001Good evening. Now call to order the governing board session for December 11, 2025. Roll call, please. >> Michael K >> here. >> Evelyn, >> here. >> Lisa, >> here. >> Matthew Houston, >> Here. We will now have a moment of silent prayer or private reflection. >> Amen. >> Would you please stand for 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. >> All right. At this time, we will have item 2.1, the governing board monthly awards. Board, if you'll join me over here. All right. This evening, our first award goes to the staff member of the month for December 2025, who is Pete Medley. Pete has been with the district for
002over 25 years and our tech techn I'm sorry has over 25 years of technology experience at Lake Unified School District. Pete is our go-to resource for solving complex challenges that leave others stumped. His kindness, depth of knowledge, and drive to find solutions make our department stronger than ever. And that was from Shawn Baker. [applause and cheering] Thank you for doing that. >> If you'll just stand at the end, we'll get pictures at the end. >> Our next board award goes to our community member of the month for December 2025, and that is to Mud Shark Pizza. [applause] I don't believe they are here tonight. Um, so we will get this to them, but we are thankful for their commitment to partner with the district and help us. So again, thank you much. Our next board
003award goes to our administrator of the month for December 2025, Carol Noacowski. [applause] Carol has been with Lake Havis Unified School District for 31 years. She does the MTSS process, mentors teachers, works with every student on campus, and is a voice into this district to fight for what is needed and we're very thankful for her. So, congratulations, CAROL. [applause] And then our final award this evening goes to our teacher of the month for December 2025 and that is to Tara Smith. [applause and cheering] >> Tara has been with Lake Havis Unified School District for 18 years. Um she helped create a very smooth transition for the new principal at Oral Grande Elementary. Um she's part of the MTSS process and supports two schools currently with intervention. So, we're very thankful for her and her success.
004[applause] Ready? [cough] Great. All right. At this time, item 2.2, 2. Carol Noacowski with the Lake Havsu Unified Education Association. >> All right. Good evening, President Rose, members of the board, Superintendent Stone, directors, staff, students, and community. By this time next month, our Arizona legislators will be back at the capital. In front of you, I have given you two bills. One was dropped in 2022. This bill proposed uh regarding capping class sizes SB 1296. It was seen by the floor leader but never assigned a committee which meant it was never given a chance to be voted on. In 2025, another bill was proposed regarding capping class sizes, again SB1647. It was seen by the floor leader, but it was never assigned a committee, which meant it was never given a chance to be voted on.
005These bills are in front of you. Both bills requested legislation to support and pass the following. Kindergarten through 3rd, 18 to 21 students as your class size. 4th through 8th grade, 22 to 27 students. 9th through 12th grade, 25 to 30 students. And also there is inclusion of CTE courses 20 to 25 students. I had a couple of you reach out to me this week u regarding class sizes. So, I went and did a little bit investigation. I knew that there had been bills. I had been watching them. I knew that they never saw fruition. Um, so this is weighing heavy within our primary. I do know that. Um, even though these numbers are what's best for our students, they are not being mandate mandated. Tonight, as we receive Mr. Mason's updated revised budget. I
006ask you to consider these numbers as you begin to plan for the next school year. I, as many others, have experienced large class sizes, but I have also experienced small class sizes. I can truly say class size does matter. As the association, we will continue to ask our legislators to do what's best for students, which includes class sizes. But with class sizes, that means an increase in outdated funding formula. And included in the list of funding, I believe our legislators understand the importance of kindergarten, [snorts] the foundation of our students, and we would love for them to also show the value by fully funding full day kindergarten. I say happy holidays, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanza, and we [clears throat] will see you next year. >> THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, item 3.1 call
007to the public. >> He has M. Taylor. >> My name is Charles Taylor. >> Oh, you're over here, sir. >> Oh, boy. Really? Yeah. My name is Charles Taylor and I uh we had a a couple times this year this uh uh idea by people in this community that the earth is flat. I I want to um we we have proven that is is not flat. I just don't want the young people that are attending our school here to hear foolishness like that. We've we've went way overboard to prove that it is a globe. When we went to the moon, most people understand in ' 69 the Apollo 13 when it came back, there was a miscalculation with the on the fuel. Three black mathematicians, they were black. They figured out how we could get
