001Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. All the workshop to order school board on Thursday, February 12th, 5:30 p.m. President Fred Rushton here. Charlene Diaz here. Sarziki here. Okay. I didn't know I was going to get to go first, but I like it. Um when I when we went to or when I went to this year, um it was really really a good program. I wish that more of you guys been there. And there were two things that really were outstanding. It was this trust center thing and then it was something that Caroline was going to be speaking to um a little bit later. But this was it kind of hit me that this is important for the simple reason is I think because of the
002way moneyies are right now that we're going to have to be making some serious decisions. Um, I just have this gut feeling that this is going to happen and we need to have a trust between the four of us. And if we didn't, did you hear anything from that? Um, that we need to actually have a trust between us. And so this was a really really intense program. So I'm going to go through it really briefly and see if you guys have any questions. Okay. Where's my note that says turn that on? I usually have a note of yours. Everybody's got theirs on, right? I do now. You do now. Okay. Which one of these do I press? The red one. This one. or this one. Well, that didn't work either. Was it the clicker?
003Well, I guess you have to turn it on. Oh, I didn't turn it on. I Okay, I can't see it. Find a kid. Yeah. Oh. Oh, techn technology is not our forte, is it? Um, thank you, James. Anyways, trust engine. Let's see if this works. Y that was that was exit screen. Right arrow should do right right powerful. That's why you have to scroll. Oh, you can't do that on a PDF. Can't do this on a PDF. That's what I thought. That's what I was telling that I needed to change this. Okay. Well, okay. So, scroll it down. So, Okay. Okay. I will keep. So, what I would like to talk ask you guys and see if you came up with the same thing that we came up with at Bolts. What is trust? What
004do we mean by when we say trust? I think it means um between two people that you're you have confidence in the other person that you believe that what they're telling you is the truth. Okay. So, it has a lot to do with truth. Absolutely. And it has a lot to do with what you have seen the person do before and their integrity. Integrity. Yeah. Okay. Barb, do you have anything um along with the truth? I think it has uh to do with respect that you respect the person's beliefs. You respect their um choices, you respect what they're having to say, you you will listen to them a and trust that what they're saying is accurate and stuff. And it's because you respect their opinions. That's the word I was trying to think of. Respect
005their opinions. You do trust them. Can I add that? You may add anything. Even if you disagree. Oh yes, even if you disagree. Most definitely. Trust doesn't have anything to do with agreement or disagreement. It's just having the the trust trust in the person. Okay, Lance, can you do it? This is this is what we kind of came up with and it's exactly what Fred and Barb were saying and it has a lot to do with our intention intentions and our abilities and we have enough experience the four of us that we know what our agenda is. You know my agenda is scores and kids and each one of us has an agenda that we work from. So our my intentions are pointed this way and you guys listen to them and sometimes you say
006something about them but I think we really need to say say more. Um each one of us has a different ability to do something. Charlene is in her in her quiet mode tonight. I'm listening. We're listening. I'm listening. Not necessarily trusting yet. No, no, no. I trust you. You're listening. Um, go ahead. So, it has a lot to do with character and competence. And if you have a a character that is in has integrity, that is honest, that it that doesn't stray from what they what you already know, um basically you have trust and and basically, you know, a character that doesn't change from one day to the next their beliefs and what they're telling you. Yeah. That they stay consistent with Yeah. Yeah. Okay. character. This is what Fred was saying. It refers to
007the the moral and the ethical values. My ethical values says that I try very hard not to lie. That doesn't mean that now and then a little white lie slips through, but it means I try very hard not to do that. It try that I try to always consider other people that I always try to make life better for other people. How about the rest of you guys? Same. Okay. All right. Agree. Mhm. And again, here we go. There was a big conversation on integrity because we're not seeing a lot of integrity right now. Um, basically it reli it relies on us to be have integrity because we are grassroots. We are as close to the ground as we possibly can is in being politics and so if we don't show that to Dr. Stewart
008and the rest of the district office, she has a hard time showing it to her leadership and their leadership has a hard time showing it to their their staff and then the staff doesn't show it to the kids. So, it comes basically and I'm not saying that we're the the parents of all this, but what we do is very very important as far as staying honest. And I think the word courage is going to come up more and more for us because we're going to have to have some courage on some decisions we're going to have to make. I've seen Dr. Stewart have courage on some of the things she's brought to us. Um some things she's not sure how we're going to react to, but she still does it and she listens. So I'm
009saying that we are going to have to develop this same kind of courage. Okay. Um keep going. Can you do one more? There you go. Competence. Sometimes this is where I see that we don't have all the competence we need as board members. Um we keep harping at uh Dr. Stewart about uh teach us more about budgeting. Show us do that kind of thing. Um how do how we talk about the discipline system? We need to have that competence when we go out into the world or into our grocery stores and we meet people and they say, "Oh, you're on the school board. What did you think about uh somebody vaping in the bathroom at junior high?" We have to have the confidence that we know what the rule is that we know what consequences
010could possibly be and how faithful that they are done to are treat the how faithfully the kids are treated with those kind of things. Okay, competence is a real big thing and it's not just being able to read and write and do some math. Okay, go ahead. Um, by electing me president again, obviously you thought I had the skills to do the work. Absolutely. And by and I appreciate that. And by electing Fred as clerk or uh Charlene as clerk or maybe even Barb sometime down the line as clerk um or president or anybody as president, I I think that we we assess the skills that come to the to the table when we make decisions. Okay, good. Ah, here we go. I want you guys to pay attention here. this a little bit. Notice
011how it goes from orange to blue. There's an overlap in the middle. The bottom is character. This is showing loyalty and all those other things. I don't want to read all that to you, but when we get to the place where we're extending trust to somebody, we're saying to somebody, um, could you get us more information on that that we are actually now into a competence level as well as a trust level, a character level. I think the one is that most came out to me that we talked so much about was not keeping promises because we're pretty good at that, but listening. Sometimes I'm not sure I listen as well as I should. And I'm projecting on you guys that uh that you don't have that same you have problems with that, too. that
012we're always trying to think of what we're going to say next rather than actually listening to what this what goes on. That one came through really big. Um the rest of this you you can see how one relies on the other and there's a real big overlap. But this this screen really was kind of important. There are four cores, right? Integrity, intent. We've talked about that. Fred has talked about that. Capabilities, I've tan talked about that. And results are another thing. Okay. Think, yeah, this this is the last one I'm going to do. If you look at this, we have to have selfrust. Okay? We have to have selfrust. And that goes into our relationship that our relationship trust that that means that you and I trust each other to get something done. Um then
013we have to trust the the organization and the organization basically we get all that feedback from Dr. Stewart which means it relies heavily on what she says and what she does. Then we have market. This is our reputation. Um I think that that we have a good reputation. The Bullhead Bo, the elementary board has a good reputation. There are other boards in town that have not got that same reputation. And then there are other boards that we don't even know about, you know. Um, I never hear anything from the charter school boards and I know they have them. You never hear anything about that. You You only hear from the public, from us, and that goes into societal trust. And we're going to have to have a lot of that coming up this this spring.
