001we're not going to play yet yet yet oh okay not yet not yet um let me know when you're ready oh we're good to go um SK superintendent good afternoon my name is Raz and I am the pro superintendent for B fire School District um and I want to start by welcoming um not only the family members friends um all of the families and friends and members of the community that watching the staff members today um it is a special honor to be sitting here today to share our appreciation to a very special member of our team um let's put our heads together to welcome Miss Ella gwood Miss Ella gwood Mella gwood has a long trajectory of support U not only um as a colleague of working for B commity fire School District but
002also a member of the governing board um before we begin the little program that we have said for Miss gwood I have to express my great appreciation to the family it is not a time and energy and efforts and sacrifices that a board member makes but it's not without the support of the family members um being a govering board member there's a lot that happens behind the scenes and I'm sure you also became a poor member when you were part of the family and and all of the sacrifice deves that you had to make when you not you did not have your your family member because Mr Diaz or the superintendent or the superintendent they need another special meeting because now we need another event because there's a game uh because now there's a conference
003or there's anything else now I need to record you on the spot because I need a message for the community um it is the extra stress uh which is part of the commitment and part of the challenges that we have but it takes a a solid person with a clear goal and a clear mind to be able to see that big picture um and today it's it's a couple of um you will hear testimonies all the work and the commitments um that a great person such as our board member uh Mel gwood um has done over the years um there's tissues here for everyone so if anyone will need them because it is I'm holding myself because who doesn't who has not worked by Miss Ella chiswood that has not falling in love with that
004Clear Vision with that commitment with that passion uh with persistence with follow through um and with presence um leaders like you of course we will be missing you miss chriswood um and and also don't forget that we s volunteers CU your job can never be done when you're part of our school district for the family members again I want to also send you all of our blessings and all of our strength um because it's also after you are a board member for so many years it is also um a family we become a family and now we're sending the family member back to the original family and we ask you to embrace it with love and continue to support and continue to to share that amazing Diamond um um that you have as a as
005a parent as a grandparent um to continue to support her and continue to share the vision because I'm sure that me gwood has plenty of oil for many many years to come to continue to serve the community and the family on beh have of the bab fire School District family we appreciate you we thank you and we bless you um at this point I'm going to ask the support for president wendia to come up um and to share some of his words as a board president uh for Miss Ella chriswood um and then we'll continue with our program Miss I took some time to put some words down usually I shoot from the hip but I definitely wanted to be able to put down what I felt and what genuinely has been hard not in
006a not in a negative way but I think in a way that I truly want to be able to give you the respect and honor that you deserve um for the kindness and everything that you've shown me as a new member of this board and as as a member of the community especially for all of your family and everyone that I know in this community has an experience with and and truly appreciates what you've been able to do so Dear Miss Ella as your as your remarkable 12-year Journey on the barbecue Unified School District governing board comes to a close I want to take this opportunity to share my deepest gratitude and admiration for your unwavering commitment to our students family families and and Community your role as an elder a mentor and guide has
007been invaluable especially to those of us from younger Generations who have had the privilege of serving alongside you your wisdom patience and dedication have shaped not only the work of this board but also the hearts and minds of its members including myself as a new board member I'm especially grateful for the way you welcomed and supported me generously sharing your knowledge perspective and encouragement and always sharing a kind word for how well I dressed or how well I looked I really truly think that you gave me so much just a uplifting spirit and I really really really do appreciate that you've LED with strength Grace and compassion drawing from your Rich Heritage uh from where you come from and who you are and has built a loving home here on the th Alm Nation your
008deep connection to this community and your loving family who are themselves a part of the th Alam Nation our true true Testament to the values you uphold of service humility and a fierce dedication to the future of our children your legacy as a mentor and leader will continue to guide this board as we strive to follow the example you have set you've shown us what it means to lead with purpose and heart and for that I know we're eternally grateful while we will deeply miss your presence on the board we know this next next chapter we offer you more time to enjoy your cherished family and reflect on the profound impact that you have made your contributions will forever remain a Cornerstone of our District's success and our community strength thank you Miss El for
009for being not only a mentor but also an inspiration your voice and Leadership will e echo in all that we do with deep respect gratitude and admiration I wish you well and I wish you all the happiness and everything that you deserve as a kind loving human being on this planet on this Earth thank you so much for the years you've dedicated to our students to this entire District I really truly and I know this is not the last time I'm going to see you but I want to say again as well thank you Miss [Applause] Ella thank you president B he was the only one that has the courage to be able to do it live the rest of us we have to record it cuz I know we're not going to be able
010to hold ourselves together um Miss Ella uh we have a little video to also share some words of kindness and some words from our heart and soul dedicated with all of our love and and all of our appreciation to you and at this point I'm want to go ahead and ask Mr Aron Bas uh to please play the video thank you so much for the years of service as a member dist since 2014 when you began this journey there has many ACC and many pro Comm theity first I want to thank you for your role in advocacy and promoting advocacy for stud in District thank you for joining us in all the latest events in Washington DC advocating for funding for school thank you for Minds attending not only allat all conferences all of theom
011visits that we had to be able to each other thank you for being part of the community events thank you for being there Warriors thank you also for service the last years or the last years school district has received also supported District the pic to students for support opportun please take care of yourself I think really it wasn't just a special moment it was all the time know I'm really and I don't want to start crying this of one of the things I always um she done a great job as a board member and I to know all the years M you know the kids today are benefiting from that from the years of Serv cont her words are going are going to continue for years I'm her in I know she's a lot I
012want to thank you I want to thank you for your commitment to our community and for serving home school the USD School Board you have done a pH phenomenal job over the years that you've been a part of the board making sure that we are following guidelines understanding how budgets work and also for your commitment to working with us USD over the number of years one of the best best things that I'm going to remember with our time with is that I had the opportunity to travel with you to various conferences and getting to know you on a more personal level I think the best memory that I have of you is attending our annual School Board conference in Scottdale and just hanging out because of the activities that are there but also getting to
013know what you like and don't like um of I have is I'm taking photos um on this Christmas display that they have there um and just sharing a meal with one another once again El I am truly thankful that I have this opportunity to serve with you on the B USD school board and thank you for your time and your commitment will be Miss what is your favorite memory about Miss GRE okay I have many memories of um an employee of the school district that I memories that I can recall are the time that we've Tred together to different conferences very grateful for her when she would give me a right home after um I think uh for the travels travels that we made to different CES we always share funny stories driving telling her
014story we laugh it was just a good time think also that I know and obviously I think we both have attendance [Music] she also backgr of everything that and I concern making sure that attending day and I know that was know came School District then after retiring from theia coming to work again and finally what is yourwell message oh my God I probably cry now um I'm going to miss her I think I sent an email to Ben because to set up I him I'm having a hard time kind get because I don't want to do it but I know that you know I know we uh I really appreciate her as a card member as a friend um I also I think she's known me long enough from a young girl to where I
015am to of her babysit I would let Ella know that I will miss her and I appreciate her I I wish her the best and actually you know after after she stay Healy stay in I'll always have your gossip mov but also sh our you know about our children Grand know she will missed all hello superintendent I thank you I want to thank you so much for all the years of service that you have given to the Baba Unified School District and the entire commun they owe you a Deb of gratitude for all you've done to support all the children in the community so I just want to congratulate you and thank you again for your service you're a and kind person and honed to call you my friend enjoy your m [Applause] and we
016can keep on and on and on and on because you have touch many hearts many lives and and many children's Futures with your support um we also have um a little gift um from all of us um and before I give it or present it um I want to ask the family members to please stand up and come forward all the family members and I you open up FR of right in the midddle Miss Mella um this blanket is only a representation of what we want to give back to you which is exactly that you you've been giving us a blanket has many meanings and many representations we look for a blanket when we need comfort when we're sick when we're cold that's what you've been bringing to the organization with the years of experience