008back. Our our people got back. They had to go a block to go to the bathroom. We have eliminated projects, things such as that that our people can't go to the bathroom in a building. We've done so many things since then. And for anybody to come up with just odd ideas, I just think it's wrong. We we don't want our children in grade school or high school to hear this kind of stuff. Um I'll I'll even go down there and and and instruct myself just so they know. We have women now that are flying off aircraft carriers. This is a great accomplishment. They wanted to do this and they're good people. They're they're they're good pilots and we want to continue this type of operation. So our all of our people have a chance to
009to to fly. It's so important. Anyway, thank you so much. [applause] [clears throat] >> Is that it? >> Okay. All right. at this time. Item 5.1, student achievement. Please welcome Miss Olsson. >> Nope. Sorry. Oh, sorry. I completely skipped the consent agenda. 4.1 consent agenda. I call for a vote. >> I'll move to adopt 4.1. >> I second. >> And I'm sorry, I misspoke. I meant move to approve the entire consent agenda, not just 4.1. >> Thank you. >> I second. >> No. Yes. >> Yes. [clears throat] >> Yes. >> All right. Now, item 5.1, please welcome Chrissy Olsson. [clears throat] >> No, you don't need anything. I know. My first time without slides. It's very exciting. [laughter] President Rose, members of the governing board, Lake Havsu High School is committed to providing students with
010courses that meet their needs and will prepare them for the future. So, as our new courses this year, four additions strengthen the CT offerings, including intro to digital communications, and three sequenced courses within the construction technologies pathway, which replaces the former cabinet making program, seven CTE internships, construction technologies, welding technologies, stage craft, software and app design, law and public safety, safety, HVAC, and graphic design. These provide students with a half credit for completing 120 hours of work-based learning, averaging seven hours per week over the semester. The school also proposes adding six dual enrollment courses. Math 121, Intermediate Algebra, supports students who aren't yet quite ready for college algebra, but want to earn college credit. applicable for two-year degrees, certificates in the trades. Math 261, pre-calculus, strengthens algebra and trigonometry foundations for students preparing to enter
011STEM majors that require pre-calculus. English 105 composition 1 offers an intensive introduction to academic writing while English 106 composition 2 focuses on researchbased writing using primary and secondary sources. And finally, two art history options, art 130, world art history 1 and art 230 world art history 2. Three of these DE classes, English 105, English 106, and Math 261, will be offered through Grand Canyon University, each providing four university credit hours while still allowing the flexibility to address high school standards. The remaining DE classes will be offered through Mojave um College. Additionally, the AP business with personal finance course replaces honors math and money and functions as a college level introduction to business and personal finance. This course also provides a fourthyear math option that earns college credit with appropriate AP exam scores. Additionally, elective options
012include standardized math test preparation, a semesterl long course that focuses on ACT readiness, girls team sports one two, which was formerly girls lifetime fitness. It's a rename. And finally, leadership one two is a year-long course focused on developing students leadership, communication, organization, and group dynamic skills, expanding on the leader in me framework at the high school level. Thank you. >> Is there any [cough] >> any [clears throat] questions or comments at this time from the governing board? >> And all of these courses are offered at no cost to the student. Correct. >> That is correct. >> Yes. Well, with the exception of the AP course, the students do have to pay for pay for the exam. >> All right. If there is no question or comments at this time, I call for a a motion
013on 5.1 and a second. >> I'll move to approve 5.1. I do have a comment at the end, though. >> Okay. >> I second. >> So, all I wanted to say is I'm really excited. I wasn't able to attend the counselor's meeting where this was discussed, but I did receive an email about it. Um, they are the counselors are very excited and so am I. Um this is one of the pieces that of feedback that I hear so often from the community is what are we doing um for the kids who are not collegebound? What are we doing? Can we do more for like trade schools and things like that? There are a lot of courses on here. There are many more that we offer already in our catalog, but this is just expanding what
