001Hello Tucson Unified community. Welcome. This is our first Governing Board meeting in the month of April, the day before Tax Day. Hope everybody has all of their taxes ready. We had some good stuff tonight at the Governing Board meeting. But first, we celebrated artistic excellence, musical excellence, as we had the Davidson Dragon Choir in the house. And boy, did they perform some show-stopping tunes. After that, our Governing Board took action for a million dollar renovation of the old woodshop room over at Sabino High School. A million dollars to create and renovate a brand new state-of-the-art machining classroom for our CTE students out there at Sabino. We also tonight had the opportunity to welcome our first Chief Operations Officer in 2 years. The position has been vacant for a while. We've struggled to find really high
002quality applicants to fill. That struggle has ended. So, I'd like to welcome Miss Edith Halbert. She currently serves as a Chief Operations Officer in a large district in California making the move to the Old Pueblo. We certainly look forward to welcoming her. The Governing Board took action tonight to approve the new salary schedules that will now be including the 4% raises that our employees will be receiving as a result of the override. It should be noted that the Governing Board did not yet take action on a salary schedule for override compensation for TEA or for our Ex Ed educators or our subs. We are still negotiating with those groups to come to a final agreement. But all of our other groups, CWA and ASME and our non-bargaining unit folks, your salary schedules were approved tonight.
003Lastly, the Governing Board did receive an inservice on all of the policies and procedures and state requirements that it must adhere to in order to consider school consolidations at some point in the future. Difficult conversation we'll be having all year long. If you missed anything in tonight's Governing Board meeting, please check them out. Check out the replay on the Governing Board website or keep up with all things TUSD Facebook, Instagram, and X. We'll see you at the end of the month.