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August 2023 Study Session Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Ajo Unified School District
Date
2023-08-08
Location
Pima County, AZ
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,215 words · about 7 min
Collected
2026-06-05

Transcript

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001late promotion I will check it out I am okay please stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance switching stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all right okay next item is public comments and it appears that you have none at this time so on to informational items first one being Personnel additional class and increase in schedule for Chad should you Mr President members of the board due to a change in the high school schedule it became necessary for judge an additional class during their current preparation period the administration is recommending that he be paid his hourly rate for the extra instructional hour he is teaching there's no board action necessary this is an informational item only okay and this is to help cover the social studies yes okay any

002other questions or discussion okay you answered my question I mean I asked your question well no and he answered it oh okay yeah so next item is certified employment of substitute teachers uh Mr President members of the board the individuals Below have expressed an interest in being sub clear on the first hiring in 2021 Kathy Moto and Candace Moore there is no more to action necessary this is an informational only okay any questions or discussion tonight I noticed on Kelly's application she also put paraprofessional is was she only being used for a substitute and not also a paraprofessional I believe I'll I'll have Dr schvelt talk a little bit more about this but I believe it's more of a focus on yeah substitute okay Miss Moore she's going to be a great professional that I'm

003pressed on it so we could use it yourself on Friday if you saw that maybe yes too so sometimes you're able to put yourself okay okay we'll take them thank you any further questions or discussion okay the next item then is the classified resignation and finance of Araceli mignon Mr President members of the board of Marx position is finance Clerk there is no board action necessary this is an informational item only okay and this is a position we have already got coverage for yes sir okay yeah in a transition okay any other questions or discussion yeah next item is I believe related to classified employment and finance of Ginger Zambrano hey Mr President members of the board dangerous ambrado has been interviewed for the position of finance Clerk she will be part-time to start and

004join uh Miss Gutierrez in the finance office there is no board action necessary this is an informational item only okay any questions or discussion on that okay on the next item then the classified employment of teachers Aid Oscar Reyes Mr President members of the board Oscar Reyes has been interviewed for the position of paraprofessional teachers Aid there is no board action necessary this is an informational item only okay I have to be taller than the students no you don't I can vouch for that oh help him catch more people we've had that when I was substituting and people thought I was a student there so the kid growing up they everybody call them yeah and that's half the town everybody knows him I'm sure I'm sure Mr Reyes is ready to oh yes I know

005he has history working with us and at the at the clinic as well next item that is the classic Nation classified reassignment and addition of teachers Aid Candace amor current subject has required has requested additional hours as a teacher's aide this more will be a parapro every day and a substitute as needed there is no word action necessary this is an informational item only and since we're already giving the prayer approach 30 hours right right so this doesn't doesn't mean anything in the way of additional benefits or anything right she already qualifies for 30 hours is she has that she has that opportunity for the 30 hours and to um yes okay any other questions next item then is the increase increase in hourly rate for Jennifer Groves Mr President members of the board for

006the classified working conditions agreement Jennifer Grove submitted a plan salary step already increase a request to me last year to us last year requesting an hourly increase in pay for upcoming college courses to be completed by August 2023 she has completed four educational classes for a total of 16 credit hours and an increase of pay of 15 cents per hour there is no word action necessary this is an informational item only okay any questions or discussion on that is you're working towards like a degree where she's going to be a coming um I believe uh dribbles she's uh she has um she's she's taking some extra classes and I think she's trying to get into education yeah that'd be nice yeah that's good yeah she wants to work out of school good for her good

007well it looks like quite her attractive it's going to be special ed yeah big demand for that awesome I don't I don't have a copy of her transcript S [Music] I probably yeah I probably just went in as a regular person any other discussion or questions on that one okay the next one is the extra pay position for volunteer coaching and volunteer coaching employment Mr President or Mrs the board the following employees that have expressed a desire to perform the designated extra pay in launching positions for the 23-24 school year Mr Babu Casey co-grants coordinator Chad jgct jted director Nicholas I want to say this right Zachary Harry Harry okay Volunteer football coach Marciano offense coordinator Early Childhood director high school student council advisor there is no board action necessary this is an informational item

008only okay and as I recall on the agenda for Wednesday these are all broken out to vote on individually if we choose to or we can vote on them yes there any questions about any of those we may have some um a long story short we may have some additional names okay try and have all of the extra Duty positions completed that's just the answer okay one thing I want to say is about a good bunch of people want all right absolutely okay there's no more discussion the next item is policy yes ma'am already done in the first reading on the last yes and the the agenda I put the second reading instead of um and there's no there's no comment and it would disable this item that makes sense you'll have the first reading

009from the last meeting yes or we could still talk about it because there's not really any of this book items it's up to you yeah um there's no there's no board action so the secondary secondary meeting is kind of frivolous at this point but I couldn't change the agenda yeah and as I recall we usually do the second reading in the voting meeting when we're going to vote on it you know just a first reading again you want to go over to just refresh your memories it's totally fine um there's no harm no foul okay so that we know that it's the second reading but it's not really approval it's still technically a first second week yes and I believe we were all here for the first reading but if anybody wants it read back

010over again we can do that or if anybody has any questions or discussion about it based on that first reading foreign action possible new agenda item for the next meeting anybody on the boat have um I'm gonna add um another agenda item for the 1C medium we found out there's going to be a Saturday um you might recall about three or four months ago we had an NPI training course only for the elementary um that where they they go on a Saturday for extra PD training it's like an eight hour long training so I'm gonna I'm gonna add another one of those to Wednesday um and it's actually I listed it here but then I didn't love unity sorry um uh so there will be an extra Saturday for the teachers that missed it um

011the new teachers Decon uh with bothabella's the first the second grade the fourth grade the fifth grade all the new teachers that missed it okay do you have this on the study one because it's not online and I signed in no if you go to the governing board though for Wednesday no go down to where it says governing one action possible new agenda items for next meeting oh I see I see okay yeah Okay click on it oh it does actually mine does say We'll add requests for additional time for teachers on Saturday an extra pay position for Jose via but you don't have to apologize for me not logging in no no that's fine thank you any questions okay yeah no questions or maybe just something you can update on the jom yeah that

012of can you speak to that well yeah okay but yeah just yeah sure yeah we've we've been talking about it um but yeah so she's not on the agenda we can't go there okay if there's no other thing for possible future new agenda items we are now looking for a motion to adjourn I will second the motion because we all studied before the test so

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