001hi eric this is leonard we're going to put you on speaker so i guess i'll mark him as here mr judge see if he calls him and as you can see mr hopkins has agreed once again to act as a clerk for the evening may i have a motion to adopt the agenda [Music] and miss duncan aye mr hoffman mr kurzwich hi miss robertson hi you please join me and pleasure the legions i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all next we have visitors comments visitors are welcome to speak on agenda and non-agenda items comments are limited to three minutes please state your name and address prior to making your statement please
002note that the members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda therefore action taken is limited directing the administration to look into the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for future consideration mr robinson you're on michael robinson 546 west hospital hill as you all know i've been pursuing a petition to recall board president worship duncan i'm just here to give you guys an update i needed validated signatures for major registered voters if you recall ms duncan i stopped collecting signatures when i reached 194. i delivered those signatures to county superintendents schools they dated stamped my forms and sent them to the county recorder's office to validate the signatures the county recorder's office was unable to validate 169 of 194 signatures because i screwed up whole
003pages of my petition are invalidated because of bad dates as you can see here on page 10 they're all good full signatures but nobody wrote the year they just wrote the date it doesn't say they had to there's no format specified but that's how it went that happened throughout on on any page where the date wasn't didn't include all three aspects um i was told that i could have learned this by reading the statutes the same thing happened whenever like i said there was a date discrepancy it's nearly 50 times throughout the pages another problem that's easy to see here is on page 3 of my position that's what i've got the first person writes the wrong date march 16th in this case and the other two people follow suit then someone realizes march 14th
004you know i'll continue with 14. but all those dates are invalidated those signatures because they're out of sequence again i had no idea this is my fault there were also a few disqualifications for people who turned out not to be registered at the address they listed or instantly couldn't otherwise be validated of course i accepted a few of those so ms duncan you will not be recalled by this petition because i screwed up but please note there are many people in this community who are not happy with how this district is being run or eager to sign the recall petition because they understand that you are a barrier to the board doing the work that it should be doing i got an earful i got you're full many see you as a protector dr dooley
005rather than a check to the power that he wields which is what the board should be i can't i can't at this time start a new position a new recall petition rather as important as i don't think it is i just don't have it in me maybe another community member will take it up in the meantime i will ask that you remember who you are serving and pay more attention to and give more weight to the needs and concerns of your fellow board members and less for those administrations thank you uh governing board report does anyone have anything to report all right superintendent are we sure well i didn't get a paper i got famous uh superintendent report thank you mr president um the decision about pima county uh is positive it allows the board
006to start working together again this has been a negative force for too long comments from me um [Music] please be aware while we're hearing and decline in codewood i'm always nervous about this want to believe good things but i i hear news from cdc and become a little apprehensive again um code is declining but as of monday arizona had 800 000 people that have had the disease with uh 675 cases on monday in the state alone so we can't ignore the fact that we have an active pandemic and it puts us all in jeopardy uh a statistic that i can't actually calculate quote because i just heard the last part they're also increasing school-aged kids i think 20 percent 20 or 200 that's why i don't want to make a big deal that god went
007up one week and it's happening because statewide schools are more open today than they were a month ago today and part of that's because of the slowdown kobe it's also partially due to the governor's executive order schools open after spring break so frankly as an educators administrator i enjoy the kids being here and to my knowledge we've had no cases in offal with school-aged children i hope that continues to be the case but it's something we're still going to keep an eye on when i think about next year and i plan for next year i want to think of next year as like the fall of 2020 yeah no yeah fall of 2019 i'm sorry i'd like to see the students and the staff have a normal year um we don't know that's going to
008happen um you've all heard the news that the johnson johnson um vaccine was shelved yesterday by uh fda and cdc and so we in some states are using a pfizer some are using moderna as we have we have a high percentage of our staff have had a double vaccination um we have been told i've been told by medical people that that's only going to be good about august so i don't know what's going to happen what they're going to say we're going to have more vaccines but something my whole point of this rambling is we've still got to keep our eyes on thing i think when we start letting our guard down and when we uh relax too much uh that's when we may have another uh exposure exposure of the pandemic we don't have
