001thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] the workshop to order on Thursday April 2023 at 5 30 P.M roll call I I'm president Melinda sabrowski Charlene Diaz here Fred Rushton here Barbers arzicki here we have a ghost member but we'll fill that tonight maybe thank you very much um D.C New York trip is there anybody here that wants to talk to that would you please come on up here and introduce yourself and talk to us about it good evening my name is William Tafoya I'm the attendance clerk at Bullhead City Middle School and this past March we had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC and New York with 17 of our Bullhead middle school students and eight adults including myself by plane by Subway by bus all through New York
002and Washington DC it was a fabulous experience that I want to thank everyone here for and just for having that opportunity um to be able to take place in uh for allowing our students to have that wonderful experience and you know have have it be something that they'll remember because I know I will remember it for a very long time well tell us a story there's got to be stories one that I would really love to eventually forget is our lovely duration on the subway and I was actually just talking about it but um I was very nervous going going into the subway knowing that we would be in the Subway because I had traveled to New York with my family previously and the uh um tour guide assured me you know we have and
003he explained to myself in the other tour um tour group that was with us their leader he explained to her and I the um his thoughts on it and we all agreed that I would be in the very back of the group and the other tour um leader would be in the middle of the group and he would be at the very front and he had a flute with him uh and he'd play a little tune and we'd all quack on the subway and know that it was time to get off but it's I was still very nervous to have 17 students of my own along with um the I believe 12 students from Mississippi that were with us all on a subway car together and knowing when to get off um but you know
004we we made it we all got off we all uh had an awesome experience but I I will very Happily Never ride the subway again if I could avoid going back to New [Laughter] ton well that's really cool um the hotels were good for you and they were outstanding um the the students were amazing in in terms of their behavior there they uh were all very respectful of the fact I mean mind you they were all very tired each and every day because it was jam-packed from 7 A.M till about 10 11 p.m so they were well ready to make themselves go to bed and get ready for the next day but they were very respectful of each other very respectful of the other guests in the hotel and I'm very proud of of the
005experience that they um of their performance on the ship as well did you get to go to a Broadway show what did you get together got to see um Peter Pan goes wrong and it was in a hilarious performance I was I walked away from that show in tears of laughter and I would definitely recommend that if you get to see it to to go see it because it was outstanding um from the costume changes a very small cast but they they made it work and they owned that stage okay um and the students were very respectful at the Lincoln Memorial um in DC as well as the Vietnam and Korean War memorials very um aware of their of what was being presented to them and um I had one student in particular who was
006very eager to see Arlington Cemetery because he had family members who were in service and whether they were buried there or not I I'm not sure but he he was very excited to experience that and and um think the soldiers who who did fight for our country who were very there it has to be very impressive absolutely um did you guys get to go see the Statue of Liberty yes um were there any oohing and awing about that the uh their their hopes were kind of diminished in that area because they they were hoping to be able to take a elevator ride up top but they they're not allowing that very much anymore because of the age of the Statue of Liberty and just wanting people to be careful in um safe while they're visiting
007Liberty Island but they were still very impressed by the um the overall appearance of it and just seeing it in general was was for some of them very very much the highlight of their trip did they get to experience snow while they were back there they didn't we didn't see any snow except maybe a little bit on on the way from New York to DC or DC to work um on the side of the road but it was it was very minimal we did get to see the cherry blossom trees um and that there were very few but and beautiful absolutely gorgeous great thank you so much for taking the kids thank you for your time and I appreciate it again thank you thank you thank you thank you we have a whole bunch of
008rattling going on down here did you guys get a whole bunch of awards that you want to share with us would you guys come up and talk to us please come on you guys we're into stories too I'm into stories tonight are you guys in the stories tonight come on tell us a story come on okay okay hold on you want me to talk first sure okay so I'm Mrs Martin and I am the coach I have the privilege of being the coach of our Science Olympiad team at Fox Creek for now our okay here maybe six maybe seven I'm not sure and this is just half of our team this year we were a 10 member team um the other five that aren't here are believe it or not off playing baseball games softball
009games those kinds of things throughout the season we have had basketball players and volleyball players on our team as well and they've all split their time very well to come home with all this clankiness and they just want to give you a little bit of insight from their season especially their trip to the state tournament this year holy cow [Music] come on you've got two you got two medals so what what do the metals represent for the for what them was for like green generation which is like an environmental science uh-huh type of competition and oh no no one of them was for building a like vehicle like a a rubber band powered vehicle and the other one was for bioprocess lab but like biology um science so you use rubber bands to power your
010your car your vehicle with a pencil how many rubber bands flew across the room [Music] Mission okay well thank you and congratulations wonderful wonderful well we got to talk to you yeah what's this trophy for what's the blue one it's what oh the State won holy cow third place okay so what you've got Metals around your neck too what do they mean and I build Mission possible um it's like it's like a roller coaster there's like different obvious Parts where you have to go through like the ball the marble has to go through different like obstacles yes um I did the same one this year where it's actually called a roller coaster and I made a roller coaster marble going down through many obstacles as well so you had to build the the roller coaster
011for the marble to go down yeah [Music] yeah you're doing testing but we managed I managed to win first place for this one for roller coaster and the uh oh the The Regionals I also won first place my other first place is cancer to founder and we were testing powders we weren't supposed to like figure out the powder we were just making in not in French observation for it and yeah I have two first places hi I'm impressed hey who else did who else needs to talk oh look it the only guy in the group oh man so you got a whole bunch of you got a whole bunch of ribbons too what's all this stuff come on be proud invitation spot um well two of them were for State I don't know which ones
012they don't put the it doesn't matter these ones were from State um this one was second place for codebusters which is crypto cryptography and crypto analysis and this one was for Canada she did and this was first place in meteorology which is all about the study of the atmosphere okay so your cryptology thing what were you guys doing uh translating or were you actually making up code too I had a set coat and we had to take a ciphertext and decode it oh okay all right they didn't give you just a set of letters and ask you to tell them what they had said right well it gives us a ciphertext which is a message that has been encoded and you need to decode it it gives you the code that was used but it
013doesn't give you all the information like the key you have to figure it out I'm impressed yeah yeah next time I do a crossword puzzle I'm calling you thank you thank you though for doing that what you did thank you you guys need to realize she taught science so it takes a lot to impress her with what you're doing this is good Miss zabroski taught science so so who haven't I picked on the two ladies the two ladies over here let's see what did you what do you got hanging around your neck okay um I have two of these badges uh these two are third places and one of them is um anatomy and physiology oh my gosh where I hated that stuff like uh stuff about the Digestive uh system and immune system and
014respiratory system and I got third place for that and this first place was with American named roller coaster and this third place I forgot where I got it um yeah we got I got these two and then this was from our North Central Regional where we got first place that's the team award yeah that's cool that's cool all right come on up here tell me a story so I only have one medal that's okay cause it's second place so this is from weird vehicle which Valeria is also in and it's we so we made like a vehicle out of piece of like thin wood and then we put what's it called it's good like the metal bits yeah I know I'm doing um that's always so much fun I love to do that with kids
