001doing nothing. >> We'd like to call this meeting to order and uh and I've asked Eric Cox if he would lead us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everybody to be here. It's great to look out here and see so many people here. We'd like to first excuse Bridget Wood. She had a family emergency she couldn't be a part of. So, um, Mr. Roliff, I'll just turn time over to you and you can run this first section of the meeting however you'd like to. >> Great. Thanks. I am so excited because the first part of the meeting we always get to recognize excellence within our
002district. This is a fun one tonight because uh Mr. Grace and Coach Kloff had a great idea for our athletes of the month to honor all of our all all region student athletes. So, Coach Kloff, how's everybody doing? Good to see you. Oh, I got to stand on the X marks the spot. I always forget to do that. Ridiculous. All right. What I what I'd like to do, I think something that's pretty neat, is we um we want to have all you kids come up here, all region athletes, if you'd come up here and line up real fast, we're going to give you the opportunity to introduce yourself and tell the board and the people here what your uh award was for fall sports. So, come on up if we could. >> Yes, Noel, that's
003you, too. >> Come up here and line up. Let's have our ladies first come up here. Over. Over over here, Molly. X X. All right. >> You face this face. Go ahead. Tell them introduce him. Tell them what your honor was. >> My name is Miley Hamlin and I got all region allconerence player of the year. >> My name is Caitlin Nippers and I got first team all region and second team all conference. >> My name is Marina Verdugo. I got first team all region and second team all conference. My name is Noel Harris and I got first team all region. >> My name is Carlo Harris and I got first team running back. >> My name is Jared Cox and I got first team offensive lineman. >> Uh my name is Daniel Rodriguez and
004I got first team linebacker. >> My name is Braxcluff and I got first team defensive flex player. Coach Kluff, before they all sit down, we'd like, first of all, congratulations to all our athletes. It takes a lot of heart and soul to just participate in a sport and um to be all region. That's a special honor. That's takes a special talent of uh effort and ability. So, we'd like to ask all of our all region athletes to come up here in front of the um Blige backdrop so we can get a picture of everybody together. Let's give them all a big round of applause. And and if I could, Mr. Rolloloff, just to let you know, none of our boys soccer players are here. We had several award winners that were were there. We have
005kids that really prioritize practice, and so that's probably where they are. We'd also like to say that all of our fall sports had either teams make the postseason or runners like crosscountry runners make the postseason. So we we had a very very successful season. Football made the postseason. Girls ambo boy soccer made the postseason. Volleyball went down and made the postseason. The 16 uh against Northwest Christian, they went down and played there. And then um Jet Gerardy and Caroline Brandon, both represented, they went down and raced at the cross country state meets. So very successful year. Very proud of our kids. >> Thank you, coach. Yes, we are. Okay. Okay. Now, we'd like to recognize our students of the month. So, principles. >> All right. We would like Chase Whiting to come on up here.
006Yay. I I guess we're supposed to look at the board. Can we look up here? This is who we're talking to right here. This is Chase Whiting. And Dan's going to throw me my little sheet over there. So Chase was actually nominated by someone other than his teacher. He was nominated by somebody else. And she said that he helps kids every day find the nurse's office and find the office. And there's kids that are crying and he puts their his arm around them and he comforts them in the hallway and he is such a good helper in the hallway helping kids get where they need to be. She said that he is helpful and kind and he his teacher his class teacher said that he works hard in class and shares great ideas. So we're
007so grateful for people like Chase Whiting at our Blueridge Elementary. Give me a high five. Yay. >> Hi. And for the junior high, I'd like to recognize um Isabelle Reek. Um she wasn't able to make it tonight. um being her, she has obligations in school, outside of school, all times and uh couldn't bear the thought of letting anyone down on those responsibilities and uh but she was super excited. But anyway, I want to say some really nice things about her. Um Isabelle is not only a fantastic student um academically, I mean, she sets the standard for her peers and um in so many ways. she um just sets the example in terms of just being responsible in terms of um how to how she handles her relationships in terms of how she inspires greatness out
008of everyone. Um and that's why her teachers nominated her because she just makes everything better no matter what she does and what she touches. And so we're proud to give her this honor and wish she was here, but we know she appreciates it. Thank you. All right, good evening. So, our high school student of the month is Kian Nuranho. Kian was shocked to hear that this he thought I was lying to him. Um, I'm going let you hold up. So Kian uh has put forth a lot of extra effort this semester and will continue this year doing so. Um he voluntarily made sure that he was eligible to be able to travel with our football team um with our he went down and photographed cross country for us. Uh he takes amazing photos and put
009in a lot of time and effort riding the school bus back and forth um to do that for the school. Um Miss Cherry was the one that nominated him. She said that he has an eye for details and uh and does a really good job in class. Um Mr. Wat also said that he is incredibly respectful and always on top of his stuff. So it's it's really great. Um Kian is he's a he's a great kid at the high school for us. Um you can always tell when it's lunch because you can hear his car. Um he likes to take it really slow in the parking lot. um scar is unnoticeable. So Kon also plays on our basketball team. Um so he puts a lot of time in and out of school. Um and he's
010he's a really great kid to have around and we love having him on campus. Keano All right. Um, Miss Butler, could you come up and recognize our teacher of the Oh, Mr. Robinson. I before Mr. Robinson comes up, I've actually had the pleasure of reading in this teacher's class to her students, to her kindergarten students. And come on up, Mr. Robinson. I'll be short. And it was just, it was a delightful experience. It's a well-run class. She has great relationships with her kindergarteners. They're already learning great things and moving along like they've been in school for a long time. So, we we definitely appreciate her. >> Mrs. Hawkins, please come on up. >> There you go. Okay. So, uh Katarina is a kindergarten teacher. reasons for nomination. I listed four. Number one, she's a strong
