001call the Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 regular board meeting to session for a Fria. Please stand for the pledgece 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. Okay. Item 3.1, summer bond projects. Good afternoon, Vice President Landis, members of the board, Superintendent East, and our community. I'm here to provide a brief update this afternoon on projects that are going on throughout the district this summer. Um I'll just give a brief update of what each of these are. Feel free to ask me questions on any of them as we move along. Um first one's a real simple one. We've got some old art sinks and plate traps at all high school. Those are being replaces replaced. A chiller
002replacement. That's a pretty large replacement. That's one we're excited about that is SFD funed. will take place all this summer as well as well as a HVAC replacement in their auditorium. A little small tweak the girls locker room counter in the atrey as well. Baseball lights are being replaced. Um, one of the things that goes into that decision is is those lights are old. They still function, but we're to the point now where it's basically impossible to find replacement bulbs. They don't exist. It's kind of the point where you're hoping to find on eBay or something. So, it's time to replace those. And then the big one is is the cafeteria and kitchen tear down and rebuild. And just to remind everybody, here's a couple images of what this will look like by about Christmas
003time of this year. Um, like to give special thanks to our director of food service, Barbara Duncan, to Autumn Daniels, the principal, and to their cafeteria team there. Um, they're taking some outstanding measures to ensure that the students are going to get awesome lunches throughout the fall semester without a kitchen. So, that's that's going to be fun. And here's what that project looked like a couple days ago. So, I think it's too late to turn back now over at Canyon View, our new our newest school. Just a couple things going on there. a broken glass door system that's being replaced as well as some connectivity upgrades and improvements. At Desert Edge High School, we're working on a cafeteria expansion, providing them more room in their cafeteria. We're taking care of some parking lot maintenance and
004the barn is up. We're working on infrastructure and that'll be completed during this month still. Here's what the barn looked like about two or three days ago. So, it's up. It's there. You're so excited. You It's a big deal. And here's what the cafeteria expansion looks like. Thank you. Yeah. So, if you're familiar with Desert Edge, there's the indoor eating area. There's an outdoor eating area. The outdoor eating area is undercover, but it is open. So, we are basically pushing out the walls to enclose that entire outdoor eating area. And then we'll create a new outdoor eating area beyond where it is. It's a it's considerable new square footage and space. And we're also going to be working with Gretchen to get several new tables for students for lunch. So I think it should help
005with crowding there quite a bit. Millennium High School, a lot going on there. You building and paint. Um we're doing a couple SFD funded projects there. Um make our air conditioning system more efficient. Um working some lighting in the Tigers den. It's a little dark in there. Their football stadium lights are similar to the Yafria baseball lights in that there's bulbs out and it's hard to find replacements for them. And then um some stadium erosion control we're working on there as well. Another thing I wanted to talk about at Millennium High School is we're working on this large project at Alfria where basically we're gutting the core of the campus and really rethinking, redoing, updating somewhat similar what we've done at Olafria, the entire classroom section in the center of campus. Um you don't see
006anything going on there right now, but there's a lot of really work going good work going on amongst the team. Nicole and her team at Millennium, um Chase building team at Our architects have had a series of meetings throughout the summer and the spring uh where we've worked on how all of the the MDF, which is all the stuff that goes in as far as alarm systems and phone systems and network systems, all of that is kind of in the center of where we're going to be blowing up the center of campus, so to speak. So, we've had to address how we're going to take care of that. And then also, the team has been incredibly creative and very forward thinking to find a way sequence this project so that even on a crowded campus
007uh in the middle of a school year, they're going to be able to kind of tear down one area, build an area, and then move along and move along so that we don't have to add any portables to the campus and we can instead of spending money on portables can put that money into the project. So, there's some good work going on regarding that project as well. At Verado High School right now, there's two cooling towers and a heat exchanger being replaced. That is taking place as we speak. Districtwide, there's a few things going on. There was a big crack in the YMCA pool. Um, millions and millions of galler were going away and we've resurfaced that pool and fixed that crack. So, we're just winding down that project. It's been awesome. Just a little
008tweak with moving a wall or two here at the district office and human resources. The electric vehicle infrastructure is being installed at transportation. Um the trades academy by Westmech is continuing at Alfria. I know they're excited about that. And then of course we have two of our signature projects. The Hilltop School for the Arts. We're moving along there. We're just taking care of just a little bit more paperwork on easements and things like that. And then that's going to start going gung-ho here very soon as far as moving dirt. And Goodyear High School is still on time, still unchain. Yes, that that's a great point, Mr. Just a reminder that the pool that is at the YMCA, there is a partnership involved with that uh entire program and that the district owns the pool that
