001Today is a Tuesday, May 13. It is 5:30 p.m. Can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call. Juan Castillo, President President. Lorena Degado, clerk. Christina Clark, member present. Laores, member present. Louisa Areola, member present. We have a quorum. Thank you. Uh before we begin, um as a courtesy and to help foster better engagement and communication throughout our meeting, um everyone joining virtually, uh please turn your camera on for the entire meeting, please. 2.1. Do we have any comments from the audience? No, we do not. Okay. No comments from the audience. Moving on to uh 2.2. First things first, presentation by Zed Lantas. Yes. Hello.
002Hello. Yes. Okay. Um do you guys have the slides? If Antonio, if you can support us with you with the presentation, please. Yeah, just so we can follow along. But very briefly, I can go ahead and get started. My name is Santias. Um I work for First Things First. I'm the community engagement coordinator. Thank you all for being here. I see that we have a very engaged community here that we have people showing up to give um their feedback to our community. I see a lot of little ones. I have a little one right now. He's going on a year and a half. So definitely can relate to a lot of um the families here. And I think you'll all appreciate um when I share a little more about our current ongoing childcare crisis. And
003there we go. Without further ado, um go ahead and get started. Thank you everyone. So, first things first, um what is first things first? First things first is uh we're a state agency. We work past that voter proposition in 2006. We do four big different things pretty much. We have community leaders that we um train and recruit for our regional partnership council. our regions go ahead and um basically right now we have 11 different members in our council. They are the ones that decide how we spend our money. They are the ones that decide how we allocate our resources and um and what programs and strategies we have um advocacy through community engagement. That's where I come out, do presentations, meet with community members, um hold forums and make sure that we are getting the
004message out to the community. And uh we consult, we uh lobby through government affairs. We have a government affairs team that goes up to the capital and make sure that we're having policy there that is reflecting the values of first things first. And then uh finally, we consult, right? So that regional partnership council that I mentioned, they're the ones that give us um that advice and that background on how to better spend resources on the community. And um you'll see really quickly here, it shows that out of the nearly 18,000 children under the age of six in the county, at least a third of them live in poverty. So expanding the audience through engagement, right? So what we want to do is focus on talking to those community stakeholders and increasing support for community um
005funded solutions to our early childhood issues. For example, um changing the way people think about, talk about, and take action on behalf of business um with our elected officials and how we address this big issue. Right here you can see a quote from the president of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce that talks about how child care is key to solving our workforce issue. Right? If we can't get kids in child care or to be in the classroom, it's impossible for parents to go to work. Uh so Arizona doesn't work if childcare doesn't work. we are not able to actually get people out of uh their houses and into the office and to go to work when they they don't have that peace of mind that their little ones are going to be somewhere where they're
006safe, where they're well taken care of. So, this has led to increased costs, um less options, people missing work and having to quit work. So, it's starting to cut into business's bottom line. It's around an average of $1.7 billion that it's costing us annually um at the state level. Um and it's just a good investment, right? If we invest now, we're going to see the yield of that years down the road. And if we don't, we're also going to see the yield of that. Um, when we foster those initiatives and those options, we take that toll off of employers and off of everyday Arizonans. So, here are some statistics to just um further uh give more numbers and more quantitative data to um the issue. Um, at least 60% of our young children live in
007homes where both adults or all adults in the household work. Um, again, I was mentioning it's costing around almost $2 billion annually to our Arizona economy. And the cost of child care has outpaced inflation 6 to1. Right now, it's more expensive to put a kid through child care than it is for instate tuition at Arizona State University, UOVA, at one of our uh state universities. Uh so it's really important that we prioritize this and make sure that we are getting the word out. And then right here, which is the the the main uh purpose for me meeting here with the school board and with the public, is we want to empower you all to act locally, right? Um here we have a quote from our Yuma mayor talking about the importance of early childhood and
008why it's important to advocate and use our platform especially leaders who who already have networks and a platform and more influence in the community. So right here we have a QR code for our take action page whoever would like to scan it. It shows more ways in which we can take it up on our own hands and be active um in the community. And then right here we also have another QR code for another resource that is our childcare calculator. This is meant for small businesses to see what toll those child care um deficiencies are taking on their overall u bottom line, right? How much are they losing? How much is it costing them in turnover rate? And what talent are they losing due to those childcare issues? And I don't know why. Can you