017with your legacy and the footprint that you're leaving behind you leing big shoes to fill because we look for you for Comfort through this blanket we want to offer you the Comfort back also you have given us warmth and security when we needed when we needed um Clarity on what we needed to go us an organization we want to give you the warm back from our hearts each thread that was used to weave in the blanket it's pretty weak but once you weave them together they become a strong piece of art and that's what you as one of the threats or the blanket or The govering Bard body is what you guys have done it is one alone does not have uh or cannot make the changes but is all of you guys together have
018brought the strength to the organization to the community into many kids future we given you back that strength that you have given us to continue your life and continue to enjoy your family all of the colors represent the beauty and that is the beauty that you have done through the other years with your commitment to education now we weave in all of our love all of our strength all of our warmth and all the Comfort into this blanket and I'm asking now the the family to wrap it around you as a symbol of giving you back to the family with all of our love so they can continue this journey with you please let's give a big heart a warm heart I can't even speak right now a round of applause to M gwood for
019all of the years of service and I want to thank you for your legacy I want to thank you for that footprint I want to thank you for being brave I want to thank you for being bold I want to thank you for being B USD at this point I'm also going to ask one of the members of your family to also share some words from their heart um as this transition who's going to be that bra Soul they're pointing at you [Laughter] time limit well some of you probably already know that she always says girly get up and say something I am my mother's daughter look what what look what we're wearing this lady will run around with her high heels from way back when she'd be running down the Bia hallways chasing somebody
020to get a signature chasing someone to do this form or look at this we didn't have Electronics back then we grew up at the Bia building our grandkids grew up here in the school district building building you always knew where grandma was at because she knew where she'd be watching you at so you didn't misbehave when she be looking out out the building or even over there at Bia she'll be looking out the building probably trying to see which one of us is doing wrong she's a great teacher thank you for accepting her into your lives as we have all been born into hers I'm the second oldest our older brother Lynn has passed on myself Evan Shirley wasn't able to make it and then June is our baby our youngest and then our kids
021my my son Jonathan and then TJ Shirley has Avery and Tracy June has um Nina and Ty I forget anybody oh Lynn has um Leo Jason Shane Heather and Cassie and then our grandkids and J Jason and Lisa's here with um Avery um she is a very strong woman and we're lucky to share her with you and all that you've learned from her and she can be very Str strong-hearted and say her peace and then she'll be okay like guess this she'll be walking around if she still could with heels you could hear her clacking down the road down the down she loves to go to the baseball game um basketball games she followed the Warriors however many years that she's been here she's been here 60 plus years she's been here more spent here
022been here more than she's been at her own home homelands but she still has that faith that that strength instilled in her and she passes that on to us yes we we hear all the messages that have been said about attendance be accountable and that still said at home I want you to be there I want you to be able to be responsible I want you to you to you know to take care of yourself told us go to school go to school go to work be responsible and I think we we have yeah we have our struggles and we've had like in everyone else we've had our downfalls but we pick ourselves back up knowing that grandma's going to be there she's going to hear it one way or another we'll be whispering over
023here like saying certain things don't tell her don't tell her but she'll find out but it's always something that she has to say to us and I'm glad she was able to sit in that bus seat driver's bus so she could see and ride in those buses to see what our kids go through her working here at the school district gave her that extra step being on Schoolboard to see what behind the scenes were to where she sat on the Schoolboard and when I heard 10 years 12 years I mean like the kindergarten is probably graduating now with the time she was here or in 10th Grade that's how long and she's she's been here to share with you all I just want to say thank you again and she make a lot of friends
024she's made a lot of friends and she's always talking about you too it's all good and school members and the former ones and her friends probably all know our life stories with what she shared with you but it's um again I just wanted to say thank you my mom is full Navajo she's intill that with us all them have have taken her have her um honorable Tribal member but she's not getting her 750 we'll probably I'll dis give her some but she should she's lived here long enough and she'll be here for much longer time just want to thank my family for being here and those that are with us in spirit and those that are above watching over her because if it wasn't for all of us you know we won't be a family
025and just like your school family your work family that's what keeps you going that's what she's instilled with us be nice say hi good morning That's How Strong this woman is this lady our grandma our great grandma sha so thank you for being here with us and thank you for sharing her life thank you we thank you and I believe you thank you and I believe you also have some words that you want to uh read me I believe you have a no there going to be a long one thank you [Music] all thank you thank you [Music] I'm e and superintendent president Mr board clerk Miss Vance board members svia Hendrick and and Marie thank you we your kind words and and uh I enjoy serving um I enjoy serving on as a baba
026K UniFi school district U school board member I love every moment of my my 12 years serving I wanted to serve to help the best education for our students and hire highly qualified teachers and retain them better pay for our support staff we are responsible to hire a leader to lead our school and we have gone through so many superintendents some are okay some are not now anyway I I work I just want to say that I did work with the school district for 15 years and every time I think about what I'm going to say this it seems like want to go back to that school district and my years there but um but the last uh two years of my employment there was U we had a superintendent that I did I wasn't
027very F of uh the way he it turning out and he it was on contract renewal time for our certified staff and and he he did not sign several of our teachers we had um foreign teachers as well the first superintendent I worked for he was able to get 10 foreign teachers and uh as the years went by four of them left on their own and those that stayed there's only one that stayed and she's still here thank thank goodness but those that were here they uh the contracts were not renewed but I'm I'm alluding to is um that one teacher um at the high school she was either science or physics teacher and every now and then uh students compete uh at different schools and they have a project that they that they work
028on and they compete whatever project they make and and go to the county and and um show their pro pro project what what they made at their school and this teacher helped them with this project and they won first place at Puma County and after that um they went to state was in Phoenix and there they won first place again and then they went to National and I don't remember what kind of recognition they got but um what I'm saying is uh she was um the the best teacher why he why he let her go I don't know but um but later on I found out that he didn't want to sign her visa it was time for her visa the time was coming up soon but right now she's up in the Navajo reservation
029and she's doing a great job up there right now as far as I know she's still there and um and and that that was um why that we need a leader that that's um not that kind of person a leadership be someone that cares for our our school our teachers our staff and lead them especially on our teachers we're very thankful for our teachers that we have now and um and um we always talk about attendance and I I hope um that we reach that 100% someday but um but it's all up to the parents to send their kids to school it it work both ways parents and good teachers um there was in and then so I was um I was appointed nobody else ran um so the two that the flight got on
030so we got appointed for the board member and U where the same superintendent I was working with was the superintended then and somewhere along the way he asked for assistance superintendent and so he the board adeed and um at that time um Dr Mo well she was eam Mo was at the elementary school the principal he recommended her to be assistant superintendent it was approved and I think he just planned it that way because not too long after that he decided to leave his contract wasn't up but he decided to leave so he left and and moris then was now Dr Morris and she was our superintendent Sylvia and I and the former board members were really well with her during her time we were able to um establish two policies one was um Indian
031preference and the other one was grow your own and then the other one was that um she she U hired um administrative I forgot what the title was then but um he recommended um Ruben Diaz with that position he applied and he went to the board and he got approved and he's been here I really really thank Edna for for doing that and um and Indian prence is working well and and uh grow your own is really nice we have um teachers that were teachers that are not our principal Miss andrig is at the elementary school and Miss Louis beay at the in school and at that time it was Tanya um Sovereign that was at the high school and but later on she had a different position and now we have Connie O say
032as I we just recently approve her for a super principal at the high school and so that work grow your own is working well with just um let um the staff know that they they can do it too so they can go back to school and I do a lot of education noways online so and um then the other one the support staff was that they always to me they were always being coming from the ba we they have the the pay is a lot better than the school they have that um Davis bacon wages there were other the custodians they're making more more and they all have those wages and there higher pay than than the school here so along the way we keep approving that they improve the the salaries for our support
033staff and especially our bus driver we have a lot of turnovers over the years we hire we hire them we hire bus Aid we we they being they were trained to be bus drivers and after what two or three years they leave leave for better pay so that was one of our fors goal to raise the pay for our bus drivers and um Happ uh anyway right now we're we're working with um gr thank you so much for being our superintendent I appreciate that very much and he really really education Orient I said that to him too when he was he wasn't a superintendent I said that to him he was great I just hope that he doesn't he doesn't leave I mean he's said really working um hard with our our principls and our
