001all right um for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice nobody is end of the year celebration that i wanted to make the board aware of and invite you to participate so you have to choose to do so uh tomorrow morning it's 7 30 in this room it's not going to look like this enough we have staff and we have an annual staff breakfast uh not a strategic staff staff appreciation day and we find something to buy them and give them to let them know that we not only pay them we appreciate the work they do so that'll be 7 30 people will be fast because people class at 8 10. um a week from tomorrow night the 19th at 6 p.m the annual rotary honorable banquet will be at
002the lds church on cedar um feel free i'm not as involved this year i'm i'm involved in the meeting that my thursdays have just things have happened with a bunch of them except for one answer having been to the rotary meeting for a while but uh we're still playing i hope we have some scholarships i know it's been a couple years since you've done this because i think it's a nice tradition and i hope we can kind of get back into that for the kids seems like a long ways away but it's not uh two weeks from the nightside school graduation um elementary promotion sorry eighth grade promotions at six o'clock on the 24th high school graduations at 20 is it's 7 o'clock on the 25th um we'll be doing it in dycus we did
003that last year and we had i was more worried about kobe last year than this year i'm so worried i'll worry about it forever but uh hopefully we i'd like to have all you folks on the stage with the students and and folks and i and uh you can just have the principal and the rest of you i'm sorry guys uh but uh i think it's important that the students see you folks there and caring about their success so we've got a good senior class greatly i uh recently went on a few years don't forget to come in and sign diplomas oh yes done we need five signatures looks good thank you okay you got a couple of motions mr hopkins the contractor has had interviews with the board participated in the community forum and
004familiarized with the district a three-year facilities with office schools for the office will support him what is the superintendent's recommendation that dr saltera will be approved you should have sent that little girl down in the first place and you wouldn't have the interview mr character says i mr hopkins miss duncan aye mr robertson aye mr guthrie aye ms zero congratulations thank you next quarter of business sure if that's okay with you sure okay well thank you um i'm going to wait a few seconds to see if my better half and our true boss in the house are here to victoria uh she's she's four years old for four months and so she's going everywhere so uh we'll see if she can come in for a little bit but i'm gonna go ahead i'll go ahead
005and get started okay um for your trust and the appointment to serve as the next superintendent for the oppo unified school district i am truly humbled mr options mr curtis ms duncan ms robertson and mr guthrie and honored to have this professional educational leadership opportunity i also want to recognize dr dooley for his 20 years of exceptional service to the yahoo unified school district community dr dooley you have performed your job as superintendent with pride and distinction sir and i've learned a lot from you in the last few weeks that we've talked and i know that the community is truly great mr president mr clerk honorable members of the governing board i look forward to us starting an incredible journey together and make you not hope the best district in the state and i mean
006that for my heart you will get my heart and soul and mining as your next superintendent i want us to work together with all the staff and i met some of the outstanding staff already dr chibols dr conley i have no doubt and also angelina she knows everything so she's the person so i believe we have a great foundation all started by dr vaughn ralph waldo emerson speaking to a graduating class at harvard once said anything can be accomplished with enthusiasm and i truly believe that and as former north carolina state basketball coach jim valvano once said you plus motivation equals success so it's up to us and it's up to me it starts with me and i have to come in every day with my head up my shoulders back because everyone will see
007it and i have to lead by example and i'm going to share it with you that it's in my heart and my soul to do that every single day thank you dennis mcdonald the best district in the state and has worked towards all of our students k12 to have lifelong skills thank you i am truly grateful and humbled for this incredible opportunity of pd is eddie williams penny williams pd and health teacher turned in a letter of resignation effective may 26 2013 the superintendent's recommendation is the approval of the resignation of anybody's effectiveness aye mr roberts [Music] uh miss robertson aye ms duncan aye mr hawkins aye aye mr guthrie aye smoking pacifier year the superintendent recommends the employment of gary macario as teacher for the 2023 school yeah okay one second employment teacher genie
008completed for the position of the teachers the superintendent recommends the employment of gene league [Music] it's been a couple weeks since we interviewed this gentleman mr hopkins hi mr guthrie hi promotion faceless vibe we have the certified deployment of the future douglas saying that the same has been interviewed and referenced checks completed for the position of the teacher in the [Music] a second next we have the certified diploma of teacher anthony delano anthony delaware has integrated and referenced the checks completed for the position of the teaching for the 2220 the 2020 23 school year superintendent recommends the employment mr hopkins miss duncan aye mr guthrie's paper i'm in charlottesville i'm thinking that's this pleasure make sure you have the classified resignation of the teacher's aide christopher christopher pacheco teachers resignation effective may 6 2023 superintendent
009recommends approval of the investigation next we have the classified reservation part-time bus driver james davis james davis department webster turned in his letter of regulation effective april 27 2022 superintendent recommends approval of the resignation of james davis i'll say the approval of summer school employment summer school for the middle of high school students will be june 6 through the 9th and june 13th through 16th from 8 30 to 1 pm i think those things are supposed to change from eight o'clock until one o'clock p.m teachers will work six hours per day for eight days paid up for by title one mondays teacher recommended to teach for the june summer school are art uh moningo now caristocker science and technical lydia garcia study hall and online shelly dow english wkc enrichment the superintendent recommends the hiring
010of the above teachers to work during the summer school for the corresponding positions of june 69th and june 13th to the 16th paid position employment and due to the resignation of jennifer keller as a teacher the sponsorship of the sophomore class was also indicated mr spencer has agreed to be the sophomore class advisor from 411 2022 to the end of the school year the superintendent recommends that the board approves if i ask the question okay did they ever go to business mr hopkins aye mr guthrie aye ms duncan aye ms robertson aye mr patron first idaho business approval of the 22 2022 budget revision in accordance with arizona statutes ars 15-905 and 15-9-10 by may 15 the board may revise the school district annual expenditure budget after notice has been given and a public meeting
011has been held the revision reflects the adjustment for adm operating and capital budget line items to account for actually numbered expenses reflection of uw expenditures attached as the district's annual budget extended should pressure condition number two the explanation for predominant reasons for the adjustments the superintendent recommends approval of the 20 2021 and 22 district annual expenditure budget revision number two i will make conversion mr hopkins all right mr kurz merchandiser aye ms duncan aye ms robertson hi the next one this is the approval of ground solutions hub site at ahura schools the administration is requesting more approval of the grad solutions hub on the operational business the site is to be named ajo academy the purpose of the hub will be to help secondary students successfully graduate from high school who may be in jeopardy