015you know I don't know who would be worse to have the kids in the Subway or the kid these kids on the bus so they didn't so I want them to tell us about the science lab that they visited outside of the Olympiad so you need to tell these folks about where you went to visit uh outside of the Olympiad okay well do the slideshow yeah we talked about our Awards so um out of the top the every event we were in the top eight in everything for each one yeah there you go yeah talk about it all genomics where we had our guide Kristen costs cause and um she told us about like the history of tijan and what they did there and the research they did to like make cures to help other
016people um and we did experiments up there you can see us working on it and it was like gel electrophoresis where we would put the genes in these different slots as like gel and while we waited we took a tour around tjm and she showed us the different like workplaces Laboratories and when we came back we could see how the genes were like similar to each other and we figured out um oh our task was to figure out who like who murdered this one guy and we use evidence to figure it out and we found out it was our third suspect using the gel electrophoresis I bet that was phenomenal [Music] that's really cool butterfly land okay yeah where else did we go guys and the aquarium both of those pull the microphone down oh
017okay hello okay okay oh so the butterfly land we learned about the history of the Butterflies it was a calming experience since the next day was going to be a very stressful day taking all of the tests it was coming to be in the the place where we see the butterflies and because each of each one of them it had it's not really good it was really it was really nice and calming it wasn't that stressful we were if we were glad we were really happy um I'm we learned about what butterflies what butterflies were before as to being ancient species and uh the the migration yes the the development of the butterfly species and then the aquarium this is correct the aquarium was really big it was such a thrilling experience it was so
018it was exciting um when we went to this bathroom there was this it wasn't really a mirror but when you go to the sink where you were supposed to wash your hands the mirror that was It was supposed to be a mirror it was actually a huge aquarium filled with sharks and fishes it was so you kind of hurried out of there huh no no I actually so much oh really so what kind what kind of things did you guys get to touch did starfish and that stuff um stingrays stingrays okay we touched uh we touched um stingrays sea urchins [Music] starfish stuff you don't get to touch in the desert huh yeah yeah alligators we saw crocodiles we we saw different species of birds sharks and birds and scorpions and um jellyfish the jellyfish
019it was called a moon jellyfish and it was really cool I it was just it was was it one of the ones that kind of fluoresce it yeah I mean yes they they glow in the dark yes it was insanely amazing it was a memorable experience to the science of them yet team since this will be my last year to being in the Science Olympiad too and to being in America too so yeah but you had a good time you got a lot of stuff rattling around your neck and that's that's cool okay thank you guys oh oh we got a couple more pictures here we got a couple more you guys kind of looking tired a little bit tired in those pictures foreign we sat in a field and they ran from the field
020to the Student Union all the way down to University and back and yeah it was from one end of the university to the other end of the campus so you guys had a great time can't beat that can't beat that and thank you for representing our school district and your in your junior high school so well yeah you make us proud [Applause] and I think we have a real true science teacher here did you see the periodic table and um a lady after my own heart we're going to be looking uh ladies and gentlemen I appreciate it we're going to be looking to see what you guys do in the future and following you congratulations that was great this is great so do we have some people here from Diamondback that want to tell us
021about their school Improvement thing plan well thank you so much for having us tonight um thank you Dr Stewart and president of the school board ma'am sabraski and all the members of the school board thank you so much for having us my name is Byron Boland I'm the principal of Diamondback Elementary School Margaret emlin assistant principal at Diamondback Elementary well tonight what we want to do I think we're getting close to being out of time but I want to quickly go through we've got lots until 6 30. oh yes ma'am okay you can have half of the time between now and then you bet so tonight what we want to do is you've heard it you've heard a couple of times from some of the other schools about where they've been in the in the
022general process especially as it pertains to the integrated action plan um and you've heard from the other schools that they've had a lot of help from um what is the name of the the company the instructions yes instructional empowerment and they were incredibly helpful and they gave us some really good tools there's another thing that we're going to tell you about tonight another piece that we had to do at our campus and I'm going to let Miss emlin get started telling you about what that is so we started with what we call the TSI and the atsi so we just wanted to explain what those were before we got started so the TSI um is the targeted support and Improvement the atsi is additional targeted support and Improvement so when a school has an underperforming
023subgroup on all indicators the school is identified for targeted support Improvement or TSI if student group performance is below the lowest five percent of Title 1 schools then the school is identified for additional targeted support and Improvement which is the atsi so how do we do it we like to look at the aggregated and the disaggregated data the aggregated data equals the whole a summary of information and the disaggregated data are separated pieces of information that are into subsets and subgroups so the federal every student succeed act which is the Assa they have different subgroups the some of the subgroups are the major racial ethnical groups low-income students English Learners which are El Learners students with disabilities commonly used super subgroups are high need and low performing students so the two that we have at
024our school I believe we're the only ones that have those or no we have we're the only one with the atsi so the TSI is the Hispanic Latino students and they were just below the threshold in the atsi were our special education students that were below this well below the threshold so how did we address the disparities for these targeted um student populations first we identified the root cause the primary need the needs assessment and the desired outcomes we based all of the findings on information from the state test in 2021 and 2022 Academic Year as well as data from the comprehensive needs assessment and the quarterly benchmark assessments so we had a group that volunteered themselves to come and help out and what was great about this was it was the Friday right before
025spring break so we did have a group of volunteers and of course we had a bribe in place and food always gets people out and so it was great we had a good time eating and and just relaxing right before we we started today again one thing that we really picked up from instructional empowerment that was really really powerful was a good way to establish meeting norms and there's a lot of good ways to do that some good stuff out there they had a a card that they used and they told us we could take a picture of it and you can see it right there it's the multi-colored uh the primary colors and the green and that helped us go around the table make sure that everybody had a voice that we could hear
026everybody's experience expertise and also their questions which were really important and as you need or disagree yeah if we agreed or disagreed and as you know from some of the other presentations one of those things that help you understand what the problem is or the root cause is asking a lot of why questions why is this and why and you keep asking why until you can't ask why anymore and the yeah you're left with the the answer staring you right in the face and so that's what we did for the Hispanic and Latino and we also did that for special education so it was two different fish bones that we were working on that day um but the creating the Norms really helped us establish a consensus before moving on and before we were you
027know actually wrote it on the actual Fishbone so as Miss emlin stated before we got to the root cause the primary need the need statement and at the bottom the desired outcome when you get to a desired outcome it's always based on what you want the most for student outcomes and that's what the desired outcome really is it's what we want and expect from the students as it pertains to all of those factors that they look at such as mainly test scores test scores are a really good indicator because it speaks to things like um attendance and parent involvement and lots of indicators help out with those test scores so in creating the need statement and finishing all the pieces of the fishbone we were able to really dig into all of the potential causes
