001are to complete a public participation form. They're in the hallway and provided to the governing board executive assistant, Mrs. Goff, prior to the start of the board meeting. Comments need to be district related. We're going to start in about one minute. Okay. Oh yeah, it's on. I have this mic's not on. It's not on. This one's not on. You have to turn it onto Is it on? No, it's not. All right, we'll have to share. All right, first. All right, it's six o'clock. We're going to call to order the Apache Junction Unified School District's June 10th, 2025 governing board regular meeting. We'll begin with roll call attendance. Mrs. Ross, present. Mrs. Williamson, present. Mrs. Garcia, present. Mrs. Lean, present. And on present, all board members are in attendance. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance
002and remain standing for a moment of silence. To the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Item 1.3, adoption of the agenda. Any discussion on the agenda? Would somebody like to make a motion on the agenda? Madame President, like to make a motion to approve the agenda? We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? I'll second. Mrs. Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, yes. Mrs. Williamson, yes. Mrs. Garcia, yes. Mrs. Lean, yes. And I'm yes, that motion passes 5 to zero. 1.4 four board meeting minutes not previously approved. So, I'd like to make a motion on the May 27th, 2025 regular meeting minutes. Madame President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the May 27th, 2025 regular
003meeting minutes. We have a motion. Somebody like to second. I'll second. Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, yes. Mrs. Williamson, yes. Mrs. Garcia, yes. Mrs. Lean, yes. And yes, that motion passes 5 to zero. On to information only items 2.1 governing board members report. Mrs. Ross, do you have anything to report? No. Mrs. Williamson? No. Mrs. Garcia? I don't think so. I don't think I do. No. Mrs. Lee, I feel like we've just here. So, yeah. No, I know. No, I have nothing either. So, we are going to move on to the superintendent report. Dr. Papalardo. Well, that's an easy act to follow. I know. All right. Few things. Um, as we talked about in the work session, Apache Junction Unified School District for their exceptional launch of the Khan Academy in the spring of 2025.
004So, basically had four months to do this. We earned a second place rating in the state of Arizona for our US with Khan Academy. So, a big hats off to the high school. She's out there looking for a custodian right now. And there she is. There she is. Okay. Hey, there she is. Great. So, I'll pass this down to you so you can take a look at that. Very nice. Um, in addition, um, an Angela Thomas Thompson provided an inservice training for all of our K12 administrators and their assistance on tier one instruction, tier 2 and tier three. And at the last week of May, um the leadership team, the principles all went to Flagstaff, Arizona to learn about messy leadership. They spent four days up there in Flagstaff and we did a retreat. Um
005and last week, Mer and I went to the leadership conference for superintendence in Tucson and got back today once again talking about leadership. So, I have a special award to give tonight to a person who has spent his whole entire career here at AJUSD, Mr. Larry Hill. For his dedication for 35 years plus, welld deserved. [Applause] When I got here, I got here, but more importantly, I gave Larry one year. Yep. Congratulations [Applause] Thank you guys. Thank you, Larry. Speech. Speech. Been a great [Laughter] Yes, we love that. I got a little [Laughter] and registers. Yep. We have a position open. Congratulations, Larry. Welld deserved. All right, moving on to public comments. All right, I'm going to make this announcement. Speakers are asked to limit their comments to three minutes so that everyone who wishes
006to speak will have the opportunity per ARS 38-43102H prohibits the governing board from discussing items which are not on the agenda. If the item you are discussing is not on the agenda, please do not expect the board to answer any questions or discuss the issue with you. Thank you. Um, we have Mr. Connley. Come on up. Uh, good evening board. My name is uh, Coach John Connley. I'm currently a uh, basketball coach here at Apache Junction High School until they just named a new high head coach. I've been coaching here um, in the valley for 10 years at multiple 6A high schools. Um, I've been at here at AJ for two years and I've been at Cactus Kenya for six seasons. So, um, I I joke with my wife that I'm the longest tenure coach
007here on on the campus currently. Um, when Coach Pal first got hired about three about three years ago, um, we sat down and we we discussed what the big hole was with AJ not being able to compete with other programs. Um, and we determined that it was it was the fact that we have players, we have students that show up in the sixth grade and they want to play basketball. They want to be they want to be NBA basketball players and it's if they haven't been working clear until the sixth grade, then they're probably super far behind. And so, as as we started working further, we decided that we needed a feeder program. So, that's where we came up with the Apache Junction Miners. Uh the first season we uh spent a good portion of
008our time fundraising. Um that's where the new the new jerseys from the new uniforms from the high school team that they have been wearing the last two seasons came from is is fundraising through the miners. Um Cactus Canyon now has all new jerseys for boys and girls because of the Apache Junction Miners is a new shooting machine at the high school for the Apache Junction Miners. Um, in 2024, um, I took over full operations of the miners. Um, it was being ran by another guy before. Uh, we took the Apache Junction Miners, turned it from an LLC, which was a business, into a 501c. Um, where we carry our own insurance, um, we carry our own licenses, and we're also a 501c program, which benefits everybody. um in 2025. So this last year, we now
009have anywhere between 60 and 80 um 60 and 80 players depending on what season. We have multiple girl divisions. We have a little kindergarten team. Um and we were doing this all free like it was all I don't do terrified. Anyways, um It was it was all it was all free. It was all people would donate money and we would take the money and we spend it right back on uniforms or we spend it on whatever we needed. Now now with um the passing of the new rates for us to rent the gym space, um the fee for us to use the m the main gym at the high school is $80 an hour, $50 plus janitorial fees, and it's a minimum of two hours for janitorial fees. Um, this comes to a total of
