001folks who like to call this meeting to order I've asked principal Ryan Grace if he lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance [Music] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all welcome everybody here we appreciate you coming out this evening this this weather for ducks today and geese and ducks and geese is best for them we'd like to excuse Margaret God is he has to be excused this evening I'm going to turn time over to Dr right now for some recognition Awards thank you I'll turn the time over if we could have the first Mr Grace come up and make a presentation for your March BR student of the month so our BR student of the month is month easy decision is Luciano Luciano
002[Applause] things about it okay well I told me down to introduce himself for seconds [Music] um here I'm grateful to have this uh opportunity just to be here with all of you guys um that's it was more than enough good job so Luciano's got his whole family here tonight is Grandma and Grandpa his aunt and uncle his sister his cousins thank you so I I first met Luciano when he entered Blue Ridge he was in second grade and he came up to stay here with family and he didn't know any English at all and as as kind of years have progressed I would start seeing him in the hallway and high distance Canyon and just more and more and then when I saw he was going to be on my fifth grade class list I
003was absolutely delighted so he he is a remarkable kid he is sacrificed a lot to be here some of his other loved ones back home right and I I think the thing to know about Luciano is that like he is very caring he is very polite and um I just I love having around he's still he's just full of joy and sometimes when I send him places to another teacher to the office it's because I want to spread a little bit of that joy and apparently the ladies in the front office when I send you up there they really like you and they actually nominated you but I 100 percent of agree you're a remarkable kid and you deserve this okay [Applause] outstanding congratulations young man Mrs Hoffmeyer can you please come up and present
004the Junior High student of the month I'd like to help Zane gives Zane is our recipient this month [Applause] I'm going to read something that one of his teachers sent me I had lots of great things from his teachers but there's one in particular that I wanted to make sure I read to everybody um Zane is quiet but fiercely smart and uncommonly gentle and kind-natured he is at once a leader but also a collaborator his friends love to snag him for any group work plus I can always count on him to have an insightful response to classroom dialogue and high level answers on written word go Zane that was from Mrs bromke but was was definitely the recommended by all of his other teachers they were so excited to have Zane as our student of
005the month in addition to him being the student of the month Zane also was the winner of the Navajo County Spelling Bee so that is huge and he he also went on to represent Blue Ridge in the state spelling bee and did a great job so we're very proud of him and it was definitely a worthwhile award [Applause] congratulations Sam nice job Mr Webb thank you if I could have Bethany Thompson come on up Bethany is the high school student one so yeah and handle your next little award here and I'm going to read what was written about Bethany Bethany was nominated for the high school student of the month for several reasons she maintains a high jpa currently her weight at GPA is 4.6207 pretty good she has taken a heavy load of dual
006enrollment classes also this semester she has also stepped up in her role as senior class Treasurer in student council she's a big part of getting the Blue Ridge Pride back in our student body she's super helpful and friendly to all of her classmates and to the staff as well so thank you for all of your efforts Bethany [Applause] foreign good job we have wonderful kids and we're proud of them thank you for recognizing them for the recognition for the March be our Star Award Mr Grace will you please come up and introduce Ms demita temper so our March be our star is missed Demeter temper she's a sixth grade English teacher it's hard to find the words to say great things about Miss Temple because there's so many things that you could say about her
007she keeps her her grade level she keeps her class she keeps her kids everything is always front and center she is far more organized than I am and I can't think of anybody that is is as deserving of this as Miss temper we're very very blessed to have her in our school district and on our campus and our kids are blessed to have her in their lives foreign Mr Webb will you please come up make your presentation for Mr Rex all right please so thanks Mr Rex is he he is the master teacher out at the Yellow Jacket Learning Center so he oversees anywhere from 30 to 60 kids in the building and primarily the students that are in the Yellow Jacket Learning Centers here for credit recovery there to get ahead so they can
008take some other classes whether it's college classes or other things that would fit into their schedule so I want to and hand this to just relax and read the comments that were submitted before Mr X says he has transformed The Learning Center into a place where students know they must work and get caught up his consistent tough and fair with all students over 400 classes have been completed just in the first semester of school and this is a huge number of students who are now back on track to graduate he's a great asset to the school so thank you Mr EDS for dealing with [Applause] congratulations Rex thank you 488 courses completed now so wow that's awesome any other Dr Wright no sir all right thank you I do believe we have the best of