028look a little deeper at the at the test results and come up with some final results that actually ended up being on the fishbone but the fish bone really is that thing that tells us what we need and then how are we going to get there is the next piece so there's that's what the fish bones are the actual fish bones plants at that some of the things that that we wrote and then let's move on to the next slide so the strategies and the action steps the strategies and the action steps is actually the the part that I think is um is the exciting part because this is what you put into place that help you achieve the the outcome that you're looking for and I wrote on there some of the things specifically
029that we looked for was targeted professional development and really being specific about these two areas um called creating a culturally responsive instructional practices training an actual training piece that we're going to have in place that not only we introduce in a professional development for everybody but that the instructional coach and our instructional team can continue to reinforce as we're as we're helping the teachers grow in this area I think this might take a little time to incorporate because but it's also if you've ever heard of Universal Design it's like that too so let me just give you a little bit of what a culturally responsive classroom would look like culturally responsive classroom helps the teacher be able to access every student's background knowledge it helps them know those students a lot better I mean starting
030with just being able to pronounce their name correctly that's important you know and um Dale Carnegie once said in his book How to Win Friends and Influence People the sweetest sound to anyone's ear is this is the sound of their own name so if you if you don't get that right to begin with you're already not incorporating a culturally responsive classroom and so that that would be one thing another thing is just understanding the families what what do they do what are they into and speaking of families getting getting to know those parents better inviting them onto campus having opportunities where parents can feel welcome and so that's those are just some of the things it's really it's really Bridging the Gap and so there isn't anything such as a language barrier I don't like
031that I don't like a barrier you know if you think of your own kid you don't want a barrier you want barriers removed so that they can have access to everything that everybody else is doing and so you use things that have been research based to say what works what works out there so a culturally responsive is just one piece it's just one piece and it speaks to that Universal Design and so that's that's one example um another thing is communication and collaboration for sped one of the things that we're able to see in in the data that we looked at was the communicate the lack of communication between the Gen ed teacher and the sped teacher and so if we can just bridge that Gap and have a have a good way for those
032to communicate we're going to fix so much of the problem that exists even certain things like when is that student going to the resource room is it during core instruction it should never be during core instruction those are small things that communication between the sped teacher and the Gen ed teacher is critical that's just one simple thing and those are the things that we were able to do when we got together as this group the Friday before spring break and we were able to just say Aha and those ahas came about from the whys that we asked so the last steps I tried to make this the most boring slide with just a white background so to catch you off guard a little bit um just like everybody else we have to upload it into
033grants management but this is actually a living document we can we have our deadlines to make meet which help us get it done and then we work with our awesome curriculum director she guides us along makes suggestions tells us where we messed up and and tells us um hey you forgot to kind of stuff and then we go in and we tweak it and we have our deadlines like I said and then from there we start implementing the plan and the strategies and the action steps and as we as they start to unfold we're able to say we need a little bit more and we can add more or this this isn't quite getting it let's change it a little bit and so we'll work with our curriculum director we'll get together as a group
034of instructors and actually it could be any group it doesn't have to be that core that Core group that we met with could be any of them and we can continue to to change it make tweaks so that we actually get to the desired outcomes and what are those student outcomes and that's the heart of what we want and really to be quite honest if there's a lot of things that we can put in place that will help teachers achieve these outcomes and at the heart of it the very heart of it is just having high expectations I like to use just an example that I frequently share with teachers and that is athletic coaches athletic coaches have high expectations because they want to win they want to have good outcomes they want to win
035and have good outcomes choir teachers are the same thing any kind of music teacher you don't want the one kid not sounding good because it's like the missing light on the Marquee so a choir teacher like an athletic coach is going to work hard and do drills and focus on that that um player focus on that student who's standing out like a missing light on a marquee and surround them with the opportunities they need to grow so that they can be up to speed so that they can play having a deep bench when you're when you have a basketball team is awesome because your your players get fatigued and you need to be able to have them everybody counts same with a choir you need everybody having the right vowel shapes and singing with the
036right diction and knowing all the words the simple things and so in the classroom the same thing you don't want the kid that you say well they just moved here well they don't speak any English at all so we're just gonna you know they're they're catching up to speed no those are the barriers that we want to knock down and destroy and so culturally responsive classroom says that we're going to have the same high expectations for every student that walks through this door that walks onto campus every student has high expectations and so that's the spirit and the the meat of everything that we want to do and we have to write a plan and like I said if the plan doesn't quite work we can tweak it and it's a it was an awesome
037process and before we end we'd like to thank you for letting us come up here and explain that and then also give you a chance to ask any questions that you might have Madam president well Mr Bowen I was uh privileged as were several members here to attend the uh sit-in and and visit some of the classes on March 10th and I have to say that I was quite impressed with the number of teachers who are willing to at their own expense give up their day and I know that days off are precious for teachers they really are um and it was very very impressive and sir I would like to commend you for your passion and for uh what you guys have taken from the fish bones and I see great things happening at
038Diamondback because of what you all as a team are doing and I thank you very much for taking such good care of our kids it means a lot thank you from everybody now tell me tell me a story about a teacher who had a light come on had an Eureka moment was there any were there any moments when teachers just had when we were working on this yeah so tell me a story let me just share since we're talking about the TSI and atsi when we met that Friday when we were when we were looking at the the 10 test scores and we're speaking about the Hispanic Latino that's where we came up with the culturally responsive because we were talking about how do we how do we get how do we get to those
039kids because we do have one student on campus a third grade student a girl who recently moved in family just from Mexico this week zero English the whole family um and we were talking about this is think of this student right here that we want to do and um one of my teachers kindergarten teacher she shared that she had an experience with doing this very thing and talking with them and she said it wasn't until this that I was able to get the get the parents involved on the campus and we talked about what that was what it was that she actually did and that's when the light bulb came off that it was you know bridging that Gap by getting the parents involved that's when that student started actually learning that's when that student
040started engaging in the classroom is once they got the parents involved so he said what helps get the parents involved and we started that's what helped us get there and it was that's where we that's actually the conversation that led to start talking about the culturally responsive classroom that's the kind of stuff I like to hear about you know the the other stuff is good but you know the actual and plus that you have some awesome kindergarten people out there and some awesome kindergarten kids so thank you again for coming and reading to them we appreciate that that was fun that was fun thank you very much for uh were there any other things that you guys want to say very very proud of you guys thank you thank you so much thank you [Applause]
