001call this meeting to order and just a formality to begin with I'd like to excuse Dr Wright he's at a convention for superintendents we'd like to excuse also Diana Butler she's home with family and Jennifer Brimhall is attending my way of phone with us this evening so we turn the time over to Mrs Wright and her perfectly mannered choir for the Pledge of Allegiance thank you president Merrill and members of the governing board these are some of our first graders we have a show on October 24th it's a patriotic presentation at the elementary school at 6 pm so we're going to say the Pledge of Allegiance if you would please stand and join us and then we will sing the national anthem foreign [Music] foreign thank you [Applause] thank you thank you that was sweet
002kind of melts your heart to watch those kids do what they've done very sweet thank you we'll go right into our agenda now the first item on the agenda is a is the recognition of a high school character counts and I'm going to turn this next portion of the agenda over to Mrs dugdale board members governing board president so we'd like to introduce and is that going to be Mr Webb or Mr archibank I I've got it if we could have the students in the high school that were recognized for the Character Matters recognition come forward so we can let the board member see you come on up Eve Camille everybody come on Orlando you too don't be shy you guys are not like this in the schools so I'm not sure what's going on
003all right so we've got a list of students and this year we wanted to try and recognize some of our students that for some of their character trades so the first one was during the month of August was commitment so I'll read the names off these students were nominated by their teachers for showing some type of commitment whether it's to um a sport their academics their work something that stood out to the teacher so first of all we've got Camilla Enriquez and Genevieve gentoff Aidan Mills Eve guy porterau Jaden Harvey rickhorn Garrison Hill and Danny Gonzalez so those were the ones that were nominated the four of them are here to represent their commitment group those that snuck away come back up here the next month for the month of September the character trade is
004observant so again teachers are nominating students for being observant helping out others around them extra careful work on the on what's going on in the classroom so they recognize for the month of September Orlando kisse Samuel Allen Caitlin narcisco Sierra Jackson Andres Perez Finn sharp Luis Mendez Leah Quay and Ari Pinal so thank you for your contribution to the high school and for being committed and observing all you do we look forward to seeing more out of you guys thank you [Applause] thank you so much thank you Mr Webb I thought you guys want to speech or something are you good okay so I'm wondering do they get t-shirts or something for that they actually got their certificate at school already good deal thank you this item on our um agenda is a presentation from
005Mrs from Miss Blake about the future Business Leaders of America are you ready to come on up it's actually going to be Jack Woods he is the president of our chapter hi board so um Leadership Camp was a great opportunity that FBLA had basically the whole FBLA organization so FBLA has over 6 000 students enrolled in their um in their organization throughout the State of Arizona and um there are about 400 students in attendance at this Camp um and that basically it was all the officers from their respective schools the officers of the club and they train students on leadership skills and basically getting into the start of the year and working with members of the club so this is a great opportunity they helped us plan what's called our program of work and so
006we have lots of plans for this school year so this allowed us the opportunity to create ideas for a service project a couple more fundraisers and on the trips and then also goal setting for making it to our Nash to the national competition in June is our goal for our members and so this is a great opportunity and I appreciate the support from the board in the district on FBLA [Applause] there's some pictures and that's us outside of the camp um are there were there a couple more um and then yeah um this one each team has um they kind of split you up into color teams and they split up the schools and so you're not with anyone from your school on that team so that's kind of cool you get to that helps
007you um you know learn how to work with people you don't know and so my team won the most spirited Awards so that was kind of cool and that's us outside of Camp so yeah it was just it was a really great opportunity and we're grateful for the opportunity to go and I hope we can next year too so thanks uh it's in Orlando Florida in June so thank you [Applause] all right so we're gonna move on to recognition of the October October student of the month and we're gonna start with the high school Ethan Gonzalez come forward please board would like to present Ethan Gonzalez as the student of the month for the high school so Ethan he's a junior and he's we were all three of us miss penrad and miss Mr archbeck
