001you must cut you know it's going to be horrific we all do and you'll vote on this plan and go home acknowledging you know regrettably bad things are for the school but knowing you've done your job as a board no doing your jobs award needs holdings dr julian's administration speak is a fire in this time of crisis because you hired him and after 250 000 his administration was hoping for an increased enrollment hoping for increased enrollment hoping he used the term half a dozen times yet not one board member bothered to ask him what he plans to do or is doing besides hoping ms burns told you mr casey and the staff to complete a comprehensive and determine that 50 of the parents who have unenrolled their kids are unlikely to re-enroll them but did
002that analysis determine why those parents were choosing not to enroll their kids i don't have an answer and neither do you because nobody on this board asks the question it matters because if you know why if the administration knows why then maybe something could be done in the last meeting mr guthrie asked about the high rate of attrition and custodial staff but what this board should be asking for are exit interviews so you know why custodians after leaving you know why teachers are leaving because right now you don't know i think attrition is unacceptably high in this district our kids deserve as much staff continuity as possible the sport should be doing more to learn from this administration what changes we need to help them have real leadership in this district would have leveraged aqua's
003uniqueness and small size to mitigate the problems we're facing dr julie is not does not do this in the face of those facts that were going for a six-figure contract to maintain business as usual our kids and teachers deserve better none of you are paid to be sitting up here giving your time and it's appreciated that you signed up to serve your community please meet and talk as a body to determine what information you should have that you don't have come up with a plan to acquire the information you don't have and demand accountability because that's what functioning effective boards do coming together once a month to vote on items put them for you is not enough it's just part of why you're here you're a governing body and if there's ever a time to
004govern it says personal attacks upon board members staff personnel and other persons in attendance um the lord are discouraged and upon the conclusion of open call to public individual members of the board may respond to any criticism made by an individual who has addressed the board um mr hopkins i request that i have three minutes as a response mr robinson and i am going to include mrs robinson because i it goes right along with it even though your speech is yours alone there are other things that are involved in this monday night and i am paraphrasing you said that you and mrs robinson had explored places to settle one of the main requirements was a good school district after being here for a while you realize that our schools did not measure up to your
005expectations is this correct i'm speaking in defense of the school the board the staff and all the children that attend and highlight we are not perfect no school is but we are open to suggestions that will make us a better school i am stating this is my own opinion though i hope upon hearing that some of the good members will agree with me being negative and at times bordering on slanderous does not make a good school district recalls do not make a good school district nasty letters do not make the school good students constantly finding fault does not make a good school district i believe the primary goal of any school district is to provide the children of that district with the best environment and tools for learning how does all this negativity look to
006our students the staff works hard to instill kindness honesty and positivity into them what kind of examples are we to them and the children of aho who are arguing all the time i challenge you mr robinson to come back again and speak to us again both you and mrs robinson at what have the ability to make positive changes what are your ideas that would help learning and further the education of all students we need to work together on common goals what you are doing now does not do that so i look forward to hearing you from you again soon marcia thank you also on monday when we had our work meeting we did ask the question of what was a plan to address the shortfall and um dr lilly assured us that he would have
007a budget or plan um for us in our next next month in our board meeting so it's not like we go like we are not interested in what happens there we're just giving administration a chance to present to us what they need to do in order to address the budget it's a very difficult time for everybody right as i said on monday after one time i'm almost losing eighty thousand dollars a month because i voted right and so every business in town i'm sure your magazine also everybody is having to adjust the lower budgets and you know it's just a tough time so um not like we're just blindly rather than goals all right i am uh changing agenda just a little bit and if you would go to student business number two approval of