009is at the YMCA. Is it just the lap pool or both the pools? Just the lap pool. And then finally, uh Rachel, Lauren, all of their team is working really diligently um to update technology for efficiency, capacity, cyber security, all of those things. and I'm sure they'd be happy to answer any questions regarding uh any of the stuff you see up there. And then the final thing that I would like to mention is is that um the people that make all of this happen over the summer, they're all in the room this evening back here in the third row. We've got Mark Gonzalez, our project manager, Ernie Molina, who's director to field operations, and Mary Hammonds, our director of facilities. And they're working their tails off this summer to get all this stuff done, and
010I just wanted to say thank you to them in front of you guys. Um, comment, question. Sure. Um, I know I've had a chance to be out at Millennium. Do you have any information or news regarding the courtyard project or next to the track or whatever that's called? An update on that. Thank you, Mr. Colton. I'm so glad you asked that question. Um, as a matter of fact, tomorrow is the punch lock for that project. So, it is basically complete now and construction fencing came down today and tomorrow is the final walk. So, there'll just be a couple little touch-ups and and it's it's complete now. Thank you. That's excellent. Um, one other question. Um, anytime you have a partnership with someone on a piece of property that's together with impacting one of our schools,
011um, when I was out last time to look at the West project, the thought that went through my mind is could there may there be a potential um, anything impacting Algra High School? meaning you've got both facilities um construction status and are they going to be constructed and completed on time? Are there going to be any impacts on the high school? You know, opening the doors, supplies, materials needing to help them. I was just curious if you had a status update. Yeah, that's a great question. For one thing is I do believe that you're going to be seeing an intergovernmental agreement coming to you down the road where there's going to be some sharing of um security guard security cameras some of those type of things but directly to your question and Mr. going to
012help us with the answer here. But yes, there are uh there's a great likelihood that the project won't be complete for the start of school and their team has been working with our team on some securing some space on the L3A campus to accommodate them whether it's for the first month of school or the first semester of school. Autumn's been working with Philip. Philip and his team have worked with Jared and their team up at West and I think we're we're good to go there and have what they need. Thanks for the updates. Appreciate it. On to item four, call to the public. And we have a couple people coming to speak. So, uh, before we have this, um, let me read. Pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes 38-431.01H, this agenda item provides an open call
013to the public, allowing individuals an opportunity to address the governing board on any issue within the jurisdiction of the governing board. Members of the public wishing to address the governing board are required to complete a public participation form and submit the completed form to the superintendent prior to the meeting. Individuals recognized by the board president must state his or her name. Speakers may comment on any item on the agenda or topics not listed on the agenda. No personal attacks on governing board staff and other community members will be allowed. Individual comment will be limited to no more than three minutes each and more will be timing and no more than 30 minutes will be devoted to the public comment portion of the agenda. Governing board members are not permitted to take action on any matter
014that is not on the agenda. Um so at this time I would like to call Lizzy Zimma Zimma. Okay. Thank you. Coming up. And are you ready to ready when you are? Good evening. members and everyone watching tonight. My name is Linda and I graduated from Millennium High School last month as the classator. I'm here tonight to speak on behalf of students like me. Students who are academically driven, who give their all in pursuit of excellence, and who deserve to be supported, not ignored. Academics have always been my version of of football. Uh I showed up early, I stayed late, and pushed myself through every challenge. I took on the full ID diploma program, doubled up on math and science classes, earned a 5.47 GPA, included over 150 hours of community service. I did all
015of this not just because I love learning, but because I believe that dedication and hard work should be recognized. Instead, I spent years trying to succeed within a system that often left students like me feeling invisible. While my teachers at Millennium were outstanding, the administrative systems failed to meet the needs of high achieving students. I was enrolled in the wrong class. I was left out of required courses like theory of knowledge. I had to meet with counselors multiple times to correct mistakes that should never have happened. I was told I did not need to submit anything for a scholarship I qualified for. And because I trusted that advice, I lost out on $28,000. That is not a small mistake. I come from a single inome household. That scholarship would have significantly reduced the financial burden
016on my family. Now that burden falls on me in the form of student loans and out of pocket costs. Even more frustrating was the way rules differently depending on who you knew. I saw students denied opportunities while others were quietly handed advantages. It was discouraging to see that fairness was not always the priority. Merit alone did not determine how you were treated. It sent the message that no that no matter how hard you work, you may not be seen unless someone you already unless someone you already know has decided that matter. Honors night was deeply disappointing. It was focused almost entirely on scholarships and sports, even highlighting the male athlete of the year with a special trophy and Meanwhile, students like me who spent four years excelling academically received nothing. There was no recognition for
