001We don't need 6:00 in order the Apache Junction Unified School District board September 9, 2025 regular meeting in attendance. Mrs. Ross present. >> Mrs. Williamson >> present. All members are in attendance. Please rise from those in allegiance or remain standing for a moment of silence. To the flag of the United States of America. Item 1.3 adoption of the agenda which I will make a motion on the agenda like to make a motion to adopt the agenda. Second I'll second Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. Yes. Mrs. Garcia. >> Yes. Mrs. Le. >> Yes. And yes. That motion passes 5 to zero. Item 1.4 for meeting minutes not previously approved. I'd like to make motion on minutes and president like to make a motion to approve the August 19th board retreat August 26 regular meeting
002and September 2nd 25 work session I'll second Mrs. Ross >> yes Mrs. Williamson yes >> yes Mrs. No, because um the September 2nd work session meeting, it states that it was done at it concluded at 3:50, but if it concluded at 3:50, I would have been in in attendance. So, it had to have been concluded prior to 350. >> 250. >> Okay. Yeah, because I could have been nearby. >> So, can we just make that correction? Yeah. So, should I make a motion to approve and then just amend amendments? >> Yes. >> Okay. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the August 19th, 2025 board minutes, the 26, 2025 regular meeting, September 2nd, 2025 work session minutes. Uh, with the work session being at 250 at 250. >> Okay. Do we have
003a motion? A second. I'll second. >> Mrs. Ross second. Mrs. Ross. Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mrs. L. Yes. And yes, the motion passes to zero. Right on to information. Members around. You want to start first? Sure. was trying to remember today where all this stuff rules every single day. But um I'll talk about yesterday's training. We had a open meeting law training that went over the 12 rules to know. Uh first I was reluctant to come because I thought I had enough training after nine years. But um the gentleman that actually been around the training um taught us a couple things that we were unaware of that a lot of the board learned up there all the time didn't have the board. So I was um excited to be
004a part of that and I know next Monday we have another three or four hours of training. >> Thank you Miss Busy with Mrs. trusting sanctions, Mrs. Williamson. >> Uh, yes. I attended the um trust law conference on August 28th. It was in Phoenix. Um, it was really good. A lot of really good information. Learned a lot about uh Title Nine. Um, also attended a work session that talked about um, school safety. So, that was very informative and I enjoyed that. And then again, like Pammy said, we had the open meeting law training yesterday that was really good, packed full of a lot of stuff that uh I think we all needed to hear and learn about. So, it was really great. And that's it. >> Thank you. And as said, I've also attended a
005training yesterday um with Tim Carter from County and I thought it was really like was you think you know it all and then you learn something new. Um so and then we have our next training Monday the 15th which will be some legal training which I think will be important to be to attend Dr. Superintendent report. >> Madam President, member of the board, community, teachers, colleagues. Um we're glad you're here tonight. Uh the summary, my superintendent summary starts with I attended both a lot of the conferences within the last two weeks. Um also had a chance to go to the boys volleyball game, girls volleyball game. They're competing very very well right now. Um on Friday I had the opportunity to take our principal loss with them to the executive leadership training with Relay and
006Arizona Reed. It was a great training for them. You'll hear more about that later in the upcoming months. Um I also want to give a shout out to the elves who have generously asked our teachers for what supplies they want so they can donate to them. That's a great thing. Um so next I would like to have uh having is to have um Miss Kathleen Donnelly come up and talk about our partnership with Atom Academy that started last year and continues into this year and now this is free to us and she can talk about how this got started and where we are today. community. And I'm really excited to share with you some exciting things that are happening with the partnership between our school district and Khan Academy. Uh we were fortunate last spring
007to be on a a grant actually with Khan Academy, University of Arizona that is to help kids to really do well. Uh it's Thank you. Uh book comes about partnership is professional learning for our teachers. Rostering services where all the kids are in the program, district success support. Um we have content admin has analytics that they can look at anytime they like and the students have which is an II program which is specifically geared toward he >> this close uh and so the KIGO which is the AI is for teachers admins and students as well the KIGO will work with students as is a one-on-one tutor. It won't show them how to do anything as far as giving them answers, but it will walk them through anything. There's also a uh writing coach, which just
008phenomenal. And you can actually go in there on your own and peek at it. I recommend to everyone. Uh they're talking about mastery learning which empowers our students and Khan Academy is a mastery learning program. Students will have attempts of learning and then they can become familiar if they get between 50 to 100 points. proficient is 80 to 100 and they are at math too when they have 100% of the points and this is shown with colors of the students and the students actually see these colors and uh I was having a teacher tell me today that the kids get extremely excited when they get their crowns it's a mastery learning program as I had said before the teacher assigns the assignments to the students students worked on them and it goes based on how
009what they know and it shows them how they practice Um, next one. This is the screen that shows you what the student sees when they first go in Khan Academy. And then when you see on the bottom right, it says course challenge. The student goes in and takes the challenge. And you can see the different colors that are on the screen that are that indicate the different levels that I had mentioned previously. Anification use on Khan Academy accelerates student learning. There is a research that shows that this actually is the case and the researchers on the slide want to go into it and look at it and it shows that if students master 60 plus skills to proficient or higher over the course of a school year it will accelerate their learning by 32%. And
010they do stand by those numbers. Uh 18 hours of practice over the course of a school year will accelerate learning by 32%. and course mastery 80% mastery of a course prepares students for the next grade. All of our students who are working on this program are exceeding that goal currently. Kamigo which I had mentioned is the AI program. I recommend you go there and have a peek at it because it's it's phenomenal. It's world class actually. Uh teachers can use it to generate high quality progress reports and engage in classroom activities and it allows them to plan differentiate group students and uh support for students. They have access just in time support and scaffolds throughout the course that's available to them at all times. The little bug you see up there is KIGA. It's always
