001All righty. Good afternoon, everybody. I call this meeting to order on this Tuesday, October the 28th, 2025 at 5:00 PM at 570 Camino Leto Galindo, Rio Rico, Arizona. May we please stand for the pledge? >> Mr. Ramirez, can you stand? I pledge algiance 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. >> On roco, Miss Alma de la, >> Mr. Ben Gueredo, >> present, >> Mr. Rene Ramirez, >> present, >> Mr. Brad, >> and me, Lordes Vasquez, we have a quorum. Okay, next uh business adoption of the agenda. >> Only one recommended change is when we get to the executive session rather than move to one bar the executive session and the board. >> Okay,
002any questions? Does anybody have any >> the items that we're going to have a meeting for on Thursday? They >> that would be on a a different item. >> Okay. >> We're not anything. No, they're not on No, it's not on the agenda. >> It's not on the agenda. This is different. This is just a consent agenda. >> Okay. Any question? Nothing else? >> Okay. So, then we the consent agenda is approved. >> No. >> Okay. Here I go. Here I go. A motion to approve the agenda as presented. Anybody? >> Second. Okay. All those in favor say I. >> All those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. Uh uh motion passes. Thank you. Uh, call to the public. >> No call to the public. All righty. Hold on, Etsy. Moving on. Moving on. Uh, presentations.
003These are from the art students recognition. Mr. >> This is our continuation of recognition of our art students that participated within the county as well as just art in general. Um, so I'd like to ask the principles, uh, Mr. Dria, Mr. Chavez, and Mr. Lman to come up. Um I don't know what order they have chosen. I think Matria can go. >> Thank you. >> Hello. Good evening everyone. Um I am especially honored this evening to speak about one of our students. Although this student is new to us this year in his fifth year, he has absolutely embraced being a cheetah. And just as art makes the world a brighter place, the Pacheco family makes Saitano a brighter place. And so, Sebastian, if you can come on up. Thank you. >> Has just honestly, he
004puts a smile on my face every time I see him. Um, his mom is also our school secretary and his twin brother is also in fifth grade. Um, so creative, always has something to show me that he's created. I'm blown away. He crochets. There's so many things he's constantly inventing and it's just absolutely incredible to see what a beautiful mind he has and we are really really lucky to have them here. So I'm going to share with you >> so he was best of show. >> Yep. We're extremely proud of him. >> Can you bring it up a little? Good job. >> What grade are you in? >> Fifth grade. >> How long did that take you? >> Almost two weeks. >> Almost. >> Two weeks. >> That's a lot of work. >> It's a
005lot of work, sweetie. That is beautiful. It's beautiful. >> It's cool. standing. >> Would you like to ask a question? >> Well, you want to get all of them together or >> should we do all of them or I'll go individual? >> It's up to you. What do you want? >> Okay. Whatever you guys want. >> Do individual >> individual. All right. Mrs. Dear, >> I just want to say congratulation. That's awesome work. Uh that's uh a lot of imagination there with the colors. So, >> very creative and uh we're proud of you. Congratulations. You deserve to be recognized, Mr. Guerrero. >> Yeah. Nothing just other than congratulations. It's pretty awesome. Like the colors. I like the little glittery effect on it. It's pretty cool. Makes it really stand out. So, good job. >> Yep.
006>> Yeah. You stole my thunder. I was going to tell him I like the colors, too. >> I know. Yeah. >> But great job and thank you for representing your school and our community. We appreciate it very much. A lot of hard work. I'm sure it was. So, thank you >> Mr. Vick. >> Yeah, congratulations. I think Mimi said it got a beautiful mind and sort of an imagination because uh I don't know if that's a cheetah or with flowers and yeah, just a a cool looking picture right there in two weeks to make. Huh. >> That is >> a lot of hard work and dedication. Uh good job to you and your your art teacher. >> Yeah. Same here. Uh Seb Sebastian Pacheco, right? Amazing. You did really really good. I mean, if you
007know how to do all the other stuff. Oh my god. You know, congratulations to your mom for teaching you all that cuz has your mom taught you how to crochet and how to do all these other things. >> Who taught you? Sorry. Never mind. Just kidding. >> Who taught you? Your dad Your dad has taught you. You know, it's funny because my dad taught me how to embroider. Okay. So, I get it, you know. Yeah. So, but your dad taught you how to crochet and all that stuff. Who did? >> I just learned by myself. >> Really? Well, more power to you, Mito. That is very, very beautiful. It's very, very You have a really, really vivid imagination. Okay. Congratulations, Sebastian. Thank you so much for being part of our district and uh being our
008new cheetah. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Oh, now you can't see him. >> Thanks, Mr. Chavez. >> Mr. Chavez. >> Good afternoon, Madam President, members of the board. Thanks for having us here. My my person is not here today. Unfortunately, her mom had a mom and that she's been keeping for a while, so she so she wasn't couldn't be able to make it. Um, but Mia is our seventh grader that we see best of show for her piece of art and you can see it up here in the um on the screen. Um, that is a graphic design that she created. Uh, the uh the original art piece um got kind of damaged. Um, I'm not sure if you guys heard, but there were some rings at the county fair right after the So,
009there's a few pieces of it of of the original artwork that were that were damaged, >> just the water spots and things like that. So, this is this is the shot that we have of that. This is this is the original one. Um, so with Mia, she's she's she's always done fantastic art. um very very much into um working with Miss Hughes and you know she was working with Miss Andrade who is here um and then she got to Miss Hughes and she's just been soaring. Um so this this piece of art um was up in our um in our front office, but like I said, it was just a few parts of it that were kind of damaged, you know, because of the rain. So um so unfortunately that happened, but I just wanted
010to recognize her publicly for her work that she did. Um we are very very proud of her. Um and so yeah I just want to recognize >> thanks Mr. >> Thank you Mr. Thomas. Thank you >> Mr. Ruga High School. Madame present, members of the board, um I can't tell you how proud I am of our students who are going to be um recognized in their work and I feel it's important for Miss Lee Alva who is their mentor who worked with them day in day out. Um and I think the perfect segue to introducing these three individuals is towards the end of the day today um I was in a phone call actually with Dr. to Londonville and I said I need to step out. There's a gentleman outside my office and I stepped
011out and this gentleman had seen um one of our students art pieces at the gallery and he was there because he wanted to purchase the art piece. I'm not sure which one but there is so much quality work, passion and inspiration that comes through our students in the art program. So there's three students who we're going to be recognizing tonight. We have three individuals who have very distinct honors. one of them, you know, we're very uh very proud because some of them are local, some of them are at the state level. So, I have Y, Christian, and Emily today. Um, and I'd like to have Mr. Grihalva really speak to about each of them. And then we have a cool unveiling that we'll do today with one of their ares. So, Mr. >> Oh, and
012thank you members of the board for appreciating your work. tell um the first student that I want to mention has shown uh tremendous dedication in all the courses he has assisted one year already um that's graphic design, fashion design, vehicle design, product design and architectural design. Um, but one of his main focuses that I that I started seeing over time was vehicles. And uh, so I I decided to really focus on on sharing every detail that I could of every skill, every technique on on vehicle design. Um, so I'd like to uh congratulate didn't have a car like that in high school. >> He does. >> Thoughts in B210. This piece won first place at the Lenta County Fair. >> It says your best. >> Do you guys want to have three students and then
013you want to have ask questions or individually? >> You all three first. >> Coming over here. >> We'll stay and then be ready for them. Um the second student uh who has painted murals has been involved in every project this uh this year was involved in a mural that we painted at the super county superintendent behind the county superintendent's office. Um the mural was used as the flyer for the event that will be taking place November 1st. Um she has shown tremendous dedication uh to realism. She really likes focusing on portraits. And what's very interesting about this portrait is like Freda Carlo, she paints herself, you can see her rendition of herself in the characters that she paints. Um Emily, interesting. and you'll be able to see the images. >> So, Mr. Chavis and I,