017the top 10% 5% 1%. No courts or validictorian and no promised slide or stole for Ivy diploma candidates. For many of us who weren't athletes, this was the only chance to be recognized and it was completely overlooked. After years of sacrifice, I sat in the crowd and watched my hard work go unacnowledged. When my family tried to address these issues, we received no response from the principal until on the district level. Once we finally had a meeting, the principal was condescending and struggled to answer even basic questions. She made commitments to follow up and correct some of the concerns, but never followed through. It was only after my mom, who serves on the Wfield Elementary School District governing board, identified herself as such in an email that the principal made any effort to acknowledge her
018high achieving students. That should never be what it takes for a student to be heard. I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this. I was simply one of the few who had someone in my corner who knew how to push back. Most students do not have that. Not everyone has a well-connected parent who understands the system or knows who to contact when something goes wrong. And it is not fair that their concerns may never be taken seriously or even listen to simply because they do not have that kind of support. I'm not here tonight just to share my story. I'm here to encourage this district to make meaningful systematic changes to how it serves students. Every student deserves to feel seen. Every student deserves access to information, consistent support, and a school
019culture that values academic excellence just as much as success. And no student should have to fight to be treated fairly just because they are not part of the right circle. Thank you. Thank you, Lizzy. Congratulations. And now Melissa's item. So, I'm Za and thank you for giving me a moment of your time today. I am here both as a governing board member for the WHfield Elementary School District and a parent of a former graduate actually graduated in 2020 uh from Millennium as well. Our elementary schools work hard to prepare students not only academically but to be resilient, driven, and community young adults by the time they reach high school. When they leave our system, we entrust this high school district with the responsibility of guiding them through one of the most important academic and personal
020transitions of their lives. Unfortunately, this trust was broken in my family's experience. My daughter, who just graduated with high honors, was eligible for a prestigious national recognition that would have earned her $28,000 scholarship to the university she will attend this fall. She never received the support or information needed from the high school's guidance c guidance counselor to complete the required steps. In fact, she was explicitly told by her guidance counselor that no further action was needed. That was not true. And as a result, our family has now lost out on $28,000 that we must somehow make up. Money that was earned by her years of hard work and it is all lost due to a preventable failure in communication and accountability. This is not a small mistake. For a single income household like mine, this
021has real and lasting financial consequences. More importantly, it has lasting emotional impact on my daughter who did everything right. I've spoken to other families and know we are not alone. The guidance department is meant to be a safety net, a resource, and an advocate. But all too often, it has become a barrier that is unresponsive, inconsistent, and in some cases actively misleading and this is unacceptable. Our students should not have to succeed despite the system. They deserve a school that celebrates academic excellence, ensures equity in how policies and recognitions are handled, and provides real guidance to help them pursue opportunities, not lose them. I urge you as board members to take a serious look at how these departments are functioning, not just in theory, but in practice. Because if we are losing students futures, not
022from a lack of effort on their part, but from mistakes within our own system, then we have to acknowledge that and make a real change. We owe our students want to honor their hard work, then that starts by making sure no other child loses what they've rightfully earned because someone simply didn't do their job. And if anyone rather, whether from this district or the broader community wishes to have a more in-depth conversation about the many ways my daughter was failed by millennium over the last four years, I'm open and willing to have that conversation. I'm still waiting for a call back from Mr. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you to the zitamist uh for sharing. I know it's difficult sometimes to come up here and express like that. So, um, under direction,
023obviously we can't talk about it on the on it's not an agenda item, um, but under the direction of the board, we have we'll have superintendent follow on to 5.1 uh, consideration of the approval of the minutes. You don't have to read it. It resolved the governing board approves the minutes of the May 7th, 2025 study session, regular board meeting, and executive session as presented. Second, oh, is Miss Naylor here? Has she joined us? Um, okay. Would you like to vote? I just Yes. I'm sorry. Nether. Yes, I was just muted. She say yes. Pton. Yes. Landis. Yes. Okay. Action items 6.1. Consideration of the approval of proposed maintenance and operations district additional assistance fund budgets for the 2526 fiscal year. Am I going first on these? I'm sorry I can't speak. I'll go first.