008the scholarship donation of the state of the world mr farmer is here to make the [Music] mr farmer called me about a week or two ago and we all knew john burns john burns taught in honolulu high school his whole career he was an avid golf coach and probably a couple other sports that i've forgotten he was an outstanding statewide an outstanding student council executive i ran the student council program here for years he retired from teaching beginning the school year i remember when i was here and became a board member at that time he served two terms on the board um he invited our kids our primary kids high school kids private gifts because throughout this he had his avid trains collection and santa's shop that he sent us village thank you good work
009that he built in his house he built special room for that so kids would come up there on field trips i took my granddaughter there um john was into this town i used to say if you scratch john or mrs cameron they bleed red but we all would but they were really auto regulators from the word go mr burns unfortunately passed away in december of 19 and then been a few years before board members and um mr farmer was his executor am i correct kenny and he and kenny were dear friends and golf together and coached together and told crazy stories and because i heard john's version of it and then kenny had advised me that mr burns and his estate left the proceeds from the sale of his house to the district and i
010asked mr farmer if he'd come in and talk about that a little bit nobody's stealing your thundercam oh no you're fine you're fine i appreciate you taking the time to come out this first time i've seen you support me in 20 years i know my name is ken farmer and i am the professional representative for john burns and i'm here to fulfill my friends and fellow teachers to ask wishes john came here in 1975 and started in he taught business type and computer science he was a student council sponsor for over 20 years he did coach villa very important he was a sport he and i were scored for football games until i became an official basketball volleyball he was a school board member for several years and i would like to read through you
011from his will and testament item 4 section f my residential home and the lock there under is to be sold in the net proceeds which i'll go to a scholarship plan for the ottawa high school students specifically for students going to a business school only with such scholarship funds to be administered by migrants and farmer and aids department local arizona so he did specify that these report suits going into business computer science and the lights and so the home has been sold and i would like to present to the board a check for 133 thousand dollars for the john the john burns memorial scholarship i rose between two thorns thank you so you guys scholarships oh number two the acceptance of um this appearance donation to the iraq school district to the amount of 135
012000. a mr burns was a fantastic coach teacher here sure i graduated 75 that's when he came and so he he was fantastic my son played golf for him and he still tells stories about mr burns and so thank you kenny you're welcome thank you mr president um again thank you very much uh i wish mr burns is here to take the accolades uh it's really great um just to keep your data arrested on some update on some uh calendar events coming up for our school district uh next week 17th 18th and 19th our parent conferences our second series of current conferences they're different than what we're all used to 99 percent of this on zoom or a telephone or something of that effect we still expect a good turnout we want teachers to part
013of our 301 plan to have a high percentage of their students involved in conferences we think it's important we hear about the frustrations that competitors are having with the shutdown because of coping 19 the students aren't producing as well we all know that i'll say this over and over again this is not unique to offa high school elementary school or aho children's students this is happening nationwide and it's unfortunate but i want parents to be aware as much as we can so also that we can perhaps help students with some programs we have during spring break and the summer session uh fourth quarter starts monday it's hard to imagine this year's three quarters over time flies when you're having fun i don't mean that sarcastically i mean being into school is important spring break week
014will be the 22nd or 26th tonight we have an agenda to employ some teachers to help us with programs that help students may need some extra help or feel like we need to play catch up a little bit one of the things i'm always worried about right now nationwide we're seeing a bit of a coveted plateau that means the numbers have dropped since january january it was unheard of just online but the numbers are still still i've heard two figures i i quoted this staff today so the teachers and everyone have to hear this twice i've heard between 60 and 70 000 a day and we're between 50 and 70 000 a day so my worry is this for our country that even though we're hitting a plateau the plateau is still much higher than
015it was last march april may in june probably i can't remember what it was in july but i think it may have been higher than that so we still have to be cautious and keep social distancing and be safe um it's not just me worried about that doctors that i trust on the news like anthony fauci uh he talks about the fact that he's worried that we're on the verge of another surge i don't always think about spring break that's what i'm thinking about when spring break happens i see u of a and asu driving through this town to go to the beach good time good place to have fun it's also a place to spread the virus today mr edlund and i modeled our expectations for teachers staff development on how we want them