009try to click it one more time? I don't know why. Oh, wait. Maybe go back. I don't know why Diana's picture wasn't loading, but can you go back to the other slide? No, the other one. There you go. So, um, Rudy is our regional director who actually deals with strategies. There you go. Diana's back. And a regional partnership council. I'm the community engagement coordinator that comes out forward facing with the community. And then Diana's our program coordination specialist who make sure that we are strategizing and being effective with the programs that we fund. And then I'll just go ahead and leave you all with this. Um, you all have power. You all are able to influence others. I think that using our platform to advocate for early childhood solutions will be huge. That's the only
010way that we're going to get legislators to actually take action and want to invest in our community to solve this issue. Um, we're also open to doing presentations to any clubs, groups, or boards that you may have. Um, and statements of support like in local news outlets, op-eds, and just feel free to invite us to your events. We would love to be a part of it. share resources and just again talk about the importance of the ongoing childcare crisis in the state. And that is it for me. Thank you Summerson School Board for your time and thank you everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you S. Thank you. Um moving on to uh 3.1 TDS PTL recognition. Good evening, Mr. Board President, Mr. Castillo, members of the board, uh, Mr. Luron and Miss,
011and everyone in the audience. I'm going to start off by sharing that uh, Miss Sullivan, our assistant principal, is actually holding our kinder registration night. So going along with your message, right? So any kinder parents in the audience, you'll still have time after the meeting to rush to TDS. Okay. I'm glad to be able to uh come here tonight and be able to share with you and highlight just some of the work that our parent our parent teacher league officers have done throughout the school year. And I say school year because some of them you're going to hear that have been serving our school for uh multiple years, okay? with clear and fair elections. Okay. Uh but before I share about our officers, it's only fair that I also publicly uh thank and show appreciation
012to our del parents and families. We all know that the uh qualities of a successful school is the involvement and the partnership with parents in the community. We know that building relationships among staff and students is our highest priority, but also with the parents uh that we serve. TDS takes pride in welcome welcoming all and any form of parent involvement. Um I would like to share we have shades of parent involvement from parents holding um the office in our parent teacher league to parents who send donations some cheese hot cheetos and Mr. Ko all other healthy snacks. Okay. Uh they sign forms and they return forms. They have the uniform ready in the morning. They attend parent conferences. They hold school attendance as a priority or sitting with their child to review homework and listen
013to them read. Any form of involvement makes our school that much richer. Uh and we learn alongside each other. We continue with the great traditions and expectations while also polishing and improving as a school with the insight and our parent support. Therefore, this evening, I want to send a genuine thank you to our Sundragon parents and families for a great successful school year. And to uh represent the involvement of our TDS parents, it is with great pleasure that we recognize this year's school year 2425 PTL officers. And before I mention their names, I would like to share just some some of the work and involvement they've had these past few week uh few years, not few few years uh with a couple of the activities that they leave their legacy on campus. It says TDSPL
014officers don't just say we care. They plan and attend parent monthly parent meetings. They plan and fall festivals. They organize appreciation activities and thoughtful tokens of appreciation. They fund raise with the support of other parents. They design and make copies of flyers. They donate their time. TDSPL officers don't just say we care. They support with promotions. They sponsor promoting sixth grade class shirts. They are responsible with creative ideas like tattooing the school principal. I didn't bring any pictures, okay? But they're in the vault. Uh TDSPL officers don't just say we care. They are trends setters in the district. They bring ideas like the no carve pumpkin contest, the color powder run or the walk-athon. They raise funds like like for example to pay for a fireworks show. Uh also they fundra for the first electronic
015marquee in our district, contribute to the mariachi to welcome our district staff. TDSPL officers don't just say we care. They show up, they assist, they volunteer, and they generally care enough to also purchase the best school mascot around, Sal the Sundragon. And if we can welcome him with a round of applause. [Applause] It's [Laughter] [Music] miss gone. And we're going to allow S the sun dragon to stay up here. It took a while to uh grow those scales. So, we want to make sure that he has time to take pictures. Okay. At this time, I am also going to invite some of our former Sund dragons and curtain Sundragons to be able to recognize and I'll say in this case, no shade against dads, but the moms that are here present uh this afternoon, uh
016I mentioned about elections and we've revisited bylaws and kept bylaws to ensure that we have fair elections. Every year we have um you know, the first nomination is the first cycle and then the parents that get on the ballot. And with that said, you're going to see some repeated ears of um some of our officers that have served TDS. So, I'm going to start off with um the mother of Gracia, Jimmy, and Mesa, and Adriel. Adriel is soon to be a Sundragon. And we have Cecilia Ruiz, who served as our historian this year and has been supporting our TDS PTL for two years or more. So, congratulations to Cecilia. um mother of Landon and Lanel and Luca. Uh one former Sun Dragons here, two current Sundragons. Uh served as our treasurer, Shayla Beltran. She's held
