001responding to any criticism or scheduling a matter for future consideration and see they have three people to make public comments and the first one would be Mr Duck Song he's right here is good that works uh tonight and I teach a variety of classes AP composition English one two three four Communications and Fitness I'm also the Jalen coordinator softball coach and always basketball coach this year and that engineer I will be signing a full-time contract for this upcoming year he just wanted to make that announcement to all you guys at the same time we're open to 0.5 type of contracts for a variety we each have our own reasons on why we do not want to work full time but we also want to keep the door open uh if if other positions or part-time
002positions uh would become available we've enjoyed our our year here I'm also open we're not leaving we bought at home and we're here this we we're here in Iowa we will join our time here and we really evaluate with the kids this year um so again just kind of to reiterate that and I'm certainly open to continue potential coaching and a potential coordinator positions or whatever a potential benefits um we wish you all nothing about the best and we wish this community nothing but the best and again we're not going anywhere we're here and so it kind of put the ball on your guys's court if you know the 45 is something that is of Interest yes okay thank you guys very much thank you okay next I have Julianne my name is Julianne and
003I'm the parent of a Pre-K student I'm here to address a need I see in school and propose a solution we know our school has given limited funds each year because there are small size of student population refunds however our school has an amazing to keep the extracurricular activities going even with limited resources we know the amenities here though are getting old it takes a lot of fun and we'd like to create an athletic booster club to support the athletic program with the school so we'll be creating a separate organization from the school and hopefully have its own 501 I've researched and spoken with many booster club presidents and other schools both big and small they're kind of take time to walk me through how they were structured what they've done with their donations some
004of the things these clubs have done with their funds to support their schools are purchased to uniforms purchase training for players and coaches create a whole experience during games to make a fun environment for the community funds to feed the teams on away games purchase Sports equipments as of now our school or coaches have had to pay for all of these and they're taken from other things the school could have used such as increased teacher pay I was wanting to serve a school booster club last year but was discouraged by the lack of school support we would get if we were our own organization however when talking to these other school booster clubs we found some common denominators for a successful booster club number one they were their own organization apart from school number two
005they worked well with the athletic director three they have healthy relationships with School administration four the school allows them to use their property to fundraise hi the school allows them to use their School logo six even the school advertises on their own website about the booster club to promote involvement animation when I asked Auto school if we could fundraiser in a game I was immediately Shuffle logo for different things I was denied saying it was not allowed I'd like the school board to consider where these rules are and if we can consider voting a change to now allow accepted boosters to fundraise on school grounds and use the logo just because we've been doing something a certain way for a long time doesn't make it I'd appreciated the board would grant for permission for us
006to work together the whole purpose of this rooster Club to help our students in school if we're not making a profit office if anything my guess is that I will personally lose money doing this but I really really believe if we can collaborate with each other we can create great experiences for our players teams and community Through Sports we can have an organization to help apply apply seed donations they accept school property purchase sports equipment and as a community better support our equipment yeah coach buddy Cruz yeah thank you uh coach buddy Hoosier uh coach football team and have a daughter in school here as well um I wanted to come and formally apologize for any miscommunication uh into the community of the field situation I wanted to just give a really simple timeline of
007what I was told and what happened so there's a little bit of clarity to the situation because the last thing I want is for there to be any um ill feelings or feelings of Deceit or um kind of yeah causing contention in the community because that's the last thing so on the April 22nd I was invited to attend a coach's clinic for the CAA and in that clinic they taught one of the topics of discussion was the poor field conditions for several schools the director of the CAA pulled me aside during lunch and said uh-oh is one of the schools that will not be able to have a home game unless you fix your field and so obviously I was a little bit panicked because our season is in three months so as soon as