008and I had the opportunity to visit with Ethan about some of his classes and we were super impressed with his dedication to his classwork but also just his thinking process and his plans for what he wants to do later on so he started out as freshmere he took a couple of Robotics classes I think that kind of piqued his interest on in the manufacturing and Engineering side and then he started taking AP classes and now his sophomore year he started with some AP and he's now continuing AP classes and also doing dual enrollment classes he's really stretched himself and applying himself and we see him going far in the future and he's got a couple more years to do some great things here at the school I know he he loves the digital photography class
009that he's in he's taking that for both semesters this year and Miss Cherry is really appreciative of what he does in the classroom and I know that he brings a lot of discussion a lot of elements to the classroom discussions as well so we're we're thankful for Ethan and what he brings to the high school and we want to recognize him for the student of the month for the high school congratulations [Applause] thank you all right next up is the junior high October student of the month here if I had do I have I do have Riley here come on up Riley we'd like to recognize Riley Miller eighth grade student um and we have teachers recommend our students for student of the month and I just need to read what a teacher wrote about
010Riley it is exceptional Riley contributes exceptional qualities to our BR community Riley has consistently stood out as a positive kind and intelligent student throughout her time here at Blue Ridge her unwavering positivity has created a welcoming atmosphere amongst friends and classmates Riley regularly goes out of her way to help her classmates and has initiated several acts of kindness within our school Community furthermore her intelligence and dedication to her Studies have earned her numerous academic achievements Riley's recognition at this board meeting serves as a testament to her outstanding character and her ability to inspire those around her and so that was given to me by one of her teachers and I can tell you that all of her other teachers heartily agree as do I she's an amazing contribution to our school and is a very
011positive role model we're very happy to have her here congratulations thank you all right and then next up we have the elementary school so uh just got to say before we start the students that have come before you uh came through the elementary and they're a blessing to us Jack uh just good to see you Excel and Ethan uh we knew that we could have predicted that so as much as they are busing to the high school they've been a blessing to the elementary so Peyton palian is our candidate for student of the month she's not able to be here she's a sixth grader in Mrs bromke's class so her mom is one of our volunteers she took a spill yesterday broke her foot and she's leaning heavily on Peyton so I'm going to accept
012the award on her behalf and um acknowledge her October 19th in an assembly but still wanted to share these words so these are the words from one of her teachers Mrs bromke Peyton is any teacher's dream she works hard and offers kindness to everyone I know I can count on Peyton to step up and help her classmates and help me just as important she takes her education seriously and always does her best Payton is example to her peers and we are incredibly lucky to have her at Blue Ridge so we'll honor her October 19th at our Awards assembly much thank you kind of looked like some of these kids had never had their picture taken before I'm sure they have but a little shy right all right we're going to move on to the recognition
013of the October teacher of the month and that'll be Mrs yes and Miss Williford is actually not able to join us this evening she is coaching this is first night of volleyball tryouts and so she is busy with that tonight um but we want to recognize her she's been with Blue Ridge now for the last five years and has been instrumental in our English language arts classes she is she is a strong teacher she's a fun teacher the kids enjoy her she also she had her classroom management is amazing and she gets herself involved in everything around the district so he's here at football games we see her at basketball games we see her volleyball games um so she is is extremely helpful always a great volunteer always willing to step in and help wherever
014we need it and we're super lucky to have her at the junior high thank you Courtney [Applause] all right we're gonna do recognition of October BR star awards so I'm up first for Miss A Foy and I don't see Missa okay I just want to make sure I'm so sure I can't see over there um so Dr Wright uh typed up a letter um to tell you about missa so I'm just going to read that letter so with great pleasure we recognize Mr Foy for her continued service on behalf of our schools and Community for nine years I've watched Mrs serve in various volunteer roles and as a dedicated parent and Community stakeholder throughout our association I have never heard Mrs speak an unkind word about anyone she is a solution oriented and intelligent and
015always willing to help finally missa is kind-hearted and a beautiful person who has shared so much of her time talents and resources with so many of us the BR fam the BR family now recognizes your efforts and shares its sincere appreciation respectfully Dr Michael Wright [Applause] Courtney I believe is going to present the next one I've got a couple more do I have isada here this evening it doesn't look like it um so I am I'm going to be recognizing Sada chadnov she has volunteered at the Junior High in high school um in a role she's a hydrologist and she helped our our Fab Lab our physics and Engineering Group LA the last last year with their Watershed program and helped get several thousand dollars in grant funding she's also working with our students this