014we can do um in terms of building practical skills in students so when they graduate they can immediately go to work and get a good paying job if that's what they want to do. Um, and then the other piece of this, I think I've said this before, but um, for our juniors and seniors, I mean, this is the last time when you can just show up at a building with a pencil in the morning and have an adult teach you pretty much anything you want to know. And so with the dual enrollment classes to be able to just go to a public school and earn college credits for classes that you would have to take anyway, I mean, you already have to take English, you already have to take four years of math. So, um,
015please, if you have a student at the high school, please encourage them to check out this catalog and, um, think about their future. >> Thank you. >> Michael Kern, >> yes. >> Evelyn Pinsley, >> yes. >> Lisa, >> yes. >> Houston, >> yes. >> G, >> yes. All right. At this time, item 5.2, student services. Please welcome Mr. Keller. >> [clears throat] >> Thank you, President Rose, governing board members, Dr. Stone. Um, this is something that's uh been going for a while and we had a 7 to 8 week layoff, but the governing board requested a safety audit to be conducted by all for all schools in the district office. We got two schools done. uh homeland security was able to come out in September and do the high school and the middle school and
016uh through the security assessment and first entry or what they call the safe protocol and which designed to rapidly evaluate a facility's uh current security position um identification of existing practices uh perimeter uh anything that would benefit from an additional uh um additional from a security perspective. Sorry, I keep fading in. There we go. And areas related to uh security as it is for mitigation and for um consideration to include agencies and organizations. Uh with the government shutdown, that got put on pause October 1st. So I didn't hear back from her till midepptember. U now they are coming out uh Homeland Security is coming back out next week to hopefully finish the elementary schools. So, Homeland Security will return next week to do the elementary schools and the district office. Um, we have two options
017to go from there to audit that process and we can either go through the Mojave County Sheriff's Office. Uh the local police department didn't feel like they were up to they they were a little curious as to what the process would be and so the sheriff's office said that they would uh be willing to go with that or we have had we're contacted by an outside contractor or retire law enforcement uh that would be willing to come in and do a 4-day backtoback audit of every single nook and cranny and corner including um I haven't talked to Sean about it and doing some security or cyber uh looking at our infrastructure as far as safety on our um our server. There I go. There we go. I got it finally. So um so we do
018uh look at it for any physical changes. um any additional like uh return on investment for what we've already spent with the uh with the fences the I don't even like to call them fences because they don't they they look more attractive than a fence around the elementary schools and with the single point and it's not a true single point entry but the entry into the schools that you have to be buzzed once you're in the lobby to what would it cost and how much would it take to take the front doors to single point entry because that is the standard ed in a lot of places and um you know they have their little glass most of the schools have their little glass in area that you have to be buzzed in past that
019but um it'll look into that in depth and to with a lot of cost and a little side note here I took a little trip down a rabbit hole and started looking for AEDs uh because I just want to know what we had and we have just so you know we have five or six different brands and I found out yesterday one of them is 20 years old and was recalled So, um, I'm getting two more quotes today, tomorrow hopefully, to be able to replace some of those. And there is not one at the district office. I'm going to place one outside this door cuz most public spaces have them. And we have countless people that are trained to use them. So, and that will come up that came up in my discussion with the
020contractor about coming in to look at this. So, uh, my proposal is there that it was given there for the contractor to come in. You have any questions on that? Go ahead. >> I'll open it up at the at this time for questions, comments from the board. >> Yeah, it's wonderful that Homeland Security is coming in. Um I I do think that going with Mr. Jessup kind of that outside perspective. I do really like his uh checkpoints and bullet points and everything he's hit from our SOPs to trainings and procedures and policies looking at our how we're going to actually react to any incident. Um I think that that cost is very reasonable. Um you know we we've audited basically everything >> everything else. >> So and security needs to be without security. What are
021we doing? Um with that I I do think that as we do this process it sounds like Lake Hasu City Police Department, Mojave County Sheriff's Office. Um we need to partner them. it's our responsibility to make sure that we have good contact with them regardless of whether or not you know they have because they are going to be the ones responding in case of an emergency and so the tighter our policy and procedures are the better relationship we have with them god forbid anything happens but if we have proper planning we can limit the you know damage caused so um I I do believe going with uh Rich Jessup that that tactical education and mentoring LLC it is a a very um responsible option. And then we bring what we do, our expectations, and have
