001I want credit. So she passed Saturday. [clears throat] [laughter] >> Yeah. So, so on Saturday I'm disappointed because he did that one year. I'm a little disappointed I didn't get to see that. Oh, were they Jackson? Anyhow, I didn't get a hold of so I left a message for sitting in my desk. [laughter] >> And [clears throat] then we have a meeting tomorrow afternoon. >> Yeah. >> Okay. We have to get ready for this. You're our guinea pig. Perfect. Good job. >> I heard about This is a donation. [laughter] >> Honestly, there's too much going on. >> Yeah, I have no idea what it is. story. He didn't teach. >> Crazy. >> And then we replaced him with God. >> Oh, we're getting our ears pierced. And >> she does. She wanted the short haircut.
002The pixie. She still [laughter] >> like these people hold me accountable >> and it's fine. You'll enjoy it >> in your in your We all dance. >> Yeah. >> [laughter] >> So I asked AI to put it on her. I know. She's so cute. So exciting. [clears throat] >> Whatever. >> I said, "How about that?" >> [laughter] >> I'm gonna call this April board meeting to order. I know this usually is my job, but our president is gone, so I'm feeling her shoes. So hopefully everyone's patient with me. Um, do [clears throat] we have any talk about Okay. If you're willing and able, please stand for our pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
003and justice for all. I would like to make a motion for the adoption of the agenda. >> I'll make that motion. Second. >> All in favor? >> I discussion items. >> Oh, call to public. We don't have any here. >> Okay. >> Information discussion items. >> That is our first presentation this evening. Dr. Moody, we would love to have you. >> Oh, sweet. Very quick. >> Start the timer. Hang on. >> Yeah. Get the timers ready. >> Hang on, buddy. It's two flips of the egg timer. >> Ed, do you need that? >> No, I'm fine. Thank you. >> Okay, I'm ready when you are. >> You're already right, so >> Okay, go. [laughter] Um so a as is often the case when we sit here and we talk about district level um um initiatives
004and personnel and issues quite honestly it's kind of a downer um and and we sit here we talk about curriculum and we sit here and talk about the budget which is oh so much fun thanks John and we talk about testing results from last year and we talk about testing that's going on right now heritage is finishing up this week >> sweet still have next week to go but that's fine we talk about building projects. For instance, our painting project and weatherization at my school was starting Monday of spring break. I know what I said. Um and and that's all important and and we do spend a lot of time focusing on that. Um and we have a lot of positives academically to talk about as well. We have we have 91% growth. I just
005done a few things here. 91% growth in math. We have 90% growth in reading. 352 of our 477 kids met their AR goal. I'll tell you when to switch. Um, we have the lowest suspension numbers that we've we've had in the last five years. Our EL audit did well. Those are all fantastic curricular things that we need to talk about. But we also need to pause for a second um, and recognize that nobody is going to get to our age or adulthood and go, "Yeah, remember that time I really knocked that state test out of the park when I was in fourth grade?" That's just not a thing. We need to recognize that education is the practice of practical skills in the midst of virtuous action with a little bit of fun. >> Amen. Um
006and teaching is a walk in the park. Jurassic Park. Wrangle and enjoy the adventure. That is what cementss learning. So we need to in in our kind of daily practice and here goes the image on the bottom. We need to focus a little bit more as we're walking into the schoolhouse gates every day um being Tigger and not being Eeyore. And I've said this to many many students on our campuses and um I practice it every day and Matt can attest to this with one T as we um walk in like this one sticks with me. This is from last year. Matt can [clears throat] attest to this. We try to find something positive every day. Um and and the one that sticks with me and then we'll kind of start walking through some things
007is um was this last year the the sheep in the bathroom >> right last >> might have been early this year. >> Might have been earlier this year. Anyway, we're walking by the third grade bathrooms which are just a vacuous cave of tile and um we hear this little boy in there. I have no idea who he was to this day. And he's in there going [laughter] and I couldn't help myself. So I go to the entrance of the bathroom and I go And there's this long pause and he goes that [laughter] was the end of it. I it might have been the beginning of this year but it provided me so much joy to this to this day. So with that said I'd like to focus on those fun things those things that are