008I got out I called all of our volunteer coaches that are going to be working with us this year and playing the situation I never said that the season would be canceled just said hey we have to fix the field or they're not going to let um nine days later uh Dr soltero is good enough to meet with all of us coaches and with joseon and um Jose was actually able to get clarification that they would let us play at home but we still there was fixes on the field to make but we would be able to have our own games thankfully this season um so a couple days later May 4th uh well so we put out the call I put up the call to our coaches hey here's the situation they then went
009to the community because resources locally and said hey here's the situation we need help and so the Chamber of Commerce ended up holding a special meeting and then they uh scheduled the time to go and look at the school in the field on May 4th and I I had nothing to do with that I was invited a couple hours before and said hey the chamber's going to be here if you want to be here swing on by so I I would stop by and I didn't tell Dr sotel honestly I never never even came to my mind that he would um wanted to be there so anyways they went they looked at the field they took pictures and they were blown away at the conditions of the field that it was let go to that
010extent um they were just shocked and so obviously most of you saw the Facebook post that night of what's happening to our field there can't save our season and there was definitely some untrue things that were said in that post uh I saw the next day and actually actually jumped in and tried to clarify just said hey we do get a play here here is our season um you know it's not getting canceled but I just wanted to say that the the yeah so that I apologize if I that was never my intent um if I could just have one last thing I want to say the response to the community um I do feel it was helpful to clarify that the season was still happening um I I got backlash or concerned members of
011the community that were there in solid field I said why is the school saying it's safe because it's not it basically discredited what they just saw in the first person and I have to say that we had boys get hurt last year on that field like it's not a safe field it's not uh we have to adjust our practice the way that we practice because it's not a safe field and we want to help the community wants to help we have access to a lot of funds a lot of interested alumni that want to support and so in no way is this US versus them we want to be on the same team we want to help however we can and I think the booster is going to be a great way that we can
012help contribute to Community into the the school program in general thank you I apologize I went over thank you very much that's supposed to comment very very good it's very proactive so I'm sure you that knowing him like I know him that you're going to be happy it's been nothing but great experiences we've had a great experience I just want to make that show support for our superintendent right that's what I wanted to do I believe that but we're also not allowed to comment on things that aren't on the agenda sorry Nana thank you okay next item of business Personnel is the certified employment of teacher Luella salivante okay Mr President members of the board um uh explanation members of the board and um members in the audience uh Mr Wheeler salivante has been interviewed
013for the position of classroom teacher for the 2023-24 Academic Year reference checks are in progress and a certified contract will be issued once satisfactory references are required uh recommendation that there's no board action needed at this time this is an informational item only okay any questions or discussion on to the next item Personnel certified employment for the 23-24 school year of teacher Anna Abella Mr President go to the board I know Bella has been interviewed for the position of classroom teacher for the 2023-2024 Academic Year reference checks are in progress and a certified contract will be issued one to the satisfactory references are acquired the original board action necessary this is an informational item only okay any discussion on that the next item is the Personnel reassignment of classified position manager of grounds Daniel cotton
014uh Mr President members of the board Daniel cotton has been interviewed and selected for the reassignment of position from maintenance custodian to manager of grounds grounds manager will be responsible for cleaning and maintaining Sports Fields year round I want to add that grass pavement sidewalks in all areas between and around District buildings a recommendation there is no board action needed at this time this is an informational item only is this the does he get any pay compensation with this yes he will okay okay and part of the reason why we wanted to uh this was an internal post to give members on our team on our ausd team a chance to see that there is the possibility for growth in advancement within the district to employees first and this is a very good process right
015Dr Oaks he and I and Mysterion were on the committee three of our internal members applied it was great to see them step up and it was a very competitive process so uh good to see you excellent so again what I'm saying about our superintendent is that he identifies problems and he fixes them right he fixes them and this was his step to fixing the problems that we have with our Sports Fields right it was it was a bit it was a big uh just seeing how other districts uh in Southern Arizona have specifically this kind of team set up for the sole purpose of focusing on the sports facilities the fields and the gym your route it seems to me it'll make it more efficient to take care of the grounds all over the