010$320 a week for us to practice, which is roughly $2,500 a season. And so what we're asking is that we can reduce the fees. Um, we're a feeder program to Apache Junction High School. All the players minus 10 of the 80 are currently enrolled either at AJUSD or somewhere close by. So those are what I'm asking for this this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Paplardo. Will you please follow up with uh Mr. Yeah, I'm going to have Miss Miss Verna follow up with him. Okay. Thank you. Yep. All right. Consent agenda. Any discussion on the consent agenda? Somebody like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? I'll second. Miss Williamson
011seconds. Mrs. Ross. Mrs. Williamson. Yes. Mrs. Garcia. Yes. Mrs. Lane. Yes. No. Yes. That motion passes 5 to zero. On to action items. Specific items of the district. 5.1 possible action on the 2025 2026 student code of conduct. Dr. Papalaro. Um, as we talked about in the in the work session, the OD changed to this code of conduct. It's a new law set in place by the legislature for cell phone usage. Okay. So, we've updated that. So, K8, you cannot have it out completely. 912, we took the exception at the last board meeting in that document. So, that's the that's the changes you'll see in this document. Right. Everything else is related to the ARS. Okay. Right. Any questions on that? Mrs. Ross? No. Mrs. Williamson? No. Mrs. Garcia? No. Mrs. No. No questions. Somebody
012like to make a motion. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the 2526 student code of conduct. We have a motion. Somebody like to second. I'll second. Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross. Yes. Mrs. Williamson. Yes. Mrs. Garcia. Yes. Mrs. Lane. Yes. Yes. That motion passes five to zero. Item 5.2 possible action on the 202526 organizational chart. Dr. Papalardo on the organizational chart the only change for next year is under the business manager. You'll see where it says safe coordinator that's role will fall under her. Okay. Okay. Mrs. Ross, any questions on the organizational chart? No. Mrs. Williamson? No. Mrs. Garcia? Uh, no. Mrs. Blaine, no. And no questions for me. Would somebody like to make a motion on the organizational chart? Madame President like to make a motion to approve the 2526
013organizational chart. We have a motion. Would somebody like to second? I'll second. Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, yes. Mrs. Williamson, yes. Mrs. Garcia, yes. Mrs. Lean, yes. And I'll ask a motion passes 5 to zero. Item 5.3, possible action on the renewal of the student placement agreement with Arizona State University effective July 15, 2025 through July 15, 2030. Dr. Papalerno, Miss Verna, good evening, Madam President, governing board members, committee members, and staff. Um, you already had a five-year agreement with ASU to have student teachers and interns come onto campus in order to finish their degree with us. Um, so the five-year ran out this June and so we're asking just another continuation to continue for five more years. Any questions on that? Mrs. Ross? No. Mrs. Williamson? No. Mrs. Garcia? No. Mrs. Lane? No. Thank
014you, Miss Verna. Would somebody like to make a motion on the renewal? Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the renewal of the student placement agreement with Arizona State University effective July 15, 2025 through July 15, 2030. We have a motion with somebody like to second. I'll second. Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, yes. Mrs. Williamson, yes. Mrs. Garcia, yes. Mrs. Lean, yes. And I'm a yes. A motion passes 5 to zero. 5.4. Possible action on the proclamation and honor and memory of officer Gabriel Fasio. This is very sad for me. Dr. Papalardo, as we talked about in the work session, this is unusual that we do this. However, in this case, officer Fosio was involved with our secondary students from time to time. Um he he was a contributing member of that
015force and helped to keep keep our kids safe and to stand in unity with our partners at AJD in the city. I I believe it's we should give him a tribute by doing a proclamation for his service to the greater community as well as our schools. I agree. Mr. Ross, any questions on that? No. Mrs. Williamson? No. Mrs. Garcia? No. Mrs. Lane? No. No questions. But I think this is really a good thing and being a wife of a former police officer, this is really touches my heart. I know it's like when you see your husband get in a uniform and go out on the streets. So, it's this is really touches me deeply. Um would somebody like to make a motion on the proclamation? Madam President, before I make the motion, I just wanted
016to make sure also um that we in our work session can in our work session, we did talk about officer Russell Duncan that did um also pass away in training in 1983 and I want to um he was also a Patch Junction police officer and I want to make sure in November on his date that we also do the same for him. Yes. On the anniversary. on the anniversary date. Correct. All right. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the proclamation of honor and memory of Officer Gabriel Fosio. We have a motion with somebody like second. I'll second. Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, yes. Mrs. Williamson, yes. Mrs. Garcia, yes. Mrs. Lean, yes. And on my yes, that motion passes 5 to zero. 5.5 possible executive session per AR. Did you say
017that? 5.4. Oh, 5.4. No, we did the proclamation. 5.5 entering executive session. No, 5.5. Possible executive session per ARS 38-43103A1. Discussion on superintendent performance pay. Would somebody like to make a motion? Madam President, I'd like to move that we move into executive session per ARS 38-431.03A1 for discussion of the superintendent's performance pay. Any discussion on that? Okay, we have a motion with Would somebody like to second? I'll second. Miss Williamson seconds. Mrs. Ross, yes. Mrs. Williamson, yes. Mrs. Garcia, yes. Mrs. Lean, yes. And I may ask that motion passes 5 to zero. We're going into executive session. Apparently not. Yeah, it's on diligent. It said Oh, okay. I'm just Watch your step. Another birthday. breaks my heart too. Is there something else? You want to Can't figure it out. All right, yeah. Got it. This
018one won't go green. There we go. Hitting the wrong button. somewhere in Iowa. Nobody. Exhale. Yes, you guys are our only loyal people. Everybody watch [Music] it. information items request for future items. Anybody talk more about the rental and then session. Actually, I'd like to maybe I'd like to have an executive session. We need to wait. Trying to stay motion. Yes. Thank you.