041you got some um level levels to make here I hope you have a good story okay so I'm concerned I'm the principal at Sunrise and so um the whole process of school Improvement we started um back with ie in January how Fox Creek and Desert Valley and both Glory explained it and then met in February at Desert Valley with ie again and then we the next process was for us to complete our integrated action plan the action steps piece and then we had a virtual check-in with the IEP people they did a virtual conference with us for um I think we had about just about two hours and so um we do some similar things on that Friday before um the PD air before Spring Break um our team met about the our atsi subgroups
042which are the Hispanic Latino and then the um low-income populations in our school and so we did the same thing fish bones um and then the next part that we worked on was the action step and so um all the action steps are based off of those fish bones and so during that process you look and see um what's going on what you need to do to improve and we completed that prior to the meeting with instructional empowerment and then when I was on the virtual uh conference with her we went through it all and she asked me questions that kind of helped um home some hone some things in and narrow it down a little bit and so um with our plan we started off with um the um a vision statement revising our
043vision statement and she helped me look closer at it to make sure you get more of an instructional vision statement so what we want your teachers to do instructional wise um and how it's going to impact everything else and so um is kind of the whole that whole process piece of each of the integrated action plan has to have the root cause the primary needs decided outcomes those those goals are written in smart form for impact and process the impact is what what is it going to do um to help our students improve in the process of how we're going to get there and so in that video conference uh Lindsay Elliott was ours for Sunrise and so we looked through ours and so our first principle like I said was for that vision statement
044so we had so she was like make sure we have a strong vision statement that then will help us guide our teachers into our next step of making sure they hold students to high expectations and themselves as well and then with all of that we'll engage the students in the curriculum across a wide variety of disciplines and so that we've done so it's not my first time doing the whole process but this is the first time that um it kind of snuck up on us that everything really connected well so we we've done it in those passwords like we're doing this piece so we're going to work on over here for a little bit I'll never do this for a little bit but this time it really seems like we're all it's everything's aligned well
045and so it's like we're going to be doing things that impact every piece as we go and so it was it was uh times but it works very stressful because I was like oh my God how is this going to work and then it just kind of everything started falling into place and I'm excited about it this year because every piece really does tie into the next and so I'm I'm excited for what outcomes we can have um and then as Mr Bolin said we put everything into the grants management piece um and then we find out that maybe you missed some stuff in and and you get the email and I check it there's scrolling pages of errors but there will be quick errors to fix um and so with this piece um we
046at my school we meet monthly to go over our current uh plan and so the team looks and says how we've been doing on one of one of the action steps we're working on um do we need to set some more attention to it have it going uh one of the goals that we had for this year was to improve parenting parent involvement in our school and prior last year our literacy night we had like 40-ish 45 parents come and so this year's literacy night um it was a glow party literacy night and I don't know if that what exactly happened we had 280 people come and so um it was insane so that's a 500 increase in our goal was like 25 so I was like wow we're kept parties but so the kids
047were excited they had great activities period um were on campus and it we want them to be on campus for um events so they get that positive feeling for the school because some parents didn't have that great experience in school until you're standoffish so anything we can do to get parents on campus in a positive light that's what we're going for and so the whole process routes together to have fallen through okay what was your Eureka movement moment just the just the after that talking through and having everything like go road map like Ting Ting Ting that everything connected and I was like I could not have I could not have planned this to happen because in the past it's kind of been piecemeal of where you're working on this area in this area and
048it's the first time that I wasn't in part of in part of each group so I was like the whole time so at this time I was like hard for a little bit and a little bit and the fact that it all aligned together I was like that's amazing those are good that's good stuff that's a good story thank you so much for all your work you guys you guys have done phenomenal [Applause] do I have a motion Madam president before you do that I'd like to take the opportunity I know it's not on the agenda but I'd like to take the opportunity to introduce to you uh the candidate for uh principalship at Bullhead City Middle School for next year as Julianne Vela who is here and um uh she's actually she actually visited
049the school today um Miss Cochran uh excitedly invited her and she was part of a she was part of she observed their leadership leadership team today leadership team meeting today and uh in fact has been participating in the interviews for both her assistant principal position and her instructional Coach position so before we got to the actual agenda I thought you might like to at least put a face with the name thank you you want to say something to us you know you come up here I'm going to say do you have a story she has stories thank you thank you thank you do I have a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion that we adore in the workshop s do I have a second I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski
050aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton aye Barbara zarzicki okay we are adjourned for about 12 minutes yeah thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] I guess it's time to call this meeting to order so I'll do so I call this meeting this regular meeting of Bullhead City School Board on Thursday April 13 2023 at 6 30 pm foreign call president Melinda sabroski Charlene Diaz here Fred Rushton here Barbara zarzicki here may I have everybody rise and say the Pledge with me and justices for all don't I have something to read for
051Citizens presence well that's called there is a Citizens presence statement about signing in and citizens president if you have will you please sign in and let us know that you are here call to the public this is a time when the public may speak to the governing board regarding issues within the jurisdiction of this governing board and subject to reasonable time space and manner restrictions as the governing board May establish C policy b e d h comments will be limited to three minutes per individual unless specifically waived by the governing board at the conclusion of the call to public individual members of the governing board May respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask staff to review the matter or may ask that the matter be placed on a future
052agenda however the governing board cannot take action on matters that have not been noticed and advanced as part of the agenda do we have any citizens that would like to speak to us I'm going to move on then to the adoption of the agenda may I have a motion I make a motion that we adopt the agenda um I I'll suck at that I'd like you Barb to revise that to exclude item 5.3 okay I make a motion make a motion we adopt the agenda excluding item 5.3 all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rush aye Barbara zarzicki donations do we have can you bring that up so I can Colorado River Council donated a check to ask for to Fox Creek Vector program at about at uh fifteen hundred
053dollars Sunrise a hundred dollars from the Lions Club River Valley artist Guild donated six hundred dollars at Bullhead Middle School these are phenomenal it's lots of money lots of good things happening for our kids I wish that we could thank you personally but we'll have to do it from here um superintendent's report what have you got for us okay um you have all the written reports and I'll answer try to answer questions if I can for those I did try to remember this time to give you the uh both the uh project tracker and it was nice to see some of those lines move on the project tracker and the facilities report so our facilities people have been really busy and you have budget reports and those things so for miscellaneous updates I have a