014I just wanted to introduce you to these ideas because they really hit home and I think this is where we are strong and we but we still need to develop more. Do I have any questions about what is said? I've been preaching at you. No, no, you've been leading. Okay. I think if if at all possible, would it be possible um for our secretary to email us copies of these to give you the slides, the PDF? Yeah. I as far as I'm concerned, they're they were they were open source. Yeah. So, be appreciated. Thank you. And there's more to this. Good stuff. But I I promised I'd only take 10 minutes and I've already taken 15. So, if there aren't any questions or just more discussion, let's go to Carolyn's part. While Lance is getting
015that up, I will tell you that uh when Melinda came to see me to share with me what um she had learned at Boltz and what had struck her, uh the timing is perfect. Uh because as she said, we have some we have some tough things coming. Um, so, uh, uh, the other information, one of the other slide decks that you showed me, uh, had pieces that played right into where I thought I needed to give you, in this case, budget 102. You've had budget 101. Actually, you've probably already had budget 102, but this maybe this is 103, but this is kind of the next step. Uh, because it's where we are and and where we're go where we need to go now. It's February and so um I'm working on budget for next year.
016Um the other part is you all have heard a lot in the news about other school districts and the things that they're you know having to discuss and face and um and so you know it's it falls right in line with all of those things. So uh budget 102 uh is uh how does the district decide how to allocate funds? So I want to talk to you a little bit about the process. Lance, no, it won't work. Okay, so our goals for uh for this piece um are these three things. Who uh BCSD involves in the budgeting process, when BCSD develops the budget for the following fiscal year, and how we decide to allocate funds. So those are the three objectives for uh the goals for uh this little presentation. Okay. So who um so
017I start gathering input from uh from all kinds of people. So from the administrators and supervisors uh input regarding programs, personnel, services, resources, capital projects, um uh anything that we're thinking about for uh the coming year. And I will tell you I've already started that process. Uh we actually uh did uh part three of our discussions uh with the leadership team uh today. Um and that's the directors and principles and assistant principles. And so uh lots of information sharing but then lots of brainstorming. Uh and the brainstorming part will make a little more sense to you when uh when I share some information with you in my report in my updates in my superintendent's report. Um uh meet and confer committees start uh are supposed to start or can't start any sooner than January. Um
018I delayed them uh because the information that I need to present to them and share with them and get their input on uh uh was not information that I had presented to the board yet. And so tonight you're getting that information and I have the meetings scheduled with meet and confer um uh classroom site fund committees uh and then individual meetings with principles and those kinds of things. And then of course I will remind you that Jen and I uh Jen and I meet it's not even so much meeting as we discuss things literally every day that regard uh that have have things relative to budgets various budgets uh because things change almost every day one way or the other either grant things are changing or our side is M and those things are changing
019but we're having those conversations all the time. Um and then uh and then factoring in the strategic plan, you know, making sure that we're trying to build into the budget um uh whatever funds we need to to uh to make the the strategic plan uh work as opposed to just be something on paper. Okay. So when well truthfully I put August, but you can see I'm already talking about right now. Uh but I did start in August. So we start I start looking at numbers, class size numbers, uh uh positions, all those kinds of things in August after, you know, the first week of school, after the first week of school. Um and then I'm watching every month that BSA 55 comes out, our numbers change. I'm looking at how much that might or might
020not change the budget. Uh at what point might I may have to offer you or present to you a revision? um you know, if they're a couple thousand dollars or something pretty minor, I'm not going to make a big budget revision for a little bit of money. Uh but if we have major changes uh in that budget, then I bring it to you and and that's what I'm expected to do. Um by January, I'm already projecting for the next year. So, you can't really read it, but the chart uh the table you see on the right hand side uh is a table I've used for several years where I take current numbers, the January numbers of how many students are in each grade level at each site and I move them up. I just move
021them up one grade. Okay? And then I look at the numbers of teachers we anticipate to need at each site for those uh you know for th to cover those classes or those that number of students. And this was the beginning of the conversation with the leaders uh three weeks ago uh was to start with this data. So in January I'm pulling these data already and we're starting to have conversations um and make projections. Okay. Uh and then also make the start having those conversations with meet and confer. Okay. Um, human resources sent out a request of of intent notice to all of our employees. Actually, I think she sent it on Monday and they were supposed to be back uh they're supposed to be back by tomorrow. And of course, most of our people
022aren't working tomorrow, so they were coming in by yesterday. What this is is a letter that says, "Hey, what are you planning to do for next year? Are you planning on coming back? Are you planning on uh retiring? Are you planning on uh looking for a job someplace else? do you already have a job someplace else? So that we can start building our list of anticipating what employees uh we can count on being here for next year. Um and so we we're gathering that information. Uh I also start calculating okay what is it you know what are salaries and benefits going to cost us with the same number of employees with fewer employees or with more if we need more employees. Um, and then collecting information about insurance costs uh and fixed cost estimates. So,
023I'll give you an example. Um, I contacted uh Chuck Nelson at Asbait to see what might be happening with our uh health insurance and uh actually the uh the Asbait folks are meeting this week um with and I think maybe early next week uh to determine what they plan for uh for the you know to charge the membership if you will the clients for uh for next year. Um, so there's not a hard and fast thing yet, but he told me that he thought our numbers were going to look really good. That was refreshing. I got an email this week from the trust and uh general liability is going up 10%. Yeah. Uh, and the other areas from the trust and the alliance are going up um between one and a half and 5%. Um,