014as you know, we are the co-chairs for the conference >> and her our work is going to be all over the place. So, this is an apron that will be given to some of the board members. >> It was put on aprons. It'll be in tortilla warmers. It'll be centerpieces. Beautiful. All right. Now you can >> that is beautiful. >> That is >> when she painted >> when she worked on this piece for the ALS art contest. I just knew she was gonna ask. >> And the third student um has shown innovative strategies in creativity uh beyond expectation. Um the student was new to the school, new to the system, came in and just wanted to learn and has proven that wants to the student wants to uh devote and pursue art as as a
015career. Christianber and as we were preparing the artwork for the time fair. Well, I would like to recycle something that I paint on that's out there and I use a stool. I said, "Sure." So, he got innovative. >> Nice. Nice. Oh, that is >> I like the sunflowers. >> That was the theme. >> That was a theme. Okay. I was I was saying that the sunflowers they they're on all of their things, but that was a theme. That's what she's saying. >> That is so beautifully done. Don't step up to the mic, guys. So, here they are if you guys have any questions. >> Okay. Any questions? Uh, Miss Dear, >> no questions. just to you know to me it's just mindblowing to see so much talent in our in our in our students about
016congratulations to all all three of you for this wonderful work that you are presenting to us today. Congratulations to your parents as well and congratulations to your teacher who is able to recognize your talent and help you through with your with your project. continue your work and I'm so very proud of and I'm sure your parents are as well. Congratulations to them too. >> Thank you, Mr. >> It's just amazing work. I I agree with everything she said. A lot of talent. >> Yeah. Just, you know, I love vehicles, so that that's pretty cool. I mean, the detail that goes in that is great. You know, Emily, I just came back from Walahad. I saw a lot of paintings like that, a lot of murals and stuff like that. So, it's it's just pretty amazing
017stuff. And that your stuff's going to be all over the place, you know, that's that's pretty cool. >> Um, and the idea of using a stool to, you know, express your art is is pretty amazing. So, no, congratulations to all three of you. You guys did amazing work. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Amir. >> What's the same thing? I think the detail is really something else. And as Mr. Lariva said, she said it well. It's mind-blowing. It really is. And You can feel the passion that you have for what you do. And I found it interesting what Mr. Grihalo said about how you have that quality like Freda Caro >> Freda Freda Caro because you know you you can see that in your piece. They're all really spectacular and kids have done a great job
018and the teachers have and I love that the admin is so supportive and the parents and community just to come out tonight, you know, recognize us. It's great. It's really we just live in such a great community. Wow. We're really starting to see a lot of really interesting art here in the governing boardroom. >> A lot of nice prizes, a lot of lot of hardware that they're winning. So, hats off to all three of you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Beach. >> Yeah, I find it sort of amazing because I'm a dad. I have three kids. They have different personalities, forms of expression. So, when I look at Mr. Grihalva, he teaches you pretty much the same techniques and stuff, but I look at these paintings and they're a reflection of your
019expression of what you're thinking. And so, it's sort of amazing that each one of you are taught by the same teacher. guys have different forms of expression and I was down in Mexico City. I did go to Kasul and saw Freda's Kala's work >> and yeah it's amazing uh what she draw and uh the reflection that she drew of herself in her paintings a lot of pain a lot of anxiety a lot of just really in-depth stuff down there is an expression of yourself continue doing it and I don't know which painting uh the individual wanted to buy artwork is is very lucrative if you can sell your paintings. >> Great job to all of you guys and I I love your forms of expression comes out in >> Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, what else
020can I say? Everybody said everything. It's spectacular. It's it's mind-blowing. It's so amazing, you know, the work that you guys are doing, especially at the age that you are in, you know, just, you know, to see some of the work. And congratulations, Mr. Grihalva, you know, for like he said, you know, bringing their talents out and expressing it, you know, in in the vivid way that they're doing it because these are I mean, they're amazing. I mean, you think that it's a snapshot, you know, not not a painting, not some something that somebody had to do and take, you know, a lot of time doing it. It's just wow. Can you imagine, you know, you guys are right now, you know, the age that you are when you become seniors or or out of high
021school. what what what is going to be you know created by your you know by your talent. It's just you know congratulations. It's mind-blowing. It really is. And congratulations to all the parents for supporting your children and for you know allowing them to really express themselves you know but thank you. Thank you very much. Congratulations to each and every one of you. Thank you so much. a group picture with all the artists and principles and Mr. >> If I may real quick while they getting ready for the picture in the ALAS conference um they annually do a art contest. They do four books by grade level and they do total four. Three of the four ALS art winners are from our district. >> Are from our district. Lot of >> talent. >> That is a
022lot of talent. >> There we go. >> Big smiles. One, two, three. said, "But he came." But he came out this. >> Thank you. All right. >> Oh, wow. Just How do you top that? Huh? It's like, wow. >> Not going to stop that. >> I know. I know. >> All righty. Moving on. Uh, should they leave? >> Yeah. >> Uhhuh. Uh, the parents and >> leave at this time and unless you want join the rest of the board. >> The time to fix it if you'd like. >> Thank you very much. Thank you very much for >> Thank you very much everybody for coming supporting our students our district. >> Thank you. >> Out the room. >> Who the room? >> Oh yeah. That's so great that so many parents can so many members
023just tell that they're really supportive. >> Well, we continue. All righty. Uh safety and security updates. Uh Mr. Verdugo. >> Thank you. Uh like to turn it over to Lunderville and Mr. Thousand will be presenting a safety and security update. >> Okay. >> Good evening, Madam President, members of the board. Um, I actually am going to turn the time over to Mr. Thompson. Um, we've prepared a public presentation on information that we can share regarding safety and security measures in our district. And then later on in the agenda, we we have an executive session to talk specifically about emergency operation plans. But I'll go ahead and turn um the time over to you. >> Good afternoon everybody. Robert Thompson, safety and security coordinator Valley School District. >> All right. So Arizona Department of Education has
024made a couple of changes that will take effect uh school year 25 I'm sorry 20. >> What year am I? 26 25 26 I'm sorry. Um, so all these changes that we're um putting up to speed right now and using at our sites are mandatory for next year. So we're taking advantage of this year so we can look at them, modify us or address any concerns we may raise with the department of education. So this is why we're bringing all this in front of of everybody. So the main three things are our fire drills, our knockdown drills, and our shelter in places. Uh fire drills of course every school must perform at least one monthly uh fire drill with the exception of the first one. Uh the first one we have to do within the
025first 10 days. So this year we did it. We were successful in doing those within the first 10 days. Those are mandatory by the 2018 uh fire code. However, we believe that come 2026, the fire code will change and be adapted to the 2024 code that's currently being reviewed right now by the state. So, um, fire districts and and just about everybody around us will be also doing the same thing. How will it affect us? We won't know yet. Um, I don't think it'll make things any things stricter. Definitely will not make things easier or I shouldn't say easier, but less less uh enforceable um by us. So, with that said, um any questions on the fire drills? Right now, we're we're moving ahead. We're rocking and rolling. We're up to speed on everything. So,
026we're doing good. We're doing great right now. >> Any anybody have any questions? >> No questions. No question. >> Incident command the incident command system or ICS is a standardized approach to the command control and coordination of emergency response providing a common um hierarchy within which within responders from multiple agencies can uh be effective. Basically what this means is we have structure. Um, typically our incident commanders are site administrators, the principal, assistant, so forth, so forth, and it all gets spreads down to, hey, you're responsible for this thing that you need to do, you're responsible for this other thing to all in there. Um, and the structure is good for law enforcement and also fire and medical personnel. We speak the language now. We all must go through this. We've all gone through this for