017the office for three years or more and previously been supporting. So congratulations to Michelle, mother of Serio, Athena and Jose David. Serio is also a cobra right now. No, he's already he's a Toro, right? Yes. Um, sorry. Serio Athena and Jose Davidid, current um, Sundragons. Our secretary, Patty A Royo, she's held her office for six years or more. Congratulations. We also have another member who has served for more than six years. Uh mother of Sophia who is currently a Toro. Uh Sebastian Cobra and Santiago current Sundragon Mirna Diaz as our vice president. [Applause] Our next officer has held an office or supported between two schools. Back when Encanto learning center was a primary school, she served at ELC and TDS. She has been an officer for the past 13 years. Mother of Aruro, Sabrina Samantha,
018and Anthony Aruro. Currently, um, sophomore at ASU, Sabrina Akopa. Summerton High School wasn't built yet, so Samantha um, A Toro and Anthony currently are Sundragging. So, with that said, Anony's currently a sixth grader, so Miss Annayia will be moving on. Mr. Rasone Ms Castro. I would get her number as she leaves with with clean elections. Right. So Helen Annaya um our president. You'll still see me. So you would like to take a picture with the board if that's okay. And you brought your nice shoes. And they also get a beautiful cake. Thank you to Mr. Kano for your support. And they get to share as a family today. So you don't have to make dessert. Oh, cheese. Say dragons. [Applause] I need to pick up my feet. You're tripping. I was tripping right here. I
019think we need to come. Antonio are Oh, thank you. Um, just want to remind our our board members that are joining us virtually to please turn your cameras on. Moving on to uh 3.2 SSD Flororic dance for your performance. Good evening board members, district staff and parents. Um my name is Reoso and um I am the EO specialist and besides that role I also this year I got to coordinate the summer 10 school district for chloric uh group. Uh our forc chloria group is made up of seven schools for for uh we have kids ranging from first grade all the way to 8th grade. and our wonderful dance instructors. We have Melissa Lopez at TDS, Iridian Pisano at OS, Marta Sales at Desert Sonora, Claudia Alvarado at ELC, Ashley Marin at BTS, Lydia at SMS,
020and Monerat Rivera at SPS. So, all of our schools have their own uh group, and these wonderful teachers do an amazing job. Um, I know they can't hear me, but hopefully they'll listen to this message. I want to thank them for their incredible instruction. Whether it was perfecting technique, boosting confidence, or just making each class fun, they left a lasting impact on those on those students. [Music] And we do have a special presentation for you all. Um, we just we just need a couple seconds to get ready and then they'll be ready for you guys to to watch to watch this. Awesome. Awesome. Mr. Goio, um, as they're getting ready, I just want you to put to know that my, um, webcam is hidden, so I don't have the option. Antonio, can you please check
021that for me? Okay, he's looking into it, Miss Delo. Thank you. Thank you for letting us know. No, I think they're coming out. I think she's going to let us know if they're ready. Oh, they are lining up outside. Okay, so they're ready. So, we're going to have to go outside, guys, so we can see them. Okay. I didn't even know. Mr. Galo, can you hear me? Yes. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Um, can can you try again? Um, we this uh in this program Um, I can't give you It's like a You can give yourself It's a what? Only you can turn on your camera. I don't have access to I Uh-huh. See, I do. I press camera. It may say webcams are hidden. Says webcams are hidden. Uhhuh. Are
022you through the phone? But I'm on the phone on your phone. Uh, let me see. But how do I do that? Because it says you can turn off the preview in settings, but it said turn camera on. So, I click on turn camera on. You are. I see you. I see you. Oh, okay. I can't see my I don't I don't see you. Is that okay? Yeah, that's okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Webcams are hidden. Yeah, we can. Yeah, we can definitely see you now. Okay. So, I'm going to turn it off until they come back in. Sounds good. Okay. Thank you. I I'm at the board meeting, but I'm but I'm doing it virtual here in your room. Yeah, we can hear you. We can still hear you. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
023Over. Hey guys, I don't know. mic check. Mic check. I feel like I've just been in a tornado. Yes. [Music] Remind them. Remind them. So, uh so moving on. Um it was great to see the kids perform performance and also uh Miss um Miss Phelix uh thank you for the parents that came in and received their awards. So that's that's amazing. 13 years just great. Um, so moving on to our uh superintendence report report from Mr. Duron. Hello everyone. Uh, welcome to our monthly board meeting. Um, everyone's still having a party out there, so that's kind of nice. Um, but great things happening like always in our district. Um, I can't believe it's already May. U, just thinking back, reflecting back been my very first board meeting in August to now. Like lots of great
024experiences, learning opportunities, and growth, which is what what it's all about. Um, you do have a couple of things that I'm giving you. Uh, one of them is a list of all the promotions that are happening. Uh, they're actually starting tomorrow. Some of them are our preschool promotions that start tomorrow. Um, some of these dates are during the day. So, I know that we are working, but if you have the opportunity to attend some of these, that that would mean a lot to our community. Um, just to expand on our Summerton Middle School promotion, we did need we needed to change locations for that promotion. Um uh last year we held it at the um Summerton High School um track, but this year they're rebuilding that track and field. There's a project that's happening. So
