001okay our next item is the call for public comments and I don't have any of the paperwork for it so I'm assuming there are no public comments so we will go on to informational items starting with the governing board of current events anybody on the board have anything to report okay next one is the superintendent's report of current events Mr Hopkins I just want to give a brief update to make a long story short I just wanted to talk real briefly about the aggregate expenditure limit that's been on everyone's uh everyone's radar so I wanted this to give a brief history background and just share some information with uh the board and everyone in attendance um just a brief history this is from castings or Finance expert director with Arizona Association of school business officials
0021980 Arizona Constitution Amendments were approved by the voters uh for the aggregate expenditure total spending on all districts that involves maintenance and operations Capital Broadway uh to go into a little more detail from the Arizona School administrators the aggregate expenditure amendment is a Statewide cap on School District spending so I provided this for each of you to just have a little background uh for this school year Statewide spending by school districts is estimated to be 1.3 billion over the expenditure limit now the definition of the aggregate expenditure limit is a cap on spending that being said at the legislature does not override the expanded treatment by March 1st required to cut their budgets by the budget cuts in effect by April 1st a little bit more background just talks about um requiring schools to cut
0031.3 billion out of the school Year's spending we'll have a devastating Statewide economic impact especially um a large impact on the rule Unified School District's community and so that being said in the 2022 legislative sessions the legislature invested a historic amount of money in K-12 including increasing special education funding and establishing a poverty way so the expenditure limit doesn't account for any of these changes so that's just a little bit of the background of that today we did some more research just to get the update um the Arizona house voted yesterday to let the aggregate expenditure limit a step toward avoiding massive budget cuts to Arizona Public Schools the House of Representatives loaded 4614 in favor of lifting the cap a resolution on it is needed by March 1st to avoid nearly 1.4 billion in
004budget cuts so yesterday the information was the Arizona Senate also has to vote to lift the cap um two-thirds majority of the vote in each chamber would mean that there's no need for governor Hobbs to sign the resolution now once again the AEL the aggregate expenditure limit which limits how much money Arizona K-12 school districts can spend every year was approved by voters in 1980 the Constitutional Amendments just an example NASA Public Schools the state's most largest District would have to cut 88 million from its budget so how does that translate I've talked with a number of people uh here in the room and also in our district almost carry forward fiscal year 22 is in our fiscal year 23 budget over 800 000. I was portion to cover this if the legislature does not
005pass would have been eight hundred and six thousand dollars so that that hits us pretty hard for for our budget um this is also from Arizona School administrators Arizona Association of school business officials to make a long story short but we just got notified uh Dr shaboks and I this afternoon at 2 46 PM Mr Hopkins also just signed up before coming into the meeting um this is from Arizona School administrators great news today the Arizona Senate approved house uh concurrent resolution 2001 a joint resolution already passed by the house to override the aggregate expenditure limit um no aggregate expenditure limit reductions will be required for the school year that pretty much means that aho does not have to worry like all the other districts in the state to have a hit on our m
006o which means that's 806 000 that stays with us going into the next year and so um but all the other districts also benefit from this as well so uh long story short is great news so that it's good to have a lot of our parents and teachers and families in the audience this is a tremendous cost for Ajo Unified School District but also other districts as well 50 60 70 million throughout the valley and in Tucson um we're not going to have to have 806 thousand dollars as well taken away because of the aggregate expenditure limit the Senate approved it and so um but you knew Mr Hopkins before I read this the great news and so did Angelina and Dr chabose and everyone else here so it's not a surprise and but also
007for our families and staff in the audience to is really great news and so this is a big benefit and I just wanted to share that with that with of you and that's my report uh Mr Hopkins and members of the board will keep it simple keep it brief and eight hundred and six thousand dollars that stays in our budget is always great news the letter no matter where you are great news indeed thank you the next item is Awards and recognition yes Mr President member of the board um this is something very special that we're starting today and we just want to uh we want to show that as a collaboration between students teachers and family recognize our students for academic excellence and growth but also for uh model behavior following the three R's
008respect respectful responsible ready to learn we want to get um every a grade before the end of the year so we're starting with uh three teachers today we wanted to try and have a combination of of Elementary primary to senior so that we can have a little bit of both at each meeting I just wanted to thank families Dr shabolism I want to thank all the families that are here for being supportive and thank you to our teachers the three teachers that are here I asked them if they could uh have a student in mind they told me they had a lot of students so it was really hard to you know all their students do a great job but they really wanted to pick an exceptional student and so I also want to thank
