001[Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] I like fire. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] There's [Music] a woman. [Music] hearing if you look when you you go down to the Mojave Valley. I'm calling that. Excuse me, ladies. You you'll find police cars there. Needles. Lack of control down there on that end. We're going to have to move you guys. You know, excuse me. I call to order the special meeting for Bullhead City School Board on Monday. Wrong one. Worksheet. Workshop. Nope. It's highlighted pink. Okay. Yeah, but she just told me I could use this instead. Oh, all right. That's for the meeting. Read the pizza first. Don't tell me what I know. Just give her one. I call to order the public meeting for fiscal year 2026 proposed budget for adoption pursuant to ARS 15948 C and
002D 15905 15905.01 01 15960 2D and 5913C which requires school districts to make all revisions resulting in budgets limits either increasing or decreasing conduct a public hearing. The purpose of the public hearing is to provide an opportunity for questions and discussion of the expenditure budgets for 2026 fiscal year. The time is about 3:00, right? Roll call. President Melinda Sabrasi. Charlene Dia is here. Barbar Ziki here. Judy Reed here. We are now in our public hearing. Um Dr. Stewart, would you like to go over this with us? Uh um ladies of the board, members of the board, uh this is the proposed budget uh for fiscal year 26. Um uh this is the same budget that um I presented to you last month as a proposed budget. So, uh, I'm asking for adoption in in a
003few minutes in the agenda, uh, for our budget, uh, with a maintenance and operation budget of 17,76585, classroom site fund budget of 2,63,717, and an unrestricted capital outlay fund uh, budget of $1,86,957. Uh keep in mind that this budget uh was developed prior to uh the final budget decisions by the legislature. Um and uh so I will be coming back to the board probably in August with a revision uh to reflect uh some additional dollars. Uh but this is our current um budget for uh for your consideration for um adoption. And uh the hearing allows for anyone present to ask questions about the budget. Are there any questions about the budget? How about from you guys? No questions about the budget. We can't move forward. We have to wait our 10 minutes in case somebody
004comes in. Okay. count the minutes. So, can we go back to talking and you won't yell at us then? No, I won't yell at you. Turn your microphones off. Although we are still we're still streaming. We're being we're still streaming. So yeah. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Mhm. [Music] Mm. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Mhm. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] All right. [Music] Yep. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. Number [Music] n. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Let them double. [Music] Okay. Um, I can say that I'm a little disappointed that we did not have any public questions. We're spending $17 million worth of taxpayer money and nobody's here to complain or say good things or even say anything. Very,
005very, very disappointing. Um, I need a motion to adjourn the public hearing. I'll make a motion that we adjourn the public hearing. Well, do do we have to have a motion to accept the budget first? No. Oh, that's in the regular in the special meeting. Oh, okay. Oh, that's right. This is I second it. All those in favor? I'm Melinda Subraki. I Charlene Diaz. Hi, Barb Zarziki. Hi, Judy. Mhm. Oh, yeah. I saw it in newspaper. Yeah, I know it was in the newspaper. It was on Facebook. Oh, yeah. I But I still can just I can Yeah. Um and I understand that it's in the middle of the day, but it's at the end of the working day. Yeah. And you know, there's enough shift ch changes here and stuff that you know. But
006yeah, I saw it in lots of stuff. So, I know, you know, it was definitely I saw it. I saw it on the paper. It was on our website and everything else. Um, I'm going to call to order the special meeting for Bullhead City School Board on Monday, July 7th, 2025 at is it 3:14? Something about right? Yeah, about 3:14. Yeah, something close to that. Would you guys a roll call? I hear. President Melinda Saskki, Charlene Dia is here, Barb Zarzuki here, Judy Reid here. Seems to me that if we do that once, we've done it. Okay. But would you guys please stand and say the pledge with me? 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
007liberty and justice for all. citizens present and I saw Fred do it signing in in the back. Um, I need I need a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. I make a motion that we adopt the agenda. I second it. All those in favor? I, Melinda Sabraski. I, Charlene Diaz. I Barbber Zarziki. I Judy Reed. Item 2.1, the fiscal year 2026 proposed budget for adoption. I need a motion. Are there any questions from you guys? Okay. I need a motion to adopt. I'll make a motion to adopt the 2026 fiscal year proposed budget. I second it. All those in favor? I. Melinda Subraki. I Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. Hi, Judy Reed. Did I say 2025 or you did? Did she correct? Well, she correct. Fiscal 26. So, okay. Yes. It's confusing. Did I
