001I call this meeting to order on this Tuesday March 18 2025 at 500m in the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District number 35 governing board meeting uh district office 570 Camino lto Galindo Rio Rico Arizona can we please stand for the pledge you very much uh Miss Caba will you please lead us 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 liy and justice for all thank you very much thank you thank you Miss I got you off car okay um our roll call uh Miss fobian is absent uh Mr Guerrero pres present Mr Rene Ramirez here Mr uh Beach and me Miss blasquez I'm here we have a quum okay move on uh next subject is the adoption
002of the agenda okay we are going to be removing number two executive session uh recommendation are there any uh are you sure you want to do that yes are you sure yeah okay uh recommendation action motion to approve the agenda as presented second second all those in favor say I I I all those opposed nay eyes have it motion carries okay subject uh call to the public no call to the public Al righty moving on number three presentation uh superintendent report Mr Verdugo thank you I wanted to thank all the [Music] all those [Music] that I read I have stickers here to prove it I received two stickers for being a great reader according to the class I was in so I want to thank them and thank Mount View U that made the highlight
003of my week going in there and get to read to those students uh green eggs and ham so it was it was a lot of fun um want to thank the the board uh that uh it's something that the the board has supported in having a spring break shutdown I think really does a lot for our staff uh to have that board support or to for our staff to really have a off and know that the the board supports that so I want to thank the board for that because it is something that I constantly get get shut down and not districts do that so I get I want to thank the board for that continued support because it does I believe tone for the remainder of the school year and and get the the
004team refreshed ready to go for the rest of the school year speaking of the rest of the school year we be the school sites our team uh going through the budget um so that'll be coming up with the board in April um as we start to tonight the process with approval of contracts first steps of the contract language and then in the back all that information after we meet with all the school sites departments what be again matter what responsible sure that we have our in place and everything is sustainable and just as heads up it's despite some of the birth rates being lower we are in a very positive situation at this time um so want it's a want the school sites to review that back to the that's itk you thank you very
005much Mr next subject B the governing board member report Mr Guero yeah I just wanted to Echo the love of reading um I I love that week the firefighters come back to the station and some of those guys come back sweating because they have such a hard time reading some of these books so I just love it I love it yeah that's it thank you very much uh Mr Ram yes I wanted to thank all the principles for the gifts that they gave us again because I happen to have a chance to get go through a lot of it and you guys give us so many shirts my God I have so many of them for being here so many years but it's great though and they're really beautiful and I want to thank you
006for the gifts and the administration as well for all that you do and Angie for all that you do not enough can be said about all the work that Angie does for everybody in our district so want to thank you guys for that and then um just a little while ago and I'm not saying this for politics I'm just saying that I this made me think about Ai and the benefits of AI I saw SpaceX recover those astronauts and who cares which side of the aisle you're on the fact was it these these guys made it back safe and you know there was a report that said well they would have been picked up anyway probably true but they were the fact that they came home safe I think is really speaks toes about this
007country and AI especially because I think that plays a big role these days you know people want to credit an individual for all this intelligence but it's really people are using AI to help them tremendously and when you think of that you know and you even think about things that just opposed to that like the bad stuff to like the fact that you can make a gun you know using computers it's really scary there's a lot of you know you hold those two things in mind while you're thinking about all this pretty scary but I think overall I I'm real I'm real optimistic about it and I I feel that this is going to benefit our society tremendously and I and I you know we push for technology and our district which is a great
008thing but I think it's going to really um reward Crea ity it's not just going to be the people who are brainiacs you know and the people are really good at using a computer that are going to transform the world quickly I'd say within the next five to 10 years we G see some things we never dreamed of because of AI but I think it's going to be the people who are creative the good-hearted and creative people that are really going to use AI to the max as we used to say they they're the ones are G to do some things are just gonna War us and so at any rate I wanted to say that I thought it was really cool to see that those people you know the whole thing that the way
009it was all done and really neat and uh I I AI is just something else it just blew my mind today I really when before I came to the board meeting I was thinking wow like the create creativity you know that's just one example P that side there just going to be so many things that we can't even dream of that are going to happen so I was really excited about it coming to the board meeting thought AI was more than I even expected it to be however I say to the principles and the admin that we and my fellow governing board members that we have to keep our guard up for you know the cheating and all the other terrible stuff that comes with it but I'm positive I believe that we're going to
