001get started. Thank you for being here. If you could please all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> All right, we'll move on to 3.1, our national competition and FFA achievement recognition. >> Good evening. >> Hello. >> Thank you. for letting me come tonight, governing board president Actton, fellow governing board members, superintendent lost community. Um here tonight to celebrate some of CT's accomplishments um over this past summer. Uh that's when a lot of our nationals take place as the kids wrap up. Uh as a result, some of those students have graduated or doing Westmech working and stuff. So unfortunately, they can't be
002here tonight, but we do have some students that are heading off to nationals next month. Um before we jump into it real quick, I just want to let everybody know that that we did find out that for the first time in a free history, we have uh Rocky Mountain nominations from all five of our high school programs with a total of 26 of those and everybody's looking forward to the award ceremony this Saturday. So fingers crossed. >> So moving on to nationals. Um, this past summer we had a total of 48 students compete at nationals in four of our different CTSOs or career student technical organizations. Um, eight of those were from DECA, 12 in FA, um, HOSA which is our health students and then skills USA which is sort of a pod. Next one.
003So we'll start off with um our DECA students from Keny View with our adviser Mr. Poppenberger. Um he had a team competing in hospitality and tourism place second and then and that's an international conference. So there students from China, Canada and some other countries. So it's a really big deal. And then he had another team place in fourth for hospitality and tourism and then another fourth place team in hospitality and tourism. So typically it's a really big deal even to be in the top 10 let alone top five or or walk away from one of those national conferences medal. So super proud of our our decade group over at View and Millennium. Um they also took some students. Mr. Nenbitty was their adviser. Um had two individuals compete um the second place medal in automotive
004services and then also second place in financial operations. Um so super excited about that. Well, I I believe Mr. Ny said it was the first time that a student meddled at Nashville from Millennium High School. So some great stuff happening there as well. Uh Verado once again went to nationals in in Atlanta. Uh they um had second place medalist once again in a career pathway showcase where they were the community service projects uh with those three students all competing together to to present that. Um and then most of the other students that they took out of the 12 placed in the top 10. So so they did very well there as well. And then for FFA um they compete a little different schedule than everybody else. So they just competed um completed their stakes where
005the students that we have all placed first. So for FFA, you have to be a first place medalist at state in order to be even go on to nationals. So it's pretty strange. So at this point, I'd like to invite their teacher, Miss Emily Cox from King View up and her student talk a little bit more about FFA and what they're looking forward to in Indianapolis next month. So, I brought all of our FFA members that are going to be competing at the end of October. Um, so my name is Miss Cox. I've been in the program for four and a half years. Um, so we are the largest FFA program in the district right now. So, we have 300 students that are currently in our program. Um, so we're gonna head to nationals here
006soon, but I'm going to go ahead and let them talk to you guys about what they're competing in, their experience in, um, the program, and let you guys decide. So, um, first me uh, and Loia wanted to share just a little bit to you guys about what CT has meant for us. So, my name is Grace Yoner. I am a senior at Canyon View. I've been in the program all four years from freshman year to senior year, but I've been in a my whole life. When I got to Canyon View, I kind of wanted to go through a just kind of following through the steps of my parents and things like that. Once I actually joined and actually met Miss Cox and Miss Brothers, I realized that CT is more. I didn't even know what
007it meant, but I found a place, a home of family. I've been in all the ad classes and even started taking vet classes when it got brought to our school. And I found a place where I can go what time of day it is where I have teachers who I know care about me and care about my interest. So CTE has really just impacted me through my life and I'm very very happy to have it and then Logan is going to share his perspective. >> Yeah. So this CTE program has looked a little bit differently for me. Uh I didn't grow up in a traditional ACT background. My family all was finance. So CTE brought me in and gave me an understanding of what agriculture looked like and it actually helped influence what I want
008to do in the future. to just broaden my horizons. Originally at Canvas I couldn't see myself doing that in the future. I didn't see that as a continued path for me. And so just bringing into a just opened up my eyes to something I would have never seen without it and just helped give me a home in our program and now I'm our vice president of growing leaders. >> Um They're behind me. Um, this is the livestock judging team. Back in February, we won state at our spring conference. So, we are first place team there. Um, with Riley placing first individually and then I placed first um I placed 10 individually. We will go on to October to compete at nationals. We will judge 12 classes of livestock and give four sets of oral raisins.