054couple of things the first thing is this weekend is the Duck Derby and that's a fundraiser for um uh for River fund and we're really proud to because Lance is on the committee and represents our district with river river fund we are included on the Flyers as a sponsor so you know that's a really nice thing for our district of course it doesn't cost us anything we haven't put out any money but the thing is we benefit our kids benefit our families all benefit from from riverfund and our employees participate in riverfund but I think maybe that's the first time we've had been able to be claimed as a sponsor so that's kind of fun yeah and then I wanted to give you just a excuse me a little update on the progress with our
055daycare study that we're doing I did a questionnaire this week to our employees and 100 as of about noon today 123 responded we actually have employees who say they have seven infants that they would be interested in placing in our daycare if we get it going three in the age group one to two and eleven in the age group three to four so that's 21. you know that's 21 kids that the parents are really interested in us having the daycare we are currently already licensed for the three to five year old age group and uh were licensed for 85 students in that age group right now the only thing we would need to do for that is increase our license number so easy easy kind of thing Tammy Alvarez contacted the con the the representative
056at DHS that works with us on on the daycare license part of this whole process excuse me to invite her or another representative to come look at the rooms that we have in mind for this program they are just overwhelmed right now so they can't come right now so we're going to be sending them some photos and asking for some input from them but we think we have three appropriate classrooms on the coyote campus down just across the sidewalk from where we have the preschool and we're aware of some of the things that we need to do we also checked with the trust Arizona risk retention trust to make sure that we would be able to get liability insurance and Cass has been on the phone with our rep there she asked a lot of
057really good questions and she's presenting the information to their Underwriters so we think there's a pretty good chance that that'll that will be available as well so we're moving moving forward with that project um excuse me the other thing I wanted to share with you as an update right now because I'll be coming back to you next month with requests for some approvals our capital outlay budget right now or it started the year with 1.576 million dollars we have expended or encumbered 1.089 million which leaves 486 thousand dollars a good bit of that I'm I'm guessing about half of that we're going to need to complete the playground for the life skills students over at Desert Valley so we have the equipment we have a lot of equipment probably what four hundred thousand dollars worth
058of equipment three hundred four hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment no well it's a lot it's a lot we have a lot of equipment and it's over there but part of that process was not installation it was just getting the equipment and the grants have paid for the equipment um so we will need to pay somebody to install it and then of course we really want that soft surface so um I'm guessing probably in the neighborhood of 200 000 to get all of that done and get that ready for before school starts uh the last of July so I'll have more detail about that but I kind of wanted to give you an idea we have done amazing amazing projects and you keep hearing about sewers from me but we're really happy that we have
059internal people to do a lot of that we Outsource it when we have to but as much as possible our internal people are doing it and so a couple of the recent projects that if we'd had to Outsource them that would have cost us over ten thousand dollars we could do for two so um you know so we're we're seeing savings for the things that we can do and then uh then that you know then that makes it so it's not quite as painful to have to pay outside people to do the things that our folks don't either have the equipment for or the expertise and we'll just keep working on those projects as we go along so next month I'll try to have a pretty detailed list for you of the of some of
060the projects that aren't even on necessarily on the project tracker so if you have questions I'll try to answer those I just I want to give you and your staff a compliment the discipline paper coming off offline Kathy can you bring that up so people can see the cumulative report I think is that what you're talking about yeah um is continuing to decrease did you guys notice this yes so somebody is doing something right somewhere and they need a big pat on the back um is there anything that the board can do to help continue make this continue I will ask them when we meet again to see if there are things but if there's anything special that they need or programs that they need or something like that that we might have access to
061or can get from the community I'll share with them really really nice I noticed that when I did this report that we had that little Spike um and but then it's continuing to continuing to progress and I think it's just a real commitment to uh that they all have the word relationship is a really used word in our district it's used by our leadership it's used by our teachers um a whole lot of of uh having good behavior has to do with building relationships with kids and um and they're all really committed to doing that so kudos to them I agree with you I'm very pleased when I see see these things happening and getting better all the time and it's building culture you know when you establish relationships you build culture yeah it's great
062to see that Tom we're trying on every one of them and stuff yeah it really is yeah it is it's you know and thank you for noting it we all like to be appreciated when or at least noticed when we're when our efforts are beginning to pay off yeah when you go from almost 200 in October down at I'm looking just like at Fox Creek you know being Junior High I always go to Junior High first of course but going from almost 200 you know there in October and we're down to 79 now so you know that's 75 percent decrease that's fantastic I will tell you that we have we have four students at Fox Creek are in the diversion program that you approved a couple of months ago Mr Eastman reported to me uh
063yesterday or today that he has been sitting in on the Tuesday evening training sessions that those students are required to participate in he said they are really really well done it's not somebody sitting there and talking at the kids and telling them what they should be doing it's interactive there are conversations there's role playing a lot of good things that have to do with decision making and then the first session that will in that will require parents to participate is not next Tuesday but the Tuesday after and so I'm really happy to see that some families have chosen to take a different approach and to help their kids good great thank you any other questions for our superintendent no okay any board member updates anything you guys have been doing specially I know that I
064got to read the kindergarten kids that was way too much fun oh I got to uh teach the Junior High kids how to decorate cupcakes for Easter oh yeah yeah we did that it was it was a lot of fun I had a lot they had a lot of fun and uh they I've got pictures of it and the kids got in there and made made him and they had a couple little girls come up and say it's the first time I've ever decorated a cupcake in my life and they were just all real proud of it and they had a real good time and tomorrow I get to go over and teach them how to make Chinese chili cheese dogs I'll have 48 kids learn how to make Chinese chili cheese dogs tomorrow it
065would it would be nice if other principals would keep us working you know because when we're in the schools we you know stories are so important you know it's so much easier for me to go out when somebody says something remember about the bad about the school and I say no no listen this is what I just got finished doing you need to come in and be with these kindergarten kids because they are super humming you know it's so much nicer to have that kind of thing but it comes from personal experience so it would be really nice if if the schools would ask you know for just an hour of our time and it gets us in and it gets us the staff knows who we are and all that kind of stuff so
066I would recommend that and I always get a big laugh when I'm over there because Mr Osuna always comes through to see what I'm doing and stuff in the class and he'll look and go I remember when I did that in your class in junior high so the kids are looking cool you had Mr Ozuna in junior high and I'll go see we've got stories too yeah we got stories too okay may I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda I'll make a motion that we adopt the consent agenda as presented I'll second it all in favor I'm Melinda sobraske aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki old business 4.1 policy j i c j student use of digital communication and electric devices electronic devices this is our second reading and I