012of not graduating the superintendent recommends the approval of grad solutions site on the office version mr president on monday 19th folks we talked about this and i strongly believe that this will help students you know you know we'll also provide some services to the district as well but you had there was a concern about there was a wish that could be a one-year contract uh the contract we received from grad solutions is a three-year contract um i talked to them today did zoom today for this while and the ceo doesn't want to do away with the three-year contract because of the cost and the labor it takes to get us to get a program going and they want to make sure it's going well they think they can one year mean after the time but
013on on the 11 on the contract if i can share that with you said the agreement shall commence my execution of the agreement by the parties and expire june 30th 2025 unless the agreement is extended or non-renewed either part of this is what was they added because i kind of jolt either party may terminate the agreement with a 45-day notice so it's a three-year contract but if a year from today you say this hasn't been good for students that have been successful in our high school or students or the district or would be if there's a problem you're probably going to realize it long before next may and so would there be any consequences or costs to the district if yeah and one of the things i've done in the past and i'll do it
014again this time um i don't want to ask when we have uh agreements with other governmental agencies and this is not governmental agencies we always have our lawyer take a look at it and usually have two governmental agencies they require that at least once you do it so before i give this to you folks to sign and send back to grad solutions i'll send it by ben yeah i think i think it's fine but i'm not a contractor um materials i told them today they want to make sure they have pardon me that they have basically the classroom and a lab type setting and i said you have ample sort of hardware and since we have a significant amount of chromebooks because we purchased during the shutdown and they said now they have they had
015the stuff they'll bring it in so if if you want to put it up i'll just advise them that but i don't want to look just fall asleep i need to have board approval to give the ade to get our entity number so that this can be up and running about to start the school okay so we could if we could help us [Music] okay uh i would like to amend the motion and the amendment i would like to make is to move that we approve a resolution site on the aho school campus and then add just part of the explanation above to help secondary students successfully graduate from high school who may be in jeopardy and not graduating and the reason why i'm asking for that is because i'm asking to add that the
016motion is as it stands is uh move the approval of a resolution site on that host school campus and i would just add part of this explanation to help secondary students successfully graduate from high school who may be in jeopardy so basically it's adding the line from the explanation to the recommendation yeah just that part of that last sentence and your reason behind that so they don't try to do something else um the reason is because unless these students are at risk for not graduating then there's a good there's a possibility anyway that they would graduate either through the normal path or some other and if that's the case we'd actually be losing money by putting them into this program dr dooley would you get the motion again because over here it's difficult here as
017if i heard and just career you may have seen this right now they're saying only 16 to 22 year old students and i'm assuming the 16 year old comes about because statute says people ages of age 16 must be in school and holds the parents responsible not the student um so that limits the chance for someone trying to go through grad solutions as the freshman or sovereign they could do it as a junior senior so the way i read it i recommend what i have put down i recommend the approval gradual a grant solution site on the elbow campus approve so you can say approve on the school auto school site to help secondary students graduate a question was asked on those is still on your mind a question was asked monday night was can
018can students from the west part of the reservation come in the answer is yes so anybody the students can come down from heel bend or they can come of course that's going to be something that i think really makes it's going to be important to communicate to them that you're on the school campus you're going to act like you're student and not a high school whether you're not get the same expectations pretty much separate from the rest of your high school rooms uh depends on what the configuration is next year right now we've got a room at the end of one of the wings and we have a room in the middle of wing two where we have a lot of computers right now it just kind of depends on configuration staff information we try
019to separate the kids on one extreme on the north side of the original campus we have the fourth fifth and some sixth graders and the middle it's kind of middle and maybe a couple rooms on the first wing our junior high high school is the first wing and half a second so they're definitely planning to get it now but they're all we have a positive authority over them so we have an assigned group [Music] um i have a question that says secondary students and we also said 16 to 21 there's a little variance because a secondary student sometimes can be 14. um yeah another before i saw the contract with the 16 22 so you can change the motion including that age just put the age instead of the secondary the recommendation and also with
020the ages from 16 16 to 22. and they can be here after 22 they're going to be charged because 22's provide services for students so i amend my motion to accept this with the addition of the 16 to 22 year old age group and the line of this will be to help secondary students and students 16 and 22 years old successfully graduated from high school who may be in jeopardy of not graduating did you get a second half a second okay mr hopkins miss duncan hi i'm mr guthrie hey as far as motion pacifier over the years but they're good at athletics maybe they know the next item of this that we have is adoption of asthma political goals for the on 2022-2020 um we could uh the ones that stood out to me were
021like we talked about all about finances and fun to realize the school finance formula particularly the third bullet to ensure it addresses the unique financial needs of schools serving students in poverty and rural remote schools the top one for maximizing funding funding so we can remain so we can become competitive in attracting recruiting talented teachers that one stood out the one on infrastructure and fully funding exceptional student services those were the ones that jumped out to me but well stuff rodney honestly if you wanted to put together a list of that too i like this the first ones you were touching base on here with all the points that entire thing i think the first and foremost adequate nickel before district school to at least the national median perfect funding you know so basically that
022won't be like number one oh sure um i guess i i have these four categories um aren't except right yeah for me that's that's the main one that i'm concerned about right now the top heading or the individual business oh i would say it's number two preserve the strength remote control that's kind of breaking it down because they haven't yeah one small topic well yeah go on yeah i know so um this might this is just me that should be our number one and that would be a number two you know unless we want to break it down even more it could be anything it could be just our top five we don't necessarily have the whole companies i don't i don't think no they just want to know what our top five i mean
