001all right they're sharing of grief I'd like to call this meeting to order and we'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and I'll lead the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all for attending today I'd like to excuse margari had got called out of town this evening couldn't be here we're going to turn the time over to Dr Wright for the next couple of items for some award presentations thank you Mr Merrill the first thing we want to recognize that Chef's team they're going to be competing in the Nationals next month so coach asked if they could come back after that Nationals appearance later in either the
002if we have a later March meeting or they'll come in April we want to wish them the best but we want to make sure let's give them a chance to fully compete because they're all going to Nationals all five of them I believe so good job team chess [Applause] and next we'd like the recognition for the January BR students of the month beginning with the Elementary School Mr Grace if you'd like to make your presentation followed by principal Hoffmeyer and Mr Webb so our student of the month this month is Gracie boshay and I have miss alakaze our home room teacher she's here to say a few a few words about Miss Scotia come on so Gracie is very deserving of this award she is an active student in not only her education but in
003school programs she's on stuco right and she is also representing Us in the spelling bee so so she does a lot of hard work and she is one of those students that we wish we had a classroom full of congratulations congratulations [Applause] to the uh to Gracie's family I was on the campus several months ago and I stopped Gracie for directions and I asked her if she was a high school kid tutoring elementary kids she's very very mature well-mannered smart young lady so thank you family should be very proud Gracie good job principal Hoffmeyer our award this month is going to Mackenzie Smith but Mackenzie is in Snowflake tonight playing a basketball game one of the reasons she had award is such an awesome teammate I've invited her to come back next month so I
004can she can hear all the great things that all of her teachers have said about her yes ma'am we'll do that thank you Mr whip all right the high school I don't see Jonathan here but I'll go ahead and briefly read the teacher's nomination for Jonathan Fuentes Delgado so Doug deals excuse me Jonathan acts as a translator for two classmates every day and helps them understand the assignment he's a great student who works hard to complete his work and he takes the time needed to help the other students would never be able to complete the work without him so I want to congratulate Jonathan for going that extra mile and helping his classmates achieve what they need to achieve as well so and we'll we'll recognize Jonathan on campus and and give his award to
005him thank you thank you Mr Webb [Applause] moving on to our Be Our Stars Roger if you'd like to make your first presentation I want to add just for the board's benefit about early 30 this morning don't know how it really was but it was very early Moe was out putting up the American flag she was shoveling off snow working really hard and I I just stopped to thank her for her efforts and so I'm so happy that she's being recognized today she does an outstanding job for us I don't know of a more positive hard-working person than than MO [Applause] she's dedicated she's always there she's always going to be above and beyond and if she has to take more than care of it just her campus she'll go to any campus and do
006anything that needs to be done she's a fantastic worker we really appreciate her and glad we have her [Applause] yes okay yes ABS absolutely come on up Jesse so Jesse is our other VR star so Jesse started working as a custodian after she puts in a full day at the high school she does an amazing job with man this is why am I tearing up so she's with our most special kids that need the extra help and she is awesome with those kids she takes them class to class she helps them in the classroom and beyond that she knows what's going on in the school before she came over to the high school she worked in the cafeteria she would always have information for us and whether it's to help that kid or whatever the
007reason was she was willing and knew the kids by name which is an amazing feat with Junior High and high school kids so Jesse does an amazing job at the high school for with those special ed students and all the other General students that she keeps an eye out on in the cafeteria and the custodian job that she does now as well so we want to recognize Jesse for the amazing job that she does and she definitely deserves to be our Star Award thank you [Applause] Jesse I thought I was just getting old because I swore that I'd see in one role and then I'd see another one I thought well maybe she has a sister but now that explains a lot I am getting old but my memory is not gone thank you to
008your teachers outstanding we'll welcome you back absolutely that's that's fantastic we now um Mr Webb go ahead and you've got the microphone you're warmed up let's uh let's greet Coach Rex and and and uh hear a lot of hey Mr Rex coming up this is someone that always loves attention anywhere she goes she wanted to actually speak for 10 20 minutes but I said no probably just she's so red so this is the reason why she was nominated this is Rex always willing to help both students and staff she's extremely knowledgeable students love her class because of how she holds them accountable and makes them work hard bones are not an option in her class it is nice to always have her hold the door open and greet everyone so again another person that is