009the best here and we appreciate you and all your efforts our next item on the agenda is a presentation of the district spending report by Ms Kimberly Doug Dale good evening everyone president governing board members so this is a yearly report that's done by the auditor General's office they've been doing this since 2001. you can see there's a revised Statute up there for Arizona just saying that um that they're going to do it uh so what the auditor General's office does is they take all of the data from all of the school districts that submit their annual Financial reports and they crunch all of that data and they come up with the classroom spending report in addition to a report called the cedar report which is submitted by the schools districts for their Staffing and
010as you can see um there's about 11.6 billion dollars at the State of Arizona spends um on education which 9.3 billion dollars of that is the day-to-day operations of the school districts so what they do is they first calculate the state results um so that you can so that people that are looking at this can see how the state compares to whatever District um they want to compare it to so you can see that on the state average of classroom spending is 69.5 and non-classroom spending is 30.5 so just remember that this is an average and so averages can be skewed depending on the size of the district and the numbers so it's just a just remember it's an average so um kind of keep that in the back of your mind so what the
011school what the auditor General's office does is it picks peer groups to compare our School District Two and you can see in this list this is the group of school districts that the auditor General's office has picked as our peer groups in um that are in our group so whenever I talk about a peer group if I don't explicitly say up here on the mountain this is the group of school districts that they're comparing us to you can see Miami's in there Thatcher's in there cam Verdi round values in their holbrooks in there um to the cities in there so there's a wide variety of districts in this peer group so just kind of again keep that in the back your mind that they're not necessarily the peer group that we think of up here
012on the mountain all right so our district results so our classroom spending was 65.3 percent um and our non-classroom spending was 34.7 so we're very close to the state average I'm very proud of that um we're doing a great job of putting our dollars in the classroom and directly to students so you can see here that we did have some changes from last year our classroom spending has gone up 0.4 and our non-classroom spending has gone down point four percent that just means that we're putting more money in the classroom and going directly to students [Music] so here's just the demographic information for our school district it's just telling us things like what county we're in um and uh what group we're in see where it says that operational peer group that's that list I
013talked about previously that had Mingus in there in Round Valley and Holbrook and Tuba City um it just tells us our legislation District um what our percent of English language Learners are what our poverty rate is what our grad graduation rate is this is again all data that the auditor General's office gets from various places including our AFR and from Arizona Department of Education all right so you can see here it's just a table of our spending um compared to our peer group and again I just want to reiterate that our peer group is that list that the auditor General's office has put together um not the districts here on the mountain so you can see that um our district is above the state average but a little bit below our peer average in um
014student spending per student and I just want to talk a little bit about how even though some of the districts are in our peer group they're very different demographics so let me just talk about Tuba City for a minute so Tuba City is on the Navajo Nation and they're primarily funded by impact Aid so they are able to spend quite a bit more in the classroom than a peer group some of the other school districts in that peer group because their impact Aid is an addition to their state aid so that's extra money that a reservation school gets that we do not get that sort of funding so again these are averages and it kind of skews the data a little bit when you have a school district in the data like Tuba City for
015instance you can also see um that we um for our student our students per administrative position we have a great ratio compared to the state and compared to our peers so that's one of the reasons why our classroom spending is so high you can see we're very low on spending per square foot on our plant operations and we're very low for spending on um uh per meal as well so that just means that more dollars are going into the classroom so this table just talks about Transportation same table again we're very low on our spending per mile um for our peer groups again that just means that we have more dollars going into the classroom all right and here is just a table that shows spending by area and you can see um how we're
016different from our peer and the only place that we're a little bit above our peer our blow up here is um and administration and you can see that at a negative 31. all right so per purple spending um in instructions so this is on the mountain I just gathered data for Show Low and Snowflake and state average you can see that we're at the highest spending per pupil for spending and instruction at six thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars so we're above our peers up here on the mountain on how much money we invest in the classroom so you can see here on this graph our admitted students per Administration we have 85 students per administrative position the only people that so snowflake has a much higher ratio so we'll have to look in to
017see what's going on in Snowflake they do have a higher student population than us which does uh there's economies of scale so the bigger that you get the less things that you need to buy and or have administrative positions so if you compare us to like a school district like Alpine it would be a very different number because they're so small all right average teacher salary you can see here on this graph that our average teacher salary is 58 6 58 673 much higher than her peers up here on the mountain and higher than the state average that's awesome for us we're doing a great job paying our teachers you can see here over the over the years we've increased our teacher salary um since 2017 from 50 026 to 58 673 that's an awesome
