001five five four three two uh thank you it is now four o'clock now is the time set for the regular board meeting of the board of directors of the Arizona State schools for the deaf and the blind uh Leticia can I have those um uh any of the comments if we have any of those we didn't get any more okay crazy so too great uh so I'd like to call the meeting to order and begin the roll call um it's okay David Nigro president Brittany Buchanan present Lynn Davison present Linda Bove Mike Gordon president Lillian Lee present PV Jance Aaron wonders present and myself suitcase uh thank you um next up is going to be item 1.02 information item introduction of new board member and recognition board member leaving office uh first I'd like to
002recognize uh former board member Dean Howard Dean served on the board for I believe it was three terms and then an extra year while we were awaiting an appointment of his successor he served as the sports president for a period of time he was involved in the selection of superintendent reichmann back in 2016 he was involved in formation of the of the Strategic plan um and uh we all at least from my perspective want to thank Dean for his many years of service to the community into the agency and we were very grateful for um you know that nearly decade of service um I'd also like to introduce the new board member Lillian Lee her bio is on board docs for everyone to see but lalina if you have any uh opening words that'd be
003great yeah well um I am really excited to be here I'm excited to be a part of this amazing um board and I'm just excited to be a new voice and A New Perspective so yes um I look forward to meeting everyone thank you Lillian thank you uh next up 1.03 call to the public call to the public on agendized items we did not receive any comments through the website for this agenda item and we did not receive any sheets for people that are present right now so we can move on to 1.04 information item superintendent's report superintendent reichmann good afternoon president Nigro board members assistant superintendent Martin assistant superintendent Cooper and members of the asdb community Welcome to our November 10th board meeting 2022. I also want to extend some remarks Mr Dean Howard
004was on our board for almost 10 years the first time I met Dean was during the time when I was actually interviewing for my current position of superintendent and at that time and ever since that time he has been consistent in his message and in his goal to provide the best education to deaf and hard of hearing students we deeply appreciate his service and his hard work with the asdb board of directors at the same time I'd like to welcome our newest Board member Miss Lillian lay thank you for the opportunity um it was so nice to meet and work with you just a few days ago it was nice to sit down and talk with you it was so nice to meet you for the first time and I look forward to all we
005will do together this is our final board meeting for 2022. and in two weeks we will see say Thanksgiving it so happens that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday it's my favorite holiday because it's the one time a year where we all can come together family friends and we can show our appreciation and gratitude for one another so every year I really look forward to Thanksgiving it is the time that I get to spend with my friends and family and I recently started to wonder about the origins of this national holiday and how it came to be in our country so I embarked on some research and I found an answer I thought it was quite interesting that it was a woman and of course it was a woman who had this brilliant idea as many
006ideas come from brilliant women back in 1827 she was actually a magazine editor and an author at that time she wrote many articles and she talked about needing a national holiday for Thanksgiving at that time she wrote articles for a total of 36 years arguing her point that we needed that national holiday and it just so happens that in 1863 President Lincoln finally announced that the fourth Thursday would be our national holiday of Thanksgiving and this would occur every November and it has been this ever since so every year we continue to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday I just thought that was such a very cool interesting bit of History and what's even more interesting is that back in 1863 that was one of the worst times in our nation's history we were divided
007more than ever we were in the midst of a civil war the north against the South we killed each other at this time and during that time President Lincoln still established the national holiday of Thanksgiving and what he said in during his remarks was that he hoped that God would take care of those who had lost loved ones who had passed on because of the war and that he hoped that God would heal the nation's hurts that would heal us and I think even today we still need that Grace we need that Grace for each other for our families and for our friends and for our colleagues it's so important that we have that for each other as Society so Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday I'm not sure if I said that already so I
008really wanted to share that with you I hope that you will take the time during Thanksgiving and during that holiday to be thinking about 2022 to be thinking about what we have to be grateful for and then in January of 2023 we will all come back ready to work and we have a lot of work to do in 2023. I'm not going to give you a complete rundown an itemized list of all of the work that we will do together but I'm just going to give you a few highlights of what we will be doing during next year all of our work is tied to that strategic plan so for example for pillar one that follows excellent communication and relationships what we will be doing is we will be networking with our state legislators and
009our new governor in the new governor's office and we will continue that strong relationship and in that we will be focusing on early in the year really building and maintaining that relationship with them now for pillar two assistant superintendent Martin will go into a little bit more detail about this but I did want to mention that he will be establishing or developing something we're going to be calling a portrait of a graduate and what this means is that when we look at our high school students and we consider what it means for them to be successful in their post-high school lives we need to be able to identify skills that our young people will need to have once they make this transition and that it reflecting that we will make those changes necessary to our