024so when I build the budget, I will be conservative, which means I will estimate the overall growth in that expense at 10%. Yeah. In other words, the one that's the maximum for us right now, that's about 470 thou about $47,000 because we spend about 47,000 I mean 470,000 this year on liability, property insurance, uh workers comp, all of those things. So I already know that that line in the budget now needs to be 10% higher than the than the number this year. So those are the kinds of data. Those are two examples that I start building in right now. Okay. Um we start looking at expenses. Oh my second example to you was uh if you are live in Bullhead City, you got a notice from Bullhead City that water and sewer rates are going
025up uh for next year. So I know I have to build that in, you know, those anticipated um increases. Okay. So then I start putting in uh putting the data into two documents. One is our business uh document. So we create I don't want to say a dummy but a provisional uh budget document for fiscal year 27 in visions in our uh our business software and I start building one in the uh attorney general's budget form which is the one that you all see when we're doing uh you know when you get the reports uh monthly. Uh so I start putting those numbers in there to see where it goes. Okay. Um by March we need to be making uh decisions about contra uh about contracts about positions because uh we can offer contracts and
026work agreements starting March 15th and we have to let people know if they are not being renewed or their position is going away by April 15th. So we have a fairly tight window there to be uh to be making those decisions. Um so it means we're looking at adding or dropping positions uh determining if there needs to be a reduction in force. Uh determining if changes in the attendance areas uh you know we might need to look at those for schools. And right now is when we would start talking about if we needed to close a school for fiscal year 28. Okay, this is not the time for us to be talking. It's too late for us to be talking about closing a school. First of all, we don't have the numbers that would require
027us to have that conversation at this point. uh our enrollment numbers and um whatever at our sites are sufficient to maintain the schools we have. But I want it to be known that now is when we start looking at what those numbers might look like a year from now and might we have to be thinking about those kinds of things. We haven't talked about that much in in the seven years I've been here because we haven't needed to. But that doesn't mean that it hasn't been on the table every year for consideration. Okay, excuse me. I continue to work on that draft budget through April and May. Make it I make adjustments based on if the legislature manages to approve a budget early. um uh the last few years it's been toward the end of
028June and so I always have to in those years I have to do the budget based on current numbers and current u current formulas and those kinds of things and and and the budget that you approved the last couple of years the budget you approved in July we already know is wrong uh because the it has to be posted it has to be public um 10 days before you all make a decision and the 10 days is frequently be the 10 the the first of those 10 days is frequently before the legislature has even decided on the state budget. So, uh you know, so there's always it's always influx. Um but I have to present a a proposed budget to you sometime in June. Has to be before July 5th and you have to approve
029a proposed budget before July 15th. Uh which is interesting because the budget year starts July 1. So uh frequently we're already in the budget year. Most of the time we're in the budget year before you're actually approving that budget. Um and then we can make revisions whenever we need to through the year. Um but we can we have to adopt a final budget as opposed to the proposed budget before September 15th. So, the last couple of years I've presented to you uh a revision, the first revision, which is really the final budget in August um um or I think two years ago it was in September u when when we finally got the numbers worked out. Okay. Um if our enrollment or our ADM changes dramatically in the first uh 40 days or so uh
030the le the um attorney the auditor general's office and the AD finance department notify me that we have to make a budget ref revision in December. Okay. Now we can that's an option but if numbers change dramatically they can direct us to make a change. Okay. Okay. So how do we decide then with based on all of those numbers that we're looking at and crunching? We have internal factors and we have external factors. So I'll talk about the external first. um those fixed costs um and um uh and the ones that are not fixed, the ones that we can that we can uh some of those we can play with a little bit. But if we decide we're keeping insurance and the district is going to pay 100% of insurance, health insurance for employees, um
031then that becomes kind of an external thing. We it's not like we can say, oh, we're going to designate that it's this much money. It's whatever we negotiate with in our case uh these days asbait um inflation and fixed costs uh those utilities that's going to that's not going to change they're or they're going to go up I can't remember a time when they've gone down um those things the state state funding uh every year every year administrator the administrator association and I suspect also the teacher uh state teacher uh organization uh lobby legislators to increase those group B weights, particularly for special ed uh because uh the costs of the expenses for running special education exceed the revenues all the time and have for for years and years and years. Um but you know,
032if if they don't change it, then we still have to function within those uh one-time funds. Uh the legislature frequently says, "Oh, okay, we're going to authorize this one-time x amount of dollars for school sites." Um those are external. We, you know, we're not we're not in control of that. We get to control how we spend them, but we don't get to control whether they occur or not. And then we always talk about current year funding u because uh that those that BSA 55 can change things every month. Um, I'm not going to do a revised budget every month. Uh, but it but it fluctuates up and down based on those things. Um, and then federal funding, and that's been uh that's been an issue this year. We've talked about it a lot. Um, Jen
033gets gray hair from uh from all of the discussions about federal funding. Um right now what we've been told is um that the federal legislature uh the Congress has has funded those federal programs uh pretty close to current and in a couple of cases have increased some things. So um uh you know we're hopeful that that's that that's the case. Now whether it trickles down to us as being the same or slightly higher, we just wait until we get those numbers to see in um internal things. I'm not going to read that whole list to you, but you can see the internal things that affect what we have to decide. Um, uh, the obvious ones are student enrollment, um, and, uh, that's the biggie, student enrollment, but even more important is that average daily membership,
034um, that help us determine staffing levels, class sizes, and all of those things. Um, so you can see that whole list of how we start looking at the budget. we have all these uh all these things in play and then we decide uh we set some budget uh priorities and um uh and then build build from there. Um in this district we've not had the luxury ever to uh have a lot of money to say, "Oh, okay. we've got, you know, we have a really healthy budget this year. Uh can we put can we do X Y or Z program that we've not been able to do in the past uh because we have a healthy budget. Our budgets have always run and I will tell you as long as I've been in this district.