010see great things so and I know we encourag that for that kind of thing so it's great it was really nice to see thank you thank you very much Mr Mr Beach yeah uh read Across America thank you to the principles for having me out there uh third grade was easy easy peasy not got down to the Kinder oh my God y those kids yeah yeah sort of reminded of you know they're after about a paragraph or two they they were done yeah you lost cop but uh I I I used to be one of those kids you know but I was in eighth grade Mr Mitchell used to grab me by my elbows and sit me on the bookst and I was like a little bird up there when I used to there Mr
011Mitchell thanks uh let's see what else uh St Patrick's Day was uh yesterday so we gotta celebrate St Patrick for bringing uh is Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century somewhere around there just a little trivia trivia we have a boxer in Mexico Canelo he's also Irish the head the hair does not lie somewhere down the line I know Irish guy back there but uh the big one was in 1846 I don't know if you knew it uh I was down in Mexico City and they had the Battalion they sound patrios and during the 1842 uh the United States Army went to war with Mexico and United States Army was led by a lot of Protestants and they hated the Catholics even though we were fighting for for the United States Army and so when
012they saw the mistreatment of the Mexican military uh the Battalion of San patrio they jump ship okay they probably have better beer over there too you probably they jumped uh and fought for Mexico luck Irish wasn't with them because they lost many of the battles and at the end uh they captured about 50 of them and they executed them it was one of the largest mass execution in the United States armies so I think it was uh September sometime in in September uh Mexico honors this Battalion and so that's where you have the Mexican and uh the Irish sort of bond right there so if you didn't know that that now you do very you thank you for the education yeah yeah that's all I got oh that's it thank you very much Mr Beach
013okay uh me too I was uh I also went and the love of reading week was fantastic I was also you know like you hit with the kindergarteners and I'm like oh my God you know it was just I did the also the green eggs and ham I went to uh with h with a Mountain View uh great kids got my God you know just really really really really good kids I didn't get stickers okay so I don't know what the deal happened right there okay I don't know superintend okay uhhuh I see how it is okay I didn't get that I did get like a little notebook and whatever a lot of you know little goodies and stuff like that I also went to um uh to sanatan over there also great kids oh
014my God you know you're the staff and everybody was fantastic you know and it was so much fun to you know to read to the little kids and then I remember oh I know why I never wanted to teach the little ones I would have wanted to take them all home oh my god there were some of these kids that you're like oh my God teacher teacher you know call me Mommy and I'll take you home you know but anyway it was a lot of fun everything was really really good thank you so much for everything that you guys do and I really appreciate all the hard work and all of that stuff and U one of the other things that I just wanted to mention is that I know that our standardized testing is
015coming soon and just you know this is the last hall for all of us you know it's um it's our last quarter am I right yeah it's the last time and so we have to you know kind of focus on what on what we are that what is it that we're doing and stuff and I know that all of the the principles and the administrators and everybody is working and the teachers are working really hard to get our kids you know focused and and ready for what's coming so you know good job to everybody and thank you very much you know that's it all right moving forward information discussion action subject approval of the real Rico High School principal for uh the year 2025 2026 Mr Vero thinkk um we asked a a committee to
016collect and interview candidates for principal there was three finalists selected all qualified and we're very fortunate to have qualified position um and then also uh they all did very well during the interview process but in the end the committee recommended one final candidate and that recommendation tonight I again support that recommendation that's request the board approve that recommendation that's Mr D Lopez ask questions or okay is there do I does anybody have any questions Mr or comments comments or yeah no strong work congratulations and you know that uh that you're from the area and you know I know you're going to do a great job so thank you appreciate it Mr Ramirez i y the Flor to Mr Beach because I'm still writing something okay Mr Beach go ahead yes uh Mr Lopez I'm looking
017at your oldest son he's like man that is a Junior High Principal stuck moving he's moving to ninth grade and you're bumping up so uh transitioning together he's got his eye on him right now yeah but uh dog uh congratulations uh you know uh we remember you way back in the day as a student here and the way uh you progressed so congratulations on hopefully soon to be approved uh High School principal and thank you Mr Koo for taking over the last several years and I know hopefully you said you're going to stay on so we're looking forward to you uh your expertise staying in that high school also so Mr Lopez uh congratulations Mr Ramirez are you ready yes ma'am all right thank you very much Mr Ramirez well first and foremost congratulations and