018increase over the years of for teacher's salary all right so this table just shows our teacher experience index so it's just showing um what our average average years of teach average teacher experience and um experience in the um first three years as you can see we are keeping teachers and so our teacher experience is going up and our new teacher experience is going down because people are coming here and they're staying here that's what this is showing us so that means people like Blue Ridge all right students per teacher you can see here that we have um 17 1 17.1 students per teacher we are the lowest up here on the mountain if you compare us to Show Low and Snowflake and below the state average so we have small class sizes here in Blue
019Ridge [Music] our teacher experience you can see our teacher experience is much higher than our peers up here on the Mountain at 17.8 years compared to um solo and snowflake that's quite a bit higher than them and quite a bit higher than the state average again it's just showing that teachers like it here and they're staying here all right so here's some of the so in the classroom spending report they don't all only talk about classroom spending they also talk about um test scores so you can see here this is just a graph um and this is our peer group in that peer groups that I showed you that had Mingus and Tuba City and Round Valley and this is how we compare to them so our district is the orange and the light blue
020is our peer group and the blue is the state and you can see that we're doing much better than um our peer groups and we're almost with the state average and here you is a graph compare here's a graph comparing us to Show Low and Snowflake and the state average and how we've done compared to those school districts all right are there any questions oh thank you yeah uh not really a question more of a comment you were talking about the difference in the districts and and thinking of those peers and when it comes to utilities we're spending a lot more money on Utilities in the wintertime than districts in the valley or at a lower elevation and also on transportation since we're so far away from the Phoenix area I think we transport students
021more miles than most other districts and we also have to push a lot of snow that they don't have to push and the Valley schools have to have it hot in the summer but they don't have school in the summer so I think basically we have kind of a couple of strikes against us as far as this goes that aren't reflected in these numbers correct yeah and that's the a little bit of the problem with our peer group that the auditor General's office Compares us to because we have a wide range like I said Tuba City is an outlier because of their of where they're located and how much money they receive compared to a again a district in the valley is completely different yeah yeah I've said that all the rural schools are in
022a similar situation that Mr Waldo pointed out where we don't have the scale and we have these embedded costs for facilities our facilities wear out faster our buses wear out faster we travel more miles and so to be able to keep costs low takes an intentional effort I'm proud of these results I'm proud of the team for what they're doing well the way they uh come up with this I think we probably equate better with Round Valley because we're about the same altitude we're in a very rural area in about the same size and so forth any other questions I would just say and I think I can speak for the board congratulations thank you you've done a great job Kimberly and the full Administration Dr Wright your team appreciate what the principles what everybody
023has done and and we appreciate what you've done I think it reflects in the the Pride that our school has the pride that our teachers have in our school and the pride that our parents have in their children attending this school so thank you very much okay next item on the agenda is the consent agenda and board as you've looked over the consent agenda are there any items that you would like to take out and vote on individually or we have a recommendation to accept the consent agenda as it is presented I'd like to pull item 2.6 you know I was looking at that one too that I would like to take 2.6 out so we can discuss that a little bit and see what our options are because they are there aren't any options
024okay so uh so can we have a motion to accept the consent agenda with the exception of item 2.6 which will pull and vote on separately I have a motion a second from Diane all in favor that would be unanimous with those that are here okay item 2.6 a recommendation to approve the sole source provider Arizona interstellastic Association the AIA Dr Wright do you want to talk to us about what this is and why we have to do this Yes actually this is something we should have been doing all along Kimberly brought it to our attention this is actually a sole source provider I think most districts Overlook the fact that there really isn't a competitive person another another system to provide what they do but to do it properly you have to put forward
025for a sole source provider they're the only game in town no pun intended they don't want to administer all the Athletics so they have a corner on the market and so but we're going to do it right in in Kimberly's recommendation is we have it approved as a sole source provider I agree with the recommendation questions Chuck is do you turn your mic on check and there you go my question is I'm just curious as to how much we're paying AIA it's increasing um the last time I looked at is about 30 000 a year that might be greater than that because that's with the officials and everything and most of that cost is at the high school so if you think of all the sports we have girls and boys throughout all the seasons