035So, um uh there used to be when Doug Lutz was superintendent, um there were cynical people who said, "Well, yeah, it's meet and confer, but it's really meet and be told." And unfortunately, sometimes that's the way it is, you know, when when the pot only has so much money and you know what your expenses are, sometimes that's the way it is. Um, but we do try to use those priorities. And I will tell you that in my meetings, the three meetings that we've had as a leadership team, uh, where we're brainstorming the situation with our budget, uh, we have 84 items on a spreadsheet for consideration. and at least 84 because I think today when we talked we probably had added three or four more to that list um uh of you know these are
036possibilities these are things that are on the table no decisions but these are things on the table okay um so then we identify our funding streams and uh and look at the ways that we can braid together uh uh braid our funding streams to cover the things that we need to do um I'm always looking at current at current year but particularly histo historical trends uh for uh you know for certain costs uh that we have uh we always have to identify risks and limitations. Unfortunately, we have to consider limitations almost all the time. Uh and then a big factor is sustainability. So you all know that when I bring to you a a recommendation to increase the base salaries uh for any of our employees um you frequently ask me is this sustainable and
037that is a reasonable question to ask. Um and uh it's a reasonable expectation for you to have for me that uh that we can sustain it. uh we've talked in the past about that's one reason that we try not to use soft money for things like salary schedules because there it's not sustainable. Um, so that's an important factor. And then I start working on the budget. And in this case, the the parts of the M budget, those are screenshots from uh from the M budget on the top. And then the long one on the bottom is a screenshot of uh of uh actually the current u that you're going going to consider tonight. Uh the uh the capital outlay um capital outlay budget. Okay. And that's it for this little piece. If you have questions,
038I'll try to answer. Thank you, Karen. I need a motion to adjourn the workshop. I make a motion we adjourn the workshop. I'll second the motion. All those in favor? I Meinda Subski. I Fred Rushton. I'm Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. Okay. I'm going to immediately call the regular sess the regular meeting for Bullhead City School Board on Thursday fee 12th at 6 is it 6:05 6:06 6:06 p.m. President Melinda Spaskki, Fred Rushton here, Charlene Diaz here, Barb Zarziki here. Would you please stand and say the pledge with me 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. Can I ask why are the flags flying at half staff Carolyn? Uh because of the uh two
039officers uh DPS officers from that were killed in the Yes. that were uh were killed in the helicopter crash. Uh and that was at the direction of the U board of supervisors because they are Mojave County. Yeah. They're out of King employee um citizens. Yeah. Okay. No, I just noticed I thought did I miss something in the news when I saw the flags that have staff today? Um, citizens here present, I hope you've signed in in the back. It was kind of one of those things that we like to have happen. Please do that. Do we have any public requests? Call to the public. Nobody call the public. Okay. Then I'm going to move on to donations. Um, oh, my name's mentioned. Thank you for for for doing that. And I did get a nice
040nice letter. Good. Nice letter. I'm sure Judy did too. Thank you. Um let's move on then to adoption of the agenda. Madame President. Okay. Um may I make a request for uh before you approve the agenda? Um uh I have quite a bit of stuff in my report this evening. I would like to request that you move the student uh highlights to uh right after adoption of the agenda. so that these young folks can uh present to you. Okay, it's fine. Okay, I make the motion we adopt the agenda as presented with with the exception of moving 3.1 presentation from Life Academy students to be presented right after this adoption. Second that motion. All those in favor? I Meinda Sabraski. I Fred Rushton. Hi, Charlene Diaz. Hi Barb Zarziki. Okay, we got a student presentation.
041Yes, madam president. So we have uh Kate Hall who is the uh in this case the principal at uh Life Academy and um our folks from Life Academy. Yeah. Thank you. Good afternoon or evening now it is. Um so with us tonight we have four of our students. Um they've been with us for quite a while. Um, and they've presented or they've uh created uh presentations to show you. Um, you have the presentations. They're going to come up and talk to you about um the time that they've spent at Life Academy and how it has impacted them as um students in our district. Who wants to go first? Liliana. Okay. So, or Aaliyah. Aaliyah, sorry. And in this case, this should work. There you go. Do you want to use the clicker? And when you're
042done with your slide, just hit this button. I can't see. Maybe it works. There we go. I had to turn it on. There you go. There you go. Moves it. Okay. There you go. I was sent to Life Academy because I made bad decisions with a small group of people. I did things that were extremely wrong and the person I hurt could have pressed charges against me or even worse. I learned my lesson by putting myself in their shoes and seeing how what was done could have affect me and others. I learned to not get involved in things that do not concern me and to mind my business. The moment I was sent to Life Academy, my life changed. Coming to life academy was a adjustment of the smaller class sizes and the hours we
043attend. It took time for me to break out of my shell and become confident within a small class where I am noticed. Some skills I have developed include a positive mindset when doing when doing math. I have gotten better at math when having a one-on-one with a teacher. My public speaking when doing presentations has improved. I rarely get nervous when speaking in front of others. I am a lot more helpful within the classroom and with classmates. I always try to help them out and see how they are doing. I have changed in various ways. For example, I have been doing my classwork and trying my best every time to understand. I also ask for help when I am lost or confused with an excitement. Additionally, I am more respectful to everyone that I meet. I'm
044different now because I am more confident, work harder, and always ask questions. I am respectful to everyone and I'm always trying to help my peers when they don't understand something. I'm able to comprehend the lessons being taught to me. I always try to bring a positive energy in the classroom so everyone is able to feel it bounce off me. My plan is to stay focused in school and make sure my grades are above average. I do not want to fall in overwhelming pressure that which leads me to make bad decisions. I will prioritize to ensure I am making choices that will benefit me. I will not let outside influence affect my education. Life Academy has shown me to be responsible and make healthy decisions in life. I am very grateful for my teachers at Life
045Academy. I appreciate you guys for letting me take up some of your time. Thank you. Hello, my name is My name is Robbie Andradi and this is the reason why I stayed at Life Academy and why I like it here. Whoops. The other way. Wrong way. Oh, maybe not right. Maybe not. No. The reason why I was sent to Life Academy was because of uh the way of speaking and my attitude and and getting it because of my actions. Eventually, I was sent here to Life Academy. I now am more respectful and focused on my school work, not messing around or focusing. I also made an effort to do my homework to the best of my ability and helping others and helping class my classmates when help is needed. I learned how to control my
046anger thanks to Life Academy. I also have learned to stop and think before acting when the situation is heated. Lastly, just to stop talking. It'll just make it worse. Sometimes it does. Sometimes I am now way more respectful than than when I was before. My and paying attention. I also make an effort to do my homework to my ability. I think that was a slide. Sorry. Oh, right. My plan is to stay focused and stay out of business. That doesn't include me. I will try and learn as much as I can when I'm in my classes. Lastly, I would like to make more friends that are good influences on me. In conclusion, I have learned skills that will benefit me further on in life thanks to Life Academy. Now I can be a fully functional
047human being in our society. Thank you. Very nice or Liliana, do you want the next? My name is Alana Shorty. Oh my god. My name is Leiana Shorty. After struggling with behavior and attendance at Bullhead Middle, I have transferred to Life Academy. Though it was a challenging time, it changed me for the better by teaching me self-control, accountability, and how to make better choices. Since attending Life Academy, I have grown in many positive ways. I have become more respectful, improved my manners, and make real effort to listen to others. I have also discovered that I'm curious and enjoy learning how the world works. While I still have more to learn, I am proud how much I have grown since attending this school. My problem solving skills have improved immensely through challenges and hard work. I
048have enhanced my communication and paraphrasing skills. I have also learned to manage my time better and collaboration effectively, which has made me more confident in my abilities. When I first transferred schools, I was self-centered and uncooperative. With the help of my teachers and with the help of my teachers, my teachers like my attitude over time changed. I have become more compassionate, patient, and understanding towards others. I'm also more adventurous and adaptable, which has made it easier for me to try new things. I have changed a lot since coming here. When I first arrived, I struggled with low self-esteem and doubted my abilities, which affected my confidence and performance. With my teacher support, I began to see my potential. They hold me accountable and help me grow. Now I'm more confident, focused, and in a healthy