009Miss Angelina for their certificate design so what what I'll do is is we're just going to start with uh uh with Miss Cote I'll just kind of read real fast we have the certificates at the podium I'm just going to regroup briefly what they say but each teacher is going to give their personal touch uh and they're going to present their student and families and then uh the board would like to we would love to take a picture with all the recognition of all the students and families and staff we'll do it one at a time after all three I'll make the presentation so uh Mr Hopkins if I can go real fast and just anyone share what the certificate says and their school today will be first so it just it says here this
010is first being selected as superintendent student of the month uh from your from your classroom teacher says you are being selected by your teacher for your outstanding academic achievement based on excellence and growth in your classroom you have modeled great behavior that follows the Ajo Unified School District Red Raider expectations of being responsible respectful and ready to learn thank you for serving as an exceptional student leader in Auckland Unified School District that being said your teachers are going to talk a little bit more about you one at a time and then they're going to call you up and you're welcome to say anything students or parents also want to use this time to also say what you'd like to say this is your student and you as families your time to shine and Mrs Cote
011you got it sir a pleasant evening to our esteemed board members Dr soltero Dr Cheval some teachers parents students and gay I am very proud and excited to present the very first superintendent student of the month now this little young lady um she has very good leadership quality um when things needs to get done she gets it done and get it done correctly she also demonstrated kindness compassion and Grace she's very fun and enjoyable to be around so for preschool the superintendent student of the Monaco students camera Cruiser [Applause] foreign teacher so the one that I chose is Jordan Lopez Jordan is confident positive and a great role model for his classmates he is frequently among the first to help and Mentor other classmates Jordan is interested in his own learning listens attentively and makes
012a solid effort to avoid distractions that could interrupt the learning process he is a great example of a student who loves to go to school so for kindergarten we have Jordan Lopez [Applause] okay [Applause] next we have for our high school singer I believe uh hello everybody it's my pleasure to talk about Mr Zachary Miller now I have Zach twice as a senior ahead of him as an English student and also in a fitness class I got some good news and I got some great news uh the good news is that Zac has committed himself to just overall life Improvement mentally physically educationally and what else could you ask for but that's that's what school's all about right so Zach you've done it the right way you try hard every day I'm going to be
013more proud of you on your efforts riding and lifting weights and running reading across the board that's the good news uh with Zach the great news is there is not a more pleasant young man that walks our Halls um what could be more important than just having a young man that is so pleasant to walk in every single day and it's just a pleasure I'm I wish I had you three times a day that's right so we could uh rattle across me [Applause] oh yes I guess congratulations [Applause] I just wanted to give up at any members of the Lord who would like to share anything with any of our students who are recognize their families just wanted to see if there's any board members at this time we would like to say anything to
014our students families or staff well congratulations I mean this is a great honor I think to have this student of the month and I'm hoping this continues every month a brand new attribute for every month and have a new set of kids in here every single month congratulations yeah board members board meetings are always nicer when we have students here to give some input and it's just a great to see inspiring students and to recognize their work foreign in great school districts [Laughter] so did you want to do the photos now or wait until let's do about any parents with any parents want to say anything you're more than welcome to speak for more you're sitting or uh from the podium um your accounts also if you would like to recognize and say something about
015your superintendent student of the month thank you any comments coach koozer I know you're not shy yeah well I what they did is want to thank our teachers you know what you guys put up with a lot a lot uh and uh you know grateful that we have a safe environment that they can go to and learn and obviously Kendra loves going to school so it feels good being able to drop off you know that she's in good hands thank you so much for all your hard work any other parent what we can do here Laura Smith is on the record at what time uh 5 45 5 45. what we can do here uh Mr President members of the board if we can get a good picture of one student at a time one
016fact like we can have uh our Pre-K student with her family and teacher and all of us up here uh we have our our professional photographer there Dr Conley so let's go with uh with our pre-kate right up in here are you right across yeah how do you want to do it here we go yeah put these in our yearbook yeah and uh two hands ready there we go now we're at the same height [Music] okay hold on hold on one more here hold on got it okay one more okay happy birthday you're the one that needs a chair shorty oh my God I'm doing this I'm Gonna Get Right There sideways okay we want to really recognize uh Mr uh Hopkins members of the board you guys are the inaugural uh students and you
017can staff and parents through the Pioneers for what we hope there's something very special that we want to continue here are not working Unified School District for our Red Raiders and before we finish it's someone's birthday today yes Mrs Cote so if you would I saw Jordan singer happy birthday please [Laughter] happy birthday to you [Applause] uh Mr President that concludes the um our inaugural Awards and recognition for super students very proud of you and um and uh we're very proud of you and we just want to say you're more than welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting or if you want to you can get an early start on dinner and we'll see you all first thing in the morning so uh we'll give you time if you want to uh if