018I'm sure that you really sweat it out having to fly against those other candidates but came shining through and it's to be respected um I'm a little concerned Mr Lopez I'm sure you probably anticip ipated I'd be a little concerned because of what had happened in the past when you were at the school although you were not the leader back then I am concerned and I speak for other people as well for that voice that wasn't in this governing boardroom when all those when the principal brought or maybe he didn't but other people did they were using kids as a political football and they were brought in here to give us a hard time about the things that were going on there that they disagreed with me and other governing board members uh with regard
019to discipline and the phone policy and so forth there was another voice and there were people who said they were going to come now I didn't push them to do it but they told me they were going to be here if things didn't change so as Mr Beach said very well that one night there's a different there's another voice out there and we didn't hear that voice and that voice is very concerned they don't want to see his return to the fun High School again where the principal ingratiated himself and wanted to was more to me personally I mean my my opinion think he was the kids they liked him obviously but for what reasons I ask you know we have to be very careful how we go about discipline at the school because as
020we know it's kind of like being a parent kids don't really like the parent who's the one who bad yeah the bad one in the in the house who pushes the rules and enforces the rules and they don't know those of us that are parents and have seen their kids grow up we know that later on they appreciate that kind of thing as I mentioned before in this governing board room they like structure and discipline and the principles push for that in the high schools I mean the high school in all schools not just the high school there's no denying that you push for this you know people look at me say Oh Mr me this well how could you say it but it's true we we the kids thrive on structure and discipline something
021that's very hard to push within the schools because it's not the popular thing to do so I'm just saying Mr Lopez I don't believe that you'll return to that because you're your own man and your own leader but I just am asking as a governing board member be careful with that because there's that perception already that we might return to that and I don't foresee that I trust you I think you're going to come in with your own ideas so that I am a little concerned about just a little bit because we still haven't resolved all the phone issues and the discipline issues at the school on The Good the good side you had the highest uh amount of you had the best data ever in the middle school I you know hats off to
022you for that you worked really hard for it so I'm hoping that you're going to trans transfer that kind of thing into the high school but I warn you it's going to be a lot harder than it was where you were simply because of the demographics we we're not supposed to talk about all that we're supposed to always encourage our teachers and our administrators to ignore that and say well you can make the best out of everybody no matter what right but I know instinctively that demographics do make a big difference so you have that inherited Challenge and I think about uh I think about Calabasas and how much harder it is over there because of the demographics maybe John would disagree say wow Mr you know I try to kick boy no matter what
023but that's going to be a challenge because you're gonna inherit those guys as well the good news was that you were already there so you know what you're dealing with and you were a former student so you know the whole you know the culture really really well and the other thing that you have going for you is your language ability which I respect dearly you're so good at two language you mean you just go back and forth without going you're quick you're sharp as aack so we got that going for us too and I'm very appreciative and I understand I understand and I respect it what I'm worried about is the discipline at the school I don't want to see it you know I don't want to see this return to that and maybe I
024shouldn't say use the word return but I just want to see the discipline maintained and maybe even brought up even better maybe even you being tougher about it because that's going to be your biggest challenge the discipline so uh I took some notes here and teacher retention uh that's going to be a challenge as well to hang on to the to the teachers because of course they're going to be looking at you the very critical eye like any any principal so you're going to have a challenge there because I you they're all going to be wondering do does their voice count you know that's that was kind of a problem in the past too people wanted to speak out and say hey there's a lack of discipline but they were scared despite what anyone wants
025to say in this room there was a Culture of Fear if you spoke out and said hey we need to take care of the cell phone policy or the dress code you you run the risk of getting a dressing down and I don't want to see that Us return to that kind of stuff so that there those are some things I'm worried about again popularity that's nice but it's much more it's much more difficult to be true to yourself stick to the truth and be as as Fus said here the tough policeman you know than it is to be popular and so I'm hoping that you continue in that spirit and I would strongly suggest that you really you delegate a lot of this responsibility to missano who's done a magnificent job at that school