009We'll judge cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. When we judge livestock, we select animals based on muscle structure and overall health of the animal for purposes like slaughtering for meat and as well as livestock shows. >> I'm also a senior but we rank the animals and we give a set of reasons which are spoken explanations describing why we place the animals in a certain order and this helps show our knowledge and communication skills. Um, again, my name is Riley. I'm a junior and our team has worked very hard this year. We're excited to represent KU at nationals. Um, we're really just excited to show off all the hard work that we've done, everything that we've learned this year. We're excited to prove that K deserves to be at the top of our national convention. I am
010the conduct advisor. >> I am the conduct. >> I am Gage Mckenry and I'm the conduct. >> My name is Sarah Rother and I am the conduct treasurer. My name is Micah Atinson and I am serving as the secretary of cond and I'll be serendipear students in agriculture get to run a um official FFA meeting based off parliamentary and welcome to the order. >> We are extremely proud to be wearing these blue cordury jackets and representing our state at the national convention. We also want to thank you for granting us permission to go all the way to Indianapolis and be able to compete. We also would like to invite you to come visit Canyon View and watch us demonstrate a run just like we would at nationals. Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is Thomas.
011We are going to nationals for the national chapter award for application and we've never sent anyone before for this but me and Logan going for the first time. We're really excited to go and try to express our chapter at national level. Um we're ranked a three star gold chapter and we have been for the past couple years. So, we're really excited to go and express ourselves with national. >> Yeah. Our application consists of taking all of those events that we do throughout the year and not from just what we do with the students, but also how we help out in our community such as road cleanups and food drives and things like that and we all compile those into an application where we list out our SMART goals and pretty much just how we run
012out our chapter and then we submit that on the national level and there is a group that judges and we are goal our chapter. So, we're very proud of our chapter. our members have been able to do and we're excited to represent them at national. >> Thank you again for all your continued support for CT letting us see these kids all over the country to compete and do the awesome creative things that they're doing the district of graduates. Thank you. >> Awesome. [Applause] Do you guys want to come forward? We'll take a picture. to [Applause] >> that was just really amazing to hear. I'm so excited for them and can't wait to hear how they do. Which I know will be wonderful. Okay. Um 4.1 requests to address the governing board. We have none at
013this time. So we will move into um 5.1 if we can convene a public hearing. And can I get a motion? >> Be it resolved. The governing board convene a public hearing as recommended. >> Second. Yes. >> Yes. >> Colton, yes. >> Landis, yes. >> Actton, yes. The instructional time model. >> So many new presenters today. >> President Actton, members of the board, superintendent, and members of the arbitrary community. The district has historically offered the instructional time model as a way for our students to receive credit for the courses they pursue online. This is allowed by Arizona statute. Um effectively this allows geography online to exist in addition to any other courses that we offer to our students throughout the year. Um pursuing the instructional time model ITM allows us to receive 100% funding for
014students that choose this uh as opposed to only 95% of funding uh through the Arizona online instruction. model a part of the ITM statute says that we need to offer two public hearings uh every year in order to allow this model to continue. So it's not the first time you're offering the opportunity for a public hearing on this. We look forward to approving the model at next month's board meeting so that all of our students can receive credit for the courses that they choose to pursue online or the other we Anybody comments questions? >> I have a question. Um, what is the teacher load for that? I mean, are these are these teachers that are dedicated to online teaching specifically or is this additional load on our teachers that are teaching in >> most of
015these courses are offered through online. So these are already dedicated to >> being that there's no other questions or comments. Um can I get a motion to adjourn or public hearing? >> So moved. >> Second. Yes. Taylor. Yes. >> Colton. Yes. >> Yes. >> Acting. Yes. 6.1. Consideration of approval of the minutes of the August 13, 2025 regular board meeting. It resolved the governing board approves the minutes of the August 13, 2025 regular board meeting as presented. >> Second, yes. >> Colton, yes. >> Actton, yes. All right, we'll move into our action items. 7.1 Possible action to approve settlement agreement with the school facilities oversight board related to a appeal number 24-001 SFD- a >> Yes. Thank you. I'm here largely to see if you have any additional questions. This was addressed during executive session