023we could say already we want to have a bill pass that's going to legislate to give all much more advantage in the funding of schools than anybody else for charter school teachers to eliminate some kind of competition in the public schools that they have with them okay okay do we have more or less put three um the infrastructure the this is funding for for existing schools prior to exceeding maximum capacity and then including the placement of buildings that have exceeded their useful life just to throw out the number here the average per people funding for the country is 12 624 dollars to have anybody else have a fifth priority that they would like seems like more and more we have larger numbers of students with ieps so that was one that jumped out to me
024as well um uh conduct exceptional student services study to ensure the students in rural and remote areas receive adequate funding for the actual cost of their services this is what i didn't see before but no this is okay um i would love to see this one personally uh provide funding for preschool programs and the k-12 funding promo now the last one has two more [Music] so i guess when i read the motion and make the motion i'll read out each of these priorities that we have [Music] i am making the notion that our top priorities are increased in spending per student in the state increase in teacher page and make it more competitive nationwide requiring certification for charter school teachers funding adequately funding infrastructure building changes and other innovations additionally um more fun and more
025adequate funding for exceptional students and more funding increased funding for preschool pre-k i'll the next island is the adoption ratification of certified working conditions the 20 22 to 23 certified working conditions agreement was brought to the board for ratification the board voted to review discuss a table of documents during the meeting multiple questions and changes were brought up to the administration these questions and changes were taken back to the future and they have approved those changes and questions a couple comments as i um monday night targeting a couple things that we would like to do but technically we're pushing the envelope on what's legal is we're trying to stop extension holidays with sick leave it happened before people probably have one again because policy allows us to say after three days of absence we can
026request a doctor's excuse what we said to confer was that after one day at the extended holiday if they didn't have a doctor's note we could doctor pay um that that's vague so we took that out and i talked to the community about that everything else is pretty much what we talked about the other night i'd like to defer to dr connolly she's been on the committee for the last two years and then you run several years ago right right after you came here i've actually been on this committee four times go ahead yes i wanted to have it's easy for lancer i sit here and talk about these things but i want someone's perspective that is more directly impacted than that right so um like i said i've been here seven years and i
027have served on this committee and i'm kind of in a unique position within the school to serve on this committee because i teach elementary students and so i work with the elementary teachers a lot and i hear their concerns and also i work with high school because i teach cte course and understand the students concerns which the students are also affected by this policy um so i understand the student's concern and the high school teacher's concern as well and so i feel like i'm just in a really unique position in this school to serve on a community like that because i i have a very broad view of what goes on in our school and i have to say in my time this year i'm believing this has been the very hardest one the team
028members gave up every single we started working on this beginning of the year because last year when we worked on it it felt like there was a lot of contention over the book and i couldn't understand because i i thought that the book was an agreement between teachers and administration to um to help us operate smoothly and help teachers feel protected in lieu of uh of the teachers union we don't have a local teachers union here and so it was my understanding this document was our agreement with the administration to help protect this and some of the questions that came up it just seemed like only the people that are trying to break the rules have problems with these these things that are in this book so that that has been my opinion and we
029had trouble getting it passed last year and since we had that trouble and we amended we accepted it with amendments to be made and the following year dr dooley asked the same people to serve again so that's why the fourth time and we started at the very beginning of the year working on this one of my biggest and most important things as a teacher here is my time i don't have a lot of it and i gave up every single independent planning time that we get on a wednesday to serve on this committee and then we got down to the final issue we signed it we were happy and it was rejected and so we were very frustrated and that's why we said we're not making any more changes we've done we've done this and
030we we need our plan and on that because i wasn't the only one affected by this and i just wanted to talk for a minute and tell you that this year has been the absolute hardest year i have served in awkward i would have thought in my mind starting this year that it would be better back to normal and it's not true because something happened to us in copenhagen and i mean us as in the world three teachers broke contract this year that those breaking contracts caused other teachers to be without planning one of our teachers has been without planning the entire year and with the most she had just gotten her her planning back and with the most recent contract break um she lost her planning again there was no place else for those
031students to go so when these things happen that this book addresses it's important because it affects everybody in a very negative way and i also have lost my planning due to the last um the last contract break and like in addition to taking on two periods of teaching math i've tried to keep the library open and going during that time so i feel like this year i've had so many things coming at me in so many directions and there's no way to handle it when i talk to teachers from my position the issues in this book are not what's on their mind what's on their mind is that there doesn't seem to be any support from our principal and and dr shaboltz i'm not being disrespectful here but he spent more time in the classroom
032than they had a principle and it's not his fault when three teachers break contract and we have no substitutes what is he supposed to do it's not his fault it's not a criticism of him that i'm pleased that he stepped up to the plate to take that role but that's what concerns teachers so when you're you're saying you want to address that as a board that does make me happy um i've several times when teachers have been absent i've had to have two classes i know that when i am absent there are three teachers who will go without planning who probably already win an entire quarter without planning when you don't have planning during a day you don't get a bathroom break you you don't get a moment to just stop and think and in
033the library that's really challenging my day goes from teaching fifth grade math to teaching kindergarten library which is basically just writing and listening skills to sixth grade and they're learning coding to third grade and they're learning arizona history and then i finished my day with high school photography so i'm all over the place and not getting planning just is very stressful like for me so the reason that we said no we don't want to make any more changes when we did was because it was just so much time that we'd already put into it and it feels like the real issues are can how can we get more teachers to come that aren't going to break contract how can we make sure that we have enough people including substitutes to work in our school how
