001[clears throat] >> It's primary. Welcome, welcome friends. Please come to the front. We have plenty of seats in the front. Please join us. Okay, all right. We'll go ahead and call today's meeting to order. As good coordinator of the Jim Boyd as I call the meeting to order, I want to make sure to of course express and share on behalf of the governing board our support of the district and its mission, vision, and and purpose statements. Uh our [clears throat] vision statement is our students will be loved, encouraged, and prepared to take on the world by embracing our Himdag. Our mission statement is we create healthy, inspiring, motivating, developing, achieving graduates. Our core Oh, sorry. Our purpose statement is we create a positive academic impact on every child's life every day with an additional commitment
002to support the Tohono O'odham culture and language. For those of you who may not know uh um the O'odham word Himdag does correlate to a way of life in the manner in which the board expresses in in in itself to not only be representatives of the community, but to ensure that the education provided also incorporates a portion of not only our our culture, our heritage, our language, our song, but especially our point of view and manner in which we view the world as [clears throat] Don Authum. So, with that, um, today's date is Tuesday, April 14th, 2026. The Waal Agiyahl Hmaang Shima K'a Gyuk Shon, uh, district governing, um, regular governing board meeting. Uh, with that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Sabala for roll call. Make your Make sure your mics are on, board
003members, please. All those present, Juan Bonilla. And I too. Kathleen Vance. Sylvia Hendricks. And I too. Anna Marie Stevens. And I too. Dion Leonard. Present. That completes roll. Sir, we do have a quorum. If you are able, please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Continuing with this evening's agenda, our routine business for tonight is the number one approval of the April 14th, 2026 board meeting agenda. Governing board members, I do have one request. Um, just out of letter I, consent agenda, just to acknowledge the donation, I would like to ask to move the approval of tonight's donation to our
004uh, action items. Should be action item It'll be new action item nine. Vote up the donation? Sorry, just the donation for, um, bells Benz bells. Apologies. Just that one donation. Do I turn over there or is there a motion to approve? I'll move. Motion by Ms. Sylvia Hendricks. I'll second the motion. >> [clears throat] >> Juan Bonilla Masapa Sylvia Hendricks >> Masapa Annamarie Stevens >> Sapa Dion Leonard Motion carries. Motion carries. Number two is the approval of the March 4th, 2026 regular board meeting minutes governing board members with your Uh without objection, I would also like to approve the March 13th, 2026 special board meeting minutes as one item. If there's no objections, I'll motion to approve. Is there a second? Second by Ms. Dion Leonard. All those in favor of this motion, Juan Bonilla
005Sapa Sylvia Hendricks Sapa Annamarie Stevens Masapa Dion Leonard For Motion carries. >> Motion carries. Number four is our call to the audience. Did have one form turned in for a Pollyanna Flores. Yes. There she is. Persons attending meetings of the governing board or addressing the board shall observe rules of propriety, decorum, and good conduct. Personal attacks upon board members, district staff, or students are not permitted. Discussion of confidential student matters is also prohibited. The president may terminate a speaker's privilege to address the governing board if, after being called to order, the speaker persists in improper conduct or remarks. Each speaker shall be allotted 3 minutes each. When you begin, I'll go ahead and set the timer. Good evening. I just wanted to come and introduce formally introduce myself. Um Good evening members, board, um parents
006and families, superintendent and colleagues. My name's Pollyanna Flores and I'm truly honored to stand before you as the uh school counselor for Indian Oasis Elementary. Um I bring with me over 20 years of service in education, working in marginalized communities, supporting students in every space imaginable from yard duty to instructional aid to substitute teacher. I was a high school librarian, um school counselors across all grade levels including >> [clears throat] >> um behavior and correctional settings. Uh those experiences didn't just build my career, they shaped my purpose. I don't just see students for where they are, I see them for who they can become. Before coming here, I served um before coming here from California, I served with the Agua um division here on the nation and advocating for native youth and families, ensuring their
007voices were heard, respected, and protected. I'm also an an enrolled tribal member of the Colorado River Indian Nation and I carry that identity with pride and with responsibility. Um because for me this work is not just a job, it is service to my people and to our future. My mission is to strengthen our nation through the children who are our future and my philosophy is simple, to encourage positivity and empower students to make good choices. When students feel seen, they feel valued. When they believe they matter, everything changes. I'm grateful to be here. I'm ready to serve and look forward to working alongside all of you to uplift every student we have the honor to support. Thank you. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Mr. Zavala, any other call to the audience? Okay, for the record,
008call to the audience is now closed. Letter E is our information items. Number one is the Barbecue Unified School District Employee Recognition. Mr. Diaz. Good morning, Washington Diaz. Well, good evening, Superintendent. Good evening, members of the community, colleagues, students, and those who are joining us today. My name is Ruben Diaz and I am the proud Superintendent for Barbecue Unified School District. And at this point, it is a special and it's an honor that I I would like to bring to our attention not only the service, the impact, the love of one of our distinguished and precious members of the team. I would like to ask not only the family of our beloved Chris Moreira to please stand up and come forward. Please come to enjoy us join me in the front. And my operations team
009you joining here today as well. Could you please come forward as well? Members of the operations team, please join me. We have lost a great member of our team. Somebody has brought friendship, love, commitment, support, hard work, and I'm going to ask all of us here present for a short minute of silence to think for all of the commitment and years of service. He was also an alumni, and I'm honored standing here today in front of a a great person, a great individual, an incredible member of the team, along with family and the work family. I thank you all for making the commitment of being here tonight. Um and the letter says, um "Dear BUSD family and community, it is with a heavy heart that BUSD family and community comes together to honor the existence
010and contributions of Mr. Christopher Lee, known as Chris Marietta. On Saturday, March 7, um 2026, Chris' life on this earth ended due to a fatal accident. But his spirit will live forever among every heart he touched in his lifetime. Chris was a father, a husband, a son, a brother, BUSD alumni, class of 2026, a colleague, and a friend to many around him. Some people come into our lives for a reason and some for a season. Chris was both. Whenever you met him for a day or for years, his genuine character and his silent smile will capture anyone's soul. Chris was not only blessed Chris not only blessed us with his presence as a student but also as a BUSD team member for almost 10 years. Chris was known for his his dedication, commitment, humbleness, gentleness
011with students and caring for those around him. A testament of his commitment included becoming a supervisor and never taking a sick or a vacation day off. He embraced life and took pride in everything that he did. On behalf of the BUSD governing board, staff, students, we send our prayers and strength to Chris's wife, children, family, and friends. We thank Chris from the bottom of our hearts for sharing his life, his light, his smile, and his legacy. May Chris live an eternal life in peace and watch his children to grow in heaven. Please, a moment of silence. >> [snorts] >> Thank you. Chris, from up above, continue to send the blessings to your children, your loved ones, your friends. You can now continue to rest in peace and watch from above. And at this point, team,
012if you don't mind handing over the blanket to the family further. Um, why a blanket? We look for a blanket when we look for comfort, for warmth, when we sick. Any type of representation or just a symbol that I want you to continue to find the strength, the comfort, and the love, and the warmth from up above. Thank you for sharing Chris with us. May he rest in peace, and thank you for being here. Thank you, guys. That didn't work. You need new batteries on that one. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, guys. >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> Thank you so much, Mr. Diaz. Um I especially on behalf of the board, I think that to the family, to the staff, and to friends, and many, many individuals who I know were deeply impacted. As
013a board member for the past 6 years, I I it's been really, really the impressions especially um um that are that are not only um observed but I will say Chris I think exemplified professionalism, he exemplified care and unwavering dedication in all that he did. um We had a visits to sites um and he always carried himself as such knowledge and pride and I want to say he stood out because that's just his character and who he was. It was a quiet presence but it was a powerful one. um He valued his work and most importantly he cared and I think that's exactly what I want to express is that the kind that kind of commitment is rare and hard to find. um I know he leaves behind a huge legacy not just of service
014but of quiet excellence, reliability genuine heart. um He always had a really firm handshake and an extremely extreme pride in in showing us what he was working on, how the schools looked and and his um his commitment. um His presence made a difference, that's definitely what I want to share. And that impact will not be forgotten because I think that even for us as board members while we're not involved in operation, we know impression and what those what individuals who take the time to really share with us how proud they are in what they're doing does have an impact. So on behalf of the governing board we extend our sincere condolences to the family, to his friends and to all our staff who've had the privilege of working alongside him. We stand with you in
015this time of remembrance. um And I genuinely do believe that that uh what he has done and and who he was continues to live on because we we will it so. So, with deep gratitude and respect to you as the family for for sharing him with us and to him and himself for for committing um our sincere condolences from the governing board. Thank you so much for being here this evening. >> [clears throat] >> Any other board members care to share anything? >> [laughter] >> I think he said everything. Okay. All right. Um With that, we'll move on. Um number two for this evening is our Himdag Award, Mr. Diaz. President Wadia, members of the board, at this point I would like to um um bring our administrator, um our proxy administrator from Baboquivari High
016School, and also Dr. um Marcus uh to join us for the Himdag Award uh so that they can read the letter and also acknowledge the students with the um honoring the students with the Himdag Award. So, if you don't mind Mr. Dalton coming up and reading the Himdag Award, and Mr. Marcus, would you like to join um as well in the podium? Please do. There's also an amazing beautiful video that will come back um next month and and showcase uh the video showcasing uh our students. But, at this point um I'm going to ask our representatives to um go ahead and and and read the Himdag letter. Um members of the board, if you don't mind joining me in the front so we can thank our Himdag Award recipients. Are they here today? Are they
017both here today? Okay. Good evening. I'm Alan Dalton, uh one of the assistant principals at the secondary campus, and it's an honor to be here with you this evening celebrating um Himdag Award. So, I will read the letter from Miss Onsay, our principal. Are you ready, Mr. Diaz? Almost. We're going to wait for the four members. Okay. >> [laughter] >> I am pleased to recommend two outstanding students, Ariana Garcia and Alice Lopez for recognition with the Him Dog Award. Both students exemplify the core values of Him Dog, being healthy, inspiring, motivating, developing, and achieving, and before we know it, graduates. They have demonstrated excellence as as I can recipients in their respective areas of athletics and art. Ariana Garcia has shown exceptional talent and dedication in the arts. His creativity inspires those around him, while
018his commitment to growth and expansion embodies the principles of development and achievement. Ariana Ariana's work not only reflects his own passion, but also motivates others to explore and appreciate artistic endeavors. Alice Lopez has distinguished herself in athletics through her commitment to physical wellness, discipline, and perseverance. She consistently models what it means to be healthy and motivating, encouraging her peers to strive for their personal best. Her dedication to improvement and teamwork reflects the developing and achieving spirit that the Himdag Award represents. Together, Ariana Garcia and Alice Lopez represent the essence of Himdag to their achievements, leadership, and positive influence within our school community. It is with great confidence that I recommend them both for this honor. >> [applause] [applause] >> That was it? Mhm. The next one is the student council presentation. Oh, okay. Okay. Thank
019you. We can come back for the next presentation. Yes. And as the board members are coming back to their seats, may I please have the student council please come forward and join us here in the podium. Welcome. Welcome. You can begin when you're ready. Oh, your presentation. Um this is Kristash Anionuevo Chugay. Mr. Acuna, I'm the class sponsor for train train eight. And I want to introduce the officer series, but before that, I want to say it's been a privilege I'm working with these two students. I had them since freshman year and the growth that they have shown is tremendous. I remember freshman year they were all quiet, sitting in the back, but now this year they took a active role in the community and school. Um they helped with volleyball and you know, they
020helped with the different food sales. They're always stepping up. And I hope they keep continuing this and when as a student, but also outside of school and a community member because we need more people like them. So. So our officers, so our first one is So our president is Kyler Baptista. Our vice president is Um Haze Shawon. Our secretary is Jared Sixkiller. Our treasurer is Rihanna One. And then our representative is Wilfred Alzi. Uh throughout the year we our fundraisers were bubble day we made about $429. We sold at a couple of basketball games and we made $391. At community day um last in March we made $224. At another basketball game in baby what? No. In two days. Oh the baseball game and yeah and on Thursday we have a baseball game. And the
021total raised is Oh to be determined is our total. Sorry. And our total raised is $1,044. Account total is $6,000. >> [clears throat] >> Um some accomplishments we made this year as a class was the homecoming parade float. we made that and it was pretty quick, but we made it in time. There's a picture right there with everybody in there. Uh I think that same week we had a Super Smash Bros. tournament and the student who won is sitting right there. Cole Wilson. Um he got Legos for that. Um we also built the Choke Oidak um with Joaquin. Yep. Yeah. Um the Choke Oidak was something we had planned for a while. Um a lot of kids showed up that day. It was March 20th, the community day. That morning we showed up and Joaquin
022had showed us how to use all of the tools and what we were going to do. He also showed us how to plant and and yeah. Uh there's a video of everyone there. It was a mix of different grades, but there were a lot of kids who showed up. They really participated and we got it done in that day. I think we got it done earlier than expected. Um we had got eaten food after and everybody was cooling off before community day. That day was fun. This week's [clears throat] spirit week was called the favorite spirit week. Oh, it's next week. Next week was the fav- favorite spirit week. We planned this just last week. There's different things for each day. Um Monday is band or artist shirt. Tuesday is sports team {slash} jersey. Wednesday
023is your favorite hat. Thursday is your favorite movie or TV show. And Friday is your favorite outfit. And those who participate in the spirit week will receive a sticker. Three. >> [applause] >> These are the last stickers that were made. >> [clears throat] >> Uh I think this is future goals for 2026-2027 school year. Next year we will be senior or juniors. We will be juniors. We do plan to try and fundraise outside of school as rodeo day, swap meet, or you know, etc. Uh we also want to try and plan a class day trip. Uh hiking, movies, something like that that the students would want to do. Um we're also planning prom next year. So, we're excited for that. And Um we also plan to try and do a community service project. Um like
024picking up trash for a day, or going to the nursing home and helping them, or reading, or singing, dancing. Something like that. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Awesome. Thank you, Aisha, and um Leah? Sorry. And Mr. Acuña, appreciate the presentation. Moving on, number four this evening, it's going to be our Amazing Shake presentation, Miss Peggy Lewis. Good evening, families. If I could have our three Amazing Shake participants come over here. I have Gavin Meza Toro, Gary Condi, and Bethany Robles. So, our three students >> [applause] >> They went to Atlanta, Georgia to go compete in the Amazing Shake competition. They were three out of 517 participants, and they were the only students from Arizona to participate in this event. >> [applause] >> So, we made this video to show our appreciation, and our students wanted
025to thank um our especially our families to thank you, parents, for letting us and trusting us to take your kids with us. That was a a long ways, and to get on a plane for their first time, well, some of them for the first time. And thank you to their teacher, Miss Hiloa, for making sure that they were ready as well. If you go in her classroom, you can see the high engagement in her class. And they're they're cheering, they're singing, they're moving around, and that prepared them for this event. And thank you to our superintendent, Ruben Diaz, for preparing them for one of the competitions that you will see in the video. So, if you can play the video, thank you. Our students are here. They will cheer for you as if they have
026won. Because tonight, when you think about winning, I think we've all kind of won. >> That is Ron Clark. Winning at school, winning doing no homework. We're all here together. I think that is beautiful. We've already won. Overall, just the confidence and the style of the school. And what I've learned back to the school is just showing that you always don't have to be courageous. There's more details into that. Just being good eye contact and having a really good handshake. What I've learned back to the intermediate school is that to be more confident. Don't be shy and get out of your comfort When meeting Ron Clark at The Ron Clark Academy was I felt really excited when I first met him because when we first went on to the flight to go to Atlanta, I
027was actually watching the previous Amazing Shakes. And when I saw him, I was like, "Man, I just can't wait to meet him." So then when we flew to Atlanta and we went over to the school, we actually had a coaching session with him. And after the coaching session, I was confident enough to take a picture with him after everything he told me or told everybody in the coaching session. So I took a picture with him and after that I just felt so relieved and so happy to actually finally meet him. Good morning, spectacular. Right now our students are in the work the room section of the amazing shake. It is their job to literally work the room. They have to seek out the judges and they are judged by the way their ability to shake
028hands, say hello, and introduce themselves in a way that nobody else can. So, if you'll look, we have Gavin inside and Bethany as well and they are now working the room. >> [music] >> First, I'd like to thank my family and the board members for letting us take this opportunity for us to go visit the Ron Clark Academy because I got to meet a lot of new people. I met this one girl from Hawaii. Her name's Nora and she made this token at her school. The school was amazing. My favorite challenge was work the room because I met a lot of new judges from all over. Well, my experience was like at the Global Amazing Shake was it was very intense. I was nervous, but I had the confidence to think I was going to
029go to the second round. Unfortunately, I I not make it to the second round, but I'm still happy that I got to go to Atlanta and see landmarks and meet new people from around the world. And I just want to thank my family and the board for letting me to go on this trip. >> [applause] [applause] >> Go ahead, Mr. Diaz, and then Mr. Please, before I forget, I'm having a senior moment. Uh Congratulations. You were our ambassadors. Um you were not all the only ones from uh Arizona, but the only ones from the Navajo Nation. The The moment that you left, um you you were an ambassador for the nation, for the community, and for the Baboquivari Unified School District. You have done an incredible job, and you have also trained me well because
030every time I I I speak in public, I remember your words that you told me that I need to work on, not dancing around when I'm speaking. So, I'm I'm I'm working on that myself. But, it's it's um thank you for representing the community. Thank you for your your leadership and your strength and for making a presence of yourself. Let's give him another round of applause. >> [applause] >> Uh Mr. Stevens. Congratulations. That was amazing. It makes me happy. I was had opportunity participate in the amazing shake a couple of last year. I truly enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to the new one coming up. It's good to see you guys out there and out of your comfort zone. And you guys are going to do amazing things in life, So, congratulations. Miss uh Hendricks.