016and we just wanted to make sure that uh that everybody understood that this is a a request for additional funding through the school facilities oversight board that we've been working on as a district since 2023. Um and we just want to thank everybody for their assistance along the way and be happy answer any questions or to motion. >> Um just again I want to everybody for their hard work in this endeavor. Um, we knew what was right and we pursued that and I just want to take this time to personally thank everyone again for making sure that we're doing right by our community and our stakeholders. So, thank you very much for that. Be it resolved, the governing board approve the settlement agreement discussed in executive session and instruct the attorneys of the public body
017to proceed as instructed in executive session and to authorize the superintendent or deputies deputy superintendent to execute the necessary documents toffectuate >> settlement on behalf of the board. >> Second, yes. >> Yes. >> Acting. Yes. >> Thank you very much. >> 7.2. Consideration and possible action to adopt superintendent goals for the 2526 contract year. Be it resolved. The governing board adopts the superintendent's goals for the 2025 2026 contract year as presented in executive session. with >> with >> approved revision. >> I second. >> Silk. Yes. >> Yes. >> Colton. Yes. >> Lands. Yes. >> Actton. Yes. Um 7.3. Consideration of approval of the fiscal year 2026 division of school facilities capital plan. Thank you again, President Actton. Um, each year by statute, we're required to bring a capital plan before you and submit it to
018the state. Um, in many years, the capital plan is what triggers our request for additional funding or additional square footage to the state of Arizona. And the years where we're not doing that, like this year, it is largely a legal formality, but one that we have to check off our list each year. So, I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. I'd like to comment. I always appreciate the uh work and the time spent with you guys to learn the details of this. So, thanks for putting in that time. >> Be it resolved. The governing board approves the fiscal year 2026 school facilities division capital for the high school district as presented. >> Second. Yes. >> Colton. Yes. >> Yes. 7.4 Consider and possibly take action to move the location of the October
0191st, regular meeting of the governing board to Westmech Career Center at Alapria High School stated address the meeting to commence at 6 p.m. Anybody have any comments on that? Cool. We're good with it. Be it resolved, the governing board approves moving the location of the October 1st, 2025 regular meeting at the governing board to West Mer Center at Olafria High School with the meeting to commence at 6 p.m. >> Second. Yes. >> Colton, yes. >> Landis, yes. >> Acting. Yes. 7.5 um approval of intergovernmental agreement for the West Valley Migrant Education Program Consortium uh fiscal year 2025 2026. Good evening, President Actton, members of the board, superintendent, our community. Uh I'm up here to discuss the IG. As you know, um there's a group of West Valley and Phoenix schools. They're part of a migrant
020consortium. This IG is largely uh they have a very small group of migrant students at four to five. This will essentially be an information sharing agreement. So our migrant coordinator Melanie Colleen is able to access student records and communicate with the students and their families to provide services and resources to the students of policy. >> Good. >> I do have a question. Does this uh provide any uh financial reimbursement to the district. >> I don't have an answer to that. Shel, do you have an answer to that? >> So, in the consortium, we work together with Aendelle and other school districts. And so, we won't technically get a reimbursement, but we will have access to their funds to support their students. So, the fiscal agent is Aendale and so they I don't have to write
021grants or anything, but we will um have access to the money that they handles the finances and this is us agreeing to help the students at >> we have we're the high school and so it just makes sense for us to >> collaborate collaborate with the high school versus >> Thank you. clarification. >> High school. >> Yeah, this says high school. Is it for the elementary district? >> It's for the high school. >> So, can I ask then why what um I'm sorry. I thought it said elementary. So, what resources or what is what is it that we have that they don't have and why don't they have the migrant coordinator who will speak to them about college uh services in the community for the families um career pathways. Do we know why they don't