016to distribute hand sanitizer take temperatures clean surfaces and so on and so forth we spent an hour to an hour and 15 minutes talking about what we expect what we think is safe for children and staff and responding to questions and what's frustrating i've said this 100 times before i'm sorry to repeat myself but none of us their employees are experts on coca-19 i've learned a million times more than what i knew a year ago today because reading the articles watching the news looking on the internet but we were trained to help kids become leaders and writers and learn how to get along with stressful times we weren't trained to become co-good experts and so we've had to learn a lot of that stuff so that's part of the frustration i think that you'll hear
017from all educators in our business i have a daughter i love dearly it's a teacher in las vegas and where every once in a while i have to kind of remind her honey this is the way it's going to be because she's so frustrated because she can't have her kids sometimes she can't be on campus so it's it's something we're all having learned to deal with just because i had only when the board voted the last board meeting to open up in the 29th of march i appreciate the fact sincerely that the board pushed it back that far because mr hill and i talked we were worried about staff getting the second covert shot that wouldn't have time to take effect i think that i think that this ample time we're also worried about the
018fact that we may see some uh issues with spring break we didn't want to start and have spring break and start again so i appreciate the border picking this the 29th i think that was a reasonable choice just because i am worried that mr edwin's worried about having kids back doesn't mean we don't want him around uh the best part of my day today was you all know ronald gotee she's an amazing teacher and i was over in the primary camp doing something i was coming back i saw these five little not seven little three four five seven and they're all excited because they had new masks and the masks came from arizona schools and and they had a clear plastic insert so she could see their lips move and they talk to help them
019develop proper language and they i don't know who's working site where they're no longer the kids but at no offense anybody that was the best part of my day until right now i'm sure this is very good but that's what we want to see we want to see these kids back we want to see them at the end of the year still healthy so i appreciate the board's support so far we have been very conservative on this and uh and the only reason because we want our kids to be safe and thank you for putting us up we were a little bit the governor frustrated a lot of educators last week when he came out and said schools will open the 15th he didn't ask any high level educator now not the paho ajo unified
020school district super gender principal high level educators we think are pretty important but that doesn't mean that we're important to state level he didn't talk to state superintendent public instruction's office he just did it but i sent an attestation actually monday i believe it was saying that we're testing which is making a basically a sworn statement that we're supporting by his executive order because he did say that exactly where or the monday after uh spring break which is what the 29th so that was good luck on our part so anyhow we're trying to comply the best we can uh one of the things i hope the staff heard from us today was we don't know how to fix something unless you tell us we don't know if what we think what we're playing is going
021to work but it's going to be some trial and error i'm sure but we don't have much room for error if we want to keep our staff safe so anyway thank you thank you may i hear the motion to accept the consent agenda [Music] the personnel so here i am maybe after yesterday and then i'm after monday and i come tonight let me ask questions tonight but so the hiring of these two teachers you're going to have to have a plan that you're going to present to us next month that i am sure is going to cut somebody from the staff there will be a rift there'll be a rip so we're hiring new teachers knowing that we're going to rip other teachers it right you know these are existing teachers we just didn't know
022we did the initial hiring a month ago if these people are going to be available and one of the math teachers alone said teacher spanish and esl correct yeah they're they're they're here right now they are here there are two others that are core subject area teachers that we need to replace and that we have to fill those core subject areas as well so they're certified to teach in the specific areas that we need to hire math english things like that we have to have them that's why we're suggesting that yes i'm sorry i thought you were just talking about the next the next the first agenda on personnel um talking about the hiring of the math teacher the english teacher and you know i just i know that we're future they're going to be
023cut yeah we're hiring two new teachers you know i just our worry is that we haven't met this time of year that we have a math and an english vacancy that we can't fill we have to have those positions so you have other slots that are less important but we have that's what we're working on right now sometimes the teacher that's being ripped can't qualify to teach them correct i understand [Music] i understand your question and it's a good question but um it's hard if i'm going to riff if a few folks represent the high school spirit of high school staff and i riff rodney but higher higher two of the people in the audience like well whatever it means well the state legislature passed a law several years ago that changed the whole rift