026with with the discipline so it take some pressure off of you it'll allow you to focus on the the bigger things that you want you know like your kid scores and that kind of thing and the data and and things of that nature so uh what else WR down here I like that you have a vested interest like Mr Beach just mentioned you kind of stole my thunder because I thought well you have you know you you have family that come that's coming on up so I mean and you're real friendly with John and John has family coming up so you do have a vested interest you know you can't you can't play politics and say well I'll show you guys I'm back and this is the way it's going to be because you have
027to be very careful with your own family which is kind of cool so it holds you accountable that and I know you love your your children's like I know you're going to really work your best to make it the best place for them and everybody else too so what else um language ability and what else oh and I love your background because you're not spoiled as we've talked before we both came kind of sort of from the same background and I love that I love that you're not spoiled I know that you Val and so you understand where the kids come from and I really love that a lot I just wanted to mention that but I hope that you'll take what I told you about the discipline all that to heart because I remain
028firm here despite popular STS at times with regard to that I will definitely go to the school and I will definitely see you know how things are going over there I'm not the only governing board member that said that either you know when we have a change like that we tend to go visit a little bit but I'm not there Mr Lopez to give you a hard time so but I will go there because I I want to make sure that we support the things that the governing board works so hard at with regard to policy I don't want to just see them hoop pooed you know and made lie to I want to see that those things are going to be carried out they're really important you can't have great scores you can't have
029great things without discipline in the school no matter what anyone says I'd argue with you to I'm blue in the face you have to have discipline in your school just like in our families we have to have discipline and they the kids don't like like it but in the end they will respect you for it more dearly than anybody who tries to be po Mr be should say I spoke my piece there you go thank you thank you thank you very much okay andang with me just to kind of piggyback a little bit on what he was saying okay I think that the school has come a long way from the other individual that was there I think Mr Koo miss miss toan and everybody that's up at the at the high school right now
030are doing a fantastic job we see that in our discipline reports okay and I even mentioned it last time okay before the high school had one two pages of discipline that has gone down okay so I know that that is something that's already working and and your strength and what you're going to bring into it okay I think it's going to go a lot better okay with me Mr Lopez I mean I think this is a welld deserved position okay the high school is making gains and hopefully you can take us to the next level and I I have all my faith in you that you will be moving us forward in the right direction I really do um you are a resident of RI Rico high school and a product of our district districts
031educational um uh products okay you're a graduate from Rio Rico High School okay you have worked for our district in many capacities okay you have been changed here moved over over there and whatever and every time they move you you do the best that you can okay uh you are in fact you have been a huge part of the process of the shift that our district is having right because you were uh the one that has that brought in the the personalized learning the standard-based grading the alternative Pathways the uity I remember when it was covid I mean you were the one that helped me okay you know with the uity program and all that stuff and the and you know and the the the way that our that our district was moving okay uh
032you are bringing a lot of knowledge to the table okay and you are prepared and equipped to move forward in the direction that our district wants okay and for that I am very very happy okay you show commitment and uh and uh and dedication to this school district from when you first started you're still here okay from the beginning you came here you lived here you you know you went and you got educated and then you came back okay and there's a lot of us a lot of you guys that are doing that okay I mean the rest of you okay from all of the principles are R Rico high school graduates okay and that I think is tells a lot about our district okay and I have all the faith okay in the world
033in you and I know that it's not going to be easy but I know that you have what it takes to take us to the next level congratulations I really really your thank you and now we are going to the recommend i' like to hear Mr Lopez yes Mr Lopez you have anything to say I'm sorry first and foremost I'm to than the better in my life was here so as well as our four boys you made reference to one of them our oldest one Dante but not to be Shout Out by Daman Daniel and then Danilo all of them the story of how they all start with a D but it's a long story but um I'm excited I mean I'm excited to be back be back at the nest um I I directly
034indirectly I worked with every principal at rivo high school Alber was my principal mu was my first B that was followed by Mike Brown then we had ja Fuentes then Jim Manders sh Vu then Hector EST Mr K who actually worked with him when he first came to r as an assistant principal so directly or indirectly I work with other principal so when the board makes reference to people I work with I work with many different people and I've taken from the people I work with a lot a lot of people in this room there's some of my mentors are in this room too that I've taken a lot to but I feel that it's important and I owe it to myself to absolutely be the leader that I feel that I deserve for me