009there for the students she knows her kids by name she knows what they need whenever there's a concern she's up in the office telling about the students and and what those students need to be successful so we're so grateful to have Mrs Rex in the classroom and then everything else that she does which is a lot she does a lot for the school so thank you for what you do okay thank you coach [Applause] I don't know if there's anything she can't do she's a math teacher coaches basketball does a lot of things for a lot of folks so thank you coach we appreciate you Mr Grace so our teachers month at the elementary school is Lee wagonfear [Applause] it's a fourth and fifth grade special ed uh teacher on the Elementary's campus last year
010she covered all three grades of the middle of the Upper Elementary School um she's a Workhorse she's she gets everything done she's there to cover duties when when uh people are missing she's there in the morning she's there in the afternoon the relationship that Lee has with her students and her parents is unparalleled she is responsible for special needs students at the time where their parents start to pull back and give them more freedom to you know make mistakes make decisions do things like that and Lee navigates that perfectly without a doubt we're blessed to have her foreign people I met over eight and a half years ago and I couldn't I couldn't believe the case load and she still maintained she recruited a husband into the same department and I know that we're thankful
011to have Tyler there too they both do such good work and so thank you for helping out we appreciate you the wagon first roots go very deep in this community and I love seeing people that have deep roots in this community stay and keep lifting like you are thank you very much [Music] all right next item on the agenda board is the consent agenda and after reviewing the agenda here uh are there any items that you would like to take out and vote on separately or we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as written in the minutes I mean in in this agenda Chuck so moved we have a second I have a second from Jennifer all in favor all right thank you that was unanimous okay next item on the agenda is
012item three point one a recommendation to approve an agreement Arizona School Medicaid um who would like who would like to talk to us about this I would like to turn time over to Kimberly before I do that I just want to bring up make the point that it was Kimberly's idea that we become involved with this program could generate a pretty significant amount of money to help out with some of the more intensive costs and our exceptional needs students and so she's put a lot of work in this project so I'd like to turn the time over to Kimberly so this is a contract for a company that will help us get started with our Medicaid reimbursement so what medicated reimbursement is is that we get reimbursed from Medicaid for certain um I was going
013to say procedure procedures not procedures for certain things that we offer to our students like otpt we can get reimbursed for the cost of those services and so this company helps us get started with that so that we can start getting reimbursed for some of that out-of-pocket costs that we are incurring with our special needs students just because does this have a cost for us to get in yeah so they um the way that it works is there's a percentage that they take from what we get reimbursed okay so it's a it's not a one-time fee up front correct and my next question is where we have to renew this every year um we if we 'd stay with them what I'm committed for 12 months yes okay any questions sure yeah um is just
014going to end up bottom line is this going to cost us more money or are we saving money or breaking even no we'll save money so all of the costs that we spend for um anything that's reimbursable my Medicaid will get reimbursed by Medicaid so that money will be more than we're making it will be uh savings to us I think is the best way to explain it so we'll be reimbursed for our expenses including the fees that we're paying correct because right now we're not being reimbursed anything okay if I might have if I may add Mr President the analysis we kind of looked at initially the other school superintendents in the area that have similar case loads generates anywhere between 75 000 a hundred thousand hundred twenty five thousand a year it's significant
015so when we're upside down 375 000 every bit helps yeah so I'm appreciative of Kimberly's effort very good thank you just for a comparison just for comparison sakes um just so you can have an idea in St John's we were getting about a hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year back in reimbursements cool is this a new program or did we just never utilize that program she was something that she brought up when she yeah that's awesome almost a year ago that's a big deal because traditionally you would go in and try to get special services for a child with any type of disability and then they would say you need to go to your school and the school will pay for it so to have Medicare actually Medicaid actually reimburses good really good correct
016any other questions not going to have a motion for item 3.1 a motion from chuckling a second from anyone I'll second it myself all in favor hold off on that vote if I work with white Mountain Physical Therapy and they have the contract for the school I need to recuse myself at this point or no I will I'm going to recuse myself from the vote so we would still have okay so Jennifer bramaha has recused herself from this vote so that leaves just three remaining board members we have a vote on this that's positive for the three remaining board members okay item 3.2 recommendation to approve the contract relating service provider for the Navajo Consortium again Kimberly do you want to explain this to us sure so on the Navajo Consortium offers services to school
