A B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B E E B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B C B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
030B B B B E B C B E B D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D H H B E C B E C E B E D B A B E D C B E D B E D F B E D G R B E D G B E D G E A B E D I B G B G E E B I B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
031B B B I B R B I D B K A policies with clarifying language language updates include BA, BAA, BB, BBD, BCA, BCJ policies with structural or formatting updates that include headers, title, and organization. BBA BA B CB D A B DB B D B D E B D G B E B E D B E D R B E D A B E D B E D H B G A B G B G D B G E B G E R B H C B I A B I B I B A B I E BK policies with adoption of manual policy language include BBA, BBA, BCB, B DA, BDE, B DG, BE D B E D A B E DB E D H B GB B G D B G E
032B G E R B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H C B I A B I B A B I E and policies recommended for removal include BDF, B, EA, B E, B E C B E D A E A through E sorry B E D A E G policy B E D G E B E D H E B G C B G C R B GF and finally B H D. This concludes the presentation for the second reading of section
033B and I welcome your discussion. Thank you. Is there any question from the board? So the question is um will the board like to would the board like a third reading or is there a motion um to approve and adopt policy section B? Madam Vice President, I would move to go ahead and adopt. Okay. So you you're motion it? Yeah. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Call for the vote. motion carries. Next item, approval of first reading policy book se section C, Dr. Lel Mesa Lima and intern superintendent information discussion action. Is there a motion? So moved. Is there a second? Okay. Dr. um Meisa Lima. Madame vice president, members of the Borak is community. Uh for this agenda item, I bring the first reading of section C, general school administration. As a reminder, the
034intent of the revision is to bring our policy book up to speed with legal compliance, alignment with district practices, clarity of language, and consistency across policies. As was the case for the previous section, for this first reading, I will present the summary of all changes followed up by the board's discussion and a request to approve the first read for this particular section. Section Ca administration goals and priority objectives adopts clarifying language from the moral policy maintains all other previously adopted policy language. Policy CB, superintendent, adopts clarifying language from the model policy and maintains all other previously adopted policy language. Policy CBA, qualifications and duties of the superintendent, adopts clarifying language from the model policy, maintains all other previously adopted policy language. Policy CB CA delegated authority adopts clarifying language from the model policy and maintains
035all other previously adopted policy language. Policy CBE superintendent salary compensation and benefits adopts clarifying language from the mo model policy and maintains all other previously adopted policy language. Policy CBI, evaluation of the superintendent, adopts clarifying language from the model mo model policy maintains all other previously adopted policy language. Policy CBEA evaluation of the superintendent recommend adopt updating with board adopted superintendent evaluation as of August 28th, 2025. Policy CBIE evaluation of the superintendent recommend removing exhibit as the information is included in policy CBEA. Policy CBE evaluation of superintendent superintendent evaluation handbook and superintendent evaluation tool. recommend removing exhibit as the information is included in policy CBI EA. Policy CCBR line and staff relations recommend removing this regulation as the information is included within policy CB. Policy CCB recommend removing this policy as the information is included
036with policy CB. Policy CE, administrative councils, cabinets, and committee committees maintain current policy no change. Policy C FD school-based management ASBA recommends removal removal per policy advisory 870. Policy CFDR, school-based management, ASBA recommends removal per policy advisory 870. Policy CFDE, schoolbased management, A, SBA recommends removal per policy advisory 870. Policy CH, policy implementation, maintain current policy, no change. Policy CHR, policy implementation, maintain current regulation, no change. Policy C HCA, handbooks and directives, maintain current policy, no change. Policy CH, handbooks and directives, maintain current regulation, no change. Policy CHD, administration in the absence of policy, maintain current policy, no change. Policy CK, administrative consultants, adopts the language from the model model policy. Policy CM, school district annual report, adopts the language from model policy and includes the following header, annual financial report. This concludes the presentation
037of the first reading of section C and I welcome your discussion followed by the recommended approval for this first reading. Thank you. Is there any question from the board? Call for the vote. Motion carries. Next item. Approval to change regular governing board meeting date. Dr. Lelying Messa Lima's inter intern. Is there a motion? So move. Is there a second? Second. Dr. Mesa Lima. Madame vice president, members of the board is community, the governing board has a regularly scheduled meeting on October 16th. a request to move this regular meeting to a date earner earlier on October 15th at the same time um of all other regular meetings 5:00 p.m. and possibly making a virtual in order to facilitate quorum is being requested to allow for a presentation to the governing board and possible approval deadline for
038the annual financial report. Thank you. Is there any question from the board? Uh Mr. Gwell. Yes, madame vice president. Uh Dr. Mesma is is this going to replace the October um the meeting that we would have had on October 16th? That is correct. So we will not have a meeting on October 16th. This will supersede that. It'll be just a single item on the agenda. Single item. Okay. Which is the annual financial report. That is correct. Okay. So any other business that comes forward um if necessary, we could place it onto the October 15th agenda as well. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because we have time between now and then, you know, because we obviously still need to take care of the business of the district. Yeah, as of as of right now, we are only
039anticipating having the annual financial report presentation as the new business. Uh there will probably be some consent items as as any other regular board meeting. Okay. And just for clarification, we're doing it on the 15th because we have a deadline that has to be submitted on the 15th. So, you know, this is something that um you know, we really have to take seriously because we don't want to be in violation uh with the auditor general and I think this is a really good reason, but just for the public consumption, that's the explanation behind it is that we have a deadline that we have to meet and that's the reason we're changing the meeting date to the 15th from the 16th. Thank you. Any other question from the board? Call for the vote. Motion carries. Um,
