001Yes, we did. Yeah, it's a >> Ready guys? Okay, good afternoon everybody. Uh the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District number 35 Governing Board calls this meeting to order uh on June the 9th, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. in the governing board room, district office, 570 Camino Lito Galindo, Rio Rico, Arizona. Can we please stand for the pledge? Mr. Beach, will you lead us with the pledge? Thank you. >> 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 very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Roll call, Ms. Alma Del La Riva. Mr. Brad Beach. Mr. Rene Ramirez. Absent. Mr. Ben Guerrero. >> Present. >> And me, we do have a
002quorum. Thank you very much. Adoption of the agenda. >> No recommended changes, so we have no motion. Call to the public. >> No, you still have to >> Do we have to? Yes. Oh, okay. Do we have a motion? >> Do you want to move? >> Motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Call to the public. >> No call to the >> There's no call to the public, and we are moving on the presentation, superintendent's report. >> I created a little infographic to kind of show you where we're at with all of our projects. The The first picture that you see is the new pickup line at San Cayetano. We covered that. The concrete
003will come next week. I thought a photo is better than And then so that area that's under the pickup lane will be will have a sidewalk. They're coming next week to put that up, but I thought you'd like to see that. And then the second photo is just showing the weatherization um at Calabasas. As you can see, it looks like a totally different building. Um that's just a snippet of of what all of the buildings look like. Um they've also done all of the fencing in yellow. Right now, they're in process with um tearing up all of the sidewalks to fix the drainage and the grading. Um I did not um include a photo of that, but that's just kind of what the outside's looking like. Uh and then if you can scroll down just
004Audra. You can keep going. Um and then I just kind of made a list to let you know the other um areas that we're working on. Um the aquatic center shade shade structure installation started this week. Um I'll be able to provide updates at the next board meeting with some photos of that. We're also installing um a shade structure over the athletic field at Calabasas. I don't know if you've ever been out there, but it's there's zero shade. So, we're adding some shade there. So, um aside from that, um all of the sites are currently undergoing deep cleaning. Um we have some classroom moves. The TLA um office is also being demolished. Um Megan and her team I think have successfully moved over to their new area at Calabasas. And so, pretty soon when you
005come around the roundabout, you'll notice that that building is gone. So, you'll know when that one's complete. Um and I think those are the major projects that we have going on in the summer. So, I just wanted to give you a couple updates on that. Um all of the sports teams have started their off-season training. Um so, the high school's in use every day. Um and swimming lessons started last week. Um, and I know we had another full house. Um, so all those slots were full. The pool is closed this week for the installation of installation of the shade, but it will it will be reopening as soon as possible. >> I'm not worried. >> That's great. That's great. How's it going with you, Megan? Are you guys all settled over there? >> moved. We
006still have some boxes left to unpack, but we are all moved and we have um six classrooms here where the family resource center is located. >> So that would be the old eighth grade? >> The old eighth grade building over there? Okay, where the parking lot is and stuff, right? >> Yeah, so I think it's going pretty well and yeah. >> That's great. That's great. That's great. Yeah, and that's great. All righty, moving forward, the governing uh board member report, Ms. Alma de la Riva. >> Yes, thank you. I first wish to thank and congratulate all the school principals principals as well as Megan for a very uh successful school year. Um, thank you for all your hard work and uh thank thank you for your leadership. And um I also want to thank uh
007all the school principals for inviting us to be part of their transition ceremonies at Stein Banning Manor, the two middle schools as well as the graduation ceremony at uh Rio Rico High School. Um, and then second, I attended the um ASBA Summer Leadership Institute this last week. As always, their sessions are very informative and leave you with a sense of, you know, a motivated for the next school year. I particularly enjoyed their keynote uh speaker, Mr. John Pitts, who spoke about leading with passion and purpose. And um I especially like he was he's a magician and so he made his uh session very as as informative and and as fun as as as possible. So, I I especially enjoyed being a being being part of that. So, that's it for me. >> All righty. Thank
008you very much, Mr. Brad Beach. >> Yes, that's me. Everything that almost said, yeah, thanks to the principals, teachers, admin. We're we're definitely a family, one big team, and I thought we had an amazing school year. Nothing major came our way, so that's always a good note. And our graduation was spot-on. I don't know how we got 350 graduates, 55 graduates like that. Yeah, it was and I didn't hear of any incidents involving our students that what they do afterwards. So, yeah, good job everybody involved, including our custodial staff, everybody. We did go to the conference up at Flagstaff. Something that I took away from it was a number of school closures and how schools are competing for students, and it's become very, I'd say, vicious on how how they're going about it. They talked
009about birth rate, death rate, affordability, housing. They talked about immigration, immigration coming in, leaving the communities. So, all this drives the population of your school district. And uh Phoenix is a little bit more, I should say, competitive up there because the districts are so close together. And they're pulling in I know we compete with our neighbors to the south, but uh some of their uh They also said about charter schools, ESA, are shrinking our enrollment, so we're competing with them, and large corporations have now gotten involved in the schools in the charter schools. So, it's it's definitely a money-making machine now, and you're and we're definitely competing. So, one of the speakers talked about their different groups. Do do do do coming school facilities uh They said you need to get the word out and