011kindergarten teacher. Uh what does that mean? So number one and uh probably foremost, she's got great classroom management. So if you go in that classroom, uh you'll see that the students are on task. There's u minimal inter interruptions in terms of student interruptions, which is tough in a kindergarten classroom, but she's got it down. uh the environment is conducive to learning. Kids are on task. It's a joy to see. Um and then the students are excited to learn. So uh reason number two, flexible. So if we need to reassign a struggling student, we're going to put that student in with Katarina's class. Uh and that always ends well. And then in addition to that, she embraces that challenge. So, reason number three, communication. She's an excellent communicator. I sit in on some of the um
012conferences, the Spanish translations, and it's just a joy to see how she communicates and how the parents respond to her. And then number four, she's just a flatout joy to be around. So, Katarina, thank you for all the positivity, all the positivity that you brought to our campus. While we're while we're waiting, I just want to point out that all of our all region athletes from the fall all ran track last year. Just just want to just want to throw that out there. >> Track's a great sport that helps all others. Maybe we can get some more out. Absolutely. Um, congratulations, Miss Hawkins. And for our next employee of the month, we have Miss Hoffmire coming down to recognize one of our own, Linda Haynes. Could you please come up? >> All right. So, we
013are recognizing Linda as our employee of the month. Um, Linda, I have a few a few notes specifically for Linda, and I think she'll pick this up. When it comes to Linda running our financial operations in the district off office as financial operations coordinator, she has got the right stuff. She is proactive. Um, she sees challenges coming before they even come into anybody else's mind. Um, she recognizes when things may be an issue and she has the foresight to to uh know how to make the changes necessary. She is responsible without question. When numbers need balancing or budgets need clarity, she's the one we can hang tough with. She is fun 100%. Even during crunch times, she brings an energy that lifts the whole team. She makes sure that we we keep things um we
014keep things light. um yet efficient. Um and finally, in every way, Linda helps us step by step towards better, smarter financial operations. We are grateful her for her professionalism, her positivity, and her charm that she brings to the office. >> We got we got a picture early. >> Somebody should take a picture. She always takes the pictures at the board meeting. Somebody should take a picture of her now. >> We came in early. Ah, okay. All right. >> And we told her she could get a selfie right now if she wanted to. So, >> and if you guys didn't get all those references, she's a big New Kids on the Block fan. So, all the Hanging Tough Step by Step. That's a group around our age for all you youngsters. So, um, all right. Uh,
015next we want to recognize our volunteer of the month. Miss Butler is recognizing our volunteer of the month. Thank you. >> All right, Mr. Jack Guestner, can you come on up? So, Mr. Jack Guestner was nominated as our volunteer of the month. And I told him, I said, "Hey, can you come on Tuesday to the board meeting?" And he's like, "I'm working. I can't be here." here. So, we're glad that all of his friends let him come and be here with us tonight so we could embarrass him in front of all of you. So, um when I told him, he's like, "Kyla, I get paid for what I do." And I said, "Jack, I understand you get paid, but really is it how many how many pennies per hour do you get? It it doesn't
016add up to a lot." He comes to the elementary, he brings the ineligibility list. He He comes in advance. He makes sure all the tees are crossed, the eyes are dotted, makes sure Kathy knows exactly when he's coming to get our little guys. He makes sure that they are prepared and great communication. He spends countless hours on this wrestling program that I heard. This is his second year. We wouldn't have a wrestling program without Jack Guestner. So, thank you for stepping up. Thank you for being there for our our little jackets and our junior high jackets. So, um we're grateful for Jack. Um we also not just in the wrestling capacity, but whenever we need Jack or Tony for anything, we just say, "Hey, we need you here." And they're they're the first ones to
017volunteer. They're the first ones to help out. So we appreciate the Gesters for being outstanding members of our community, outstand outstanding volunteers and outstanding community members. So thank you. I I just would like to say thank you to I I think we overlook them the parents and the coaches in in our youth in the activities that they have. they need special recognition too. Uh some of the parents are coaches and some of the coaches are parents. You know, it just works together that way. There's a total dedication in that and a lot of time given for that and uh uh thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making this school district what it is today. It is awesome to be a part of it and you are the reason it is awesome. So,
018thank you very very much. You want me to do that? I'll do that. Next item on the agenda is a presentation we're going to have by Tasha Hunt and is it Valkyrie? >> Valkyrie >> Cartiier. >> See, I blew it all. You know, >> I did graduate from Snowflake High School. So, you can explain every problem I have that way with pronunciation. Okay. >> That's not in the record. That's not in the record. >> Do you feel better? >> Yeah, everybody's leaving. >> All right. My name is Valkyrie Chartier and I'm new to the district. So, I started this year over at the junior high and I'm lucky enough to be working with Tasha on the 21st century grant. And if you're not familiar, I wrote some stuff down on what our goals are. It's
019uh the only federal funding dedicated to safe, meaningful afterchool programs for our students. It allows us to offer tutoring, academic support, enrichment activities, and family engagement opportunities that strengthen student learning and well-being. These funds supplement, they don't replace our existing programs, and they have helped us provide essential support for the students who need it the most. So, that kind of shrinks down what it is. And I'm gonna let Tasha. So I'm gonna be the coordinator at the high school for the the site coordinator. Um um so the first thing we started with is after school tutoring like that. We thought that should be the foundation of it. And so that's been going since second quarter, the beginning of second quarter. Um at both locations, junior high and high school. Um it's Monday through Thursday, 3:30