031Congratulations and on the experience that you got from traveling all across the country, all the way across country, and hope that you'll continue being who you were there and you're bringing back here. And I'm I'm really excited for you to share as much as you've shared with your with your your classmates and students even younger than you to have that and hope that they continue and want to do the same that you've done and with the experience that you've had. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Miss Leonard. Um I just want to say I'm proud of you guys for going and doing all getting out of your comfort zone is a really big deal and it's going to move um move you guys to a a really good place as soon as you start getting comfortable in
032speaking in public and learning how to how they said work a room. So, I'm proud of all of you guys. Congratulations. So, the the skills and the opportunities I think are especially important and as a board member I want to say to those who may say these look like just trips, they're actually extremely important to building who you will like to see come back and be leaders, come back and show what we are capable of as all of them, but in generally in and as much as just the people, our resilience, our confidence, and our ability to to to do these types of things has has and will always be there. So, I want to thank you guys for being the examples, being exemplary in what you're doing. Um it's not easy. Trust me. It
033takes a long time, and I'm glad that you are learning now how to be able to do these types of things because it will take you extremely far. Um so I 100% am 100 a thousand percent proud of you and I will stand up every time to be able to utilize that we have funds that we have to be able to send kids and anyone that is interested shows the the commitment, the confidence, the ability and it also uh provides just the simplicity of of of of the the essence. I think you guys are extremely gifted, talented, and I want to say thank you so much again and congratulations. >> [applause] >> Thank you for those encouraging words and family, thank you for watching our video because uh if you ever step on the intermediate
034campus, you will see exactly what was on those videos. They may not be exactly like how it is in the video, but we similar. We have adopted the Ron Clark Academy ways of teaching and engagement. So our classrooms are not just sitting in rows where you're just sitting there watching the teacher teach. It's actually getting up, moving around, doing cheers, doing a lot a lot of engagement where the students are getting up and talking. We're not just sitting there with our hoods on. We are actually talking and having fun. So if you see our houses around, right now we are in the house of Revere. So if you see our sign back here, they took over the board there because it is their month. But we do share how four different houses and um the
035primary and the high school also has it their campus. So if you see them, say hi because they are proud of their house and they represent it their house very well. And they saw how the teachers and the staff were at the Ron Clark and they're like, "Oh, now I get it. Now I know what my teacher is trying to do in my classroom." And so, we are trying we're making the change in our classrooms to come out of our comfort zone to be more engaged so that our students are more successful when they go out into the real world. So, thank you. >> [applause] >> In the spirit of celebration, we'll move on to our barbecue and our school district students of the month. Please help me put your hands together to welcome our
036elementary primary uh principal, Ms. Enriques, so to present our students of the month. Parents, if you may be the first time again, uh when you hear your name, come over here, shake everybody's hand, hear the beautiful message that the school is going to share about you, and families, you're part of the success. Then you can go forward, and you get to take a picture with your child. You get a chance to decide what you want in your picture. Feel what you want. You want a heart? Thumbs up? Number one? Peace? Rock and roll? Rock and roll? Your name is I'm confused already. Thank you all for being here. Um we do have seating. Please come forward. We don't charge extra. And then you have come over here, come in the middle. Be part of the
037celebration. Go ahead, Ms. Enriques. All right. Good evening, President Bondia, governing board members, superintendent, and community members. Our first student of the month is from Ms. Sharice's pre-K classroom, and that is Aleah Escalante. >> [applause] >> Aleah is a great student to have in the classroom. She comes in with a positive attitude and is ready to learn. She is always willing to help others when needed. She always does her her best and isn't afraid to ask for help if needed. When she was asked what she would like to be when she grows up, she would like to be a firefighter. >> [applause] [applause] >> Our next student is from Miss Black's kindergarten class, Aspen Lewis. >> [applause] [applause] >> Aspen is a wonderful student who truly deserves this award. She is kind, respectful, and always
038comes to school ready to learn. Aspen is prepared each day and keeps an open mind when trying new things. She shows care She shows care for others and does her best in everything she does. Aspen has grown so much this school year and she's ready to take on the next grade level with confidence. Aspen wants to be a veterinarian when she grows up. >> [applause] [applause] >> Our next student is from Ms. Spotted Wolf's first grade class, Zaylie Condie. >> [applause] >> If not here, um we'll move on to our second grade student from Ms. Cipriano's class, Luna Sami. >> [applause] >> Luna stands out in every way. She is a caring and kind classmate who always looks out for others and brings positivity into the classroom. Luna is very intelligent and takes pride in
039her learning, always doing her best and staying focused. Her hard work and determ- determination show in everything she does. Ms. Cipriano is so proud of you, Luna. Keep shining and being the amazing student you are. I'd also like to mention that Luna is reading at the end of a third grade level and she is only in second grade. [applause] When she grows up, she would like to be a singer. >> [applause] >> Our next student is from third grade, Ms. Holmes's class, Jazlyn Jazlyn Balanzuela. >> [applause] >> And our final student is from Ms. Chico's Himdag class, Anela Escalante. >> [applause] >> Anela is well-behaved in the classroom. She knows a lot about the O'odham Niok. She is always willing to help her classmates. She is very respectful to the teacher as as as her
040classmates. Anela likes to be the teacher's helper. She is When she is always done with her assignments, she always helps others. Anela would like to be an artist when she grows up. She enjoys drawing people's faces and showing their feelings. >> [applause] >> And next Next we have Miss Bigay Lewis from the intermediate campus. >> [applause] >> Good evening for our um Miss Gexiola's class is Alexander Anthony here? No. Okay. So, we'll go to the next one. Our fourth grade uh student Lion- Lion Lee Juan. In recogn- In recognition for his improved attendance and consistently putting forth his best effort, he is respectful to teachers, kind, and friendly with his classmates. His dedication, positive attitude, and quiet leadership makes him a truly deserving student of the month by Mr. Fuentes. You're part of that success.
041Everyone counts. Your love goes a long, long way. You got it. >> [applause] [applause] >> And from Miss Bulatao's class is Zara Rose Johnson. >> [applause] >> In recognition for her determination, behavior, and significant improvement in her academic performance. She demonstrates a positive attitude towards learning in class and perseveres in her work until she achieves success. Most importantly, Zara Rose exhibits positive behaviors that are worthy of awesomeness with her classmates. >> [applause] >> Our last student for sixth grade is Luciano Nacho. >> [applause] >> Luciano is in Mr. Aguilar's sixth grade class in recognition recognition for his brightness and for being an engaged student who shows enthusiasm for learning. He takes pride in his work. He produces high-quality assignments that reflect his effort in understanding. He is also models responsibility and helplessness to his and
042his strong performance on district assessments. Good job. >> [applause] >> And now to high school. Oh, Mr. Dalton. >> [applause] >> All right. Good evening once again, ladies and gentlemen. It's a pleasure to be here to celebrate our students of the month with you. So, first our seventh grade nominee, Virginia Francisco. Virginia Francisco. >> [applause] >> The seventh grade team names Virginia Francisco as the seventh grade student of the month for March 2026. Virginia is the daughter of Delphine Francisco and the granddaughter of BUSD school board member Sylvia Hendricks. Her home village is cells and her home district is the Baboquivari district. Virginia is a proud member of Isabindi, the house of courage. Virginia's favorite class this year is mathematics with her favorite teacher, Dr. Flores Ali. She enjoys the class because Dr. Flores really
043gets into new topics and makes them interesting. After graduating from Baboquivari Secondary, Virginia plans on going to the University of Arizona. Bear down. >> [applause] >> Her current career goal is to become a therapist. Virginia would like to thank her siblings, Stewie, Ethan, Jayden, David, and Amber for encouraging her to come to school every day. We are very proud of you, Virginia. Keep working hard and moving forward. >> [applause] >> For our eighth-grade nominee, the eighth-grade team names Ivelisse Chico as the eighth-grade student of the month for March 2026. Ivelisse Here she [applause] is. Ivelisse is the daughter >> [applause] >> of Jessica Chico. Her home village is Big Fields and her home district is the Sells District District. Ivelisse is a proud member of Amistad, the house of friendship. She is a student athlete
044who plays basketball for the Lady Cougars. Ivelisse's favorite class this year is mathematics with her favorite teacher, Ms. Shawnis. She enjoys the class because Ms. Shawnis is an incredible person and makes math fun to learn. After graduating from Baboquivari Secondary, Ivelisse plans on going to college. Her current career goal is to become a professional athlete in the WNBA. Ivelisse would like to thank her auntie Jessica, her grandma Mildred, and Tiffany Mease for all their help and support. Keep up the good work, Ivelisse, and keep pushing to learn and [applause] grow as a student. >> [applause] >> For our freshman class, Dwayne Valenzuela. You here, Dwayne? There he is. >> [applause] >> Dwayne is the son of Colleen Valenzuela and the nephew of Julie Garcia. His home village is cells and his home district is the
045cells district. Dwayne is a proud member of altruismo, the house of givers. His favorite class this year is algebra one with Miss Sedona because math is interesting to him. His favorite teacher is also Miss Sedona because she is there when you need help and is confident in her teaching. After graduating from Baboquivari Secondary, Dwayne plans on going to college. His current career goal is to become a law enforcement officer. Dwayne would like to thank his friends and family for supporting him and encouraging him to never give up and keep going. He says that if it were not for them, he would have never made it this far. Congratulations, Dwayne. >> [applause] >> For the sophomore class, Anthony Matias. Come on down, Anthony. >> [applause] >> Anthony's garden guardian is Ramona Pablo. She His home village
046is Big Fields and his home district is the cells district. He's a proud member of Is ab indi, the house of courage. Anthony is also a member of the sound of music club helping make our events ex- ex- exponentially cooler through the magic of music. His favorite class this year is digital communications with Miss Gonzales because he enjoys learning how to communicate through digital media. His favorite teacher is Mr. Acuña because he is friendly and a great teacher. Anthony is an avid gamer and would like to see e-sports offered as an option next year. After graduating from Baboquivari Secondary, Anthony plans is going to college to study animation and is considering considering NAU or the University of Arizona. Bear down. His current career goal is to become an animator. >> [applause] [applause] >> Just a
047quick note on that. I didn't know e-sports was a thing, but my partner, Mr. Russell, the other assistant principal, tells me it is and our AIA or AIA conference actually has e-sports competitions. So, Anthony, we're working on it, buddy, because I know you I see him every day in the cafeteria. Every day, lunch time at breakfast, he's playing the the e-sports stuff. I know he'd be a champion. So, we'll see if we can get that going. >> [applause] >> All right, for the junior class, Amencio Enos is the junior class student of the month for March 2026. Amencio, are you here? I didn't think I had seen him. Give him a hand. >> [applause] >> And for our senior class, Denicia Miguel is the senior class student of the month for March 2026. >> [applause]
048>> Denicia is the daughter of Flora Gomez. Her home village is Sells and her home district is the San Xavier district. Denicia is a proud member of the River of the House of Dreamers. She is an athlete who plays volleyball for the Lady Warriors. Denicia is also a member of student council executive council, serving as executive vice president and working hard to help make school events happen. She also serves as a peer tutor with project yes, helping students find success. Her favorite class this year is English 12 with Miss T. She says she used to dislike ELA classes, but you're this year Miss T helped her grow to enjoy it. Her favorite teacher is Miss Erin Martin because she is an amazing person. After graduating from Beaver River Secondary, Denisha plans to attend to honor
049autumn Community College to study accounting before transferring to a four-year university. Her current goal is simply to become an educated woman and see where her education will lead her in the wider world. >> [applause] >> Denisha would like to thank her mom and her animals for all their love and support. >> [applause] >> All right. >> [applause] >> Skok Talx, uh President Windia, board members, and Superintendent Diaz, um members who are here with us this evening in person and virtually. As is um this uh honoring of the student that I have here for student of the month. She is homesick with allergies, um but they are linked in virtually on YouTube. So, Rainey, here we go. >> [laughter] >> Yes. >> [applause] >> Dear board members and uh director Rainey um Hieronimo Blaine is an
050outstanding student who consistently demonstrates leadership both in and out of the classroom. She actively contributes to a positive school culture by supporting her peers and setting a strong example for others. Rainey is known for her kindness, compassion, and willingness to help, making her a caring and supportive friend. She shows excellent citizenship, maintains a positive attitude, and stays engaged in her learning. Her strong attendance, except for today cuz you know those allergies kicked in. And commu- and commitment to doing her best make her a true role model on campus. Congratulations, Rainey, on being selected as student of the month. With pride and warmest congratulations, the staff at Indian Oasis Middle and High School. Big hugs to you, Rainey. Thank you, Rainey. Thank you. [applause] So, as always, uh it is extremely a pleasure to be able
051to not only celebrate our students, but to be able to see and hear the the wishes for not only their futures, but in genuinely just uh wishes for their support. Um well, the wishes for themselves, I think in general was really, really uplifting and enlightening. So, thank you so much again for joining us for our students of the month. We appreciate y'all. You're welcome to stay, but it'll probably be pretty boring. >> [laughter] >> Thank you. Good job. Thank you for the survivors for staying behind. >> Okay, continuing with this evening and excuse me, continuing with this evening's agenda, let's continue. Number six is our employee benefit insurance plan presentation. Mr. Diaz. President Modesto, members of the board, our colleagues, thank you for being here. And at this point we're going to move on with
052our benefits recommendations. We have a special guest as well, so please join us for to the podium. And let me know I'm going to be your official clicker, so the Just give me the signal and we'll move move forward. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. I'm Jennifer Edelson. I'm I'm from CBES. We're going to go over your presentation for your benefits. Go ahead and click it to the next slide. So we're going to start with a little bit of high level. We're going to take a look at your current program, your plan performance. We'll take a look at your medical renewal, move into your ancillary lines, and then do a high overview of the open enrollment meeting discussions and for the employees moving forward. So your your summary of your current programs, you have three current
053medical plans through ASBA, using the Banner Aetna network. You also have two dental plans. You have a dental PPO and EMITDA, which is like an HMO based plan. Your vision is through VSP. Your life, voluntary life, and short-term disability Can I get any closer? Sorry. Um is through New York Life, and then flexible spending accounts is through BASIC. So taking a look here, we've got your renewal history for the past 9 years of the average 9 years is just under 6% as a standalone medical. We do see some consistency here that you see in the in the past 9 years. They always say every 3 to 5 years a plan will have a bad year, and that's kind of where you see in 2020 where rates were increased a little high, and then in 2024
054you'll see a little higher there. But, overall average under 6% in 9 years is really stable and and good that we're seeing. Your claims through December. So, December of 25 year claims, you're currently running If you can go up just a little tiny bit. There. You can see you're running at 102.7%. So, that's versus claims that came in versus premium. So, actually at the moment they're paying out more claims than premium is coming in, just slightly over the 102%. Um this indicates that, you know, your plan is being actively um utilized. So, if you go to the next screen, you'll see you do have seven large claimants. Um this seven large claimants, these are claimants that total over $25,000. Totals about 46.5% of your total claim spend. And then jumping into the medical renewal. So,
055with your ASBA renewal, we're seeing a 6% increase, which is the lowest we pretty pretty much have seen in the industry that we're working right now. 2026 has been extremely difficult for everybody since January and the renewals that are coming. 6% equates to just over 73,000. This is no plan changes, so there's no disruption to the employees. Again, your MLR is 102, your claims are trending up a little bit upward. For the 2026-2027 plan year, ASBA is not making any plan changes, so they made those plan changes last year. It was the first time they made plan changes in over a decade. So, they kind of structured their plan. they still offer the same plans. Um for a medical Okay. Uh yeah, we're good. And then jumping into ASBED again, you have those no cost
056enhancement programs. So additional, you've got the benefits that many of your employees use at no cost. These are to help um improve access and the outcomes for your members. They can use things of empower health, the mobile mammography, SkinIO, Hinge Health, which is a thing um diabetes program that helps them um Teladoc is free for members so they can actually use PCP through a Teladoc service at no plans regarding which plan that they're on. Verda Health is the nutritional based diabetes reversing program. So you do have a lot of members using um these resources to help with their care. This is a side-by-side of your medical renewal. So you do have the three plans that will be offered currently and will be going moving forward. You have a 2600 high deductible health plan that does
057have access to an HSA account. You have a value gold plan and a classic silver. There are again no plan changes, but the new benefit is is the Teladoc is free for individuals on the high deductible health plan. In the past they had to pay a copay, but moving forward there is no copay for the members on that plan and um they'll be able to access care at um zero cost. Your medical contributions will remain the same. Over to the left you do see the 25 current plan years compared to the current. The plan will stay the same for the high deductible health plan it will be no cost to the employees only. And then on the value gold it remains no cost to the employee only. The classic silver will increase $2 a month
058for the employees that choose to buy up to that classic silver plan. So, overall cost to the district is a 5.9% increase at a 62,000 just over $62,000 for the district cost. >> [clears throat] >> So, looking at the plan performance and the market condition cost competitive- competitiveness, SEBA does recommend that we just move forward with the renewal as with the current plan designs. Um you can see that renewal increases are favorable more than what we're seeing outside of the marketplace or outside of a trust. We're seeing in the mid-teens to the mid-20s. Um I currently have a district that's not in a trust, pretty much your guys' size. They renewed outside of a trust with a 10 and 1/2 after several negotiations. Um we're able to get that. Um other districts that we're seeing
059just in general groups your size renewals right now are ranging anywhere from the mid-teens, so about 17 up to 26% is what I'm working on right now. So, it is kind of a challenging year. Um so, we recommend that you renew on your current plan utilizing the district um ASBA to help keep your position in line with your employees' goals. Before I move to your ancillary lines, do you have any questions regarding ASBA? Or any of your medical? Okay. Okay. Sylvia? I was just kind of curious on your Teledoc stuff. It you know, of course it is free of usage, but do you have a number of how many people use it? Um it was very low. It went Darlene, last time it was very low, huh? Yeah, unfortunately it is. We do at open
060enrollment meetings, we do stress to the employees that they could use it. However, that the utilization there is very low. Mhm. Okay. I think most of members would just rather go in person. Oh, I see. Then than Teladoc. But, the option is there and we do make sure that the employees know the option is there. We do explain to them that, you know, they can have them they'll call in your prescription drug. They can go pick up their prescription. So, instead of getting sicker waiting at an urgent care, they can do it telephonically and and get what they need. Mhm. That So, that was one of my questions that I wrote down. That Teladoc um zero co-pay, it's one of the benefits. Uh So, you're you're calling and it's basically whoever's going to answer or