009that virus um we've had discussions and questions about the graduation venue as i mentioned this administrative function um mr rhythm and i've been talking about options for two or three weeks again the number one goal of these group at the high school or the 8th grade promotional high school graduation is to keep our kids safe we want them all to have a good experience we all want them to be healthy in the process we are considering two venues right now and the plan is to send a letter to parents next week however we do it we're still going to have to have social distance if we're inside we have the challenge of enclosed facility with a lot of people breathing it's going to be social distancing that will not be popular but we will have
010some type of system where each student is limited to a number of tickets uh so it won't be 600 people in the indictments auditorium if that's our inside venue for example um this is i thought we think this is the safest way to go uh i think it's just unsafe to have 600 people or 500 people are a large number of people uh in a public place um being potentially being exposed requirements for students regardless of venue and uh audience will be to be passed up and have social distancing so we will do eighth grade promotion the traditional way we'll try to do it today before high school graduation and uh we will advise people uh ahead of time so hopefully people are prepared for this process it's a big deal in kids lives we
011want to be successful um last evening questions asked about staff survey i did not have time to prepare for report today we did a staff survey uh we could go today yeah about about twenty two weeks ago they did about twenty items we have taken we've done some study of it and we will i will i'll make a report to the board may 12 14 after this thank you doctor may i have a motion to um approve the consent agenda [Music] awesome then we move on to personnel first item business is the certified employment for the year 2021 and 2022 of pamela della cruz uh pamela della cruz has been interviewed and referenced checks completed for the position of teacher in the ajo schools she is recommended for hiring as a special ed teacher and
012uh is this contention on her i didn't put that in the policy or in there okay and when i say on time it's very common for us to bring international teachers department to have them here maybe two or three weeks late but i'm thinking if someone's not here about october we're going to start looking forward may i hear a motion um about the hiring of pamela dela cruz i'll second it oh yes i did mr hopkins last week trying to drive up reds should we move on president i think he's home uh can you guys hear me yeah now we can yeah my left boat was an eye sorry okay did you hear this that we made a motion to accept pamela de la cruz yes i did and i voted eye on it okay
013what else set thank you eric next is um uh the certified employment of amanda uh r wyan uh has been interviewed in reference checks completed for the position of teacher of the aha school she has also been observed several times as a student teacher by the administrative administration excuse me may i hear a motion that we may hire amanda ryan i can never get that shake i'm sure as a teacher in the air aho uh unified school district [Music] all right um the next item of business approval of additional spring intercession employment marishu bellatran's name was left off the approved list for teaching 20 hours during the march 2021 spring break after the practice needed to pay uh miss belgium for the hours she worked so may i hear a motion that uh marissa maraschu
014burial tran can be employed for the 20 hours and given her compensation that she spent during spring break the next one is a classified resignation of the cafeteria worker maria mendez maria mendez submitted her resignation from the cafeteria effective april 9th 2021. and i hear a motion that we accept her resignation i'll second it hi mr cruz aye ms robertson hi number it's following classified employees are being recommended to receive contracts and work agreements with the 2021 2022 school year office staff maria lopez lee anne burns eric schultz cindy daniels angelina valenzuela shannon wolf penis gallerina candance moore annacilla monos robert ogden josefina d agriella sarah gray alexandra ortega maintenance custodial staff daniel cotton festo yon james davis joseon raphael flores reyna x axel gonzalez perez and the paraprofessionals are our teachers aides laurie daniels
015francisca lopez sherry simpson duran m rafaela rafaela maria i bet she pronounces marcia marcia ma um martin teres martinez bernardino tameo alexandra ferrier figuerino bethany maura we murali maria villa silva susanna leon and patricia uh may i hear a motion for the insurance of classified work agreements to the above employees for the year 2021-2022 one second mr hopkins duncan aye mr robertson aye mr president all right the next order of business is uh a broad action on level three staff grievance board review of any grievance that cannot be resolved at the administration level such requests shall be in writing and will be submitted within five working days following notification of the superintendent's decision any written request for appeal shall be submitted to the superintendent for transmittal to the board the governing board at the time