008going on on campus that are helping to cement learning. Boom. Thank you. So we are as we stand here today a B-rated school. I'm sure that's going to go up. Well, we got a whole bunch of things and wow, that did not come across well. So, we have 17 different clubs and extracurriculars. We'll go to those in just a second. We have um specials that are going on all day. We have a variety of community partnerships. We focus on reading um like it's going out of style and in some places it actually is. Um character counts. One of the things that I was so enamored with when we had the EL audit is the women came back at the end of the day and I was getting them coffee and whatever and she goes, "I
009didn't have to open a single door all day." And I'm like, "Okay." She goes, "Kids were just holding the doors open for us." And and that actually kind of emboldens my heart. Um obviously we have a one to one um Chromebook ratio. Our PTO is is out of sight and out of this world. In fact, they're just finishing up their meeting right now. Um, our EL program, I have nothing but great things to say about it. Um, the teacher is amazing. If you're watching at home, Kira, um, the teacher is amazing, but we we do have a great e program and and um, we have a a great theater program for for resource and for title and all those things. We can only do that because we have Matt with one T standing around. Um
010I have complete and utter confidence in the safety of our campus. >> Um because of Matt with one T. Um we have a lot of great things going on. And if you want to see what safety looks like on our campus, come most Thursdays when he's playing baseball during recess with the kids. Okay, let's go forward with that. Now, obviously, we're a B-rated school. That's our picture this year. Um, I also have one with us standing next to our ugliest wall. Um, but I just made me sad, so I went with that one. Um but obviously we know and if you don't know this for our own edification um we base our our school rating based on overall student growth. The gaps that we have between our between our um regular ed kids and our
011special ed kids and our e kids and our readiness for success. That has to do a lot with special ed and um absenteeism at the elementary level. um when you get to the high school, it's talking about career readiness and and those sorts of things. Um and obviously we're looking forward to that, but I don't have that yet. So, if you could go forward because all of the the academics are cemented and again we know this if you're at a high school and this is especially starting at the middle school level. Um there are many kids who are going to be in school doing well in class just so they can play sports. And in fact, I'm already being one of them. Um and and and in fact, according to the Department of Education, um
012student athletes during their season, let's just ignore the rest of the year, during their season have a 0.4 higher GPA than the rest of campus. >> So, the more other opportunities we can offer, the better kids do in class. We have yearbook. We have Stukco. We have a new gardening club and we're expanding that and we just got some extra grants for new beds for next year and our facilities department just put in new water lines for us. We have a quilting club. I love the quilting club. They're making me a quilt. Um, we have mountain biking club which Austin is the coach of and we're looking to possibly expand next year. We have cooking club which also benefits me but not my waistline. Um, we have good news club, which is members of local
013churches who are coming in and talking about morals and ethics on campus. We have crocheting. We have a new book club. I'll come back to our librarian. She's something. Um, and we're involved with our fifth graders and next year fifth and sixth graders um with high with middle school sports as well. Cross country, track, wrestling, basketball, archery. Did I miss any for middle school? >> Soccer. >> No, no, no. but that fifth graders can be in. >> Oh, yeah. >> Okay. So, obviously we have a a variety of things that are that are going on on campus um that that kids come to school to be part of that they may otherwise have not come to school that day. Go ahead. Thank you. Um here's our e program in action. I love the kid in
014the bottom left. [laughter] I'm like, dude, Jose, that's not sad. That's okay. It's just you didn't quite get it, but that's fine. Um >> opposites. >> We're opposites. There you go. Look at you. Silver lining. Um you know, these are kids and and um one thing I would point out that um that is happening and this is actually something to see throughout the year is what they practice during the day. They're required to interact with an adult two to three times and come back the next day and say, "Hey, I practiced emotions with these two adults. these three adults and they have to find people on campus and um oftentimes that's me and Matt, but that's fine. Go ahead. Um we are also blessed um if if you don't know obviously art and music and