061respond is is Yeah, it'll be a list of doctors that they have. Um pick it up. I mean, it's mostly, you know, I've got a sinus infection. Things that you kind of know, I've got an ear infection. Mhm. They'll ask you some questions. We tell the employees to always register before you get sick, right? When you don't feel good, you don't want to register. So, if you register ahead of time, you're in the system. When you don't feel good or you're someone that's prone to those sinus infections or ear infections or something like that, then you're already in the system. You can call. They'll ask you some questions. Um I've even heard some will, "Can you put your phone to your mouth and let me try to look in your throat." That type of stuff
062and then they'll call in your prescription for you. So, it kind of takes the ease of you sitting in an urgent care or an emergency room. Right. Waiting. Okay. And that will be a nice plus to tell the members this year, too, because I think a lot maybe that are covered under the high deductible health plan, it always had a co-pay before. It was like $47 or something. Now, with not having that additional co-pay will be a nice and we'll be able to see if there's any utilization or anyone taking it from there. Thank you, Amy. Can I ask something? Oh. You can continue. Okay. So, your dental plans, moving forward with dental plans, you have both plans offered modest increases, which is consistent with what we're typically seeing in the market. So, Delta Dental
063is a 2.5% increase, and then EMI is a 1.8% increase. So, Sibis recommends you just renew with the dental plans for both of those plans. The vision plan, your VSP vision plan is actually on a rate guarantee through 2028, but you currently have two tiers. So, you currently have an employee only, and then a family. Um we went to VSP, we ended up getting a enhanced benefit for the members and the employees. So, this enhanced benefit, you'll see where it's highlighted in yellow, it's going to increase the allowance. So, right now individuals get $130 worth of allowance for their frames. Now, that allowance will increase to $200. You'll get that additional allowance, and also, if you could scroll just a little bit down, you'll see the rates. We'll scroll down, and you'll see we've got
064it on a four-tier structure. So, now the rates are lower, but you get an employee only, an employee with spouse, employee children, and then family. So, you could technically have someone that maybe has employees and covered their children right now that are paying 28.71, but they would fall into the employee with child or children tier and pay 17.40. So, it technically saved them some money as there. And also, VSP is going to put in a four-year rate guarantee, so these rates will stay the same until 2030. I was shocked when I wrote that. First time I've had to say 2030. Where do the times go? So, our recommendation would be to move to the option one for VSP with the enhanced benefit for the employees. The life and AD&D is in the second year of
065a rate guarantee, so there's no plan changes there. The only time someone would see a rate change or a rate increase is if they're on the voluntary option and they move out of their age bracket into a different age bracket, then they would see that increase there. Short-term disability it also is on a second year of a 2-year rate guarantee, so we just recommend renewing with that. And then taking a look at open enrollment communications. You'll see the There's the new benefit guides and the presentations. We do have meetings already scheduled for May 8th. They'll have They are at each individual school. We go and out and we go through the whole entire presentation and answer any questions that the employees do have regarding their benefits for the upcoming year. We also bring ASBA along
066with us, so then ASBA's there to answer those um individual questions that employees may have regarding either network issues or um specific medical claims issues that they may be having. Any questions regarding the ancillary lines? I I don't have any questions to the ancillary lines, no. Okay. But I do have a question. >> Uh-huh. Um is there any record or and I don't need to know anybody other than if there is if you keep record of any quality of care issues. So, you mentioned that ASBA does come to those open enrollment and hears those types of things, but what if any are there and I guess what is the process if a employee [snorts] or and an individual has issues with that type of With with a claim or something like that? >> or quality
067of of care of service is there quality assurances that are actually record recorded for the district and how long and how well or is there is there differences in that? There is through Asbaje and I can get you that information and send it to you. I can definitely send you something that shows you the quality care that Asbaje has and I can provide that to you. We also do internally at Cbiz have a claims advocate and we we um tell the employees about her every year. She will um take care of the claims for any employee that has an issue whether um it's a small provider bill, if they had surgery and you know, you have surgery and then all these bills are coming in. Um we kind of tell the employees don't hold off
068on paying them, right? Cuz one's going to go to deductible and you don't know, but if you use her, you'll sign some HIPAA forms for her. She takes it off the plate of the employee and she works with the provider directly and then she will get back to the employee with a resolution. So it kind of lets that employee go on with what they need to do and then she knows the right words to say to for the claims to get reprocessed if something wasn't billed accurately. Um she's got a back door in to the carriers um to get those answered for them. >> And she's also there for herself and us as well. People can reach out to me like if they're having problems getting into a provider or you know, they need an
069MRI and they can't get it. They can reach out to us and we have back doors in to get people care that if it's needed. >> Would that be something that that Wouldn't that be something that's just done? Why would they need to reach out to somebody to find a back door to get service? This is a question. Yeah, normally like even with Asbaje, there's there's the customer service numbers, there's the clinical lines. So when they call that customer service number and if they're having issues of getting through to they get, they'll get the person on the phone, whether it's case management or if it's a clinician that needs to get and they'll get them into the right spot. But just like with everything else, sometimes it falls to a side and if you need
070somebody else to help push it along, then you can reach out to us and we can kind of help push that along. And And that's fine. I just think from from the perspective of an individual who maybe say is first-time user or has never really experienced it and I will say one of the largest Sorry. And not only just in general, but people when something like that becomes an issue, tend to just not want to deal with it and then it becomes a a bigger issue that they didn't intend because they felt, "Okay, I tried. I didn't get anywhere. I'm just going to leave it because it You know, I mean, they go into this mentality of, "Well, if they're not going to help me, then I'm not going to I'm not going to go
071for it." >> Yeah. And I've seen it happen um not not I mean, I'm just speaking in general. I'm not saying specifically. But that's why my point my point in question was, you know, if the case is that an individual needs to Some people are very difficult at advocating for themselves. >> Right. >> Where they would say, "Well, why do I have to call somebody else to have somebody else call me when I should be able to just get that service as I'm requesting it and not wait or be directed somewhere else or the killer of all is being transferred multiple places just to kind of get it just get some information. And I only pose that because I want to make sure that that's at least there's some sort of response and or or
072if anyone has been dealing with that issue that they kind of understand it here you or anyone. Maybe they don't feel like they can ask the question while you guys are here. I I There are a lot of nuances. Yeah, I completely understand what you're saying and I think that's why at open enrollment we do try to stress our numbers are on the back of on the back of their booklet guide. So, we let them know they can always reach out to Daryl-Ann or they can call us directly, you know, especially if you're not getting what you need from the carrier at that time or if you've reached that point of frustration, letting them know, "Please don't give up. Just reach out to one of us and we'll we'll take care of that and we'll
073make sure that that individual gets what they need." Okay. Thank you. And then yes, I would be interested in seeing the information that you can provide on any kind of assistance. >> Yeah, I'll get it. Appreciate it. Anything else from the speakers Sorry, go ahead. How do we want to Yeah, they'll they'll make sure we get it. Okay, we'll see it. Sorry, Miss Gibbons. I was just going to point out a I really appreciate that you do take the time to meet with people if they have questions, but Juan brought up a good point. A lot of people don't think about these things until something's happening in their life and they're trying to figure out, "Okay, what do I need to do?" And I think about my daughter who just started working for BUSD. She
074was struggling trying to figure out some of this stuff. And she's like thinking about what do I need to provide or what do I need to get, what kind of insurance to get. Like she had a lot of questions. But thinking about all those young people that we get coming in that are first-time employed or adulting on their own trying to figure that out. So, it would be really good to kind of go over that information. We definitely will. Thank you. Am I too old to say it? Anybody else? No? Yeah. Well, thank you. Have a good evening. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> Number seven this evening is our barbecue and ice cream district governing board financial report. Uh Miss Clementina Carlo. Which one? District governing board I
075did an analysis earlier. Financial and data. >> Good evening President Buendia, governing board members, Superintendent Diaz, and everyone here. Um okay, I hope you had an opportunity to review the student activities and auxiliary balances through March 31st. The total revenues in student activities for March were $1,019 from BHS basketball concessions and the community day event. There was no expenditures in March for student activities. The ending balance for all clubs on March 31st was $105,873.43. The student auxiliary account had revenues totaling $323.13 from activity fees. The expenditures for the month of March totaled $761 and 94 cents for sports supplies and an official fee for [clears throat] Baba Kimbrough Middle School basketball home game. The ending balance for the student auxiliary fund on March 31st was $8,655.36. Are there any questions? Questions for the student club
076balances. >> [clears throat] >> Go ahead, Ms. Carlo. Okay. So, um attached was the budget expenditures through March 31st. As of March 31st, the expended budget across all funds was 70.67%. And that includes expended and encumbered, leaving a remaining budget budget balance of 29.33%. The average expenditures percentage through March is 75% and BUSD has spent 46.15% of its budget to date not including encumbrances. All the expenditures are within approved budget limits and the organization's financial position remains strong. Are there any questions? Questions to the uh report. Thank you, Ms. Carlisle. You're welcome. And then I believe we can move into the Arizona Auditor General FY25 school district spending analysis. Yes. Okay. The next slide. I'm not sure if you had an opportunity to review this. Every board member should have received the information. Um it's
077a lot of information. Um go to the next page, please. And um when you go to the link, it really expands. You can uh see that on the overview, the next page. There's six different categories. Um There's are six categories reported on the AG spending analysis and each category you can actually, when you're on the website, expand. So, you can see that total spending um the overview is that the state's total spending continued to increase, but at a much lower rate. In fiscal year 2025, districts spent 300 million more than in fiscal year 2024 and directed the added spending to non-operational areas such as school construction. We don't fall in that category, obviously. Um there's instructional spending, per student spending, student enrollment, average teacher salary, and school district efficiency. Next slide, please. So, despite the
078expiration of the COVID relief funds, operational spending continues to increase, as I stated before, but although at a significantly reduced rate. So, this you can see this on this chart, and this these slides are statewide data. And we'll be getting into the BUSD. If you can go to the next one. So, you can see that the instructional spending was the lowest since the inception of the monitoring that began in 2001. Again, 2025 was the lowest in the since they started monitoring this. Next slide, please. If you have any questions, just go ahead and stop me. And although there was a significant drop in students attending, the student spending per student did increase. The only area that decreased slightly, as you can see on this page, was the instructional support. So, every other area increased. Next
079slide. And this is just an enrollment. You can see most districts, so 79 of 230 districts had an increase. But 100, which was only 34%, and 151 of 230 districts had decreases. And the overall total was a decrease of 10,326 students across the state. And this is the average teacher salary, and I feel like every year they kind of change the what they're actually pulling in, the data they're pulling in. So, some districts had decreases. A lot of it had to do with COVID. Um there's no more COVID spending, hardly. You can see on the chart if you raise it up a little bit. More. Okay, in 2025 there shouldn't have been any, but it looks like they some districts did have some spending there in COVID. And this is another chart for average teacher
080salary. Next one, and school district efficiency. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this state. Um, the next page starts the Bubble K 3 information and we're in peer group six. So, they like to group our districts by size, the number of students, and then for transportation, we're peer group nine. And student achievement peer group 23. And again, if you go on the website, you can expand all of these areas. The next slide, please. So, the first column in the charts not actually it's the middle chart there. Um, are the peer averages. The second column is BOE the spending, and the third column is the difference. So, you can see, um, the per student spending by area. >> [snorts] >> And this is compared The first one is comparing us to peer,
081the second one is comparing us to statewide. Um, mostly we are above both. So, you can see on the bottom there, our peer average spending is 19,590. And we spend 28,378, um, 8,000 8.7 thousand more than our peer group. And because the state spending is less than the peer group, we spent considerably more than the state, um, than the statewide. Next [clears throat] slide. And this is a comparison of BUSD spending uh 2024 to 2025, and you can see the different areas. This chart compares um overall the spending went down from 33,000 Go all the way down to the bottom. >> [cough] >> God bless [clears throat] you. $875 to 28,378. A net drop of 5,497. And this has a lot to do again with COVID funds. Next screen, please. This is a very not
082pretty screen, but on this chart, you can see that the only area, according to the AG's office, that we're doing well in spending is in food service. It's low. It's still higher than the state average, but it's lower than the peer average. You can see. And every other area, we're above both the state and the peer peer average. And the different areas, administration, plant operations, and transportation. And then this next screen reflects a 20-year comparison, and a one-year comparison, and a five-year comparison ment of enrollment change. And although we've uh we've overall seen a decline, it is gradual a gradual decline. And with increased funding per student every year, we still have a slight increase of funding. So, our budget's still going up a little bit. Um the five-year enrollment change is knocked on only
0831745 over um the one-year change, and you can see the change there from 20 2005 to 2025 is it was it went from 1200 to 951. So, um I know a lot of other districts are really, really hurting and we're going to have the extra funds. But yeah, the PD portion brings down the average and I don't know why they if the teacher is going to go to all the PD, they're going to get paid. >> Yeah. So I say our average is higher. Yeah, and I was I mean the only reason I I thought about it cuz I I think we it was I feel like we do you know, we can and we do provide as much as we can when it comes to compensation for our teachers. $6,000 less than And that
084was why I was like, "Okay, I know it's probably something that is based on something that they're [clears throat] looking at." Like you said, a lot of the generous looking at it this way. Correct. >> We we see it. >> We want to include that. We can include when they get their performance. We can include that because it tied to instruction. Got you. Um but we cannot include the PD bit. We know Yeah. that it is part of their salary. So when when I do the budget, I do put a little note on there and I do include it because that's what we're calculating it to, but sometimes we have to revert it back to whatever they say. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. But that piece is miss- missing. Okay. And I just looked at TUSD
085and you guys can look at every single district in the state of Arizona. TUSD average salary is 64,000. So compared to our 59 plus the other 2,000 that's missing, we're we're not doing bad. Um Sunnyside was at 60,685. And these are big districts, so I I feel like we're competitive. All right. And I think with the increases that we that the board approved for the new fiscal year we're we'll be in a better position as well. Okay. Ms. Hendrix. I had a comment or question regards to enrollment. I guess maybe to Ruben too is that uh where where are our students going? Are they graduating or are they are we what kind of recruitment are we doing if we're doing any? For students? Mhm. Um Part of what we're doing is going to every single
086one of the communities and showcase um the the highlights of Baboquivari Unified School District um especially this quarter um in all of the schools we have been experiencing uh an increase of an enrollment for different purposes um Tonight is one example but there's also been a couple of students that have been enrolling. Um I think uh I want to believe that parents are seeing the type of program that we are providing compared to other schools. Um we have students that come from Tucson. We have students that are moving from other schools within the nation into Baboquivari Unified School District. So I am still waiting for the COVID babies to start enrolling in the schools. Um I see them at Pascua um but definitely we are rolling out. We it's part of the long-term marketing that
087we're doing. Um it's not only the videos but community days but also going to every single um of our districts and showcasing the highlights. They're they're are valuing um what what type of educational program we're providing to our students and I've also seen an increase of students with disabilities that want to join our district because of the services that we have that they are seem to as parents they they and the perception that we provide much better services as well. I think in addition to that inclusion of express buses for students that are further away to be able to have a shorter bus ride to school I think can be appealing. Which again is hopeful to help recruit some of the students that are across the nation. I just I'm with all that said why
088is it decreasing? I mean Exactly. The San Luis City expressed that if we buy a helicopter that will send the kids over here. Mr. B >> [laughter] >> Stop. Yeah. Who's Valentina? >> [laughter] >> I don't know Valentina. But Miss Carla I think the the slide is it? Thank you. Again, I encourage you guys to go to the link that was sent to you and you can delve into a lot of different areas and see where how we compare to other districts. Thank you. Sorry guys. And is this daily membership is how you're getting the enrollment or is it It's the 100 day. It's the 100 day because that's where the funding comes from. The 100 day. So before we used to get funded from the prior year and now it's current year. So as
089soon as the 100 so say on the 40th day we had 1,000 students and on the 100th day we have 900 which is an exaggeration. Um they adjust the the last payment of the equalization payment. And if it's higher they also adjust it up. It's but it's current data now. Okay. Thank you. >> Well I was just wondering because if it's um obviously that's the reason why push the attendance is that it then determines our Well, well, like I said, technically, because the state funding is going up 2% every year, we're not seeing a lower budget, we're seeing a higher budget because the loss of students is very, very gradual. It's not I say we typically state we have a a flat enrollment. Mhm. Uh one of the things that I think for sure to
090express in that um is it's been brought up um is discussions specifically with the nation. Um I think in several occasions, maybe several year you're probably a part of it was not only speaking with HRDC, but in general about I don't know. I I I I think it's it's odd too to me to see a little less than what what I remember it being, but um obviously, those those types of campaigns or efforts, especially like from our intermediate campus, who um really tap into and engage with the students' need for uh not only education, but something to call like their own or fun or whatever you want to call it. I mean, it it we call it fun, but it's more or less making that environment welcoming, supportive. Um it's not perfect, but I think
091it's important to say that those are the types of things I think we need to continue to press for at all of our campuses to make it so that this district can start to be it's appealing. I think we can say all we can or want about our letter grades or whatever it may be, but I also want us to see us start to increase our graduation percentage as well. Those are challenges that I think we as a board can start to really look to to set overall for the district in the next three-year plan. So I think it'd be really good to have some discussion. So this is good to to see. Thank you Ms. So you can continue. I'm sorry. I'm done unless you had more questions. Uh Ms. DeLeon? Okay. Thank you.