016school including yes cut the grass side locks but now we have a focus and a game plan for year-round all the films because I know I've heard the teacher singing Daniel's Praises so I'm sure he's up for the task yes sir okay next item Personnel is the approval of employment of teachers and parapros for the June Summer School Mr Hopkins members of the board of the following certified staff are being recommended to teach June Summer School from June 5th to 8th in June 12th and 15th to make 15 to 115 each day Hernandez the quality paraprofessionals are being recommended to be one-on-one AIDS during spring break intercession Bernadine Tamayo Rafael Duran Gloria Gutierrez Kristen King and Amber Ortiz there's no board action needed at this time this is an informational item only one question I
017have is I know Kristen King was just hired on by copper news she going to be able is is this taking that into account you know uh summer school is only from eight to one she's and it's only for two weeks she's gonna work it in and she's um she's working at the at um here and if her one-on-one isn't here and he's not new to the substitute then she'll just go back and forth so sometimes in her staying here okay I'm just a typo they're home spring break intercession should be summer yeah yeah we do have one more name to add that will be on the Wednesday agenda but I only got the name this morning it was emailed to me Friday afternoon and I didn't care on the agenda um um but I
018couldn't add it to this one because we were already passed it 24 hours so I'm tomorrow's agenda uh clean De La Roma is going to be added but I couldn't add it to this one because we had already passed for 24 hours if you are you've already added it to tomorrows tomorrow also but she's not on this July don't start because we can't change okay any other description next item Personnel approval of employment of teachers and parapros for the July JumpStart by of the following certified staff are being recommended uh Mr President members of the board to teach July jumpstart from July 10th to 13th 17 to 20 from 8 15 to 1 15 each day Kerry Macario Fernandez the following paraprofessionals are being recommended to be one-on-one AIDS during July Katie jump start Sanchez
019ambro Ortiz there's no board action needed at this time this is an informational item only you see Mr perito is if certified we have a plan if he does not completely we we will we will figure out a plan okay we will be in in your been in constant contact with him and Dr Wilson and I will continue to work with him okay any other question okay next item then is extra pay position employment president members of the board have the following employees have expressed the desire to perform he designated extra paid positions for the 2023-24 school year Lonnie Guthrie the third assistant football coach and Malin Lewis Volunteer football baseball coach there was no board action needed at this time this is an informational item s so I have a question okay with me
020on the scoreboard yes even though you're related but you live in separate households then you're you're definitely okay same way Eric and and Rose Cameron could be on the board they lived in separate houses yeah I think it has to do with whether his getting paid would have a financial impact to you which would happen if you live in the same house but since you're not it I just want to make that yes sir appreciate that I do have a question about Mayland though is is just a clarify this is he only volunteering for football or is he volunteering for both okay I should put it and well let's eat it or okay beautiful okay if there's no other discussion on the next one which is business the 2023 District annual expenditure budget revision Mr
021President members of the board um in accordance with Arizona revised statutes 15 905 and 15-910 by May 15th the board May revise the school district annual expenditure budget after notice has been given and a public meeting has been held attached is the district annual budget expenditure budget revision there is no board action needed at this time this is an informational item only however we have our current business manager that we have through true professionals Mr Jeremy Gaius who serves as a business manager in Tolleson Union High School District we're going to connect with them over here uh I welcome everyone to come over here he's going to go through the information uh you're welcome to bring your laptop with you also that has the attachment and he's going to go through in detail um the
022presentation all right good morning Little Jeremy how are you doing the board here so I don't know if you can see them all but if you have a Rodriguez and we have Mr Hopkins right up here in the front our fourth president right behind uh Rodriguez we have Miss Olson one of our board members next to her to her left it's right here Mr Hopkins Mr Guthrie Mr Lonnie Guthrie we have Dr Manchester Boltz to his next and we have also um who's our principal and we have two uh well-respected members in our community I don't know if you can see them we have coach koozer and his wife Mrs Juliet and you're in this right here so Jeremy uh take it away tomorrow so hopefully to see the I'm sharing my screen so you
023can you can also follow along so looking at the agenda uh this school year 23 ending balances uh and then some adjustments go over some of the expected legislation of uh more recent information they just dropped it by today foreign [Music] a little bit but you can put the form ER it's over 3.7 million for all and in that difference column that kind of gives you a gauge as to how fast you're spending the money versus how fast as you can see that right now there's been coming on them but what's going out for expenses but until 3.7 mil so I look at how we're going to Tweet things for the main revision there's going to be a shift of 100 districts assistance expenditures over in the school plan and partners estimating the AFR will