026and it's tough getting officials so that that's that's my Kimberly might have a different figure but that's about we can look it up we can tell you but yes sir it's it's not cheap yeah I've never heard a dollar figure yeah because my understanding we used to pay officials directly from the district but now we pay the AIA and AIA sends them a check so we can't pay officials off anymore and I didn't mean it to come out that way but yeah we can't do that I guess that keeps everybody honest right what I'll do is I'll I'll come back to the board with that with that information curiosity all right so can we have an item I mean can we have a motion to accept items six 2.6 for the AIA Soul Searcher I
027have a motion from check a second from Diana all in favor that again is unanimous okay the business portion of the meeting item 3.1 um in compliance with ARs statute 15-351 the superintendent recommends the formation of school council committees I read through these committees we used to do this in the past and I'm glad we're coming back to it now I think it's great yes sir it is also a statutory requirement and this is the last part of the statute we have the parent handbook that's required already posted on our website prominently and now the next thing is to formulate these committees these essentially site committees and so we need to introduce these folks we'll start with Mr Grace if that is permissible and then Mr Grace we would uh excuse you after you were
028done sir I have a question in regard to this are we voting on the committee or the individuals of the committee this is all we need to do is there's no voting quality just has to be presented before a public committee so we chose to use this median as the public forum so we don't actually vote on it no sir okay um what exactly is the mission of this these committees I thought the people might like that an exact example will be when the board is considering to go out for any type of a of an override or a bond you'd form this committee and invite others to attend as well so if we're considering to changing the four-day schedule that would be another good use for both of these all three of these committees
029to to convene along with any other community members in an open Forum those are examples Mr Waldo good Mr Grace so at the elementary school our committee will be chaired by me and then in my absence it would be chaired by our dean of students Daniel Robinson there were some requirements on who could be on the committee such as they could be a staff member but they couldn't have a student on the campus that their staff member on um and so the rest of our committee as far as staff members go we have Beth Schimmel Justin resop Kathy palensar Janelle Henderson they're our staff members and then our parent Representatives we have Tony Reed and Michael Snodgrass Camilla kellywood and Stephanie morago and then our community representative is Jane Estes thank you Mr Grace how
030often will we be meeting there's not a set there's no requirement to meet there's not a frequency requirement it's just the requirement is to form the committee and so Our intention is to use them for when we're making School altering decisions that are going to impact everybody we would involved the committee to get feedback before we went to the board with a recommendation thank you Mrs Hoffmeyer good evening I do have a uh here and I say your name if you could please stand up so the board can see who you are we'll have and mine is a little bit out of order from what's on the what's on the agenda but teachers charity bermejo Angie granillo David Butterfield Jenny best and Chris Fawcett Amber fredland our classified staff members parents Ally Brandon Heather pahe
031candy Perez and community members Stacy Heath and Jeremiah Navarro thank you thank you Mr Webb alrighty for the high school myself and it's been right around there and then our start with our students we actually have one of our students here in attendance Orlando it was our student representative their student representative is Lexi artanola staff members we have Diana May Brittany and then forever community members we have Brittany Hamblin Abe Martinez Ryan Reinhold and then other staff members at the high school left in East London Jesse Garrett Daniel Rivera Natasha yo thank you Mr Webb you noted at the high school level there's a student requirement there's not a student requirement at the lower levels because of maturity and I almost feel like we need to collab for the first time thank you for your
032service you know I had to that's uh kind of like the first line when somebody wants to complain they can complain to the committee Members First right yeah oh yeah oh for whatever so okay next item on the agenda is item 3.2 recommendation to approve out of state travel request for our stem team I see we have a stem Mastermind here Mr Woolrich you want to talk to us about that yeah so with the master Rover team I have uh request for out-of-state travel um for NASA human or exploration Rover channels the kids have been working incredibly hard coming and after school weekends there were over NASA received over hundreds of proposals from over 30 different countries from 30 different countries they chose 50 some odd universities and only 16 high schools up to 16
033High Schools they chose only eight of them were from the United States and I went through the list and we were the only public high school in the United States chosen to participate that that deserves something accomplishment for the kids and they've been working incredibly hard on this we're we're getting real close we've had to dodge a lot of snowstorms and you know internet welding and you know okay it's raining come back in no blame for electricity in the water so they've been doing great it's really been a good year for blue route standing and we're looking forward to going on competing and hopefully coming back with another trophy we've we've won two awards for NASA in this competition and hopefully this year we will up the game and take a little higher though so