024I think tell Mike's gonna present first. Mr. Shephard is going to present something and then we will vote. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, Vice President Landis, members of the board, Superintendent Eless, and all your community. Um, this afternoon's agenda item is to consider our proposed budget for the fiscal year 2526 budget. Um, you might recall at our last governing board meeting, uh, we made a final revision to the current budget. Um, At this point in time, as we as we plan and adopt next year's budget, um we are in a situation where the state has yet to approve a state budget. Um and so we have been issued preliminary budget forms by the auditor general's office um which are largely based on the current year's uh budget. So, what you have in front
025of you for consideration is not much different than what was our last budget revision. Um, it has the same base support level funding uh per student. Um, some of the changes I'll highlight is we do go ahead and adjust a projected enrollment for next school year. Um, we are projecting another uh slight increase of 2% which we feel is pretty accurate. conservative uh growth projection for our budget. Um like I mentioned the the uh funding per student those um we are confident will be adjusted with the new state budget we are planning on um internally on seeing a 2% increase in that formula although tonight's budget does not have that funding increase in there. Um there are some additional uh one-time budget items that we received in the current year that don't show up in
026our proposed budget. We are anticipating those will resume um with funding for the next school year. Those are sometime additional funings related to Prop 123. Um some additional district additional assistance. that are not in the proposed budget, but we fully expect and our final budget will be there. Um, just to remind the board once the proposed budget is approved, we will publish for the community uh notice of a public hearing that our budget will be formally adopted by the board in July. Um, it will be the same proposed budget draft forms preliminary that you're seeing tonight. We will at a future uh once final uh state budget has been set and we get revised forms, we will bring a a revised budget in the future for the board to kind of update it and account
027for all those dollars. Um I'm happy to answer any questions the board may have on the proposed budget. Corby, do you have any questions? I do not. Okay, I do have a comment, Mr. Sheepard. I always appreciate how you take the time to support and assist us and answer any questions we may have and as the conditions are in our state and federal right now, monies related to grants and MLS and funding and such are up in the air. So, appreciate you preparing this. Thank you. Uh be it resolved that the governing board approved the proposed school year 2526 budget and the publication of the proposed budget summary and hearing notice and authorize a public hearing to be held no later than July 15th of 2025. Second, yes. Naylor, yes. Colton, yes. Landis, yes. Do
028we have any items that you would like to pull off the consent agenda? I would request item 7.20 7.22 7.23 and they can go on that order. Okay. So let's page 7.2 that is ESA tuition rate. Uh Mr. Eless who would you like to answer these questions? So, Mr. Sheepard, I don't know if you want to say anything first, but the reason why um we've had a conversation about this for the last year, this is the annual renewal of this conversation budget item. And so, um what I had asked previously, um this week, I thought it was so insightful to share some of the details about the ESA and What might be some factors that given the year of time since we've looked at this for the first time, what might be factors that are
029different, the same? Um, thank you, Mr. Colum. I'll do my best. Uh, so some of our board members may recall um at this same meeting a year ago, we established the board established an ESA tuition rate. Um it's the first time we've had that rate with some of the new ESA expansion um that's taken place in the state of Arizona. Um many districts were establishing a tuition rate for students that are accepting an ESA but would like to enroll in a district course. Um in order for us to enroll that student by statute, we have to establish a tuition for that student. So we had some discussion and and districts we kind of observed kind of what these rates were looking like. Um I think we saw quite a range. Um if I recall, anywhere
030between $800 to well over $2,000. Um we in trying to establish ours, we thought it would be best to come up with some kind of formula and base it in math. And so we kind of took all the components of our district budget that are based on student enrollment. So things like that base support level, our additional assistance, our M override, um, Prop 123 dollars, classroom site fund dollars, um, instructional improvement dollars, all of those have a per people kind of funding to them. Um, so we, uh, added up all the funding that we receive and divide it out by our total enrollment and kind of calculated that for each student enrolled that amounts to just over $10,000. $10,161. Um we divide that out by um what it takes to be a full-time student. So
031any student that's enrolled with us for at least four periods would generate that um revenue for the district. So we took and that's per semester. So that would be four classes a minimum of four classes in semester one and also in semester two. So, we took that 10 just over $10,000 divided it by eight and came up with a number of 1,270 23. Um, and that is what we proposed a year ago to the board to set that rate. Um, tonight's recommendation we're looking at now, next school year. We're proposing to keep that rate the same as the board adopted a year ago. There's also a second rate for u clubs or extracurricular activities that's $1,000. Um we are also recommending that remain the same for next year as well. Um so that's a little