034can we make our school a better place and fussing over what this document says about you're coming back from break or how you're going to use your your um sick leave passing over that seems like a waste of time and these are just my comments and my opinions um but for me i would hope that we could just quickly get this resolved and just quickly pass this because this isn't really the issue there are bigger issues that we really need to address do you mind if i respond first thing for your awesome teacher we're really lucky to have you i've seen you in the library and and i've seen your dedication to the kids and we've had discussions and i think that i wish we had a whole school full of teachers like you the
035teachers breaking contract sport doesn't have a lot of control of that i mean we really don't have a lot of control of that teachers leave for whatever reasons they leave and we we can't stop them from dating right we really can't stop them from david as for getting enough teachers i think that they try as hard as they can to find teachers in whatever sources they can find them right and work my comments are not in so our refusal of accepting this document has been on one page one payton and it has to do with the legalities of paid sick time which the state mandates right if you want to go to utah and play in the snow huh we don't have the right of the they don't have the right administration to ask you
036to bring a doctor's note if you say i was that as a um it's not if you do that as a paramedic administration you do that as a paramedic it's the same thing right are you doing a circle okay it's the same thing everybody you know put the state managers that are here doing their job that are the ones if we can fix it one time if we can get a peer document that addresses these issues and gets it get it where is legal from all points of view this doesn't have to be readdressed every year we now have a other than if we have uh policy changes it's it's a written book and so it's not you don't have to spend all next year going through this right so all that we've asked to
037the board is that this one page reflect the law reflect what's going on and that's all we've asked for is that one page we haven't gone through every paragraph in the book and said we don't accept this we don't accept this it's all been on on paid time off on sick days and whatever and all the assets for that to be changed not for us it's not for us at all it's for you so that you have a policy that that a book that a policy or a book that reflects the law and and how things are supposed to be done and so so that you know and whenever we have been told that this is what the law says we have made those changes okay um wendy came with the policy on this from
038tucson school unified school district right we are not tucson that's part of the problem and no no i want to miss robertson we did invite you in the very beginning to go over the book with us and help us make the changes that you were seeing we asked you to do that and you said at the time i don't want to dictate to you what you need to do and so that's when we went and did the amendments it was way last year at the beginning of the that trouble over the book and we did invite you yes so and i i did my best to help during that meeting the um what i was trying to express at the time was that it is not my role to be involved in negotiations i had
039supplied all of the policy and legal issues as a list two years ago and they're still they're still in here no they're still in here and it's not your fault you need to be supplied a legal document that complies with policy and is clear and you're not getting that and that's not your fault and i'm sorry that you and the other teachers have spent so much time with us but it affects us too we have spent so much time with this we're here again on this and it's not our fault either you need to be supplied with a legal document that you can negotiate with the administration and that is not happening and i'm sorry for that but it hasn't happened and we can't approve a document that contains language that doesn't comply with the
040law and we've sent it back yes many times and it keeps not getting fixed what i was saying i couldn't do was negotiate like that's not my role asking you to negotiate we were asking you to show us what you were seeing we weren't asking you to negotiate right and and i i did i answered questions for the best that i that i could and i also applied documents like multiple times on multiple occasions that made it all out doctor when a teacher breaks the contract do you put the money back into the budget it goes back to him so i would love to approve this tonight as well i i want to um what if we table this for tonight and have an executive session with our attorney to go over some of these
041issues that keep coming up and try and get a final answer to this um that's the only thing i can think of to is to have the attorney involved real real quick dr conlon we all appreciate all the power and teachers that put in on this and this is an important document for the staff and we feel that it's important that these eyes may be dotted and t's need to be crossed i understand you dedicate a lot of your prep time a lot i know i've i've sat in negotiations with this g-1 kind of things it takes a lot of and we just want to be sure that all the language is legal follows policy and state law that's it we're not saying you guys didn't do a good job on this i mean we
042put a lot hours in we just want to make sure it's a solid document for the staff because this one also is going to affect the other agreement with the rest of the staff that's all it's we don't want to feel like anyone's being picked on or making it personal to anybody but when we receive this for approval we expect that it's gone by the administration that make sure that it follows policy follows law state law because you can't have a superseding state of law and we're just worried there might be something that could be a violation of that that's all and i mean i know everyone spent a lot of time on this and we appreciate that but and it seems to be like a sticky point everybody you know and we're just ready
043to approve this but we also have to make sure it follows policy and state of law okay i i know you've got you're tired of dealing with it it's gonna be done but so i i think having that look at it might be a good idea see if he sees anything you recommend i want us to vote on the final revision where everybody's comfortable where we don't have to readdress this next year and next year next year next year i just like to get this done get it done right get it done legal and then it would be very very seldom would it have any changes right it could just be a pass-through unless the state launches or right district and so it takes a little more time to do that then i think we
044need to do what we need to do and that's what we said last year okay it wasn't like that we just suddenly came out and said we are not trying to hurt the teachers we're trying to help the teachers we're trying to make this policy so that you have rights with your paid time off with your paid sick time and that it all falls under under government law the voters of arizona mandated that you get 40 hours of paid sick time a year right that was a voter mandated deal and and how you use that is pretty much up to you you know and so there's not a whole lot we can do there's not a lot i can do the ambulance right somebody takes their 40 hours of sick time they take the 40
045hours of sick time so so kind of what it is you have 200 days of sickness lives what eight hours per base on 1600 hours so basically out of that 1600 the first 40 hours your that has different rules to it according to the earned paid stake time of the state so basically if you call in someone called in within a certain time frame i'm using my paid sick time so once that first 40 hours is gone the remaining 1560 you know that that's that's it right there some of the policies that we have here kind of protect the teachers who are left behind when the teacher does what teachers sometimes do and just kind of saying i'm done with this i'm not doing it anymore there's teachers that come that are here for the