024probably [Music] again across the things so to show you how that change is the total still remain the same the the now Eminem [Music] with school plan significantly and absorb Ed in the previous slide yeah is for a school plan can be used for any Capital purpose um some of the capital expenses which allows us to ship ment for next year put your money all right so overall uh 3.6 million of that over that 3.7 million dollar balance at that one-time funding that's available but 150 6 is going out but still shifting to make sure that we get the money all right this is a look and I'll tell you what the updates are but let's look at ending legislation the latest updated just had a budget bills dropped approved by Wednesday um it includes
025the replacement there's a ship that put those things funding over to the base originally now you get 100 we assessed it 0.9 so that number will go um about three thousand a 200 lower than the secrets a two percent of the base has now changed to a one-time increase of 300 million right now we we have dollar Statewide number they want to do the same methodology for next year so we can take multiply that by four negative it's actually coming in better than that days because four times so instead of the 63 it's on there on distributional assistance the original thought was two percent that says they're going to be 20 million and 20 million also comes out of 20 million is going to give you the 24 000 uh right now the bills that
026have just dropped this week it would ship these numbers higher than what's what's foreign [Music] things of that nature so it doesn't matter what point is outside the increase in the retention compensation by 600 has a foreign bringing up with the district and in the ground Commander report for social conversations Plus so total news is onboards and from 720 . all right so we break those down they're ongoing Revenue available [Music] here [Music] foreign yeah I would say about five years ago [Music] about it's almost here so assuming no other new Revenue it's overall we have some healthy balances available right now uh exchanges playing after next year we'll start to draw those [Music] and they're giving you could be doing a lot more yeah [Music] you're writing about delivering them out there because put
027that in context if if every homeowner who has an assessed value of a hundred thousand dollars was really really ten dollars unfortunately I have a school facility some districts are yeah um aside from that though I've been thinking any budget questions thank you Jeremy thank you for the presentation um the increasing pay and hours up to 30 hours that's pretty much sustainable yes thank you sure thank you cheers so I want to say real quick I'll just jump in here real quick um for our board and uh all right um we have I just wanted to show everyone that Jeremy's really going above and beyond doing great work he's up in Tennessee and High School District kind of running things up there but uh we met we finally connected yesterday we met four or five
028times and we went over this yesterday about 11 to 12 30 on Sunday he was very dedicated very detailed transparent so as you can see uh what we have and where it is and what I really like is the sustainability part especially to run out every employee here on Yahoo Unified School District's campus have a chance to have health insurance so that's that's very important so um thank you Jeremy and um we'll keep in touch absolutely [Music] um foreign that's our ping pong table s okay so next item of business is the approval of the disposal of library books yes sir Mr President members of the board um Dr Donnell Conley has leaded the school library and is seeking board permission to discard approximately 385 library books these books are recommended for disposal based upon
029lack of circulation and condition my recommendation there is a little board action necessary this is an informational item only how will these books be disposed I will turn to our historian uh Miss Angelina what did she share with you historically two ways two weeks going to try try to run a summer program and usually with like a summer program they uh they come like they do summer school and they read and do activities and she bundles them up and like hands them out okay and gets out to uh to kids that come from the summer program um she also it's like it's just totally blown and none of the kids want to read it or it's so old that you know it's falling apart then those usually we have to dispose of we have to
030take them to adopt um but if it's a good like book and it just hasn't been in circulation um sometimes she'll get like a book that's a um and then switch it out with like a one of the new uh comic books so then they're still reading but it's pictures of kids talking with you know Bubbles and stuff like that it looks like a comic book but it's donkey Hopey or or whatever a copy of a classic and they're more interested in reading it that way than there are the actual table fashioned way yeah so then show she'll dispose of that book and then get it or show buy an e-book with the 15 000 okay out and the ebook will be they'll be even better than they will old-fashioned okay so she's got a