010programming here so that we offer the best education and support to our students ready to go out into the world we will also be establishing a system for the development of social emotional and behavioral growth of our students this is a critical piece that we need and we will be spending time on that now excuse me for 2023 and going forward other examples include accreditation so we did accreditation back in 2018 [Music] and it is a five-year accredited nation which means that we will be doing it again in 2023 and we will looking at predication and Associated activities that goes along with that so we'll also be looking at school Improvement I don't know if you remember about five years ago we were talking about school Improvement then and we will be doing it again
011we will share more information with you as we get to 2023 and Beyond now looking to pillar 4 will be developing and working on that Master facility plan and we will continue to analyze our finances teachers staff in terms of compensation and pay we started that this year and we will continue that into 2023. we will also be looking at Staffing so we will looking at our teachers and our staff to make sure that we have the correct number of Staff in the right positions to meet the needs of our students so again we started that this year and we will continue that into 2023. the other thing I'd like to talk about is our Sunset audit we receive the report from the Arizona auditor General and we have eight recommendations along with that so
012we need to make sure that all of those are addressed and that is going to be going to be focusing on that in the the year in 2023 you know I'd like to be able to say that the Senate education committee when their most recent hearing on the October 27th um for us to be able to review that Sunset audit with them the Arizona auditor general provided a report on those eight recommendations and we will of course follow up on those those recommendations it specifically mentions that the Senate education committee meeting they have several findings excuse me we have one finding correction for interpretation and that one finding was that we need a multi-year comprehensive plan and budget and I agree and we agree we all can agree to that we definitely need to have
013it and we have already started with that Master facilities plan and as you know because we have been talking about this with you during our last meeting we had a studying working group with you that was just last month where we had talked about this issue so there is a lot going on in 2023 and we will be working diligently to get it done I hope you're ready I'll take any questions now there any questions for superintendent all right hearing none we are going to go to 1.05 information item assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction uh assistant superintendent mark thank you president Nigro governing board members and superintendency um we've been busy in education been working with directors Dr Benedict Dr Scarborough to reimagine some of the things that we're seeing coming up with different
014solutions for challenges work with the principals as well to kind of look at this picture of what we've always seen and create something different um leaders have been exceptional they have stepped up it is not easy they have challenged me as I have challenged them so we'll continue that work to give you guys an update October 20th we changed leadership at pdsd campus [Music] um I named Joe Voigt the interim PTSD principal she's taken over day-to-day operations and she's done a phenomenal job her Focus has been primarily to bring stability to the to the school to be there for parents to be there for students to be there for the community and just glue some things back together um additionally interim principle of weight and principal Waddell we've been engaging in implementing our social emotional
015platform our mtss which we will start implementation in 2023 to get this off the ground so that we can hit the ground next year running with a full year of implementation and support we've also been looking at our Behavior systems we're in the process of creating an Alternative Learning Center which allows us to deal with discipline and behavior differently with respect our students are limited in their options so giving them an out of school suspension is not necessarily the best thing so we have to keep these students in-house so there will be a lot around the Alternative Learning Centers we are Staffing for that currently um principal Voigt is also again looking at systems in PTSD and looking at how we do Behavior so overall looking at the school as a whole um so there's
016been challenges we have a lot of work to do and I am jumping in and we're uncovering a lot I have hired Susan O'Brien she's a seasoned principal coach she will be working directly with a principal Voigt and principal Waddell and looking at the structure of the schools again reimagining the schools and helping them solve some common problems I have a lot of confidence in Susan O'Brien I've worked with her and seen her work in coaching principles so that will be support that will be given to the principals as we go into this and into next year um we were actually the coaching will actually start um and next week she's officially starts on Monday and her and I have been meeting in the evenings um talking about the needs of the school talking about
017asdb talking about where we need to go so I've been getting her Versed and up to speed um but she's she's a phenomenal coach we also started our portrait of a graduate Milestone one we have four Milestones um Mike Olivier has um I tapped him to lead this work he did it proudly he's excited to lead it Milestone one is we will form the the committee and this is a committee that structures and organizes this work Milestone 2 is um more of a heavy lift we engage the community we engage alumni parents students staff members board members leadership we will also send out surveys so we have to get as much input from our members as how we want our graduates our students to be when they graduate from that we will start building things
018into the schools and programs from what that portrait of a graduate looks like Milestone three will vet our portion of our graduate skills so we'll kind of bring everything into focus and decide on what those skills need to be Milestone four is when we wrap everything up and we will create a visual representation of that portrait of a graduate what that looks like Mr Olivier just in our meeting had we agreed he had some phenomenal ideas of how he wanted this to look how we should post it where and how it should be visible and communicated to the community as a whole so I'm excited to start that work as well um that's all I have and I'll stop and open up for any questions thank you um are there any questions thank you this