027this year. So, we're ahead of the requirements that the state's asking us. So, within time, if one of our public safety a entities that work with us has the ability or wants to, and this is an invitation out and open, saying, "Hey, we want to try something at one of your sites, we're ready for it. We're ready to rock and roll with them. We're ready to enjoy it. We're ready to do all these things and have a good time." Plus, pick up our oops and fix those for the future. Of course, this is a requirement for the Arizona Department of Education. Um, it's once every, and I could be wrong. I think it's once every x amount of years. We'll say five years, but I think every year we should all go ahead and do
028so and get that review. We just never know when things will change. Uh, lockdown drills and events. So, our lockdown drills um went from just one per year to three. Um, those three, we have already done the first one this year. We all did it successfully. The difference between the drill is that the drill we have to do three regardless. If we actually have a true event or an emergency that we classify as a lockdown, that does not count towards the drill, right? So, we still have to have three. And I I I'm being honest about this. I hope we never have to actually do a lockdown. However, last year we did have one late May or mid May, we had it and it was successful as well. So, we're in the process. We've got
029the foundation. We're moving forward. What we need to do is just practice, practice, and practice a little bit more on this. So, yeah. So, if we do have an actual emergency event uh classified as a lockdown, that does not count towards the three drills that we have. So, we will we'll go ahead and do so move forward with those as well. Shelter in places. This one um does either or. So, if we do have an actual shelter in place event, I don't want to call it an emergency, but an event or we do actually and drill. Um, they both mesh and it could be one of the two, right? This year we've had quite a few. We've had some really cool I think the weather was really nice. Uh, we had some storms and we
030exercised our drills. Um, all sites were able to do so whether through lightning rain or what have you. So, we're we're 100% done with these. So, that's awesome for us to say all that. Uh, bus evacuations. So, um, the state of Arizona Department of Public Safety is inquire is asking all school sites to have at least two bus evacuations. The rules behind all that is only the kids that typically use the bus to or from should practice those evacuations. What's easier for us is we get everybody in there because we never know. We might have to evacuate kids from a site or a field trip or what have you. And there happens to be, I don't know, the small crash with the bus. The bus evacuation is to show the kids how to evacuate the
031bus. It's not so much how to evacuate the campus or anything like that. It's how to step off the bus without them being hurt. Um DPS and one of our school neighborhood uh school districts was able to create a video. There's a link up there if you guys are interested in viewing it. It's pretty neat. Um, it allows us to allow the kids, some students, to use our radio, how to use it, how to call for help, and all this other stuff that kids are getting, really excited about. We've already done all sites, have been able to do that so far. We just got one more. We got another seven months before those. So, we're moving forward on this as well. What we do need to do is every time we do a bus evacuation,
032we need to notify DPS within 14 days in advance. Um, it's a whole new form. Everything has to be done. We're right in place with that. We're doing good and it's enjoyable for us to say the kids had a really good fun time because we want them to enjoy it as a fun time versus a critical or emergency thing. They learn in fun. We all know that. Raptor alert. Uh we talked about Raptor alert LA last year. Right now Raptor alert system is a a software or an app that we use to trigger all of our events, all of our drills or emergencies per campus. We have registered I'm going to say a high 90% of all of our staff with their phone numbers or email addresses. Things change. So sometimes somebody changes their phone
033number. Second time we have or in the future we have another raptor alert. We get the the we get the notice saying I didn't get the alert. Did you change your number? Yeah. Okay, cool. And we change it. So, every time we have an alert, I'm sorry, we have a drill or an emergency at a site. Raptor alert gets triggered either by me or site administrators, everybody gets notified. They get a nice little clip saying, "Hey, this is a drill reference to fire evacuation, a fire drill." They know it's a drill. They know how to respond to a drill. Hey, this really is a shelter in place. They know how to activate shelter in place, how to stay indoors, how to keep the kids inside and everything. Hey, this is actually a a lockdown whether
034it's a drilling emergency. So, everybody gets the alert, which is pretty neat, either through email and or text message. So, um anybody with a phone part of our staff will receive that immediately. It takes second or two to get that alert. So, it's pretty neat to see that if uh the application is being used by staff, which they're entitled to do. So, if they opt to do so, they can also text and send us information as to what they're seeing happening. We also send that information out. Currently, this year, we have uh Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office um involved in that as well. and we have the county emergency managers off or emergency management office who also receives the messages and we share information with each other to make sure that it still works. So,
035Raptor has taken a big step uh to where it needs to be and we're going to look at other stuff that it also u allows us to do and we'll go ahead and and bring that up to speed as well. Mutual ink, I think this is one of the coolest things out there on the face of the earth. uh with my background we couldn't have entities public safety talk to each other. I say uh Mr. say, "Yep, you're right. Um really difficult to have radio function." This itself allows us to do one of two things when it comes to us. Um when we have an actual event, Mutual gets triggered automatically through Raptor, right? That turns on your app on your phone and that goes to administrators and then they get the alert saying, "Hey,
036this is happening." At that same token, that alert goes down to the 911 centers we have here in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office or the Gall Police Department. They get the alert. They start listening to us. We hit that button on our on our phone. They can hear us. We can text each other. They can call us and say, "Are you guys okay? What do you need?" Furthermore, once we get the last component of the radio capability, we can use our actual handheld radios that we have throughout all the schools. Plug it in and now it's no longer just a phone, but it's also just it's also a radio. So, we'll be able to talk to each other. Um, and we're connected interoperable with public safety. Um, and our 911 or PAPs
037as we call them, our public safety access points, which is our 911 centers. Um, we'll be able to talk to each other, show them what's happening. Furthermore, in Mutual Inc., if we have an issue happening, I I'll use the district office at this point. If we have an issue happening here at the district office, maps come up, shows us where everything's at. Furthermore, you click at the camera icon, and we'll get to those in a little bit as well. You click the camera icon, the camera icon turns on your phone, and you can see exactly what's happening. We can also hear what's happening and we can share that information to the people within our mutual links uh I guess hierarchy or or bracket right mutual link is nationwide I mean it's all over the place
038so if we happen to have a new issue from another area we can get that information as well and we can see what's happening as well >> I have a question does that have to will that um service be on every person that has a cell phone in the district, will they be getting the same thing or is it just the people that are in charge? >> That's that's a question. Yes, it's just for the people are in charge. District office, it'll be the superintendent, assistant superintendent, my stuff. Us three get all the all the campuses. We get them all. Um every campus, their principal and or assistant principal get that as well. Um, so yeah, it's basically part of the incident command structure. So those who need to decide and make those decisions and
039determine what needs to happen are able to communicate with the people that we need help. >> Yeah, thank you for clarifying. >> And that just got uh renewed for an additional five years by the state of Arizona. So we're comfortable for another five years. And we went 100% live April 3rd of this year finally. So we were able to get that rocket enrolling. Any other questions on mutual link? >> Yeah, I have some questions. Wait till you So yeah, so this is just for our um site administrators that are campus. >> Currently our camera system is up to speed on 137. One went bad. We got it to work. I replaced it and then I utilized that camera at another location. It's working great right now. Currently, we have an additional 18 cameras that I'm