018you wanted to go get an early start for dinner or you're welcome to stay the whole time and listen to the rest of our congratulations thank you okay then the next item on the agenda is approval of the consent agenda um and I'll just give a reminder because I don't know that the two board members are aware that you are we are allowed to pull anything out of the consent agenda and vote on it individually if a board member chooses to but um right now I'm asking for a motion to approve the consent agenda okay Mr Hopkins hi Ms Rodriguez aye Mr Guthrie aye thank you very much okay next item of business is the classified resignation of maintenance worker uh Mr President members of the board Benjamin aguiati maintenance worker at ahu schools submitted
019his resignation to the maintenance director on 130 2023 affected immediately I recommend the approval of the resignation of Benjamin aguiat as of 130 2024 okay I'll make the motion okay all right next item on the agenda is the classified employment of the maintenance worker Jorge Chavez Mr President members of the board holiday Chavez has been interviewed for the position of maintenance worker Mr Chavez is in the process of getting his IDP fingerprint card and will not start his first day of work until his card is received recommendation is the approval of the employment of Jorge cabez as a maintenance worker for awful schools okay may I have a motion I'll make a motion no seconded aye Mr Rodriguez aye um okay next item is the extra pay position employment the president members of the board
020the individuals Below have expressed an interest in coaching and for the 2023 spring Sports season Doug saying head softball coach Lonnie Alvarez assistant softball coach Eleanor Guthrie volunteer softball coach Angelina Valenzuela volunteer softball coach and Charles buddy koozer the head football coach okay now our recommendation is the approval of the above individuals with the corresponding extra paid positions okay may I have a motion I'll make a motion I'll second it hi okay next item is the approval of employment of teachers for after school tutoring president members of the board the following certified staff are being recommended to provide tutoring Monday Tuesday and Thursday beginning February 13th to early may stay tutoring Grant application depending but Ade recommends tutoring can start before approval for Miss Queenie De La Roma April Caballero Donette Williams artemio manningo Abu
021Casey Anthony delara Mercy araguanas tutor coordinator and Title One Roger pavunag Mary Grace Robles Richard riverdon Ria Fernandez I recommend the approval of the above individuals as after school tutoring okay may I have a motion I'll make a motion a second Mr Hopkins um okay next item is the approval of teachers for Saturday professional development training for the m-class intervention of members of the board um our elementary and special education teachers will need to attend training to learn how to use the m-class intervention that we just purchased teachers only two four hour training or one eight hour training training cannot happen on a weekday because of a lack of substitutes and the number of teachers that will need it thus the best option will be on a Saturday and to do this apple schools will
022need to pay teachers you know there's a list of teachers that will need this training Jamie vagares Amanda yariad Angela incha irelia Mary Grace Roble Fernandez Roger Anthony delara 12 teachers times eight hours to 25 dollars per hour comes out to twenty four hundred dollars from title two I recommend the approval of the above individuals to attend a Saturday PD training for m-class intervention to be set at a later date okay may I have a motion I'll make a motion okay okay Mrs Olson all right okay next item is business item approval of a grad Solutions Hub site at the Yahoo schools campus president members of a grad Solutions Hub on the Yahoo schools campus the site Alternative High School is to be named Ajo Academy the purpose of the Alternative High School would be
02322 credit requirement will help secondary students successfully graduate from high school who may be in Jeopardy of not graduating this has to be done again for 2023 as required by Ade last year Ade changed the submittal dates and ours was one of many that the state didn't process Dr shabok's any uh any um anything else we need to know or everything good everything's good okay my recommendation is the approval of a grab solution site on the Yahoo schools camp okay we have a motion to move I'll make a motion I'll check into it okay the next item is the approval and second reading of the governing board policies for policy advisory number 739-743 Mr President members of the board uh governing boards May review and adopt policy advisory number 741 consistent with a policy adoption
024process and policy vgb first meeting the proposal shall be presented for review second meeting the proposal shall be presented for discussion and action regulations and Exhibits are optional the governing board should be aware of these regulations and Exhibits but board action is not necessary to utilize them policy advisory number 739 new exhibit i-h-a-m-b-e-a Family Life Education new exhibit IH ambed Family Life Education policy advisement number 740 new exhibit ijle Library materials selection and adoption policy advisory number 741 policy jfabda admission of students in foster care regulation jfabda admission of students and Foster Care policy advisory number 742 exhibit jhd EB exclusions and exemptions from School attendance policy advisory number 743 new exhibit kbec parental involvement and education and uh just a reference to the first reading we had Monday uh it's all the same information
025and so uh I recommend the approval of the above policies exhibits and regulations above on the second reading okay and may I have a motion again I'll make a motion on the second one hi okay next item is the possible new agenda item for the next meeting and I know we have one for March from Miss Olson for uh regarding uniforms and dress code is anybody else can we add um I guess second gold cardboard for example that we did okay there are no further uh suggestions for future agenda at the point where I ask for a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion a second all right yesterday all right and it happens forward here at six o'clock nice