016of its choosing shall review the grievance and issue a response within 15 working days jesse green has submitted level 1 and level 2 grievances to the principal and superintendent mr green is now asking for a level 3 grievance to be reviewed by the board an executive board meeting was held on april 5th and again on april 12th regarding this level 3 grievance all right per attached policy gbk dash ee the board can make a motion to do one of the following affirm the superintendent's response to reject the superintendent's response and three modify the students the superintendent's response as follows and it says this is a board's import i have a i have something to comment on okay this is the question before the board do we uphold the superintendent's decision to withhold two days sick
017pay to this employee or not mr grain was initially denied sick pay because he did not provide medical documentation proving he was sick when he rightfully protested citing policy gcca which is based on arizona state law the administration then came back and denied him sick pay on the basis that they believe he was not actually sick on those days mr greene appealed that decision and now it is before this board and the board is being asked to ignore the initial reason for refusal to pay and decide whether or not the teacher was actually sick when he took sick days was mr green sick maybe maybe not but when he did not was denied pay for not providing medical documentation that was wrong and it should have ended there but instead the administration dug in they
018doubled down and at what cost to the district there's been meetings between superintendent and principal meetings between staff and administrators consultations with our attorney hours of this board's time all this to sanction an employee who maybe wasn't sick it's a ridiculous waste of time energy and taxpayer dollars and to what end has all this time and money benefited our students and our community not a bit it's harmed them it has distracted both the administration and this board from attending to pressing issues and it has sent a message to our staff that even if the administration is wrong they will try to find a way to win we are losing good teachers not because of budget cuts but because of the way we treat them it needs to stop these are professionals let's treat them that
019way i move that we reject the superintendent's response and do two things suspend the youth then suspend the use of section 12q of the employee agreement for the reason that it conflicts with policy gcca and that we pay mr green for his two days okay is that a motion that's emotion so spend you see uh 12q of the employee great agreement and pay mr green for two days and it includes rejecting the superintendent's report yeah anyone want to second that motion no guthrie now mr hopkins robertson yes [Music] does anyone else have a motion so that what's left is to affirm the superintendent's response and i'll second it you should go through robertson no glasses all right we go on to um let's go on to business then businesses approval of the governing board policy
020changes second reading though um conversations had during the january 13 regular session governing board meeting changes to g c h was submitted to arizona school board association for approval of copyright a screenshot of asba policy which is attached asba is also approving the deletion of policy gdch which is a duplicate of policy gcch a copy of an email received from asba approving the deletion is also attached i'm president yes i couldn't find some documents i fear i was unclear this is how we're asking for one vote on two policies and the second policy g-d-c-h is the elimination of that cause which is the repeat of policy gcch what we're doing is our history here in the district has been to allow staff to have and under bereavement five days of leave for death a family
021member we're talking about close sound they talk about first and second degree um this is not it goes on down the path to the in-laws and so on and so forth but the board policy was not aligned for the last 20 years probably more with uh the uh meeting for agreement the meet and far agreement said five days per death the policy says five days per year uh the gifts i got from the board and definitely from the staff was that they felt more support for staff with five days for hopefully no one has to use it than five days for family death i'll second it aye mr hoffman aye ms and the last item is governing board action does anyone have an item that they wish to be added to the agenda for the
022next meeting okay um i'd like to request an agenda item uh on our plan for increasing enrollment for next month including any ideas to maintain our enrichment activities such as art music and sports and the second thing i'd like to request is that another month has passed and the board has not been allowed to meet and discuss the employee complaint that we received months ago months ago how can we ignore this we need to meet an executive session with our lawyer in order to get advice about how to proceed with this and um i wanted to propose we discussed um formalizing the system of the survey that was just conducted i think it's valuable that we conduct that survey twice a year at the end of each semester i think it should go out to
023every teacher i think at the same time end of the semester we should be surveying all of the parents for their satisfaction you know it gives us more information and it gives the community anything else all right then i'd say that this meeting is adjourned at 5 59.