040working on to install. We just need some hardware, some wiring, stuff like that that we'll get in uh immediately or or soon, I should say. Um so, we can deploy those to sites that have already been identified. And we're even exploring other needs at other sites. So that 18 number may increase will increase more than say um every every site has a team or an individual that is currently monitoring all of our camera systems. And I'm going to pick on the high school, Mr. Lopez. He's got big TV, couple monitors, and we've been rotating uh security team members every so often, and they're behind there listening to the radio, monitoring cameras. They see something, they maybe say, "Hey, this is happening here." Or, "Hey, we need a student, whomever left from this location." Boom, they
041can go on the camera, they can utilize that, and they can review that. So, we have that set in place at the high school. And at the other sites, the security team members jump on there immediately as well. um not so much on your phone because our our services kind of are you know on cell phones. However, they do have their laptops and or desktop where they can do that and they monitor cameras um and all that stuff. So that's what we've done on cameras at this point. One thing that I did do was trigger audio as well. So we can see and hear things now. Um it didn't change our database as much um but it's helping us now. can hear things of what as well access control uh so far now all staff
042members we all carry our cards right students carry their ID cards as well our ID cards um currently have access to our access control application meaning front lobbies uh certain areas you just scan on them and you'll be able to open it if you don't have your key um on the same token this app control system If you carry it on your phone, it's great in case you didn't have your ID card. You can use your phone to open things. Um, those locks that are equipped with uh this type of one thing that that app allows us to do, and this is for site administrators, is you have to go into a lockout. You don't longer have to run the door. You just hit a button and that door gets when it's over. you hit
043the button or so be working on there's still a couple glitches of course but we're going to get to those um soon but right now all that system is working and we're ready to go and we're ready to rock and roll with that as well. So, we're moving forward on on on things that we've been talking about and we've been utilizing. We're, you know, beyond that at this point. We're we're moving forward all that conclusion. Um, us at the Santa Valley Unified School District 35 have looked into the future and applied as much of those changes during the school year. We're almost a year ahead of schedule. We're using everything that we're going to use a year in advance now. We're going to get there. Um, we want to continue to refine our operations, policies,
044guidelines, and everything because of the changes that came to play by AD, which is why we're utilizing this school year to apply any changes to that. And as always, uh, my little thing at the bottom there is would you take advantage of, okay, we should take advantage of the school year and look at the future, apply anything, modify ourselves to it, or bring it up to AD and say, "Hey, this really didn't work with us. Is there subject to change?" So, we're taking advantage of the school year. We have to so we can be ahead of time when the school when the the state says, "Look, guys, this is what happens now." We're there. We got a whole year where we played with everything and got everything going. That's all I have on my end.
045Dr. >> Gord has any questions? >> Questions? >> Um Alma, do you have any questions? >> No, I don't have any questions at this time. This is uh actually all new to me, but I'm very happy with it. Especially that raptor and that mutual link. It makes me feel so much at ease, so much more comfortable to know that we have this. So, I I'm very happy. I'm happy with it. Thank you. Thank you for your >> great Ben. >> Yeah, no questions. I appreciate you taking care of this stuff. I mean, there's a lot that goes into it. A lot of coordination with outside agencies and stuff like that. Mutual Link is great. >> Um, Raptor sounds like it's it's good stuff, too. So, it's all good stuff that's going to help get the
046job done for those people that need to get it done if something does happen. So, we appreciate your effort. >> Thank you. Uh, Mr. Ramirez. Yeah, getting back to the fire drills. >> Do we still hold kids financially responsible if they do a false one? >> Mr. Muse? Yes. Um I we have not had a situation where uh general education students pulled a fire alarm in a number of years. We have had some students with disabilities in self-contained rooms pull theirs and Mr. Thompson helped us to get a special cover that can go over those. We have had students but um it has been a number of years that we still learn our discipline matrix that a false >> we've also had students fake uh call in false bomb threats and things like that in
047the past and we have held them >> that's awesome yeah >> because I remember we had that >> a number of years though I would say a good >> I had that when I was at CMS yeah I remember that >> clearly and I thought that was awesome >> because it really was a deterrent >> yeah I cannot off the top of my head remember the the matrix number um in the discipline, but it does exist. Yes. >> Um so what about practicing accounting for substitutes when subs are at our schools? Do you guys do that? We practice the accounting for with a raptor for subs. You know, like they account for the sub, they account for their class. You guys do that, too? >> You want me to answer that? um this year um
048you may recall we hired um someone who's in charge of helping to train our substitute the LA office and I know that is one of the topics that we've had substitutes concerned about one that they couldn't lock the door from the outside. There were a number of of issues. Um, I'd have to get back to Mr. Ramirez on the type of training that they're providing for that unless I don't know. I don't think Meg would have that with her, but I can I can follow up and let you know specifically what type of training um that they received, but I do know that it was a topic that was brought up. >> I know. I'm just asking because I know I've had to do that. >> So, that's why I asked about it. >> And
049what else do we have? The cameras, are they really good at zooming in? >> Depends on the camera. Currently, I have a handful of cameras that gives me the three box area that we can zoom. Those are being utilized right now. Actually, I'm looking at to see where we can utilize them and uh swap them out. But yes, uh the current 20 that we bought have a little bit more of a zoom factor on there. So things are as technology booms, we want to incorporate those as well. So, we do have uh li I shouldn't say liability, but we do have the ability to zoom, but like technology, the more you zoom, the less pixelation and things get >> That's what I was going to ask you because that's always been a challenge. It seems
050to me I I saw those cameras work once and it's always a challenge to be able to identify people the more you try to zoom in because it becomes blurriier and blurrier. The good thing about the software that we have is if we do identify an individual wearing pink over blue, I can scan those throughout the district saying I'm looking for an individual wearing pink over blue and it triggers anybody wearing pink over blue. >> The cards can do what >> the cards help out too like can you zoom in on a card and >> you know because you're talking about the IDs I meant to say. >> So So yeah, so there's there's a lot of things this software allows us to do on the cameras. Um but yeah, we actually we had we
051kind of sort of used it not too long ago and we were able to identify things based on clothing. So uh we're learning more as as we utilize the the equipment. >> The last thing is mostly a comment which is that I want to thank Mr. and Dr. Lunderville for responding to this is years ago when I had mentioned the all the alarms that we had had all the you know lockdowns and they became a there was such a rash of them in Santa Cruz County. I don't know you remember and you know sometimes when you write a letter you wonder just how many people really read it or whether they care >> kind of threw it out there because I had done some research as you recall on lockdowns and false alarms and that
052kind of stuff you know so I thought maybe people had read it maybe they didn't but apparently they did because you guys responded and I really like the system that we have right now because it's cut down on a lot of this uproar with the community because let's face it, I mean we our community was they were terrified many times and we were setting other things in motions like like endangering our parents rushing down the highway because of course you know they live in a we live in this world where we have these school shootings and parents always the first thing they hear when they the first thing they think is you know they don't want that their kid to be that in that Cool. And so we're really setting off alarmism. And so I
053I just wanted to credit your admin because I think that our policy is very unique and it comes down to the credibility and I think it's helped out a lot and cutting down on terrorizing our our parents, you know. And so I just wanted to give you, you know, hats off to or kudos for all that you guys have done because I think that's really important and I don't want to ever see us, that's what I was going to tell you. I don't want to ever see us return to that kind of thing. I I appreciate what you said that we have to have three drills. It's probably state law. So I would if I'm right. >> Yes. >> And so we have to have them. And I found it interesting. She said that even