032bit of background information on what the ESA tuition rate is, why we have one, how it was established and set. I think we may want to consider um changes to that in the future. I think if we were to look at that, it might make sense to bring that in front of the board around December before we start having students enroll for the subsequent year. So, we might take all those same formula components and do the same the same math with with updated numbers just to see if that tuition rate needs to be adjusted or not. Um, but that's not what we're trying to do tonight. We're just trying to maintain that rate into the 25 26 school year. Um, yeah. So, I just uh in preparing for this agenda item had uh my team
033run a report. We had uh one student I believe at Cyview High School enroll in a a science class and pay that tition rate. I think we had three total students that participated in an extracurricular activity and paid the ESA fee for that as well. So in a district with 10,000 students enrolled um it's not widely impactful at that level. I do have a few more questions. Um what do we charge our students who participate in band or aletics per per season. And the reason why I ask is I know when we talked I brought up just a ton of examples because I just don't know which would fall um that would have a fee applied to them. I thought band um some sort of musical band. I wondered um NJHS is probably not a
034fee. Um student council, I didn't know if that was a fee. Athletics during the sports seasons. I'm just curious what would be defined as one of those activities and then what the rate would be. I'm looking over my shoulder. I may need some help with this, but so for if you're asking for an enrolled student in our district, we do have an extracurricular activity fee for something like athletics. Um I believe that's $200. I think it's 100 I'm sorry, $100 per season. And I believe we c that also as far as clubs as well. and things like that. those are so when I looked at this um I thought to myself, okay, we have students and families that aren't a part of our school district and I don't know about you, but I'd love increased
035enrollment numbers. Um, and I love more kids to add to the seasoning and and all of our schools. And so, not focused on the per section part, but focused on the athletic activities amount of $1,000. Um, given we have a cap of what 400 um or 100 per sport season or activity period. I look at a th00and I'm going asking 10 times the amount participating in activities period as an EA ESA person to pay $1,000 for a sports season. Just a little I'll try I think so one of the rationalities so when a student does enroll with us um kind of like I was sharing before that student generates an ADM and thus funding for the district to the level of around 10,000 plus dollars. Um in addition they to participate in an extracurricular activity,
036we do charge a nominal fee. I will say that um it takes more than that fee to facilitate the operation of those programs. Those are, you know, a lot of our M budget goes to support transportation. A lot all the coaches are students. So I would I'm sorry I would I would think of that as kind of an additional $100 to participate the district is generating for that student and then the additional $100 helps certainly not the only cost for those. So then for all of our students who participate who are in district that $100 goes towards the referees stipens and all those types of things. So actually There's a portion of that site to offset the cost of transportation. I will tell you that obviously we have students who are not charge $50 or
037$25 in some cases we will overall fees but it does at least provide some assistance that There brings me back to the question, do we really want to charge a student who would want to have an experience in our district $1,000 to participate in an extracurricular activity? I bring that up as a question. I I'm not going to make a motion, but come December, uh, when we bring it up and talk about it for next school year, I just kind of wanted to set this as a beginning conversation. Certainly an opportunity wishes of the board. chooses to determine what the fee would be again because it's not a significant portion of what we do. Well, I certainly considered making a motion tonight on this actionable item, but I I want to give our board some
038time to think about it. again, you know, one student, four students. Don't we want students to join from our community to be a part of this? I just looked at the rates. I calculated out the 1,00 20 and something um per course per semester. And when you add up the full school year, it's $15,000 whereas the ESA is between seven and $8,000 for regular education students. So, I'm just like I'm not saying that we are um putting out a lot of fees and rates for that. Um I'm just saying it because it's a concern to me. I know we set up last year's rate based on what we did and said we would take a look at it in a year, but I just think $1,000 for participating as a nonist person might be too
039much. So those are my comments and as Mr. Madam Vice President, we would ask that the board that you would like to revisit that again would like the opportunity to set that fee. So we would take Can I make one last comment? Um I worry without board action tonight we may without without a tuition rate established um we may not be able to enroll an ESA student. So um the statute does say that an ESA student may not enroll in a public school without paying a tuition. So I don't I would hate to punt to December. We can certainly revisit the at any time we can further discuss. My understanding is we would vote and then bring it up in December for the following year. Perfect. Um I will say I uh my children have
040been enrolled and uh the experience that they have had, the equipment that they have had has been invaluable and well over what I think is a thousand dollars. So I appreciate the fact because I haven't thought about it in that much detail. Um, but I might be on the other end where it would cost a lot more to be a part of that, especially and I I know you can't weigh your experience, but to be on some of these teams um that are winning state championships and and um that experience you you can't put a dollar amount on. But see, that's why I appreciate the conversation and discussion because mine is from a perspective and we both have students participating. So I appreciate that. Actually, Corby, do you have anything you would like to add?