022have one? >> Because they only have four kids. It's very small. >> Oh, okay. >> As a former person in charge of the migrant program, thank you for helping them out. >> This is Melanie Colleen, so I'm speaking on her behalf. >> Yep. Be it resolved the governing board approve the intergovernmental agreement IGA with Talison Union High School District for the administration of the West Valley Migrant Education Program Consortium for the 2526 school year. >> I second. Yes. >> Neither. Yes. >> Colton. Yes. >> Acting. Yes. >> All right. Moving on to our consent agenda at this time. Is there anything anyone would like to Ask a questionify anyone else at this time. address approval of expenditures over 15,000. >> Um I just feel like this is a large amount of money and um like
023to ensure that we're good stewards of the money. Can you just talk a little bit and it looks like it's for a contract for egeneuity owned by Imagine Learning and how do we use this? >> Yes, thank you um Mr. Non and Miss Pearson. authorized me to speak on their behalf this evening. So, this is used to start with with our all free online program which has an enrollment today of about 195 students. Uh last year around spring break it peaked at about 400 students. So, we've expected to grow throughout the year as well. Um we use it for our summer school which services hundreds of students as well. Um you guys are familiar with our Cold Water Academy program. Um there's only a handful of students in Cold Water Academy that are accessing this
024program. Much of what Academy is actually distributed out at the sites this year through the rise labs uh which I took a peek this morning at enrollment. They're very robust and pretty full as well. Um to the point where actually if you actually just go into eenuity there's over a thousand students signed up for something in Egeneuity with a total number of courses of over 3,000 courses. >> Thank you Mr. Anyone else at this time? Be resolved. The governing board approve the items on the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Silk. Yes. >> Yes. >> Colton. Yes. >> Mandis. Yes. >> Actton. Yes. >> Um 9.1 comments and information from superintendent andor cabinet. President Actton members of the board. A Fria community um with your actions that you took today. Um I wanted to
025acknowledge some people that worked very hard on the um uh settlement agreement with the SFOB. Um as Mr. Huffman mentioned, it was years in the in the making uh since we have been working um through courts and lawyers and and committees at the State Department and and our team. Um, in in in my long career in education, uh, I don't think I've ever seen quite a victory um, with someone that you typically don't have a victory with um, in working with the school facilities board. Um, we actually would like to also thank the school facilities board and the people that that worked on the other side for their um understanding and cooperation and and allowing us to um to state uh our claim and to uh bring the res the welldeserved resources um to our
026school district. As President Actton mentioned, we are um uh very adamant about um our financial stewardship for our community and um and how we are fiscally responsible for every penny that comes through our district. And I think this just another way to um express to our community and show our community that um we put a lot of work into that. And I I couldn't be more proud and uh happy for our school district, but more proud of of uh Deputy Superintendent uh Tom Huffman, um Assistant Superintendent of Finance, Mike Shepard, um uh our legal counsel Jeff Strapman, and everybody that worked on that um to achieve that goal and and bring this district our our welldeserved um funds uh to continue doing the great things that we do. So again, thank you Tom, thank you
027Mike, thank you Jeff for for a lot of hard work. As we discussed this in executive cabinet many times, it uh seemed like an uphill battle every single time we we went around the corner, but we're here and and we won. So uh congrat congratulations to all of us. Um thank you very much for bringing the CTE FFA kids uh to uh our meeting. Not sure if everybody knows, but I get every chance I get, I tell everyone that I I'm an honor honorary FFA member. So, I go to the fair every year and I hang out with those kids and and I see all the great work they do and and uh one of the things that I've learned about the FFA culture, it is so inviting. It's such a great family and they
028just support each other. We have another FFA chapter at Desert Edge that is also very involved and does a lot of great things at that school. Um but uh uh thank you governing board for understanding uh that that our kids uh can compete at the national level and supporting them um um throughout the country and and uh for all of you that attend their events. Thank you very much. I do appreciate that. And that's all I have. President Actton, >> thank you. >> 9.2 governing board members summary of current events and or direction given to the superintendent. Um I actually I I just mine's pretty short. I was able to uh attend the Desert Edge egg barn ribbon cutting which um I do have to give a shout out and I feel really bad that