010this one school district had a bunch of different groups. One that I thought was pretty cool was his faith-based groups. You get your religious groups of Mormons, Catholics, Baptists all and they have a group. You got a they had a grandparents group. They had a business group, a parent group, a student group. So all these different little groups coming in and you know helping helping formulate our ideas on how how to recruit and how to bring students here and also on some of the decision making with the all voices heard bringing these groups in cuz I know we do a good job with getting uh surveys out to the community and the staff. But these are actually different groups that come into the school and they have different viewpoints. The faith great base group is
011going to maybe have a different viewpoint than what the grandparents would. So I thought it was interesting how they brought different groups in to hear hear their voices and you know how to how to overcome these changes. Also I know we got to during graduation I saw a lot of my students from here some high school that those who come up here and they live in Mexico. Cool. So that was good to see about three of them walk across that stage and I asked myself after this lecture do we have any type of advertising in Mexico that recruits students? A lot of them have citizenship here but live in Mexico. You know maybe in Mexico bienvenido a Rio Rico High School. Something like that but I'll talk to David about that but a large portion
012especially at my old school, we had about 80 students a day come from Mexico. And 80 students times 4,000 a piece, you know, if we could take a piece of that and bring it here, it would definitely help us. >> Just to clarify, Mr. Beach, currently enrollment laws and the statutes, I those students are either paying out of the country tuition or they have a residential address in our >> Yeah, you usually have the residential and some of them are American citizens. >> Right. But the the citizenship doesn't matter as long as I mean, there may be times in which they may spend a night or two in Prospect, but but they reside in >> They have to show uh >> They have to reside here. They have to be tuition so Just >> Uh
013and that was about it at the at the conference that I took away as far as the main points. So, that's all I can bring. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Guerrero. >> Yeah, thank you, Madam President. Um yeah, I just want to echo what they said. Congratulations to everybody for a successful school year and uh I really hope everybody's catching a little bit of a break before you start gearing up and uh getting ready for the next school year. So, thank you, everybody, for everything you do. And uh I got to go to the Rio Rico High School graduation. That's the only one I could attend, but it was great. It was amazing. >> Oh, yeah. >> Great time with everybody and it's always good to see them walk across that and you know,
014different expressions for sure. Some people seem really really happy and some people seem relieved. Uh but I always I always find joy in the facial expressions. >> And these ones have been through >> Right, cuz it's completely different. But yeah, that's it. Thank you. >> Yeah, no, yeah. Me too. And I was like echoing with all of them everything that they said. Ditto for me, too, cuz I also went to the um to the ASBA in Flagstaff, which was really really amazing. Uh the I mean, the graduation itself was just like To me, it was really like bittersweet because it was my last class that one that I taught sixth grade and those are the kids that were graduating. So, it was kind of, you know, it was a little, you know, emotional for me
015and I even though I did stay and another 3 years, but it was not teaching anymore. It was I mean, I was in the the distance learning that was during COVID and all that stuff. So, that was kind of a little bittersweet and stuff, but again, you know, thanks to all of the administrators, you know, again for their a very successful year. In in Flagstaff, I also, you know, we that that the guy Roy, I don't remember what his last name is, but anyway, he was an amazing speaker and like she said, he did like magician stuff, but I mean, he practically had us in tears because it was, you know, there was like the seven hearts and stuff like that and he went and saw kids that were terminally ill and stuff and we
016were just like, oh my god, it just, you know, it was very emotional, but it was very it was wonderful. It was very very good. And there was one thing that that I that we were invited to go and I'm hoping that we can probably go later on. There's uh there is this up in Casa Grande, they have this coil. Remember, I don't know what coil stands for, but I know it's, you know, it's an acronym for something, but he said that there I mean, there were books that have been written and Casa Grande is in there and I want to know what it's about, okay? Because it was they didn't really tell us, but we were sitting with them. So, I don't know if anybody has ever heard about the coil or anything. No,
017okay, that was first for me, too, and I was like, but the guy wasn't very informative, but then he was kind of, you know, at first we thought that he was like, you know, really kind of a little bit rude with us because he never acknowledged us, he never said and he was the superintendent of the schools, you know, and we were like, what the heck's going on with this guy, you know, because nothing, you know, he said I to the both other people that were there and he just completely ignored us and I was kind of butt hurt. But anyway, I was kind of like, what? But why you ignore me, you know? But anyway, but then he left and then we were like, "What is going on?" And then he came back afterwards
018and there was another young lady that had come and and they were, I guess, together. And oh, his total attitude completely changed. And you're like, "Oh, okay. So, I guess you are." You know, but he wasn't very approachable. So, but I do but I asked him, you know, I said, "What is it that you do?" And he really wouldn't tell us. But, I told him if we could go and visit and he said, "Oh, absolutely." I said, "Do you have a card?" "Oh, I'll give you my information letter." Ask me when he gave it to me? Never. But, I'm going to go. Okay, we are going to go over there. We are going to go. But, anyway, >> I'll let you two go. >> Yes, yes, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah. I need to let
019him know what I what I think about him. But, anyway, but but I will do that, okay? And then there was another program about with the SROs, okay? And I asked the question, you know, if the money that, you know, because they say that they that they had so many people that that are working, you know, like at SROs or, you know, with police officers and this and that. I mean, you know, thinking of our schools and more you know, a little bit more you know, security for us. And I asked I said, "Okay, does that money come out of our budget or it comes out of yours?" And he said it came out of their budget. And that was something that I'm going to really look into and see, you know, how it works.