034teachers he was always out there with them you all the training that he provides them and so I'm very grateful for him to be for him being a superintendent here and I thank the board for their support in know in our meetings and we were really well with the board I don't think we ever argued or fight and we we we did really well and the the three board members and president Bia and Miss Vance and Miss Stevens when they came on board that they help us do the um mission and vision statement I really like that I really like those statement I appreciate that very much and it was that to me that's the best statement so thank you for that thank you and um then we also won several Awards um being board
035members at the county and at asba and we had um syvia and Mr B that serve on the Indian Indian education yeah they were they were officers at one time so and so um the the highest award um that that U the school that the board members earn is call L Al claim Excellence award in government governance award and this is an asba highest honor for a full board this award recognizes an Arizona school board that has demonstrated outstanding education leadership for the year it is nam in honor of it it is named in honor and memory of a former executive director Lou Al clean who serve iation from 1971 to 1991 that award it just go from school to school just have it here for a year then it go on to at the
036school the golden bow and can't remember what the background was on that one but with that that was one by our school too and um and I just want to think all our um all our departments um operations thank you Mr Rola for um up keeping us upkeep on all the construction that's going on and I know you don't have a full a full um staff but you're doing know there you can with the work that the the boys the men that you had on board doing everything possible to keep us keep everything up to par and transportation and it's going really well now that we have a everything changed about a year or two ago so and we are happy the way it's going now and I think Personnel um miss m Mrs me
037and the girls and finance and u i I feel like I'm leaving at a a good time we have um we have um Native principles we have native um assistant super assistant principal and we had several native teachers and we love all our teachers and we we um we just thank them for all the teaching they are doing to our kids and it's improving with the guideline superintendent and um and I just want to thank Ben for for being a board secretary and I thank him so much for always having our travel um conference um ready for us I really appreciate that B I know your long hours and also Aaron and his staff I don't think we ever had any computer problems and he really upgraded everything here not when I was a secretary
038here you know had was T recorder and changing the tapes and stuff and know this is really a nice place and I thank you and for God miss you we love you you're doing your work and Miss Patrick gr thank you for for the for your work and um and I want to thank clementin I know for a long time when I started working here um the superintendent hired her and she was with us that was I guess I remember what year what year that was but I work here for for 15 years and she excuse me yeah she she worked here for a long time she's really good in finance but sometimes he can't work with superintendent so she left but Lord and behold he came came back and then she left again but
039I hope now she stays I'm was so glad when she came back but then and I thank you Mr Fox for I always enjoy your um report that helping those students that dropped out for for some reason and they all return and trying to get an education and get good working um there lot we have a lot of students that graduated from from Accelerated School and and uh I know one is working for us that I know but um but I'm very thankful I'll tell you a little bit how it got started it's okay anyway um it was the first superintendent I work with and U I guess he was out he was uh there was one lady that came in to see him and um he he said I have um I have a
040child that wants to go back to school but he's he he's doesn't want to go to high school because he's um older and he's in a lower grade and and he said well let us let us see what we can do about it so and he met this gentleman S I guess he already met him before and can became good friends and so they they got together and and started this um at that time call Al turn to school so this gentleman went around house to house almost house to house see if there's any students had dropped out that want to come back to school so he so we had students here it was kind of rough at first they were they were of course they were older and and uh they had that um
041used to be a building right here but transportation that used to be used as a FFA that's where the their school was but slowly increased to where where it's at now Mr foxes and we had um a walk through at um we do walkthroughs so I went to his school I saw all those students on the computer and engage and all that that really impressed me I really really like the teachers how they're working um with them so I'm I'm so happy that those students are able to go go back to school and make a a living for themselves so in in that's all I have to say and I really work really well that um I'm leaving we have um reliable principles reliable Deport dep operations Department transportation and and also in finance Personnel
042we're doing everything well and um I'm so so glad that is back and so glad rben pente is here to the school and thank you board members thank you all I'm not going way I'll be around I'll be at your community Gatherings and I might even crash your parties thank and the Warriors thank you let's give it up for Miss Ella gwood let's give it up thank you for her service thank you as you know you will never know what she's wondering about she'll say it as it is um the world has a legs and the cloud we had Miss Ella she was a resource U we have one more um one more gesture and I'm going to ask the Gover board members to come to the front so we can give her the last
043uh gift of appreciation to miss Ella and this is a little piece from our heart so we're going to come to the front go I forgot to mention that um the our school earned um letter C from the state that's right all of our schools we are we're moving up in the ladder um please go forward Miss gwood we have one more thing to give you um and as you coming in you had me worry for a second you said that we had some good superintendent and some so and so and I you had me wondering at the end until you clarify where I stand thank you Miss gwood um let me borrow the blanket as well for just a second yeah cuz we rented we have to send it back at the another night
044I'm just kidding and we want you to come to the middle you're the star go this way with the colors and we're going to hold it thank you and we have not only your picture but also your original name that was posted out there with all of our signatures a sign of appreciation to give you but before you leave let us know what would you like for your last picture a heart a dab peace number one a heart a heart it is so we'll get a heart and I'm going to volunteer you today all right I'm going to do it like teenagers do it now they like this which a little hard because I can't do it like that hold in the picture [Laughter] ready a one more time thank you so much I'm give
045your family [Applause] [Music] you have to take me with you one more as you heard change your phone number change your phone number I want to thank all of you our family members for being here tonight thank you for helping us celebrate and close one more chapter for the amazing board member Bella gwood at this point we're going to transition into the regular board meeting from the bottom of my heart thank you for the bottom of my heart thank you to all community members that are watching via streamline thank you President W back to you um Bates y okay um we'll go ahead and call today's tonight's meeting to order today's date is Monday December 9th 2024 as I call the meeting to order I want to share um as Miss el el may had
046mentioned um our vision and Mission and purpose statements are very unique to the school district and they really try to highlight and and what we want to do is continue to lift up and encourage um and embrace what we have come together to to not only uphold but of course to view into the community and support the District administration as they continue to to work every day for our students here in the community our vision statement statement is our students will be loved encouraged and prepared to Take On The World by embracing our himu our mission statement is we create healthy inspiring motivating developing achieving graduates and our purpose statement is we create a nurturing learning environment for every child every day with an additional commitment to support our himu for those of you who
047may not know himu is the aome word meaning our way of life and again we want to continue to lift up and hold as as members of the community and as public schools on tribal land uh we want to continue to encourage the use of the language our culture Our Heritage and as members of the community we want to continue to also um support that as much as possible so this time I'll turn it over to Mr sabala for a roll [Music] call we do have a quorum we continue with this evening's agenda let see is our Pledge of Allegiance please join us if you can stand for 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
048God indivisible with liberty and justice for all better D this evening is our routine business number one is the approval of the December 9th 2024 board meeting agenda are there any adjust amendments or adjustments to the agenda before we approve Mr Diaz President W we did not receive any recommendations for the him award so I will ask uh to please be removed from the agenda I'm sorry the hod do award we did not get any uh nominations so we will be taking taking information items number three will be removed anything else from the board if not do I hear a motion to approve with that change motion by Miss Sylvia Hendrick second by Miss Kathleen Vance El sto motion carries number two uh this evening under routing business our approval of the November 12 20124
049public hearing minutes governing board with your approval um will also like to approve November 12th 2024 regular board meeting minutes uh in one motion do I hear a motion to approve motion to approve motion by Miss anamarie Stevens second by Miss Kathleen Vance all that are in favor of this motion ju MO uh not voting St moot car motion carries number four is our call to the audience no call to the audience for the record we have no call to to the audience we'll continue with our agenda letter e our information items number one is the student council report Mr Diaz you have [Music] okay uh for the record govering board and for the record we do have no student council report this evening so we'll move on to number two which is our barbecue