049mindset. When I get to Fox Creek, I will apply these lessons I have learned this past year. I plan to use the skills I have developed to make better choices and work towards my goals. I will handle handle conflicts respectfully, ask for help when I don't understand something, and stay organized by using a planner. These strategies will help me be a successful student. Thank you for all Thank you for all taking the time to listen to me and have a nice day. Thank you. I forgot about that picture. Um, hello. My name is How does this work? I'm so sorry. You press this. Hello, my name is Hunter Bennett and I'm in seventh grade. This slideshow was made on February 10th of 2026. Oh my god. I came to Life Academy because I made mistakes
050in my past that I am ultim ultimately paying for it and I'm sorry for doing it. It hurt a lot of people and I'm sorry. Oh my god, I'm repeating myself and it's okay. I know. I'm just trying to find the words to say. I know what I did broke a lot of trust that I had with people. And I know it took a long time to build back up, but I'm happy to say I have built back that trust and it is stronger than it ever was before. I've learned what I've learned about myself is I work better in a quiet quieter environment than I do with all the ruckus because I get distracted very easy. I've also learned to take accountability for myself and which is very important for growth. I can be
051and I've also learned about I could be as good as I dreamed of being in my dreams. I could be someone that people want to look up to one day. Some of the skills that I have developed is learning to take constructive criticis criticism construct and I'm happy to be able to take it because when I first came to life academy I would lash out and I would get mad and I would just shut down. I've also learned I can multitask now. Even though what I'm trying to say is I don't get distracted as easy as I used to, which is amazing for me. I can also respectfully disagree with someone and I'm proud of myself that I can do that. Some of the changes I've made about myself is I can take responsibility. I
052can help out around the classroom and I can go around and see if anyone needs help and see what I can do to help them. How I am different now is back then when I came to life academy, I would not ask any questions or even if I needed help, I wouldn't ask questions because I was scared of what people would think of me. Now, for a matter of fact, I love to ask questions. I think it's amazing. Thank God for that. And now I will truly listen to my teachers when they talk. And if even if they want, I can repeat what they said just so they know I heard them. My plans on returning or going to Fox Creek is I plan to help people when I get there. I plan on being
053able to I plan on being a respectful student when I get there and planning on helping some of my friends get better, too. And I hope Thank you guys for letting me speak today in front of you guys. It's an honor. Um, I hope you guys have an amazing day and well night, but yeah, thank you. I I can kind of speak for the board a little bit and then you guys could please chop in or jump in, but I am very very proud of all four of you guys. Absolutely. Thank you for coming and sharing your experiences. really does make my heartbeat faster. So, thank you. Thank you. Madam President, may I take 30 seconds to take a group picture before we go to the next, please? Do you see that? Miss Hall, may
054I take a a picture? Thank you. Picture with the kids And their teachers are here, too. I noticed that. While Lance is uh getting you guys all ready for your picture, it just what you guys did for us tonight just really validated what we have been trying to do for all of our students in this school district. And we so appreciate you coming down here and uh being brave in front of us. Also, thank you all very much, each and every one of you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. Take a couple pictures looking. Thank you everybody. Congratulations. Madame President, one of the things I would say is that this validates for us how important this program is. Most definitely. Very impressive. Absolutely. Very impressive. Thank you. Thank you, John. Seventh grade, I don't think
055I could have gotten up and stood there and done what they just did. Thank you. It's awesome. Okay, we're going to move to 2.8. eight st superintendent reports. Dr. Stewart. Okay. Um you see a lot of things in my report tonight. I have lots of stuff there for you. Um first of all, we dealt with GCCA and GCCG policies uh last month. And so you see the regulations and the uh exhibits that go with those um that have to do with leave um our leave policy and our and our leave um medical leave assistance program. Um I also have uh added in here uh two regulations. We have policies for reduction in force for both professionals or our certified people and our classified people. Uh they're very short policies that just kind of say, "Oh
056yeah, sometimes we might need to do a reduction in force." U you can look them up, but they're pretty dang short. Um unfortunately if we have to be looking at this situation as part of our um as part of our plans for next year um I was not comfortable with just functioning on those two very brief policies and felt that we really needed some procedures and a very definite uh set of plans for how to deal with that and uh and some kind of a rubric for making decisions. Um I will tell you that I have put in here for you to look at um uh uh GCQA-R and E and G GD QA uh-R and E. Uh the first one is for um certified staff and the second one is for um for classified
057staff. And then the exhibits, uh, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on them tonight. I I want you to be able to look at them, but I will tell you that we I rolled these out to the leadership team today. And as always, they have wonderful contributions to uh this discussion. Um, and u and I could have waited I could have waited or I could have pulled them and said we, you know, I need to revise them. The issue is we need these in place. And so I'm going to say to you that I'm reporting them to you now, but I will bring bring revised ones to you based on the conversations we had today. Our leadership team always has insightful uh ideas and um and is and they're really good
058at uh because their perspectives are different. Um they see things that I don't see and it's always better when I have their input. Um so there will be some changes in in those that I will bring to you but at least we will have something in place uh in in case we have to use this. Okay. Okay. Having said that, um then uh I want to uh I always try to be transparent and I know that last month uh you received as well as I did and it was released to the public uh the financial risk analysis from the auditor general's office. So, uh, I have a few slides that I want to go over with you on those, uh, so that, um, uh, there's information for why it looks the way it does. And,
059uh, so, Lance, if you will get the, um, risk the the financial risk one up, please. Okay. So every year the uh Arizona Auditor General's office uh does a financial risk an analysis and it's based on information from the Arizona Department of Ed uh finance department. It's based on our annual uh AFR the annual financial report and on uh information from the audits. Um, it's always a bit confusing to me because they pull together the information, they pull the data together in different in different ways than we do, even though we use their documents to pull the information together. Um, but they always contact me if they have questions. I can always submit additional information uh or make corrections. Um, but ultimately they issue this report. First of all, the good news is we're not
060among the highest risk districts in the state. And uh in fact, the number of high-risk districts in the state went from four to eight uh this year. Um and and they are high-risisk in all of the areas. But I wanted to talk to you a little bit about what these what these uh uh categories um uh really talk about. So, if you notice on the left, uh, high-risisk, the change in weighted student count. Now, remember, we don't have a whole lot of control over that. It's who enrolls and it's when they get their bodies, uh, their butts and seats as we talk about, uh, all year. Okay? U,, but I put some data down at the bottom for you to look at. Um, you can see because they say the four-year change is 12.8%. in
0612021 in January. Okay. Our uh and I took these data from uh uh from our reports that you get every month uh you know from uh uh from Jenny our reports on enrollment. Um so in 2021 in January of that school year we had 2482 students enrolled. the following year 2393 last year 2143 and this year 2099 uh which is a 5.2% drop this year from last year. Okay. So you can see they say 2.9% that's the change from 2324 to 2425 because these data are in their report are based on um uh school year 25 because that's a completed school year. Okay. But I wanted you to have this year's data at the bottom so that you could see that we've gone down even more. Please change in the middle the budget limit reserve
062and those numbers are dramatic changes but there are some um explanations that make sense for that. So the first thing is I want uh the main thing that I want to talk to you about is uh down at the bottom the carryover we had each year. So from 21 uh in 2122 our carryover uh was 2.1 million. In 2223 it was 3.2 million. If those of you who've been on the board a while if you recall those were the years when first of all we got the scare if you will about the aggregate expenditure limit. Those were the first years that the that the school districts in Arizona exceeded the aggregate expenditure limit. We'd already built our budgets, but we were told, "You better be ready because you may have to um uh withhold 17%."