035as a as as a professional but also for the school that I have my heart in which is really Rico High School I worked there 18 years before I left I've been a principal for two years and if any of the concerns heard you know shared by the board tonight I think those are concerns that have been shared with any of you during my current principal ship so I think that hopefully speaks to that element as well um I'm excited I look forward to making bico high school the absolute best school that our students and our family so there's one thing that I'm passionate for as you guys know it's not just our students but their families advocating for those families who a lot of times don't know how to advocate who don't know how
036to sometimes knock knock on our doors and advocate for their students because those were my parents my parents who came to school twice in the US one's when I finished 8th grade and one's when I graduated high school those were my parents it's not that they didn't know or they didn't trust or they didn't know where to start or they didn't love and care for me but they absolutely trusted the professionals who were working with me and my brothers so I truly know that that is a heavy weight that is on my shoulders because we don't just work for our students we work for and actually believe in all our students and the families that that I've grown up with over the years since 1994 when my family first came to this part of this
037corner of the US so thank you to the comments and the well wishes and and the trust I'm really excited and looking forward to hard work that that is ahead of me but hard work has never shown me away from the work thank you to all thank you thank you very much thank you don't read the whole thing right there all righty okay uh recommendation action okay uh motion to approve the 2025 26 uh certified administrator contract for Mr dto Lopez as a Rio Rico High School principal at grade 37 step 8 at $1,944 the 25 25 26 school year all those in favor you have a make a motion make a motion this is a motion I motion so move so second okay we have a all those in favor say I I I
038I yes all those opposed n okay four eyes Okay motion passes congratulations all right next subject B approval of quaim Mundi Middle School principal for the 2520 School 26 school year Mr Verdugo thank you as you just approved high school that left a yes at gu Middle School um and we're very fortunate to have a distinguished administrator who would like a principal up at HR and now wanting to go back um because she's very passionate about being with students I mean uh when you're a principal you know you get to see students every day and I always tell people um you one the tough things about moving up into the district office is you're not at the school sites every day is we can help to education um and so uh with that um my
039recommendation have a distinguished administrator that can fill that role approve missa as the all righty questions have Mr uh Mr Guerero conratulations work and thank you for doing that I think that the students probably miss you too so yeah that's good so congratulations thank you very much thank you Mr Ramirez congrats of course nice to see that you're back there so I tell you Mr Lopez really raised the borrow over there and even higher scores so that's something to think about you might want to pick his brains you know but congrats and look forward not only to you but Mr Lopez doing great things I was gonna say Mr Lopez that the data speaks tones even if nobody in this room says Oh Mr amuse I don't believe anything you say you guys are always
040pushing for data you do believe data and you always push for it so hey the data speaks to at the high school Mr K did a good job over there and the data went up you got to ask yourself why but speaking of data you got a you probably now you got a part that's a little higher than yours was yours was already pretty high but now Mr Lopez even raised that bar which was really cool this really something else yeah so but got challenged now thank you okay thank you Mr be like my bar was already open he got the record but uh Miss yeah when I look at you I always say uh because I when you were principal down there I spoke to every single teacher asking me a little bit about
041the school you know who you were Etc and one word comes to mind leadership by example you know and I talked to my sister Mary and she goes I don't know when she sleeps she'll be texting us at 9 at night know done the agenda and this that the other thing you know you're the first one on the campus last one to leave and when your staff sees that you know they can't complain because you're leading by example so I'm happy that uh you jumped out of your office here and and back in the trenches and I know you're going to do outstanding down there because you you are already outstanding and uh I'm sure the staff is ecstatic that you're coming back you know they're they're losing doggo but they're getting you back and
042so congratulations thank you very much okay and for me again congratulations you know how I feel you know that I think that you're a great great leader I think that you bring a lot to the table you know like everything and again you know like they say that you know you are you were already up there you were already there okay you know D kind of went from here and he and and he grabbed you okay but you know he's always there you know you're always there you know you know that uh the people again they do because they Lead You by example you're a great leader okay and I think that and I understand exactly where you're coming from that you want to go back to the kiddo because that is where you're needed