092>> [clears throat] >> All right. Let's go ahead and move on to our Governing Board and our school district principals' reports. Ms. Enriques Benson, please. >> [applause] >> Good evening President Wandea, Governing Board members, Superintendent DeLeon. I've submitted my report. I hope you've had an opportunity to read it. We did get our attendance back up this month. It is at 90%. So now it's just allergy season. So hopefully they send the kids to school. Ms. Blanco is one of our newer international teachers. She did a cross-cultural activity with her students with her kindergarten class and then Ms. Jose supported that. They shared and taught nursery rhymes in the Optum language and then in return the students in the Philippines taught our class a nursery rhyme in their I can't say their Cebuano dialect. So you'll
093see that in our highlights video as well. So it was really nice to see the kids have a virtual type of interaction. Did I miss Mr. Diaz? I'm looking at my cheat sheet. I know you always have notes. Just to share cuz I saw it in your upcoming events this year, third grade testing incentive. Um was a huge like it really and I know as far as speaking from my family's perspective is they the the boys that were really wanting to be at school and you know, sickness or whatever comes into play, but they were like, "I want to go to school. I want to go to Main Event." So, I really appreciate that you're that you're you're your campus is putting together those types of things cuz it I mean they were excited and
094they wanted to be there every day and and to participate. >> just in third grade alone for the testing weeks, we had 95% attendance. So, it it did work. >> [laughter] >> Truly. We even had a parent call and say her child is sick, but she doesn't care. She still wants to come and take her test. She wants to come sick. So, we did separate her into a different room so she could take her time and focus on her test. When she was done, we did say she can go home. She said, "No, I'm staying all day cuz I want to go to Main Event." >> [laughter] >> Aw. I'll see. I do have a shout-out again to in an effort to celebrate or in the spirit a spirit to celebrate extraordinary work. I want
095to highlight second grade math in second grade ELA. I want you to see the amount of red that has been reduced over time. Um but also the amount of blue. We continue to work in in in increasing the proficiency of our students. But second grade is one of the grade levels that has been consistently reducing the the red but also increasing the yellow, the green, and the blue. So, a big shout-out to the team, the parents, and the students. And your tax credit. >> [snorts] >> Primary campus, tax credit. All right. Um so far our tax credit funds update, we currently have $63,276.65. Um we do have a portion that is considered designated. Um so we did utilize some of that and are still purchasing. Um but we did get third grade testing snacks. We
096have first grade chapter books. Um pre-K is going to take a field trip to Lava Island. It's like a trampoline sensory. Um our ESS students are also attending with them. And then um our kinder end of year step up decorations and um treats that they do. Um we will use our undesignated funds for end of year field day items, scheduled field trips. Um the ESS that will cover their Lava Island. Students have been going to Desert Museum, Children's Mu- Museum. Um and they're trying to go to the Flandrau Planetarium, but it books up pretty quick. Um we do want to replenish our playground equipment, um our third grade promotion celebration snacks and decor, incentives for our PBIS Dallas store. This year we are doing um virtual bucks. So everything is on Synergy. The students get
097to kind of go online shopping. Um so they really enjoy that. So they get points obviously for positive behaviors. Um and then we're looking to purchase literacy blending boards to support our kinder and first grade students with their phonemic awareness. Awesome. Thank you so much for for putting that together. Looks promising. Appreciate it. And as you continue to see all the other ones present more day, this present this part of the presentation for each one of the schools will fulfill the board request 2526-002. Yes, thank you. And Aaron, take it away. Thank you. Here we go. Laughter dominates. Good time. Mark. Mark two. >> [music] >> And the circle. Circle. Five more rounds. Switch. Mark. Three more minutes to go. Milly. Milly. Milly. As soon as Milly and Milly Milly. As soon as Milly and
098Milly Milly. As soon as Milly and Milly Milly. You beat your record. That's it. That's it. You only just look at it. You went one, two, three more lines. So, are you going to beat your record? And let's go back. Let's go back. All right. Ready, set, start. Let me make me happy. Rock the test. Do your best. Rock the test. Do your best. ROCK THE TEST. DO YOUR BEST. ROCK THE TEST. >> [applause] >> THANK YOU, MS. ENRIQUES. Thank you to your team and everyone. I think that's always super excited to see what y'all are doing over there. Appreciate it so much. Board members, anything last for primary campus? Appreciate it so much. Ms. Abigail Lewis. >> [applause] >> Good evening, President Williams, Superintendent Diaz, and everyone that's still here and am and online.
099Um unfortunately, our attendance went down uh last month, but um thank you to our new parent liaison, Juan Diaz Romo, who helped increase our attendance to 86% by calling um many, many of our students and our parents to make sure that they get here um to school. Um so, he's done a very good job of creating a system for us for our uh attendance. And then, uh we are almost done with our um 21st century um intervention program that we have. Thank you to Dr. Flores for putting that together and organizing all the the sessions that we have, and then we will be starting a summer school program in the summer. And um and if anybody's listening, make sure that they tell Better Beans thank you for um creating a partnership with them. Um they
100created a juice called Courage Courage Juice for um Isibindi, the House of Courage. And so it was a special drink just for the class that won for the attendance challenge for Isibindi month. And you can show the video. Uh credit tax credit. Oh, um we have about 16,800 um but uh I did leave some notes for each of the categories of the tax credit. So if you have questions but majority of it is for snacks for the ASA test, which costs quite a bit to um purchase for the whole school for each day of the test. And so we try not to touch um our tax credit money as much only so that we could have that money available for testing days. Thank you. Thank you for the um memo. Any other questions? Go ahead.
101You can do the video. We can do that after. Okay. >> Okay. Uh questions for intermediate campus. Comments. Mr. Diaz. President Monday, members of the board, and members of the community, I think it's also important to highlight. I want you to please take a look at sixth grade math and sixth grade ELA. I want you to see the amount of red for third quarter. I want you to see the amount of um blue, green, and yellow. Um Mr. Dalton and and and Bobby Killebrew High School, you're going to get a very strong seventh grade. So, uh be ready um because that's coming your way. So, it it we need to step it up a notch um because they're coming and we coming they're coming with force. So, let's give a round of applause to our
102sixth grade team, sixth grade students, and our sixth grade parents for the uh the commitment, the hard work, and we're looking forward how is that going to translate to the state testing, but most importantly, how much stronger the entire school is going to finish for um the rest of the year. So, this is what's coming your way um with open arms. I'll do you present with you. Thank you, sir. All right, if nothing else, thank you, Mr. Miguel Lewis. Appreciate it. >> Turn over to our secondary campus, Mr. Dalton. Mr. Dalton, you're up. We'll be kind. >> [laughter] >> Don't worry. I'm here. I don't even know where to start. Okay, good evening, everyone. Again, glad to be here um and Miss Ann Stead this evening. She was not able to be here, so um
103Ready to begin? And there you highlights for All right, with the principal's re- report. All right, highlights. Um Our community event that we held at the secondary campus was a great success. We had a lot of community support. We had um just great comments from from everybody who attended. Um our teachers had a great time. All the campuses joined in and I think it was a big success for um everybody. Um we also had our third quarter awards assembly, which we are getting great turnout um for each of our quarterly awards that we have up there at the fine arts building. Um I had asked about possible other venues and and it was like, "No, we have to have it out there because we're getting so much turnout from the parents in the community." So,
104so those are definitely highlights for us at the secondary campus. Um events that we have coming coming up pretty soon. Prom, I believe that is next Saturday. Um so that is an exciting event coming up. Then decision day, we have a field day uh to celebrate with our kids on the May 1st. And then we're looking forward to eighth grade promotion followed up by the high school for graduation. Um tax credit. Tax credit. And I have it right here. On the screen. Okay. So, for our tax credit, I don't have the numbers here, um but I do have what we did use the tax credit funds for. They were used to It is one of the huge cost that we have at the um secondary campus and I know Russell and I talk about this
105a lot is is some of our kids struggle with the activity fees. So, some of those funds were used to help the students um with entry fees for athletics, um refreshments for our award ceremonies, our positive behavior interventions and supports, snacks for our state testing, um and for our crown and entertainment for um Sorry, I'm not I'm not going to destroy those words. >> Walguywalk Munchamancookamundatouchas Okay, and then future funds for targeted with the Um actually Would be for athletic possible new athletic uniforms, overnight stays for athletic events especially on the long trips when they our kids got to be on a bus for 5 or 6 hours to get all the way up north. Um New or refurbished app athletic equipment, diplomas, and additional athletic events and related expenses. Okay, if there's no questions
106Mr. Weaver >> Thank you sir for being here. Appreciate it. You did well. A plus. >> [laughter] >> Uh Miss Bazon. 40 Indian Oasis Middle High School. Good evening President Wentea, board members, Superintendent Diaz, and all our listening audience. Um we want to start off with some highlights for our principal report for March. And um it's been confirmed with TOCC uh West Campus that we can hold our promotions on that same day of Wednesday, the 21st uh for both eighth grade promotion and also our high school graduation. Another highlight is that PBIS is up and running. So our kiddos are earning points. They're getting their snacks and other incentives, which um is pretty exciting. Our bubble ready uh hiking club uh peak, sorry, hike. Um it was out this uh month as well, and you'll
107see some lovely pictures of the outdoors with our kiddos. And um let's see here. For our updates graduation updates, um out of seven students in the current cohort, four are on track and are expected to meet all graduation requirements. And there's no reason for them yet not to stay on track and keep going. So, we're supporting them with um that journey to finish through. Um three students remain eligible, but have fallen off pace a bit. Um their ability to graduate will depend on the timely completion of the remaining coursework through our digital platform. So, just want to remind everyone that at times um our learning platform is a digital a digital curriculum, which um can be uh pretty sneaky at times as far as as looking at those results because it could be that they're
108at 30% and then um drastically uh pull through and complete the course. And the beauty of this program um as well as it it's downfalls, um I want to make sure that everyone knows that our curriculum is always available. It's never locked. So, um we are in we have high hopes for those students who are a bit off pace, but might be pulling through. They might be pulling through. And [snorts] also, there are two students who have already graduated this year, one uh in December and the other in January. We also want to make sure that we include those in our school year uh graduation cohort. Um any questions uh regarding the rest of the report? Through and through. Questions? No questions. For our tax credit over at Indian Oasis Middle and High School, um
109available funds at the moment are at 11,592 and 75 cents. Um to which we are currently um looking at the expense that already went through was for MESA. Um future possibilities of for this tax credit would be again to contribute to MESA, our garden, um to maintaining our PBIS, and our graduation diplomas, caps, counts, decorations. We're also hopeful to look into possibly putting in a literacy book um or a book club. Uh so which we would need um some book sets for those. Um and possibly even theater arts. And these are taken into consideration some of the ideas our students have been um giving us back as far as um hopes and wishes and maybe some interest there. Thank you. You're welcome. And then we also have a video with those amazing pictures of those
110hikes. And our community day which we took part of. It was very fun to see everyone out there. And thank you for hosting um that community event to Bobo. >> How adorable are those? >> [applause] >> Um, any uh questions for accelerated? Thank you, Ms. Mazone, very much for your presentation. >> Thank you, Ms. Mazone. >> [applause] >> The next presentation or is the Barbecue Unified School District 21st Century Grant Presentation. Dr. Flores, good to see you. Hello. I submitted my report. Hopefully you had chance to review it. I'm just kidding. So, um, Skeit Koadineek, [laughter] uh, Aniyah Apchigi, Dr. Flores, uh, fourth grade teacher as well as site coordinator of the 21st Century Community Learning Center of Autumn Thunder Watch Our Mission Wakoot, Arleta Indian Oasis Intermediate Elementary School. So, um, tonight I will
111be sharing our program's purpose, current offerings, student impact, and how we are responding to community feedback to better serve our, um, students. And we are proud to tell that we are offering engaging and supportive learning opportunities to our students, including those who are in general education and exceptional services. Moving forward, I will be, um, talking about the program overview, current offerings that we have, the student data and ratios, the student impact, and the family engagement of our 21st CCLC. So, the purpose of our funding of the 21st CCLC is to support programs that provide students with academic enrichment and learning opportunities outside of regular, uh, regular school hours. These services are designed to reinforce what students learn during the school day and to address their, uh, specific academic needs. So, our 21st Century Program has
112been awarded a total of $396,000 in grant funding over 5 years. For years 1 through 3, the program is allocated $88,000 annually. While years 4 and 5 are funded at $66,000 per year. So, I would like to give a credit to our federal grant director, Ms. Allison Cornell, for the help in helping us in our proposal and it was get approved. And it is also important to note that continued funding is contingent upon annual compliance with program requirements where in each year the program is evaluated to ensure we are meeting expectations in areas such as academic support, youth development, and family engagement. So, maintaining compliance is essential to sustaining funding and ensuring the continuation of services for our students. Our approved funding allocation supports both our after school program and our summer school program that
113is coming up. We design funds for instructional staff, program coordination, and clerical support. So, for the after school program funding, it is structured to support four teachers per session along with a site coordinator, which is myself, and my clerical data support staff across 100 program or 104 program days. That is for our pilot implementation or the first year implementation and then the remaining years will be 120 days. Similarly, our our summer school program provides funding for four teachers as well, a coordinator, and clerical support over four weeks. But to ensure equitable opportunities for our staff, we implemented a quarterly rotation model for after school programming instead of having the same four teachers serve throughout the year, this structure allows more teachers to participate, share their experiences, and contribute to the program. And it also promotes
114staff engagement and professional growth and also enhances the variety of enrichment opportunities that we could offer to our students as different teachers bring diverse skills and expertise to the program. So, our program requirements, we are operating under key requirements by the Arizona Department of Education, and it guides us on how to serve our students and make the program into a success. So, again, the program must be evaluated, use funds to enhance, not replace services, to ensure safety and access, including meals and transportation, and remain free of charge to all the participants. So, these requirements ensure that the program remains focused on academic achievement, student development, and strong family partnership. So, this is our program snapshot. So, currently, we are uh we serve 133 unduplicated students across grade 4 through 6. So, the daily structure includes
115a snack period, followed by academic support and enrichment activities. This is all facilitated by our team of tutors, psych coordinator sorry, psych coordinator and clerical support staff. So, the program is designed to operate for a total of 104 days, and I'm so very happy to say that this Thursday, April um 16th, that will be our last um session. And we um have reached 35 regular attendees towards our target of 56. So, we anticipate meeting the remaining target through continued participation, including our upcoming um summer school program. So, um moving forward, again, um this is the student teacher ratio. So, in determining student teacher ratio for 21st CCLC program, we follow program guidance from the Arizona Department of Education. So, we account overall enrollment, student needs, and our goal of meeting the required number of regular
116attendees, which is 56, by the end of the program year. So, for academic programming, ratios are generally recommended at 10 to 15 for academic programs, for intermediate level, with smaller group sizes for tutoring sessions. For the upcoming summer school program, these recommended ratios remain consistent, so we will be expecting 10 to 15 students per class for our summer school classes. It is also important to note that student teacher ratio may vary depending on the type of activity. For example, enrichment activities such as sports may accommodate larger group sizes. While activities like cooking, coding, or robotics require smaller groups to ensure safety, engagement, and effective instruction. So again, our goal as a 21st CCLC site is to balance student access with quality instruction by maintaining appropriate group sizes. So moving forward, these are the programs that
117we offered for quarter one and two. We have social emotional learning. We're running it from August 25th to September 23rd, as well as the basketball. We have 27 students in social emotional learning. We have two teachers and the and the student teacher ratio is one teacher to 13 to 14 students. Basketball, we have 53 students. We have like a lot of sign-ups in that program. We have two teachers and our ratio is one teacher to 26 to 27 students. We offered him that class from October 6th to November 6th. Same thing with chess, homework help, and steam. We have 12 students for him dog. We have one teacher, that is 1:12. Chess is has 17 students, that is 1:17. Homework help has 40 students. We have two teachers and the ratio is one teacher to
11820 students. Our steam class has 29 students. We have two teachers and the ratio is one teacher to 14 to 15 students. And then, moving forward, quarter three programs we offered arts from January 5th to March 19th. The same thing with volleyball, but volleyball has a lot of sign-ups, so we break it into two. January 5th to February 12th is the first session, and then February 17th to March 19th is the second session. We have 15 students for arts, and the teacher ratio is one teacher to 15 students. Volleyball session one is 27 students with two teachers, that is 1:13 to 14. Volleyball session two, we have 14 students and the ratio is one teacher to seven students. Youth development program that started January 5th to March 19th, we have six students and we have
119one teacher and the teacher ratio is one teacher to six students. And lastly, this is the last program that we run March 23rd to April 16th to complete our 104 days of implementation. We will be ending on the April 16. We have 32 students currently for reading and math tutoring and we have five teachers and our student ratio student teacher ratio is six to seven students. And then these are the academic programs that we offered so far. This is our pilot year and we're also learning. So but we offered this program to better serve the community and our students. So we have homework help for academic program. We have him dog. We have math and reading tutoring and we have steam. For enrichment programs, we offered basketball, volleyball, arts, drama, and chess. And for youth
120development program, we offered social emotional learning and youth development. And also to note that after school teachers were given options and opportunity to teach what they are good or they have expertise in so that we are having some like a lot of buying in from our teacher too and they love to teach that because that's their expertise and that is also aligned to our pre proposal and ADE recommended programs. And moving forward, these are some of the staff feedback. So I will not be reading all of that but I assure you that those are all good feedbacks. And then next to that one are our student feedbacks wherein if you can read the very top part in there, there is one student that says that our after school program really helped him because he missed
121like one half of the weeks and this after school program was able to help him catch up with the lessons that he missed. So Um, and then family events, it enables us to uh continually communicate with parents and give opportunities for parents to actively participate with their students' education. So, we met the goal, which is offering um activity for 22 families. We met that last year when we had this family night where in our student also cases every uh um activities that we had in there. We had drama or theater club for farm. We had basketball game with the families and uh arts showcasing their works with their parents and that was so very amazing that we're able to showcase and show the um the community what we had so far achieved. So, um so
122far those are the things that we have for 21st century. Again, I wanted to say thank you to my principal for the trust and confidence in me for being the site coordinator, to Ms. Bernal for uh for the help and for our uh staffs in the intermediate campus for the transportation for making my uh work easy and for the parents and families and for the students for the trust to all of us. Thank you for the board as well. Um yes. President Bondia, um this also fulfills uh board request uh 2526-026. Um a special thank you again everyone that has been involved um in providing opportunities to our students and thank you for all of the teachers that are embracing additional work and and and responsibilities to create uh experiences for our students in the
123community. Thank you, President Bondia. Thank you, Dr. Flores. I have comments. >> [clears throat] >> Uh first of all, uh 100% appreciate the time, effort, and um consideration especially for putting together a request from the board. Um I know you noted that feedback on here is good, but I want to be very transparent and understanding that feedback isn't always good, and I think it's important to embrace those opportunities for growth. You mentioned that it is the first year, a pilot year, which from to be very frank and honest, there were there were concerns and instances where I'm looking at the at the sizes of some of the some of the offerings and the teacher to student ratio. If you think about basketball and you have two two individuals, 53 students x times whatever per teacher.