063And so uh uh so in the midst of those budgets I trimmed so that we had a reserve there because otherwise we would have had to close school in say midappril we would have been out of money. Um and so I held on to that. The other reason we had significant rollover in that those two years and the following year was those were the three years when we had esser funds when we had pandemic relief funds. And so we uh we put as many expenditures over into those grants as we could. And so it meant that we had um then those nice healthy amounts of money for roll over to the following years. Um 2324 was the end of those grants. And so you can see what happened in 2425 and in 2526. 2526 is
064our estimate. I estimate that I will be able to roll over a million dollars to next year's budget. I rolled a million dollars over into this year's budget. But that that's why those uh you know, look at that. We dropped from in the maximum a year 3.2 million down to 2.5 and now down to a million. And so that's why those percentages are so high. Uh is because we dropped 50% in our rollover. And the rollover, what we end up with is our rollover really are the reserve amounts that are in the budget for emergencies. Okay, the third one uh the budget limit reserve is absolutely based on the second one and um and so um uh in this case I gave you both uh on the budget um the difference in budget and in
065um uh the carryover. So um once again you can see uh how those uh how those numbers changed and my estimate for next year is rolling over 1.1 million in M and uh uh 400,000 in um capital. Okay. Okay. Uh the second page of uh their of their findings. So these three other categories uh we're not at any risk for these particularly uh our position is still strong our ratio is still strong at 46%. Uh financial position the general fund um is down a bit um but it's not enough to be uh at risk at this point and our and our general fund uh change is um not as not as healthy as before but um still on the plus side. And then um capital money is redirected to operations. So that means from the
066unrestricted capital moving funds from there over into M. And uh I had to do that this year at the beginning of the year. When you approve the revised budget tonight, those monies have moved back over into capital. And it's primarily because we have we uh in January we received three amounts of one-time uh one-time funding that allowed me to move it back over. So, if we were looking at that right now, uh that that would not that would not look that way. Uh the other two don't apply to us. So, I just wanted to put it out there. I know people are paying attention to it. They should be paying attention to it. You should be paying attention to it. um um it's not happy but we do have reasons for it and it's not
067thankfully uh if I do say so myself not fiscal mismanagement. Okay. Do you have questions? Okay. The other update I would like to give you is to address the elephant in the room and this is our budget projections. No, it's up in the top. There you go. So, having just looked at all of those data, uh I want to share with you again, you can see on the left those enrollment numbers and next to them are the percentage uh of that those dropped. These are January numbers. So they're current for us or December numbers, I'm sorry. Um and uh so right now our in January our number is um or our anticipated number for next year is 1989 another 5% drop. when I translate that into the funding that we would get from the state
068uh anticipating that if you look on the right the weighted ADM okay so you're looking at enrollment on the left 1989 1989 students when all the weights weighted amounts are factored in our budget would be built and currently is built on 3,120.9 9154 students and that's ADM. That's not bodies. On the left, you're looking at bodies. On the right, you're looking at attendance. But extrapolating that 5.2%, it means that for next year, we would be looking at a weighted amount of 2958.6278, which is that 5.2% drop. Okay? Unless we can improve attendance, we have to figure it on the same basis. All right. Okay. This is one where you might have questions. If you don't, that's okay. We'll go ahead. Okay. Next one. All right. So, on the left, I have data for you from
069the current budget. On the right I have estimated da d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d da for the new budget. So the current budget maintenance and operation is $18 million. This $18,54135 that's the budget you will be approving tonight adopting tonight. But in that budget are two one-time amounts of money. The one that's state aid that replaced Prop 123. So, we're not guaranteed that unless the legislature figures out what it's going to do about Prop 123 or figures out that they want to do a state aid supplement. We're not counting that one, so I subtract it. And we had a one-time free
070and reduced lunch supplement. Both of these came in January. That one-time free and reduced lunch is on top of our calculated one that's in the group B weights that the legislature voted last year in uh in their budget. Uh because many many districts took a huge hit when the pandemic money ran out. Most districts had everybody on free and reduced lunch through the time that they had uh pandemic funds, recovery funds. and then when those funds went away went back to many of their students either having to pay full or pay reduced. So the legislature uh uh backed that up so that they could still do the free and reduced. Um uh I doubt that that's going to happen this year. So that would then mean that our budget is 18,271755 right now without those
071one-time funds. If you go to the right, when I take that number from the first slide where we dropped from 3,100 ADM weighted to 2900 weighted and I and I factor in a 2% increase in the base because for the last five years that's what the board what the legislature has done. So even adding 2% to the base amount making it 5215 instead of what it is right now and multiplying it times that 2900 we get a budget of 16,430782 that is a decrease of $2.1 million in M If you look then at the middle set of boxes, you can see our capital outlay funding for us that is district additional assistance which is a million88,451 and in January we got an extra one time DAA supplement of 48,000. So I could put that money
072back into capital for a budget of 1,137,017. With that drop in enrollment, I estimate that our DAA budget would be $1 million next year, which would be a drop of 137,000 or 13.7% drop. and that includes about a $400,000 carryover from this year. The last line, the last set of boxes have to do with the classroom site fund. We don't talk a whole lot about that in our meetings, but it is our uh fund where not only do we do uh pay teachers $2,000 on base and we pay them performance pay at the end of the year. This year we are funding 10 classroom positions out of that fund. Uh we are funding all music and all art positions out of that fund. Okay. Um and so uh with a a small rollover because I
073do try to get this money out to current employees as much of it as I can. Um we had $2,64,852. That's the current budget in classroom site based on $842 per student. With that 5.2% drop anticipated for next year in enrollment, the classroom site fund would be 1,840,000 uh 40,569. And I did that based on no rollover because I try to get it as close to zero as possible. So you can see that that's a 10.9% decrease in that fund. Well, what does it mean? It means that we have to reduce maintenance and operation by 2.1 million. So what's possible? It's possible that we would reduce or have some reduction in academic or non-academic programs. In other words, what's on the table for discussion to reduce our budget by $2 million. So, these are things