019is board member chance good evening superintendent Martin I appreciate your comments you were recently talking about a portrait of a graduate which I think is very important work and I want to make sure that we're aware of two things regarding to that portrait and if it hasn't been discussed I hope that that will be included moving forward the first is what does that language look like for one of our graduates language in ASL reading excuse me literacy fluency in English all of those things in terms of language fluency I think are very important that we are aware of and that is recognized in our portrait of a graduate and the second component is what does CTE Career Technical education look like for those students we need to make sure that we have students who are
020graduating from PTSD or asdb or an itinerant program ready to go into the Working World we have a lot of graduates from our schools who do not they are not ready they don't do anything after graduation and um I'd like to see us research what we can do to expand our CTE program and look at how we are ensuring that these students have the skills that they need to be able to get a job and move out into the world thank you board member gents um yes as we develop this and create this language the goal of this committee is to bring different voices around the table um to get this communicated so those is a huge Focus that we will be looking at involving the community members is is also vetting those skills of
021what we need to see in our graduates languages is one of them so a lot of this will be vetted and come from this this overall process of of getting to what that graduate looks like CTE is also a focus I have initiated contact with um jted there's been some history with jted and asdb in the past at one point there was we were trying to open up a jtet campus or program on campus there was reasons why that partnership did not work I engaged them to to see if we can create satellite campuses or satellite programs on the Tucson and pdsd campus they were extremely they were open to that there were some things that they are meeting about to get this lift off the table we talked about possible programs that we could
022host this would be specifically for our kids it would allow them to graduate with a certificate and go out and actually work I did offer from asdb's part and stressed the emphasis of how important this this program is to asdb students because our students are sometimes reluctant to go out in the community and engage in these programs so I did with the with the um help of superintendent reichmann um we did say if there's resources or anything that we can do to make this price this partnership come to life we're willing to meet you halfway so right now the talks are are positive I'm still waiting to to hear back from um their uh meeting and what they need to get this lifted because there are certain positions that they would have to have out
023here to fund so we strategize a little bit about how we could help with that so the goal is to get this off off the ground but they were very receptive to that Tucson initially we were looking at starting this just on the Tucson campus we will open it up to PDD pdsd as well um I also have reached out to Apple um apple has a wonderful coding program where students are able to earn a certificate in coding and go out after they graduate with that certificate and work and doing more research I found out that Apple has a deaf coding program and other programs that are actually implemented in about four or five deaf blind schools across the country so I've been engaging them in that as well so we will um that is
024a focus it's not just to bring a program to where students can learn but something where they walk out of the door with something in hand so that they can go to work being in just schools when those students graduate and if there's nothing in hand that drop-off is huge so that's one of the things that we are going to build into this this portrait of a graduate and build into the schools is we we may have kids who are ready to go to college we may have kids who decide that they just want to be in the community and want to work we have to prepare for that as well so that's the goal is to build that into the schools where they can earn a certificate and be productive thank you president Niagara
025do you mind if I follow up no of course okay thank you thank you assistant superintendent Martin I appreciate your comments one thing I would like to um suggest if possible is that there is a program called Vocational Rehabilitation or VR which is a phenomenal program and if you're building on jtet or other employment ready programs like CTE I would suggest that you reach out to VR as well and see if they can be a part of that conversation I think it would be important to have VR as a central partner in that project as you're building these programs because they are going to be able to help with that transition from school to the Working World asdb can partner further with VR and once that partnership is established then you've got graduates coming out
026of asdb and VR can just continue the work that ASU has already started so if we're working with us from the beginning that transition would be smoother just wanted to put that out there thank you that is the plan um so yes I talked with board member Suite about that as well so right now we we have to get the infrastructure set up to support this in-house it doesn't exist jted will be one of the easier things to lift but it is to create CT CTE program that is robust and with that comes the structure that we currently do not have so we will be building a lot into the schools and it is a it is a lift it's a it's a three to five year um timeline to get the stuff off the
027ground so we're doing a lot of um planning and we'll start implementing and tweaking so that is definitely what we'll be doing thank you um I'd like to can you hear me okay I saw that PV um I'd like to make just a suggestion maybe as prep work to Milestone two I think what board member Jance says is right on the money but I would also suggest maybe not bringing them to the table as far as having the community involved maybe okay but I would talk to Employers in leading Fields within our area see what they are looking for in employees that people that they hire what skill set from soft skills to hard skills and I would also do the same with post-secondary institutions what does a high school graduate need to succeed in