025they weren't able to host us in in that particular field. Uh taking it back to the middle school, the roofing project is still on its way. And so most of the parking area is covered by all the equipment of the, you know, construction company. So our next, you know, location to consider was Council Park. So uh when we knew that that was going to happen, we met with the city uh they were really excited to host us at that particular park uh maintenance uh which included Martin uh Serio and obviously the SMS team we and uh the district level team we gathered to uh come up with the plan and and they've knock on wood they crossed their tees and dotted their eyes. I think they're doing a really good job in in planning for
026this uh promotion. They've uh enhanced a couple of things. Uh I know that they rented a stage. They rented an a whole um sound system that includes a couple of screens that will be you know uh pushing the uh the um performance live I guess so that everyone gets an opportunity to really see it clear. So great things are happening for that promotion. Um if there are any questions in regards to it obviously Mr. Rasone and Miss Castra are here to respond to any of those questions but that would be the gist of of uh SMS promotion. Um before going on to a couple of other things, um we are closing off the year. It's May and next week is it'll be the last day for kiddos, but our teachers, our principles continue to work,
027right? So, right after Memorial weekend, we do have a busy week of trainings for our leadership teams. And I gave you a handout with all the different dates that are coming up for the summer. Um in July, we will be hosting our data summit. That'll be a three-day uh leadership um summit where we will be discussing and looking at data for uh our creating our goals for next school year. And then we also have and I think this is something that used to happen in the past. We are going to bring back the three day conference training for our teachers. And so those dates are also there and we'll be giving you additional information once we get closer to to those dates. All right. Um that's it for me unless you guys have any questions.
028Do we have any questions or comments? No. Thank you, Mr. Awesome. So, moving on to a 4.2 report from uh Miss. All right. Good evening, everyone. Um I I will be also presenting about 301 in just a little bit on one of the items, but um as a district, our team has been working on their student handbook. So, we have a unified district student handbook, which is a great idea. Been working on some of the legalities that are in it and the discipline matrix and we'll bring the discipline matrix to the board at a later time for this next school year. But, um, legally everything is still the same. We'll be continuing to use that on the on the backside for the administration. Also, I just wanted to give a shout out. Orange Grove, BTS,
029and TDS this year are all national showcase schools for capturing kids hearts. I just want to give them a round of applause. So we have three schools and I think it's really awesome as that enhances the culture and climate of our for our students and staff and um we just work to continue to excel uh and model that as leadership as well and all the activities and all the things that we represent. So just really proud of the team and so it's a lot of work. So um that enhances so they can achieve academically as well. And that concludes my report. Any questions? questions or comments? Thank you, Miss. So, I'm moving on to a 5.1 board members report and board attendance. Miss Areola, I don't see Miss Areola has uh disconnected from from the
030meeting. Do you do you have the time Antonio approximately? Okay. 605 and Miss Aola has disconnected from a meeting. Uh, Miss Deladio. Hi everybody. I'm so sorry I'm not able to make it. I'm sure those performances were amazing. Takes me back when I was a kid and I was in Balorico for about 15 years there in Summerton. Sorry I missed it. My mom is in the hospital so I'm here. My duty um is to take care of her in the evening. So I'm here. So sorry I missed it but I'm online. Um, thank you for everything that you do. I know that the end is coming for the end of the school year and so I'm sure the kids are are ready as you are and I do want to appreciate and say everything that
031you do. Um, as I mentioned in my email that was forwarded to you by Mr. Duron that um, you know, we appreciate all your hard work all the administrators and teachers and I and maintenance and cafeteria everybody everybody as a whole everybody's an educator. uh one way or the other. And so you are valuable to our community and we thank you for everything that you do. Um sorry for those that are going to have your um promotions. Um some will be conflicting as far as for my work and others because I have hospital duties. So um I'm here and I'm sorry I'm going to be able to miss it. Uh SMS um I was a little concerned about the SMS uh promotion, but thank you Mr. for clarifying it for me and um and now
032I understand why the change. So, good luck with that. Um I will be there. I have made arrangements already. So, uh thank you for everything that you do. Thank you, Mr. Gustier. Thank you, Miss Elio, Miss Clark. Um Miss Aladdio, I hope your mother um feels better soon. um and to our staff here and um everyone watching. I I know teacher appreciation week just passed and just seeing your pictures and everything that you did to make your teachers feel appreciated. It's it's so nice to see. So, thank you all so much. I know principal's day pass all all the things all the good things happen in May, right? Um I know that I have our SVP to some of your um ceremonies coming up. I'm going to try to attend as many as I can.