074that are on the table. I didn't give you all 84. Um um I gave you just general categories. Possible reduction in the number of certified and classified employee positions. possible shared positions among sites or programs, possible transfer of funding of professional positions to classroom site fund. In other words, right now we fund 10 positions in classroom site fund and teachers have a really healthy performance pay amount in June. We might have to put some more positions over there. The downside is that reduces that performance pay part for our teachers, but it might save positions. Uh possible reduction in benefits paid by the district. Currently, we pay 100% of health insurance, uh 100% of vision and dental, and we have a very healthy um life insurance policy or life insurance program for our employees. We might
075have to consider that we pay some percentage of the health insurance as opposed to 100%. That's on the table. Reduction in capital outlay expenditures of 137,000. Uh it's a it's a hefty percentage. It's not a huge dollar amount. Uh but we would still have to consider it. So possible reduction in the use of copers and printers. Currently we allow our teachers to copy and use the copers however much they want. We might have to put a limit on that. Uh possible reduction in instructional aids. This does not mean people. This means uh instructional aids mean like textbooks, workbooks, um uh teaching materials in the classrooms. possible reduction in repairs of facilities, possible reduction in new technology hardware. In our rotation of purchases, we try to replace uh Chromebooks and and um laptops for teachers and
076laptops for ad uh immer um administrators on a cycle because let's face it, about every four, five, six, seven years, depends on the product. um uh they no longer can be updated and particularly our hardware for students has to be updated because they take state testing on hardware possible reduction in renewal of technology software. Okay. And then in the in terms of the classroom site fund, possible increase in the number of teacher positions paid from the site fund or possible reduction in the amount uh which would also result in a possible reduction in the amount of classroom site fund funding available for performance pay. None of this is pleasant. This is all painful. But I wanted it out there on the table. I wanted it um visible to you that we're going to have some
077tough decisions and I want our um our employees and the public to know we have some tough decisions. Any questions? Pretty sad. It is very sad and and we can't blame anyone source for the drop in enrollment. I will tell you that even as recently as three years ago, we had 250 students enrolling in kindergarten each year, we are at 200. And so each year that that happens, you know, so if you think about it, that was that, you know, that's the last two years. So now we have first and second graders that are at in the 200 category that were in the 250 category, you know, and so it works its way up. So, we don't see that uh changing much. We see it continuing to stay, even if it stays stable at 200,
078that's still 50 kids a year until they get to 8th grade. Okay? So, uh this is not just a a shortterm projection of problems, it's a long-term projection. Okay? So needless to say, next month I will be bringing you a list of of recommendations for how to adjust this budget for fiscal year 27. Okay. Not looking forward to that report. Um, I will tell you that my office has been kind of grim for the last three weeks working on all of these things and um um you know u I I it just has to be and um none of it's pleasant. I am very hopeful that we don't have to do anything with those riff things that attrition will help us with whatever we might decide to cut for physicians. Maybe we won't cut any
079uh but uh we need to be prepared for you know whatever comes along. So no surprises. Thank you. You're welcome. I think Yeah. Any questions for Dr. Stewart? Thank you. Yeah. Uh, item 2.9. Oh, kids, if you It gets dry from here on in. If you guys want to go home and it's okay with us, okay, we're not offended. Okay, you're stuck. Oh. Oh, there you go. There they go. Everybody wants to go home. Thank you again. Thanks so much. Thank you guys. Keep up the good work. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Schnobble and team. We have great team. Is it uh item 2.9 board member updates? Anybody got anything positive to say? It's not raining. Not yet. Not until Monday, right? Oh, who knows? I told Lance he could sign me up for reading at
080the schools coming up in March so I can read some Dr. Seuss that second week of March or something. Yeah. Well, okay. Okay. Um, we bid item 3.1. We're in the consent agenda. I need a motion to approve the consent agenda. Madame President, I make a motion we approve the consent agenda as presented. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I. Melinda Sabraski. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene Diaz. Izziki. Okay. Old business 5.1 revised policy GCCA professional and support staff paid time off. Madame President, I just want to make a This is the first reading, but I want to make a an explanation because you did read it twice and approve it. Um, but I did take it to the leadership team and once again, they had all kinds of excellent ideas and so
081I made some additional revisions in it. That's why it's back on this agenda as a first reading and the same for the next one. So, what were the changes? Uh, Lance, if you scroll down, um, uh, no, it's they're x off. So, you can see C and D are dropped there in that first part. And then, um, uh, made a revision to that this second paragraph below that. Um, and I'm not sure, Lance, if there's more, Jill. Oh, yes, and added uh item C. Yes, please. And then Oops. Nope. Go back up a little bit. There you can see where u uh we we changed requires to may require. Okay. So, we're in March. Yep. Okay. All right. And then um yeah, so no action on this tonight. It's just your first read made by
082the leadership team. They were recommendations from the leadership team. Yes. And it taught me reminded me that I need for something like this that there was not a time crunch that I should have taken it to them, gotten their input before I brought it to you at all. Um uh but recognizing and so I you know I learn from my mistakes and um uh so we fixed this one. I still brought those other uh those regulation things that I told you that have to do with the rift policies because we may need we may need to use them and and we we'll make revisions as we need to in those and I'll bring them back to you. But um I couldn't wait on that one. These I should have waited. I'm going to go look
083at those more carefully. Please. Yeah. Item 5.2 revised policy GCCG professional support staff voluntary transfer of acred paid time off. I I assume that this was another Yeah. Uh the big change here is changing from 30 days a continuous uh 30 days to uh and taking out the word continuous because we they reminded me that we might have somebody who unfortunately has to do say chemo treatments and it's not 30 consecutive days but it might be over the course of the year and then we also changed it from 30 to 20. Um so uh uh those those were the changes in that one. Okay. Thank you. New business 6.1 fiscal year 26 budget revision number two. And this one is good news because those were there were those three amounts of money that I referenced
084a few minutes ago. um all in the hundred thou well two in the $100,000 range and one in the $48,000 range. Um uh which which you know those are kind of healthy for us to have midy year. Uh and so uh this is the revised budget uh putting those dollars in. So an increase. Okay. So I recommend that you uh approve the uh revised budget. Any questions or discussion? Then I need a motion to approve the revised budget. Madam President, I make a motion we refute uh we approve the fiscal year 26 budget revision number two as presented. I second it. All those in favor? I Melinda Subraki. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. Okay. 7.1 6.2 6.2 6.2 excuse me I is right there it is and I just 7.1 it