028that next level I think those two components need to be included in that Milestone too they actually are I didn't mention it so thank you um yeah Mike Olivier um well we had a just a great idea of how to get some of these uh the stakeholders together this will be in person so we won't do anything via zoom and we have members in Tucson we have members here and that was a roadblock for me is how do we merge and get this together as well as community members from outside as well so he had just went to brainstorming and had some um pretty good ideas to do that so they will be brought to the table I think we both agreed that we need to have as many people around the table and as
029many voices as possible to create this um so we will we are going to focus on quality and not just rushing through it and so if this portion of a graduate takes us to the end of this school year that's what it will be but the goal is to make sure that we hear from everyone and get that as many just as much input and voices as we can but those are included in that Milestone too as well so thank you thank you are there any other questions I'm happy to see the Vex robotics Program start up that's a lot of fun moving on we have a 1.06 assistant superintendent of agency operations and support services assistant superintendent Cooper good afternoon board president Nigro superintendent reichmann assistant superintendent Martin members of the board asdb community
030and staff members each of the directors have provided to you their departmental reports there is no additional information at the time that has come forth since those were provided to you last week in superintendent reichmann's report she just touched upon the sunset audit and I wanted to go ahead and provide more of an update on where we are now that the auditor general has completed the performance audit and sunset review of asdb which began in October of last year the audit reviewed the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency's operations and how well we are doing to meet our statutory responsibilities and as you all are aware the last time the audit was completed was in September 2012 where we had three findings and 32 recommendations in the publicly released audit report which was issued about
031a month ago in September we received one finding and the eight recommendations for improvement as superintendent reichmann mentioned and outlined in the report we agreed with the finding and all recommendations we plan to implement as already mentioned the finding we received indicated that a multi-year capital plan and projected capital budget had not been developed or implemented which has hindered our ability to address our Capital needs in a timely and cost-effective manner and on October 20th during the work study session our director of operations Albert Duff did an excellent job walking us through the foundation and framework for the master facility planning process he reminded us that the demographic and programmatic requirements have changed over the past 50 years and our facilities however have lagged behind to meet this ever-changing environment this has led to an
032underutilization of our facilities and continued operations of our programs that have been and we continue to see our outdated which has put a strain on our um on our fiscal and operational resources so as we continue to work on developing the master facility plan as Albert mentioned we are to be mindful that the plan needs to be Ever Changing to make sure that we're flexible and being able to accommodate our environment of the initial planning phase though as he mentioned will take at least 18 months before any construction or improvements are actually to begin and again this is contingent upon budget availability uh superintendent reichman mentioned we will be doing a lot of legwork working with um with the staff the directors legislators to seek additional funding as well but also at the same time
033still making sure that we're incorporating some budget in our operating budget as well to accommodate some of those emergency needs that do occur during that time frame over the next couple of months we will be working together collectively reviewing and evaluating our educational programs which superintendent reichmann and assistant superintendent Martin mentioned will be working conjectively to develop that portrait of a graduate that aligns with our mission and vision along with idea fate and our ler excuse me lre legislations so during fiscal year 2024 though we'll make sure that our educational program is presented and that we do seek feedback from the community and our stakeholders so in addition to the one finding we did have as I mentioned several recommendations which most of them involve developing and implementing policies and procedures one of them consisted
034of making sure that we're reviewing the appropriateness of our itinerant service program fees also analyzing our post School outcome data and then complying with State conflict of interest requirements and as superintendent reichman mentioned we did have a hearing about a week or two ago with these states Senate education committee where Senator Boyer moved that the committee of reference make the recommendation to continue asdb for eight years which is until July 1st 2031. we do not yet have a date established for our hearing with the House of Representatives education committee the auditor general did inform me that they'll be contacting us within the next few weeks to schedule a six-month follow-up to ensure that we're implementing and are in progress of addressing all of the recommendations so we do expect this follow-up test work to incur
035in March 2023 they will also do another follow-up within 18 months and that is scheduled to occur in March 2024. last but not least I do want to take the time to thank the it media and operations teams for the continued effort to ensure that we have all of our resources needed for the board meeting I know the last couple of weeks has been a stressful time as we were informed that our bridge line services that we had previously were discontinued so they did have to work collectively together to put those efforts and make sure that our board meeting today is successful so again I want to thank you and I know Leticia kept us on our toes so I do want to take the time to just say kudos to you all other than
036that I don't have any other updates to provide and that concludes my report uh thank you um and we we will be addressing uh several of those findings in our January meeting um kind of one group of those another group in the spring so I think we'll be in terms of the number of one the items addressed will be pretty far along by March and then uh the first uh few are going to take a little bit longer although we're working on it already already now and we'll continue to do so next year yes there any questions for assistant superintendent Cooper all right uh hearing none we're going to move to 201 action item approval the consent agenda consistent with board policy to include items 3.01 5.01 and 6.01 would anyone like to remove any