020to 5:30 on each of those days. And so our job has been getting tutors and we've been getting them every time. and getting kids to come up to show up to this. Um in total since that time we have served 266 students um at both locations. Um also we were also running Saturday schools to help um students earn back credit and things like that. So and work on work and stuff. So all right. >> All right. So on top of that, what's coming in uh 2026 and well currently right now the build and fly and the engineering team, the Sam Samsung solve for tomorrow is is a really great program. You can just tell with the kids that they just adore that program. But in 2026, we have a greenhouse which is going to be
021hands-on learning through greenhouse work, summer gardens teaching sustainability and responsibility. We have an art program, multimedia art opportunities that build and uh boost confidence. We have an ELA targeted tutoring which is a focused academic support with strategies to improve testing performance and a mountain biking club and that's a collaboration with uh wheel fund. So, they're providing um I think the bikes, the maintenance, they're going to help with the trails and um that'll start like spring summer and uh that'll help with writing skills, safety, and teamwork. So, we're super excited. Okay, for the future, we really want to grow this program. We've just started with a couple clubs that Valkyrie just mentioned that we'd like to start in the spring, but we really want to add more after school opportunities for our students. So, this is
022kind of our plea to the public. If you know an adult with a skill that they could share with our youth, we would love to hear from them. So, we're talking things like cooking or crafts or crocheting. Um me personally, I would love to get uh like a Native American heritage club or you know like language and culture and tradition like going and so if this is our plea to everyone if you know adult who has a special skill that they could share with our youth please tell them to get in touch with either Valkyrie or I and we would love to hear your proposal for that. But >> we also are really excited because she works at the high school and I work at the junior high. the collaboration between us and our principles
023have been fabulous. Uh you know the kids are coming over here at one point. So to be able to extend that program all the way through is fabulous. We appreciate your time. >> Thank you. I have I have one question about that about uh those volunteers that come now. They have to be have a background check just like any other volunteer at school. Okay. >> Yes. >> That's not real difficult. And Mary could take care of that for you. >> Yes. point them in all the directions to >> go. Great. >> Thank you very much. >> So, I just I'd like to add just um quickly. So, this will extend into a summer school program as well. So, this will fund our summer school, but also we've been able to transport students after school back
024home. So, our um we've had we've had two bus drivers, Justin, right? Two bus drivers that have stayed until 5:30 when the program ends to transport kids home. So that's been a huge benefit to the kids as well and their parents. >> Activity bus, >> right? >> That is that's awesome. I I have another question too. I just thought of um does this delve into u like counseling uh emotional issues with kids? >> We have not explored that realm, but that's possibility. >> I I just wondered if that something that >> might be handy in the future. Yeah, like definitely we this is meant to grow and so you know anything we think the students need we would definitely want to address that. So >> okay >> I have a question. How long is the
025grant? >> Uh Courtney do you know? Okay. >> Is it three years? >> It's a so it's a it's a five-year grant but you have to reapply every year. So we are guaranteed this year right and then we reapply again in um January we start our application for the following school year. Um, and so it's funded fully at 100% for the first three years and then 75% the following the last two years. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Thank you. Any other questions or comments? >> I just I just want to make a statement that the 21st century grant is a huge grant and um the amount of work that goes into it behind the scenes. I just I just want to thank the ladies for being coordinators and getting that kicked off the first year. That's
026a lot of work. So, I just want to thank you because there's a lot of unseen time and effort to get that off the ground and we we appreciate you guys doing that. Next item on the agenda is uh the consent agenda and board members of the board. Are there any items in the consent agenda that you'd like to take out and uh vote on independently or have a question on or can we accept the consent agenda as presented? >> Is there new hire here? >> Yeah. About new hires. Are there any new hires here that we need to introduce? >> Not here. >> All right. Then if not, we have a motion to accept the consent agenda as adds items 2.1 through 2.5 as presented. So >> I have a a motion a second
027my mic. All in favor say I. >> I. >> That looks to be unanimous. Okay. Item recommendation to approve summer camps. Uh this is a big deal. And I think uh who who would like to present this? I'm sure there's going to be some questions. We have two experts here. So the first expert will uh seed to the second expert I guess. >> So we we got together as an administrative team and this has been an ongoing question because we have so many schools from around the state that continue to inquire about our facilities. Um and just just a little back information, Arizona has a long-standing tradition of summer camps. Uh, this was a culture that started back in the late 80s, early 90s because the Arizona Intercolastic Association used to have blackout dates for
028when you could literally start practice and when you could do certain things and coaches, some head coaches that were trying to edge, got to get an edge, came up with the idea that they would get the team together and they'd leave the state of Arizona to go to California or Colorado or Utah to get a a week early um, practice on the year and they just used it as a camp as soon as you know the AIA changed their policy on that than summer camps came back home to Arizona. You still have teams that go to other states, but it's a it's a big culture here and coaches use it as an opportunity to get their teams away from home and and uh Lakeside Pinetop has a beautiful scenery, high elevation, cooler weather and obviously