041Um, I'm I'm leaning towards purging, but I um I I'm with you on need to look into it more. Um, but I definitely lean toward the fee. Um, I'd like to make make a motion slightly. Hold on. So, we're pulling this. Let's Can we get these other two things and then maybe So, we'll pull that one separate. Okay, we're going to go to 72. I talked to Miss Jones earlier today, so I'm satisfied. Let's see. The only question that I have and I thought it was worth asking um $200 $250. What's the $200 fee? Yeah. Can you explain that just how it's different? I know at each of our other campuses, do we charge that? So, there are course fees with many of our arts programs because we try to help with placing what is
042used materials like painting, canvases, dance, um there's a huge cost to a lot of those arts programs and so I knew that with our new school that we were going to need a working budget to help with our productions for materials instead of going the traditional way with all the individual course fees because this campus is is very different as far as its full immersion that uh going off of our current athletic participation fees mimicking that. So basically $100 per semester um to help sustain the programs. Gota 7.23 consideration of the student handbook rights and responsibilities. Uh questions I had is this is the annual uh renewal of the students rights and responsibilities handbook and Tammy I just say thank you. I'm sorry, Miss Gretch. I have to say thank you um for all of
043your assistance. The great part about the student handbook is really it's the guide book for all of our families and all of our students to really understand how to successfully maneuver and go through the educational experience that we provide in the district. Um in looking in the handbook, just a few questions for you and I already talked briefly. Um are there any updates or any changes from handbook to this year's handbook that I think our two biggest changes largely it's the same policy hasn't changed much the statute has stayed the same two big changes were adding in our cell phone policy which is now statute so that was added in there to reflect our light system and then discipline matrix uh if you don't follow the light system part two uh was to refine our
044tardy polic And this was in part with our uh teacher committees and Mr. Eastless's three commitments to a less disruptive learning environment. And as we know late students disrupt the learning environment. So we worked with the committee Mr. Nan and Ashley Bazio led that committee get teacher input on what that would look like. So we did refine uh tardies, how many tardies defining the consequence of detention from a regular detention to uh an extended detention depending on the number of tardies. So that is now added to the hand. That's excellent. I appreciate all your hard work because you know on a year-to-year basis you see things that work really well and you see things that you might want to modify. So I appreciate all the hard work with that. also really love the whole cell
045phone update part as well as our superintendent three initiatives to really help our school system. So, thank you my question. Thank you. Um, was that the last one you had questions? Okay, I'm going to say be it resolved governing board approves the item of the consent agenda as presented minus item 7.20. Second. Which one is that? Hold up. Okay. 7.20 is the We're not going to I believe he's going to move to revisit it in December. He just wants to make sure that that is a part of that motion. There'll be a vote that we have to do classes. board member. Correct. Correct. It was just changing the date. That's what I understood in this conversation. Mike Shepard is asking for I'll get there. I'll get there. You can vote no, right? But if I
046vote no, then I'm voting no for everything else. Correct. But then we can bring it back. So we've had this issue before where I don't like the motion. So the motion is for everything. I would feel better if we took care of the 7.2 motion before I end up uh voting on something and saying no to everything else. Go ahead. Um, regarding 7.20, I'd actually like to follow um the resolution comment and approve it, but also ask that we revisit um in December for the 20 6 27 school year. That's why That's what my motion is. So to approve it as is and revisit with the board December of 2025 for 26 and 27 calendar. Okay. So that's the motion. I will second. So silk yes to approve it for the the rates for this
047year but we will revisit in December. Correct. Naylor yes colum yes landis yes. Now be it resolved the governing p uh board approve the items on the consent agenda as presented minus 7.20 second. Yes. Naylor yes. Colum yes. Landis and on to 8.1 comments or information from the superintendent. Vice President Landis, I do have an announcement to make that Mr. will come up with the approval of the consent agenda. Uh you approved new leadership or some addition to leadership at Kennedy. Yes, Vice President community is always a good to welcome someone into the family. So I'm going to ask to come up and she's going to introduce new family member. Good afternoon and it's my pleasure to introduce our new assistant principal Mr. He was coming to us with 12 years of education experience in
048a wide range of roles. He was an English teacher. He was an instructional coach. He was actually an assistant principal at the high school and elementary level of the high school. He was instruction. Um brief stint as an understand. Um today we had training and it was it was very very fun and awesome to established relationships with a lot of our leaders. Um we've spent the last two days together and he is fitting right in. He has a passion for CTE, a passion for the academy model as a member of the ACT fellowship, right? Um so he really truly is bringing a wealth of experience to our team and we're excited to welcome you. [Applause] I'm truly honored to serve our district and it's just wonderful to be in district and I cannot wait to