017districts for things like otpt speech Psychology Services things like special ed services that we either don't have the staff for or specialty things that we're just going to hire out for just like a one-off thing this is a yearly contract through Navajo County Consortium all of the schools are the mountain and that I'm aware of use them for some Services because they have the Specialties some of which we just can't hire any questions in regard is something we vote on every year okay so Jennifer bramaha has recused herself if I'm voting all night in the 3.2 so we have a motion for 3.2 I'll move we have a second light and all in favor that's positive for the remaining three board members thank you okay the thank you Kimberly the only item left on the
018agenda is superintendent's report we turned some time over to you to Dr Wright thank you also called other public after that thank you I I first want to recognize the facilities team here in our transportation team here this last month and actually the last quarter has been challenging from a weather perspective and I don't know that people are really aware when we say they get in early we're talking about two three o'clock in the morning and that's very early they we couldn't do it without them I know that Rogers team worked from what this I don't know the last 36 hours that group has had a crew on site and so Roger thank you for your efforts and Denise thank you for your efforts in the minus two degree weather getting bus started with diesel
019fuels not easy and they they do it foreign [Applause] they don't complain they just get it done so we're very appreciative of of y'all how's that I'll let your anxious for spring we all except we could get snow in the spring too but it melts really fast I I also wanted to to thank the town Matt Patterson's group the facilities team at the town really came through for us we had I don't know I think close to two feet of snow in some areas and so I called Matt said can you help us out just run the roundabout Ingress egress areas if you could do that we'd sure appreciate it by the time 8 30 9 30 10 o'clock at night they had two or three big front end loaders out there and cleared out
020the entire lot for our group and that was just very much appreciated one of the beautiful things about living in small town USA so thank you we want to thank the town and Matt's crew and Daniel Rollins crew for getting that done for us we appreciate you they're uh we're gonna roll out here in the near future a consolidated uh a Consolidated number of bus stops on more problematic back roads there's probably five or six stops that we have give you two Sky High is one it's not a county maintained Road Twin Knowles is another that is typically problematic Denise had a great idea which is hey let's just if we can eliminate five or six stops I can still run the buses and those stops the folks that are impacted will be given alternate
021stops so the parents need to either take them to school or take him to the stop and in many cases we're not talking about miles away so this is a strategy we're trying to develop to use delayed starts and not have to cancel school altogether right now it's an all-in or all-out sort of approach and that's just where we're at and we were we're thinking about implementing this a little earlier but that what we struggle with is it has to be a bright line you have to say these routes are always eliminated otherwise we risk the confusion of having little ones out there in the dark in the cold which we're not willing to do of course so we're getting very close to be able to roll that out and we still have about two
022and a half snow days left and we hope we don't need them knock on wood and we'll uh let's try to get through this month and next without those but if we do you know if we have another winter this is kind of a normal winter is what I'm hearing people have been here forever I've only been here eight and a half years we're trying to prepare for some of these things and I think that's a great a great idea technology is teaming with Denise's team they're coming up with automating our bus routes we've already installed I think it's called is it sonar that where the kids have IDs and they can we can keep track of our children where they're at what bus stop what bus they got on when they got off we're
023still in the implementation phase of that but in this day and age it is really valuable to know where these kids are and did they get on the bus did they get off the bus we'll know a lot more of that information we're already utilizing GPS and we want to be able to communicate with families in real time to say you know your bus routes late or your bus stops late or your bus is on time or remember this is an alternative schedule you need to go to bus Plan B because we're not coming to your normal stop all that will be of great use there's a lot of work to be done still on it but I think we'll be able to roll that out hopefully sometime next month will improve the thing as
024we go we'll get stages of at least phase one uh next month so thank you it on all your help there as well I I don't think they they're always on the clock so we we sure appreciate you all we have uh our girls lost a game earlier they were in the state playoffs so they lost to Valley Christian our boys are playing Paige tonight and we have four wrestlers in the state tournament we have our chess team going to Nationals I got a message from Mr Woolridge that the Fab Lab team says that I said I don't know if you're aware of it did you get the news that on the Samsung team being selected State winner and top 50 nationally that just came in so I I'm really were happy with what's going