029when you live in Maricopa County or Yavapai County or Panal County, the other places where it's really warm, uh they look at our place as a destination to come and and get their teams together and bond. So as an administrative team, we got together and we asked ourselves the question, you know, could we do this in a good way where we, you know, were able to generate a revenue to help our facilities and and take care of these ongoing issues that we have to where coaches don't have to either fund raise or the district doesn't have to fit that bill. and the district, we can alleviate the pressure on the district in order for the athletics department to be kind of self uh sustainable if we could generate that revenue in the summer. If we
030have schools that are willing to come up here and we can set up a program and a process to where we can do this responsibly, we can take care of our facilities and we can lease it to another team out of the valley where they can come up here and use it. That that's generally the idea. So, we put together a slide. I went together, you know, with some of the information on just the the goal of of the synopsis of what it is that we're trying to do. Do I know how this works? You got it. You got it. >> Oh, there we go. Benefits. So, we wanted to talk about what the benefits and the considerations would be. Obviously, with with correct pricing, communication, we got together as an admin team and we
031involved everybody that you can think of. building administrators. We talked to maintenance grounds custodial. Uh you know, Mr. Bosley's over all that. We talked to Stephanie Joiner who's over our foods. Um we got together with with uh Miss Mary Ford. Courtney was there as our our business manager and Mr. Roloff and we looked at the numbers on what we could charge campers to come up here, each individual camper. We put together a cost perspectus that all of you should have. We worked that out on three, four, and five day camps. and and we went through that and made that those numbers make sense. Um so just to go through some of these quickly, um this is going to really help us. We have a a wants list that's at the end of the slide that
032we're going to talk about, but summer camps provide the opportunity for us to generate a revenue to make it manageable to improve facilities, take care of um you know the weight room, talk about you know uniforms, things of that nature. It'll also allow us to provide um you know professional development opportunities for our coaches. I I don't know if people genuinely understand the stress and pressure that's on a coach to come in, take over a program and not just be responsible and accountable for the kids that you're coaching, but also take on um you know stressful situations like fundraising. A lot of coaches have to raise funds. And if you think about what's going on with, you know, uh, NIL money and college transfers, that trickle down effect is going to happen eventually to where,
033you know, kids are going to be able to transfer schools and we have to be able to give kids an opportunity to be here. And that's attractive facilities, that's nice uniforms, you know, updated equipment, a lot of these things that coaches really shouldn't have to worry about if we want to put the responsibility on them to develop a winning program. So, if we can generate that revenue, we can bring that money here by just using the facility for summer camps. That's something that we're looking into. Um, summer camps will give our district the opportunity to employ more people. You know, if we could get more grounds workers, custodial people, um, people to help with our summer food drive. I mean, we, if you talk to Stephanie, we provide Courtney, do you remember the number that
034Stephanie talked about on how many meals we provide a summer? >> It's astronomical number. I know that. And I apologize for not having that info, but just if you think about what she's able to do, if we could generate a revenue to help her have another employee, to, you know, have Mike have another employee, custodians, if we can employ people in the summer, and if they're a 10-month employee, we can give them two more months worth of work where they're not having to find something else to do. I I look at that as a huge benefit. Um if I go to the next one, we our slides continued right there. Summer camps will give us the opportunity to cooperate with the town of Pinetop Lakeside. Uh Melena's here tonight. She's right here. We've talked to
035her about using Mountain Meadows and using Woodland Park to rotate facilities. Um I've talked to Frank who's over that he takes care he helps us with with our grass. Um I I just want you to know last night I got a huge compliment from a gentleman from Puma. they were here for the basketball game. He said Blue Ridge High School has the nicest grass surface he's ever seen in the state of Arizona. So that's a huge deal. So, you know, cooperating with the town, getting their, you know, involvement in letting us use their facilities. They they want us to be able to do that because this is a huge tourism thing for the town. It gets people to come up here to the mountain to see what luxuries we have, things that they can do,
036and things that they can use. they're all about it and helping us with our with our facility use needs. Um, summer camps will attract quality programs. So, if you think about like schools like Chandler, Perry, you know, great 5A, 6A programs that come up here, we have the ability for our kids to compete against against those teams, which gives us the opportunity to stay home and we don't have to travel as much to go and find quality programs or competitive teams to compete against. And this just isn't football. you know, we're going to grow this thing and look at, you know, I've had people look at come look at our track complex. We have a cross country group that comes up here every summer that stays, I believe, at Camp Grace. They meet at the
037high school parking lot and they run all of our trails throughout Woodland throughout all over here in Pinetop Lakeside. So, they've been doing that for years. >> Yeah. Kiss the sky. We've had, you know, people that are involved in that. We've had interest in our in our track facilities. We have soccer coaches that want to come up here for cool weather, wrestling camps that would love to come up here. There there's a lot of things that we can do with these summer camps. Now, if we look at the considerations, okay, summer camps could create a strain on our maintenance team. All right, it could create a strain on our facilities. And I think if we don't do this responsibly, that could be a problem. if we have the opportunity to sit down and do this