049get started and get rolling and just grow. Thank you again. Thank you. There was one additional assistant also welcoming. He had a previously planned trip to Italy and I was like Mr. Jones we got but he is also an amazing amazing addition. He actually graduated from high school. Fun fact he was a student. So full circle. Um he is coming to us as one of our best teachers. He understands and fully embedded himself in all things and very few people can rise up at the same school that they taugh. And it's very difficult to do and I hected by our community. [Applause] Okay. Thank you, Vice President Landers, members of the board, our community. Um, I do want to say something. I think I believe she left, but I want to say thank you and
050Tom and I have talked about how Alejandra I who works in uh in Mr. Hin's operations office um has been very instrumental in keeping all the coordination with with everyone that's working in the projects as well. Um we are excited about all of the projects that have been going on that have been supported by the community and passage of the bond. Um I'm sure that anybody access to Mr. Huffman to find out or take some tours. Um there's excitement regarding as Mr. Colton mentioned the uh project at Freo with Westnet. I believe Mr. N. Can you tell the board how many students from our district were particularly from high school that are enrolled in the newmies at um our the Westmies? Do we have that number? That's pretty amazing. So, thank you to the board
051for recognizing that opportunity uh to work with Westmech and to have one um campuses on our campus truly provided an opportunity for our kids to be able to go from to West and um we'll definitely take the board on some tours to see that. But exciting to see 120 kids that are going to take advantage of that. So, very much appreciate that. I think you're going to see some exciting things start to turn over in all of our campuses and particularly our Hilltop school for the arts and the theater that's coming through. So, we'll definitely keep you breast of that. I did talk to President Actton. We mentioned possibly having the June 10th board meeting at Goodyear High School. We receive a certificate of occupancy on July 6th and Mr. is working with Chase building
052team for us to be able to have sort of a tour and board meeting night there on that date. So hopefully the board is is available for that and that's all I have. Uh 8.2 two governing board members summary of current events and directions for the superintendent. Okay, so um the the first thing I got to do was a Rotary fundraiser for Meals and Joy at Top Golf and um I learned that board member Colton is actually an excellent golfer. I am not. But he carried the team and we did win which apparently is a big deal because that's two years running or three how many? Two two years running. So this is a big deal. Um I did nothing. So that's not true. How and uh not only that but board member Colton was
053generous enough to um give back everything that he won and our team won. It was it was very nice to see that and they were very grateful. And then I also got to attend the core lunchon. And once again, Rachel, your team was amazing. Please thank every single one of them. Once again, I just want to thank everyone in our district. I am so proud to be a part of a district that um recognizes and appreciates every single employee. And I know it's just a little thing, but man, you guys made that look really, really special. And it was a very, very nice So, thank you for doing that. And it was I was very glad to be there. Hand out prizes, screaming, happiness, all over the place. Yeah, that's it. Um, Miss Taylor, do
054you have anything to add? Uh, yeah. Just getting a chance to um hand out diplomas at graduation was probably uh the highlight of everything so far. um getting to hug my baby and give him his and my niece and then all their growing up friends from sports and school. Um so that was a really special opportunity and I actually look forward to that every year even not graduating. It's definitely been the highlighting to see all those kids accomplish that moment walking across the state. So excited to have had the opportunity. Thank you Mr. Um just a list of some activities this past month. Um first, I know we have state champions in all of our CTE competitions that will be competing at nationals uh June and July. So I'm excited to hear um how they
055how they do. Last year I attended um the Skills USA event and it was exciting to see students uh compete and all of the work that they had done over the course of the year to prepare themselves to perform and to see our students. We had many many students u second place, third place, fourth place nationally. So I'm excited for them. So for all those that are heading off to national competitions, good luck to them. Um I was honored to to join Mr. Eastless at the FFA awards event at Desert Edge. And that whole event was led by their FFA officer team. So I would just like to take a second to thank President Taylor Gardner, Vice President Cody Barker, Secretary Abby White, Treasurer Autumn Shanahan, reporter Hayden Perry, and Sentinel Emma Vega. They ran
056a very efficient. Um, excellent meeting. Um, at one point they lost the microphone uh due to technical difficulties, but they responded well. Um, it was nice to see the barn. Also, it was really neat to see the craftsmanship that many of those students had put into items that went into the auctions, the auction, silent auction. So, I was proud to bring home something that somebody had made, a planter box. Um, so thank you to that student. It's great to support their work. Uh, let's see. Last week, um, I had the opportunity to attend, uh, as an observer the district school facilities administrative legal proceedings. And I'd like to thank, uh, Mr. Strapman and all of the representatives from our district who made a very convincing presentation to the administrative law hearing and to Mr. Huffman