054if we have a false one, it doesn't count. >> Doesn't count. >> Yeah. That's too bad. But uh I'm I'm happy right now that we don't have that like we did before because even after I wrote that letter, there was a seventh incident. Not here, thank God, but and it just was going kept going on. And so thank God that we don't allow a kid with a marker to, you know, turn our town upside down anymore because of the credibility issue. So I hope that we just keep going full steam in that direction. Although I appreciate that we have to have these drills in the event of a true emergency. But thank you. Thank you for your presentation. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Beach. >> I have nothing. >> You have nothing. >> No, an
055answer. >> Well, you Yeah, me too. A lot of things are answered. Thank you very much for the presentation. It was very educational. Okay. And it's a it's an eye openener too to know that we are doing so well and that our kids are truly uh you know safe and our teachers and you know administrators and everybody that is on campus that they're you know that that everybody can feel that they're safe and they're protected and that that somebody's watching out for them. So thank you very much for your for your presentation. I really appreciate it. Thank you. >> Next one is uh grants update Mr. Verdugal. >> Thank you. Like to invite who would start us off this evening. >> Here she comes from the tender loving administration TLA. >> Right. >> All right.
056Good evening madame president and members of the board. I'm Me Ka the PLA director and I have I know also part of this presentation this evening will be Karolina Dan our grants coordinator. Also, Jimmy Navaro, our CTE director, and Dr. Melissa Lunderville, as you know, our assistant superintendent, and Karolino works on helping with the budgets when it comes to all of our grants in our school district. Um, Dr. Lunderville, Mr. Naro, and I, we are directors of certain grants. And so, we're here to let you know how we're using that grant funding to support our educational programs. So, we'll kind of take turns on grants that we direct and oversee. I'm going to start off with um Karolina, I know we have our first slide, maybe. Okay, there we go. Hello. Hello everyone. Um my
057name is Ken Melan. I'm the grants coordinator and tonight I'll briefly mention the grants available for fiscal year 2526. Uh if you have any questions, uh feel free to ask. Uh and then after I'm done, Megan will give a brief uh description of each of the grants and also she will explain the purpose of each grant and we'll explain how we have allocated our fund. So first to begin it's uh ESA consolidated which is um title one, title two, title four and ris and then we have a fund 190 that's title three. We have uh 21st century used by uh the high school. Then we have uh IDEA it's confirmed by 220 and 226. Uh and then we have a federal Perkins fund 260 and fund 400 CTE state priority. And we have a school
058safety fund 476. We have two county grants that's robotics and technologic and um 596 JTAN. So I don't know if you have any questions. If not Megan can continue with the with the brief description of each of the >> All right. So now we're going to go into each of those that are on that uh slide that you just saw. The ESCA consolidated grants. This is one application that informs how we're going to use our funding for title one, title two, title four, and rural and low income, the RLIS grant. And how we use that funding needs to support our integrated action plans, our site integrated action plans, which in the next coming months you're going to hear the school sites, our principles present on their integrated action plan. So it's all connected where for
059title one, we use this funding to support ELA and mathematics. And the goal of title one is to ensure that all students are meeting challenging academic standards. This page, this first page will show you our total allocation. It's a little over a million dollars. And that includes our carryover from fiscal year 25. This first page is just salaries and benefits. A significant amount of money from our title one grant goes to salaries and benefits of all of these um either positions we have in our district, but also some more supplemental like afterchool tutoring. So, I know you guys can all read, but our afterchool uh tutors and bus drivers that help with our K8 after school programming are funded by title one ELA and math tutoring in ELA and math only. We also fund reading
060and math pair professionals, 11 in our K5 and three at our high school. And those 11 in our K5 support our reading intervention program which we've done a lot of work at revamping and improving over the last four to five years. Summer reading program. We have a teacher who helps support any students who don't meet that move on when reading cut score when they take the third grade AASA test. We do plan to have a teacher who can tutor them in the summer because if the students show progress after that program, they can get promoted to the fourth grade. So, we do fund that through title one. We also fund um summer reading tutors for our high school for this upcoming summer because when we get to the 21st century grant, you'll see it's the
061fifth year and so we will be having some summer programming. Uh we have four teachers in the grant for the Rio Rico High School as well as security guards for summer programming. We fund five instructional coaches. So each school site has at least one instructional coach who's funded by grant money. And that is split funded between title one, title two, and title three. And you'll see that when I get to title two and three as well. We also fund in the TLA our office instruct our office specialist Barban has that position and then two instructional specialists. They're split funded between title one and our rural and lowincome parent. We fund all five of our parent leaison fully. So full-time employee out of title one as well as some stipen positions our back to school coordinator
062and our mckinto homeless leazison. So those are just salaries and benefits. And then the non salaries and benefits what we're funding out of here is um it includes professional development. We have some conferences for our grants coordinator as well as a conference for our parent leaison and our McKini Vento coordinator. We also have digital licensing. Um, districtwide we fund BrainPOP and at our high school we also fund advanced like enhanced Google licenses for our teachers. And then also uh two of our school sites do have specific digital licensing. Mountain View funds a program called Espark. It's supplemental support in ELA and math and Calabasas will be funding Achieve 3000 this year which is also support for literacy. So, we bring in those types of supplementals to enhance our core instruction with title one. We also
063have supplies, supplies for that summer reading program. We also fund uniforms, basic needs for students experiencing homelessness and the back to school blitz supplies. Those a portion of them come from the grant and a lot of them are donations. We also do um need to have a private school set aside. And so there are two um private schools in our area who accept our grant funding. And so we do need to provide them funding and they use that to fund a tutoring service. And those are students who would come to our school district, but they're going to a private school in our area. We also have indirect costs that we have to include in every grant. So you'll see that bulleted in each grant. indirect costs. Those are things like to fund facilities when students
064are staying after school. Title two, so again, this is another one of those consolidated grants. Title two is focusing on improving teacher and principal quality through professional development. And so again, you'll see for salaries and benefits, we have the instructional coaches who are also funded through this because they should be helping, right, to improve our instruction on campus. So it's a very appropriate fund for them. We also fund any professional growth credits for grant funded unions through this fund. We have uh licensing which would be that empower platform that our new teaching uh development and evaluation system is on. So that's how we're platform and we also our human resources department uses our school platform to help with recruiting. If you look on our website and somebody's applying for a job, they're using that powers
065school platform. The professional development, the qualified evaluator training is included in our grant as well as the training for administrators so that they understood how to use our new empower system. Title four, again, still with our ESA consolidated grants. Title four, the essence of it is really to support well-rounded students. So, while title one we have to really focus on ELA and math improvements, title four we can it's a little more versatile. So, we do need to make sure that we fund three areas. Healthy students, well-rounded students, and then steam/use of technology. So, you'll see that in what we're funding, salaries and benefits. Our elementaryaries each have a mileage club sponsor and they get a stipend um taking the kids out uh walking and getting some exercise. Our steam night, the coordinator um is an