124Um I don't know that that can be conducive to something where you're actually actively engaging each student. Now, again, on me to be to be present to actually observe and to see, but there were some there were some concerns about students not having any thing to do or waiting or having instances where they were standing around and not really feeling like they were being engaged to the point where um they don't want to go. And I want to also make sure that we look at those types of things, hear those types of concerns, um truly get feedback that doesn't always have to be good, and I'm not saying that it that that it isn't always great, but I do want to make sure that we're giving opportunity for ourselves to hear, to grow, to engage,
125um you mentioned the standards that which you need to make sure this is kind of upholding, especially for the grant requirements, but I do want to also make sure that we're providing something that's that's not just something to do, but something that can actively really be engaging and actually be helpful to our students and really get us the most out of this this opportunity. I really see it as an amazing opportunity. I cannot express that more because I think it is really important to acknowledge that you all really really have gone above far and above and beyond. But those opportunities for growth and those challenges that we face to really um hear, look, see, and and think how can we do this better? And I And again, I I agree like teachers are taking extra
126time to do this. Um it is extra compensation to do it as well. So, if there's any opportunity for us to be able to not only um uh look at who and where, but also look at resources that are maybe available to help offset some of that. Um I know that there's several groups in the community who could probably help and step in. Uh and I don't say that they would do it for money or not because I think there's a lot of opportunity for us to not only engage with the community in that way, but to also get some support for our teachers who are dealing with 53 students in one gym in one gym for 2 and 1/2 hours after school, give or take. Um Again, I just think pilot year opportunities um
127the feedback that I hear we try to pass along with just the reasoning for the presentation tonight. Um it's it's just I just want us to be able to say we are 100% not just hearing and looking at the the good feedback, but we're hearing and looking at the bad and and and looking at what we can actually do to improve. So. Are there any other questions and comments to the Stevens? I just want to say thank you for sharing this information. It's very valuable. But also, I think Juan brings up a good point. It It would be really great to hear from all the teachers who are participating in this and how they could improve for the next year. Just learn learn and grow. It's always good to um figure out well how you
128could be better the next year. And Juan brought up a good point about different organizations coming in and helping in um with some of these areas that would be beneficial. Um but thank you. I really appreciate it. It's amazing to see all the hard work that your staff is doing, but also providing opportunities for students to learn and grow and get the confidence they need to move forward. I'm excited for them. Awesome. Anything else, Ms. DeLeon, Ms. Hendricks? Okay. Dr. Flores. Much Oh, quick, Ms. Ms. Hendricks. No, I was just wondering if I don't know if this is valuable or not, but maybe doing a survey of students on what type of event or type of programming they'd like to see done. Yeah. Um I'm sorry. But um the post post evaluation of the program
129will be conducted after the program's implementation. So, uh we are in not having data yet because the program is not over yet. And then we will be in compliance with the post evaluation survey after the program implementation. So, if um we got those data, we I'm so very much willing to present it to you again. And then yes, and then um the feedback that was given to us, it's for us also to grow and to learn. And then again, this is our pilot implementation and we would be great from the community that we serve. So, um it's always welcome. Suggestions from the experts and any help that we could get, that would be uh perfect um idea for us to to grow and to somehow improve the program implementation that we have. So, the post
130programming would include um questions and other That's correct. Yeah. So, um actually our um data that we gather from the students supposed to is only qualitative data on how they improve in their participation inside of the classroom, their positive peer relationship. Those are those data. But, I could be creative and get or create more um survey that we could gather data that is very valuable in how to improve our program. Yep. Is the the sorry, did it miss No. Is the is the uh >> [clears throat] >> your pool of teachers that are eligible is only intermediate teachers? Um we um we can open the program across the district, but again, um Sorry, uh the members of the Sorry, I apologize. Um the members of the community they um asking us to speak directly into
131the microphone so that they can hear us clearly. Is it on? All right. All right. So, again, um 21st CCLC was initiated by intermediate campus. So, we have also um internal applications inside our our campus. And then, if we needed more um tutors coaches, we could expand throughout the district or across the district. Post, what did you say? What was If you if you had So, again, um our our program was initiated in our school. Okay. So, we we opened the positions in our school, which is intermediate campus, which is it's easier for us also to to manage because our teachers will be there like after the school hours. Correct. So, um then but if we needed more teachers, we could open it to across the district. So, right now though you feel like you
132have sufficient support from from the intermediate campus. >> And and what you're offering is based on what those teachers feel like they're able to provide. Yes, but this correct. We also align it to the ADE um guidelines. Okay. ADE based on And So, based on ADE, but also are there requirements on the grant side that need to be Okay. This correct. And is it specific That's why I was asking is it specific to what you proposed in the grant to just intermediate campus? Okay. Or is it district wide? Don't know. I mean, it's okay. You can you can let us know, but that that's fine. Intermediate, yeah. I'm sorry. Intermediate >> Intermediate campus. >> Just intermediate campus. Okay. And it has to be teachers. Are there not staff members that maybe are eligible? If it's
133really fight coaches, we could Oh, they have to be certified? Can I have you get a mic so everybody can hear you? If they're teaching math and ELA, we prefer that they're certified cuz they do have to do an academic portion. The other stuff, they don't have to be certified. Okay. So, that opens the pool a little bit as long as it's not So, that ratio then to what you're providing based on intervention [snorts] not intervention, but like support tutoring. Does it have to be a certain threshold yet? A certain amount of ELA, math, and then activities to do? Um, not necessarily, but again, um, we also wanted to balance the program offerings that we have. That we not, um, setting aside academics and we're like only focusing more on enrichment activities. We offer so
134much enrichment enrichment activities, but we wanted also to, uh, supplement with the, um, school hours that we have that where the students are learning as well. So, that's just what we >> there opportunity to to modify the grant in any way since it is such a long grant? So, what it is what it is for the next 5 years. Yep. Should be based on the original proposal. Okay. I just wondered. I mean, most of the times you have opportunity to to provide a modification to your proposed. As long as it's approved. But I guess if that's not the case, then I would definitely say, um, if there is opportunity to be open the pool to anyone who has skill or ability ability or capability to expand on what you're able to provide Mhm. or or
135support what you're able to provide. Um, I'd really like to see the next the next year and how it may may look. Um, but just again, my comments. Anything else from the board? Ms. Deon? I was just curious to know about the social social and emotional learning. Um, can you kind of share a little bit of just a blurb of what that is exactly and how it's benefiting the students? So, um, it is being, um, taught and handled by our behaviorist and our guidance counselor. So, it's more of, um, like coping mechanisms, um, um, how to deal with, um, anxiety for for examples. So, it's more like on the, um, coping mechanism strategies that could help the kids deal with whatever frustrations the kid has in inside the classroom or outside. Okay, yeah, because I
136was just um, waking up now, so >> [laughter] >> So, um, I just I was I was excited to see that you guys have something tailored to that and specifically because I think that is high needs in in all the schools and I just wanted to get a little bit more information. So, thank you for that. You're welcome. Ms. Stevens. I have a question. So, I know you're going to do a post survey, but just with some of these things that you're offering, like the homework help, there's a lot of people who take advantage of that. Have you seen their grades improve? Have they seen them become better students, you know? So, um, we could actually compare the pretest and post assessment. We're waiting for the post assessment, which is will be given the first
137week of May, so we can also compare the pretest and the post test of the students because if we can access the synergy, like the the data of the students, we can also see the categories in their way in the students who participated in 21st Century. They also have their own data and their specific um, data in the in the portal. So, we could show that after we have uh, the post assessment. Yep. You're welcome. Anything else, Mr. from the board, Ms. Diaz? Dr. Flores, much appreciate it. Thank you so much for answering our questions. >> [applause] >> That, we'll move on this evening to our next presentation. Cognia presentation, Mr. Diaz. President Diaz, members of the board, members of all the team in the community listen listening. This is our final report. As we
138finish our three-year plan or the first three-year plan, how do we start thinking what would our next year plan is going to look like based on the data that we receiving? You have the opportunity to see the the high what's categorized as as high spending, low spending. But there's other other pieces of information that we we can look and see how we are performing as a school. For members of the community joining us, I want to once again highlight what is our what are our three-year goals. I'm not going to go into specifics, but we've been pushing five goals. The first one has to do with proficiency, the second one with attendance, the third one has to do with promising practices that can change behaviors in in a school that will result in higher proficiency
139levels. The the fourth one is being open to supporting and challenging each other. And the last one is how do we continue to provide standard-based instruction that is engaging and culturally relevant. >> [snorts] >> Um, as we get the data this year as well as the beginning of the year to continue to be open in and how are we performing not only with the state assessment, but also with our benchmarks and any additional anecdotal data that can give us an idea of how we performing. What I'm about to share you're going to see through um Cognia, which is the agency. It's a global agency that the part of the job is to provide an analysis and provide us with developmental feedback so that we can start making changes so that we can continue to improve
140as an education entity. Um, this has been our our our mindset for the last two years. The first one was clearing the land. What are the needs? Promising practices. And what are the accountability systems in place? The second one, how do we data? And it gets to now what I'm going to get to through this report. Um, we may agree with the data, we may not agree with the data, but this is how we are perceived based on with the information that we provided. As we go get into this year moving forward, are we forming or creating new systems? Are we norming? Are we doing it consistently? Or do we still need to norm our grade levels, our schools, and ourselves as district? Are we on the same page and working towards the same goal?