050unified student barbecue Unified School District students at the month Mr D president members of the bo members of the board and members of the community at this point I'm want to ask uh please put your hands together to welcome Miss Enriquez to pleas present all of the students of the month so let's give her a big [Applause] hand the first time the student of the month check this out first step you need to come all the way forward you need to shake every everybody his hand and then we're going to give you your backpack and at the end you need to let me know how you wanture if you want a heart if you want thumbs up if you want to be number one or that okay so you have to shake everybody's hand and
051they come family members when they come in you come with and part of the success so we want to take your picture as well back to you Mr Right good evening um president buendia governing board members superintendent Diaz and our community members um our first student of the month was nominated from our three-year-old classroom Miss Vega her name is Aaliyah Escalante I don't see her um she is very helpful in the classroom she helps clean up areas that she didn't play in and Aaliyah enjoys having jobs especially the line leader when she was asked what she wants to be when she grows up she would like to be a teacher [Applause] um for kindergarten is Douglas Jose um Douglas is a quiet leader excuse me is a quiet leader in our class he always follows
052expectations and guides his peers to do the same he continues to give his best effort in everything he does he has shown amazing growth and we can't wait to see how much more he will grow Douglas wants to be a firefighter when he grows up for first grade from Miss Hernandez's class is Bren Chico we've we've had a lot of sick kids this past two weeks um Bren comes in everyday ready to learn he works well independently with a partner and in teams he is very kind and helpful to he is very kind and helpful to his classmates Bren always tries his best to complete given tasks and follows class rules he can engage in lessons by asking and answering questions about the concepts they are learning daily Miss Hernandez is super proud of how
053much progress Bren has made this year he would also like to be a firefighter when he grows up for second grade is desaria Dolores darari diaria consistently demonstrates a positive attitude and resilience in overcoming challenges making her a role model for fellow students her contributions to group activities and willingness to lend a helping hand have greatly enhanced the classroom environment fostering a spirit of collaboration and inclusivity Zaria wants to be a teacher because she loves sharing knowledge and seeing the Joy on her classmates faces when they learn something new she dreams of creating a fun and supp of classroom where every child feels valued and excited to explore just like the inspiring teacher she admires all right for third grade I know he's here um this student was nominated by Miss yazzi and he is
054from the house of Amistad Colton Lopez Colton has demonstr at outstanding dedication to his studies in the classroom he is a help he is a helping hand to his peers he is always willing to volunteer to help his peers and teachers Colton always brings a positive attitude to school and encourages his peers their commit his commitment to Excellence makes him a deserving recipient of student of the month Colton would also like to be a teacher when he grows up [Applause] congratulations Colton and last but not least is nominated from our art teacher Miss Ramos Arya Reno Arya is a bit shy and quiet yet she possesses a caring nature that is gradually emerging she showed a lot of improvement in the art class she's learning to communicate well and does her artwork very well Arya
055has made great strides in collaborating effectively with her partner and has become more actively engaged in class activities Miss Ramos is truly impressed with the progress she has made and is excited to see her continued growth Arya also wants to be a teacher when she grows up I will be hiring um yes next if Miss fabulous will come up from the intermediate campus [Applause] good ktic um president buendia board members and I was gonna say I'm gonna say it Dr Diaz we're speaking it into existence that's right I'm I'd like to ask Mrs Hannah to please come up [Applause] Miss Hannah tuala I'm one of the fourth grade teacher and I am nominating Mary L Pella for the student of the month representing fourth grade so shame buies what it means to be a ton
056Autumn star she has been consistent in her classwork and shows great behavior all throughout first and second quarter she is diligent in every subject and always completes her class Works assignments and read and respond and other school workor with enthusiasm and always on time she is respectful to both teachers and classmates treating everyone with kindness and helps create a positive classroom environment she is a role model for others by being responsible respectful and always doing her best she is attentive and participative in class and takes lead in team discussions for these reasons Marilu truly deserves this recognition when when asked um how can I make the world a better place uh I can make the world a better place by standing up to bullies and by telling people to not be uh to not be
057cyber bullying or verbal bullying I can make sure that there is no trash anywhere or on the ground I can make sure that people are paying attention in class and not sleeping I can make sure that people don't bully people that are that get B get bad scores on their test in conclusion those mentioned above I think can help make the world a better place thank you [Applause] now Mrs Martin our fifth grade teacher call Angela Martin uh I am one of the fifth grade teachers and I am pleased to nominate Miss catala Wilson for student of the month uh CIA has exhibited a positive attitude and has continued to work hard to be successful Catalia um is friendly and respectful to both her peers and the staff she participates in class contributes to group
058assignments and ask questions when needed I appreciate the enthusiasm she brings to our classroom when asked how she would um make the world a better place catala said that she would ask others to uh for their opinions and ideas and on what needs to be changed and work with them to help the community uh I'm so happy month Unity Kandi I don't see your in the audience this evening but unity's teacher said that Unity is a kind dedicated and very Cooperative to her peers as well as her teachers and staff Unity is academically consistent in her work is truly it is truly an honor to award Unity as student of the month so I will take unity's award and backpack for her the question was asked what would you do to make the world a
059better place Unity shared that she would keep she would keep helping keep the world clean by picking up trash that she sees in other places she would also like to help those that are in need and support those um mankind thank you Unity next Mr shaba is honoring khil baptisto who I don't see in the audience as well um per Mr shaba Khalil actively engages in activities and demonstrates enthusiasm for physical education he shows respect for his teachers and peers encourages others to handle handle wins and losses gracefully he works well with his classmates contributes effectively in group activities as well as help Foster positive team environment when asked what would he do to make the world a better place khil baptisto had shared that he would support to have a drug-free Community also supporting
060those who are less fortunate and make sure that people are able to lower taxes khil has my vote um next I'd like to ask the amazing Miss on to come up [Applause] thank you Miss Flanigan okay hello board members um governing board president wendia um superintendent Diaz and community members um we are going to go ahead and start off with the seventh grade um the seventh grade team names S Cannon as the November student of the month s is the daughter of Tamara Pablo her home Village is SS and her home district is CS s is an athlete playing volleyball with the babble keber Lady Cougars her favorite Club this year is Don onam history because she enjoys learning about her history her favorite teacher this year is Miss clovia Martin because Miss Martin is
061very nice and is also a good teacher after graduating from babok ke High School s plans on going to college perhaps the University of Arizona bear down her current career goal is to become an artist focused on Haney Sy would like to honor her mom tomorrow Pablo Pablo um she would like to thank her for taking care of her and for being a strong model of how to be a good person keep up the good work syy we're proud of you [Applause] the eighth grade team named skuya alasco student of the month for November skya is the daughter of shaing CA her home Village is cic and her home district is hian skya is an athlete playing basketball for the babok Lady Cougars her favorite class this year is math with Miss lanes because math
062is very interesting her favorite teacher this year is Miss lanes because Miss Lanes is a great teacher who helps her to understand math better after graduating from babok ke high school scoia plans on serving her country and joining the United States space force her secondary career goal after her tour with the US space force is to become a firefighter scoa would like to honor and thank her mom shayene CA she would like to thank her for keeping her safe comforting her and pushing her to do her best keep up the good work Gia and keep pushing to learn [Applause] Jensen Pablo Mendes is a freshman class student of the month for November Jensen is the son of Tiffany Pablo his favorite teacher this year is Miss Jella Koran because she's kind funny and a great
063teacher Jensen's favorite class this year's computer science with Miss Aaron Martin because he likes to learn about how coding works Jensen and enjoys making art and wishes that we offered boxing after graduating from Baba ke High School Jensen plans on going to college at the University of California Berkeley his current career goal is to become a professional boxer and to continue to make his home on the nation to help support his community and the nation to thrive one person that J Jensen greatly admires is his mom because she helps him to be at school every day on time and supports him with doing his best with academics thank you [Applause] Mom okay Kristen Hendrick is the sophomore class student of the month for November Kristen is the daughter of Delila Jose and Christopher hris her
064home Village is noik and her home district is chook Kristen is a student athlete playing softball for the babok KE lady Warriors she's also an active member of student counil serving as the secretary of the sophomore class her favorite class this year's chemistry with Mr aunia because she likes talking about science and doing the work Kristen's favorite teacher this year is Miss castoral because she lets us bake and cook wonderful food after graduating from Baba ke High School Kristen plans on going to cos cosmology school and she plans on pursuing a career as a cosmetologist Kristen would like to honor and thank her parents for being there for her and for pushing her to be her best self thank you you're doing a wonderful job [Applause] Kristen so exciting okay Jessica Orga is the junior
065class student of the month for November Jessica's mother Teresa Antonio and her grandmother is Lois Leo her home Village is Ponto Jessica is a member I'm sorry she is also an athlete participating in Cross Country cheer basketball and track and field Jessica is a stuco treasurer for the stuco executive board and serves as a bab as a secondary representative for CH District andam nation's youth Council her favorite class this year is beginning Automotive with nullum because it teaches her new things and is very interesting her favorite teacher this year is Mr San because he has a good vibe and is always highly motivating after graduating from babok kri high school she plans on going to the U OFA Jessica's current career goals are open and she's exploring her options Jessica would like to acknowledge God