034I'll let them die I think this is a really cool opportunity um I'm definitely not the most like smartest person when it comes to this kind of stuff but I feel like it's definitely something that I'm very interested in learning and I feel like I grew a lot this year being part of NASA I'm very excited to go into the competition and I'll be one of the Peddlers and smile will be really exciting as a freshman and this being my first year at Blue Ridge I'm really excited to be able to participate in a program like this I've learned a lot of things from Mr Woolridge and I hope I can keep learning more congratulations guys it's an engineering club with the NASA in the in the four years that we've been running the club
035we now have kids that have graduated went through the program at every in engineering programs at every single state university um all the way across the country Cyrus was accepted to Georgia Tech College right scholarship we've had kids over except for BYU College of Engineering so it's really the kids are doing great it's really good okay thank you I wouldn't want to add Mr President if I may five years ago Mr Woolridge and Steve galker came to me with the idea we want to have this Fab Lab and it's X almost six years ago and we went down to the U of A and secured 125 000 in a donation and after Mr gowker retired Megan Penrod took the program over from the U of A side and now Kevin runs that site and manages
036the lab this is the only Fab Lab for a public school in the entire State and one of a handful in the country so this is not a small deal and since then Mr Woolridge has been Vigilant in securing donations he just submitted a 750 000 Grant and has done an outstanding job in organizing these materials and students and it is our objective to try to continue to maintain this Advantage because it is a competitive Advantage there's nothing like it on the mountain or in the state nice job Mr Woodridge we appreciate you thank you very very very much one of the things that things that NASA considered before allowing teams to before accepting teams of the competition was their facilities and the one thing that we had over and above all these hundreds and
037hundreds of schools around the country is in addition to the Makerspace digital fabrication lab the the metal fabrication stuff that we've been building over time that those were key things in allowing us to be accepted in as far as this competition is that we have the facilities where most high schools in the country thank you it's this like Jennifer said this is a big deal thank you uh something we can be very very proud of let's give another round of applause for these kids all right we need a vote then to see if we can send these kids to Huntsville Alabama and I need to recuse myself from the vote since my daughter's the one that's going right hopefully going if you we probably ought to let you recuse yourself okay since she spoke so
038well of herself and she's been working out so she pedals really fast so they will be a winning team for sure great all right so can we have a now that is Huntsville Alabama April 18th through the 22nd uh of this year 2023 so I have a motion from Diana and I have a second from check all in favor noted that Jennifer Brimhall recused herself because her daughter's part of the team okay I'm 3.3 recommendation to approve out of state travel for the chess team which is do we have somebody here yes Mr Van Etten and I want to add Mr President before we present we're going to recognize the entire team next month as well but Mr van and if anybody's here and you want to bring him up Phil's free suit you're free
039to do so please High School team I'm also here with Mr Adams and Mr lafran Mr Adams has been running the chess team brilliantly until uh you know he's going to be leaving at the end of the year unfortunately so we're going to be stepping up to take over um we have Orlando kise who's also on the Blue Ridge High School the uh what we just talked about earlier so we're planning on going to the Washington Nationals uh chess championships in DC uh starting next week um so we're trying to get approval to have that happen we ranked fifth in the state at the state championships although we are the first or number one public school there is a public school that's ahead of us but they're really bigger so we're really the number two
040public school in the state for chess um we've been working really really hard the students are doing excellent to bring their scores up I think that this is an excellent opportunity for many of our students who haven't even been out of the state to go to DC and play chess against some of the top schools in the nation but let's move on to the next page so you can see this is uh one of their our shadow chess picture um so we have Drake lavender Orlando kisse Derek Sanchez Trevor Klein Marshall Bennett and my son and Luke Brewer we also have Chris Velasquez who's our alternate who are all going to be traveling with us congratulations this is exciting thank you it should be a really exciting trip we get to do any sightseeing when
041you're in Washington DC we're going to hopefully take a day to go to the emergency good good experience great thank you thank you any questions sport if not then we have a motion to improve this out-of-state travel for the chess team have a motion from Chuck second from Diane all in favor and against past all right the next item really fast I think these two things are huge the chess and the NASA rover and our stem so is there any way that we can really you know do an amazing video or something so our community recognizes that sheer intellect you know we do great in sports but intellect is another huge win and I think that they need to know our spelling bee Champions and all of that so we can really start you know