025on with that and we intend to utilize the Fab Lab even more going forward and expand the participation we get more students involved that'll be a focus next year to increase the number of students that are that are taking those courses in the type of competitions that they're engaged in other than that I just wanted to make the board aware we could either have the administration be ready by March first if you wanted to have the board meeting then or we're prepared on the 21st whatever suits the board's needs where we could adjust accordingly just want to bring it to the president's attention to address that yeah we need to decide what what would fit the best um comments any preferences I'm pretty easy to get along with as long as it's not from the
026eighth to the 20th I'm gone I mean I'm not gone but I might as well be and I'm Gone the first on the first you're gone so it's either the 21st or the first yes sir that's correct either one of those well let's do the 21st then right after spring break I don't want to say fall break right after spring break we'll do the 21st 5 o'clock here is there a possibility that we need to do some type of executive session prior to that there'd be at least there'll be one or two after after a regular session okay so be prepared to uh be a little uh stay late for that all right anything else is there any items that the board would like us to look at in the future if you do you
027can sure email me and I'll run into David I'm I'm thinking we need to get on the calendar right away uh maybe a community open meeting so where we can discuss things that the community wants us to look at if as part of my report too I didn't mention this but if you want to have a work study there's two recurring issues that have been sort of floating around one is the four-day school schedule versus the current schedule of four and a half days the second one is some type of funding mechanism we have engaged the the efforts of reaching for the term the gentleman that helps us out Paul yeah what is he a consultant a surveyed and he's going to do survey 400 350 to 400 community members that are voters and registered
028to determine their attitude toward a smaller override or a bond and see if there's any differences there we do have a strategy where we could go out for a smaller bond that would be a small two three bucks a month that would fund our Capital needs the next seven years which enables us to move about a million dollars in capital into mno which solves a lot of the Gap 1.4 main Gap that we currently have we're already making adjustments through natural attrition they're people that are moving there's people that are retiring and resigning we're probably 000 to 600 000 toward that and anyway we're we're headed the right direction and so those two things Mr Mayor if you wanted to have something in either April or late April maybe or early May the first week
029of May but not later than that I wouldn't go but I would go maybe the last week of April the first week of May would be May gets really really busy with graduation yes sir April would probably be better okay board a few dates and then and then maybe but I'll have a a group of dates from which the board can select on our 21st and then we would probably meet like at four o'clock here or maybe even seven o'clock in the evening so more people could participate and we would just be here to be an open format uh discussion a couple items okay I'll get those dates prepared for your consideration all right all right is there anything else all right next item is a call to the public and we would like anybody
030that would like to address the board to do so at this time we would encourage you to keep your comments about three minutes you can't see that to anyone else and you're welcome to address the board anything that's on your mind we can't really refer and carry on a conversation with you but we can also have that put on the agenda for the next time if possible there's still a couple more minutes so I want to make the board aware of some pretty cool accomplishments of two of our students one three masks she is recognized for a National Merit finalist so she goes on to the next level in that competition so it's a huge accomplishment for for her and what she's done to get to this point another student Caroline Hoyt she received the
031Moorhead King scholarship and that's for the University of North Carolina where she's planning on going and it's a substantial scholarship that she qualified and will be super proud of those two girls and and the hard work that they put in to get to this point thank you I think it would be great if we this this the end of the school year if we had some kind of a report on all the scholarships that kids have earned and then maybe the total amount of dollars that they've earned towards those scholarships on a lump sum basis so that yeah if we could report that to the public we we you pull we have the awards assimilous we can pull that information together and report that back to the board that would be fantastic thanks be great
032yeah put it on the Marquee people in the community can see well if there's nothing further well in regards to that doesn't the town have a Talk of the Town I'm wondering if when our students do something exceptional if we can give them that information and then they oh send it out Mr Webb could you share that with uh you know James Brimhall is our representative from the council if you'd share that information you shared with the board he'd be glad to post that with uh Tony Alp as well both of those yes ma'am same thing for like our spelling bee and stuff so kindergarten all the way up yeah that looks good when is the county be tomorrow wow time flies I are a terrible seller I tell you why I can't spell but
033then that would give away a school district that I grew up in and I'm not going to do that in public all right so if there's nothing further we need a motion to adjourn have a motion from Jennifer and a second from Chuck all in favor then we are officially adjourned thank you