067will tell you that Cass and I realized this evening that she didn't put on there that she put her down as a discussion item but I think that's okay because you all had asked that I take it back to the administrative team the leadership team and so you will see in blue the recommended additions that the leadership team had good ones good additions and so actually you can do the second reading a third reading at the next board meeting and approve it officially so but if you have questions or comments that's a good thing too did the administrators like it yes they did and I thought and and their additions were they were kind of the ones like oh yeah why didn't we think of those but very good because they were you know they
068were processing and thinking about certain circumstances and and how to use this in those circumstances so that's what made them think of these additions okay but yes they do like it and they like I mean many much of it is procedures we've been doing but they've not been backed by policy so they really liked the idea that we would have a policy to back it up good okay we'll consider that for next board meeting item 4.2 revised stipend for special ed teachers okay so this is the item that ended up being attached improperly to 5.3 that I ask you all to remove for tonight this what you all approved this last last month for teachers to special ed teachers to do the paperwork I have to tell you I went away thinking about it I
069was aware of all of these things I had read it multiple times but the more I thought about it and the more I recognized that this is part of their job now it is an incredible amount of paperwork that is above and beyond what all of the incredible paperwork that most teachers do but to me it is it's part of the job and so I don't have a problem with us compensating special ed teachers for this incredible amount of paperwork but to me there's no reason for it to be oh you can only you you get paid if you only do half Miss Hall is facing the not the guillotine but certainly the the feedback from the Ade special it feels like the guillotine yeah uh facing the feedback from the Ade special ed department
070for records that we have that are out of compliance and so to me our records need to be 100 in compliance and so I'm recommending a revision to what was a what was approved last month that if you do it you get recognized for that you get some additional compensation if you don't there's none so I'm recommending It's All or Nothing and actually I think that's yeah yeah after I read this and going oh yeah duh because yes I mean these are federal forms that do need to go up to 80e and and they've got to be correct and we we lose support for the programs for our special needs students if we are out of compliance for too long you know that yeah there's not much wiggle room and uh and and these programs
071are programs that are High high-priced programs for kids who really need those additional services so uh uh we're hurting our kids we hurt our kids if we don't do what we're supposed to do yeah and I just think that that's what all of us need to do we need to do our jobs and a teacher who is not clean a hundred percent of the paperwork that is assigned to them to do they're not doing their job right so they should not be compensated at all for doing a partial job I mean that would be like you know going in and saying okay I'm going to teach half the kids today and the rest of time I'll just let kids sit and do nothing in the classroom when you're a classroom teacher that it should be
072the hundred percent because this is part of their responsibility of their job yeah I take my car into the mechanic to be worked on and I expect it to be fixed you know and the mechanic expects 100 pay and if they only fix it 50 that mechanic still expects 100 pay well I'm sorry and not doing that because I want my car fixed 100 so you know that's not the best not the best example but it's one that most of us can understand you need an emotion I do do I have a motion to approve this revised stipend I'll make a motion that we um revise the stipend for special ed teachers as presented is there a second I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi
073Barbara zarzicki we are at item 5.1 um I would like to take this time to recommend a replacement for Amanda amen um Dr Sheila Burnett is here in in our in the room I asked her to come tonight so that she might you might ask her questions or talk to her she is part of the leadership class in for women's Council and is phenomenal I know that she's very involved in in Kiwanis the the new Qantas right I think you're president aren't you okay she's away um and she's doing a whole bunch of other things in town um I would like to recommend her for recommend that we recommend her to Mike file I mean that's a lot of recommending um for placement on the board as soon as possible Sheila would you like to
074come up and address us if you have any questions Now's the Time to ask her well I'm a was a single mom of four kids and they were three of them in successive grades they were all known as the Sanders kids sometimes the teacher thought well I taught you last year and he's like no that's my brother so I was very involved in our school back in New York but we only had 1200 kids from kindergarten 12th grade so it's kind of easy to be a little bit more involved but I really think I could add a lot to the school board here just from the experience I've had with that but I'm also have taught dental hygiene and some other things in the area as well so okay anybody have any questions mean you're
075not going to drill her no I've worked I've worked with shield with women's councils I know what it when she's given a job she does it very well I need a motion to recommend she Dr Sheila Barnett to Mike file so that he might put her on our board I make a motion that we recommend Dr Sheila Barnett to Mike filed to replace Amanda on our board do I have a second I'll second that all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski aye Charlene Diaz I Barbara sarzicki okay thank you Shelly for coming tonight thank you item 5.2 policy regulation did you just say congratulations I said we'll see you in May oh yes 5.2 policy regulation gcbda are professional and support staff fringe benefits Madam president and board members the HR coordinator pointed out to
076me that our practice for uh quite a quite a while has been actually to begin insurance coverage the next month after we hire an employee as opposed to waiting until they finish their probation and so I'm making the recommendation that we make the policy match our practice for this reason we're continuously looking at the practices and procedures we're using and evaluating how they impact our recruitment and retention and so this is a pretty easy way to change something that will help us recruit but also if if we hire a good employee and they get offered a job someplace else that maybe doesn't have insurance um the fact that we are offering that insurance immediately might make the difference in US keeping them and so uh sometimes it's the little bitty things that make a big
077difference so that's that's the reason that I'm recommending that we change the the route the regulation to match our practice but this is our current practice we're just changing yes we're changing the words any questions do I have a motion to adopt this I'll make a motion that we adopt hang on um policy regulation gcbd-r professional support staff fringe benefits as modified as presented okay I'll second that all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski all right Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barb zarzicki um 5.3 was pulled so we're not discussing that tonight 5.4 English language learner teacher position Madam president and board members you've heard from all five of our schools relative to their Improvement plans and their action plans for next year and you may not remember but the subgroups the subgroup for
078El students appears in those plans in several of those plans and so this past year the current year we used grant funding to add an El position teaching position at both Diamondback and sunrise using some grant funding to do that we seriously need to have similar instruction very designated and very intentional instruction in both the middle school and the junior high so I'm recommending that we add a position that would be 50 you know 55.5 in each of those sites for next year is there a possibility of putting a teacher at each at each site are we doing this in the grant gen we're not doing this no this is out of mno I can take a look at that uh it might be possible since we had the great news last Friday that our
079safety Grant proposal that gives us four of our counselors and our SRO has been approved for the next three years so as you know we had talked about early on at least a month ago about the fact that I was building those into the budget for next year on the outside chance that we would not get that Grant so it's possible that I could do that in fact I've been working on that budget so if if that's what you all recommend I make it work I just think that splitting a teacher is requires travel time it requires there's a lot of downtime where if we have somebody there at 100 so that the administrator I can tell you with experience difficult um to um split your time between two different schools yeah so yeah I