038correctly and meet and communicate, set up a a camp coordinator, coaches that are here to be stakeholders to make sure that our grounds are being used efficiently. We have people here that when we're sleeping kids in the gym, you know, I've I've reached out to um you know, uh our our custodial and maintenance to make sure our bathrooms and our shower facilities are up to par. We th those are things that we need to look at and we definitely need to be um mindful of summer camps director coordinators coaches will need to plan and communicate these things and strategies and obviously rotating camps on three, four or five days. I can tell you the three-day camps throughout the state have been really popular. A lot of a lot of coaches are just looking into three
039and four day camps. Um if not communicated effectively, summer camps could cause concerns for our local programs. I know some of our coaches, I've had conversations, hey, what's that going to mean for the old gym? Are we going to have that? What about the weight room and usage? You know, what about if we have kids that we're feeding here from our community? Is that going to put a strain on foods? We we've talked to everybody involved and we would prioritize the use of our facilities for our home programs to be here and make sure our kids are taken care of. So again, we would coordinate with the coaches that are coming and bringing their teams in and we would make sure that all those facilities, even lunches, breakfast, dinners. We would have to coordinate those
040eating times so we're able to take the number of campers that we have and the kids that we're taking care of here. So that's what we're looking into. If you go to the last slide, this would be our our managing community perception. I know that we're going to push for a bond. I think this is a responsible thing when we communicate with stakeholders in the community, taxpayers that are going to vote on this bond renewal um or ability to pass a bond, excuse me. I think if they know that we're doing our due diligence and our level best to create a revenue to where the money that they give in taxes on a bond re um on a bond, they they know that the money is going to go to the right places, buildings, buses,
041books, things of that nature. So, I think that's responsible and I think if we communicate I I know I've talked to Mr. roll off that if the board goes ahead with this, we would go to the city council meeting. We would go to the chamber of commerce meeting and make sure we're getting the word out there. And people are coming from the mountain to use our facilities. Families are going to come up here and get those kids. I know a lot of these teams, their booster clubs come up here and cook for them in the evening sometimes. That's bringing tourism to the mountain. That's bringing people here to support our businesses. That's what people are going to want and I think that's a good thing. Um, last page. If you look at what our priority
042expenditure list would be as far as athletics, a laundry room. We're looking at getting an industrial washer and a dryer so our coaches can wash our our stuff. All of our coaches after games will collect our uniforms and they are washing them, okay, to make sure that they're taken care of. you have a lot of kids that go home, they don't have the ability to wash them or they don't know how to wash them correctly and we can ruin stuff and and uniforms are getting really expensive. Um, so that'd be something we would look at. Stadium lights, our soccer field and our softball field still don't have lights. We'd have the ability to update our lights at our football field, our baseball field. These LED lights are a lot easier to turn on. They're more
043dependable. They're cheaper to run. So things of that nature. Um, team uniforms. Again, I've said that. equipment room storage and security updates. An ability to take care of the stuff that we're spending money on and make sure it's inventoried correctly and it's not walking off. That's a big deal. Professional development opportunities for our coaches to be able to send them to clinics to be able to get them. That's that's the way that we attract top-notch candidates for positions when we offer the opportunity to pay for their professional development, to send them to a clinic, to get them in touch with with uh coaches at the college level to where they can go and pick up on the things that they need to help our kids be better. That those are things that we should offer.
044And obviously the continue improvement of our fields, helping support maintenance. If you look over here, maintenance, custodial foods, you know, summer employment opportunities, um, renewal and upkeep of equipment. We, we have some of the best equipment. Mr. Bosley's done a fantastic job. If you go look at our football field, our soccer fields, they're mowed with a real mower, and it's it does a beautiful job. It gives it a matte finish. Make sure that the the the grass is cut specifically to the right height that we want it that we can play on. That stuff's expensive and it needs upkeep to to keep our fields in working order. So, things of that nature. Um, grass seeds, sprinkler heads, you know, things of that nature. Facility improvements, locker rooms, weight room, training room, uh, gymnasium updates, field
045updates, and facility safety is everything that we're looking into. So, making sure we're we're we're an attractive school. It looks really good. Uh, I've always been told if you look good, you play good, you feel good. That's what we're looking into. So, thank you. If you have any questions, let us know. >> I have um Dustin, a lot of the stuff in the in the gym, in the main gym, like bathrooms and stuff doesn't get used because it went so long in disrepair. Are we going to try to get those back working again? >> 100%. And that would be something that that Mike would give us a cost on that we would look into and we could definitely update those things and make sure that we're taking care of them. I know that we have
046other facilities that are being used for storage that we would love to find a use for uh to make sure you know like our boys and girls basketball teams have a facility to meet in. Football is being taken care of, coaches offices, making sure that our PE teachers have offices and things of that nature. So yes, sir, of course we we would make that a priority. >> And I will just commend you the I was in the equipment room today before basketball practice and it's looks the most organized at this point of the year than it has in many years. So thank you for that. >> Yes, sir. we have a lot of people that that are, you know, that do a good job and and are actively involved in that. So, thank you very