141And the last one, are we performing consistently? Um, Cognia, based this information based on number one, some assurances that we provided. They provided us with some standards that they will be uh, they used to evaluate us based on the artifacts that they review. Um, also they did a review those documents as well as some interviews with some members of the team as well board members as well as board members. And they share their findings. What I This report is only a summary. I have included a board for all members of the community and the staff as well for the governing board. They using four four rating levels. The four star, three stars, two stars, and one star. And each one it's also they have a description which is the reflecting, developing, engaging, and demonstrating noteworthy,
142systematic, and systemic practices. As a district, as you on this chart it shows the different categories based on the number of points that we were able to gain as a district. It one is accredited under review with 240 points. The next one is accredited. The organization is accredited but needs improvement. The next one is accredited. The next one is accredited with merit and the the top one is accredited with distinction. Based on our review this year, we received 270 points. We were 10 points away from a clean accreditation, meaning that we still need some areas to improve. As the leaders of the organization and as the governing board, as we reviewed this, these are some of the areas that we can work on. Under the summary of findings, you're going to see three area three
143major areas of recommendations. The first cluster has to do embedded active learning strategies, a student's voice in all curriculum and instruction to deepen student learning, specifically in two standards. I'll get into more detail in just a second. But again, it's what they're looking for as we providing our students opportunities to to voice their their their learning. This is through the models of instruction. And and when we when we talk about the model of destruction, which is the standard or goal number five engagement, are we doing it across the district? Are we doing it consistently? Are all students and teachers fully engaged in it? I think we can agree that this is an area that we're starting to see evidence of, but we still need to work on consistently as a district. The second area again
144is developing and implement a plan for shared leadership opportunities among stakeholders to improve the leadership skills. I will get more into detail with standard nine. And the third recommendation is increase our efforts in developing and implementing a process for an inquiry-based approach to support professional learning. So, for standard 18, I'm going to focus on the areas of recommendations. While I have you wait, >> [laughter] >> because it's a long report, I'm not going to get into what we're doing well. That one we we can celebrate it and I want you to take a look individually. But I want to emphasize and spend this time in what are the areas that we need to work on. I'm going to start with standard number 18. Learners are immersed in an environment that foster lifelong skills including creativity,
145curiosity, risk-taking, collaboration, and design thinking. So, as we now look into the next 3 years, how can then we begin implementing these areas or these recommendations through models of instruction? Standard 19. Learners are immersed in an environment that promotes and respects student agency and responsibility for their learning. That is, students understand what are the goals. What are steps are they going to take to be able to take it to the next level? Um and the next one, standard 21. Instruction is characterized by high expectations and learning center practices. Not director practices. Not the teacher speaking in front. It's the teacher as a facilitator. When we look at for example, a level four, learners engage in instructional activities, experiences, and interactions based on their individual needs and interests. Professional staff members consistently deliver instruction designed for
146learners to reach their potential. So, as we this we have the classroom business data, we have our DFA and and benchmarks and and how do we then use that data to look for those areas that we can improve? That is a first cluster of recommendations. The second cluster is specifically targeting standard nine. Um and in standard nine, it's it's talking about leaders cultivate effective individual and collective leadership among stakeholders. How do we stay positive? How do we inspiring motivating and and and and challenging our our our our our our each other? And when we look in number four, what evidence are what they're looking for? Leaders consistently recognize and actively encourage leadership potential among stakeholders. Are we all promoting um developmental growth? Are we optimistic and in cheering everyone? Who's carrying the weight in the
147optimism in each department? In each uh classroom, in each school, in each grade level. What evidence do we have to support that? For the third cluster, is how do we develop and implement a process for inquiry-based approach to support professional learning? Targeting two specific standards. Standard 25 and standard 29. Standard 25 has to do with leaders promoting action, research, and professional staff members to improve the practices and advance learning. Um how are we all in all departments promoting this? We got a two, which is developmental, but let's pay attention to what they're looking for. Evidence that leaders intentionally create and preserve a culture that invites inquiry, reflection, and dialogue about about instructional problems and issues relevant to the institution and individual learning environments. Um professional staff members as a group or as individual consistently engage
148in an action research using inquiry-based process that includes identifying instructional areas of improvement, collecting data, and reporting results to make informed instructional changes. In some of these, you may disagree. In some of them, maybe we are doing it, but we have consistent evidence across the board. Are A is everyone doing it? And is it it is it showing and making a difference? Standard 29 has to do with understanding learners' needs and interests and interest drives the design, delivery, application, and evaluation of professional learning. Once again, I'm going to target what they're looking for. Para four, they're looking evidence for professional learning is learning centered, customized around the needs of individual or groups of professional staff members, and focus on improving pedagogical skills and knowledge to better address learners' needs and interests. A documented process to
149select, deliver, implement, and evaluate professional learning is fully implemented and monitored with fidelity. Keyword, with fidelity across the board. Is it happening every day from bell to bell, with all teachers, with all grade levels, with with all content areas. Um we will then need the evidence of that. Um these are um I'm not going to get into detail, but I want to celebrate. Um I think it's important to highlight and acknowledge um what everyone is working. Again, I started with what we need to work on um because that's the the next step and the next direction. But these are all of the different standards that we got three stars um and and and that helped our rating. Um I encourage you guys to take a take the time to look at it um and to
150see those. And there were uh several areas that thanks to all of the evidence for the last 5 years that we were able to provide. Again, you may agree or disagree. Uh you may believe that maybe some grade levels they are four star, but we we are representing and getting a snapshot what does it look like as a district. Um there's several um standards that we we got 2.9. We were one point away from getting the three star. So that's also uh our bubble standards that what else can we do to be able to get to the next level. There's a lot of them a lot of them that are like, "Oh, we were so close, but yet so far." Um there were other standards that yes, they will need um improvement. However, at this
151point Cognia believes that based on the recommendations, the one I mentioned earlier will give us the most bang for our buck. Having said that, I'm open to any questions, recommendations, um movie uh tickets, and anything else that you would like to would like to discuss at this point. Uh I don't have any questions, Mr. Diaz, but I definitely um took some time to look through it. So I'm glad you kind of really put together something to kind of draw attention to what absolutely you want to work on and and gives us a gauge on okay, what are we doing and we're looking back at it, stuff like that. So, I appreciate it. One important um aspect that I forgot, it used to be every 5 years, now it's every 6 years. Thank God. Um and
152the second important aspect um this is how we score based on the new standards. Um we prepare for this review based on the old standards. We got it was like surprise. Um there's a different measure, different standard, but um it's still a great um um ontology of of areas that we need to celebrate or work on. Back to you, President Mondiat. Any other questions from the board for the report? If not, let's go ahead and move on. Number 12 is the Bobby Duke Unified School District governing board members reports. Ms. Stevenson, your report? None. Ms. Hendrix? None. Ms. Diaz? And I also will submit my report next month. I have a couple I need to do anyway. I'll put it in writing though. Um with that, we'll move on to number 13, the Bobby Duke
153Unified School District Superintendent's report. Ms. Diaz? Lots of information, lots of shout-outs. Good evening once again. Um and thank you for staying awake, everyone. I tried to be as as precise but as well as detailed as possible. Um let me start by please join me, let's give a round of applause to our Bobby Duke Unified High School for the community day. It was beautifully organized. It was everyone that was there, they had a very engaging activities. So, thank you all for your participation. Let's give everybody a round of applause. Thank you. The we did conduct a parent a It was not well participated, but it's the beginning. We We had some lessons learned, but I want to thank those that participated. We had the Department of Special Ed. We have District Affairs Manager. We have
154Ms. Gordon. We have our counselor from the high school. And a special guest was also Mr. Innis presenting a small workshop. And also the Sunrise House Director of of Family and Community Engagement. It was our beginning and it is also it was based on the feedback from Cognia that how are we getting parent feedback and and providing answers to to the parents. And and there's a lot of workshops that we've been doing this year that is going to help us in the next couple of years as well. I want to also give a shout out to the Operations Department for all of the work that they did behind the scenes before the event and after the event. Also, I want to thank the intermediate teachers for engaging in a chronic absenteeism workshop. Thank you for
155the invitation, but most importantly, thank you for your engagement. I want to celebrate that as of March we completed our lease. We needed one letter our lease packet. It is off. It's no longer in our hands. It's now in the nation's hands. So, that moving forward. I want to thank everyone that that helped and supported because there were It was almost 2 years worth of of requirements that we needed to comply and it took many of you to be able to get to this point. From Curriculum Instruction, thank you for the Avid training. Operations, we are closing the project for the canopies. Thank you. And also for the roof. It will be um, in the closing end based on on the report. Um, I also want to take this opportunity to promote, if you're listening
156and anyone that is out there, we're short seven staff members um, in in in operations. We need two grounds, we need two custodians, uh, we need three in maintenance. Uh, so please, um, your support is it is needed. Your skills are needed. Please join our team. Um, and I let's give um, Mr. Roloff also a big shout out and a big hand for um, bringing to Bobble to Wallowa Wallowa mom Shama culture exchange uh, over 40 million dollars worth of SFE funding. Congratulations and thank you, sir. Let's give a round of applause. Also, a big shout out to uh, our principals and and and teachers and and and and the in the efforts um, of promoting um, revive revitalizing our language. Um, based on the post assessment uh, so far, um, we have over 120
157students that are now in junior level, which is level two. Um, those are are are our primary and intermediate students. Um, it it's they're slightly you know, the tone of you continue our efforts. Um, the Autumn Yoc um, he has he has hopes that our our students they they going to normalize our Autumn Yoc. For the school and community engagement, um, 251 students were served in the last month. Thank you for that and also for the incredible um, na- um, beautiful workshop. Uh, for anyone um, again, um, we have another group coming up on April 16th. Um, I believe that one is full already, Um, but it's it's thank you for for bringing those services to the community. Somebody has been incredibly busy. It's a social emotional learning department with mental health series with substance
158abuse sessions, suicide prevention workshops, and abuse prevention presentations for this particular year. ESS Again, we are proud that we are serving 194 students with disabilities. And Thank you for also the the workshops that you have been bringing to the nation. For transportation, thank you. I know you that you have board requests regarding the overtime with the details that were requested. Thank you for that and At this point, I have also a video to promote where the superintendent was for where Where's Waldo during the month of March. So, Aaron, if you don't mind supporting with showcasing the video. A as in baker cake. Ready to go? Hey, the story or what they said about it, and if you random, then you leave that out. Do we leave it out? Okay. All right. I'm still hungry. Have
159you eaten yet? I want to Wait, what did I do right here? What are we looking at? We're looking at the dolphin automation video, but we got You can see what they Cool. Cuz right here is the dolphin automation. And they have like the different nations in there. Mhm. So, this is like And I told and I you know what to say. Be bold, be brave, BE BEAUTIFUL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS. Uh if there's nothing from the board, thank you, Mr. Diaz. Much appreciated. Thank you, President Mondia. I do have the section that you the board requested um on overtime. I have I can summon our director Mr. Kidby to elaborate on the request if you need any additional explanation. You going to go over it? Mr. B, please. And this will fulfill recommend board request 25
16026-023. Good evening, President Mondia, board members, esteemed Mr. Diaz. So, basically what we did is in response to the board's request relative to the overtime associated with the district compensated drivers, we did an analysis and then broke it out for you specifically. 80% of that overtime is associated with their regular home-to-school and school-to-home routes. 11% is associated with the late take homes, which is really your after-school activities. So, that's 91% of the overtime right there. And then 2% associated with field and activity trips, 1% with extra duty, 6% associated with training of new drivers and aides. Is that is that structure and I just just a question. Feel free to tell me tell me I don't I don't know what I'm talking about, but the structuring for, say, someone who knows that they're going to
161be doing student routes or someone who knows they're going to be doing regular routes, broken up based on because it's as far as I know, as far as we know. We have 15 routes. Is there more? How many more? >> Yes, sir. 19 routes. >> 19. Those all have bus drivers, or at least a driver that can do those routes. Correct. So, those 19 individuals are available to be able to help support those needs, or is there a certain amount of individuals that you're looking at that So, it's probably based on size of the bus and all that stuff. I'm sure. >> And the And the challenge is really the underlying theme of overtime is the geographical area that we're serving. Because there's just so much distance. I included in the report as well some
162of the mileages for our larger routes. Uh because of that distance, I mean, literally we have drivers leaving uh 3:30 in the morning. So, they're getting a four to four and a half hour block in the morning. Afternoon, they're covering the same territory, and so then you've got another four four and a half hours. So, right there you've got nine hours on that route. So, you have an an hour basically of overtime on that everyday. And so the only way to adjust that would be to look at, you know, trying to split routes further, but then that's not cost-effective for the district either. So, I Unless the board has a recommendation on how they would like us to look at that differently, we have administratively done the very best that we can to try and
163minimize that, but I don't know that it ever is going to go away. Okay. Mr. Diaz? No, I was scratching my nose. I thought you were looking to like get my attention. Uh I understood. And and I And I understand 100% but I think that And I guess I'll look to history. Historically and Ms. Carlo because you were here. Is that 100% Yeah. So even especially is when we didn't have enough bus drivers it probably was even then the out the number of hours driving they have to make sure that they don't exceed that. Right. So they're they have to have the breaks. There's there's just a lot involved now for the safety of the the drivers as well. Go ahead Ms. Hendrix. No, I just wanted to add I think there's been additional routes
164that have been added on. 19 I think I think it was half of that before. There has been quite a few additional routes because we're covering There was a time we were only covering certain areas but now we're actually covering the nation. And that is a true statement. We have expanded the geographical area that we try and bring students into this district and so we are covering more geography than we were in the past. So then is the goal in your perspective as transportation director to increase the amount of drivers you have or the amount of opportunities you have to be able to lessen the amount of need for someone to have to do 8 9 hours just regular route and then possibly do trips extra duty or take home practice good activities. How I
165guess I don't I don't I don't The question remains for me if I'm driving a bus from 4:00 a.m. in the morning, why am I driving the bus again at 5:30 to take everybody home to get home at 8:00 to come back in at 4:00 in the morning? So that would not be a correct assessment then. So So what we try and do then to balance that out is the drivers that have the shorter routes. So let's say they have a 2-hour in the morning and a 2-hour in the afternoon. They're only doing four. Then we would have them do the activity runs which then they may Some of our activity runs are 5 hours. So then they would only be at nine for the day. So they're still in overtime, but we're trying to
166we we can't utilize the drivers that are driving already 9 hours a day I hope not. to do an activity run because they legally can only driver drive 10 out of 15. So they can't actually drive more than 10 hours. So it's a complex balancing of trying to make sure that none of our drivers go overtime, yet we still are able to provide service to the entire community. And so that's why it's balanced out and it's true not only for the district compensated drivers, but also on the B Line side, it's no different. We have overtime every payroll. Again, just because of the geography. It's a huge district. That distinction that you're referencing there is specific to a certain amount of BOSD compensated teachers. Correct? You're not talking about B Line specifically. Like your other
167This this report is specific to our employees. the district employees, which is what you requested. Okay. Wait. I'm sorry. It's only because there's a there's a there's an aspect that we're forgetting is that there are district bus drivers. How many? I believe we have seven. So that is just that is just them here or are you talking about employees? That's just Okay. Correct. So it's just those seven employees. There are 35 total in your transportation department including myself. Seven of them are still district compensated as drivers and I believe we still have two aids that are district compensated. And then when it >> How many um Go ahead. Go ahead. Then how many from your So that would be the difference 35 minus nine total employees. So Right. Some of the district employees have become
168a contractor compensated employees and some have retired. It seems like you train one and one leaves. Then you train another one and another one leaves. >> Just saw another one shift the last meeting or this meeting. Going to be shifting to something else. We just got one up and then we had one transfer out. Okay. So and and then just for your entertainment you know we got new buses in 2024 and one of those buses again referencing back to geography has now exceeded 100,000 miles. This is halfway through 2026 and that was a 2024 model so just about two years and then we also have a 2025 that is almost 70,000 miles on the odometer. So you are very unique. We're not a Queen Creek with 46 square miles to transport our kids. We're the
169state of Connecticut. And so we I think the way it's structured, it's going to be difficult to ever completely eliminate over time. I I guess my my question still remains. And And again, feel free to put it down somewhere and show me. If you have 35 employees, I don't know how that how that is structured that we're still 80% of overtime in our regular routes. I get that there's a lot of miles to cover. Um And if an hour a day times how many days of the year or the school year, well, not even that because we do summer school, we do all these things. Okay. Picture's coming together. But um I guess it's just it's just to look at it now from the from from this end and what we're doing in paying B
170line um to um manage the the transportation department. I guess I would like to see what systems and or challenges that we can actually look at to say, "Let's bring it down." Um and I know you're asking the board for a for a solution, but I think that's why we pay you to do that. Right. Um and to me this screams "Take a look at me because what are we doing with so much paying so much overtime to individuals that And I this is goes back to my other question that I'm thinking about now is, when are we getting the bus app? Because if that is true then you could probably pull data from that to actually show us okay well here's what uh regular person at 4:00 a.m. gets up and goes and does.
171But why does it take that amount of time to do that? Shouldn't they be back clocking out or whatever it may be so that we're not having to pay overtime. These are just questions that come and and are raised because I think it's important for us to have those checks and balances especially for looking at a report to say X amount of thousands of dollars in overtime. Kind of And if it's And if it's simply um geography then then okay like But I would hope hope we can actually look at some information because the I don't know just for the sake of making sure that we're we're understanding as a board approving the budget, approving the the the responsibility of this. Approving your contract um you know is it actually and it it does there
172something that we need to do to look at to see I I And again if it's just history and that's just what it is then okay, but I think I really really truly trust what you have done so far has been phenomenal. To see this in a report made me kind of think okay maybe I'm not seeing something that um we're not able to help you with. That's the main reason for asking about that. So is there something that we need to do to make sure that you have X amount of whatever. I mean I I and only because I felt like we had a really good stronghold on what those routes were doing, the amount of bus drivers, the bus drivers that you bring in to actually help service those miles. I don't I
173don't I don't know how that equates to um us paying overtime to employees. But again maybe I get operations, why they would have overtime. If they're understaffed and they can't, you know, there's there's things that they need to take care of. We're expecting that. Um to me, transportation is understandably our biggest expense because of our geography. But when overtime came into play, I'm thinking, "Okay, well what are we missing that we're not seeing when it comes to that?" And if it is just up at 4:00 a.m. doing your route, adding an extra hour every day for 35 employees, then then I'd like to see where we can work on how that's going to be minimized to something. >> And let me just just say that this is why I believe it's a a board policy
174and not really a transportation department policy. Correct. The way that you can redo that reduce that, because your your geography is so large, is you can reduce that geography. You can choose not to send buses into certain communities and have the parents transport their children closer in so that it reduces the amount of time that the driver is on the road. That's a board decision because we're here to serve. If you tell us to pick up children, we're going to go get those kids regardless of where they are in the community. If it's a fiscal consideration for the board to say, "You know what? It's costing us too much in overtime to go pick up those children and we need to reduce the area that we serve," that's going to eliminate that overtime, but that's
175not a decision that as your director I should make for you. That's a board decision. Do you want those children riding on the bus to come to school or you going to trust the parents to transport them and get them to a closer stop? Or do you want the bus to go get them? >> As far as I know, we only run on the blacktop, which to me are pretty much main arteries for the the communities. We used to run directly into the communities, which drew a lot more from us. I think we're doing a a bit on that end. But I think for the sake of the decision-making power, if the recommendation and what we're asking and you can provide that information, then I am asking you to provide an Hey, this is an
176option if you guys want to reduce overtime, here's what you can do. I don't do transportation. I'm asking you as the director to help me understand what transportation is so that I can make a decision as a board member. Sure. Um Ms. Hendrix. No, I just wanted to add that I think one of the key things to this is that because of the 35 or 30, whatever, uh staff members that you have in transportation, the key thing is the certified drivers. They have to be certified in order to do those routes. And if you they're not certified, then obviously, they're having to do, you know, longer runs and more time. But, they have a limited amount of time that they can do that. That's That's the thing I was making the point earlier. >> That's
177it. And so, I don't know I know at one point we were trying to get people certified. I don't know if that's a thing that we're we're doing still. Yes, so certification is still required. The 35 employees include your directors, assistant director, office manager, your dispatchers, your aides. So, everybody is lumped into that total student or that employee pool for the department. So, to operate the school buses, they do have to be state certified. They still have to have the CDL, they have to have the 14 hours of classroom, 20 behind the wheel, they have to have the uh the clearance card, they have to have a physical performance test, they have to have first aid CPR. So, there's a lot of steps that they have to have in order to be actually operate the
178bus. We don't have extra drivers. I mean, we have enough drivers to cover our our 19 routes. And that's because we're we've still brought people from outside of the community that are willing to come and help serve. We're constantly advertising. We are participating in all of the job fairs. Uh Ms. Meeks has been very uh helpful to us in inviting us to participate in any place where we can recruit for additional drivers. But at at some point, even if you have another driver, if your if your route is already 9 hours, it's going to be I mean, you're out and back. And I've done my very best to try and streamline those. So, those routes are not having to pick up stuff here locally. They shoot out, pick up kids, and come back to try
179and reduce the amount of time that the children are actually riding on the board. You may recall at the last retreat, we were able to reduce our students' ride time by over 10 hours a day that they weren't sitting on buses. And and so, that's the model that we're still using. And we can look at the app. We do have that. You can look at the times of the stops. And I would specifically look to those four longer routes. You know, it's just going to be very difficult to make changes to those that aren't going to impact our students and their families. And and so, when I I can demonstrate that to you, you can review it. And then as a board, if you want to say, "Hey, look, you know, we're not going to
180go to uh Wawa or Piscataway or you know, we want to reduce our service level." Then that's a decision that you can instruct me on then how you wish for me to proceed. Um I think the the the other thing that I wanted to request is Ms. Ms. Hendricks brought up a good point. Um I think moving forward, definitely like to see what the efforts are in training. Um where they are, if there is individuals currently in the process of of attaining their their CDL to be able to operate um buses or at least help support the bus need bus driver need. And um addition to that the uh yeah, I guess the the report on when we're going to see the app be um active. I think we've been getting reports that it was
181coming, it was coming. We told families, parents, people um and it still hasn't been done. So, we're going to go into a new school year could have been a good opportunity to actually start to roll out and do what we need to and if that's Aaron's fault or if that's whoever's fault then let's put it back on the table and get it done or or figure out what we're going to do with it. I think it's going to help us be accountable. Um and anything that we can do to be accountable for expenses like this then then absolutely let's make sure that it's done. Uh I don't I don't again I don't think that you and your uh capabilities um have not gone without immense like gratefulness for for what you've been able to do.