043the most you know what I'm saying that is where you're needed the most because that is where you make the difference okay here in the paperwork that's okay but there okay the kids are the ones that make you the kids are the ones that that push you that that do all of this to you to make you want to be better want to make our schools even better okay so congratulations and welcome back to your little this where you were before thank you very much okay do you want to say anything thank you first of all I'd like to think obviously my husband he supports me we're kind of we're good team for 23 years um but District administration um and the board for giving me the opportunity sorry to work in eachar it's difficult
044so principles when we come back um there's a lot of behind the scenes that I didn't realize that now back understanding um both in the business area and um HR so I've grown a lot in the two years and uh thank you for taking such good care of dtms while I was gone um wherever I left off you know I was really proud to see that the teachers and the students under Mr uh Lopez's leadership continued on with what we had started I never wanted anything to go backwards and we can see nothing has so do I have my work cutout for me absolutely I I want to get the any it'll be both of Ms um and I want to eventually become the a plus school that I know ctms deserves um Middle School
045is a little hidden gym that not very many people take the opportunity to learn and understand but that's where my heart is in middle school with those kids um they grow tremendously from 6th to 8th and then I get to see them at the high school level um and I get to see the elementaries with those little fifth graders I know who's coming up so it's really that middle that's that's a beautiful thing so thank you very much for allowing me to go back home um to my Cavaliers and I'm I'm really excited so thank you very much congratulations thank you a motion to approve the 2025 2026 uh certified administrative contract for Miss Rebecca Cabrera as a principal at quati Mundi Middle School at at grade 35 Step 11 at $4,795 for the 2025
0462026 school year all those in favor they have to motion so move so move second second okay all those in favor I I I all those opposed say nay no none okay A's have it and motion passes congratulations okay okay moving on the subject C 2025 2026 uh contract language Mr Verdugo thank you again as I mentioned this is the process to any additional comments this is the again the contract language the contract the language that are so that when we do the budget and then approve the school contracts that you know what the language is and IT addresses anything that may happen occur state or federal issu language you know long HR what did my H BL men she said well until July one yeah June the 30th as hard as possible in this
047so the um just like Mr Verdugo had mentioned all of the contracts you can see the certified administrator teacher certified professional classified term and indefinite term appointments those were all those were all reviewed and updated by myself and then I sent them over to the lawyer for some review there were hardly any changes um however they did extend some of the language where it was maybe a few sentences it elaborated into a few more that was the teacher and the and the um administrator and then when we do have retirees um it's just it's still in the retire teacher contract of blurb but we also added just another agreement form so it looks the same Two Is Better Than One so we don't forget know we don't miss any steps so that those are the
048only changes that that are there um and everything looks great and and the our lawyer um was was pleased with the minor changes that we did have to make so thank you any questions any questions Guerero no Mr Ramirez no I don't have Mr Beach no I have none okay um motion to approve the 2025 2026 certified administrators teacher certified professional staff classified uh term uh certain exempt appoint appointment uh and classified definite terms term at will appointment contract as presented move so move second and second okay all those in favor I all those oppose okay eyes haveit motion passes thank you thank you thank you very much let's see moving on moving on sorry subject D Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District uh policies Mr Vero thank you the only damages to to make
049sure that the final language I know had some specific language he wanted to make sure just wanted to make sure that was ured in there for the board and again this this can be changed as ased recation to me is it again the procedure versus a policy and it is also in the contract language any questions Mr Guero questions no question Mr Ramirez to the Florida Mr Beach just Mr Beach I read it it looks good Mr R I need okay I I I Al read andiz saw the change we can always I can always come back later if I have to I'm good you're good all righty yeah like you said it's a it's a it's a living document so if there's any issues just let me know we there is one um change
050either the last sense there policy is not it should be procedure procedure oh this procedure instead of polic yeah it'll have to say procedure then right okay all right thank you thank you thank you anything anybody else no all righty well excuse me but they say that they comply with this mean when we see extenuating circumstances we can still make the change even though they canly I just want to make sure that because as you know I mentioned that before we can't I like that we have extenuating circumstances otherwise we'd just be heartless about it and I don't like that I sometimes there are extenuating circumstances very rarely but there are yes definitely agree thank you all right so then my recommendation it's uh there's no motion for that there's nothing right there okay that's