037of these items from the consent agenda board member chance I would like to move that we approved the consent agenda as listed is there a second I second uh all in favor say aye aye I need no any abstentions uh Mike I think if you're on the line we're not sure if you said yes I did I did you did say yes okay thank you thank you all right next uh up is 3.02 action item approval of new District agreements assistant superintendent Martin thank you president Nigro board um we have two contracts for reason one first Mesa Elementary School um Glen Canyon Outdoor Academy we have two for region two um basis Goodyear primary Basis Phoenix primary and we have two contracts for reason three ASU Prep Academy of Casa Grande and peptech thank you
038um are there any comments or questions or can we have a motion to approve the contract I move that we approved the contracts is there a second I second uh all in favor hi any opposed I'm going to abstain president Agro let's say thank you and abstentions okay one abstention thank you next up 4.01 information item Finance report Kim bitrich director good afternoon board president Nigro superintendent reichman assistant superintendents Cooper and Martin board members and ASD community our most recent finance committee meeting was held last Thursday November 3rd with board members Aaron wonders PV Jance and Mike Gordon also in attendance where superintendent reichmann assistant superintendent Cooper and Executive Director of Human Resources Anita Pyatt Miss pilot did a presentation on the agency's Recruitment and Staffing analysis we also looked at an ere analysis trend
039from 2016 to present the total ere has decreased by five percent mostly As a result of decrease in insurance of six percent and this was offset by an increase of asrs we also discussed the September 2022 2021 budget to actual and quarterly Financial reports we have revised the budget for fiscal year 2023 and it is included in the reports we will no longer report based on a zero budget this budget is more reflective of the current vacancy savings with projections of filling most of the open positions throughout the year provided to you is the same financial data that is in a but in a more condensed summarized version the total student count for October 1 2022 is 2059 a decrease of 57 students when compared to October 1 of 2021. count of 2116. there is
040a decrease in every area site-based regions preschool and birth to three students at the same time the total hi students increased by six and the total VI students have increased by 10. as of October 1 we had almost 483 FTE which included 8.5 FTE FBC at the time we employed 698 staff however many of them are part-time there are currently 131 vacancies across the agency and according to miss Pius presentation school year 2022 has had the highest turnover rate of 25 percent compared to previous years and the national average of 16 percent the highlights of the September 22 Financial reports show the revenues of 6.6 million was 1.5 million higher than the September 21 revenues of 5.1 million the major difference is we received the payment of the August voucher and prop 301 funds in
041September this year while it was not received until October last year the budget fiscal year 22 expense 23 expenses of 12.7 million or 728 000 higher than budget fiscal year 2022. the increases are a result of the 10 increase in salaries contracted services for transportation one-to-one nurses and the purchase of Chromebooks for students offset by reduction in transfers to adoa the major difference in programs is under the administration Statewide with the addition of blind programs that were previously tracked under the Tucson campus but were moved to be more consistent with the deaf programs in addition preschool has increased since the region one preschoolers have been moved from the itinerant program to the Early Learning programs our cash balance for September 22 was 16.2 Million compared to 9 million in September of 21. the main increase
042is in the regional Cooperative funds by 4 million and the classroom classroom site fund by 2.6 million if there are no questions this concludes my report of the agency's financials uh thank you are there any questions thank you okay uh hearing none we're going to move to 7.01 information and discussion item introduction and possible discussion of policies [Music] e-e-b-e-i-h-a-i-k-f-i-m-b-i-m-d j i c f a j l b j l c b j l c c j l d a j r r n k i Marie Murphy wow I'm impressed that was a lot good afternoon board president Nigro members of the board superintendent reichmann and assistant superintendents Cooper and Martin for the record my name is Maria Murphy and I'm the asdb director for policy and government relations you have before you the revisions that are
043being presented for a first read board member lay typically our policy revisions are presented over a series of two meetings and at the first meeting the board has the opportunity to discuss and ask questions regarding the revisions and then at the second meeting the board typically votes to approve or decline the revisions or send me back to the office to do some additional work so the board has probably not seen this many policy revisions for me in quite some time but these revisions are in response to the changes that the Arizona state legislature made to the Arizona revised statutes during the most recent legislative session these proposed revisions have been posted on our website for public review at this time there hasn't been any questions or concerns raised by the public but I would like
044to make myself available for any questions from you at this time are there any questions for Ms Murphy this is the board of Virginia yes thank you president Nigro appreciate it I do have a few so bear with me please okay I do understand the concern about distracted driving and I completely agree but there was a mention of hands-free and at the same time I do want to make sure we recognize and are aware that we do have staff who are deaf or hard of hearing and or possibly have a visually visual impairment who are legally able to drive and this policy is not equitable for those individuals I want to make sure that it is Equitable for all staff members so for example I will notice that they cannot check a map while driving