046right reasons that don't understand what it's like to work in a rural district like this some of them it feel like they were protecting us the ones that are here because of the kids that are here working all the time i don't know if you know what it's like to try and manage two classrooms full of people but what happens when somebody extends a vacation and then there's pictures of themselves online doing something that's not sick some teacher back here in school had to have their class in with without any advance notice without any plans without any ability to prepare for that okay i just want to say something we didn't vote for that the vote the the voters of arizona voted for that we're just complying with that but what i'm saying is i
047want this document to protect those of us who are here doing our job and it it feels like we take away all those things it's teachers who are doing what they're supposed to do that end up getting the punishment for the few that are gonna create the problems so i understand but how can we make our policy protect the teachers who are here because the teachers who are here who want to be here one of the teachers i spoke with one of the teachers that you'll hear how can we attract those people that are going to love all those and that aren't going to treat us that way and still protect the teachers do you understand what i'm saying because i feel like i feel like some of the changes give all the advantage to
048the teachers who are going to break the contract who are going to abuse this system i know that the state gives me those hours and i know that it's up to you how i use them and i know that not everybody has the same scruples that i have but how can we protect the teachers who are doing what they're supposed to do and i feel like this document is the way that we do that because we don't have professional negotiators in tucson there would be professional negotiators that go to the school district and deal with that teachers are going to be asked to do that that's why they pay their union i think part of the concern of us is that the document doesn't actually reflect policy if it's not if so any issue that
049is illegal issue is fine but you have to change it into the law but at the same time i would like to feel that that you care about protecting the teachers and sometimes it doesn't always feel that way i think that foreign that this board is really teacher friendly we i don't think we turned down anything that benefits the teachers and on the hours and i i know this is a passive idea you know any extra hours i have to work every month to cover for people that are taking 40 hours of sick time i work tons and tons just like the school room can't leave the downloads shut down right so i end up so i i know gekko you're talking when they passed that legislation it was a vein that every every company
050in the in the state right we all we all took in the shorts because of it and he basically gave everybody 40 hours of free time and so you would hope that people had have ethics but they don't they're going to take that time anyone watch our guys take it december just get ready to run out right so then suddenly they have they're sick so they can they could take off so there's nothing we can do as a board about paid sick time it's the law it's the law of the land and um so until the voters change it or the legislature changes it that's just the way it is and so all we're trying to do is make sure the document is legal that it follows policy that every document that we have here
051matches and uh if it takes another month or two it takes another month or two but we don't forget visit it again that's all we're doing walking around circles right now but but that's that's been our feelings on it and it's not a not meant negative towards you or the people that have been on it it's just we have to get a good document done so i have served on the school break for nine years and we have cut this every year and the board has just approved it because we feel that this is what the teachers want not what the board wants to be in this can be a i've served here when uh it's supposed to be something that was mandated by the state and we voted against that so there is an
052opportunity to do that i also been in school districts where the teachers had so much sick time but they have to have a doctor's certificate for doing that after so many days i think it's two or three days and if there is anything left at may right after graduation then that money is given as a bonus to those teachers and it's worked very very well people stay there because they want that money and um i i don't agree with all this squabbling and that's what it is and i if it has worked in the past i don't know why it can't work in the future you surprised the economy um policy that passed down the 40 hours i've heard before i don't know how that is impacting public schools the policy i didn't attach the
053whole policy but um talked about how much people could a couple things that may be different from the private sector i've not worked in private sector since i was in college but our employees earned sick leave at i don't have confidence 10.4 hours a day 1.4 hours per month i thought that was big i'm sorry and i thought initially when i came here aho has some acquaintances to it and i thought that one point of a four minutes they had a number they wanted so they tend to divide together well that's part of the policy now when we talk about law and policy we're not talking about the same thing but we're trying to adhere to what the teachers on this committee have tried to adhere to is policy um asba isn't going to support
054a policy that's not supported by law and to buy back we have a provision that people can sell sick leave after so many years here but also they can accumulate for 200 days a year and a lot of privacy yeah you know two or three days total a lot of sick a lot of private companies probably don't have that provision it's the best possible disability insurance i could think of because you keep your full solid when i was out several years ago because of an injury except my check kept coming in because i missed a couple weeks of work but i had sick leave um two things that i don't agree with but we took out and dealt with statutes our policy i should say policy on three days required to extend the holiday or
055even if you're gone that maintains administration you can request that um we have we once more superintendent taking that down to one or two days because people were abusing them like you're talking about what you're frustrated about which i understand i'm frustrated nice i got to kind of make the point of seeing my teachers call in sick playing in the states on facebook um that's not technically violent law but certainly violations of district ethics and so we can take some action associate that that's another issue but we took out any statement that is punitive to an employee or to a teacher to a teacher that talks about holding a person accountable when they're absent regardless of when they're for less than three days we had one probation and talked about one day after a holiday
056we took that out because teachers wanted when we started negotiating years ago that was something that came from the teachers and i supported other people in the administration support because um people were taking the next day on the holiday or they're starting the holiday early and it impacts kids negatively um so the things you're talking about never say never never say always um to the best of the work we've done we're not aware of any policies that are immortal now legislature sensation [Music] public education is never safe from their recession and they don't know this um the constitution talks for 90 day session i can't remember they've had a 90-day session and they're still going i'm not paying as much attention to it this year as i have in the past because i'll have different
057knowledge and it won't impact me directly to the profession as much so i just found other things to consume my time but um when you say let's do something you don't have to do this again every year that would be i think that'd be unfortunate for staff because things come up maybe lance deride did something just really tick them off they have a chance to talk to us about that and that's a good vehicle for it um it's not the only vehicle that's a good vehicle where we can talk about those things that people have been on the committee not just uh dr conley and the other two ladies this year but other people um those meetings have been for me professionally been very beneficial because i could kind of hear people's frustrations and there's