011on the screen for the children and they can students filter children all they do is click on it and they immediately receive assistance from the from KIGO that's his ability. Uh the students build critical thinking skills through the Socratic tutoring method. They strengthen their writing with the personalized support writing coach. Amazing. And they get help on homework assignments which is they've just actually made that better even better than it was. Whereas before it was specifically con academy assignments, now they can upload assignments for science, math, for anything and comfort them with that and it it'll support all their college and career goals. So basically every single one of our studio students in addition to having their classroom teacher has a one-on-one tutor available to them at any time. uh spring startup. I want to tell
012you something exciting that we did as a district last spring to to get kids into it and to get uh get them started up. We initiated a district-wide math competition. Uh the math competition was incredibly successful. So successful that Khan Academy adopted it and now we're at a statewide competition because ours was so successful in the spring that they decided to do it statewide. And in fact, I don't have a slide for this, but I just want to mention that uh our students ranked nationally uh in 9th to 11th grade in the top 10% of uh learning actually learning in April and May, end of April. This is the course competition just in case you're curious. It explains what the kids did. They had to take the course challenge and then it they the little
013boxes that it showed on the previous screen. If they had one that's purple crown, they already have a master. everything else. They just keep going in and as they give those crowns they uh earn some parties which which really excites. So this is another thing that was to me incredibly exciting. This is a statewide the state of Arizona success spotlight. You'll notice that Apache Junction is in first place and students actively learning and cognote usage in May and June of uh last year. We came in second to Paradise Valley where students are reaching proficiency. Uh but I knew that we did it. It's very uh we received a certificate of achievement from Ahan Academy for having done so amazingly well as a school district in the state of Arizona. And then so this year we're
014starting strong to have a strong year with kids. We are now in the state competition which was as a result of our school district initiative last spring. So this kindness of these two slides. This is this is probably the most exciting thing that I've seen in a while. This is the this is a success spotlight for the state of Arizona for the month of August for this school year. If you notice who is in first place all the way across the board, including students reaching proficiency is Castro Unified School District. That is statewide. Yeah, that's that's phenomenal actually. Um, so I'm really excited especially I like that. I don't know why I like that more here. And here's some just a few um numbers for learn Khan Academy. And I want to tell you that
015I talked with the person at Khan Academy who is their data specialist who I meet with weekly to see how we're doing. And she honestly is floored by these numbers because their golden goal is 30% right now. And if you see we have exceeded that all across the board and she had say that these were our end of year numbers they would be exceptional. And these are our beginning of year numbers. That's a big celebration. Uh, so this is just the success spotlight for the math, excuse me, for the state competition with Kana County that's going on right now. It's six weeks and they have a leaderboard in the state of Arizona. If you notice in week one, we did make the board Miss Matlo uh second place in the state. Good job at her.
016Week two, we took third place and fourth place Mrs. Mlo's class and I think Miss Marshall's class uh which is this is an entire state of Arizona. So it's phenomenal. Week three pack of fourth and fifth with again Mrs. Matlo who's quite amazing and Mr. McCain's class. Uh I'm projecting that there's going to be at least three teachers on the board this week. I haven't seen it but I've picked at our personal numbers and I think we're going to have a minimum of three. I'll be surprised if they're with us. Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss D. Um, so now we'll get to the next part of our meeting, which will do the student and staff recognition. We'll start with our staff recognition first and then we'll have the club help
017us with the student recognition. Good evening, madam president, govern board and community. I'm very happy to be here this evening. My name is Lisa again. I'm the high school principal and I'm happy to share uh two outstanding employees with you. [Music] So, first I would like to call up Teranki. Anyone? >> All right. So Tara is our attendance clerk at the high school, which if you know about high school attendance, it's a big job and it takes an incredible person to stay on top of the attendance and be nice to everyone while she does it. So let me share something with you that I wrote. So we'd like to recognize Tara, our outstanding tennis clerk, for the many ways she supports HJHS every day. Terra is the definition of a team player, always ready to
018roll up her sleeves and take on whatever tasks are needed. Her dedication, flexibility, and positive attitude make a genuine difference in helping HJHS be an even better place to work and learn. We are grateful for all she does for staff, students, and families. And now I have a couple of well, many of your colleagues sent me comments, but I only have time to read a couple. So, I want to share um Miss Edwards, who is our receptionist, shared that Terara's attention to detail and problem solving shines through in each situation. She's a hard worker and a great asset to AJHS. And just one more, Tara, thank you for your hard work and dedication to AJHS and our students. You're always willing to lend a hand when needed and support those around you. And that is
019from Susan Artia. So, congratulations do this once a year. Okay. Next, I would like to call Miss Emily Picker. Emily, >> Miss Picker teaches PE and so much more on our campus. And I just heard a little birdie tell me that they have a previous teacher here. That you have a previous teacher here. Is that true? >> Yes. Mr. Coach, um, father like this. >> So that was fit for bigger >> V. Small world. So >> um all right. So I wrote about Miss Emily. We are incredibly grateful for Emily, a teacher who goes above and beyond every single day. She's the kind of educator you'd wish you could clone a dozen times over. Dedicated, compassionate, and inspiring. In addition to teaching and coaching cross country, she leads their Christian courage club and best buddies.