182But I think the in addition to that I want to make sure that the I guess overall um uh responsibility that we have is also taken into consideration when it comes to seeing a report, wanting to get information and not uh being treated as though well that's your job, you guys do that. I think that that's not what we're here to do. The the the the request was because of um the concern. And if we're not going to we're not going to raise concern when it comes to those types of things, then >> [clears throat] >> for sure we would have a much bigger issue on our hand when it comes to what this board is actually doing and how it's doing it. So, I don't mean to to make you feel any way other
183than this is this what I feel like we need to be able to have a conversation about, figure out what we're going to do. And you know what? I don't I don't see us stopping serving the Donahoe the nation for what we have done so far. So, let's try to find an avenue on which we can kind of find some kind of solution. Um I don't know what that is because I don't know I don't know what it what what it would take. Um Is it more routes? Is it more bus drivers? Is it harder? I don't know. So, I guess that's where I'm leaning on your expertise to be able to kind of give us some uh uh better view. Um on how we can uh be helpful. So, Mr. Diaz. Uh President Mundy,
184um members of the board, um I do see the need of a little bit more clarity, and I'll be more than happy to collaborate with my director of transportation. Um there are options. There are multiple different options that we can explore. Um I see the need of having an impact statement. Um and if we do this, what would be the impact? Um if our goal based on on on the recommendations that were made for this particular year, um it it's our number one goal was to reduce the amount of time our students that were spending um on the road and accommodate the students eliminating um tripling students in the seats. Um I can reduce the amount of overtime by adding routes, but then it will increase the cost of having additional buses or another drivers,
185but that's part of the impact statement that we can bring clarity not only for the governing board but also for the community and the and make that determination what is going to be more financially responsible is it to build a little bit of overtime but it's going to save us having to hire a new person and new driver that benefits and a new bus or or is it better to hire it to reduce the amount of overtime? With your support I would like to collaborate and and come back with with not only an option but some impact statements for your analysis to determine how we doing and if we doing it or there's other way to do it. There other options including some districts um based on other districts that I have worked they don't
186offer transportation unless you live either 2 miles away from the school, 5 miles away from the school. There's different options but it it's which one are we willing then to see that is sustainable, financially responsible but also our commitment in in making sure that kids make it here on time for the benefit of the education. Again it's it's it's a great opportunity to deeper into this item and and I think during our retreat this will be a great opportunity to go in depth with all of those options that I I hear you seeking as a board. Okay. Sounds like it we need to do like a study session. Okay. Just to get those. I made a note of it and I'll be more than happy to bring it back. >> Okay. Thank you sir. All
187right. Thank you so very much. Thank you. Thank you. Number 14 is our coaches and club sponsors approved for extra duty. Board members just a reminder these positions have been approved they are just naming or placing individuals in these positions. Summer school coordinators Miss Katricia Flanagan 8K through 8 teachers Robin Pete Alpha Blanco, April Wilson Woo, sorry, my thing's missing. Wilson Wilson, sorry, I apologize. Jesus Leones. Uh 9th through 12th teachers, Aaron Martin, Tochi Catejo. Front office, Tadeo, Robbie Berry. Yeah. Yep Yep Yep again. I'm sorry, Yep again. Sorry. Mr. White. Uh healthy um Miss Tonwea Nacho, security Alfred Tutolo, Try and Travis Listo, uh academic counselor Megan Haley, BMS Oh, sorry. Yes, BMS. Travis Listo and Angelo Lopez for middle school baseball assistant coaches. Okay. Uh and there's some attached information for your for
188your information, board members. Number 15 is our uh first reading of the Barbecue ISD policy amendment. Mr. Diaz? Or Mr. Zabala, I don't know who wants to go over it. Yeah, President Mundia. Um this is one of the recommendations um um we had uh the opportunity to go through a due process training. Um and part of that due process training uh with all of my directors and and and administrators, it was um also going through the policy um and based on on on that policy, um when the policy was created, um we've been advancing and and also acknowledging how we can also communicate um and in evidence of communication. So, what we're trying to um add um it is that um uh the um email can be used to deliver information and and hand deliver
189information as well, as long as it continue to be documented. Um it's increasing the multiple ways in which we can legally provide um due notice and and and serve our teachers with information as part of that due process. So, the policy is still the same. What is changing is how we're going to provide um that additional information to teachers um either via email or hand deliver that it will count as part of our policy as well. Having said that, um I have highlighted the specific um pages and and and what the additions are in the policy. And again, this is the first reading for your review. We'll bring it back one more time uh to see if you have any additional recommendations um if you're willing to support this um addition and amendment to our
190policy. Okay. And board members, just again, this is our first reading, so please do review, take a look, and provide any kind of comments to Mr. Diaz or Zabala Mr. Zabala um for our next reading at the following meeting. Number 16 is our first reading of the Barstow Unified School District policy adoption for do do do do do do do JICR. Mr. Diaz. President Mondia and members of the board um and also members of the community listening. Um as also the technology and the access to information continues to change and evolve, um we're trying to find a way in which we can continue to not only uh provide guidance to our teachers, our students, and our community in how we're going to develop um character as well as life skills lesson. Uh uh and and
191and two words that I want to emphasize. Um this is a change of our policy um and this is also based on the guidance of uh that we received from our legal counsel. The two keywords that I want to emphasize here is honesty and integrity. Um two life skills that um I want to continue to promote uh for our students and also for our teachers. Um, this uh particular um policy is how are are we going to um not only promote um the use of artificial intelligence, but also how we going to prevent plagiarism um and and continue to uh promote the honesty and integrity of what the students are um producing. Um, the what this uh policy or this policy change is provide guidance guidance to our teachers, but also guidance to our students
192and guidance to our families. Um, the goal is not to eliminate or or or forbid the use of technology or artificial intelligence. Is the goal here is providing um the honesty and integrity so our our students they can continue to use tools that can promote the learning, but also uh um letting them know that um plagiarism is is is not okay. So, uh these are some of the recommendations that that we bring into the board as a first read for your review. Um, and and that will the ending product and the goal is to provide guidance um and guidelines to um our stakeholders. Board members? Um, I just found a I want to make sure we we acknowledge a it so the memo actually references an entirely different policy. So, I want to make sure
193we correct that. Um it notes at the final end of the last paragraph that this serves as the first reading of I J N D B {dash} E A password protection policy and that's not what it's addressing. So, I don't No, yeah, I just want to make sure it's acknowledged. No worries. Um Thank you for noticing that. Noted. The very quickly, uh I know we're not getting there. I read over this and I did have a conversation with Mr. Diaz, but I want to make sure that it's expressed to the board that understanding and and really trying to really give not only the grace but opportunity for students, especially our students here on the nation. And I want to say that specifically because when you look at other school districts who already have gone above
194and beyond to make sure that not only our policies and place regarding things like ChatGPT or AI AI AI centric AI centric types of services. Um, we had been attended a conference and there was a panel of students in metropolitan cities that were extremely it was an amazing panel, but I wanted what it made me feel like in that moment is that by us not giving the opportunity to not only engage but learn and teach and learn how to utilize these resources and tools, it puts us again in another disadvantage as a school district. Not only just as a school district but as a community. Um, but I also understand too that the way and means that this community looks at certain types of things like new technology is not always favorable, but we can
195try to prepare our students for when they step out of this classrooms because they are probably already actively utilizing it. And it'd be much better for us to teach them how to use it in the right way as opposed to just say, "Look, we want your honesty, want your integrity, don't do it." Or do it, but I would but I would hope that we could also engage in a conversation to say, "You're going to do it. Here's here's what should be manner that would be the best way to do it." Um, and that's true for a lot of things I think that we deal with. Um, we can put a lot of different things in in in reference to regulation or um reprimand or or or or consequences for actions. But, I also think we
196need to be mindful of lifting up our our students in general and teaching them about what they're going to experience out there. So, and and we um obviously everyone our video systems are whatever it may be. So, I think there's an opportunity to continue the conversation. Um but, I just wanted to make sure that I was expressed. Mr. Diaz. You brought up a good point, President Bodie. Um for clarity for our constituents, you mentioned the appropriate way to do it. For example, it is completely okay for a student to go into one of these engines and say, "How do I solve this problem?" and get an idea and get assistance in a different way to solve it. What is not okay to do is for example, go to as one of these engines doing us
197an assessment and copy the answers is straight into the assessment claiming as their own learning. That's not That's not what we're trying to again teach through this policy under honesty and integrity. So, those are two good examples for the community. >> You know what I thought about when we thought when you brought it to me about that? And this was something that we had a conversation about in general. And this is true across all all industries. The same type of conversation was brought up about calculators. So, utilizing a calculator to solve a problem, of course you're going to get the answer. But, we got we somehow found a way to not only use that calculator, but to use it as a tool to be able to teach better, stronger, and and give an actual understanding
198to what was I don't know presented. So, I think there's always opportunity for us to look at things as either we're going to fight against it or we're going to learn to live with it the same we learn to live with the which are going to be the end of civilization, which obviously they kind of are. But, calculators and those types of things like resources are tools. I count those types of things like search engines, whatever it may be in that same type of realm. You could either use it in a very negative way or you could use it in a very bad way. I prefer for us to be teaching in a good way. So, just my comments. I don't know if you have any other comments, but I I I don't have any
199issues with this. I just It just sparked a different kind of conversation. And it's it's sparking the conversation across a lot of industries, not just ours. But, I think we need to be looking a little bit more brighter on this on the subject, especially when it comes to preparing our students, which is plastered all over our mission statement and vision statements. So, Miss Deion. So, with this student conduct document, how is that going to be presented to them like in class? Like Does that mean After going through the process, if the board adopts the policy, it needs to there's a couple of follow-up steps. One of them is to be added to the parents handbook. The other one, yes, it needs to be marketed and promoted and and and provide the teachers with the clarity
200and the students with the clarity of how we're going to be moving forward, including what may be the consequences if you use negatively, but how we can promote it if we use it positively. Because I agree with the President Bondia about the you know, the ethical ways that you could use it and kind of reinforcing that to the students and the families that there is a right way and a wrong way to use it and kind of just putting it a little bit more detailed of what that looks like as far as getting clarification or getting some kind of ideas about how to go about their class work that they may be struggling with. So, I was just curious. Thank you. Okay. Um I guess that would definitely be a recommendation cuz there there is
201more so emphasis in this to be to this to be subject to disciplinary action. But at what regard apply? Um anything and say that was AI is plagiarism. How are we going to gauge based on based on the teachers capability or in opportunity to be able to to um gauge that or or anybody. Uh and I would hate for us to fall into a situation where that's used negatively or inappropriately or not fair or in a way that that would seem unfair. Um But that's just how I would look at it as a person looking at this from the perspective of a parent of students and of students who are actively probably using uh artificial intelligence every day. I mean, you could open a web page and it automatically is putting you right in that
202in that realm of a generator that tells you your algorithm or what you were looking at or what you were talking about and actively put it in front of you and say, "Hey, here's here's the answer to what you were talking about." So, again, just my [snorts] mean thoughtful words to help generate more thinking um and I want to see us put something together that actually may be really beneficial to to our our our stakeholders that can say, "Okay, this is where we need you to be and here's here's where we where we would like to be as an entire school district." Ms. Stevens? I think you bring up some really good points, but also just thinking about the staff and getting people trained on that because even like myself, like I'm trying to learn
203a lot of this stuff on my own and older and then you have younger people who are coming in and yes, they're going to know how to do this and our kids are definitely going to need this when they're going to out and finding jobs, going to college, doing activities and what ethical ways can you show them how to do that? Because I can tell you like right now there's a lot of college students who are encouraged to use it and utilize it, but they are they are also taught like the ethical ways of not submitting plagiarism. So, I think those are things to consider moving forward is like training our staff. Okay. First reading board members again and ends and community. I think that if there's opportunity, of course, well, some board members have
204specifically submit those to Mr. Diaz and Mrs. Zabala, but hopefully we're taking note of this evening's discussion. Number 17 is a governing board member request, Mr. Diaz. President Monreal, uh President Monreal and members of the board, this is a follow-up. There was a a request and it was shared with all board members and for clarity purposes it and in transparency purposes, it was added to the agenda. This this slides it answer the request and and some comparison. Jennifer earlier doing her presentation went over these slides as well, but for transparency purposes, we are sharing it with the rest of the board that this was also board request. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Before we go into executive session, I know we're probably going to be in there for a while. If anybody can be
205excused, then by all means, but unless they have an action item to address. That is correct Mr. Moody and thank you for for your sensitivity on this matter. Unless they have a an action item, we won't need them to stay behind. Other than that, they need to make sure they get some dinner and drive safely home. Yes. Um, a motion to vote to convene executive session per Arizona revised status statutes. Sorry. 15-843. Is there a second? Second. Second by Ms. Sylvia Hendricks. All those in favor of the motion. Juan Bondia. What's up, bro? Sylvia Hendricks. What's up, bro? Anna Marie Stevens. Deonna Leonard. Motion carries. We are now in executive session. Thank you. >> Mhm. >> Are you good? All right, we'll go ahead and call the meeting back to order. Uh motion to vote
206to reconvene into regular board meeting. Is there Second. Second by Ms. DeYoung. All those in favor of the motion, Juan Buen Día. Most of all. Ann Marie Stevens. Most of all. Deonna Leonard. Most of Motion carries. Okay. With that, we'll move on letter H to action items. Governing board members, with your um without objection, uh I would like to propose approval in one action items one, two, and three with amendments. Um specifically to Sorry. Yeldon. Yes. Which expulsion is that one? I mean, which enrollment? Is it the first or second? It is the second one. Um it is for Mr. Yeldon. Uh the recommendation or the amendment will be uh for '25-'26 school year. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. Uh board members, if there's no objection, I motion to approve items one, two, and
207three as presented or sorry, with amendments to the uh re-enrollment for Mr. Yeldon. Is there a second? Second. Second by Ms. Ann Marie Stevens. Do you have questions, do you feel? I'm good. You're good? Okay. Motion All those in favor of the motion, Juan Buen Día. Most of all. Ann Marie Stevens. Most of all. Deonna Leonard. Most of Motion carries. >> [laughter] >> Thank you. Motion carries. All right. You you going to vote from there? >> [laughter] >> All right, number four this evening is discussion and possible approval of an additional FTE for PK kindergarten ESS teacher at the Indian Oasis Primary School 2026-2027. Mr. Diaz. President Amadi and members of the board, I need to give a little bit of background regarding number four and number five. We currently have one FTE, one employee
208that is currently providing both services and we have the services include the traveling services, but also the services in-house. The The good problem that we have is that the number of students has increased and the need to separate the traveling services versus the services that are need to be done in school and to do that we needed to split a job description into two two into two different ones. The recommendation is to approve the new one, which will be discussion of a possible approval of an additional FTE for PK kindergarten as a ESS teacher at the Indian Oasis Primary School for 2026-2027. And then the discussion for a possible approval for the new job description, which will be the PK itinerant ESS teacher position. So, these both they they used to be part of only