051what it said there that's why I was going to move on all right so then I move on then right okay subject okay propose and prioritize topics and possible dates and times for future board meetings Mr Vero it's not listed there but it is a a future meeting request um as far as I talk to Miss Vasquez about it I will be scheduling some visits at each of the school sites um spring and I would like to invite um at least one board member to attend with me um if your schedule would permit um so I will send you some dates um and then we would would visit the School site in uh in the morning and then have lunch with some of the staff members or prol students you know how they think the
052the year is gone and just get some feedback and also allow me to contribute to the Strategic plan um just asking some questions about U some of the questions that may be guiding that strategic plan just from some of the the staff and students so give the I thought that was a really good idea yep and so I'll send some dates and then if you're thank you okay so that would be no any questions no okay moving on uh subject approval of the consent agenda anybody else Mr ramz I have none thank you and Mr I have none either okay um I do that right okay any matter uh on the consent agenda will be removed from the consent agenda and discussed as as regular agenda item or items upon the request of any board
053member okay so we have so I'm asking you if you would 13 yes I will okay we will remove number 13 for you actually I'd like to remove number six please and number six for Mr Ramirez all right so okay I will move to motion to approve accept and ratify the consent agenda as presented moving moving number six and number 30 and number 13 we move second second we have a approval and a second uh all those in favor say I I I all those oppose nay eyes haveit motion passes Mr Ramirez yes I just wanted to wonder if the superintendent could shed some light on that approval of addition of 150 per hour so currently when we so for instance if a a school for the Dare Day celebration would like to have a
054field trip to the pool um then we need to hire the lifeguards for that so this is to cover the Lifeguard fees I see so we we pay out of our override for regular opening and things like that but this is for additional time they wanted to have a private party or things like that because we that to the community so if the community wanted to rent the the pool what happens when we have these private parties that re charge yes that's what this fee is for I see yeah so this the Fe is to to charge those individuals and the money where does the money go into that back into that account to support the the PO the maintenance of it maintenance operations of it the proceeds from the rental of the venue go
055back into it's called the Civic fund which is the fund that we use to de rentals like we do with the performance art center as we rent that facility out to outside groups any proceeds from that goes into fund 515 big fund and then we can use that to reinvest back in the facility to offset the cost of maintaining and keeping up with those buildings of course this doesn't I often think about where we're going to get our money for maintenance I remember the interview we had that one time I was just wondering just about a curiosity the future maintenance are we going to have to pass a bond then no so the the bond is it's capital okay and already passed and had language to provide funding for the maintenance of the Aquatic Center
056along as long as the override lasts so remember that override are for a maximum of seven years funding for five years so we would have to be renewing that hope every awesome because somebody asked me a question about that the other day and I got kind of got hit blindsided I knew because we had discussed it before but and I do want to make a a comment with regard to that I happen to think that if you're going to pass a a you're gonna vote to have a pool we've heard people tell us in the community that they don't want to pay for the maintenance well that's absurd you if you voted for the pool then you tell us when we're building the pool hey we don't want to pay for the maintenance what do
057you expect us to do get a tractor and cover the pool with dirt I mean come on now so those people keep saying that for all you guys are saying that out there be realistic we you voted for the pool and so stands to reason that you would vote the override to maintain the pool want to be like Patak and again as I mentioned during by Super C board everything we do we want to make sure we have a funding source aain awesome I was happy to hear that Miss Brown very happy to hear that seven years that's good that's a good start right there thank you thank you so much for the info and again what what this says is that it's $150 per hour so anything you know yeah and that and that
058is something that we are beginning with so that was uh you know as just doing our limited uh research that we do have um it's just to cover the lifeguards and and so forth so that's um per hour and again you know we we haven't had that request but I'm anticipating that coming up this spring and summer that we're going to have those it's stru yeah and and we'll be working on all righty okay any more questions anybody no okay so then uh motion to approve accept and ratify the consent agenda on number number six okay so moved okay so moved second second okay all those in favor I I I all those oppos nay okay motion passes that's good cool and number 13 we're yeah thank you so this one be oh okay okay
059right here this one any questions no questions Mr AMZ no I have none Mr Beach I have I have none either okay so then we have motion to approve and accept and ratify the consent agenda number 13 okay as presented second okay all those in favor say I I all closed eyes have it motion passes that one and it's yeah it's a Jour okay we are a journ at 551 guys