033So, thank you for the personal invites. I know I had one secretary reach out, student council secretary. I thought that was so cute. So, thank you so much for that. Um, the top 20 teacher of the year that we had locally, my goodness, the efforts that was put out, thank you all so much for everyone who is involved or, you know, behind the scenes. Everything looked amazing and I'm so thankful that we are able to celebrate our teachers in that fashion here locally as well as the county But I just felt the the the one here was just a little more personal and it was it was beautifully um executed and the top 20 for those students. Man, you guys that was awesome. I really enjoyed it very very much. So, thank you all for
034for every every effort you put forth. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Clark. Miss Torres. Um so, I can you know echo on on a lot of things that Miss Clark was saying and you know I also your mom in my prayers. Hope she gets better. Um, and you know, again, um, you guys are almost there. Last stretch. Um, you know, don't forget to breathe. Uh, practice your breathing exercises and, um, you know, just stay the course. Um, and then I will commit to getting principles of coffee. If you send me your order, um, I can I can try to to do that before next Friday. Let me know what day is better for you, too. Maybe Friday because it's the last day. I don't know, but let me know. Um I I know for me
035I I depend on coffee. So um you know, if it's not coffee, if you need tea, I do that, too. Um but thank you so much. Um you know, there's only, you know, so much that we can do and I don't think there's ever enough that, you know, we can say or do appreciate all the work and hours that you do. Um thank you so much for the, you know, the parent recognition of the PTL. That was great. Thank you so much, Miss Felix. Um that's that's so important. hours that they're investing, right? Um, you know, all of our ptls. I wish we could recognize um the hours and like you mentioned the legacy that they're leaving, right? This is really um you know, 13 years, right? Miss Anna was has been serving and I'm
036sure she's going to continue to to serve her schools and um so, you know, we have great parents in our community. U proud to be a part of this community. Um and then going back to the top 20 um my goodness. Yeah. seeing you know students um you know succeed and seeing the celebrations you know at their parents um the excitement in the parents eyes you know this is something special and unique so thank you Mr. Done and Miss Gastro for doing that for your school and then you know thank you to our superintendent and Mr. superintendent for our our more intimate uh teacher of the year benu. I think that was um again something um new and special and I hope you all consider you know looking forward to that every year. Uh so
037congratulations to all the teachers that were nominated and um I just think the recognition and the celebration you know is is really important giving credit where credit is due and and you all deserve the world and I wish I could give you more than a coffee but um you know, uh, but you know, um, but thank you. Thank you so much. Um, and I think that's that's it for me. Thank you, Miss Torres. And, um, what can I say now, right? They said everything. You know, I did attend the teacher of the year banquet. Again, I'm going to echo what what everyone said. I mean, I I I really enjoyed it. Um, I like the fact that it was personalized for our district. So, I mean, it's it's uh it made me wonder like how
038come we didn't do it in the past? uh you know but uh thank you Mr. for for for uh for for hosting it. Um also uh Miss Agado um thank you for having your camera on um and you know prayers uh uh for you and your mom. Um I also wanted to go ahead and and and say you know the flororic dance I mean it's growing. It's it's it's amazing to see that talent. So uh so thank you very much for that. Um teachers um we're almost done. Um, you know, I think this is a time to reflect, you know, what what worked well, what didn't. Um, you know, and and recharge, you know, as as summer approaches. Uh, make sure to, you know, practice self-care. Um, so that you can be ready in August.
039Really need you all ready in August, but July. July. Oh, July. Sorry. July. Yes. But, uh, you know, it's but it's it's important. Selfcare. I mean, it's important. you know, we we need everyone all of our staff to be okay in order for them to be okay to serve our students. So, really uh make make your health uh you know, a priority. Um and and you know, thank you for everything that that you all do. Okay. Um and I'm going to try to make um looking at the calendar here, um I am going to be at the Desert Sonora prek um ceremony. Um, you know, I'm going to I'm going to try to make the others, too. Um, no promises. Um, you know, we but I'll do my best and I'll I'll I'll send emails
040uh for those that I that I can that I can make. Awesome. Okay. So, uh, moving on to uh consent agenda uh 6 point um consent agenda. Um, does anyone from the board have a question or comment or wish to uh move something from consent agenda? No. Need a motion. So move. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Second by Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Mr. Board President. Oh. Uh I'm sorry. Go ahead. No. Did we count Miss Deaddio? I Yes. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um so I'm sorry. Um, so motion was made by Miss Clark, second by Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. 4 Z. I just want to add if if I may, uh, in your approval and the
041consent agenda. We just, um, approved the new hire for our director of human resource and we have Alma Gonzalez here. If Alma, you can introduce yourself and, you know, tell everyone how excited you are. Well, first of all, uh, good afternoon, good evening. My name is Alma Gonzalez. I am just happy. I would like to express how excited I am to joining, uh, Summerton School District as the new HR director. I am also looking forward to joining the team. Um, learn from all of you and see how my years in HR can be of help. Uh, basically working together towards employee welfare and keeping their best interest in mind. I'm just excited. glad um that this new chapter in my professional life is happening with summertime. So just thank you. Thank you for the opportunity.