020both making a last a lasting difference in the lives of both students and staff in and out of the classroom. We are so thankful for your energy, heart, and leadership that you bring to our school community. So, thank you. Um, just real quick, Mr. Stoodto, a new teacher to AJHS this year, says, "Miss Pickard has made my transition into AJHS as a new teacher easy and enjoyable. She is insightful, leads with passion, and is always willing to lend a hand. And the last one from Mr. Yates, our athletic director. Emily is a great leader within our PE department and our athletic program. She invests a great deal of energy into our kids and community to help them achieve their goal. Congratulations. We want to help you. What are we doing? >> I'm ready. >> Okay.
021Scooch in just kind of closer together. Get just like that. Why is it so good? Now final picture as long it's not mine. It's mine. New flash is not cooperating. We're doing great. One more entry, two like to call it. Come on now. [Music] Let me tell you a little bit. about this amazing young man. He um his favorite subject in school is science because Mr. Walker makes it fun. Someone who inspires you and how it's my his mom because she's very strong. His favorite memory so far was building rockets in Mr. Walker's class. If he could have a superpower, he would pick flights so he wouldn't have to drive and deal with traffic. I like that. the dream job or career he wants to grow be when he grows up as a firefighter. Someone
022who's positively inspired him as Mr. Yuling and advice you give to other students to be successful. Do the work to the best of your ability. I just want to share what a few teachers said about Luca. This is from Mr. Walker coincidentally bigger teacher. So he says Luca is a leader in the classroom and on the football field. His dedication, perseverance, and excellence in both academics and athletics serve as an inspiration to others. Miss Jim says, "Luca is a respectful and responsible student. He is kind and helpful to his peers and has strong work ethics. So, congratulations." And a little bit about Miss Whitney. It's her favorite subject to mix and it does count. She put it that counts and it counts. Um, someone who inspires her is someone that inspires her is my older
023brother because he made a good life for himself and it inspires me to be like him later on. She says if she could have a superpower, it would be to know as much information as possible. I like that. The big brain superpower. Dream job or career when you grow up is to be a high school ceramics teacher or have my own pottery studio. And somehow made a positive impact has been Miss Klein, her ceramics teacher, and her best friend, Bella Moore. Advice you give to other students to be successful. She said, Some advice I would give to students is to try in school. And this is my favorite part, be nice to everyone. School advice. Her teachers say Whitney is one of my best and favorite students. She's smart, dedicated, and hardwork. She goes above
024and beyond what's asked of her in class, and that is very rare. She has a bright future ahead of her from Mr. Powell. Miss Timman said Whitney is committed to making the most of opportunities presented to her. She goes above and beyond academic expectations, not simply to please her teachers or parents, but also for her herself. She has high standards and has pride in striving to meet them. Congratulations. I would like to follow up. I >> mean, he's great. I mean, if you want >> audience, could you vote? >> Great. Thank you everybody. >> And then, did you want me to go? Were you in front of that vote? She is too serious. All right. So, from the academy, I would like to introduce my first young man, Adrian. If you can come out here
025really, please from my kindergarten class. I'm going to say he's a lovely young man, which he is. I got to teach him this class and we got to see his actions and how smart he is. Um, do you want to come over here? Thank you the club for being kind. Appreciate it. Um the teacher said, "Adrian is such a joy to have in class, always smiling and spreading kindness. He brings so much warmth to everyone around him. Adrian is very bright, which I can second, and eager to learn, always giving his best effort with everything he does in class. It has been wonderful to see his growth and improvement. His hard work has helped him excel to a level above great expectations. Adrienne's determination and positive attitude shine through in all that he does. Congratulations,
026Adrian. And my next is young lady that actually had the pleasure of teaching the other day. Camila Venezuela. Why does he teach so much? All right. Camila is a kind and quiet girl. I've seen otherwise who th who treats all others with respect and warmth. She is diligent in her schoolwork, always giving her best effort throughout the school year. She has been coming out of her shell a little bit more, showing a great confidence and able to show her share her ideas. Uh Mr. We is so excited to see Camila continue to flourish and looks forward to seeing her increase in growth and confidence throughout the year. Congratulations like me in class. Thank you Camila. That's just Bonn's answer. What I expect from all my students. Okay. And from Desert Visa, Mrs. Thank you. I'm
027too short for this. Doesn't work for me. Thank you, Mr. Berman, Madame President, members of the board, Dr. Pavalardo, members of the community, colleagues, and families. My name is Kelly Fam, and I'm the proud principal of Desert Vista Elementary, and I'm honored tonight um to uh talk about two of our fourth grade students. Um, our first Mustang is Hrix Sutton. So, Hrix, who told me she is named after Jimmy Hendrickx, that was always one of my questions for her. Uh, just joined our Mustang family this last year. Her favorite thing about Desert Vista is that the teachers are nice, which makes her feel right at home. She's an avid reader. She's currently diving into a book from one of her favorite series. Outside of reading, she has many, many hobbies. She loves creating art. She's
028taught herself how to crochet. She likes to bake cakes. I know the next one she wants to do is a lemon cake and even paddle boarding with her mom. Um, and she even shared a memorable story about a time she was in a tornado. Not something I ever want to be part of. Um, she also has a big heart for animals. She cares about her main cat, Jackie, and dreams of one day living on a large piece of land where she can help protect Arizona's animals and their natural habitat. And her teacher, who happens to be here tonight, said that Hendris consistently demonstrates responsibility by completing all of her work with dedication. She shows strong leadership within the classroom and throughout the school community, setting a positive example for her peers. She's always willing to