024schedule in arizona rift used to be first in last outpost last year versus i apologize and that worked easily with the ka program until we came up with a designated certification for k3 and they changed the secondary certification to 612. but for the most part at elementary you could still go at that time years before that law last in first out they specifically changed that they said you cannot risk someone based on seniority you riff them based on performance and so high school is a whole different kind of fish a whole different situation kelly fisher's not a professional term um so if we have if our student population requires two math teachers and we have three mr edward and i would work and say okay this is seven's horrible folks but which ones which one's
025the least successful students that would be the one creating that last legislation and again it's probably three years ago i'm not sure and i can't voice your statutes but that would mean that would be the person to go even if they were the um the first one hired even if they had seniority because the legislature doesn't deal with that they don't want that and same way with special i'm sorry special education uh math english we test for science we have to have social studies let's say those are the five or six key areas that we have to have we just can't came down from ourselves i understand the importance of bringing the teachers in that small position to get what that means that's when you get to this category [Music] that's in the contract that
026statements in the contract says there won't be something to this effect this is not a direct quote but there will not be any reduction in pay unless it's done uniformly across the certified statute so we couldn't say for example a teacher guthrie loses a thousand dollars and the other three of you don't get uh uh reduction in salary it has to be across the board to make sure that that was made clear to the teachers and most of the contracts and i can't give you the exact number i should have prepared for this but most of the contracts that the board approves at the last quarter have been signed and turned in already so we've got a couple that we want to pursue a little bit but it's always nerve-wracking at this time because as
027i've said the board before the last two years i don't know where this number comes from comes the state part of education on where they get they've said that the beginning of school now every district may have a different starting date that's the big part year before the last there were 2700 vacancies in the state of arizona this past year was close to that i came from an exact number and one of the reasons is dollar we are paying according their u.s news and world report and we figure in cost of living arizona teachers are paid 50th in the nation we're only we we're 48 in the exact amount following oklahoma and mississippi but we figured the cost of living we're 50th we're funding kids the 49th nation only state funding lessons utah per child
028so that's been happening since mid 90s we can go into this boat with the assurance of the administration at the hiring of these two teachers is in your overall plan financially for next year yes liam burns and i've already talked about that okay okay that's a good question the first daughter is administrative resignation of princeton principal leonard edwin and i think we all feel very bad resolutions [Music] all right i want to thank mr edlund we met last april and uh we've worked well together and uh just for the record i don't think he's leaving because of me he and i talked about some things that he has worried about for several months so i wish him well appreciate your support the next item is approval of teacher contracts for the year 2012 school year
029the administration's requesting board approval of the issuance contracts to the following teachers kevin and joseph all right [Music] is approval of a 21 22 uh 2021 2022 certified resignation of a spent teacher gretchen graham the wretched engineering has completed the initial journalism for j-1 and she has decided to return to her family at the end of the contract period may i hear a recommendation to accept rich international presentations um the is of the third grade teacher has completed the initial three years of his day one work visa he has decided i [Music] number five is a 2021-2022 certified upon cheetah chanter [Music] zucchinita chanted has been interviewed for vacant english language arts position for the year 2021 2023 students reference checks are in practice were they completed they're still in process so that's what [Music]
030as a teacher for the 2021-2012 school year glad your hmm number six is another personnel certified employment for the year 2021 2020 april joy caballero april jo joy caballero was hired by the district in june 2020 but because of the covered travel restrictions were able to get out of the philippines to come to iowa she has been re-interviewing her an upcoming position for the 2021-2022 school year and once the superintendent recommends the employment of [Music] um the barriers are much lower than they were a year ago the problem is the us embassy has to be involved in this process as they're coming from a foreign country and they take a minimal number of appointments a day and so it takes a while so we're hoping i know last year when i heard this lady she