058some things i could change that easy and i did if there wasn't a big financial problem wasn't something i need your your your support on and on the vote didn't affect my effect uh personnel so i think it's going to be important regardless um i hope i hope that in future years that you continue the the process of having i call it working conditions um we called it when i came here to meet you for i don't care what we call it but we need to have time for leadership and administrative leadership to sit down and talk to teachers about these things and let me give you a second now what i've done in the past i didn't do it this year that's my fault folks i should have done this um let's have an
059executive session with boards before we started meeting with the teacher team and that's something i think for years i've done that we've had less of this type of frustration i don't think anyone was suggesting that you don't um what we're trying to say is that we need a baseline that is legal and compliance with all of that so the what caused a lot of these problems is i believe was it in 2017 that the sickly law changed and changed dramatically but this document didn't so these years that we have been doing that we have been approving things that were not legal and so we have to fix that we can't approve things that are not legal so that's what we're doing on the other hand policy can be changed as long as it as that
060piece of policy isn't something that's required by law it can be changed so there may be things that we can do to address these concerns that you have to protect the teachers because that's what we're trying to do we're trying to protect the teachers and we also have a responsibility to protect the district well and and i can understand all those things and i i hope you understand i'm not coming here in a disrespectful church and it's very frustrating to me when i like when i was in third grade as a teacher or fourth grade my students didn't have um specials today because somebody was absent because with the two substitutes that we have if a special teacher is gone that's what's happening special for cancer so i have it was an easy solution i'd
061have to plan i could handle it but it's not easy to go that whole day sometimes and some of our teachers this year because we've operated with too few teachers and music teacher an art teacher um we've been down like which arts teachers some of our teachers might not bring and gets particularly hard on elementary teachers because every moment of every day has to be planned you have to know where your resources are what you're going to do how you're going to say it and what if this kid does this again and what am i going to do when and you have to have all that find out every day and when you don't have a minute to just sit and think about it during the day that's really hard and this this like teaching
062the math i'm actually enjoying teaching the math that part of the day is is fine but when i when i get to the part of the day where it's my 30-minute lunch and third grade is being third grade and i have to line them up ten times to get what i'm looking for all i can think is through lunch okay i have a condition here i know we've discussed having been with this which i agree with um i have no problem asking for a special session after the lawyer looks at it if he has any recommendations and they can go directly to you and the teachers so you can look at it and say hey okay we can do this and i would have no problem personally ask for a special session just to ratify
063it and be done with it after it's done how would how how would you and the teachers feel about that [Music] because normally he gets on this stuff pretty quick i would i really want to see this done before the school year kicks off july 1. so i think we can because overall the document looks really good just a few little areas that we were concerned about and that was it so and i thought we made the changes today is that true yes for your information bands looked at the whole portion of this that deals with so so what i would suggest is what you're saying but that we do it in the executive session and then so we can all be on the same page we can ask the questions that any of us
064have and we can make sure that we're all clear on all of the legal requirements you can also invite the teachers on the committee so they're going to get straight from that yep absolutely because if this is the document between teachers and administration and shouldn't the teachers be involved because because what you were saying is you didn't want to dictate to us what we put in this document and i at the time i thought that was the right thing to say i thought it was right because it is our agreement right and so that's why we just finally said no because of the time right so i would be willing to make a motion right now to table this we can schedule an executive session with the staff that's involved with this administration and the
065attorney for the district as soon as we can so you can get it hammered out knocked out that you think that'll be okay with the rest of the teachers if they can all be here great if some can make it that'd be it's knowing you have some input at the executive session may i ask a question this is going to sound inconsiderate all of you that have jobs because they have jobs yeah um two wins is left there are well yes there are only two wednesdays left and um i believe both of the other teachers are leaving yes well no rom's going on vacation yeah i'm just leaving the league's taking sessions um [Music] okay and pending is giving a special session an executive session for this on the 18th at 1 30. i think
066that's going to be our best bet yeah it doesn't work for us but we'll shoot for that pending not set in stone depending on the attorney's schedule i'll call then i don't know okay so that's you okay so uh i'm gonna be an eye on that mr hopkins miss duncan hi mr guthrie aye ms robertson all right and that motion for instance because they get out they're not done with less than 115 then they give little time and next saturday this is tobias agenda congratulations she's walking through graduation to get officially officially we need a [Music] thank you okay uh these are gonna be topics for student dance reports um but manual update um as far as the policy advisory has no outstanding policy advisors that the uh high school district has not participated so
067that they've taken the nationals yet at time time is an issue they're still we haven't ignored them it's still going to happen but they have two policies outstanding and one of the deals with uh board or more member contributions i can't have the other laptop um but they're both we're both trying to use that and they've changed the process um so they're more complicated [Music] but also the ones on policy policy bridge page still states that we require everybody on campus yeah i can't yeah that's i i just haven't changed it in policy bridge i i will i promise it hasn't anything that came from asba when i talked about policy advisory and where direct take action is so that's that's the status of that student handbook so you're saying that the aspia policy advisories
068have been updated but last i checked the first level of several the masks the residency one the immunization one and then just personally we changed the bereavement of policy over a year ago and it's still sitting there and it's old form okay then we got a phone yeah i talked to asb in march they say i talked to my husband i talked to him i talked to renee watson she's in charge please don't call her she's in charge of uh policy updates and she said well i'll be okay i said there's no worry i'm talking about stella i don't remember that's been two months ago um and she didn't you're all caught up she looked at it we spent half hour what time was that yeah the day after the board meeting which we talked