042letting people know that their social media great okay um next item on the agenda is item 3.4 recommendation to approve the principal's teachers counselors and student support contracts for the 2000 23-24 Dr Wright yes sir Kimberly either one of you would like to address that I'll add um Kimberly can if you have questions she could answer my will add though we just sent out a survey and we said are you coming back or not if they said unsure we're not issuing a contract yet and they have time to do that they have two weeks from the time we issue them from the end of this month of the first and next about 15 days to complete it so if there are complaints that I need to get a contract because they said I'm not sure
043if I'm coming back okay so we're only issuing the people that say yes I'm coming back okay and then we'll have another round in April for those that decided they are coming back maybe forgot to do it like probably my wife [Laughter] and the mic off before you said that okay so can we have a motion then for item 3.4 a motion from Chuck and I'll second that all in favor that again is unanimous okay item 3.6 just an update Dr Reitman turn time to you yes sir I'd be glad to do before I forget there's going to be a chilly night event April 4th Tuesday from 4 30 to 6 30. did I forget one oh no oh no well oh I didn't I forgot the work study okay sorry sorry I'll take your
044time away from you good okay I'm just 3.5 item 3.5 we this is to announce the dates and we have to vote on these dates since we're gonna pull together so uh April 17th 18th 26th and May 1st these are for work study sessions to consider a bond election for 2023 Dr Wright you want to fill in the gaps that I left out yes what I was what we wanted to do and the board asked to do is give us a variety of dates and so we gave we're presenting these four dates that the administration is available any of these four dates work equally well for us but if the board could identify one of the four and then if the board wishes to have another one after that we'll identify a date it would
045have to be probably in May or June because we have to call the election by by June 1st so if we had a follow-up one we'd have to do that in the month of May if we have one in addition to the 17th or those are those listed my my opinion is earlier the better so I'm saying April 17th that's a Monday night we chose that those dates because of lack of conflict there's not complete lack of conflict fewer conflicts on the 17th of all those days so I'm saying that that way if we wanted to and if we found it necessary we would have time to put another one on the calendar April 17th Jennifer April says 17th works my calendar says that's tax day miserable [Laughter] come to the open meeting and vent
046your frustrations right Diana Chuck good all right let's do that and I'll just uh we'll choose April 17th probably five o'clock or should we do a little later let's do five o'clock in this meeting April 17th we have a motion for that date a motion from check I'll second all in favor okay that that's the date we will do that okay now I'll turn a remainder of the meeting over to you Dr Wright back to my chilly night ad Tuesday April 4th from 4 30 to 6 30 at the cafeteria at the elementary school there's a chilly night that's cooked chili not clearly come without a coat time chili this is this is cooked chili cooked chili chili beans with meat and uh five dollars a person or four more group of twenty dollars for
047a family and the treats are only and the drinks are only a dollar all proceeds go to the elementary student council there's one on the 30th of this month at six o'clock until 7 30 in this room we'll have a seminar on fentanyl this is a growing crisis in our area and across the country and there's not a lot of awareness we're encouraging community members parents kids anyone interested to come that will be again six o'clock here at this in this facility on the 30th of this month we encourage you to bring your spread the word Dr Wright could we invite other school districts and churches perhaps religious organizations anybody that would like to attend anybody I'd like to attend is welcome and we're trying to get the word out to religious leaders the town
048and City councils and just community-wide district-wide so please please plan on attending that event [Music] they may have Narcan available we don't want to advertise that if they don't but they try to do that at the events I'm hopeful they will we have it throughout our district it's fairly ubiquitous I mean on our buses every front desk many of the classrooms we have I think we've distributed about 300 of those district-wide they normally do they try to bring in they said they will try to bring it but I don't want to advertise something they can't make good on we're hopeful they will but that is at the center of it it's interesting how many people know very little about this fentanyl crisis and it's evolving into other drugs as well as that families must know
049about us within the last two years we've lost two one current student and one former student to this uh this pandemic and it is uh it is that the next thing uh I would like to talk about we have through the efforts of our facilities team and and others the sfb has contributed to 2.2 million dollars since 2021 to our projects we have probably twice that amount amount needed that we've identified that we're still working to secure a couple examples are we know we've worked for six years to get the elementary school weatherproofed which means painting among other things and that has been approved and it's been funded and now we're scheduling that and that's about a 250 000 project we're working now on the floors we've got a sixty six thousand dollar design bid
050approved we're going to need some more money in addition to that for core samples as we talked about before Mr Waldo you're intimately aware of this water has been undermining that foundation for years we know that and so the floors are moving in some places much as an inch and a half and so we know it's going to take quite a bit quite a bit of work to get that done we're staying after that the roof is also in need of replacement at that location it's about what a 15 year old facility had a flat roof in this climate not ideal and that's what you have to do in 15 years we also have some other issues district-wide that we're working with there's a cooling tower at the high school we need to get addressed