016year again in the Fab Lab she's helping with water preservation in our area and she is getting other people from surrounding areas so we have some people coming from we had some Arizona Water Company people come and talk to all of our students in both 7th and 8th grade science classes and she has some gentleman coming from the spring stewardship in Flagstaff in October to talk about how to how to preserve our our uh Creeks around here are Springs and so she's doing an amazing job teaching students about water preservation and we're excited that she and it's all just of her own time so we're very blessed to have her helping with our schools thank you all right Courtney again and then finally Heather Fuller is receiving a br Star Award as well she's kind
017of the face of Blue Ridge Junior High everybody the junior high knows Heather Fuller she is what makes the front office function she is an amazing amazing asset to our Junior High and we I don't know if we could do it without her all of the parents come in she knows the parents by name she knows the students by name we have it's a testament to how much our students love her when we have high school students from 9th through 12th grade coming in every day just to sit with Heather and talk to her about their day so she is a pretty amazing person to have at the junior high and we are super grateful for her Courtney [Applause] thank you Kimberly are you gonna turn it back over to over today next item on
018the agenda is a annual presentation of navit by Matt Weber Mattel give you the microphone thank you Mr President governing board grateful for the opportunity to be here this evening um we want to bring up there there we go alrighty first of all just wanted to thank the people that are involved here this we one of the greatest sins is a lack of gratitude and we just appreciate working with superintendent Wright grateful to work with um of the administration here at at Blue Ridge High School and appreciate Lauren uh we've worked together on several kids this last year and just appreciate his support your CTE director and career technician is Chris Slaughter she's fantastic to work with and one to recognize Wade Stoddard tonight he uh represents the Blue Ridge School District on the navit
019board so we're grateful for his influence he has the best in-person attendance of any board member he's there more often than the ones who just live a couple miles away so we appreciate Tim so real quick just wanted to um we do not I'm going to skip over some of this because I want to jump to our primary purposes and just a reminder we really exist for two reasons the first is to bring that funding stream and I'll go over those numbers here in a little bit but we also provide some Central programs and I'll give you an update uh on those shortly but we we appreciate the opportunity to bring that funding stream to you and so how is that money generated that's from your students in your current ticket programs here at Blue
020Ridge High School and so just some of the things that we do then for you uh you know we do bring in some additional money for to offset the salary for their career technician we help with state certification and want to make sure that everyone knows of the funding stream that we do have so I want to bring in just a I divide it up into two slides this year because it was getting hard to to look at it on one and so if you look back from you start out with four hundred thousand a little over 400 000 and fy1 and so you look at those numbers going over that period of time and then it gets real lean there at the bottom towards FY 12 and 13 and that is because of the
021legislature of 2011 that's when they cut our Freshmen funding so that's why you saw a big big drop there and so then this second slide is is more recent and so if you look at those numbers there I'm excited to report that your enrollment is up and so our estimate this year is 415 000 and so you are over the 8 million Mark for the first time and so that is how much money that we've been able to bring into your district and once again that's based on your students and your current tech ed programs here at the high school and so let's take a look at the the list of those for a 3A School Blue Ridge now has the most CTE programs and so that's exciting to see that many programs being offered
022and uh and notice there that you've got some teachers that are covering two programs that's becoming more and more common to make sure that we're uh being as effective with our minimal dollars that we have and to generate your funding and we just appreciate um each of these teachers and their respective programs Wade and I came through this past week and we're able to take a tour of all your CTE programs Chris gave us a tour and just amazing amazing programs here and equipment and appreciate the hard work of your teachers one thing I wanted to really emphasize tonight is Blue Ridge was in the first four of our 11 districts to finish the state monitoring that was no small event those were over 30 indicators that the teachers had to be responsible for and