066as her biggest inspiration because he gets her through all the rough patches and is always there to pick her up when she falls down you're doing a great job Jessica [Applause] we okay Mila Johnson is the senior class student of the month for November maa's parents are hanana Antonio and Jesus wendia Jr her home Village is cells and her home district is Sals District she is a multiport athlete participating in volleyball basketball and softball and don't forget cross country um Mila is also the you yearbook executive and is a member of student council where she serves as a senior class representative milela has no favorite class this year because she's enjoying her last year in all her classes her favorite teacher this year is Mr enus but all her teachers hold a special place in
067her heart after she graduates from babok ke High School Mila plans on going to college at Northern Arizona University and pursuing a career as a lawyer Mila would like to honor and thank her friends and teammates for all their support and love over the years congratulations [Applause] MAA okay and that's it for the Baba curi secondary campus Mr Fox come on up give it [Applause] up so you guys think I'm polite by letting Miss on go but I just like to hear you guys have to clap a little on longer for me okay so um student of the month this month I'll introduce you by her name in a moment but I want to be able to say what needs to be said before too much commotion happens um this young lady did 51 activities
068in a month she has already completed six credits which is 12 courses and what's funny is what motivates somebody well in this case I think that it's it's friendship and absolute competitiveness she is not going to let her best friend walk across in May without her so she put her mind to it early on in this semester that she's going to do what needs to be done to be done by May uh Miss scarlet and tone please come up here and be recognized she has outstanding you can you can tell by the Numbers she works her attendance is amazing uh her attitude is amazing she's a role model she she advocates for herself and we are just so proud of this young person thank you guys very much Scarlet thank you for setting a bar
069that I hope someday might be met that's a schoolwide three-year wide uh record so very well [Applause] done thank you again all so much for joining us uh for this very special portion of our agenda uh it is always always a highlight thank you again uh to all of our staff our our parents Guardians community members who uh push these children to achieve it is such a an honor to be able to highlight them at our meeting you're more than welcome to stay with us but we're just going to continue with our meeting you have a nice evening good night got it yeah got roll under all right we continueing with our agenda this evening we'll move on our next item on the our next item this evening is the bobber K unified scholership governing
070board financial report Miss Clementina [Music] car um the Student Activities please good evening president buendia governing board member superintendent Diaz everybody here um the fiscal year 2025 Student Activities auxiliary balances through November 30th 2024 are attached I hope you had an opportunity to review them the Student Activity account had deposited deposits totaling $473 in the month of November there were FFA Devil's claw sales BHS Babble day Club food sales and BHS basketball concession sales the total dispersements were $490 48 there was a purchase of $654 from BHS Duco for beverages for babo day a purchase of $425 from BHS volleyball for t-shirts and personal Iz cups from the for the volleyball team the ending balance for Student Activities account on November 30th was $771 33 an increased balance of $4,225 from the prior month and
071the student auxiliary fund had deposits totaling $4,284 from Indian O's Intermediate School Scholastic Book Fair sales a rebate check and and uh BHS basketball admissions there were dispersements totaling $586 of7 for BHS Cross Country Hotel BSN sports for supplies Scholastics book fair basketball softball entry fees and a $853 14 transfer from BMS to BHS the ending balance for student auxiliary account on November 30th was $3,768 198 are there any any questions questions from the board [Music] no and then um I hope you had an opportunity to look at the expenditures um we do have highlighted areas in yellow that have negative budget balances but that's due to to um grants that are currently in revision due to the carry forward information still being verified from ad so as soon as that's done we're going to
072be able to update the budgets um overall 60. 51% of the budget for All funds are expended slash encumbered leaving a budget balance of 39.4% the average for this time of the year for expenditures through November is 41.67% and BD has spent 2457 not including incumbrances are there any questions anything from the board than than you car appreciate you thank you next item on our agenda this evening is the barbecue UniFi School District principal reports Mr [Music] D president when members of the board at this point please help me welcome back Miss Enriquez M Enriquez please take it away good evening board president governing board members super superintendent Diaz I have submitted my report in writing I hope you've had the opportunity to read it unfortunately this month we and that should say November I
073apologize um we dropped to 88% um second grade is I don't know what happened you can go that's okay you can go back right there yeah um second grade is holding out they are still in the 90% um super proud of second grade um so we're hoping that we can get it back up for the month of December we have a couple of um attendance challenges for our students so we're hoping to see that increase back into the 90% TI um Erin can you go back up to the highlights at the top please thank you we want to thank everybody that supported with our him himash day um we had lots of um community members supporting with different activities um for our students we want to thank um Miss Valdez miss sudam and miss Medina
074we had four volunteers scheduled in of them showed up to help with the making of popovers which provided lunch for all of the kids all the staff and all the presenters but they stepped in and we were she left um but we were we were just moving really fast to make sure everybody got fed so thank you especially thank you to the three of them because we wouldn't have been able to do it without them um congratulations to the following students and families who had 95% or better attendance they had zero tardies um they won a turkey with the fixings so thank you again to miss sudam Mr Diaz Miss Cornell Miss Bond Miss Sylvia and myself for donating the turkeys for those families um I believe that is it Ruben unless I miss something
075um I did check the attendance from last year to this year to compare that November and you're still higher than last year so congratulations on that so uh let's keep the students getting sick during the month of November but everything that you're doing is working so congrats thank you [Applause] [Music] above the highest show was four five any questions from the board for Miss Miss V um I guess my computer had to restart but I wanted to go back to the report on where it shows the scores and you know I just wanted um the public and those of you online to see that you know for the scores for our students you know it shows that they are progressing so that's really good so if you look at the um the slide that one
076right there in the beginning the second grade was like and the red but look at there's 15 that are in the blue now so that that is like proficient right hi highly proficient so I want everyone to see that because it's important it's important that our community knows that everything that you're doing principal um oh my God I have blink it's good so everybody at the school is doing an excellent job I believe and and I know there's room for improvement and there will be um so I just want to I just want people to see that because they are moving forward and we're getting to where we want to be and um you and your staff um we have a great deal of thank you for you doing what you're doing so thank you
077I I wanted people to see that thank you thank you m [Applause] v first there yes sir she's pointing at the blue and I'm pointing at the red look at how much red has reduced and we continue to improve um and just for clarification purposes we are in the process of finishing second quarter so we will be have B2 hopefully in January uh with a new grafts um but thank you for pointing that out and shout out to our teachers and for our parents for sending the kids to learn anything else the board thank you Miss Enriquez we appreciate it thank you [Applause] Miss Flanigan you are up thank you for representing the prime uh the intermediate um we you are on behalf because Miss B leis should be a grandma anytime soon right that's
078right the clock is ticking the clock's ticking good evening again um president buendia and board members and superintendent Mr Diaz I'm hoping that you all had a chance to look at the board report that Mrs beay Lewis had shared with you but before we show our video I'd like to just point out a few things um first I want to definitely thank you for allowing me to present in Mrs Bay's absence again the intermediate has turned in their board report and I'm hoping you got a chance to look at it um before you show this video though I'd like to also point out that tonight's video has been um created by our first or excuse me our new sixth grade teacher um Alvin agular so this is his first year with us in fact he's
079just been with us for less than 6 months so we are proud to have him and I'm hoping you enjoy his video and just a few things from Principal Bay um we at the intermediate excuse me we at the intermediate it is my understanding she taught them so without further Ado I believe if we can watch the video C for [Music] liary [Music] thank you for watching our November video wait what character are we going to focus on next month next monning trustworthiness [Applause] thank you Miss Manan any questions from the board in advance I don't have any questions but I just wanted um the public the audience to um in the in the video where it had the students um all at the desks and then they had that piece of paper and it
080was in the four sections and then one in the center can you kind of explain what that is or why it is what from go ahead well we're trying to focus one on just collaborating and working as teams so what happens is that the there's a question posed to the students and then they collaborate as a team and share and teach from one another and that's good but one of the things that we were we were shared was shared with us was that those four sections are encouraging the students to be on their own and think about what the question is and write down what their thoughts are so each one does that and then the when they come together in the center and then they collaborate and give um one answer but I really