069about these initially recently um you know when it's hand student handbook update question there as i recall and it came about because we're students that was taken off the football team for vaping practice or maybe between the field and the locker rooms i recall um and i supported uh in that city not to have a person arrested uh because we just didn't want to get arrested um all the handbooks had arrested and kicked out of school we took an action that a lot of the other districts and members of cah took any type of kids off the team not just a caa but i think the naia as well now i don't know um the big the big schools in january championship but they did or not but that's what we were told by our
070leadership so what's done so far on that is gone through policy books and every every except one or two titles within the student handbook is addressed in some capacity in policy and those policies have been identified now they haven't been paraphrased to put on there that's going to double the size of the student handbook i'm worried that no one would read it i thought about just putting those policies in the back of the student handbook it's still going to look like a faint cylinder in 1980 and i don't think people read them but this if time is time works for us uh i will try to paraphrase those things now there's a problem paraphrasing you deviate a little bit from policy that's where that is that they've been identified as having policy at least that
071they they're under policy adopt adoption certified working agreement i don't think we'll go there right now we've been talking about that for a little while i'm sorry i'm sorry guys so i looked up and looked looking down um title four uh coordinator possible that i have done some research on the blogs edd's website is kind of frustrating to me these days i've done some research on the uh the blogs and they're very interesting they're very informative um i i don't have i don't feel comfortable um naming someone yet i have someone under consideration for that and i've talked to the person and i need to talk some more but no it hasn't been ignored i'm going to jump over to the other column real quick music and our teacher search as you recall we hired
072both of those ones already left because um they had a friend working people and so we're back to drawing work one of the problems this is music yes man yes sir one of one of the frustrations that i have i was talking to you today about her we had a band music teacher that was phenomenal her husband was in charge of the border patrol station she was equally good with vocal for the k-sixers and for band at any level and i've learned as long as i've been doing this not to say that's the best principle i've ever had so i've done my own life i've got issue ones well this person definitely fits in this section this version fits down here this music teacher i don't know i should say she's the best i've ever
073had but she wasn't she was close i'd watch her teach i'm off subject a little bit it wasn't she'd say uh the trumpet section is out of culture somehow she'd say bob on on measure eight you finger it d with the first and third finger and not the first two fingers she was that specific the music teachers i talked to when i've been recruiting in state as well as out of state as well as online are all local music there's nothing wrong with that i think uh choir is a good thing to have but i would be shocked as to why i was doing still the k-6 program that's mostly vocal at 7 12 we're going to be hard-pressed to have an instrumental program it's probably going to be vocal because the instruments that people
074have are not the skills that one teacher i'm writing about uh and so we think we're gonna have a program guys because i believe strongly i don't want to live in a world without art music i don't want our kids to sometimes this is very important um the school alarm pa system um if you've tried to do any construction lately um even in the city you're talking about seven or eight months out um other acquaintances having is having a new house built in a larger community than otto it's taking two to three times as long to build that as it did five years ago the cost of these um the last two days we've had our alarm companies call fire security electronic corporation on campus they've got two trucks here they charge an exorbitant amount
075of money they charge us 300 some dollars to drive down here from scottsdale and we've had a request in they've been here to fix we've not been happy as you recall the whole problem started with the contractor cutting fiber and they claimed fiber's okay so jose and i worked with him we found some features in the gymnasium that could stop the circuit from being successful i haven't checked with jose they were supposed to replace those their last visits and one of the problems is when we initially did the alarm system in about 2010. excuse me we had several vendors and alarm systems commercial alarm systems are not something you typically become experts in our role except i knew one of the companies fscc i knew them well the last school i built was the principles
076of 1992 and they were there they did a fantastic job they were charged we had a visual tele communication system we could cast movies from classrooms and hold on yards they did they'd come out on sunday and talk to me and look at this i said this is going wrong and they did it right because it was a privately owned company and the gentleman owned the company passed away at copenhagen last year i think the company's deteriorated a little bit but it's been a lot more serious in my opinion school facilities boards should be covering these expenses getting something that was school syllable takes up a school year they were supposed to rough all these buildings this year they haven't financed the bid process yet so that's that's been a real slow down um replacing
077a vehicle unfortunately as you well know one of our employees two of our employees were hurt it's been six weeks ago i believe six or seven weeks ago he's taking an act taking serious action to get them the right attention i still don't think it's all happened the car was totaled um i believe in my contract i believe in dr zotero's contract is carson having an additional car um the current the only car we have left is 60 some thousand miles on it that's an awfully good car so i've looked into purchasing two cars not two cars two more cars two two brands chevy malibu which we've had two before since i've been here and one of the ones we've got totals and another toyota camry the tokyo camera is i'm not i'm not a
078good guy but i may become one it's a great car um the toyota camry can't even take orders until you [Music] so it's going to happen and we're buying on what's called a state contract so procurement is handled we're doing due process by just simply doing that so otherwise the price of these cars they're all going to be well the price has gone up the malibu [Music] if i recollect when we purchased it the price came out of 17 000 now it's about 25. it looks like an apollo's a much bigger car the toyota as i recall was 22 000 it's going to be around 27 000. but nothing's ever going wrong with our exhibit and so that's what's happening with that um employee working conditions agreement we've got it done we think we've got
079that classified i'm sorry i didn't say that right should be the classified employee working divisions um frankly we've seen that time again on this agenda uh it would be on the june june and uh um i've talked recently we kind of come to closure a couple weeks ago and trying to get on this agenda i talked to the members of that committee but in the last week and we talked about a couple of changes we've made a couple changes uh but it seems to be agreeable i want i i'd like to have uh dr chabots help us out with individual student safety plans and district compliance the policy in jail we have very few um student safety plans right now on campus i know of one and one that is almost complete they are usually
080for students who are having a hard time coping with anxiety just getting overwhelmed and and they're written with administration teachers parents is involved and usually somebody from special education most of the time it has something to do with they're allowed to get to a safe place or a place they feel comfortable i know the library has had a section just to go to the office and the nurse has a little back room where there's kind of a bed and they can go there relax and then they're until they're able to talk to somebody they don't usually have to give a hand signal ask for permission to leave [Music] everybody knows you know there's people that need to know you know the students that have those and they're able to get up and just get away