045if the person is deaf or hard of hearing I understand that they're not using their phone during that time and they don't see anything in that policy that requires that they have a car mounted system for a device in order to be able to view a map is that something that transportation department plans to implement so that folks can view a map while they're driving via car mounted GPS for example board member chance that's an excellent question and I would be happy to follow up with uh Albert Duff and the transportation department regarding your question at this time the only revision that is actually being proposed to that particular policy which I believe is eebe is that we should not be operating a vehicle with a student under the age of 13 in the front
046seat so that would involve additional revisions and I I'm happy to make those revisions if the board would like me to make those revisions however these changes were not contemplated in in this particular iteration of the of the policy but if you would like to instruct me to go back and and look and further those discussions I'd be happy to do that yes this is board member Jansen I would appreciate it um I just now had an opportunity um to look at that and I would like to um ensure that the agency is providing vehicles with car mounted um phone mounts for example so that they can access directions if they need them secondly we do have staff who are visually impaired but can legally drive and I'd like to make sure that if they
047have a biopic lens that they are allowed to drive as part of their job duties board member chance again I would be very happy to bring that up with director Duff and we can continue to work on these between the first read and the second read thank you I'm just scrolling through to find the next one I am now looking at I Dash i1250 related to basic instructional programming and there's a comment about core fundamental skills and it focuses specifically on reading skills should be continuous through education excuse me the Improvement of a specific reading skills should be continuous throughout a student's education the curriculum should be brought in scope and provide a range excuse me one moment for The Interpreter curriculum should be brought in scope and provide a wide range in rate Readiness
048and potential for learning but I noticed that there's nothing stated about what would be established from kindergarten through 12th grade for language acquisition or any kind of resistive technology for language so for example Braille reader seesaw um Jaws um other other assistive technologies that we need to keep in mind the wording here still seems to focus more on English rather than other forms of literacy and I want to make sure that it is in fact broad language literacy includes Braille and ASL as well board member chance thank you for that input when I make these revisions typically I receive these revisions from the policy Services Department of the Arizona school boards Association and the Arizona School boards Association models these policies typically for a general education environment which is probably why you're not seeing things
049in regards to specifically deaf or hard of hearing blind or visually impaired students so um again I would be happy to take your comments and your requests back and continue to work on the policies to include those for the second read thank you and now I'm looking at observe observance days for September 11th I will leave that as a legislative requirement is that correct um it is a legislative requirement for uh school districts and charter schools in the state of Arizona however asdb even though we are not a school district or a charter school opted to voluntarily comply with this and acknowledge September 11th and I think that's wonderful and I agree with that in terms of following school districts Sandra Day O'Connor celebration day is that a legislative requirement as well yes it is
050wonderful those legislatively required days are the is the board allowed to input any other days of recognition or celebration other than what's legislatively required that's a very good question and I think that I would want to consult with our Assistant Attorney General in regards to that um I know that asdb needs to observe what the legislature requires us to observe however we might not be precluded from adding on additional dates but I I don't feel comfortable giving you a definitive answer without consulting with counsel first and that's fair so two specific things I'd like for consideration some kind of day or recognition for a Helen Keller I think that's a very significant individual for our students who are deaf deafblind blind visually impaired to understand and really the basis of why we have education for
051Deaf hard of hearing deafblind Blind and Visually Impaired that history is very important and she's a significant role model for our students and secondly some type of recognition of a disability awareness a week or disability awareness month that nationally we do already recognize I would like to put that in policy as well thank you all I would be happy to take that back for um for revision okay and now I am looking at graduating class of 2026 or the required competencies for civics I'm assuming this is just taken from legislative requirement is that correct correct okay is this broad enough that we as a school are able to provide necessary accommodations for our students to take this test as necessary um it is actually my understanding in on board member wonders correct me if I'm
052wrong but it is it's actually my understanding that if students do have an individualized education plan if it would not be appropriate for them to take this the Civics examination that they could be Exempted from the examination is that correct I believe so that I can double check yeah I I believe so as well I'm just I'm hoping that you can verify that for me okay um and we may want to consider putting that in part of policy as necessary um at least I think we need to consider um indicating that students who may need accommodations such as having the test read to them or assistance reading the test and otherwise that they would be allowed to have that type of accommodation for the test and that would include for example Braille or screen readers
053Etc other types of Technology thank you okay and I've jumped quite far ahead about the mask component it says asdb can only require masks with parental approval correct and I'm wondering how does that work so if we had a government issued order or a CDC issued mandate what would that look like with that policy we would I I believe and superintendent Martin correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that what we would have to do would be to actually receive some kind of a written consent form and make sure that we that we have the parental signature correct yes this is board member Jans is that a law or legislative requirement or where does that come from it's it's a law State of Arizona law correct okay thank you you're welcome and that is