081like that so I wanted I wanted people to see that because I think it's really going to help kids to um uh promote thinking really thinking uh about the questions they are asked so thank you yes thank you anything else from the board just um Miss siia no I just wanted to kind of if you want to look at the attendance again but just wondering how the average for 23 24 for fifth fifth grade is 89% where they've had 90% Plus for the since July and it should be 2425 right because that's the school year that was but you see on the part right hand side it is how the school ended last year 23 24 so that we can reference to see if we are beating last year's record oh I see okay talk
082to us about your systems in place for I'm just kidding but I do like the question anything else for Miss if not thank you ma'am appreciate you let's give it up for M please thank give me welcome back hello again board members president wenia and superintendent Diaz um our highlights for this month is actually our BHS culinary 3 worked with the Desert Diamond Casino in creating their gingerbread Creations they were going weekly and now some of their work is on display at the casino in the big Ginger things um we also had our himash day um it was excuse me it was a success and thank you Miss Enriquez and um Miss Bay Lewis for sharing your teachers with us um we also have number three Mr M has was selected as a finalist for
083the Arizona Athletics teacher of the year um something nice about that is it's act um there are nine finalists in The Tucson area he is one of nine he will be honored at the U OFA men's basketball game on February 26th um as part of this um kgun 9 will be coming out to do a little video on him and when that comes up we'll let you know but that's just it in making um we'll find out at the end of February if he is selected as it but being a nominee is good enough because you know he's going to be honored and then basketball season has officially started our next home game is on December 20th which is the last school day which is a Friday okay for for e thank you so much
084Miss on Gover board members questions comments for Miss V um I have a question on the um testing course or the testing portion do you have a preest and a post test or there's just because I don't see so they we do have a preest but the way our benchmarks are set up according to district is for quarter 1 it is specifically on the standards that are done during quarter 1 so to align it to the full like preest is kind of like not fair because it's fewer standards that are addressed on this assessment so that's why it's not there like that okay I just wanted um clarification on that and then also [Music] um again congratul ations to Mr me on his um finalist for Arizona Athletics teacher of the year I know at
085one time uh there was a quiz that was given to um to us that um um which um sport um made it to or what was the like the division title not division titles but anyway everybody thought it was basketball and it was cross country so that was like something that was like we we overlooked that and yet Mr me has been doing a great job all these years and you know he's he's taking our students far and he deserves that so I just want to make that uh do that shout out to Mr me thank you I do agree with you that's why when we saw that this um application was up we had to make sure we nominated him to ensure that he um does get the um recognition he does deserve absolutely
086awesome was that miss m elme um I'm concerned about attendance it's still 0 in the 80s is there any kind of um information going out to the parents or to the students that yes um our actual our behavioral support specialist actually contacts um the families um but for the month of December or November there were 17 school days in order for us to get into the 80s 85 you miss 3 days so it's not like it's chronic I mean it is chronic but people were getting sick in November so it's my reason in saying that is if you miss three days in the month of December when there's a few more school days the percentage would be a little different yeah because um yeah it's like July remember July was like 70 because we only
087had those four or five days I did the math just because I'm Sorry Miss the seniors it's 80% I mean it I mean they they they be they'll be graduating pretty soon you know and I hope they make it Miss Mr Diaz U president members of the board em miss an um I pull out the records from last year to this year to compare where um how we are when it comes to attendance um as I compare last November from last uh from 2023 and 2024 to this year's 20 U 4 25 uh for the month of November you increase the attendance from 71% last year to 83 this year that's an increase of 12% and when I compare also for the High School um uh you increase the high school scores attendance scores for
088November from 77% to 84% and increase of 70% and as a schoolwide you all have also increased the attendance from last year to this year from 77% schoolwide to 83% so your efforts in continue to increase the attendance um we can slowly but surely continue to seeing um so those initiatives that you are um introducing the students are responding too um I keep an eye on November December and January but when I was compared the last three years of of attendance uh I did notice that there's a huge jump from the Middle School um of 12% and at 7% for the high school for the month of November thank you was that it from the board thank you Miss thank [Applause] [Music] you Mr Fox give it up for Mr Fox everybody good evening president
089buendia board members and superintendent Diaz um so our highlights we had a good month as far as uh we did some really cool and very educational field trips the snor and Desert Museum the University of Arizona you'll see those incl and Toc AG day in our video uh we added another person uh we'll add a couple two or three more well you'll We'll add we're going to add more but you won't you'll see them in in January um Aaron if you want can you go to the uh last page right keep going right there I want her to keep going down you got to see my BR no no I'm sorry keep going to that picture so you can see the top again and again and again we're very proud that we went three months
090with no real issues the only reason I'm bringing this to your attention cuz I know next month it's not going to be and again we had a little slip here early on in December um but we're very proud of our 79 students that are pretty much playing by the rules while they're there and there have been no there has been now but there wasn't any large incidents um and then if I would just like to look at our our completion rate numbers um because if you Aon if you let's see go yeah that way keep one more get we don't want to see that right there uh down a little more so on this slide we have the comparison of last year to this year and Ju Just November alone overd doubled last year's November
091this is with 79 students we had something last last year at this time so every month our students are doing more and more and more um and we're very very excited about that um because that's going to really help me with my grad uation rates U which will hopefully get us up to a b next year um our attendance is what it is we're working on it um when you look at them if it's in red if you go down a little Aon we'll we'll we'll look at the attendance keep going a little bit further so in the purple purple means it's on the right direction last month you saw the middle school was red it went down a percent or so uh this time it went up one but the high school went up
0925% um so it things things are happening and you know our 12th our 11th and 12th grade both went up in November which is good because last November they really took a dive I believe and I know Mr Diaz probably has that because we discussed it um so we're working on it and we're getting up there and the little gains really they they add up uh it might take us until May but we're going to keep getting up there um so Aaron whenever you're ready for the video [Music] good job got used to those little 30 second Snippets I I was special now I'm trying now I'm trying to speed the slides I got figure how to speed up I used to try to figure out how to slow them down just wait before I
093start asking you what your systems on place are um thought any other questions from the board for Mr what department the at the U was it the science I I think it was like science and geology yeah yeah you'd have to ask our in-house U OFA expert which is Mr Alvarez he's our field trip guy you know and and um I do believe they went down underneath the stadium where the rocks and a lot of cool little samples and stuff are and they they absolutely love the Sor Desert Museum um it's we take for granted that it's just it's just down the road from me but from these guys it's a far ways away and they experienced stuff that they're still talking about it the Stingrays the Stingrays were huge they got to feed them
094um which you know is something that that's a once in a-lifetime experience for some of us uh so we're very grateful to Mr Alvarez for planning all the science all the stem steam activities and the Mesa Club M Stevens the bikes that were donated are those given to the students or are they used on campus or campus well the uh y youth on their own we I forget how many participants we have Mr fro knows they brought bikes for every youth on their own participant I think that was probably about 16 or so and then they asked us how many mckin vento kids do you have so we gave him a list of that and they said well is there anyone else we said hey there's always somebody else so they managed to bring over
09536 bicycles they went out to all our students um it was very cool seeing a couple of them strap on their helmets and put the reflectors on and then they rode them home actually um so yeah it went to everybody it went to all pretty much not everyone cuz there's 79 students but many of our students benefited from uh they're really nice bicycles too I really benefited from that so youth on their own um I can't say enough about that organization they've they've made a world of difference for our little campus awesome if nothing else thank thank thank you sir thank you very much for your service you will sorely be missed thank you guys uh with that govern board we'll move on to the governing board member reports go ahead Miss passal theate graduation
096requirements um I think it's ikf um it says through the um graduating class of 2025 the comp competency requirements for FES to obtain High School can't read that right high school equivalency diploma a a pup pupil must correctly answer at least 60 Questions of the 100 questions listed on the test that is identical to the Civics portion of the Naturalization tests used by the US citizenship and immigration service so make sure yeah so I think that's next next year maybe I believe that part of the policy has to deal with the Effy test where the GED where it's it's the GED they have to answer those that Portion by policy now once they passed it but still our students at at the high school level still have pass the um Civic Civic test thank you
097thank you ready graduation I think you're referencing the GED program of the test students get grade sometimes I just wanted to giving us some marching orders yeah thank you Mella um Miss siia um I just want to thank the board members for allowing uh the change in in our meeting time um just because I asked every one if they're okay because I am taking thei hamash uh course that the uh the college is offering this um for I think we have 16 sessions that we have to go to and um so Bo you be your spokesperson when we're done but transl everything we're saying so thank you very much for allowing for the change for approving it um I did attent the um Miracle On Main Street I know that I haven't been attending very