057as well as Mr. Shepard uh and our team of folks who were there. So, I just want to say thank you. Uh you did a marvelous job and I appreciate the opportunity to listen to those 12 hours. Very good. I should find more fun things to do. Let's see. Um, I'd like to thank the board for the opportunity to attend um 2024 2025 um state conference, the ASA conference in Tucson as well as the ASCD conference at the end of this month. Appreciate the opportunities to learn and look forward to bring you back and sharing uh details from that event. Um I am attending this week the leading change conference over in Glendale and I'd like to give kudos to representative of our district Luke All Press who will be making a presentation at that
058conference tomorrow. Um and the subject in which he's going to be presenting on is excellent. So ask him about it if you wish. Uh it's a great presentation. I look forward to it. Let's see. There was a partnership in partnership in progress event that was at the new Goodyear campus that Chase sponsored uh where people could go on tours. So that was a great by our admin team who shared with the parents who were there, community members. Um, graduation was amazing. Uh, I know for people that attended this meeting tonight, it was fun to actually see that student again after shaking their hand as they crossed the platform. So, that was pretty neat. But as my daughter is going to graduate next year, as a parent, I start to go, "Oh man, the emotions are
059starting to flood and I'm going to give her away." So, uh, exciting for parents sitting in the in the Desert Diamond Arena. It was a great venue. Much closer, much more intimate, uh, for those that attended. Let's see. Oh, you had mentioned uh, going to the Pebble Creek Rotary fundraiser uh, for their book program. You actually did hit some good shots as well as and funny story and I'll just tell you uh there was a technical issue with the machine that our team was on. So um when it was discovered there was a technical issue. It was our last six shots that didn't get generated through the system. So when I talked to the professional there at Top Golf he said you guys technically did win. You had the most So that was exciting. But
060then it's like to a group of our wonderful Verado supporters and such from Pebble Creek and all how do you kindly give away to the team that on the actual machine shows first place? Well, so it's nice to be able to do that and it was a lot of fun for us. So hopefully more can attend that. But any literacy program that we can support, it's amazing to do. Uh the champions dinner. We just happen to have the two people that put that event on. Miss Gres and Mr. Non. What an amazing first annual champions dinner. Um thank you for the invitation to present an award. I was honored to see the incredible job that you guys could put together for your first program. A lot of stress put on the second annual one. No
061stress at all. You guys did great. So thank you. That's all for me. Okay. I will just briefly highlight graduation best day of the year. Reiterate uh great job on our staff in our schools who were able to pivot and make things happen in a brand new venue and um like the intimacy of that as well. Uh congratulations to Canyon View. No, they did not win at all, but that is the farthest they've been in that program. So, I was able to go and celebrate um and watch them. Um it is heartbreaking when you lose, but um they did great job. Had a great season. And then I saw yesterday that uh their picture was just named Gatorade. Picture of Thank you. Thank you. Awesome accolade. Um and then last week I was able to
062go with Mark and Sarah um to Canyon View uh where there was a meeting about some parent concerns about a recent press release. And um I want to celebrate um the partnership that Mr. and our district has with the SRO's, with the city councils, with our police departments. Um, when you can stand up with and you have a detective, a police chief, uh, your SRO, your principal, your your superintendent, your safety first, like everybody there presenting uh, on a common front and being supportive. And, uh, our parents were great, too. They had some questions, some concerns. Um, and so I was happy to also on the consent agenda agree to those partnerships uh for SRO's that support our students. Um, it was scary at one time SRO's passed in our district a few years ago
06332. So to see them pass 50 again um appreciate the support and the way that you've brought us all together. And that is all I have. Do we have 9.1 requests for future agenda items? Anyone have a future agenda item? Okay, we will be heading into executive session. Be it resolved that the governing board convene an executive session as presented. I'll second go ahead. Yes. Yes. Landis. Yes. Is Miss Naylor still with us or she she Okay. Uh on to 11.1 consideration of the approval of the award for performance based compensation for the superintendent. What would you like from us here? Be it resolved that the governing board award the 2425 performance based compensation for the superintendent second. So yes, yes, Landis. Yes. Did she just join? Okay, Miss Naylor, we just voted uh for
064the performancebased compensation for the superintendent. What's your vote? Naylor. Yes. Okay. And then be it resolved the governing board adjourns the regular board meeting of June 4th, 2025. Let's let her second it. Second so excited. Yes. Landis. Yes.