031handful of ways that she can and we can't donate any of these to the public library okay we try we actually tried that one year and we donated we got special Commission because it was public library so it's one uh organization to another organization and then three years went by and then they donated the same books back to us and we were like yeah that doesn't work that doesn't work yeah okay so um but like we said if we you know give them away or we actually take them physically to the dump and then we leave them there and that's what we have to do for this taxpayers so were all these books purchased pulse fired um no well some of them on the list were from 93 94 and 95. um when I mean
032uh but the fire didn't happen until after 2017. the the trust was really good they had a they called it an ozone filter so every book that was in here when the fire went through got placed in an ozone filter and it basically what I what I heard was just a big chamber and then they stuck up all the oxygen out and it pulls the nastiness out of the nastiness out of all of the books yeah like there's one book on here from 71. oh my gosh there's the oldest book I've seen on any of these lists published in 1864. yeah it was acquired in 95. because we have the same book one of them published in 71 the exact same book published in 1864. that might be an antique okay any other questions about
033them very good next item is the discussion of the third board goal Mr President members of the board um first and foremost I you know what I'm looking here we didn't put the attachment what I'm going to do is I'll read to you what I put together based on your comments the last meeting and I'll follow up with uh sending this to you so you guys I'll have this as a draft please look it over give me feedback um this is a governing board goal three Ajo Unified School District will continue with the Strategic Direction focused on the critical academic areas of opportunity for our students um Administration and the leadership team will make sure that curriculum and instruction resources Beyond textbooks and class reading intervention Math and Science curriculum are aligned with State and
034District standards the leadership team did share with me some additional resources just to share with all of you Newsela is an online platform for our Ela English language arts Envision map for k-6 m-class Dibbles is very critical 8th Edition screener for foundational literacy a move on when reading requirement for students that are having need some extra help with reading trophy support for ask for student at risk students amplify reading Raz plus and luzella also science and social studies online platform but also uh the leadership team is working on a potentially new science adoption is that right so trying to see what we what we can do to sign for a science adoption it also addresses the standards I know Miss Rodriguez mentioned that last time to be in line with the National Science standard so
035this is a good goal it's our third goal your third goal and so we have a this is a good step in the right direction going more towards on our strategic plan and things like that any discussion okay next item on the agenda is to call for future agenda items does anybody have one knowledgeable um I'm hoping maybe because we're well I guess we're at a point now where we're renewing contracts and we are seeing that some of our staff members are opting not to renew I'm hoping maybe we can somehow put together an exit interview of some sort so that way we can get some feedback as to why um staff members are opting out of their contract um kind of just kind of checking in okay what can we do better I know
036we've we did budget are we doing a budget now uh being able to provide more um resources and benefits for our staff members but I just kind of want to get um I guess their input as to what other areas can we improve on improve on so okay and then one uh item I'd like to add to a future agenda um like we changed the Dr saltero and I talked about it and we changed Wednesday's board meeting the Tuesday technically by how our policy State said it's only in an emergency that you and I are supposed to be able to do that or it could be changed by a vote of the board I didn't want to call a special session of the board just to vote on changing the date um and I talked
037I consulted with the district's lawyer and he said we're fine this had come up last year at one point and the suggestion was made that well we should really look at that policy and maybe see if we can change it a little bit to give us a little bit more freedom we hadn't done that yet so I'd like to put on agenda maybe for not for tomorrow night of course because it would be too late but maybe for the next special session that we we look at that policy and if there's a way that we can adjust it that gives us that flexibility it doesn't happen often um and like I said I'm allowed to we're allowed to in the state of if there's an emergency or something's going on it makes it dangerous for
038people to come if there's you know massive storm going on or if I know for a fact beforehand that we won't have a quorum I can move it um like I said I did consult with the district's lawyer and he said we're completely fine with changing at this time but ideally it would be best to do it with a board vote So speaking of looking back and looking at that policy I think it's policy be that states when we can change when we can adjust a meeting um I just wanted to put that out there for a special session to discuss that and maybe consider changes okay are there any other future agenda items if not will ask for a motion to adjourn I'll second all right Mr Hopkins aye the immediate insurance at 619.
039you take my notes [Applause]