040do I have a motion to approve the entire consent agenda? A second. Do I have a second? Second. Call for the vote. Motion carry. Next item, call to the public. Is there any um requests for the call to a public? Madame vice president, this evening we have two requests to address the governing board. As a reminder to the public and the governing board, personal attacks upon board members, staff personnel, or other persons in attendance, or absent by individuals who address the board are discouraged. Presenters are cautioned that statements or representations concerning others that convey an unjustly unfavorable impression may subject the presenter to civil action for defamation. Policies KE, KEB, KEC, and KED are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints, including those involving individuals. Upon conclusion of the open call to the
041public, individual members of the board may respond to any criticism might made by an individual who has addressed the board. Please limit your comments to three minutes. First, we have Crystal Perez. Good evening members of the board, Dr. Messma and Isaac Community. In school year 2324, I applied through ASU Gamage for the Disney musicals and schools grants for ZTO Elementary, a three-year grant for Title One Schools that provides scripts, training, and for the first year, a teaching artist. The program is designed to create a sustainable programming arts program, performing arts program meant to give underserved students an enriching experience to the arts. Out of hundreds of schools, we were one of four chosen. In 2425, I helped Mitchell apply for the same grant to which they were also awarded. I wanted to talk about the
042benefits of the program. First, the program is inclusive. Any third through fifth grade student who wants to participate in the program can. We have had student a student who is visually impaired participate all two years and our VI teacher even translated his script into braille. We have had students with autism, cognitive and developmental delays, language delays and behavioral needs participate. In the past two years of the program, we have seen a decrease in chronic absences, a decrease in office referrals, an increase in both their reading ability and their ability to memorize and retain information, and finally an increase in their social emotional connections. The entire school gets involved in the creations of costumes and sets, and teachers even volunteer the nights of the performances to pass out programs and to help seat the families. It
043has improved our school culture. Every year we have over 40 students participate. When we put on our two shows for the community, we sell out. We have families come to our shows that don't even have children that participate in the program, but they want to show support. Our kinder, first, and second grade students watch the show, and they look forward to participating when they're in third grade. We would like to start the program again this year, but have not been able to. Every day, the students ask me when we will begin, and I don't have an answer for them. We would like to ask the district to find the money in the budget to pay the teachers to run the program after school for both schools. This program is an amazing opportunity for our kids
044and it is great program for our community. We would like to continue to offer it. Thank you for your time and your consideration. Thank you. Next we have Sophie. Good evening board members, interm superintendent Dr. Mesa LMA, Mr. Keith Kenny, and Isaac staff and community. We're the proud members of the Mitchell Disney and Musical and Schools program directing team. We are in our second year of the third year Disney musical in schools or DMIS grant. Our school was awarded this grant and was one of only four schools of the of our year in our cohort in Arizona. We are incredibly proud that our school was selected as one of these four. In our first year, despite the challenging transition period marked by the district receiverhip, ASU Gamage and Disney showed immense patience and support, providing
045us with additional time and resources to ensure that the program successful launch. Their commitment allowed us to build something truly meaningful for our students, staff, and community. We entered the second year of the grant in good faith, confident in the district's pride and continued support, as evident by the spotlight of our work received in the Isaac updates. Knowing that there was ongoing conversations about the DMIS stipend, our team voluntarily stayed after school, donating time to plan, organize, and begin rehearsals for this year's much anticipated musical. Auditions were held, casting was completed, and the student enthusiasm stored. However, in the absent of a stipend or clear financial commitment, we've been forced to pause production. This situation is heartbreaking not only for us as educators, but especially for our students and their families who are now left
046in limbo, unsure whether the year 2 musical will continue to fru fruition. The impact of this program extends beyond our school's musical. Student participation and engagement soared. Last year we had over 60 students be able to participate. DMIS has provided students with the rare outlet for creative expression especi especially in a community where access to the arts is limited. The program supports not only artistic growth but improves our attendance, literacy, effective communication, collaboration, and leadership skills. All critical to long-term academic success and positive financial impact for our district. The DMIS program has proven to be a bright light in our district. As teachers and advocates for our students and families, we feel the responsibility to speak up. If we want to support students, we must support staff. We want to if we want to preserve
047the integrity of this program and the vital partnership with ASU Gamage and Disney staff staff must be compensated for their time and efforts. This grant was designed to build sustainable long-term theater programs in schools like ours. Not not funding threatens not just this year's production but f future opportunities for our students as well. We respectfully and urgently ask the school board superintendent and district financial leadership to work together to identify immediate funding for this year's DMIS production for both us and ZTO. We understand that grants and other opportunities may be available and we want you to explore all options. Thank you on behalf of the mo our most precious resource, our students. Your coin is Thank you. Thank you for the information. Um, Superintendent Dr. Mesa, you look into it for us. will continue looking
048for ways to support these two uh site level um grants. Thank you. Um next I is that it? That was it. Madame President, Madame Vice President, that concludes the open call to the public. Okay. Thank you. Next item is information. It's a enrollment is at with an average daily membership of 3,920 an average daily attendance of 3,863. Um the calendar is October 1st through the 3rd is parent teacher conference and October 6 to the 10th is fall break no school. Um, let's see. Our next regular governing board board meeting will be held virtual on Wednesday, October 15th at 5:00 p.m. Right. At 5:00 p.m. And if there's no objection, meeting a journ. Thank you.