029lend a helping hand to younger students and treat others with kindness and respect. Hris's hard work, leadership, and compassion make her a remarkable role model and a deserving recipient of this recognition. Congratulations, Hrix. And our second incredible Mustang, I'm sure you've seen him on all the billboards. We have Tucker Al. So Tucker is a currently a lifetime Mustang. So he's been at Desert Vista since kindergarten. Um and if he does look familiar to you, he is on some of our enrollment um boards and um his mom takes his picture in front of us every year. much to his dismay this year. He was like, you know, you'll look back on it and appreciate it later. Sure. Um, his favorite thing about Desert Vista is the teachers because he said when they are kind, more learning
030can happen. Um, math is his favorite subject and he's already scored proficient on the ELA pretest and highly proficient on the math pretest, making him a student that we have to constantly challenge. Um, he's also known for being polite and a great helper. Always willing to lend a hand to anyone who needs it. If I remember correctly, Tucker, you were helping us sweep at our bingo for books, correct? Yes. He grabbed a broom and jumped right in and was helping everything clean up. So, Tucker's amazing. Miss Martinez, his teacher, who also happens to be here tonight, said that Tucker is always on task and consistently puts forth his best effort in the classroom. He completes his work with care and shows great focus every day. Tucker is a hard-working student who's always willing to lend
031a hand to me or his classmates, making him a positive and dependable member of our class community. And he is also a true leader in and out of the classroom, representing our school proudly as vice president of our student council. So, congratulations, Tucker. And we are proud to have both of these students as part of our Desert Vista family. Now I'd like to bring up Miss Braximma, principal of four kids. All right, president board members um parents family members. I am so excited to present to you before 11 months and I would like to start with inviting Elo Martin to come up front. You may recognize here. So after interviewing Elo shares with me that she loves Horror Peaks because it's fun and has a lot to do. She tells me that her favorite subject
032is reading, especially the I survive books. She says it's because it's about real things that have happened in history. She also enjoys art and tells us that her dream is to be an elementary math teacher. And we asked why. She goes, "Because I'm good at math." She is very good. Um, Elo's third grade teacher says this about her. Elo is a consistently diligent and focused student, always arriving, preparing for class, and showing deep attentiveness during lessons. Elo has already demonstrated exceptional progress this school year, consistently exceeding expectations on assignments and often going above and beyond the required work. Beyond her impressive academic performance, Eloen is a kind and respectful member of our class, always willing to help her peers. Her positive attitude and willingness to contribute to a collaborative learning environment makes her a true
033asset to our school community. She also has a great sense of humor and laughs at my recording jokes and funs. So congratulations element for representing four peaks as one of our student of the month. Next I would like to introduce you to Don K. So Dante is also a third grade student. He after interviewing him, he says that his favorite subject at school was writing, which was very rare. So I had to ask why. I asked him, so I was curious. So he says, well, he says, "My right hand is really good at writing." Makes sense, right? All right. So for fun, he plays Pokemon Scarlet. And uh after high school, he says he wants to join the Marines because military's in his family. He says, "I also would like work." He enjoys working on
034the computer and having indoor and outdoor recess. A combination. So his teacher, Miss Christine, says this about him. She says that Dante is a responsible, hard-working student who consistently demonstrates a positive attitude towards learning, follows classroom rules, is respectful of teachers and peers, and exceeds expectation. He is a kind and loves to learn. Keep up the great work. So congratulations Dante for representing peace as student. Next I'd like to invite principal of patrol. >> Good evening madam president members of the board Dr. Pabardo community colleagues. It is my privilege, it's the proud principal of Peralta Trail to present to you two amazing, outstanding Wildcats. The first student I'd like to call up is from Miss Decker's class. She's in fourth grade, Elena Broadway. Miss Decker shares with me that Elena consistently demonstrates a strong commitment
035to her learning and strives for excellence in all that she does. She approaches every assignment with focus and determination. Elena is an engaged participant in class discussions, always eager to share her ideas and support her peers in their learning. Her positive attitude, dedication, and curiosity make her a role model for others. As a principal, I have personally noticed time and time again what a great supportive friend she is to others. Her kindness shines as bright as a smile and she is always eager to help her peers, teachers, and other students and adults on our campus. Elena is a member of our PTEES leadership club, which is not surprising to see as this is the perfect fit for her and how connected she is to making Feralta Trail Elementary the absolute best. She is a serving
036leader who gives to our campus in a positive way and demonstrates our grow philosophy. Grow, respect, overcome, work and lead every single day. We are all so proud of you, Elena. Keep shining bright at Pearl to Trail. You are a difference maker in this world. Congratulations on this award. You have worked hard and have earned this recognition. Our next Bobcat I want to call up is Karsten Holly. Carsten is in Mr. Plott's fourth grade class and his teacher shares with me. Carsten is always demonstrating a mastery of core subjects and a willingness to challenge himself. He is constantly willing to share his ideas, seek knowledge, and explore ideas outside of the classroom. His talents, attitude, and work ethic have given him the tools to exceed academically and will certainly continue to serve him well in
037the future. As his principal, I thought of three words that come to mind when I think of Kirsten. Intelligent, kind, and a natural leader. When I think of Karsten and how he joined our campus, he totally stood out to me as a scholar who loves to read and excels at his academics. He was a math elite last year on our third grade math B team. And I know this year he is going to work hard to earn another spot to compete again. Carsten is goal oriented and takes ownership not only with his academics, but also with his behavior choices inside and outside of the classroom. He is a true friend and excellent citizen on campus. I love that I can depend on him to always be a role model for others and demonstrate our character