023prove that their program was compliant and in many cases into the quality area some of them are unrealistic to attain I mean some of them are asking teachers to go like go back and get their master's degrees I mean some of those just aren't even realistic expectations but Blue Ridge teachers are doing a great job on the quality side and I just appreciate their hard work so appreciate what they do to make make this happen now just real quick I want to go over the central program list there so this year uh they added sports medicine and administration of justice and we've got network security that has been added and so we're excited that that NPC has been able to offer those new programs so everything that you see on that list except fire science
024and administration of justice those are all offered in Show Low fire science administration of justice and for those who are unaware administration of justice is really a pre-law enforcement program you have to be 21 years old to carry a gun and get on a police department so what do you do in the meantime and so this is an opportunity for them to understand uh an introduction to law and get a certification to become a dispatcher and so that they're still involved in the law enforcement types of activities so we appreciate NPC's commitment to increasing the number of programs and for those of you who have not had an opportunity to come down and see the new skill center we officially have both welding and Automotive totally moved in to the to the new facility there
025and we're excited about that beautiful beautiful facilities some wonderful equipment and we're so excited to to see that goal come to fruition and have state-of-the-art facilities for for students so we appreciate NPC's commitment just a few other things just remember that we do bring in 301 dollars in into your teachers in that we pay for professional development anything that leads to an industry credential any type of training or for Career and Technical student organizations so we we provide ctets off Capital funding and anything that helps your teachers with monitoring we also send your teachers to that and for the first time very briefly just want to let you know that the National Association of current technical education is the first year that their National Conference is in Phoenix and so we gave your teachers the
026opportunity to go to that and so we do have several of your teachers that took us up on that and they're going to be attending that in late November early December so we're excited about those opportunities for your teachers but above all just know that we we so appreciate your teachers and administration our partnership is greatly appreciated now with that I'll open it up to any questions any any questions Chuck any comments Jennifer you have any questions yeah um I just want to make a comment that I'm pleasantly surprised that you've increased the number of programs in navit by 50 percent in one year yes it's been a huge undertaking and like I say we're excited we're excited to have those added opportunities for your students excellent we used to we're used to seeing cuts
027and wishing we had more and that that's terrific I mean kids can find interest there real well I think we just once again we appreciate your teachers hard work there's a lot that goes into documenting we just finished up with an auditor general performance audit and the types of things they ask your teachers to do it's not it's not good enough anymore just to to call your students your prior students and find out where they're working you even have to call and confirm that they really do work at the places that they say they are so just just know there's a lot that goes in behind the scenes and there already have so many responsibilities just to be there to be teaching kids make sure they're Teaching Standards and getting them an industry credential so
028my I tip my hat to your to your teachers were once again we're grateful for your partnership thank you we're grateful for it thank you Matt you bet thank you okay next item on the agenda is the content agenda on these items 2.1 through 2.5 are there any items in the consent agenda that any member of the board would like to take out and vote on independently or do we have Jennifer can can you hear us no items any others so we have a motion to accept a consent agenda as presented have a motion from check a second from Mark sorry all in favor say aye there we go thank you next item on the agenda is item 3.1 recommendation to approve the annual financial report Mrs dugdale we're going to turn time over to
029you president and governing board members all right it's annual financial report time they're going to pull my PowerPoint up here in a second um so this is just a report on how we did last year um with our financials so all right so just briefly what the what is the AFR so it's our annual financial report it's required by Statute um it has to be done and approved by you all uh by October 15th and uploaded to air Department of Education as well as put on our website there's some other reports that have to be done as well I've already submitted the K3 reading AFR to Arizona Department of Education then we'll continue to work on the rest of the reports as they come due all right so um how do we prepare for the
030AFR it's a lot of work it's a lot of journal entries as Mary can attest but we work through that all and get everything um ready to go we test for maintenance of effort for sped and maintenance of effort for title one that just means that the district is contributing their part of our m o funds towards those programs and we just have a match that we have to do with the federal government for those grants and we've passed both sped and Title One mno or Moe oh sorry I'm running two here at once okay so uh the next thing that we um have to look at is we have to look at all of our revenues and expenses our prop 301 which is our teacher performance all of our grants all anything that we