042Looking forward to joining you all next Monday. I'll be here next Monday. Miss Clark, I just want to say Alma, I've worked with you for many years in Gadston. Worked very closely and behind the scenes on a lot of things. And I hate to see you go, but I love to watch you grow. So congratulations on your new venture. And I'm going to be calling you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And and welcome. Thank you. Happy to have you on board. Thank you. It's been nice. The what I've seen, it's giving me a great feeling. Everybody has been so warm uh friendly. I'm just excited. Awesome. Looking forward. You're going to love it. Thank you. Yes. I'm sure. Moving on to a 7.1 approval of the reading for policy advisor number 863-865. So, Miss
043Kim and I were able to uh read through the uh policy advisories on this particular one. There's just uh updates on the request on the evaluation form for the board evaluation. Uh there's a section on uh the content for 911 and on what grade levels to be able to u deliver that information and then additional notifications for registered offenders. So, this is a first read and we we'll bring it for second read next next month. Any questions or comments? Need a motion. So move. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Second by Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Miss Elgado. I think I I'm sorry. Okay. So motion carries 40. Moving on to uh 7.2. Approval of the reading for policy advisory number 866-875. For this policy advisory, uh,
044a lot of the changes had to do with the language ma matching the statutory language. So, no major changes in the content, but mostly just minor revisions for clarity and rearranging part of the actual policy. And that's that's basically the changes. Okay. Any questions or comments? Need a motion. So, move. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Second by Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries 40 7.3. Approval of revised FY24-25 budget. Good evening everyone. This is the second and final revision for FY um 25. So I just prepared a quick PowerPoint for you to do comparisons. Um, back in September, we did the revision number one and those were the numbers and so revision number two um, now carries those M and um, DAA numbers. The changes
045are as follows. from revision number one, we had some one-time um fural funding and then some additional carryover that wasn't accounted for. So that gave us that 661 um,000. And then we had some changes in our ADM which we were able to capture and that gave us our revised number of the 23.3 um amount. Okay, there it is. And then for the district additional assistance, it was just a minor change. Um there was a prior year adjustment that we had to account for and so that decreased us about $787 to give us our final number for the year which is the 4.101. Any questions so far? And then I did want to just include our current adjacent ways levy that we have. Uh nothing has changed this year with adjacent ways. These are the current
046numbers. This was for our traffic light and that has stayed the same. How much is the traffic light costing us? Um the traffic light itself is about 740,000 and then we probably are hitting about 900 um between all of the engineering fees and extras. So almost 900 approximately like 900,000. Wow. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Thank you, Laur. Thank you. Need a motion. Motion was made by Miss Torres, second by Miss Delgado. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to uh 7.4. discussion, consideration, and possible action to approve or deny the release of contract of certified teacher from contract FY24-25 effective May 2nd, 2025. And there is a letter under executive content. Yes. And the recommendation is to approve the release of contract of certified teacher from
047contract FI2425 effective uh May 2nd, 2025. Questions or comments? Need a motion. Motion to approve the release of contract of certified teacher from contract FY2425 effective 52205. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Second by Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. 40. 7.5. discussion and possible action to wave or fine 1% to teacher for release of FY24-25 contract. So based on the criteria, the recommendation is to find the 1% of the teachers FY2425 contract and again there is some uh some content under executive content. Questions or comments? Need a motion? Motion to find the 1% of the teachers contract FY2425. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Second by Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Anyone opposed. Motion carries. 40. Approval. Moving
048on to 7.6. Approval to offer notice of appointments for FY25-26. And that is a recommendation to motion to approve notice of appointment as stated for all of our classified staff. Questions or comments? Need a motion? So move. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Second by Miss Elgado. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to 7.7. discussion and possible action to approve FY25-26 Prop 301 plan presented by Miss SE and Mr. Flores. All right. Well, it's going to be just Mrs. SE. Mr. Flores wasn't able to make it this evening. Um, so Antonio, if you would mind. Thank you. So, the plan remains the same as it has in the past. Um, just a little bit of a new format to make it a little bit simpler for everyone
049to see and read. Um, we were able to up our 301 or class site fund payout to our staff. So, it went from 9700 uh this current year. Next year, it'll be 11,000. And so, that's a a nice chunk for our teachers. We wanted to ensure that we were trying to stay competitive in that in that regard. Um, and so the breakouts are the same. 33% of that payout comes from the evaluation and then um 67% comes from their professional development community service hours and that gives them the total 100% of the of the performance payout. They still get the base pay that's split up in December and in June and then um the performance pay is what was split there. So then they'll get that additional in June. So for example, right now our
050teachers are getting ready to get their pay that first pay out in June and they'll get a base pay and their performance pay all together. Okay. Um everything else remains the same. Evaluation is the same. Um we are working with instructional services assessment department to support all of the data that will support our principles with final evaluations. And you can see the breakout right there. Don't move anymore. Come down just a little bit. No, the other way. Right there you can see the breakout. So 6,400 is the base pay. So they get 3,200 in December and June and then the 4,600 at the end. And that um totals up to the 11,000. Okay. Um and then as we go down, so you've got the the performance um performance plan, which is the 67%. is is
051just a little more detailed for our staff and administrators and the site representatives to present to their staff um and to support them. But there any combination of the hours PD and community service which is directly correlated to our district. So they are able to use any combination as determined by the principal and our plan and then um their evaluation and so that that makes up their whole 301 or class site fund performance pay. Any questions? You said it in increased from 9700 to 1100, right? 11,000. Yes. Um what what change did we get funded more this year? Um well, she can answer more about the the menu as we went through and we had to adjust some things trying to ensure that we increased. So, we did get a slight increase for next year.