038and kindness focus each month. Carsten, you are a principal string student and we are all so proud of you and what you bring to our campus. You are going to do amazing things in life and I can't wait to see all that you will become. Congratulations on this welldeserved award. So finally I will now introduce Mr. Paperman, principal. >> They always make the tall people go. Madam President, the school board Madam President, school board, Dr. Papalardo, uh, students, families, community members, and colleagues. Um, I'm the principal over at Cactus Canyon, and I have two students here I want to celebrate for their hard work. Uh, the first one is Isabella Bueno Mar. Bella is someone who values her education very much. I enjoy her thoughtful questions and positive energy she brings to class every day.
039I find her very insightful and capable of our high levels of thought. Most of all, I find her to be a very high character and very good role model for her fellow students. A very well-deserved recipient of this month from Mr. K. This one is pretty straightforward. Bella is awesome. She always seems to be happy and ready to learn. She tries her best in every class and treats everyone around her with respect. Coach K. Her favorite subject is math. Her hobbies are crocheting, coloring, and crafts. Her aspiration is to be a pastry chef. I'm going to be hitting the upper. And her favorite food is pumpkin pie, which is one of my favorites, too. My second student is Leon Friend. Messages teachers. Leon is the definition of a high achiever. He always puts forth his
040best effort and is constantly striving for greatness. He's a very strong reader, reading above his grade level. His love for reading is admirable from this point. I have a great deal of appreciation for Leon's inquis inquisitive nature. He always seeks a deeper understanding of the concepts in social studies. Not only is he very bright, he is also a great person with a great sense of humor. Just a well-rounded positive leader from Mr. Ki. Beyond is a high achieve ranking. He always goes above and beyond in his programs far and above the requirements. He is also willing to help others. In the past, he had led a time for a robotic position come up competition for Mr. W. And before I get into his hobbies, I want you all to know everyone went to school today.
041Leon before coming on here ran how many laps are on the campus? Yeah, they were running in all day from uh from my schooling because he's in the cross country team. Um so his favorite subject is math and ELA. His hobbies are card and board games and Pokemon obviously on the cross country team. Um he loves programming and also look at a career for that. And his favorite food is steak. Thank you. rearranging guys. Have you guys step off and then you guys a little bit closer together? You guys want to hold everyone? Big smiles. Three, two, one. Let's do one more. Make sure make sure your eyes are your eyes are open. Big smiles. I know you're almost free. Three, two, one. That's the one. Stay here real quick just so your parents get
042pictures. Parents try and take pictures. Thank you guys. Till next time. >> Yep. Till next month. comments announcements. There is our limit to our comments three minutes so that everyone who wishes to speak will have the opportunity for ARS 38431 02H prohibits the governing board from discussing items which are not on the agenda. The item we are addressing is not on the agenda. Please not expect the board to answer questions or discuss the issue with you. Thank you. We have Angela. Come on up. Hopefully I said that right. >> Actually, you did say it correctly. >> Thank you. >> Okay. My name's Persian and I'm just going to do my song. I speak it like it is for Becky's. I have two children that crawl the trail. Both have IEPs. One is speech, one is
043a OI behavioral ADHD. I've been through two superintendents, three SP directors, and a lot of other stuff. But I want to be different. I want to say thank you to the board president and all the board members. Thank you to Dr. Papalardo for all the time that everyone puts into everything. I understand there's a lot going on right now. But I would like to say to any parents, students, reach out, ask for help, speak to someone, and if you really feel the need, I will say to anyone, speak out to Dr. Papalardo. I have had found great solutions for certain things with him. He's always willing to communicate and speak. Um, I just want to be different than everything that's going on in the district. I want to see the board, the community, the staff,
044the teachers, the kids. I want to see everybody come together. Everybody get on the same page. As parents, we cannot just send our kids to school to a stand and just help every sing. I've invested a lot of time and money in my son's speech. I did not just come to the school, throw them in there, and say, "Hey, fix it up." I would like to ask the board that when they consider anything SP that they really consider beginning to end what effect it can have on the teachers, the students, the aids. I'm not going to say I understand financials. I don't understand why you guys are reducing the spend funding. I not even begin to say I know accounting. All I ask is that continue to be meetings to change this department to make
045it more efficient for the teachers, for the students, for the parents to get information. And I would love to see all of you to continue trying to change spent problems that I know have been going on 2022. So, this is not a new issue. It's came and changed. And I would like to ask any parents that are on the AJ discussion page if you have question reach out to your case manager. Then from there it is I believe the principal then the director but you also have your superintendent that I'm sure if somebody communicated he would respond. Um it's a very touching thing for me because I understand all sides of that. I have just a speech child. He a perfect classroom child of a teacher would want and then I have my other daughter
046who's my social unique butterfly that she's very challenging and I understand that and what breaks my heart is the long >> is I don't okay >> so I was trying to watch Thank you. >> Thank you so much we continue following Thank you. All right, moving on to information and discussion items. 4.1 Grand Can University social work field education contractual agreement discussion is not welcome. Good evening, madam president, governing board members, Dr. community and staff members. Um, basically we have a three-year agreement with Grand Canyon University to host social worker interns. So they come here and they get their hours under the supervision of our uh social workers. Um and hopefully in return that can be a pathway to continue having social workers on our campus as we need them. So it's a three-year agreement.