020But, he says, "No." He says, "You just let us know what it is and, you know, this and that." And he's the one he's the director of the whole state of Arizona. And he has all of this you know, money and he supposedly he's got money, you know, to spend. And I thought, "Well, let's take advantage of him, you know. Let's get a couple of more people down here." You know, I mean, yeah, if we can, you know, we can put one SRO officer in every school, that would be fantastic, especially if it's not coming out of our budget or anything. So, anyway, that was another thing that I'm going to look into. But, you know, everything was everything that we that we did over there was amazing. We had a really good time. And
021um, I hope that all of the teachers and administrators and everybody is having a good summer, restful and and hopefully, you know, we all time flies and goes like this and when we least expect it we're going to be like, "Oh my god, today is the first day of school." That is going to happen. So, you know, I wish you all luck and I hope you guys all have a great great summer. Okay, and thank you for everything that you guys do. I can't say that enough. Thank you. I'm I'm done with that. All right, moving on. Uh, Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District number 35 uh, policies uh, Ms. Lenderman? >> No policies to >> There's nothing Nothing to change, nothing to nothing. Okay, consent agenda. Oh. Approval. >> Copy item number >> Of
022item B? >> 3B. >> Three >> B. >> Oh, future topics. I apologize. There we go, future topics. Are there any future topics? Does anybody want to add any future topics? Cuz we got, you know, the sub 32 the and that's, you know, that's about it. Anybody? No? >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, yes. >> Yes, okay. >> I don't know what the possibility is. I've been approached by twice uh, by parents community members who who are still having a very hard time understanding grading method the ruling And so to be honest, I'm not very I'm not very much sure how it works and so I wasn't able to answer their question. So, I'm asking if it all if it's possible, I don't know how it would work that we would get maybe a a presentation
023of of what the our grading system is so that I can better understand it and be able to answer our community members questions when that comes up. >> Absolutely. >> So, I put it so it's understanding grading rubric. Okay, do we have to do we have to make a motion? >> No, no, no. >> Okay, future agenda items. >> Just for those are just future agenda items. Okay, all right. Anybody else? I mean, I don't think we have anything else, but besides the other things that we're going to be looking into. All righty, moving on now the consent agenda. Okay, approval of the consent agenda. Any matter on the consent agenda will be removed from the consent agenda and discussed as regular agenda item or items upon the request of any board member. Does anybody
024have anything, Ms. De la Riva? >> None? Mr. Beach? >> Number 19? >> Page >> Number 19? Um Mr. Guerrero? None, and I have none either. Okay, so this Do we have a motion, please, with the exception of number 19? >> Uh move to approve the consent agenda as as presented. >> Excluding number 19? Okay. >> So moved. >> Second, okay. All those in favor, say I. I. All those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. Uh motion uh uh stays with with that with the exception of number 19. How do we do with that one? >> For now, you just read the the >> Okay. So, number 19, it says approval of the time of the out-of-state travel for the Roberto Lopez and Marinez Alvarez to attend the International Club Tour Training on February the 13th
025through the 16th of 2027 in Rome, Italy, with expenses covered by EFT Educational Tours. >> Yes, Mr. Ramirez had texted all the way from Europe that he would like the board table this item until he gets back. So, I'll entertain the motion. >> Okay. >> Move to table number 19. >> Second. >> Okay, all those in favor, say I. I. All those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. We will table it until Mr. Ramirez comes back. >> Okay. What else? Is that it? >> That's the whole ball. >> Oh, okay. So, at this time I would like to adjourn this meeting at 5:19. Am I correct? Thank you very, very much for being here, all of you. 5:19 p.m. >> Thank you.