022meetings with Lake Havsu City Police Department and Mojave County Sheriff's Office and and kind of set a standard and a chain of communication between them and us on how we're going to handle that. >> Correct. I just want to I want to mislead you guys on that. It wasn't the city police. We have a really good we we have the multi-link and the raptor system where they can see all our cameras. They train in our schools and everything. It's just that they were not sure about if they had the manpower and or the expertise to do the audit. And the sheriff said the my contact sheriff's office said that they were going to turn it over to SWAT. >> And uh I think they've been a little busy lately because I haven't heard back in
023the last week or so. But um >> being at the county attorney's office, I have some sense of how busy they I imagine. So >> they're busy. >> The the the the nice thing about this getting the independent outside, he's a retired sheriff that has been through this. He I I am as well I have been Alice trained which is the active shooter. I've been Alice trained since 2017. He is also an Alice trainer and so um we may asked to add that at a later date the active shooter maybe over the summer on a voluntary basis because it's if anybody's ever done it, it's not something I want to do >> during the school year during the school day. It'd be something that' be a really good thing to do like the squad does
024when they train at our buildings over the summer. So >> and Okay. Okay. So, did I hear you correctly that Homeland Security has already audited the high school and the middle school? >> Correct. They started the audit and there's and their audit is following that same procedure. It's the Homeland Security's procedure and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. And she the parts that she started already I think is going to be great, but I would like to also see and there and part of his uh audit with us is going to be he's going to look at her results or it's just the agency's results and compare them and see exactly. It doesn't hurt to look at this more than once. Um, I've looked at all these buildings. I've I've been through a homeless carry
025a before. I've looked at all these buildings and I've come out and been found saw something on the corner of my eye. I'm like, "Wait a minute. How did I not see that before?" It's just one of those things. All the more eyes the better. And he's proposing to be here for 4 days straight and I will be with him every step of the way. >> Okay. Um, and so the Homeland Security are they're also going to do the elementary school, >> correct? They're coming back out this next Tuesday. She believes she got permission to travel. um they just haven't had permission to travel for she's coming in from Phoenix. >> So, she's hoping to have an overnight Tuesday and be able to finish on Wednesday. So, but I have three lined up for Tuesday
026and I'll do the other three on Wednesday. >> Okay. And then the sheriff's department is outsourcing this to a SWAT team. Is that >> No, their own SWAT team would be the one that would come in and do it. >> I see. So, these are local people. >> Correct. They are local and and u Mr. Jessup is from Yuma, I believe. He he's very familiar with the region. He's done a lot of schools here in the state. So, >> okay. I don't So, I guess I agree that the $6,000 price tag is reasonable. I don't think it's exorbitant, but um if the sheriff in cooperation with the SWAT team, which is local, is offering to do the same thing for no cost to us. That makes more sense to me. Um is there any reason
027to think that um this outside branch will provide services that would would not be covered by the sheriff's department? >> Well, the also the other thing is he has a lot of connections with grant money and uh agencies for he already put me in contact with a a very good contractor for some AEDs that were getting government pricing on. >> Okay. >> And so he just has a lot of good connections and I think he's done a lot of these. I don't think our SWAT team has done one of these really before. And homeland security, there's nothing wrong there. She's f the gal that's coming out has been following the their procedure, but she has literally assigned to the cyber security side. They're down to three people in homeland security in Phoenix. So, it's just
028been taking a really long time to get this done. And I think we'll be able to get this finished in January uh for the nominal for the six and that's four days with him for 6,000. >> Okay. So I guess my question though is is is there any service that's going to be provided by this private agency that would not be covered by the combination of the Homeland Security and the Sheriff's Department? >> It's tough to say. I talked with him for probably about two hours the other day and um it was one of those things where I'm pretty sure that he knows exactly everything with my perspective of what I know about the buildings and his perspective of [clears throat] doing this before. I think it's going to be more in depth. I like