080I agree if we can if we can afford it let's do one at each okay do you want us to approve this with that Amendment yes yes absolutely okay would you somebody make a motion for the English language learner teacher position at both schools I make a motion that we add an English learner teacher's position at Bullhead middle school and Fox Creek junior high for the school year 2023-24. I'll suck at that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski I'm Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki motion passes 5.5 job descriptions I see one one principle dancing in the audience and I suspect the other one is watching online and dancing at home so so thank you for that um okay these job descriptions I had started revising job descriptions a year ago
081had had we had gone through a lot of them but because we have some of these positions open we thought we'd better update them and then I have a couple of changes so the job descriptions for counselor speech language therapists speech language pathology assistant are revisions of previous job descriptions that we've had in the district the job description for the instructional coach for student achievement is similar to the job description for the other instructional coaches but focuses very heavily on the things that we want done with this I.E coaching our teachers for differentiation in the classrooms for special ed students El students gifted students and so it has some variations uh the English language uh development coordinator and hearing officer you've approved Amanda amen for that position in the past we had three separate job
082descriptions that Mr newsel worked under one for the hearing officer one for the El development position and one for the teacher for the NAU grow your own teacher program it's likely that that piece will come back but NAU has to have some say in that but I didn't see any reason in having separate job descriptions so this one is a combined job description for the position as it is right now and then the other two just to be consistent with what we how we rank positions one and two with our with technology and with a couple of other places this is just flipping the one and the two the job descriptions have not changed it's just the designation on those two so I would recommend that you approve all of these job descriptions we've all
083had a chance to read these descriptions are they appropriate okay may I have a motion then to approve these these job descriptions I moved to approve all of these job descriptions as presented I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton aye Barbers are ziki um item 5.7 revision of positions she didn't highlight it oh and there you go oh the math teacher that can't count demerits no she didn't highlight it in pink I am sorry it's been a long day and I'm kind of going off the deep end here 5.6 retroactive approval of pay overtime to facilities and custodial Crews for moving furniture on the weekends to assist for floor work Madam president and board members I put a pretty lengthy description in there for the
084public as well ordinarily when we have folks work overtime we do comp time there is so much work to be done with moving with moving furniture out and in for these floor projects there's no way in the world anybody would make would be able to use their comp time between now and June 30th um and uh it's a heck of a lot of work and we're really pleased that our employees are willing to come in and work on a Saturday or a Sunday to make this work so I'm recommending that we actually pay the overtime for time over 40 hours for when our facilities and custodial people work on flooring yeah or well for the flooring project they're not doing the floors but for the flooring projects that's more than fair I think it's yeah
085way more than fair [Music] um do I have a motion to approve this isil move are officially [Laughter] I moved that we uh Grant retroactive approval to pay overtime to the facilities and custodial Crews for moving furniture on the weekends to assist in the flooring work project do I have a second I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski aye Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki and Madam president if I might just add a footnote to that this the moving of the furniture would have to happen and um uh other than doing this we would have to hire somebody outside to do it so my thought process is I'd rather keep the money in in with our employees than somebody on there yeah we want to benefit our employees more
086before we benefit the outside that's right I thought Fred was going to do this yeah didn't you hear Fred volunteer at the last week if I volunteered I missed that left we volunteered you that's what it was like being voluntol yes exactly item 5.7 revision of Physicians Transportation assistant director and transportation secretary to Madam president and board members this year the assistant director has been a halftime position and I'm recommending that we move that back to a full-time position we had approved for this current year a second secretary because our transportation department operates from about 5 30 in the morning until 6 30 in the evening and so we needed that coverage but what we determined this year is that we did not need two full-time secretarial positions so what we need we have the
087full-time secretarial position and then we just need a little overlap and somebody to stay late so I'm recommending that that position moved back to a 0.75 which is six hours a day and only be on the days that we actually are transporting students so it's a it's a part-time job I have a question on this one our are we still involved with the high school do we still have yes we have an IGA I'm hopeful that we will have igas ready to present to the board next month um uh we uh part of the IGA is that we share a director and we share the assistant director and so um some of what the some of what the assistant director does we had thought we would be able to have the second secretary do and
088that just it just didn't work out and uh and so we've really that position has not been filled this year and so it's put a big strain on the full-time secretary that we have but it's also put a real strain on uh the director the full-time director because somebody has to be around all of those 13 hours that the transportation department is in operation most days and so not only has he had to drive bus he's uh he's also had to hang out you know be be there at the end of the day so we think this will relieve him some it will it will you know they can the director and the assistant director stagger their times already but then having this the clerical person who can just be available will will relieve the
089directors you know so they're not always having to stay until 6 30 or 7. evaluation of data led us to this speaking of data did you guys know that our buses have traveled a hundred and fifty thousand miles a year since the start of school already this year yeah I need a motion to approve this this item I'll make a motion that we approve the revision of positions for transportation assistant director and transportation secretary too is there a second I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski I'm Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki item 5.8 remember memorandum of understanding with Tri-State Wi-Fi The Madam president and board members we're always looking for partners in the in the community folks that will kind of do in-kind things so things that help them
090and things that help us Tri-State Wi-Fi is a local company and they approached Mr McNutt about the possibility of putting some of their towers on some of our buildings um and uh that led to a discussion um for us the benefit is that if our current fiber system Network system were to fail for some reason we would have immediate backup and so they would set up from there because they're doing Wi-Fi so you know that's the air we're not depending on something underground so they would set up for us a separate Network in their system not connected to any of the things that they use to earn money none of that it would just be our own system and it's there for backup as you know in this community with all of our Hills and
091Valleys sometimes it's difficult to get connections either Wi-Fi or any of those kinds of things so we benefit by having a backup system and they benefit by being able to complete their Circle for their Wi-Fi customers so it's pretty even trade for for us the only you can see the whole agreement we would we would set it up so they had access to the their equipment when they needed to and we would have the services we needed if we needed them hmm I have a question Dr Stewart if I may will their employees that uh gain access to our grounds will they have to go through the same security clearances and others that outside vendors have to comply with hadn't thought about that but uh yeah we hadn't talked about that they're likely to only
092be on our campuses not during business hours although that could happen I guess and we would give them we would give them access to just the specific place that they have their equipment so we would restrict how they get on campus where they get on campus and how they get to their equipment so having said that that doesn't mean that they couldn't potentially be Elsewhere on campus so I will look into that and we will discuss the security pieces of that that's a very good question there there will be some oversight there they won't just be allowed free reign no not at all okay cool any keys that they would need would only get them to the place that they need to go so in other words no master keys none of that kind of