047Um they come to us uh social workers agree to mentor them, shadow them kind of like a student teacher if you will um as they gain their certification. Any questions I can answer for you? >> Any questions on these results? No questions, Mrs. >> No questions. Sounds like such a great program, >> Mrs. Garcia. So, I guess I have a couple questions. So, you you said they are interns, correct? >> They're going through uh to get their degrees finished with us. >> So, what So, are they required to have supervision? >> Correct. We have to have a social worker that's licensed uh that would supervise them. And then uh GCU provides what they call a field liaison that also is uh further supervision. >> And by law is there like a certain ratio. Is it
048oneonone or >> um I don't think it is in this one. It's got to be two or three. It can't be probably very many because they have to supervise for every 1 hour. They have to have uh 20 uh supervision every one hour for every 20 hours worked. So two to three interns per licensed social worker. Any questions? >> No questions. I had a former student that went through this program and she realized make a motion to approve against agenda as presented. >> We have a motion a second. I'll second. >> M Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, >> yes. >> Mrs. Williamson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Darcia, >> yes. >> Mrs. Le, >> yes. >> And on the motion passes 5 to Z. On to action items 6.1, approval of the fiscal year 2026 budget revision
049number one. Miss Salazar. Welcome. Thank you, Madam President, governing board, Dr. Pado, community, and staff. And we're here for our September revision. And this is a simple revision. The only reason we're here is because when we proposed and adopted in June and July, the legislature had not finalized their budget. So, we just had to do a revision to update our numbers with their new calculations. So, that changed our base support level from 53 to 5136. And if you want to I don't know scroll to keep going down that way everybody can see kind of where we are. I'll let you know kind of long way this record is coming up. Is that the end? >> Okay. Well, there's this is like behind the scenes. And so, basically, this feeds into if you go back up
050to page seven right here. Right here. Okay. So, on here. We just updated our M carry forward and you'll see it down a little ways where it's 1 million like online page eight on the budget. It's like a page seven. >> Anyways, an update is we on a on the original one we had $141,000 carry forward. We are now looking at around a million dollars carried forward coming into this year. Um there's also a onetime supplement and we're expecting about $157,000. And then still to come later this year, we are getting um a one-time district additional assistance uh supplement and our pray and reduce price um group B weight supplement as well. We don't know what our allocation is yet, but AD will communicate that with us once they have that. Then the following page
051is our Can you tell us what page you're on? >> Yeah, I'm sorry. It's different on here than what you guys have. So, >> this is one where it's on. So, page eight on the slide. And then if you go to page nine of the slide, this is our capital. And then on here also changed was our carry forward from 153,000 to 303,000. And this is based on actual from last year and that's why the numbers have changed. So our new operating budget went from 19,371,000 to 20 million. So we increased about a little over a million dollars for operating. Then our capital budget went from $1.1 million to about 1.3 million. So we added about 160,000 I don't know when it's page it so that's the capital page the will be page eight and
052then if you scroll all the way back to the beginning how much page There's a difference. So, um, it says what our operating budget is right there on the right hand side for capital and then well this the cover page now if you want to see where the what the actual budget is page seven and eight or eight and nine is just what I was showing where the changes were made um but the actual overall budget for capital MR on the cover page And that's those are the major changes at this point. Any questions on that? Any questions on the remission? >> No. I miss no questions. >> I think I have all my questions. Question. >> Yeah, I do because my question that I submitted were not uh for the work session were not
053asked. Um so I I'm having a hard time trying to find the difference between the current budget that we had before versus the one that's being presented today. What is I don't know where the difference is. >> Right. What's different between what we approved before? >> Well, this is a revision. >> Yeah, this is the revision. >> Right. So, what's the revision is my question. >> Well, I can't see that. That's what I was asking. >> Yeah, it's just a comparison. If you were to look back through your files of the one that we proposed and adopted in June and July, you can see the comparison there. >> Okay. I didn't see that right now. Um, okay. So, I I'm new to this whole budget thing. What is the support level weight or the base
054support level? That's what we get for ADM. this for student. >> Okay, those are my questions. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Miss Horn. Thank you, Dr. Anything you want to add? >> We have a little more money that >> All right. Would somebody like to make a motion to approve the fiscal year 2026 budget revision number one? >> M. I'd like to make a motion to approve the fiscal year uh 2026 budget revision one. We have a motion second. >> I'll second Mrs. Frost. >> Yes. Mrs. Williamson. >> Yes. >> Mia. >> Yes. >> And I'll ask that motion passes 5 to zero. On item 6.2 approval of the Grand Canyon University social workshield educational contract agreement. I think we have questions answering on this. Somebody like to make a motion. Madam