066individual at Rico High School. Um her stipend is funded through this title 4 grant. the shack stipens, the um it's the health advisory committee that each school has. That stipen is funded out of here as well as one of our IT technicians um from one of our school sites is funded through here. And then we have various supplies. Our Lego education uh kits that we have in our STEM lab that's in our middle school. That's a newer elective and I want to say this is our second year with the STEM lab. And so I'm providing some Lego kits. the students really enjoy those and learning coding and with robotics with those kits. Also, our steam night supplies are funded through the grant as well as our um publishing some of our portrait of a graduate
067posters. The rural and low-income grant, we actually did not qualify last fiscal year and this fiscal year we did. And so we were a little surprised and very appreciative of getting that funding because I'm sure you guys know there was drama over the summer with grants. And so when that's happening and then you're told, "Oh, now you will be getting this grant." It was great news. And so um the rural and lowincome grant is used to two TLA instructional specialists and that those two positions are also split with title one that helps that's one of our instructional specialists who focuses on curriculum high quality curriculum adoption and implementation and then our other instructional specialists who focuses on technology you know effective use of technology teaching. So those were the four grants that are part of
068that ESA consolidated. We complete one application. Our principles are completing their integrated action plan. We submit that to the state and those grants should fund those integrated action plans. Title three is not considered part of these consolidated grants, but we still do need to make sure as of right now that we are setting um you know action plans and supporting our English learners through our integrated action plans. So, title three is intended to supplement what the education that we're providing to our English learners and to improve English language development. So for salaries and benefits, we have our instructional coaches for our school sites. As I mentioned, they're split funded between title one. So our instructional coaches do a lot of support in helping um teachers, you know, make sure and understand how do we support
069our English learners in classes. Also, we fund substitute pay for substitutes who are covering our teachers who are attending a grant-f funed conference. And so in professional development, you'll see we're sending four of our English language development teachers to attend the Tissel, the teaching English to speakers of other languages conference typically in March. And so we pay for those substitutes out of the same room. And then for supplies, we have instructional supplies for targeted English language development. Each school site prioritizes their needs each year for what supplies they need and we use that funding to provide that. and it only goes toward the classes that are targeted English language development and we also provide families uh supplies for family engagement. All right. So another grant that we have is the at Rio Rinko High School
070is the 21st century grant. The high school is in their fifth year with that grant and so you can see the allocation for this year and that is used for salaries, benefits, PD and supplies for the high school after school program and I know that the application for next year starts its opening in January. If we end up having any questions about 21st Century, we do have Manny Rodriguez is here and he this is his first year helping to coordinate that grant at Rereal. All right, we're going to get into our grants that support CTE. >> You want me to click? >> I'm getting even as uh Megan mentioned uh we well I we manage the CTE one and which state priority. Okay, I'm going to start with the state priority. The state priority uh
071we we are funding the CTSOs stipens uh which are salaries in this year. uh we incorporated FBLA which we had it last year and we have Miss Nuno also participating with students and obviously we're providing that funding and that support so they can do that transition to the high school uh for for the 400 uh well CT priority we manage the to have CT conferences and this year we're going to send Mr. Kumar uh Mr. Berton and Miss Hicks to uh Nashville so they can see so Mr. Kumar is the team can see the importance of CTE and how can they incorporate that at the high school in all uh uh core classes and on the same 400 uh we're buying supplies for all the for all the CT program >> yeah yeah Perkins yeah
072uh for the Perkins as you know we are big supporters of uh dual enrollment so we're providing salary stipen for those teachers uh doing that dual enrollment Uh this year we have a big purchase for film and TV that we uh recently approved and we're just waiting for the equipment to uh do bring to purchase uh live streaming podcast audio and production for the film and TV. So eventually or soon we're going to have that that equipment so we can broadcast up the plays the everything internally >> with our CT programs. >> And finally with that same uh big purchase we're buying uh engineering a new ACDC trainer so they can test their engineering products every time they they do that racing the sun competition. So it's a new product that we're buying. And then
073on the 596 as you know the PMH TED funding uh we use that to purchase I mean to cover salaries to cover anything any item that it's required for CT to have the best technology the best equipment in the classrooms among others. Good evening, Madam President, members of the board. Again, um the IDA grant um the consolidated grant and we use that funding to support all salaries and benefits. That is the only um use for those grant um funded dollars. School safety is also um a grant that we use. It is a competitive grant that we have to apply for every year. Um this year we are in year three. We'll have to reapply for those um funds next fiscal year, but we use that funding for all of our school counselors. Each site has
074a counselor funded SE grant. >> All right. So we went from sort of those large federal grants to a little bit we have two local ones that we appreciate from the county. the robotics program which promotes STEM careers in grades three through five. Our three elementaryaries are running robotics programs and then they culminate the year with a competition in May um where they bring all the local schools together who've run a robotics program. And then the second local grant through the county is technologic and that is intended to increase the number of middle school girls who are going into technology related fields and studies. And so you can the amount for both of those and then we have that technique at both Calabasas and Quud. >> All right. What questions do you have for us?
075>> Oh, any questions, Miss Dear? >> No, no questions. Just um thank you to all of you for the hard work and dedication and submitting those grants so that we are able to our students are able to benefit from the funds uh received. So just uh yeah, thank you. Thank you for all the hard work and thank you for your presentation. Very well. >> Okay, Mr. >> No questions. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you, >> Mr. Ramirez. >> Yeah, I just want to say I think it's really cool you got that rural and low income grant. I mean, >> we were shocked when we didn't get it and we were told it was because of the census, >> but as far as I know, there was not another census between >> fiscal year 25
076and now. Yeah, I mean that 160,000 close to 160,000 bucks nothing to sneeze at, you know. >> So, God bless whoever has to write that grant and because I'm sure you have to do a lot to, you know, cross all your tees and dot all your eyes. >> A lot that goes into it. I know. So, I just wanted to thank you because that's that's a lot of work to get these grants. >> Thank you. >> And think technology is so cool. encourages the girls to get involved and technologies. That's awesome. And the 21st century grant, who's running that at the school right now? >> And what else? Um the IDA grant, does that grow every year? And how how does that work with regard to getting bigger for us? What is it? >> Um
077the funding is contingent upon um October 1st. data. So the number of special education students that we have that is how that amount is calculated. Um special education population is fairly stable. Um we run between 400 and 450 I think is an average an accurate average. Um and then on top of that depending upon what level of service they qualify for is how those funds are are given out. dual enrollment. Are we still giving teachers $1,000 or is it more? >> You want me to respond? >> No, no problem. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Yeah. For the CTE that stipen for teachers who teaches dual enrollment at this moment we have engineering culinary arts along public safety and then at the other end which is uh we have the math and also the English >>
078saying that's a thousand bucks. >> Oh stipen is 500. Is it really? I thought I always thought it was a thousand. >> That that 1,000 a month was a onetime payment from the state. It was through an initiative that they had, not through our grants. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Beach. >> No, just lots of grants, lots of money, but >> it's like all our programs are are funded. It's distri our district, but uh yeah, lots of money. I like grant money. >> Oh, yeah. That's free. >> Mr. Nado, with the welding equipment, we got that in. >> Yeah, I mean that uh that came as a >> Yeah, correct. That that was a donation from the Puma Jed Foundation that is not considered a grant.