029I said, I don't question the homeland security part of this. It's just taken us a lot more time than I haven't even had the report back from September for the high school and the middle school yet. And um I don't know how long it's going to take to get that back. I'm not questioning that and I'm not questioning that. I have not heard back from the SWAT team and I've been asking for about three weeks and I think they're just a little bit busy and I don't know what how detailed they would go into this. I assure you that this uh uh this proposal here from Mr. Jessup is going to be very in-depth. I feel like you've said that a few times now, saying you don't know how far in depth they will go
030in general, even though they're going to be great, I'm sure, but it would be nice to have any extra aspect or or advice um for us since he's done these before. I mean, >> well, and I can I can speak to our SWAT officers are not are not trained in reviewing SOPs for schools. They're not they're not they're trained to breach, enter, and take out threats. I mean, that's what SWAT does. So Mojave County Sheriff's Office is wonderful, but they're not going to be trained to the expertise. I mean, just looking at his proposal, review existing policies, review this four, you know, five to 10 year master plans, physical inspections. I mean, he it it's not simply, yep, you guys have policies. Okay, we'll respond. We'll do it. Yep, you got, you know, single point
031entry. It's a detailed analysis of what is our district's response plan? What do we have in place? What needs improving? He's going to take the analysis of homeland security and and put it all together in a comprehensive package. So, you know, and include annual training provided to our our staff. So, it goes above and beyond what our local law enforcement agencies are are frankly equipped to provide. Even the Homeland Security, she's coming out, she's doing a tertiary review of our our facilities, our egress, our ex, you know, our eg ingress and extress um egresses. um you know maybe some cyber stuff but it's not to the level of detail that frankly I want or that our children deserve and this this is more when we were you know brought up the fact that we wanted
032a security audit or safety audit this is the type of plan that we were looking for a detailed analysis of what we are going to do and how we're going to do it and provide safety for our children so I that is an incredibly nominal cost I actually was expecting a higher price point than that so I'm I'm very thankful for that, especially eight schools, a district office. Um, it's a lot for for a very small price. And when it comes to the price of safety for our children, that it's not even a question. >> Have we have we gotten reports from other districts and schools as far as to use as a benchmark on what to, you know, just plagiarize the work that's been done on other facilities? >> No, sir. because I think
033every other school is different or they're at a different I think they're either different or they're at a different stage of doing this. I just wanted I I had a PowerPoint together and I didn't want to take up too much of this and but there four main things is the scope and sequence is going to be our human aspect our egress and regress the exterior buildings interior buildings and then the overall scope of a master plan which he's very willing to come and present to the board and say here's what I hope you guys would look at for in 5 years in 10 years in the immediate you know like we didn't have fences around the elementary schools all that long ago go. I don't know how long those were put in. They were obviously
034before me, but um that was something that needed to be done and I think it's added a much much higher layer of security, but now he wants to look at how we practice that. Are we using it? [clears throat] Are we getting the bang for our buck for what we've already put in? Is there anything we can improve on? And I think that he literally lives be breathing in this stuff and does it every day. I think it's very comprehensive. But so no, to answer your question, short answer, no. We haven't looked at any. I haven't gone to any other um schools around the area to see if they have done any of this either. >> It might be a good place to start and just see what and and and and whether he's provided
035service for other facilities as well. >> I know he's doing several in the state um and probably is a reactive. I'm sure um Boyd said he's going to look at some stuff after their incident last week and I don't want to be in that reactive position. I want to be in a proactive position. So, I don't know where they're at with that. It wasn't mentioned at all. And I just out of a curiosity, they have Raptor multi-length, too. And that's what I kept reading the article to see if they had actually used it because I wanted to know how it worked in a real life situation. And um I never have heard anything else about that since. So, but and I don't know anybody up there to call. So >> at this point I I