029I didn't ask their names but the two ladies who are the president and the vice president of the chapter over there so incredibly well spoken and I was just thinking to myself listening to these kids I don't think I've ever met a student that was not well spoken. So, whatever you guys are doing, you're doing a great job. But it was a great event. There was a really good turnout. Um, I love the little touches with the fans and everything. It was hot, but very excited. There were already goats and it was super fun to see them and pet them. So, I'm glad. Thank you for inviting me. >> I wasn't that part. U just to repeat that that thank you to Tom and Jeff and Mike for uh sticking with that and uh not
030buckling when we knew that that uh that was an unfair situation and that that our taxpayer money was or our rightful money uh and finances were worth fighting for. So, thank you for for taking that fight on. Um I got to make it to a few additional open houses in August. Um again, the excitement about the beginning of school has been great. Um and then to a few sporting events in the fall. So, uh, cross country and bad mitten, it it continues to impress me, um, how outfront the leaders are. Um, I know that as a principal or an athletic director, there are so many different places, um, that you can be needed. And every time I have uh, been at an event, they have been right out front and center um, at at the
031sporting events um, actively engaging with kids and making sure everything's safe and wellun. So, um, great job to leadership for for those pieces and, um, excited to get to some football games, too. Thank you. >> Right on. Um, I had an incredible opportunity a couple Saturdays ago to attend the fall sports media day, Miss Greset, Tammy. Incredible event. Um, to see our media there. Um, to hear and see the students for girls flag football, boys tackle. Um, for them to be able to come out, they had the opportunity to coaches speak. Um I did have a chance to talk with each of the media representatives and their comment because I asked uh what do you think of this event and they said in the state of Arizona there is no media day that even comes
032close to what Agua puts on for their fall media day. So congratulations Tammy. It's great to attend and be a part of that. Um I have to commend our team for the SFOB. I had the privilege of attending and listening to 20 hours worth of meetings and I got to watch our team in action do an amazing job. Um how we came out of all of this um with what looked like an uncertain conclusion was impressive. So thank you to all of you. I'm sorry Mr. Stratton's not here for us to say thank you to him um at this time. Uh the CTE advisory uh annual event out at Canyon View was amazing. I think it was neat to see a lot of the students from Canyon View here tonight as they were out doing
033greeting and and helping people walk around the campus. That was excellent. Uh the barn event at Desert Edge was great. Uh let's see. Um oh, and then one last thing, I'd like to thank u Mr. Non and Mr. Eastless for um providing an invitation for us as board members to learn about um different um different medical academy. I know we all received an invitation this last week and so I just appreciate the chance to learn about these things before they really ever come to us and so thank you for the invitation. Uh it's nice to be included. Um, I'd like to iterate and agree with everything that you said. And then the other thing that I have attended um that hasn't been mentioned is going to the trust event for the day where we learned
034about um the new laws and you know it just really scares you as an educator and as a board member everything that happens and it was a great conference to go to and um thank you u Miss Graette for helping me process some of those things and um Mr. Colum went as well. Karen was there and a couple other members. So um it was a great opportunity. Thank you and everyone welcome back to school. We have kicked off successfully and approaching five weeks in. So uh congratulations. It's been successful. >> Great. Um I think this meeting has been a great example of just our outstanding leadership that we have in our district. Prof leading with professionalism and integrity. Um you that all the way down to um our FFA students here today and and we're
035we're displaying that you display that every day in your classrooms, on your campuses, how you run our business, how how our lead our district um and that's the example we want to show for our community. Um and and it we're seeing that in our in our kids in our um just like we talk about the portrait of graduate, we are actually making outstanding members of society and This was a great meeting to just really look at that leadership and so I want to thank you from the top all the way down to every person who works in this district. Um you have impact on these lives. So thank you so much. Um with that 10.1 requests for future agenda items hearing none. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So move. >> I second.
036Yes. >> Colton. Yes. >> Yes. >> Captain. Yes.