031was impressive but i had i suggested the motion i assume the coordinates that we offer the job through the first of october she's [Music] employment spring intercession will be completed online spring in the session will be march 22nd to 20th to 22nd to the 26th the administration is recommending the following staff for online teaching and tutoring carolyn rodriguez came to richard riverdale year five six kevin comments high school math alice cadez grades three and four rayleigh vernon peter grades five and six tamara's small english language arts not potentiate three and four and eminent rosales middle school superintendent recommends the hiring of the above teachers to work during the interception with the commercial [Music] a day for four days so that's 20 hours at 25 an hour is about a thousand bucks so that comes out
032to tell you a lot hopefully we'll have some students veteran conferences you'll see the value and being able to participate in this there's no way they can come to school the people we're having in school right now and that won't happen during spring break because the calendar shows the close our special education students and children of uh central workers okay so we probably have 40 45 students we're not let's say 40 students today right now let me hear a motion please the next is the personal classified resignation of a custodian alex uh guymez herrera alex gonzalez herrera has submitted his resignation from his custodial position with the district the resignation is affected immediately superintendent recommends that we accept his resignation join their motion the next is an abandonment of a position by a paraprofessional valeria
033chavez valeria chavez who is hired by the board as a teacher aide at the november 10th board meeting will not return after the break mr ellen had talked to miss chavez and her new appointment and she does not plan to return no letter email or card was submitted for resignation miss chavez abandoned in the position was too late to include in the january board agenda and inadvertently left off in february and so now we recommend that a paraprofessional position abandoned by administrative be declared may i hear a motion i make a mission uh next is classified employment of a maintenance custodian daniel cotton daniel cotton has been interviewed and referenced checks completed for the position on custodial maintenance work uh superintendent recommends the acceptance of daniel cotton's appointment as a custodial all right and the
034last is a classified employment maintenance consultant for axel uh gonzalez excellent gonzalez has been interviewed and reference checks completed for the position of a custodian maintenance worker and the superintendent recommends the acceptance of alex gonzalez as employment as a custodian maintenance all right moving on to business the first order of business is uh the approval of the 2020 2021 301 plan payout amendment in response to the ade announcement the school grade will be postponed for the 2020-2021 school years the administration proposes an amendment to the 301 plan to the certified teachers the plan proposes six monitored categories as a replacement to school grade teachers have approved this amendment 28-0 with two teachers not responding to the survey in question here and the six categories are first semester conferences second quarter physician positive parent contacts smart
035goals submission achievement third quarter positive parent context second semester conferences and the fourth quarter positive parent country 100 of the 301 will go to those who have at least five to six of the categories eighty percent will be to explore the six of the categories sixty percent will of the documented effort will be for three to six categories at least three to six and less than three to six years okay because it's five out of the six categories four of the six the three episodes that it says far at least five or six yeah it sounded like it was three times emotions that you recommend the approved amendment to the 301 plan which we have already done the last is just a um governing broad request to add agenda to future views okay i would
036like to do the um can you get it done because of the opening in school probably what i would like to add to it is in fact there's a survey i'm working on right now that has several components and one of them is administration one of the safety ones knowledge materials uh also one of his board relations i'd like to put that on there too it's one of the things we've never done we've never done a board evaluation and policy talks about that and this might just give a quick 35 right and i can have i have a couple in the works that would go from these green assemblies i don't want to do it online i want to do it in person because it shouldn't be a collaborative thing it should be a person's
037true input so i find that in person but we can't be [Music] eric's usually they go through i have one as well okay in january an employee submitted complaints to the board since then we've heard multiple pleas from this employee the most recent meaning by email over a week ago the board has not offered a response of any sort this can no longer be ignored at least some of these complaints require by law a response from the board itself therefore i am requesting an executive session be scheduled as soon as possible for the purpose of addressing these complaints before [Music] all right um [Music]