079That's why it's not presented at this. But if you want to follow up, I can present that documents next week. I mean next four maybe and I can give you an update. that grant has been not grant that donation has been uh spent and I have um something to follow up with Miss Brown. >> Yeah. Can you give a board the update on >> Yeah, we can do that next two weeks. >> Appreciate it. >> That was three months that they they gave it to us. >> They donated it to us. >> Okay, that's good. No, I mean too I'm just thank you for you know the presentation very again like he says everybody says you know the lot of money that we have um for the 21st century. Uh this is the last year.
080So you will be applying for another for for it again >> For next school year only the high school or all of the schools are going to apply. >> We'll be having a conversation. I'm assuming that many of them are going to be applying but we need to have a formal conversation about who will be applying. >> Oh, so you guys are going to be applying for that one. >> Mr. Rodriguez is excited. That's going to be on his big task which is assembling a team from the school to >> Uhhuh. Yeah. because it it is the big it is a big thing, okay? you know, it's it's the you know, plus it I think that our students really deserve that and they really need it and it's something that helps them out a lot
081because you've got so many, you know, like clubs that you've got at the end, but they're really like, you know, like homework and helping them with their with their math, with their language arts, with their science, with all of that stuff, you know, and I think that that is something that is very very valuable, you know, for our for our district that every school should have it. I think >> when grant some grant money right could be uncertain in the future and so thinking about what can we apply for so that we're trying to >> hopefully 21st century is also reliable in the future >> but it's also my understanding 21st century be a little more flexible in the content we offer after school whereas when we program through title one >> then it has
082to be very specific yeah it has to be very specific I know I understand all of that you but again that's why coordinated 25. >> I coordinated for 12 years. Okay. So, yeah, I wrote the grant twice. So, anyway, but yeah. So, anyway, I just wanted to say that that was not something that would be lost, okay, to our students and and to our district. So, that's that's why. But thank you very much for the presentation. Thank you very much for, you know, everything that everybody everybody does. It's, you know, amazing. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All righty. Moving on, we have the um superintendent Go ahead, Mr. >> To follow up on on the grants. Um, as you know, the I am on the West board and we had a lot of discussion
083about grants with a dismantling of the Department of Education. It's unknown what's going to happen such things such as a 21st century. So, we will apply if it's available, but those are are things that are unknown. I want to share with the board that you as we >> share this presentation, it could be very different a year from now. with what we don't know um with either consolidated or are >> I want to share that that presentation. Um also um and the TLA we're starting our quarter reviews. So we've been at the school sites um I've been able to attend uh one the others I had other days going. Uh but it was very discussion today at the high school with what they're doing with their IEP and that their sites that also had some
084good discussion about how they're moving forward with their IEP and what they're doing and what their needs are. So I want to thank Meg again for that. It's been a part of what we do as a district to see what they're doing with their IEPs and and how we can support them. Um, also, uh, we think the board members that were able to attend the, uh, CTMS site visit. Um, was we had a time out of the classroom, seeing what the campus was was like, uh, a nice lunch with students, and it's always fun talking to the the students, um, hearing their their comments about things. and um and we had quite a few students that were very um >> shy at the beginning but then opened up and became very uh direct and vocal
085about some things. So >> always fun to yeah always fun to hear their their comments and I won't share with some of those comments but >> it was it was really fun to hear some of their their comments. want to congratulate the all teams that are coming to complete especially the volleyball team for winning their first season championship history. So so congratulations to to them on on that. They clenched it with one game to go then and they're now waiting their final seating for state playoffs. So congratulations to them. Uh and again we have flag football in their inaugural season. Uh they're sitting at at number 20 and only 16 teams make the playoffs. So um still it's a great showing this first year, but they have three games left. So maybe they can make
086a run and into the playoffs and get up to number 16. We also have cross country who'll be uh will hosting the sectionals coming up pretty soon and then they have the the state championships and we have a as they say the big red Sheen has a chance uh this Wednesday is the sectionals and then then state after that and we do have >> um sectionals is great. We want to win the sectionals. Um, but we also gear up for what the big race is, which is the the state championship. That's that's our our goal. Um, so I know they're working really hard getting ready for that. I'm also want to thank Mr. Chavez and Mr. Lopez for their continued work on the ALS conference which is coming up this weekend. So I know they've
087been very very busy on top of their regular jobs having full-time other jobs. So uh thank you for all all the work uh doing that. Um, I know that we we be recognizing Miss Bos again at that conference for the board member of the year. So, which is along with our students tonight that you saw the artwork that you're going to be receiving. So, excited about that. I think it's um the first Sunday we'll be recognizing Miss Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Miss Laro. >> Yes. I'm gonna piggy back on what Mr. Be was saying about on congratulation congratulating all the uh teams, the volleyball team, the the girls, the flag football. Um, and I als I also heard the band placed first. >> Oh, yeah. Amazing. And invitational Wells. >> Uh, so
088congratulations to them as well. And uh, thank you, Mrs. Cavetta, for the warm welcoming at the at your school site yesterday. And uh yeah along with my fellow board members I enjoyed the walk through the campus visit the lunch with the students is the best part of it all. So thank you. Thank you very much for that. >> A lot of fun. Thank you Mr. >> Yeah. Nothing to report. >> Nothing to report. Thank you Mr. Ramirez. >> Yeah. I want to congratulate you madam president. >> Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> You're for being board member of the year. That's awesome. That's really something else. And >> you represent our our district very well and also superintendent. And what else I want to see here? Let's see. Oh, with regard to volleyball. Yeah,
089that's something else that and I wanted to recognize highlight Alexis Bermudas because she was my student before I knew her pretty well. She's just always been such a great gal. so spirited, you know, and just uh not a person that blows their horn but works hard and came from a good class, very good graduating class. >> And I've known her not only as my student, but as my colleague. I got to play ball with her, which I loved along with Beach and Dgo and John. I could play ball with you guys. It was just so much fun. and I just remember passing a ball and her sinking a shot and just laughing on the way back, you know, when I was running back up the court. So, but coming back to her, she's really something
090else. And I think Mr. Beach can vouch for anybody who ever coached, you know, that from the fall, you know, we would we always say this, we go in when it's dark, come out when it's dark, and you never see the light. And it's just it's a lot of hard work to be a coach. It is. So, hats off to her for getting the team being the first one >> to win the 4A Hila region for volleyball. That's awesome. I hope you guys will tell her that because I think she's a real special gal and uh I guess the best thing to say to wrap it all up or I'll steal a phrase from John Fanning. She's a class act. >> Thank you, Mr. Beach. >> Yes, school visit. Thank you, Miss Caves, for having
091us down there. It was a blast. Uh students, yeah, they're always fun because especially junior high because they're real sporadic. I think it was G. You guys want to tackle football on on campus? No, mister. I'd be the first one to get panc. I was like, oh man. Okay, we'll keep it flag. But, uh, some of the comments, you know, I just I get bits and pieces. And one of them that really hit me hard was, uh, when they said, you know, I came from a diff a different, uh, district and I didn't fit in down there. I didn't feel welcome. I felt unsafe. >> Unsafe. >> And he said, at this school, I feel very safe. I feel very welcomed. And there's so much to do. There's so many clubs. There's so many sports.