051it's it's barely operable now we're working to finish up the roof at the gym and the locker room area where the joining Stadium wall and the girls and boys locker rooms are still water and trees in there we're working to get that addressed and the gymnasium that had been recently resurfaced we've had some leaks since it's been a very wet winter we're getting those repaired the rains or scuppers put back on that we've talked about and we're working with our team to get the audium auditorium floor replaced we're working on that the woods there now we've landed on the type of of covering we're going to use and how it's going to be installed we just have to be patient because we want it done right we're not going to just push it through but
052we are making progress on that the lighting is also in the works to get the lighting redone and that we've recognized the curtains were damaged with the water main break not a water main but a water line break and so we're going to have to eventually get those curtains replaced as well we're working on those things so there's a list we're working on that uh it's somewhere along the process between submission being designed or bid out and approved and I think the last time I counted we had 17 projects in the hopper and we have at least twice that much more we're pushing to get done for those of you that I've received complaints on the driveway at the high school that will be replaced in the summer we're using adjacent way funds to do
053that we'll we'll submit that for the state for approval we'll get it because it's Ingress egress emergency there's some we're putting in we Roger and his crew are putting in either gravel or dirt daily to keep from having huge holes like you see on 260 and so we're doing the best of what we can we recognize that needs to get done there's a larger project there that we've been working with for about five years with the river that runs through it during the monsoon season and that whole thing that we've walked through in the parking lot that's a large it was a 3.2 million dollar project six years ago so you can imagine it's twice that now so I would think that I would hope to get that done before I'm done so it could
054be years uh and then we have some smaller things that are important but less costly any questions in the fsfb projects on uh the lift that we have had installed we've been trying to install at the bus barn so we can provide a safe working environment for mechanics and they can get under those buses we purchased that about a year ago it's about a hundred thousand dollar purchase it's an expensive piece of equipment and then we had the install we've done this right it's being installed even as we speak and that's going to be a great tool for especially our diesel mechanics working on those buses lifting one of those off the ground's not an easy feat and it's dangerous of course if it's not done right so we're glad to have that done thank
055you Denise to you and your team for seeing that through we're also on the transportation side working to make a transition to Zonar cards ID cards for the kids so we can tell where the kids are we know which kids get on the bus we know when they get off the bus in this environment you have to account for your students especially the younger students well all ages sometimes we have kids that get off at the wrong stop intentionally or otherwise and this owner will allow us to track that it also allows us to gather other information on location for stops and and to get more efficient in how we're doing things we're looking to reduce stops this year versus next year not routes but stops by about 20 percent to reduce Fuel and travel
056time if uh if we can tighten our belt further we will I think we can do that with minimal disruption I've followed buses multiple times and some of the stops are fairly close to one another Denise is working to identify which stops we can eliminate without much frustration but we can become more effective and efficient our standardized testing for the grades that test elementary junior high and high school begins almost immediately and it'll go through the end of April that's why we have the desk up here we said no use in having these taken out and putting up for this meeting so saved Roger and his group lecture time the uh we're working on the first pass of our budget we as we've mentioned we have about a deficit of about 1.4 million current spending
057versus their funding we have an average daily attendance or ADM average daily members of about 1638 our total population is 1734 as of today we're funded on the 1638 kids and those all bring a varying amount of money depending on what group they're in but there's a standard amount that we use we hope to right size most of the budget through General natural attrition we have people that retire and move every year and that'll be our first line of defense we're running an analysis to see what those numbers look like before we tighten our belt further if the board has any questions I'm pleased to answer those Diana do you have one Mr Waldo thank you Dr wrang next item on the agenda is a call to the public we would invite the public at
058this time to come to the podium here and address the board we'd like you to keep your comments on a non-personal basis we'd like you to introduce yourself tell us who you are and where you live and we'd like to limit your time to about three minutes and uh please don't seed your time to anybody else so if anybody would like to step forward and and address the board we'd appreciate your comments now going going once until I gone all right thank you the next regularly scheduled board meeting will be April 11th at five o'clock at this location so can we have a motion if there's nothing further the board a motion to uh to uh adjourn we have a second all in favor all right thank you thank you very much