047much. >> I appreciate all the work that went into this before you came to us that you've planned and discussed. I wouldn't expect anything less from either either of you. Um, I support this tremendously. I think in the past we just didn't budget enough money to cover um we don't want to come out even, we want to make money and we had a lot of things happen that had to be repaired through our budget and wasn't covered. So it just takes a lot of supervision and cooperation from the coaches that come up here that they're responsible for their kids, they're responsible for their own programs and that there's no destruction especially to our beautiful fields. Yes, ma'am. We would make sure and that's that's what the coaches would be doing. I know for instance, um
048I've seen camps run all over Xolo, Snowflake, Whole Brook, Winslow, Round Valley. And I've talked to a lot of those people. And of course, having stakeholders here to make sure that the the fields if they notice anything, they can move them off that spot where they're sleeping at night, the bathrooms that they're using, like that. That's going to all be taken care of. And we would coordinate that and communicate with coaches. And then again, uh, player behavior while they're here, make sure they're treating our our foods and our maintenance people with respect and using their manners and things of that nature, of course. And we would recruit programs with top-notch coaches that are character type people. Um, we we definitely would make sure that we're looking into who's coming and that they understand what's going
049to happen. I know that we've talked with Courtney about um that we would have a waiver. They would have paperwork that they would have to fill out in advance. We would get their rosters. we would know the kids that are going to be here. They would have to provide their own insurance to make sure, you know, that we're we're covering our bases and taking care of that. Courtney's going to be in touch with the trust. We just wanted to come here and beg your pardon on this situation and let you understand that the biggest, I guess, setback I face as an administrator, as an athletic director, is I have coaches come to me and say, "Coach, can you please help us with this?" And I'm really trying not to say no. I'm trying to create
050opportunities and find possibilities so that they know that we care. I can tell you one of the best things that you can do for a coach, espec especially if they're experiencing hardship or something that they're dealing with to be able to get with Courtney, to get with Ryan, um you know, to get with Chris or Kyla and make sure that we're putting our heads together and finding a way to get a set of uniforms for kids. Coaches feel valued. They feel respected. They feel loved and cared about and they they want to continue to stay in our community and invest in the future of our kids. And that's what we're trying to show them. >> I think it's great as long as we protect what we have and and spend the money wisely and that
051we can charge what we need to charge to do that and that it it's acceptable for camps, you know, for groups that want to come up here. We aren't giving them a gift. We're, you know, it we need to pay for what they get. >> Of course, and we would have a 100% transparency on what's going on with that money. If you get the opportunity to look at that perspectus, there's an amount of money that goes to every camper for every meal. We know what that that amount is on what that's going to cost. We we are going to add a little bit to that to make money for foods. We're we have money going into our grounds maintenance custodial money that's going to go to them for how they can use it. There's going
052to be money that's going to go into the athletic budget on how and then obviously with us being, you know, involved in the government, everything's going to you're going to be able to track every penny. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I like that. And I like that U maintenance gets a share because they do a lot of the work on the buildings and the fields. So, >> and that was our main our main focus when we started this conversation. I think Dustin and I have been talking about this probably weekly since June. Um, and with the amount of work and effort that that Bosley and his crew put into our facilities, we want to be able to support them with it. Um, and some of the stuff that we've we've noticed, um, we've seen, we've been
053watching for years, they're things that they're not priority type things, but they're also things that would assist us. Like we've discussed the East Campus gym bleachers are locked out because they don't work. >> So, they are just locked out. um the old gym bleachers, those ones over there, they come out to the court. And so what are we we've discussed what are our options for those types of things and and trying to figure out would it be easier to move those bleachers over here and put in two smaller sets over there so they don't come out. Or maybe it's to refinish the floor and have them move it over. um because it also pres presents a safety hazard when we have people walking down or they're walking under the bleachers because they don't want to
054walk down the side of the court, you know, something like that. So, we've uh we I think right now we've been talking about this every day, you know, where where would we place priority focus and and I've already talked to Mr. Bosley about the lock or the restrooms in the backside of the gym there and you know what will we need to do those and and we've discussed walking around with him and making a very specific priority list. >> I like I said you've put in a lot of work on this already and I appreciate that and go for it. I think I think it's Yes, I think it's great and the revenue would be greatly appreciated and the experience that our kids would have being able to participate something like this and the kids
055that come up from the valley, I think it's good all around and everybody should benefit from it. So, thank you. Great, great presentation. I had two questions that I was going to ask, but you answered both of those. First one was priority. our own teams get priority first and the second one is liability and I think you guys understand the liability. We don't want to be sued for something that another coach did that reflected on us. So those two things were my my concerns and you handled those just fine. So I think I think we've I've had my questions answers and I'm excited. Sounds great. >> Yes, sir. and and I can just you know you know to uh you know John's horn he's he's done a fantastic job kind of leading the charge and