015PE were taken away several years ago and then brought back by the board which is amazing. Again, um those kids who have weekly PE, it's been shown that they have an 11% higher pass rate on state assessments. Um that's a nationwide statistic. Nothing specific to Arizona that I could find, but right now we're playing flag football. Um coach was actually um um going to this week be be teaching kickball. That's good that with the wind that that was. But I um I'm trying to keep him from teaching kickball because we have a fifth grade versus faculty kickball game at the end of the year and I'll take any advantage I can get. Um they're they're young and fast and don't break like I do. Um but um we we obviously have PE on one of
016the best fields in the uh district. We have our um weekly computer class which obviously is helping with state assessments. Um and then in the entire right side of the screen is our library. Our librarian is um Sarah Paul and she is um just like the the you know Energizer Bunny all the time and I love that so much about her. But she reads to kids every time they come in. Um you can see some of them there and a couple of them sticking their tongues out at me when I took this picture. That's fine. Um but she reads to them every day. And then um we have um we have themes that change every month. Right now it's summer and beach. So only four of them are allowed to be in the pool at
017a time, which is actually a posted rule. Like who knew that was going to be a rule, but again um kids show up to do this beyond their regular classrooms. Go ahead. And then that results in right now uh when I made this we had 19 millionword readers which we post right in the middle of the library. You can see there and we also post their weekly numbers on the left side of the screen and they keep passing each other. It's a Velcro strip and they lose their minds when somebody passes them and it's hysterical. But we actually today slotted two more millionword readers. We're at 21. Um, and we Thank you. Um, we um had 21 last year. So, we're looking for for a couple more to to pass so that we can beat
018our number from from um last year. And I'm hoping with I think we have reading this week. Yes, we have reading this week. Um that after the reading test, they'll be able to kind of ramp that up. Now, with that said, don't change it yet. Duh. Okay. Um, all that reading leads to an increased literacy rate and an increased ability to use and and uh facilitate language since January. These are the words they've created. Go ahead. [laughter] >> Fish sticks. This is what it's like to be on an elementary school campus >> during the food competition of mobile. Yeah. >> Oh, I want a copy of that. Are you going to cut your can we cut your because um if you don't know for the million for not for their reading goal challenge if they
019garnered 300% of their reading goal this last quarter they were able to throw a pie at me while I was taped to a wall. Um but they didn't want that. They wanted as one um one fourth uh one sibling of a fourth grader said he wants to cut your face grass um my beard. And so, um, I'm like, "No." [laughter] And so, my oldest son is 27 and he's never seen me without a beard, and you're not going to either. So, um, with that, um, yes, we focus on reading. Yes, we focus on math. Yes, we focus on science. Yes, we focus on social studies. Um, but if you can't laugh every day and have fun doing it, kind of everything else goes by the wayside. So, it's not that that's our focus, but um
020it is a focus. Any questions? >> No, but I love the party muffins. What a better way to describe [laughter] >> chicken. >> Thank you very much. >> Oh, that's it. >> That's it. >> How do you do, Julie? 1308, man. >> I blew it. That was way too long. Sorry. >> Three minutes over. Three over. >> Three over, >> Miss Leah. He's a hard act to follow. Leah, sorry. [laughter] >> Do you need the podium or are you okay? >> No, it's fine. >> Okay. Hi guys again. So, some stuff that we have coming up on our campus is on April 20th, we begin our prom spirit week. Um, which will also include our SOA senior fundraiser that will be taking place on April 23rd at lunch. Um, the CBHS prom will be at
021the Windmill House this year from 8 to 12. We have food trucks and photo opportunities at the location starting at 6:00 pm as well for families and students who want to stay local. Um, we currently have five food trucks that are committed to attending and as of right now, we have 102 tickets sold. U, the last day for our pre-sale tickets will be this Thursday, the 16th. Our senior events are also in full swing. The senior trip is on May 6 through the 8th and we have 65 seniors signed up to attend. Um it's exciting to see how much involvement we have from that this year. Our senior memories assembly is also going to take place on May 14th and that will also be followed with our last dance um called Morp, which is our