052Um and then in addition to that, we have rollover money that we've been kind of um going off of as well. Same thing now. Okay. So like for like the following year it'll be another 11 at least or we hope it just depends on the Yeah, it really depends on the state funding because they're the ones that come out with those numbers. So it can go up, it can go down. It just depends on the budget, the state budget. Okay. Yeah. And that that those are the funds that we use also for um contingency for teachers in case we need to add a teacher. So, we try to ensure that we have some of that saved, we're meeting our performance, and then um the menu funds that go out to the sites typically, but uh
053that's for class size reduction interventions and things like that. Any questions? No. Any more questions? Is that that? That's it. Pretty simple. Any questions or comments? Thank you. Yeah, thank you. We'll have a video for staff again this year. I just didn't play the video. You just I need a motion. So moved. Motion was made by Miss Gadio. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to a 7.8 8 discussion and possible action to approve the district paid stipens FY25-26. The recommendation is to approve uh to the district paid stipens for fiscal year 2025 2026 as presented. Any questions or comments? I need a motion. Make a motion. Motion was made by uh Miss Clark, second by second by Miss Torres. All those
054in favor say I. I I Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to a 7.9 discussion and possible action to approve a secretary position for the food service department. So this year the food service has increased product and work including additional catering events uh for the district and our schools and our community. In the past the department has functioned well without a secretary. However, this year I've been really working hard with Mr. pushing all the work that we're asking them to do and they've been doing it a really a really great job and really gracefully. Uh however, with this increased demand of the department, our recommendation is to uh approve a department secretary to support Horge with the appropriate and added duties. Up to this point, all of the other district departments do have a uh
055secretary. Um and it is important to note that the um salaries, benefits, and expenses from the food service department are funded by the food service program revenues. So it pays itself basically. Um and so you know, I don't know if Hork is here, but Oh, there you are. Right in the middle. You know, he you know, we throw ideas at Horge. is always very willing to work and make sure that you know our schools are always I mean up and running the way they should and adding things to the menu working uh to making sure that our kids are satisfied with the new things that you're bringing upon. So at this point um it was it was needed. So that's our recommendation. Mr. I have a question. So um this position it'll be funded through
056the revenue that's being that that's obtained by the food service department. Right. That's correct. So do you anticipate it continuing throughout the years like next year the following year? Oh yeah. So it's uh CO keeps us in a very healthy green side of the count so there's always um enough revenue to make sure that we sustain this position. Yeah. Okay. Any questions or comments? Thank you. Uh, need a motion. Make a motion to approve in the secretary position for the student services department as presented. Motion was made by Miss Torres. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to uh 7.10 discussion, consideration, and possible action to approve the revised salary schedule. This was an oversight on our behalf. We already have that position in
057our salary schedule. So, we didn't have to go through this one. So, so uh because we just approved the secretary one, it's already part of the salary study. I'm sorry, salary schedule. We didn't have to do this particular one. So, that's an oversight on our behalf. Okay. So, we really don't have to take action. So, we just uh caught it a little too late. So, do we I think we need to kind of table it, right? Or no, I believe so. Yeah. Okay. No, we just need to table it and then uh just for following Robert's role, right? Perfect. Need a motion just to be tabled. I make a motion to table 7.10. Motion was made to table item 7.10. Second. Seconded by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed?