054all that I have thank you for your time and your comments Miss Murphy you're very welcome and I will um certainly take your feedback and uh start making those revisions to bring back to the next board meeting thank you very much up thank you are there any other questions for Ms Murphy um Mr before um you know as you you the changes are presented in Redline format as you normally do um so the the changes in red are the proposed changes that have come from from aspa based on legislative mandate um the items in in black Print are existing um you know I don't want to hold up approval and and passage of things that we need to to to pass to comply with the the new laws the legislature has passed um at the
055the same time board member chance is completely right that we it is it is our job to adapt these model rules from asva to fit our population that's part of our job and that's part of every school board's job if you can look at every policy in the state of Arizona they all generally you know come or Started From The Asthma model rules but they've all been changed to suit the particular District needs and and we're no different um I'm wondering if procedurally we can get these through on second read next time and then have the other changes um you know that you may be working on uh as another you know to kind of roll up with the next the next round of uh of changes so meaning uh board president Nigro so that
056I understand you correctly to have the changes approved at the next board meeting but continue to work on them and then present the additional revisions at the March board meeting well I I would say that these should come through as second read in January and then you'll have first read that the changes that board member chance had mentioned we can come up for first read and discuss at that time yes I'm happy to do that okay I think there's missing of the word Bee by the way and The Mask requirement I will add that back in thank you all right thank you this is um board member chance president Nigro I appreciate your support and your comments and I do agree I I appreciate that approach it makes sense all right thank you okay um
057so you know further questions we're going to go to 702 set calendar for the 2023 regular board meetings hustle work study sessions um so I hope everyone's gotten a chance to look at this and we're all going to pull out our phones and calendars now I've gotten some input from board member Beau who was not able to join us today but she did mention that the July 13th meeting is not good for her it's not good for me either um is there a are there other and again we can go through all of these dates but is there any um any other board members for July 13th doesn't work if we could move that a week or two later my one concern is that um both board member Jance and myself have could potentially have
058a conflict with the acdhh board okay um so I'll see if I can pull up they don't have theirs already posted okay um so I mean we can I mean again these aren't set in stone um I mean we I guess we could put them in stone if we want to but um we right now it's just the PDF so um we'd have to vote to move them it's not you know that's difficult enough um so uh you know we could move it and then potentially move it back but I do like to have them as set in Stones we can make them so we'd be looking at um the week after would be the 20th July 20th but as of right now the 20th looks okay it's okay okay so let's let's do that
059I'd like to move the March 9th meeting if we can I know March is a big board meeting we have a lot of our HR matters that are settled in March um you know potentially the second or the 16th I think superintendent would say she'd rather have the second because there's I would that's correct yeah um so I think the second should be that or are there any other comments on that I that works that works okay so that will be March 2nd um yeah that works for me and then January um I mean believe it or not this is the easiest way to do this um May 11th I I think I'm okay May 11th if anyone else has any issues with that or a week before week after but you like to have
060a right before graduation I think all right so let's let's do that then so we're going to move March 2nd March 9th and March 2nd July 13th to July 20th and the locations uh we have starting in Tucson in January which you know we're in Phoenix today so the next week will be in Tucson and then we're alternating um is there any discussion on that we're going to like to meet in a third locality or or move the order of this or make any other changes that way no okay great um so I would move that we accept the calendar um as proposed with the exception of March uh Second and uh March or July 20th right uh all in favor any opposed and any abstentions okay great so we have that set um the
061other item uh you know the possible work study sessions we don't have a schedule for that proposed um we usually like to schedule um you know at least a couple to begin with and the you know usually February or or April time frame um superintendent reichman did you have any any proposals for for um for dates for those no uh no not for February not February okay I actually think the Strategic was going to be that one in February actually and it could be any of the the weeks during February though okay Thursday okay um let's see in February then I mean we could set one and then another in January that's not a big deal but let's see in February um we're usually on the you know we had the 16th and the 23rd
062but the 23rd gets Us close to the meeting so that maybe the the 9th or the 16th or either of those look good to everyone the 16th would look good for me the the 16th yes okay February 16th it's fine no I'm I'm planning for a first birthday party oh boy I may be here I may not be here so go with the majority and all right so this is board member Jan I actually have a conflict that day so if you do decide to do a work study session on the 9th I would show up late I would rather be there at the beginning though um David yes did we plan some of these work studies before I have on my calendar written in Feb on February 9th I think that we have oh
063we've already planned that oh gosh um that's what my calendar issue do we already have a favor I know I know that we had one schedule but yeah I know I but I forget the results of the doodle that might have been right this is Annette Yes actually we did set up the February 9th we did set up February 9th yeah okay that was the last meeting I see that now I'm seeing the uh the doodle here so okay well no that if we already have it on the on the calendar then we already have it on the calendar and uh in January weekend or in March I should say we can schedule the ones for the spring and early summer all right um thank you moving on uh 7.03 discussion action item election of