209one position based on the increase of services needed, we are splitting them [clears throat] up and looking for your approval. Having said that, for number four, I'm recommending that the Buckeye Union High School District Governing Board to approve an additional FTE for PK kindergarten ESS teacher at the Indian Oasis Primary School as presented. Ms. Stevens. I was just going to make a motion. Okay. Great. >> [laughter] >> Go ahead. Motion to approve. Motion by Ms. AnnMarie Stevens. Is there a second? Ms. Amadi Archer. I'll second. Mr. Zabala? Ooh. We're just approving four or you For four hands. This is four. All those in favor of the motion, Juan Bonilla? Mhm. Sylvia Hendricks? For. Annemarie Stevens? Support. Dion Leonard? >> For. Motion carries. Okay. Number five. Uh Mr. Diaz just kind of gave us the background
210on both four and five. Are there any questions? If not, I'll motion to approve the new job description for pre-K Second. Me. I had Hendricks. pre-K ESS teacher position for the 2026-2027 school year. Um Ms. Sylvia and Ms. Stevens. Good night, y'all. Good night. All those in favor of the Mr. Zabala. Juan Bonilla? Annemarie Stevens? Support. [snorts] Sylvia Hendricks? Support. Dion Leonard? Motion carries. >> So sorry. All right. Number six, discussion and possible approval of the Barbara Jordan Elementary School District benefits renewal from Cbiz. Mr. Diaz? Presentation earlier, uh Ms. Jennifer, our representative, she gave a presentation uh based on the uh proposal for renewal. Um and and and based on the presentation, now we're moving on to the next step, which is recommending the Barbara Jordan Elementary School District governing board to approve the
211Cbiz renewal as presented. Are there any questions? No. Make the motion. Motion by Ms. Sylvia Hendricks. Second by Ms. Dion Leonard. Favor of the motion, Juan Bonilla? No. Uh Sylvia Hendricks? Support. Annemarie Stevens? Support. Dion Leonard? Motion carries. >> carries. Number seven is discussion and possible approval of a letter for of support for the Freeport McMoran grant. Mr. Diaz? Presentation earlier, members of the board, um a little bit of background. Um, this is also one of the efforts to begin uh growing our own. Um, I uh under the um um leadership of our President Mundia and the connections um with uh Freeport-McMoRan, um there was a discussion in in how to uh how to seek funding for different projects. This particular project I'm super excited about. Um, the idea for these project um is to
212create internships and collaborate with TOCC and um the UofA um in in for any of um alumni uh to provide them with opportunities to learn real-life skills, but also introduce them into teaching. The goal is to um seek $100,000 a year for 5 years um and use that money to maximize based on how many students might be willing and enable um based on their uh school um workload um to be able to serve as a teacher intern uh duty aid um in in in in in be able um to participate in professional development to encourage them to become teachers um as well as gain some experience. This will require some collaboration with the universities because of what the the proposal that I will require uh some adjustments for um for this to be able to
213work. I'm looking for students who would take all of the classes Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays so they can do the internships Tuesdays and Thursdays or vice versa that they can go to school Tuesdays and Thursdays so they can do the internships um Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Students who take all of the classes virtually, they will have the opportunity also to work based on the schedule and avail- Um part of the uh the uh the packet that I have included um let me see. It if you can see um in one of the screens um it it is specified um not only a mission but also the mission for Freeport, but it also includes what are the goals, what is the objective, what are going to be the highlights, um who is eligible, um what are
214the duties for these interns, what is um um I will also proposing a coordinator through a stipend uh to help us recruit um um alumni, um present prospective candidates to the governing board, provide orientation for the students, and support during the school year for students, um make sure they also provide um real-life developmental uh feedback as part of our evaluation uh or make non-renewal as part of the performance. Um provide uh support with monthly uh professional development and needs for the students to to grow their skills, and report to the BUSD board in free uh Freeport regarding the impact um or lessons learned through this project, and continue to ask for additional uh funding year after year. Uh the packet also includes not only a timeline, but it also includes a job description for this
215position. It also includes the evaluation that will be used for these students. Um it also includes uh the pay scale that we using um for BUSD, the number of days available to work when the students are here. It also has uh the roles and responsibility for the coordinator that will be responsible for these interns and the supervision of these interns. It provides the expectations um uh that needs to be submitted before the coordinator is eligible to receive the stipend and have a portfolio that all of these documents have been completed effectively. And a list of the next steps that I I I need to continue to be able to seek the funding. Part of the packet, I would like a letter of support so I can submit my application. The UofA has agreed to provide
216a letter of support. We also reached to the chairman's office so they can give us and also I have sent this proposal to a member of TOCC for review and provide me feedback before I meet with the OCC. Questions? No questions. I just want to make sure 100% reviewed. Love. Feel good. My biggest thing is just to make sure that the buy-in is there specifically from partners like TOCC. And I only say that and I don't mean to disparage any any partnerships we have. But I just want to make sure that this is This is a really awesome program and opportunity. Um I want to see it be successful but we need to have those. And so my thought is not only making sure that that they're aware but that oversight is aware as in
217the nation and that they're very understanding that hey look we went after this this is what it's intended to do. Um Just cuz you know Uh I want to see it be but I also want it to make sure I want to make sure that it is expressly understood that that these internships are are part-time they're You know I I I understand that but I think a lot of people don't realize that that's something that would more than likely not be paid if it weren't for this type of funding being available. So, I'm excited. That was just my only thing I wanted to say is it is beautiful um that you've put together, you've met with. Um I just want there to be uh I think an across-the-board like understanding like, "Hey, this is an
218opportunity." And BUSD is is charging forward, but we also need your support. So, that That's just what I wanted to say. This is also in addition to um the fact that I have been able to speak with and talk to the uh the idea of when we talked about building your own And that what we're starting to see at our peace even at a younger age And you hear it like when they do the student of the month or graduation that their goal is to become because they see the impact that our teachers have on them. And so, I think this is just a element that we look forward to. This is what we should do with that. All right. So, I say it again. >> to say it again? No. >> [clears throat] >>
219If there's nothing else Motion to approve. >> Motion by Ms. Sylvia Hendricks to approve the letter of support. Sorry. Anna Marie Stevens to approve the letter of support for free pre-K grant. Seconded by Ms. Sylvia Hendricks. All those in favor of the motion, Juan Bonilla. Vote. Sylvia Hendricks. Mustafa. >> Anna Marie Stevens. >> Mustafa. Deonna Leonard. Vote. Motion carries. Talking to the mic. Thank you. [laughter] Uh okay. Uh next item is number eight. Again, board members, I had submitted this for your review and possible possible support. Um As noted, I voted against our our um approval of the Cbiz um offer. Um And and and again, I I did do some ask [clears throat] some questions to the CFO and just kind of had I think that above all, I just want us to make
220sure that we're on the standpoint to say And I don't I know that the industry's going to continue to go the way that it is. Insurances um are costly. Um I I don't even want to see what has to come out of my own check to actually help my own family. And I know that single individuals may be covered maybe uh and things can be structured so that, you know, the district takes on more of that cost. Um I just wanted to make sure that this was something that was presented. Maybe you could review, but what I will ask is if we could table it until we kind of receive some more information from the um from Ms. Jennifer that she mentioned earlier. Only because I do want to also kind of look at what
221are those quality uh types of calls or insurances that they're getting and what how many and if there are I mean, it could it's going to give us some sort of a picture of what types of things that they're dealing with. I I know it's probably not going to dive too deep and it's probably not going to be a lot because as mentioned, there probably are a lot of individuals who would much rather not go through the process of well, having to call multiple individuals just to try and make sure that they're receiving the best possible health care and just rather go without it. So, take a look at the letter, um review it. Um I'm motioned to table until we get some more information. But um I'm hopeful to get your your your support.
222Uh it it would be a letter to ASBA, which is the trust that actually is what we're a part of as far as a collaboration collaborative to actually try and help bring down the cost of our insurances. Cost I know is kind of out of our hands when it comes to how the industry's moving. But I also don't want us to just be handed something and again to just say, "Okay, well, that's what we get. We'll take it." Um and that's just the way that I'm looking at it. I think that there's opportunity always, but I feel like we're not getting that. I feel like we're not getting that. That's just the the the point of it. I think having conversations with employees and even just to me what I saw the most thing that
223made me feel really sad was opportunity Well, one of our staff was afforded the opportunity for a raise and they declined it because it would affect how they were actually able to provide for their family. To me that says a lot about making a decision. Um for them for for what they needed to be able to do to just [clears throat] provide. Um and it would I know and these are decisions that a lot of our employees have to make and I think it's important for us to at least kind of have that conversation, which again I explained to the superintendent, you know, I don't I don't like what we're given. Um reviewing it, I get it. Yes, there there's nuances and things that we have to understand on the insurance side. But as the
224letter kind of goes into um there's the responsibility as well that we have for if we're looking at some of that information. So, I tried to break it down as much as I could in the letter. Have a look at it. Um but for now my motion is to table the item until we get more information from Uh what is she? What is that lady? She's our broker? No, she's our Who's Jennifer? She's Jennifer. I apologize, Miss Jennifer, but uh she was going to get some information to us based on some of the questions we had this evening, so we can bring it back. Does it need a vote, Ben? Does the table need a vote if I motion? >> We're tabling it, yeah. So, if you made the motion to table it until we
225get more information, and then you can call for a second. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Miss Sylvia, I'm sorry. Miss Ann Marie Stevens. [laughter] All those in favor, Juan Bon Dia? Most of them. Uh Sylvia Hendricks? Most of them. Ann Marie Stevens? Most of them. Deion Leonard? Four. Motion carries. Okay, new number nine is just I wanted to acknowledge this donation. Um and I feel bad and I and I apologize. I I probably would have also liked to acknowledge the other donation, but for the sake of propriety, I only addressed the one that we pulled, which was the Bents Bells uh gift. Um part of the overall effort I think as a member of the community and as a former person of position. >> [laughter] >> Uh it was absolutely something that I felt
226like would have been extremely nice to see and beneficial um as far as the Bents Bells um uh foundation or or that that that overall effort to spread kindness and spread that that word I felt like was something I really wanted to be able to see. So, for this for the sake of um acknowledging uh the Donut donation and its um donation, I definitely wanted to make sure that was expressly um recognized um by myself or by the board especially in acknowledging this donation and in saying thank you so much for the opportunity and I look forward to seeing how the project grows out. I look forward to to being a part of it as much as I can. Um I think it's really really great. That's all I [clears throat] want to say. Uh
227with that I motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Ms. Annemarie Stevens. All those in favor of the motion, Juan Buen Dia. Sylvia Hendricks. Annemarie Stevens. Deonna Leonard. Motion carries. Consent agenda without objection, [clears throat] motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Second by Ms. Sylvia Hendricks. All those in favor of the motion, Juan Buen Dia. Sylvia Hendricks. Annemarie Stevens. Deonna Leonard. Motion carries. Litter G's are crystal feature agenda items. Number one is the one number training for Newport Docs platform known as Diligent. Sign up for one of the training sessions board members. Session one is Thursday, May 7th or two. What does that mean? Yeah, or two. Friday or the second, yeah. May 8th from 5:00 to 6:00. What time is the first session? At two? >> [clears throat] >> Cancel. What
228time What time works best for the board? So, if we do it I guess it's supposed to say at two, but May 7th I can actually run this virtually. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, I'm as we're going around, I'm just learning the system now, me and Bates are. So, I've been going back and forth between the two systems, but now that we're hopefully moving forward next month Yes. I'll be able to spend a lot more time these next few weeks going over it. I I'm more comfortable with the hour after on in the evening. But, I don't know. You just want one session for all of us? It's up to you. I mean, we can break it up. What do you guys What's your best the 7th or the 8th? 7th at 2:00 or the
2298th at 5:00? I can do the 7th. What's that for? Then you To learn the new platform for this board docs. It's changing. Failure to attend, you'll be very lost next time. >> [laughter] >> I'll sit How long is the virtual or long how long would it be? I don't know if it's going to be an hour. I don't know if I have that much information in my brain on this new system, but it could be 30 minutes or maybe 40 depending on questions. Will we get like logins to follow you along? I'll be sending your logins this week, so they'll be coming via email and then you'll have the ability to log in into diligent community. What's that we do it? May 7th at 2:00 or 2:00? May 7th at 2:00 or May 8th
230at 5:00? May 7th at 2:00. I have two screens, so I can do Choose them. Choose random. 2:00 [clears throat] is random. Just pick it cuz I could do the two. Just send the invites so I can get in my calendar. >> the invites right now. You should be getting uh for the 2:00 as well as the 8:00 um for 5:00. Are you sending that for about let me know? >> I'm just trying to get in an hour? Uh-huh. >> He said probably not more not not probably won't be an hour. The name of the invite is diligent. Um please uh accept the one that works for you. I'll be on the 7th. I'll just join you guys. I'm just trying I'm just trying to get I'm just trying to get us to a point
231with Aaron and technology where the transition is smooth for the next board meeting and we're not running into hiccups. I'm thinking is virtual, right? You're going to do virtual? Yeah, we are. All right. Virtual I'll I'll send the link for both of them. I just [clears throat] need to know if it's going to be more than three in one. The we need to then I'll post a sign. Okay. It should be in your calendars. No board No board action. No board action will be held just Okay. Cool. And then you'll connect with Miss Batch on what she needs to do. Uh number two, summer retreat dates. Mr. Sabala. Okay, the summer retreat's coming up in Flagstaff, uh and those dates are the pre-conference is the I think it is a different item. Uh what are
232we talking about? Summer retreat dates. The full quarter retreat. You're talking about summer leadership. You're on number three. We're on number two, sir. >> [laughter] >> What are the retreat dates? The 17th of May? No. Oh. Okay. It's June the 14th and June the 21st. >> [clears throat] >> June 14th at what time? It's going to be from 8:30 to 3:30. 8:30 to 3:30 and you're sending invites, right? Yes, sir. Okay, then what's the other one? Um June 21st as well from 8:00 a.m. Two Sundays. One is going to be for instructional and the second one is going to be for the other uh departments. The goal is to review not only the data, review that three-year the new three-year goal plans. So, the 14th is review data, the 21st is new goal plans. Uh
233sorry for the confusion. Um the 14th is going to be data and instructional uh at the schools. Okay. Um and there's also going to be the schools three-year plan. On the 21st, it's going to be the other departments with three-year plans. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. 14th? >> What time are the 21st? They're both from 2 a.m. 8:30 to 3:30. Um if there's not enough a lot of questions, it may shrink. If there's a lot of questions What days are those? They're Sundays. >> [laughter] >> My church day? So, you're kidding me? There'll be a 5K on the 21st at 7:00 a.m. I'm going to start on the I have to go to sunrise service. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Okay. [clears throat] Uh summer leadership, go ahead, Ben. Who wants
234to go? Uh I will go. When is it? June 4th, 5th, and 6th. >> Yeah, so the pre-conference is the 4th, so that means you would arrive the 3rd through the 6th. If you only want to do the conference, you would arrive the 4th through the 6th. >> Um let me see. I'm looking at the pre-conference. The pre-conference starts at 9:00 a.m., so I'd rather you guys get there the day and night before. Okay. Okay. I would like to go. Oh, okay. I know. Oh, okay. All right, Deion. This is a really, really good um Yeah. >> It's a really good one. >> Yes. Yeah, I did. Yes. And it's in Flagstaff. It's beautiful. Yes, it's really good. >> so. I'll check in with Ben. Check in with Ben. Cool, we might have a board.
235I mean, you know. And just the last item on the agenda are for future gen items. I Darlene was poking at me about a special board meeting for maybe some new hires, maybe something in the afternoon or noon to knock it out. Real quick, sorry. Is the is the agenda for the pre-conference online already? Okay, I'll check it out. I'll let you know if I'm going to do that one. Okay, and then yes, special meetings if anybody's available for like a noon quick session, right? Mhm. Okay. Let's see if they have them on Monday. They do. Usually at noon. You can hop on those. Like a quick virtual meeting. Okay. Yeah. Just shoot a day. Yeah, as soon as she lets me know. Okay. All right. Uh, motion to adjourn. So, second it. Seconded by
236Ms. Silvia Hendricks. All those in favor of the motion, Juan Bondia. Yes. Silvia Hendricks. I'll vote. Anna Marie Stevens. I'll vote.