056making sure that we're covering all our bases supervision safety always our number one priority so that that's every time we have a meeting every time we have a conversation about something that we're trying to do that that's that's the goal >> thank you >> I'd like to add one thing I I want to thank these gentlemen and everybody who's worked on this one of the things that I'm thinking of as we're as we're assessing ing our site for the possibility of what site improvements we need to have. I think the communication is very important to make it clear that we want to bring money from outside of the community into the community to help support some of our renovations that we need to get done at the high school. So, if we do decide to
057go out and ask for a bond or outside sources, they also know that we're doing like we're we're doing as what we can on the inside, too. And here are the things we're taking care of. And so we're just going to ask if we do for, you know, bear the basics of what we need to run the school and some of the extra things like nice uniforms and stuff. >> And it and it benefits our community, too, because all those hotels that, you know, parent when parents come up, they're all going to be full. So, >> and businesses, restaurants, >> coffee shops, and stuff like that. >> I do I think I think we've had great support from the city. Thank you Sterling for being here and I think we'll probably need future support our
058uh in Molena uh because the cities city facilities are awesome. You guys those are beautiful facilities and I think if we could share some of that even if it's going to cost us some but I I hope it wouldn't cost us anything because we're citizens, right? Thank well >> there you go. But I think I think that would be awesome to just share some of that uh city's facilities and just make this whole thing grow and be great. >> I think it's a massive undertaking already and I really appreciate the fact that we can spread the use of the fields around the city and not have it all like all the soccer going on on our one field. And you know, it just gives everything a little bit of breathing room and that and hopefully
059we can start out the fall sports with beautiful fields. >> Yeah. I'm not I'm not hope I I think we can do basketball and volleyball and wrestling clinics up here too. Oh, yeah. Along with track, >> so there could be some overlap there. I I don't know. You guys have more of a handle on >> once you learn what you're doing, you can just spread it to everything. So, >> and I think I know everybody up here already. Um I'm Molina. I'm the interim public works director for the town pine lakeside. Um, just to to go off of what you said, Dave, um, or Mr. Merrill, um, we and I I hope I don't overspeak too much, but we've never charged the school uh to use our facilities. Uh, the school doesn't charge us. Um,
060we're currently um, in fact, Mike, I just sent you theou for youth basketball. Um, so we have a great partnership already. I think it's important for us to continue that partnership. It it helps the town and with the tax bases, but also we don't want our fields to sit empty. We we would love to have some soccer tournaments. We can have we have full room for three full-size soccer fields. Those can also be turned into football fields. Um yeah, we don't have a full-size outdoor basketball court, but we have a small outdoor basketball court that we could do threeon-ree tournaments or outdoor camps. uh you don't want to go down to Phoenix to play any sports during the summer. You don't want to you don't want to have tournaments down there. Everybody wants to come
061up here. So, let's maximize what we can do and and continue our efforts to have a good partnership. >> Thank you, Melina. Darling Kaching, that's what we really need, right? All right. Thank you. Any other questions? >> No. >> Thank you very much for your presentation. I have one question. >> Who's going to help you guys do this? >> It's on. >> Who's the organizer? Colin, who's got the big calendar? >> It's a >> So, we have I I will tell you we have a lot of great volunteers that work year round and don't ask for anything. So, the great opportunity we have here and and again, I don't want to speak for Courtney, but I know with that 21st century grant, with the things that we're going to be doing with our programs all
062summer and the things that they're going to be doing to work here, like Mr. Rollolof talked about, if we can create that revenue and use some of that money to pay people to be stakeholders to help with this, um, that's that's what we're planning on doing. We're going to employ our own coaches, whether they're softball coaches, football coaches, wrestling coaches, you know, Mr. Merrill is a trainer. You know, Eric Cox is a physical therapist. We have a lot of people on site that are here that work with our kids to ask them to be here for a six-h hour shift, a 4-hour shift, and be able to do those things. If we can uh create an opportunity to pay them for their time and get them to be stakeholders and take care of our facilities,
063that's what we're going to do. And so, that that's kind of the plan right now. Again, we we have done a lot of leg work. We have a lot of experience. I you know, I've ran camps in in a couple of places where I've been. So, and and we have a lot of people around here that do it that we could reach out to for help and ask their advice. And obviously, we would appeal to the board and Mr. Rollolof and other people on on a directive on what we need to do and how we need to get that done and we would make sure we would we would fill those those spots. >> Good deal. Thanks. >> Good. Thank you for coming. >> Great. Thank you. So, next thing we need to do is
064um have a motion to accept item 3.1 as presented. Have a motion. have a motion right here. Second from what? All in favor say I. >> I. That looks to be unanimous also. >> Okay. Item 3.2 recommendation to approve a a co-op for the 202526 school year. Who would like Courtney? Would you like to address that or Mr. Rolloff? >> This is a spending co-op, isn't it? >> Yes. So, this is for this is to accept Equalis Group, which is a cooperative uh purchasing group that we have. We actually have a local vendor up here that we're using uh that is part of Aqualis and that is a they're they we use them for a lot of our transportation needs um and our CTE auto needs and so they're part of Aqualas but we are
065also having other uh other vendors join Aqualis too and so this keeps us in procurement compliance. >> This pretty much just a housekeeping item. >> Any questions from the board? >> We have a sec a motion then to accept item 3. uh two for the co-op regarding uh equisqualis group a cooperative for purchasing group have a motion a second from Margaret all in favor say I >> I that also looks to be unanimous >> okay item 3.3 um Mr. Roloff, I'm going to turn this over to you to explain what it is. You I know what it is, but you'll be able to explain a whole lot better than me. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. Um, essentially, we have our teacher housing project that's going in behind the love kitchen and the city