0642023 board officers pursuant to policy shall be held the last meeting in the calendar year um so we'll need nominations for president and secretary I would like to nominate David to continue as president thank you are there any other nominations for president okay so I would accept the nomination um do we have a motion to to move forward with that I moved that we vote to have David as our president for another year yeah okay any seconds I second okay um all in favor say aye aye aye uh any opposed and any abstentions and then we'll need nominations for secretary I'd like to nominate tsuke she'll she'll do it again I accept the nomination any other nominations I'll back you up anytime soon okay uh all um I uh move that um uh we elect
065suke as secretary I'm sorry yeah okay uh so all in favor say aye aye aye aye any opposed in any abstentions okay great uh and then next is 8.01 call to the public call the public on non-agendized items uh we have uh no uh in-person comments uh received and we have two um uh via the web they'll be available publicly on the website if they're not already and again as is our our practice uh we'll suitable just summarize the the content of both um both comments are from parents of students here at um asdb but at pdsd specifically they are expressing significant concern over a teacher's Behavior walking into a classroom that was not their own and um in their words bullying belittling and berating a student um in front of their peers and the
066actual classroom teacher they are concerned for their students safety and emotional well-being as well as wanting to see disciplinary action sooner than later for this specific teacher uh thank you and we could move on to 8.02 discussion of possible action item agenda items for the next regular board meeting um are there any any uh proposals for the next next meeting uh for agenda agenda items um I know as I mentioned earlier in the meeting we are going to have uh some policy changes proposed to um uh resolve some of the issues that the auditor general raised along with some other some other items and we're going to address several of those uh in January they're being developed right now um I I would like to have um a quick update on the Strategic plan after
067the first semester we we reviewed um the data that we had uh once the fiscal year ended um and now we're going to be about six months from that time in January I'd like to have another um updated discussion about that as we get some new information again that that dashboard is uh it's it's live it's uh it's it's the our website slash dashboard that data is updated uh periodically so everyone can see how we're doing um but I would like to talk about it a little bit superintendent Martin you were you yeah I feel like you want to say something excuse me president Nigro we um we had an issue there was a submission online for public comments um there was some confusion when they submitted online they weren't given the option to present
068in person so they were actually here in person to express their comments so that's what we were discussing it would be up to the board to allow the public to um have their comments heard so this is from the non-agendized items yes and then we didn't receive do we have a form right now we do not so there's no there's no paper form no there's no paper form though because they need to fill that out they need to fill out the paper form okay oh they they did they did that they did okay yeah they they did the online version but it didn't give them the option they said to um present in person so they want to come and read the email correct um okay uh is there I mean I know we're kind
069of off the the topic here in the email is um you know it is on the website for everyone to see but if they want to to read it um I mean there's anyone on the board opposed to that okay that's okay um uh sure no so um for for minutes um you know again the the minutes are louder are um up to we have the agendas discretion um I think we're using uh three minutes um for um uh uh verbal or uh communication and four and a half uh for ASL communication um so that's we'll allow that is that person here I would hope so I mean hello I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to Stand Here I Am the mother of three children here at PTSD and I did
070send an email with a public comment with some basics of what happened my son has Tourette syndrome he has some tics he makes some noises that he cannot control He Is We found out when he was seven the classroom teacher gave them some work and they were focusing on that work and he's his ticks were occurring someone who is not his teacher walked into the classroom and said you are an animal I'm gonna call 9-1-1 you are not normal normal people don't act like that in the real world this was said to my 10 year old son he completely shut down this broke him he came home and I had no idea and when I found out I talked to principal void about it my 10 year old son for the very first time in
071his life said he wanted to kill himself not because of his home life not because of stress anywhere else but because of a teacher here at this school this teacher made my son hate himself he doesn't want to live anymore because of what she said he's refused to come to school for two days I kept trying so hard he said that I'm scared I'm scared she's gonna call 9-1-1 on me he said no I can't control it Mom I can't help it she's gonna call the cops on me and I said no honey that's not gonna happen a few members of this team the counselors and teachers got together to try very hard to convince him to come back to school and he did but he's on a safety plan and it is completely unfair
072to him that teacher is still here she's not an administrative leave I will not be quiet about this I will go public I have posted this publicly and there are staff there are parents there are teachers who are coming forward with their stories of this individual and it is not pretty but it is surprising that she still works here and I want you to understand that I will not stay silent about this my son doesn't want to live anymore because of her behavior and I don't know how many children she's damaged over the years we will not stand for this thank you for giving the opportunity to speak to you thank you foreign so we were in the 802 discussion possible action item uh there any other items that people would like to add to
073the January agenda no okay then we can go on to 9.01 actually item in German I move that we adjourn this meeting is there a second all second okay all in favor hi hi can you opposed one okay thank you joking I'm not okay I'm in support okay um thank you everyone um we'll uh see everyone in January thank you David thank you