036call for vote. I will uh >> okay >> make motion to approve the safety audit for through Rich Jessup and the tactical education and mentoring LLC. Make a second. >> I will second. But um I would like uh the sheriff's department to be invited to come alongside with Richessa because >> having eyes >> absolutely I will talk to >> they're the ones who would actually be responding not an outside you know agency in Yuma. >> I will talk to the chief of police as well come as well. Yes. >> And our security >> we have a tenatively scheduled for the week of MLK in no in in January. So I have time to invite them. Yes. >> Thank you. All right. So, you have a motion and a second. I will be recusing myself from
037this vote. Um, I actually know Mr. Jessup personally and um, so I will not be voting on this matter. >> Michael, >> yes. >> Pinsley, >> yes. >> Houston, >> yes. >> Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I have a quick question. Who's going to be responding if there was something like like to go wrong or what not? Would it be PD or would it be sheriff? >> Would probably be the first responder, but >> sheriff would be second. >> If it escalates to a SWAT situation, you're going to have SWAT sheriff SWAT on board. It's going to be a multi- agency response. It's it's >> and state police. >> Yeah, it would be >> and we have se several state police here that would also back up. >> We
038I actually had that conversation. Sorry. I had that conversation with the chief police and the fire chief about 3 weeks ago. I meet with them about every 3 months and we actually had that conversation and um it was one of the things came up is what if we had a natural disaster what could we use and I said you can use our facilities just tell me you're coming we'll make them available because that's standard practice in everywhere I've ever been and that's the we do have the unfortunate advantage of we have one way this way and this way out of town and we're kind of landlocked if something does happen but it would be an all over we talked about that you know the layers We we the the local PD and the local fire
039department have a very good uh uh call tree to start calling for help. Yes. >> Okay. All right. All right. Thank you so much. All right. At this time, item 5.3, business services budget revision. Scott, welcome. >> Good evening. Well, we were requested by the Arizona Department of Education to revise our budget because they found numerous uh hopefully mathematical mistakes. So, we've done that. I when I post online, I basically highlighted everything that was changed from the original budget that we uploaded and put it to say the biggest changes were in the ML budget. We had posted a budget about $47 million. Now, it's about 48. original budget actually ends up at 48, but through the computation I read, it was reported as 47. So, nothing really changed there. The UCO budgets gone down about
04020 or $44,000 again due to computational errors. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. So, >> was there anything substantially out [clears throat] of the ordinary for you that you had concern about? >> No. So, these were just mathematical regularities. Um, go ahead. >> So, there wasn't there weren't big discrepancies between the adopted budget and the revised budget that's in front of us now? >> No. >> Okay. >> You can you can >> Oh, yeah. There it is. recopion. >> Yes, they may. >> I don't want to put you on the spot, but can you just walk us through like maybe one or two of the revisions that you made? >> Okay. So, so the ML budget, we originally reported the budget about 47 I think 47.6 million. If you actually added up to the
041line items, it actually adds up to about 48.3. But for whatever reason, they just wanted to add it up correctly. >> So essentially an addition issue. >> Yeah. I mean addition but not really addition because it just corrected was computationally incorrect. >> Okay. So you had line items. So different budget codes, >> right? The line items didn't change correctly. >> Okay. So essentially the the Excel spreadsheet >> correct >> had errors in it and it instead of 47 it was 48. >> Correct. >> Okay. The UCO budget went down by about $244,000 because of the way the way the state calculated from the way we calculated it. >> And did any did any of this impact our budget, you know, projections going forward in a significant manner? >> Not significant. I mean 20 to be
042I mean difference is significant. I mean you know 244,000 in a $50 million budget to me is not significant. >> So there as the financial officer, you are not worried about our projections and where our financial situation currently sits. >> No, not at all. And could you tell this governing board um and in this audience what if if you where what our carry forward was for this is about 18 million. >> I know that on the left hand >> total >> the total carry forward are about 46 million for everything but that includes ones that are specifically designated for you know bonds capital improvements the total is about 46 million. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Okay. And just again going forward I I believe Dr. stones working with you just