031spend money out of we have to go through with a fine-tooth comb and make sure that everything is meshing all right so here's our expenditures for 2023. you can see we're just above a little over 19 million for total expenditures for the district I mean you can see that there's some pots of money of where we're spending it from we spent a lot of federal revenue this year we got a grant from the governor's office for 500 000 so that really helped with our federal revenues foreign so here's how our expenditures are divvied up over our different um Revenue sources so our biggest chunk of money you can see is our maintenance and operation so that comes from our tax base and a little bit comes from the state for state Equalization but the majority
032of our money comes from maintenance and operations you can see we have a little bit of capital money we have a pretty big slice of the pie for federal money um that is that big because of our Esther money and the grant that we got from the governor's office we did get that Grant from the governor's office this year as well so that'll be nice and we do have some Esser money left so that'll stay big like that but next year after this year after that it'll get considerably smaller because the Esther money has to be spent and the governor's office will no longer have any coveted relief money as well all right so here is where we're spending our money by object code just out of the m o fund our maintenance and operation
033again that's taxpayer from our tax base most of the money you can see goes to salary and benefits and then a little bit of the money goes to purchase Services which purchase Services mostly is um people like otpt people like speech pathologists and teachers who have retired and come back that's that chunk of the pie that 10 right there so really we're spending a little a little about 11 percent on supplies and one percent on other stuff so that's a good chunk of money that's going directly into the classroom and staff at the at the district so you can see a huge percentage of our budget just goes to pay for staff all right and here is uh you haven't you haven't seen it this way because this is a brand new tool um that
034school districts have um but this is kind of an idea of what our classroom spending report is going to look like well our classroom spending report is going to look like when it comes out in February from the auditor General's office again you can see that a huge amount of our pie I don't necessarily agree with the colors but you can't change it it's a pre formatted thing but most of our Pie is in classroom you can that's that big piece of the pie student support those are those kind of two lighter purple and instructional support that's a big piece of our pie that's just showing that most of our money is going towards the classroom directly into the classroom and you can see there's small smaller pieces of the pie that we have to
035have here for to just run the school district and those are those smaller pieces of pie the official classroom spending report will come out in February this is just what we gathered with this tool from our AFR all right are there any questions the official report that the state puts out will be similar to this and it comes out in February correct yep as long as every once in a while you have to make adjustments to the AFR but it'll be very similar to that okay any questions from the board Jennifer no thank you questions okay we're supposed to approve this so we have to have a vote on this can I have a motion to vote on item 3.1 the motion I'll second it all in favor say aye thank you so much all
036right next item 3.2 recommendation to approve the revision of the instructional time model which we just had a hearing on are there any questions or any concerns about that now that we're voting on that that we need to discuss Jennifer all right can we have a record can we can I have a motion to accept the recommendation to the revised instructional time model that was presented in the public hearing a motion second from check all in favor say aye thank you all right recommendation to approve the early graduation for a high school student Mr Webb thank you the student that you have listed he's actually um was a fifth year senior I wasn't able to finish it in his senior year so he came back to us this year and completed the work that he
037needed to do and he actually finished it within the first couple weeks of this school year so we're requesting for approval for early graduation for him any questions about that Jennifer all right so we have a motion to can I have a motion to accept this early graduation for the student a motion from Chuck a second marker all in favor say aye thank you all right next item on the agenda is uh call to the public is there anybody here that would like to address the board at this time um don't everybody jump up at once huh all right I'll take that as a no right now next item on the agenda is just an announcement of when our regularly scheduled board meeting will be and that will be November 14th at five o'clock at
038this at this location the reason we had this board meeting early is so that we could get these reports in on time and take the pressure off of having them done in one day right right so next item we need to have a motion to adjourn I have a motion from Margaret second from check all in favor of adjourning say aye aye aye all right thank you very much this meeting