066has committed to um grade out a road for us. Uh they're going to put in the road and we are going to be responsible for maintenance of the road, but they're going to initially put it in so we could get it back um to the teacher housing, have a little bit more usable road. And so the memorandum of understanding is we're accepting their service to put in a road. >> My question is about the maintenance. Is the snow removal? Will the city do the snow removal or we will we have to do the snow? You'll have to do the snow removal. Meline is shaking her head no. Michael's shaking his head yes. So we're we're doing it. >> Um what kind of road is it gonna be? >> It it'll be a dirt road. >>
067It'll be great at dirt road. >> Um so basically what what the public works department will be doing it. Um there are engineered plands that that we'll be building off of. Um but the existing road will change a little bit. Um, but it will essentially be a dirt road um with just AB um spec AB that we get here locally. Um, but it meets the A DOT specifications. So eventually if you guys wanted to pave it, you you can pave it. But as far as maintenance, that was never something that um the town was able to do. We did have um the road named at a council meeting. I don't remember the exact date, but it is Gobby Lane. Uh so that uh that's been completed but and and then as far as snow removal
068um I think Bosley was shaking his head. Um we we won't be doing the snow removal on that. The the biggest problem that we have is well I shouldn't say it's a problem. Uh we only plow dirt roads when there's six to eight inches of snow or more. Um and it takes us our motor grader. So we would be focusing on on the roads that um that we have currently. Certainly, we'd be amendable to having a discussion to see what we can do to to assist each other. Again, just like the summer camps, but um that's just to answer your question quickly. >> That's one of those. We'll cross that bridge when we get there. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Snow first. >> Um any questions or comments about that? We all understand the limits of
069Okay, great. So, we need a motion to accept item 3.3 as presented. >> I have a motion from Michael, >> second from Siliana. All in favor say I. >> I. Appears to be unanimous. Next item on the agenda is a is a report from the superintendent. >> Well, I'll make this quick because my first item is that we're having a concert tonight at 6. And I'm excited because I've heard that Miss Olsen is doing some amazing things with their students down at the elementary school. And the junior high is going to be at the concert as well. Right, Dr. Johnson. So, elementary and junior high concert. So, I will be short, but that was my first item. Um, another thing I want to recognize, uh, Mike Bosley's name's been brought up tonight. The gentleman back
070here in the Santa hat. How many wares usage are we on that hat so far? Five. Okay. He has to make eight usages. Eight. Eight times wearing it to pay for it. So, um, I want to thank Mr. Bosley for taking the initiative. He wanted to light up the >> I think it's a great idea. >> It's cute. It's It's a little bit shy of Clark Griswald, but we're liking it. We're we're we're bringing the Christmas joy, you know. So, thank you, Mr. Bosley, for that. And it's it's a nice little >> when it went by yesterday. >> Wonderful. All right. Did Did you see the wave, Mr. Bosley? >> He felt the love. He felt the love. All right. Um, in addition, I wanted to say I met with the Blueridge scholarship committee this
071past week and uh Karen Rubin and some other folks from our city are doing that. Apparently, um, and I know Miss Gab works with a different committee, but apparently the Blige scholarship committee raised $75,000 for our students last year with some events coming in. And so that's a partnership we're really happy and we got to talk about some school events as well um going on and they we're excited to um continue to build those community partnerships. Um that's really helpful to the kids to get that and and our other scholarship funds too um that we work with. Um we're excited um we're getting most of the names in. We've had a lot of interest in our superintendent advisory committee. So, we're going to be bringing that in so we can take important items to the
072community and and see what the community internal. We have teachers, uh, classified members and administrator. Um, thanks Miss Stebons for volunteering to be our board member on the committee and we have some community partners. So, as we look at um assessing items in our school and continuing to get better, it's nice to get input from a lot of people. And so, we got that moving along. Our first meeting is going to be in January. I know we had committed earlier when we talked about salaries and contracts as the next issue, I'm sorry, that we would meet in January. We're already going to start meeting on that um in December uh next week. Uh Courtney and Mary and I, we're going to start looking at our budget and see what we can do to to maximize
073our resources. Unfortunately, there's a lot of things at the state level where our resources, we just have to be very efficient with what we have. But we want to recognize our teachers and do what we can to make sure we have the right positions and and pay them what we can with what we have. Um and other than that, um the last thing we're excited is it looks like our presenter who came and did our professional development at the beginning of the year is going to come back um in the spring and have another professional development. The teachers were really excited about that. So, we're excited to continue to move forward. A lot of great things happening in in our community and in our school. So, we're excited to continue move forward. And that's it
074for me. >> Thank you. Appreciate that. Next uh item on the agenda is a call of the public. Anybody that would like to address the board at this time is welcome to come do so. We'd ask you to limit your comments to about three minutes. Uh there are forms at the back of it. Doesn't look like anybody wants to do that, so we'll just move on. Uh the only announcement we have is our next board meeting will be Janu January 13th at this location at five o'clock. Um anything questions or something we need to move forward with not on the agenda? Perhaps we can direct staff to look at. >> I I have one thing. Bear down, forks down. That's all. >> We we don't have any comments about that. All right. Right. And we
075need a motion to adjurnn. I have a motion for Margaret, second from Sylv.