0856.2 uh convenient to executive session to discuss a personnel matter pursuant to ARS 38431.03A1 03A1 discussion or consideration of employment, assignment, appointment, promotion, demotion, dismissal, salaries, disciplining or resign, resignation of a public officer, appointee or employee of any public body except that with the exception of the solitary salary discussions, an officer, appointee or employee may demand that the discussion or consideration occur in public meeting. Um, I need a motion to move to executive session. I make a motion we move to executive session. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I, Melinda Sowski. I, Fred Rushton. I, Charlene Diaz. Hi, Barbarziki. Okay, we are in executive session. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Heat. I love you. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Number one. Heat. Heat. to reconvene
086into um I'll make a motion that we reconvene in public session. I'll second the motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Subrasi. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. I'd like to make a motion that we accept uh the with regrets the uh resignation of Jennifer Hess. I second it. All those in favor? I Melinda Saski. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. Will you move it up, please? Who seconded the motion? I did. Thank you. That's okay. Sorry. That's okay to ask because sometimes we don't remember whose seconds. Yeah. What do you mean? We don't remember who who made the first either. 8.3 two 8.3 8.3 M I need a motion to convene into executive session. Oh, you got to read that first, don't you? Okay. Executive session to discuss
087a personal ma matter pursuant to ARS 38431.03A1 03A1 discussion or consideration of employment assignment appointment promotion to motion dismissal salaries um dis disciplining or resignation of a public officer appointee or employee of any public body except that with the exception of salary discussions an officer appointee or employee may demand that the discussion or consideration occur in public meeting to move I need a motion Yes, I make a motion that we can be re or convene into executive session. I'll second the motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Saski. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene. I represent Ziki. We get to walk down the stairs again. Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Happy birthday. Heat. Heat. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Number one, hey. Heat. Heat.
088Wow. Nat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Mother heat. How many? Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Need a motion to return to regular session. Madame President, I make a motion that we reconvene into public session. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Meinda Saskki. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. I recommend that we accept the resignation of Mark Scott. I'll second that recommendation if it requires a second. Does that It's a motion. Um all those in favor. I Melinda Saski. I Fred Rushton. I'm Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. One more time. I need a motion to convene to executive session. No, you got to read first. Oh, again. Okay, here we go. I'm getting almost
089memorized because I was really getting in the memory here. Um, discussion consulted in consultations with with designated representatives of public body in order to discuss security plans. Oh, okay. uh procedures, assessments and measures of systems relating to or having impact on the security or safety of buildings, facilities, operations, critical infrastructure, information or information technology maintained by the public body. Records, documentation, notes, or other materials made by or provided to the representatives pursuant to this paragraph are confidential and exempt from public disclosure under this chapter and title 39, chapter 1. I need a motion to go into executive session. Madame President, I make a motion that we reconvene into executive session. We'll second that motion. All those in favor? I'm Melinda Saskki. I'm Fred Rushton. Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. Heat. Heat. Heat. I can't. Hallelujah.
090How you doing? Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Mhm. Heat. Heat. I can't. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Number one. Heat. Heat. Let me out. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. everywhere. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. form. Hey Heat. Heat. Heat. Mhm. Heat. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Nam. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Heat. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. out. Hey Heat. Heat. Heat. Number n. Heat. Heat. Heat. Wow. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Happy heat. Heat. Heat. Mhm. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I need a motion to resume into public session. I make
091a motion we reconvene into public session. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I. Meinda Sabroski. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene Diaz. I Barbber Zarziki. Closing items. Future topics. Um, I think that I'd like to have a sort of a report because I haven't been able to attend on the strategic planning thing. Okay. That you I know that you're active in it and all that, but I haven't heard anything about it and I have not been able to attend. Okay. Please. Anything else you guys like to see? Okay. Uh, upcoming board events. going to press that button so that we know that we're meeting in the second Tuesday. Second Thursday, you mean? Yes. Thursday. Tuesday. Tuesday would be nice. Saturday morning. No, Tuesday at the beginning of the week when we're still refreshed by
092Thursdays is No. Okay. February 19th. Oh, why do we have February 19th on it? Yeah, it was February. That That's the old date. I apologize. When I edit it, I forgot to take that one. The next one on March 12th. He owes us at least one day of pay for that. Um, you gave up your salary. I did. You told me you were giving up 500. Yeah. I said that you could take double my salary. Yeah. Um, read across America. That's Dr. Seuss that bar is bringing up. Right. It's coming. Who sets that up for us? Do we have to go in and Sorry. Lance. Lance does. Okay. Lance, I want to read. Um, anything else on here that looks good? There are a couple of rhythm cutings and chamber mixers if you want to.
093into any of them on behalf of the board. Is that a good idea, Lance? Occasionally, probably. Probably depends on the event, but how much you want to be seen. And well, now that Fred's got two shoulders, he could he could be seen a lot there. Kate and uh and Sheree and I were at the ribbon cutting for the new uh DCS building up on the Parkway and um you know and I try to hit some occasionally put in an appearance. Okay. Item 13.3, date, time, location for future meetings. We're going to meet here. Second Thursday. What day is that? The 12th. The 12th. Yep. Again. The 12th. Okay. Yeah. Remember March 12th, February and March for the first 28 days have the same days. Do you realize there's 25 almost 25 hours in a day?
094They really are. Mhm. We just go for 24 though because it's just been that way. Okay. March 12th. I need a motion for adjournment. I make a motion we adjourn the meeting. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Saraski. I Fred Rushton. I Charlene Diaz. I Barbar Ziki. We are adjourned. Thank you. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Heat.