055President, no. Is there any questions before you guys like to make a motion to approve the Grant County University social work education contract agreement? >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. And on motion pass 5 6.3 approval of the $50 rental fee for school in insurance for school year that good even again we brought this back in August. It just didn't make it on to the September meeting or the August meeting. Um so this is if students need to uh take instrument homes with them um and they can't necessarily afford the monthly rental agreement like a mahanos or something like that and the fee would just allows to make sure that the interim is maintained from year to year. So these are for students that if they have financial hardship there will be options for them as
056well to pay that $50 over the course of the year if they need it. I was going to ask any questions on that MS. No questions. Just want to hear that they'll have help if they can't pay that $50. >> Right, >> Mr. Garcia. Tax credit or they can use tax credit. They could also do payment plans. Um they could if we have hopefully we can build this a little bit and sponsor students too that might need it. >> ML. >> So there's no change. >> There's no change. We just didn't get it on the August meeting. So make sure >> thank you in favor make a motion $50 for school or I'm asking madam president like to make a motion to approve the $50 rental fee for school instrument per school year. I have
057a motion like a second. I'll second >> yes. Mrs. Williamson >> Yes. Yes. And I'll be on the motion passes 5. Item 6.4 approval of the grant manager position. >> Sure. Um we talked about this in session last um had a pretty bust discussion about why you'd likely need it. Um if you look at what you need, what your needs are versus what your income is, do you have a need to gain some outside source money or anything that you might want to do for for kids and for the district. Um there was a conversation about um some people though we already had that built in previously and we clarified that that those we do not at this time and we're not paying an outside contractor as we were previously. um SFD is all being
058done inhouse um and we're only working on state grants in house. Okay. So there's no one seeking outside grants outside of from private organizations. Okay. So this is to supplement the income that you're for capital and or expenses that you might wish to get. Um, we're proposing that this become self-funded whether that's through discretionary funds and or ML. Okay, it' be a one-year position like all positions that we do this late in the term which would give you time to evaluate that and what has been brought in. I think it is a great explanation on what the person will do on the front and back at this page. Any questions on Mrs. Ross? >> No. >> Mrs. No. >> Mrs. Garcia still stated at the work session. Um, we had that attachment wasn't there. So,
059we working. So, those are some of the questions that I had for Governor Paul afterwards. Um, and as he stated, uh, I think in the motion, um, with your res on here. >> Um, and the reason being is because I think it'll be a good idea for like you stated on here and I see that what we'll do, but I want to be able to see have the board see if it's sustainable um and beneficial. I mean, I think if we can obviously find the money through, like you said, ML or Medicaid or whoever, um, I mean, having issues trying to pass an override or a bond, I think what it will do for the students will be very much beneficial. And I was able to do some research on it. I'm just worried um,
060of course, about the additional piece of it. I did I kind of looked up when I was researching and we're not too far off. It said the annual salary was about $38 an hour and it ranged from like 69,000 to 79430 with experience. So we're close. Um and if we have somebody that can specifically be doing that um because this will also cover things that maybe like furniture, right? Can you get into that a little bit? But it will cover. >> Think of things that you would like to have, right? You want more lessons, right? There's possibility that you want your fields to be redone, right? Maybe you want some artificial journal. Maybe someone can get that pass and also get a donor to bring up the 20% cost for that. Okay? Which would be
061a cost saving overtime. So there's all kinds of things you can do with this. Supplies you made, you you made a project. There are grants out there. You just don't have the staffing to go and look and find them like your assistants do. >> And this will be a full-time job obviously. >> Yes. >> And will they be working here of the district? >> Yes, they'll be here at the district. And you don't know part of conversation if it will be ML or I think when we look at the budget on when we hire that person what start date is and we'll take look at that Gina and I and cab look at that together and decide where that those come from. >> Okay. >> And then in doing my research it also shows that
062we can even use it for staff recruitment and like after school programs. Yes. Okay. Um, I think those were all the questions that I have. Questions? Yeah, I have I have a couple questions because I was looking over the board minutes and I um after looking through board minutes, um the only thing that that I saw that was different was that um it just deals with state grant the straight the state grant process. But if that is the only difference, then why can't we just send one or the three people that are already requesting grants to get training of some sort so that we don't have to fulfill a holding position. >> I guess I'm not following that. What they're not this position is not for state grants. >> They have to have the experience.