008say 26 or It's fiscal 26. It's both years. Oh, yeah. I think you said Excuse me. Cleaning up in dust is not good for me. 2.2 uh preschool handbook for school year 2025 2026. Madame President and board members, somehow I missed this one in the uh in all of the handbooks that were presented last month. Uh so I present this one for uh approval for the school year. Okay. Um when I read through it, I did not see any anything that I even want to ask questions about. Nope. It's uh seems like it's well coordinated with everything else. It is. We work really hard. We work really hard to get them to be consistent. Okay. I need a motion to approve this preschool handbook. I make a motion we approve the preschool handbook for the
009school year 2025 2026. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Sabraski. I Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. I Judy Reid. I or item 2.3 policy GDI support staff probation. Second the first reading. Um this was the first time that we've seen this. Um it's to clarify it's used to clarify it's very much to clarify the procedure that we have used for a number of years. Uh the the policy uh this is really very much a new policy although we had a GDI policy. It was just very vague and very brief. It was less than one paragraph. And uh and so this really puts into place the procedures that we uh that we use. Okay. Is this the place where we can decide what Oh, excuse me. Well, if you have first reading,
010um yeah, if you have any suggested changes or anything, you can do those now or you can do wait until the next meeting. I think I'm going to wait till the next meeting. Yeah. Anybody else have suggested changes? No. Okay. Read a little bit. Haven't had a chance to read it. Um, is this where we can or Yes, this is the one where you can uh choose to have an executive session or not. It was here as a placeholder. If you uh if you uh would like to have some discussion about uh with the attorney or about this uh uh this next item, you could go into executive session to do so. Uh if you don't feel that you need that discussion, you know, or discussion with the attorney, then you can move on to
011the item. Does anybody need a discussion with the attorney for the next item? Okay. Okay. Um, reconvene into public session. We didn't even do it. So, I'm on 4.2. Yes. action to approve the appointment of attorney Gordon Lewis to conduct an independent investigation of a whistleblower complaint filed against this district by former employee Lillian Salceto, excuse me, and to report to the board the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of his investigation. I need a motion to approve um attorney Gordon Lewis to be our investigator. I I make a motion that we approve the appointment of Gordon Lewis as the investigator, independent investigator for the uh whistleblower complaint uh by Lillian Salceto. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Subrasi. I Charlene Diaz. I Barb Zarziki. Hi Judy Reed. Okay, this is not pink.
012So that means I must have the discretion there, right? No, this is the one that I need to have with you. It's not me. Oh, 4.3 convenient to ex executive session pursuant to ARS 38431.03A1 03A1 discussion or consideration of for of employment assignment appointment promotion to motion dismissal salaries disciplining or resignation of a public officer appointee or employee of any public body except with the exception of salary discussions. An officer appointee or employee may demand that the discussion or consideration occur in a public meeting. I need a motion to go into executive session. I make a motion that we go into executive session. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Saski. I Charlene Diaz. Hi Barb Zarziki. I Judy Reed. Okay, we are in executive session. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Natorn. Number
013one, [Music] heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hello. [Music] Oh, [Music] heat. Mhm. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Mhm. [Music] Mm. [Music] Mhm. [Music] Mhm. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. [Music] Hello. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] I need a motion to reconvene. into public session. I'll make a motion that we reconvene into public session. I second it. All those in favor? I'm Melinda Sabroski. I'm Charlene Diaz. Hi, Barb Zerziki. I Judy Reed. Next on the agenda is the consent agenda. Are there is there anything that we need to discuss about the consent agenda? Then I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as present presented. I make a motion we uh accept the consent
014agenda as presented. I second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Sabraski. I Charlene. I bar Zarziki. I Judy Reed. There's a real name. We're at the end. Uhhuh. I move I need a motion to adjourn the special meeting. I'll make a motion that we adjourn the special meeting. I'll second that motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Subraki. I Charlene Diaz. Hi, Barbara Zerziki. I Judy Reed. We are done. Thanks. [Music]