058Motion carries. Moving on to uh 7.11, approval of the revision of policy GCQE-R. This is the return to work policy we addressed during our work study session. So based on the changes and the recommendation of our attorney, the policy language needed to be adjusted and this has already been communicated uh to all staff and everything, right? Yes, that pertains to them. Yes. Okay. Any questions or comments? Need a motion. So move. So move. Motion was made by Miss Clark, second by Miss Delgado. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to uh 7.12 approval to offer a notice of appointment to Maria del Carmen Gonzalez de Lopez as lead custodian returning from Education Service Inc. ESI on August 1st, 2025. So the recommendation is to approve a notice of
059appointment for Maria de Carmen Gonzalez de Lopez as stated. Any questions or comments? Need a motion. So move. Motion was made by Miss Torres. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. 7.13. approval to offer a notice of appointment to Ruby Carvajal as school health assistant returning from Education Service Inc. ESI on August 6, 2025. The recommendation is to approve a notice of appointment for Ruby Carbajal as stated. Questions or comments? Need a motion? So move. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Second by Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? I motion carries. Moving on to a 7.14 approval to offer a notice of appointment to Blasa Arviso as instructional assistant returning from Education Service Inc. ESI on September 28th, 2025. The
060motion is to approve a notice of appointment for Blasa Aru as stated. Questions or comments? Need a motion. So move. Motion was made by uh Miss Torres. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to a 7.15. discussion and possible action to approve the governing board members 2025 political agenda to submit their top five priorities to the Arizona School Board Legislative Committee for consideration that's due on Monday, June 9th, 2025. And on the this one, this is kind of like part of this is what we do every year. It is. So, um I know we have a um a couple here. Um I can share one that I have. It falls under the adequately and equitably fund district schools to the national median per pupil
061funding. Actually have the first one, Mary, which is provide competitive salaries to attract, recruit, and retain talented teachers and staff. I don't know how the board feels about that one. Yes, that's really good. Good, Miss Torres. So, that could be the that could be one. Does another board member want to under the same tab, the first tab there, the fully fund the full day kindergarten and include kindergarten students in the override calculations. I agree with that one. Miss Torres, Miss Ladio, are you guys okay with that? Yes, absolutely. Yeah, that's two, three more, right? Yes. Under the same tab, maybe the increase the funding for exceptional student services based on the cost study, including for rural or remote areas, gifted students, and early intervention programs. I concur on that one as well. Okay, Miss Torres,
062two missio. Yes, concur. That's three. I have another one. I have one under the required public accountability and transparency for taxpayer dollars spent on education. I have a repeal any program that gives funds for private schools, vouchers, ESA and private school subsidize and prevent any future expansion. How do you guys feel about that one? Yes, I'm good. I was trying to find the one that I was reading, but yes, I concur. So, 31. So, it'll pass. You want to choose one? Um, I was looking at the Arizona's rural remote schools. Um, such provide funding to individual districts to implement locally directed researchbased school safety programs and mental health and well-being initiatives. Um, that's one that again for rural schools I think especially is under the school safety and security. Arizona's rural and remote schools. No,
063it's under school safety and security. You're talking this right here. I saw it under school. Yes. So, Miss Madio, Miss Did you hear Miss Torres? Yes. Yes, I did. Are you okay with that selection? Yes, I am. Okay, too. That's fine, right? There we go. So just need a motion. So moved. Motion was made by Miss Gadio. Second. Second by Miss Clark. All those in favor say I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to 8.1. Um any recommendations for for the board for any future agenda items? Anybody? Nope. Now's the time. Um, moving on to 8.2 regular board meeting on it's on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025. And then we have a tenative meeting for Tuesday, June 24th at 5:30 to approve the proposed budget. Right. So I Okay. Okay. So look look so
064it's either tw June 24th or July 8th. So what happens is right now we don't have budget forms um from the state. We're hoping to have them and then once we have them we'll bring it. So we're hoping June 10th to bring it for proposed and then we can do the adopted on June 24th. However, if something happens to where we don't have those budget forms in time for the June 10th meeting, then we'll have to push the proposed to the 24th and then have the adoption 10 days after that. So, it doesn't have to be July 8th. That's open for discussion if you guys want to talk about it, but um that is the 15th. It has to be at least 10 days after and then I have to have it up to the
065state by July 15th. So you can play with that week or I I think for me on June 24th I'm I'm available on both days. So whatever I don't know how the schedule for all the board members are but I'm I'm good on both days. You two good. Yes, I'm good for both days. Okay. July is a bit tight but June is good. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. And I will I I will say that for that June 10th I miss I'll probably need you to lead that meeting because uh I'll be out of town. June 10th. Yes. Yeah. I might be joining virtually. Um it's it's uh I don't know if I'll be joining. Okay. No worries. All right. So need a motion to adjurnn. So move. Motion was made by Miss Clark. Second. Seconded by
066Miss Torres. All those in favor say I. I we're ajourned. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you for having your camera on. Thank you. Bye.