098much just because of work and then also been ill quite a bit too and um trying to get through all that um but again um uh it was a wonderful turnout for the Miracle On Main Street um was so much happening that day the Miracle On Main Street and everybody went to the just parked their cars there and the parade came by and and um thank you uh it was a a wonderful lunch it was really good the the barbecue chicken and and all that and um yeah so that was what one of the fun that I was able to actually go to um that's it okay anything Miss Stevens oh she miss Vance turned in her written report I submitted my board report in writing short sweet to the point she list no um
099for for that for the board report um I put on there that I attended the Miracle On Main Street but I didn't put any details on there because that was going to be that evening and I wanted to make sure I met the deadline but um I had a I had a really great time time along with um um the primary school and um the high school and we were in the serving line so it was so cool we had fun and the food was delicious it really was barbecue barbecue and the corn and ah it was so good for those of you that missed out you missed out it was really good we had a we had a lot of entertainment there too and that was really nice so I really want to say
100thank you to miss Hart for putting all of that together and getting all the people there and step and it was a really great turnout so thank you for that um I think that's it and then on the the three previous things were the watrs um and I just want to really say I want to I want to thank the principles for you know having us go through the walkthroughs because I'm learning a lot and um it's just really neat to see how the teachers are doing and how the kids are responding and and it's just a really good thing that we're doing with with the walkthrough so I just want to thank all the um principles for for that um there is also um on the elementary I mean the um the primary school
101there's that multi- system uh and support plan that's attached to your um report so I really want to thank you for that because it kind of it really shows like what you're doing what steps you're going to do to make sure kids are on track and if they're not on track then these are the steps that we're going to take so it's it's more than just highlighting you know what we have like the the plan um so I really want to say thank you for that so that's that's all thank you m thank you Miss B no thank you Miss for her Mt as this plan plans coming I had questions but it's thank you for sub um I don't I don't have much I know that um same thing just a miracle I mean
102um I was in several different places all at once but uh nonetheless I always want to say thank you so much to all of the staff and everyone who comes together to make those uh community events a success it is such an honor and a pleasure especially to see you all interacting with the community um I always mean to to um I always mean to and I should have because you weren't here and I should have um acknowledged to the community members that everybody there is actually staff members for the district and that's their opportunity to to to get to know them but um next time I'll do that next time uh nonetheless um I think more or less I I don't don't have much so we'll we'll we'll continue with our agenda this evening
103so not holding anything up um we'll move on barbecue unified scho dist superintendent report Mr Diaz president when members of the board members of the community and uh colleagues um during the month of November it was a a very busy month um and a lot of events were taking place um I want to thank also the principles uh for their support not only for supporting the the individual ilts that we having and reviewing everything that we're doing to see if it's what we're doing is working or how can we improve um I want also to support uh thank them for being supported with the classroom visits and also the board members that are join us in the classroom visits um also I want to thank the the board members that have joined not only the
104the classroom visit but also all of the events uh thank you for your support doing the uh toono autum Nation meetings uh for um guachi as well as uh sales District thank you president mundia uh as well and thank you Miss Ella for being in the games and and you're the loudest person in the um in the audience supporting our Warriors um I have another uh a couple of shout outs as well um there's more uh that will be highlighted during the video but for the curriculum and instruction Department I want to congratulate them on the ongoing uh support suppor in the new teacher um inductions U they have ongoing sessions to continue the support um they have not only the beginning of the year but they have done two additional ones and also for
105collaborating with the primary um with these new amazing um um initiative or thinking classroom where the students get to stand up and collaborate uh the students are responding very well to that uh so thank you for curriculum instruction and for B for collaborating in that professional development uh to operation um even though he didn't not mention in his report I wanted to bring it up to everyone's attention the bble give of high school district and operations they are collaborating with OCC to establish an ongoing uh professional development um and preparation through the app Apprentice program so that we can take advantage of the plumbing electricity uh electrician and the carpentry program so we will be continuing the the that plan and collaboration so that our operations uh staff they can um take advantage of three
106hours a week of professional development and continue to get also certifications through Toc transportations I want to thank them for the ongoing maintenance uh preparations that they are doing to ensure that we pass the inspections for DPS from the social emotional learning um Department um all of the topics that you are preparing um for our students for six and grade including building healthy relationships taking care of relationships and now an important one relationships in the digital age thank you for those topics that you are bringing into our sixth and seventh graders to the sunrise house um again a shout out for the miracle main I apologize for not being able du to a family um event as well that was U taking place at the same time um uh and also for the workshops that
107the sunrise house is providing related to parent view um sewing and attendance classes the importance of attendance classes to the exceptional at Department thank you for getting our exceptional LED students ready for the Special Olympics and beginning that training and um at this point can we pleas please uh play the video uh thank you for mran for supporting me in putting the video together uh with all the highlights for the month of November how do you do that we have we're just solving these equations [Music] that wasn't it no that wasn't it that is um October's month uhhuh oh well no no no no no no no well um Mr zala and no there were good stuff in there please is that one that's and when I asked for Access San actually emailed it to
108me because it wasn't it wasn't on this yeah Weir yeah yeah yeah so I was able to watch it on email the we we're work uh he's going to work on it right now um but yes we need experience menual the links for whatever reason that we're not working and we were troubleshooting them today um but we do have the video I promise you nope nope BL once twice [Music] sorry come on on that note um I'm sorry takes Port NADA you you see do you see do you see it no there's a word for this CH we're almost there if you go to the December I mean November tracker I mean December tracker for the November highlights okay then we'll take a break 3 minutes minut 3 minutes good call [Music] beats did you
109send it to her she sent it to all of us but when I was when I Wasing doing the board was access we have a Tracker when I click on the [Music] tracker that's it that the one [Music] there's cake I believe you there's cake Hello everybody uh if you go to the left out here uh SF made some cake for Miss gwood if there's some plates and forks up there if you want to grab some [Music] I was going to say that when I was speaking all they get some computer she could she she learned she learned yeah [Music] over here video yes yeah there I know we made sure I asked her if we could put her in she said it was oh yeah they did they did great I love that picture
110get back tool tomor yeah they said I show the kids videos and whatnot can you make it funny say something funny yeah stuff I'll [Music] try uh all they're going to hit you with the epol if you're lucky that's all it is what'd you [Music] get is that new beautiful make some coffee a bunch of sugar in there oh no Alexia Alia Oh I thought it was like Yeah because it looks like it looks like constellation what is that harle Quinn yeah that is harle quin how cool that how's a princess who made [Music] the peaches it's a white cake [Laughter] no it's a white but and Saturday she going to have it well you waited and really you get it I turned that I just don't know congratulations did you get dinner what are
111they having what are we having every ready yeah yeah okay well uh go ahead and call the meeting back to order so we can uh get to dinner somebody wants their video you got dinner too um we'll call the meting back to order Mr D Aon call he doesn't have it on oh it's words that you don't know you are it's words that are that you do know around a word that you don't know you use the words around to get the word that you don't know yeah wow the first sound together begin [Music] St still we're looking at the degrees right here and there's an invisible one and since they're the same degree we're dividing the top I forgot what this is called We're dividing this with this one invisible one so but how
112you oh with a B battery can May eyes get closer to see how he's going to react whoa sorry super cool how is that even possible e questions or comments from the board for the super um questions comments if not thank you sir appreciate the report number eight this evening is our first reading of the Arizona school board's associate Association policy advisor again board this is just for your information at this point first reading at our next meeting Mr sabala correct it'll come back for actual approval yeah okay so if there's anything you want to make sure or recommend in these policies please make sure that you're forwarding them to Mr sabala Number Nine is our coaches and Club sponsors um Mark Justin maros for secondary project yes uh for just for your information again
113letter F is this evening is is our action items number one is discussion of possible approval the bar un School District FY 23 FY 2023 annual audit reports issued for fiscal year ending 6 2023 Mr Diaz or do you want Miss Carla Miss Carla [Applause] [Music] so there you go thank you so this is a annual requirement um ars1 15- 914 requires that school districts who have an adopted M budget limit in excess of $2 million annually shall contract for an audit Financial annual financial statement audit and the completion of the usfr compliance questionnaire school districts who expend more than $150,000 in federal revenues must also contract for federal single audit and in the spring of 20201 the Arizona legisl legislature passed legislation that requires the governing board to publicly accept the audits through a