043as we get into January working on that projection forward budget on because we have given pay increases our projection on the sustainability on that when we are looking to have bond over >> put together models to show you what I'm projecting based you know you know worst case best case most likely case so that we can sustain that >> when we do the budget for next year >> and that does include fixing our administrators pay correct for teachers that are promoted to admin okay >> and also include potential core for hiring new security officers at all schools. Okay. >> And reducing class sizes. >> Yes, that's >> add that to the list. >> Yes. >> If you can >> um and that is something this board wants to work on. Um you and I and
044I'll discuss that at the end of >> board discussion. Okay. >> I move to approve 5.3. >> I second. >> Yes. Evelyn. >> Yes. M. >> Yes. All right. Thank you so much. All right. Item 7.1, superintendent. Superintendent Stone's not able to be with us this evening, so we will be moving on to item 7.2, governing board members. Um, first I would like to speak in regards to classroom sizes. Um, classroom sizes should not be a partisan issue. >> [clears throat] >> um taking care of our children, making sure that they receive the proper education um and that our students um our our teachers are not overwhelmed, that we're able to make sure that every student's needs are met, um is extremely important. And whenever politics takes a part in that is very disheartening. Um,
045so that is something I'm going to ask that this governing board work on together that we can ensure that we're able to move forward and and come up with a plan to lower our classroom sizes in this district. Um, many of us on this dis have spoken with many of the teachers in this district who all have shared those concerns and it's time that we take action and lead by example for what that could look like for the state. Um and then the next item I would like to add is um I've been contacted and there there has been so there is a general contractor that this district has worked with long before this governing board um what was set and that is um Concord Contracting and there has been some serious allegations that have
046been made that Concord construction is severely overcharging um this district for projects. Uh, for one example, there was a contractor that bid um for a project and then Concord added, I believe it was over $200,000 um to that bid. That I I would like to know why that is happening, if it's true. And we have a responsibility as a governing board to make sure no one is taking advantage of this of this district and that we are making sure taxpayer money is protected. So, I'm going to ask that um super superintendent Stone would open an investigation into those allegations. >> And that's all. >> I do want to say one thing about that without really getting into discussion because we can't it's not on the agenda, but um there are times when a company might
047make an initial bid and then they have [clears throat] to revise it um because the project is initially they initially thought. >> Yeah. >> Um and then the other thing that I um I already talked with Dr. known about this, but um I'm sure most of you know that the ACA subsidies are not going to be renewed for the upcoming year and that's likely to in uh impact health insurance premiums for everyone whether you're on ACA or not. And so I have requested that Dr. Stone um give us some information at the next board meeting about possible impact to our NAVT. >> Awesome. Thank you, Member Roman. And I and I want to say just to clarify, I'm not accusing Concord of doing that, but it is something that we have a responsibility as a
048governing board to look into and ensure that they they are being um honest with us and in the numbers presented. So any anyone else? >> Yeah. on the presentations from the principles as far as the performance of the students if they can include what um average class sizes and you know what are the what are the just to kind I mean one of the solutions may be to help levelize classes so some if they're under or within what the recommended proposals are on these bills to move students around >> I'm actually glad you brought that up because that reminded me of another thing that I wanted to ask for um so we are asking for quarterly reports from our principles Um, but we also promised each of our school sites that we would go out
049and visit them and hear from them directly on site and we haven't made good on that promise yet. So, what if instead of principles coming here at a board meeting and giving us a report, what if we started scheduling times to go to different sites, get the report from them? >> Absolutely. >> Miss Olson, could you help set that up? >> Yes. Perfect. Thank you so much. All right. Any any other board members have anything? All right. All right. Item 7.3. All right. Requesting information items. Anyone have anything on that? >> Okay. And then we don't need a vote on that. So item 8.1. I need a motion to adjurnn and a second. >> Move to adjurnn. >> A second. Oh je. >> I'll take it. >> All right. Merry Christmas everyone. >> I'm ready
050to get >> Yes. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. On to all those things. Happy holidays. See you next year.