092And they even give not a lot of students give props to teachers, but he said, "We love our teachers there on that campus." >> They did. >> And so, uh, segueing into the classroom, what I noticed was the teachers were not behind their desks. They were up moving around. And I didn't see one problem. They were all on task, were very respectful, and that just goes to show you that uh they know their students. they're walking around. Uh the rules and regs were set in place and the students knew exactly what to do. And uh when I saw the two subs, you had uh Miss Melissa signs and the other one next door and we walked into the classroom and the students were just well behaved and I was like that's because of the teacher
093that set those rules and Melissa said, "Man, this is this is easy." >> Yep. So, hats off to you and your staff and your amazing students and thank you for having us down there. >> Yeah, thank you. >> And uh volleyball. Yeah, a lot of people don't, you know, they see the volleyball team and wow, they're good, good girls, but they don't know the backstory. About two years ago, uh Manny Tapia and Mini Tapia, the Tapia twins, they were like, "Mr. Beach, we started a booster club. We want to take them to Phoenix. How do we do it? We want to take them to New Mexico. We want to do this." and they were going year round. I know for the last two years, it might have been uh for the last three or four,
094but they put in all that offseason work and because of that, that's where they're at today. That's why, >> you know, unfortunate and fortunate because to be have a team like that, you almost have to practice year round. When Mr. Verdugo and and Ben and us were going to school, parents told us, you got to play three or four sports. you know, now it's they start you only play baseball, you only do this sport, but uh you know, that might be what it takes to get to that level. So, best of luck in the state playoffs and I'm sure we're going to do real well. And last but not least, uh I read something on Facebook, law enforcement had an alumni come in, Mr. Navado, to one of the classrooms. And uh it's always great
095to have one of our own students come in to talk to our students. it it relates and it makes that connection. I don't know if she was a DPS officer. >> Uh it's SHAO. She did the law public safety program and uh we started a good relationship with DPS that they started the trooper trainee that they can hire at age 18. So as soon as they they graduate from the high school, they can apply and as long as they pass the test and everything, they get hired. They train them as a trooper trainee and once they complete the program and they hit 20 and a half, they get shipped down to the academy and she came back as a trooper training. Now >> I don't know if you rec of yourself she did the trooper
096trainee >> and also a former teacher from the she didn't do the trooper traininee, but that's the relationship we have with DPS. So she was here with the entire team just presenting and continuing that connection with the well our action students. >> Well, thank you for bringing her in and I know as an inspiration for our students >> and just that one program that law enforcement she's pretty much set for life once she gets into DPS and she's on the right track. Not too many 21 year olds, 20 year olds can say that. So uh that goes to show you about our >> I don't know if they have a wall of fame. Uh do you think that I don't know what the the number is of now from the law enforcement class? It's a
097it's the wall is getting full of >> Oh yeah. students that are now in law enforcement >> and Audra is advertising because there's so many students that they're not there. The wall wall is getting bigger and Mr. Nicholas is continuing doing those check marks that make the program meaningful. So we just continue Nicholas is doing a great job established before Ben continue closely. So agree. All right. Hats off to you and your program. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Thank you. Well, they all said everything. Okay. You know, congratulations to the band, to the volleyball, the cross country, uh flag football, you know, and um thank you very much, Miss uh Cabera, you know, for allowing us to visit your campus. It was again, it was amazing. We had a really, really good time.
098You know, again, everybody was on task. Everybody was, you know, doing what they were supposed to be doing. We, you know, we got to talk to the kids and they're just, they're just hilarious. You know, it was really, really a lot of fun. You know, just the way they kind of like, you know, cuz like Mr. Verdugo said, you know, they came in and they were a little bit, you know, they didn't want to talk, they didn't want to say anything, and then afterwards it's like, you know, they were just, I mean, just all, you know, all just chatter chitter chatters and stuff. So that was a lot of fun. Okay. I really enjoy doing all of these and I think we go on Thursday to Rio Rico High School. So we will be seeing
099you guys over there too. Another thing is congratulations Mr. Verdu. You didn't say anything. He has also the Aselas uh uh superintendent of the year also that he will be g be getting recognized. So >> all of the many many many you know attributes that he has. Okay. That's another one another feather on your Thank you very very much. Okay. Um, executive session. Do we >> actually recommend that if we if possible is okay that we do consent agenda. >> Okay. >> All righty. >> Executive session. Let everybody go. >> Yeah. >> All right. All righty. Sounds very good. Okay. So, the consent agenda. Um, right here. Um, does anybody have any um questions about the the consent agenda? M. >> No. Mr. Guerrero? No. Mr. Ramirez. >> No, I just want to thank everybody
100who made the donations. >> Oh, the donations. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Beach. I >> have nothing. >> Me neither. I don't have anything. I just also thanks to everybody that has donated to us. Okay. So then, uh, does anybody have a motion to approve and accept and ratify the consent agenda as presented? >> So moved. >> Motion. >> Yeah. So motion to approve, accept, and ratify the consent agenda as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed, Nate. Eyes have it. Okay. Uh motion passes. Now we go back to the >> executive session. So we will do I have to read this or is it >> Thank you Good. >> No, not yet. She's Are we Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. >> So, I'd like
101to make a motion to approve the emergency procedural plans as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those oppos. >> Uh eyes have it. Motion passes. Our emergency plan is set. Uh the next thing is policies. Mr. Verdugo. >> Nothing. Nothing at this time. Thank you. >> All righty. Um we have to make a motion. Somebody can make a No. No. Because there's nothing. Okay. Prop propose and prioritize topics and possible dates and times uh for future board meetings. Mr. Verdugo. >> Thank you. Um, I I know you received an email and so I just wanted to point from the board because we do have some timesensitive issues for a brief uh 8 a.m. Uh, meeting on Thursday. >> Yes. >> 8:00. >> And again, we only need
102three people and it's telephonic. So, if we use an agenda approval of some items that that uh we have some >> I will be I will be available. Alma will be available and Mr. Beach. >> Yeah, I'll be calling. >> Hi. >> No, just three. Yeah, I appreciate that because I'm I'm in class. The hard part although I have attended every single one. >> We appreciate the board. We apologize for for not getting them on. >> And let me tell you one thing, okay? Angie is mortified, okay? Because this is the first time since she's been in that position that this happens to her. Don't worry about it, Angie. We still love you. We are not going to get rid of you. >> We love you. We love you. And like I say, we have
103a lot of things going on in >> Yes, it does. It does. >> Just have the 8 a.m. >> on Thursday at 8 a.m. Okay. Yeah, we will call. >> Yep. Thank you. >> And um what else? Let me see. That's it. And we are adjourned. I It is the meeting is adjourned at 651. Thank you very much everybody.