063You have to have experience with state grants because you have to be able to tie state grant into a private grant. or a foundational graph. >> Don't we have people who are already doing that? >> We have people only doing stage grants. >> Oh, so it's the other ones that we need. >> Yes. >> Okay. So why can't we give give the people who are currently writing the grants the training to figure out how to write the other ones? >> They don't have the time feedback. >> Yes. >> So So you're going to take away these responsibilities from people who are already doing it. >> No, they're still going to serve. This is in addition to the state credits that have to be working >> that okay >> this position is in addition to that
064>> so this position see this is where I'm confused this position is for people's okay so wait the three people who are currently writing grants they're doing state grants well first of all can you specify that are are there three people writing that's the first question that we asked certification I know Okay. So that's fine. So you have you have title one, you have all the title grants, okay, that are written. You have the idea grant for special ed, okay? And you have some other little TV grants for ELLL and gifted and such. Okay. But that can't be consolidated and then say, "Okay, let's let's do this." Because what you're asking the person to do here is to go out and see flying grants that are private. These are all privately funded grants have nothing
065to do with the state. >> Okay. So, I'm confused as to what this position is requesting. This We're requesting a grant writer to go out to find publicly or privately funded grants, >> but we have somebody doing that already. >> No, we do not. >> And what are these people who are requesting grants? >> Right. Right. So, you're going to take those responsib Okay, this is just to go out like the diamonds like not just state but you need to be knowledgeable about those state to outside. >> Okay, >> because you need to know that information. Okay. When I was on >> and we filed for files which the grant writer know the information to be able to apply. So how much um reg um things like that like school information help get the grant.
066>> Okay. So it's so everybody who's writing grants right now are still going to write their grants, right? And so they do jobs. >> Okay? And so this person is going to come in to help us get more money than what we always have, >> right? >> And then our objective is to have this new person, this grant writer to have their income supplemented not by us, by another, but by another grant. >> That's right. >> Okay. And so if it doesn't, then we can >> I'm pretty sure it's in your contract. motion just so we can I would like to put it in there just so we can remember to visit it again next year. >> That was just my biggest question. >> Either that Mrs. I don't put it in there. I just
067want to put it on calendar >> for come back for just >> and then learn it. >> Got it. Okay. All right. Any other questions? >> Yeah, I think somebody like to make a motion on the grant manager position. >> Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the grant manager position. We have a motion to second. I'll second. M seconds. Mrs. Ross. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Williamson. Yes. Mia. Yes. Mrs. Williams. >> Yes. And I may ask that motion passes 5 to zero. Okay. I'm ready to put all these policies. >> All right. 6.5 approval of policy revisions and procedures as follow. Procedure 3-101B budget adoption access and publishing requirements. Procedure 3-301A food service nutrition. Procedure 3-401A safety and emergency management. Emergency response plans procedure 3-401G new safety and emergency management training
068procedure 3402A reports disclosure of public records policy 4-101 board authority to employee procedures 5-105A open enrollment enrollment process LLC 5-201 patriotic exercise and observ states policy 5-203 students with disabilities individuals with disabilities education act IDA policy 5-44 administration of medication procedure 5-404 administration of medication procedures administration policy 5-410 scholastic athletics and that's it okay and I think on polic Let's see. 5-203 on page 14. No. Um, yep. Page 14. On page 21. So 5-203 is on page 14. But on page 21 of that policy, there's three options. And Dr. What is the recommendation? The recommendation from the administrative team is if you read that on page 21, this says um additional procedures for identifying students with a specific learning disability. Our recommendation is that you take option three because option three puts option one and
069two together which gives more leeway to identify students who are in need of those services. Any questions on those policies? >> No. So, uh I'm just trying to figure out for the motion then option >> at the end under the 4.5-201 where am I >> 5-203 you would say that >> that we would take option three. >> Okay. >> And is that the uh first the first attachment That's part one. >> Okay, I got you. >> Did you mention the policy? >> No. >> All right. So, I guess I'm going to read this thing. >> Okay. M to make a motion to approve the policy revision and procedures as follows. Uh, procedure 3-01B, budget adoption, access and publishing requirements. Procedure-301A, food service nutrition procedure 3-401 A, Safety and Emergency Managements, Emergency Response Plans Procedure 3-401G,
070new safety and emergency management training procedure 3-402A, records disclosure of public records. Policy 4-101 board authority to employee procedure 5-105A open enrollment enrollment process policy 5-201 patriotic exercises and observance phase policy 5-203 students to include option three with disabilities individuals with disabilities education act the IDA policy 5-544 administr ation of medications procedure 5-4 administration of medication procedures for administration policies 5-410 intercothletics like to make a motion >> she did okay all right so we have a motion to second I'll second that Mrs. Ross, >> yes. Mrs. Williamson, yes. Mrs. Garcia, yes. Mrs. And passes five to zero. Request for agenda items. Anybody have anything? >> No. >> Are we going to bring more of the athletic part athletic process? I guess Dr. at some point in a few months along with like the um I
071guess it would be the boosters to talk about um I think that's on >> it is okay. So we can figure out maybe that part of it and then also at some point I'd like to take off the consent agenda um the tax credits the the budget and try to tax credits, break it down, see where we're at with merging some of those and which ones we've left on their own. Yes. >> Yeah. I thought I had requested for a sp update last time. Um, so I want to add it again because I don't think we had one because I want to I want to specifically I want to know who's running the SP. Yeah. And then I want to know the sped class sizes. Thanks. We can't talk about who's running the SP department.
072We can't have a discussion right now. >> No, no, no. I don't want a discussion right now. No, no, no, no. I just specifically that's what I'm looking for. >> Okay. And if there's anything else, just please email me and we'll agree to make motion to have a motion. Let's have a second. Second. Yes, Mr. Williamson. Yes, Mr. Motion passes by where you