081so we have those the other uh policies that we're talking about have to do equality and we don't have any safety plans that have dealt with bullying um and not none started since i've been here but it wouldn't be out of the question if that's the case um we follow our bullying i have i have have them right here and we follow them and i think we kind of even over over allow students to do incident reports we did more incident reports here than i did at my school 1200 in the hospital daily just um i mean it's it's kind of they kind of overdo with the young ones but each one is taken seriously each one's read if it's that eligible legible um sometimes they have to go ahead and tell you the story
082you know depending on on the grade level but um they're taken very seriously today we have a bowling one written out and it listed 12 students of a boy so interviewing those 12 students even if we weren't subbing constantly interviewing those 12 students would be unbelievable amount of time so hopefully that they started with the one that really feels bullying and and get to get to kind of what the situation is um quickly um a lot of times we're seeing that bullying in their eyes isn't really bullying but obviously there's conflict and remediation handled and you know as as a parent if my child feels bullied then my child's being pulled and you're not going to really change that in my mind and parent be here feels the exact same way so if my child
083says something your child retaliates my child's a victim and in your eyes your child's they're both being they're both victims but somebody did start this and then you go through what bullying actually is repetitive incidents and they look alike and they're hurtful and those things so that takes some mediation some time to to get to the bottom of it in cases that with our cyber bullying and things like that which in case he's a lot better at getting on computers and figuring out who at what time did what said what um i would have no no way of knowing how to do that but he's good at that and um i involve our sro as much as possible as well even if they don't speak i'll have our sro in the room so that everyone
084knows that we're taking it seriously and the police do as well especially if there's physical threats we're talking about some of the older students getting up there so there's usually usually always going to be somebody that's not happy with the conclusion of the disciplinary action whether it is mediation or whether there are consequences but that's kind of just the way it is i haven't gone through here too much of uh or any written grievances about it um but it does take a lot of time and just relationship building and and letting parents know that here you know you always get the i don't see this at home well you know at home except maybe yourself where there's a lot of young ones running around but at most homes you don't have 25 kids and and
085people act different when we're around people and so you kind of have to go through that process too so just time consuming and relationship building um and through the mediation i think we've been pretty successful but you know i also am very aware that the kids that you don't hear from are the ones you worry about you know so we have to keep our eyes out for the eyes and ears you know aware of those those genuines too and and see their behaviors and what we're noticing who they're stopped hanging around with or are they hanging around with is there nobody they're hanging around and then having conversations simply uh one reason why i like doing that recess is at the middle school is you kind of go up and just have a how's things
086going now you used to be over there with these guys playing tag i know that she'd been alone the last few weeks what's going on bud you know and lady and uh and kind of get a feel for well this this happened well now we got a conversation going we can kind of draw it out a little bit um but as far as being open to the to the incident reports and to listening to them um i think we're really good at that i i would like to see more and maybe it's just been because of covenant coming back but more overall um bully prevention conversations in the classroom we do social emotional learning and there's pieces of that we haven't had any any kind of a big class me about bullying and being able
087to do things like that with the masking this year and with copenhagen not being able to get in big groups at first just kind of slip through the cracks i think but it's something that i've seen happen in the past um that i think i'd like to be able to implement that you know this coming year even in myself starting that conversation for a class and having a topical bullying looks like here's how you report gucci you can talk to see something say something and those kind of things that have been done in the past like i haven't been able to do this year but um i think it would be important to be next to you one of the things in this gym area that's frustrating for parents as well as the ministers as
088a principal if charlie and little daniel got the fight or physical altercation it's more it's easier to see than insulting them more threatening but even with something that's so visible it gets physical the parent of the victim was usually the one that came in to see me or called me and sometimes the parent the perpetrator is proud depends on my stuff but it used to be real frustrating and something's going to become frustrating to me because they want to know what you do to lance's kid there's a lot of bells hurtful i can't tell you i love the law because we don't be into it this is what we did to him and so on so i said you're going to have to ask your kid because oftentimes the perpetrator or the punishment they would
089talk among your friends or crack about it whatever the case may be i said you hear from if your child hears it from the perpetrator or they hear it from uh other kids in the class that's fine i said that i and the teacher can't talk and that law is it's just like evil for medical people and i think it's valuable of course unfortunately that's not just some of the things you're talking about one of the fun things about being in the small community though is just to never see the big ones you'll call a parent to explain what's happening oh yeah i've already talked to i've already talked to my cousin who's that the other child's parent yeah i've already talked to him we've dealt with it so i'm out of the picture yeah
090yeah they're cousins and my brothers and then so everybody in town already knows about it but i'm just kind of reading that you really wouldn't know the names of phelps dog security people feared them more than the sheriff's department yeah you never want a bad amount of being outsiders we never want to criticize someone because you're someone's cousin in my office half the towns are related to angelina so i unfortunately haven't done that yet i start talking about there because his mother those are both um but they have similar requirements and one of them is that those portions of the policy are published in the student handbook so that's what i was interested in hearing is if if that's the case if they if they are have been included uh and then there are other
091requirements to the i believe i believe it's a it's a associated with the policy that is supposed to be included in the hammock rights rights rights and examples are typically not public the policies are now they go online and they can see it all and youthful totally has access to it but um other disciplinary tools for the administrator yeah but in this case it's meant to be published in the handbook for both of those people yeah because i know something's been there but i don't know what you're talking about yeah there's something about i think it's dating violence that's similar um but these are are very like that but they're foreign thank you anything further on here are there any board members [Music] there are no other businesses [Music] needs to stay after class to
092sign drugs i'm so excited um there's a lot of monthly it