093thing just access to where their towers are I need a motion for the memorandum of understanding with Tri-State Wi-Fi I make a motion that we accept the memorandum of understanding with Tri-State Wi-Fi I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabrowski hi Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Bob rosarzicki item 5.9 fiscal year FY is that this fiscal year 22 audit report we've all had a chance to kind of read through this there's a lot of stuff in there um I was yeah I was kind of impressed that it seems like the number of audit items are down this year right sort of the recommendations the recommendations for us to fix things are about half of what we've had the last since I've been here so that was kind of exciting to me
094and and some of the items that are there are much much less uh much fewer things to fix so the example I'll give is the coding ear so there was one error in in 81 codes that they pulled at random um we've all we've been learning Jen and I've been learning codes for the last four years and uh and working with heinfeld meech to train you know and I call the auditor General's office and talk with my contact there if we have something that you know that I go okay we've not coded this kind of thing before I'll make a guess at it and then I'll give him a call and say okay this is this is my best guess from the usfr you know what what is it so the fact that we're learning
095and we're not just automatically using past ones we're we're checking all of them to make sure so I'm I'm kind of pleased about that and all of the things on that list have already been addressed not all of them have been completely fixed but they've all been addressed and we will have them fixed so I need a motion to approve well are there any other comments I should ask you guys something um I need a motion to approve the fiscal year 22 audit report I'll make a motion that we approve the fiscal year 22 audit report as presented I seconded [Laughter] all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski aye Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton aye Barbara ziki item 5.5 10 5.1 5.10 we're going to at this time convenient to Executive session I would like
096a motion to for discussion or consideration of employment assignment appointment promotion demotion dismissal salaries disciplining or resigning of a public officer appointee or employee of any public body except that with the exception of salary discussions and officer appointee and or employee May demand that the discussion or consideration occur in public meeting um I need a motion to convene to Executive session I make a motion reconvene to the executive session I'll suck at that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki we're now in executive session [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank
097you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] I need a motion to reconvene into public session I will make a motion Madam president to reconvene into public session I'll suck at that motion all in favor I'm Melinda sobrowski I'm Charlene Diaz aye Fred Rushton hi Barb zarzicki does someone have emotion about our superintendent in a contract I make a motion that we offer Dr Stewart a one-year contract for the school year 2023-24 and the amount of a
098hundred and four thousand dollars I'll suck at that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski oh we awaited do we need discussion oh no I the castle was going to say that did we need it okay I was counting oh gotcha all those in favor I'm Melinda sabroski hi Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton hi Barbara zarzicki we are now in 8.1 um this is future topics basically after taking a class in um School financing in school Finance online and then going to rural doing the rural schools thing I was unsure about a strategic plan now Dr Stewart has assured me that there is one but I think that we need to be a little more involved in it so I would like to suggest that we have a retreat um June 1st from 10
09930 to about 3 30 where we discussed our strategic plan for the district so that we are all on the same page and we all know what's going on and that kind of stuff um yes we certainly can Madam president um uh I am I assuming correctly or incorrectly that this should involve our leadership team and some other uh some other folks that's where I was going okay but thank you sorry it would involve the leadership team and um some community members that you may choose and I will choose a couple and if the board met each of the board members would like to at least submit a name or two that would like to be on this committee and it would be basically it's going to work with academics discipline Community involvement facilities facilities
100um I'm drawing a blank I'm thinking about I'm thinking about the spreadsheet in my mind but there's a there's several items that are on there and each one of them has a strategic plan but we need to be able to put those in writing um so if you guys would mark your calendars for June 1st from three from 10 30 to 3 30. and where would this be right here right here um the other thing is I have this note from the board secretary we remember we ask asba or we were given a choice of asba things training I'm I'm thinking that if we put this retreat in we really just need to drop one of those trainings but the training that I'm really most interested in is using the new superintendent tool that the
101evaluation tool and learning how to use that so that we're more successful we can give better guidance so we need a date for that Cass says that you need to have a couple of dates so that they sorry so that they have uh you know so that they can try to help coordinate with you so we're kind of into the month of June with that cast without you I'm the only one that uses hard copy there we have also appearance got their phones out Karen primary I don't even know where my phone is um yeah exactly I don't answer it anyway yeah I know she turns it off and then forgets to turn it back on and it's like well is she okay do I need to go on over and check on her um
102what what time frame are we looking at it's like an all day type of thing it's only an hour I think oh it's got to be more than an hour it's two hours it has to be more than two hours document y'all it's two hours so it's a two-hour thing um are you looking at June or I'm looking to June okay how about June 8th that's important Flagstaff we will be in Flagstaff Melinda then I guess that would be in Flagstaff for asba oh that's right then I guess it won't be a board meeting and we have a board meeting that day too oh yeah and I guess not if you're gone is that a is that another bolts or is it a yeah this is the leadership conference that's good oh so we need
103I got free did you get that yes okay free um I messed up so another day I was teaching um well I know I don't have anything specific so you want to pick a day the following week the 22nd or the 15th 15th at what time nine o'clock um so that they can decide so okay so we can give you two dates so we can get the 15th and the 22nd okay okay two times um how about nine in the morning and one in the afternoon no I like nine in the morning okay but we've got to give them to do we got to give them a choice well I thought we were giving them to okay we could give them 9 A.M oh two options for both two options for morning now so oh
104a morning option say nine and one then you do that yeah that's right yeah that's right kind of said okay on either the 15th or the 21st 20 seconds okay got it Fred was that a problem I'll work around it retirement schedule yeah this is nap time okay Cassie is there anything else we need to do for you okay date and time for the future meeting uh May 11. okay same time change channel 5 30 for our Workshop do we have another school coming in nope you've had all of the schools for those plans and so if you wanted to go back to six o'clock I think you could probably go back to six for your meeting okay at this point I don't know any other uh you know we'll have we'll have you know
105we'll have Workshop stuff from 5 30 but I don't know that we'll need more than 30 minutes okay how about 6 p.m then on the 11th and 6 30 oh you went 6 and 6 30 or 5.6 let's just go to a rig 5 30 and 6 5 30 and 6. okay okay May 11th um looking forward to May Junior High promotion do you know what day that's it's on your account I just looked it up it's me it's on your calendar that May 23rd May 23rd okay are are we being asked to be there to be yes please they would love to have you on the on the stage okay yeah what time is it 9 30 is when it starts right okay May 23rd at 9 30. yeah that's what I put down
106yeah it's at the Anderson Anderson Fields yeah okay and uh and I will say that um for what it's worth uh fairly soon after it's over I'm hitting the road because my grandson graduates family ah then you even think so from from high school so I'll be heading to Gilbert so yeah yep okay any other things that we need to know about what time was that nine o'clock okay what day we have a motion to adjourn please May 23rd I'll make a motion that we adjourn this meeting is there a second I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski aye Charlene Diaz hi Fred Rushton you mean we're going to call quits to this fun we're having tonight hi Barb zarzicki done [Music] thank you [Music] thank you