114roll call vote the school district must also upload these files in the AR to the Arizona Department of Education and provide them to the county superintendent's office so I don't know if you had an opportunity to review the audit um there was uh after all this Fiasco all of the delays there was um I say only because I've seen it a lot worse there was only nine audit findings for fiscal year 23 um everything has already been uploaded we dodged a bullet um the ad wanted to put us on the agenda to withhold our state funding because we're so late with the fiscal year 23 but we were able to prove that we had submitted all the files the audit had submitted the fil so they took us off the agenda for it was actually
115today right Reuben mhm the meeting was today so we're they're not going to withhold anything so now this is just the last step for the fiscal year 23 audits is for the for you the governing board to approve the the reports so so the little email that we got because I know I got one um from the aotter general was just that notice that we were late in submitting it was actually from ad uhhuh so ad actually contacted the AG's office to confirm okay that they had received the file not from us but from the actual auditor so we did I had already sent it to them but it wasn't official until the auditor actually submitted the files to them oh gotcha okay yeah I don't have anything anything else from the board if not
116the recommendation is to um accept the FY 23 annual audit report it motion by Miss Sylvia Hendrick second by Miss anary Stevens M okay motion carries thank you Miss car number two is discussion and possible approval of Arizon of schools for the DEA and blind and bar UNIF School District Regional Cooperative agreement Mr Diaz president members of the board uh this is one of the agreements that we do annually uh we need the governing board to make sure that we can continue to provide um the uh those services for the number of students that do need it or that will need it or may need it um this is one of the uh M that we do annually to ensure that we continue to provide those Services I know we do it annually and for
117the sake of I understand that it's needed but I I do want to make sure that um I guess impress and Empower our staff if they're I mean I I've never ever actually gone to and seen the school and what our students are doing and maybe that's a point to make as a board member to be able to be there and to see um but I definitely want to make sure that we're also um making sure that we're advocating for them as much as possible I'm sure that they're doing everything that they need to um but I always want to make sure that you know we're not just approving for the sake of approving and that if there is anything that ever comes up or anything Miss Miss P please for the for the students
118that we have the few students that we have attending ASD um they include us in their their meetings when their when their annual review comes up to review their individualized educational program and um those meetings are just amazing because I I've attended several and um the parents are usually there and all the teachers and all the related service people who provide the child these Services they all share and and then of course they have the representative from the from us from our school it's usually me um ask our thoughts in regard to how the services are being um you know provided I mean are I mean do we feel that they are good services and whatnot and I usually tell them that they we could not provide the services that our children get from them
119because we don't have Specialists who sign who um work with um children with um who are deaf or who are blind and so our kids who go there get some really good services and then the staff the bus driver drivers who wake up in the we hours of the of the morning to go way out there to you know close to pass Santa Rosa to pick up kids and then pick up a few more and they drive them into Tucson and then they drive them back and um they they do just a terrific job and asdb has remarked on them as well that uh we have we we provide um Superior drivers for our kids to take them to ASB so for the um agreement we have with them I think our children get very
120very good services and plus we have an individual who comes to the um primary school um generally on a weekly basis to provide services at our school here because we have a a kid who has a a visual impairment so um I've been quite impressed with the U individual who provide services to our kids from asdb thank you Dr P it's very I very much appreciate your input I it is thank you Mr syvia no I just was kind of curious how many students um their servicing and then also I'm pretty sure that families appreciate the the agreement that we have with them as you said you know we don't have the Personnel to you know to take to do the work that needs to be done with the students but I'm pretty sure they
121all appreciate us providing that for them but I was just kind of curious how many are we are they servicing right now we have three over there have one at the oh okay going to be two so we have three that go over there full time and then two over primary okay oh okay okay thank you thank you if there are other questions I will move to um approve the item as presented second by Miss Kathleen Vance carries lgy this evening is our vote to convenience to Executive session per ars3 8-4 31.03 813 uh without objection a motion to approve is there second second second by Miss Kathleen with that if you are not and you don't need to be here we appreciate you Mr Diaz you're free to let yours go you're free to
122let anybody go that doesn't need to be here than e e e Mr Bates when you're ready we're ready you going to make the motion yeah oh second okay uh we'll go ahead and call tonight's meeting back to order letter H is our vote to reconvening to regul meeting without objection a motion to approve is there second second second by Miss syia Hendricks m m thank you we are now back in a regular session our action items this evening uh letter I action items uh number one is discussion and possible approval of the superintendent paper performance uh governing board members uh FYI recommendation is to uh for the board to approve the release of paper performance plan in the amount of $5,000 as presented are there any questions or a motion to approve second oh
123motion by Miss anarie Stevens second by Miss Sylvia Hendrick motion carries number two discussion and possible approval of the 2025 2026 superintendent contract governing board as you're aware uh we are approving the contract as presented by the superintendent I would like to motion to approve with the amendment to extend the contract um as opposed to [Music] ending um June 30th 2026 to extend to June 30th 2028 second second by Miss Sylvia Hendricks motion carries you can't go anywhere for a while [Music] you are not going anywhere you can't no take backs um so govering board for your information that um um contract will be sent to the lawyer for adjustments and then we'll go through the processes of signing off and getting everything taken care of so we're happy to have you for as long
124as you want and we look forward to continue to see you grow and and be amazing so letter j is our consent agenda this evening is there a motion to approve second motion motion by Miss Anam Marie Steven second by Miss syvia Hendricks M all right letter K is our request for future agenda item number one is the spring nap spring when is it I think it's in March it is March um there week do from March I have it right here I think I I I notified when we were asked before I said I would rather go yeah I would rather go to the spring [Music] yeah still Mid Winter it's going to be cold it's super cold C March I remember last it was so cold just it's still cold that cold the
125last year we went or was it no just that one night where we went yeah oh yeah we read that when when we went it was really you feel that face was cutting I didn't I like to go out I didn't even go out anywhere it was so cold 9 through the 11 so you uh yeah if we can make the same arrangements then you want that right yeah the scooter we want a push cart I with only one board member who else what only one board member we can make it work um there will be one point that we can divide and conquer um and we'll have some students okay mayth events what about the incoming M that will be a possibility um how long do we have a little time well be here
126next month start tomorrow so I guess I could reach out I can get number I have her number I'll her call see she wants to go doesn't want to go we're here anybody be the back she's Anna I can't go I have stuff for work already when is it it's March March 9th to the 11th the 8 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 and I'm hoping to pack all of the we're going to do the same thing that we did last time we're going to have our own visits and I'm going to we're going to be super packed hopefully on the Monday the 10th and half day on the 11th to see if we can complete those I can't go so you can go I'll be an alternate okay will umri and V
127did we have everything set up for the for the retreat do we have everything set up for the retreat sorry I moved on to agenda there okay remind remind me of the dates and remind me of the dates too which one the retreat um that is Janu uh January uh 25th in 26 oh you weren't here by the way did you send an invite for that I did with the items also all right be here oh be here are can you can you send the agenda i s the with the top okay on the invite and then then did you set up the delegate and the alter for the yeah I did I sent okay is that me I think it's me and you oh you're going after all no it's virtual so I was
128going to log in oh it's virtual for the 19th okay for the 19th yeah and I also have an update on the 19th okay on site or only what time is it at 3:00 but you'll be there yeah well I'll take my laptop I guess okay St been at McDonald's um go ahead Mr Mr Diaz president members of the board um Mr Fox had already sent the invitations for the graduation to start at 4:00 okay on the 19th at 4:00 eight students and it it's going to be at the intermediate uh gym to be able to accommodate um as with that then Sylvia I'll probably only be able to do the first hour if you'll do the rest oh really okay CU I'll be on at 3: and then be over there at the thing
129at 4 oh okay okay okay do you want to set up here to listen to oh that' be fine I could do that that will eliminate the yeah then I have to do I'll just be here and get on there and then go over there okay confirm so we can get S link B they'll send a link probably but eight kids are they a link I didn't get one but I can maybe they'll do it like as we get closer huh no I'm I'm confirming that so far we have eight students still that are going to graduate and each one and only uh Sylvia and Ella are going to go get our award CU we got a boore Award right and a nomination oh no I what do you mean why not So Pro hold
130on let me look at my videos any other requests board members anything else uh future agenda items if not is there a motion to adjourn motion motion by Miss Kathleen Vance a second m m m