022color powder dance. Um so we're super excited to have all this taking place on our campus. Does anybody have any questions? It's exciting. [laughter] >> Thank you for coming. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Miss Leah. >> Okay, now to our superintendent report. >> So, um, we have a few projects that we're working on right now. As Ed mentioned, we're still, you know, trying to get this building weatherized, but we're John will probably get provide us an update about that. Um, we have ongoing meetings with the architect and the construction company who will be building the new building right here behind us next to the tennis courts. Um we we know that there are excess site condition costs and our our leazison will be going to SFB to um ask for extra funding for that. We
023also have seen in the governor's preliminary budget that Chino Valley was called out for extra money for our project as well. So if if that makes it to the final cut in Governor Hobb's budget, then that will also cover the excess site conditions. Um the trust, our provider, our insurance provider has let us know that it's it is past time to replace two worn out pieces of playground equipment, one at Territorial and one at Del Rio. So, we're currently working um Play It Safe was here um to go over the removal costs or the replacement cost with us. Brandy, I think you walked and Ed, did you guys walk with Play It Safe? >> Yes. >> So, we're working on we're waiting on their final quotes for that so we can remove old equipment. Some
024of it is um One Piece has been there since Territorial opened, so it's no longer safe for play. Um we also have um just as a an aside regarding the new building, um Chris also walked with our with the trust, our insurance provider, on the same day they down the playground equipment, um and asked [cough] them about the removal of our buildings at our end of useful life. And we and one of them we know we're for sure going to demolish because it's in such bad shape. That's the one where the art room is. But the other one, the eightlex [clears throat] that had the fire in it, has had lots of good rebuilding inside it. And so we asked them, you know, um can we have students in there for student occupancy if we
025need it? Um you know what if we you know turned it into the wrestling room because the interior walls are not loadbearing. There's no air conditioning here. there never will be because the roof wasn't sound enough to put HVAC on. Um so we're exploring lots of other options with the possibility of keeping that even if it's for a warehouse. Um, they have sent us a a list of questions for occupancy, student occupancy, and we may not meet the standard for like everyday classroom use, especially because of the excess temperatures in there, but we may be able to use it for other student use things. Um, you know, like a wrestling room or something like that. So, we are exploring other options because the building is still sound. It's just not adequate for um, you know,
026regular student use. And what we know is that if we retain the building, SFB will never make another improvement to it. So if we have a fire panel issue, if we have a roofing issue, they don't pay for anything. We can't appeal to them for building renewal grants for any of that. So if we keep the building, then any future repairs would be on us. So we're just carefully weighing some of those options. This building's actually in pretty good shape right now since we had classrooms redone from the fire, but you know, it just it will never be below the minimum adequacy guidelines for temperature in our hotlands of the year. So, those are some things we're looking at because we want to still be really good stewards of the resources that we have. Um,
027we also believe that we are um within two months of painting Delo School. Now, they're saying June, >> so of six. Ed and I are going to be out there with paint. >> Oh, yeah. Okay, cool. Right now, we're working on a little bit of asbestos abatement um from some of the cocking. So, you know, there one more little thing they found. So, they're getting rid of that. And so, they still have a few more little things to do. Um our team has scheduled a meeting with our new tenant at HMS to work on finalizing plans for having Rise join us on the Heritage campus. Um we've signed we have a fully executed contract for four classrooms and um a work room like a therapy room with a private bathroom, two student bathrooms. They've reserve
028the right to grow their program to two more classrooms in that pod. So we know the maximum would be six. Right now we're looking at four plus the workroom. So that is underway. They're meeting with all our staff. We got the calendar thing set up today. We also have um we're working on Leanne Wellert and John Livingston are working on this. Um I had mentioned in a prior meeting that Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind, which is um a residential campus in Tucson, is um closing their residential campus. So students who um are deaf and blind who have lived at ASDB in Tucson during the school year will now be returning to their homes for education and ASDB will be providing services regionally. So what they've asked is that because we have the most
029students who qualify for ASDB services, they've asked if we would be willing to be a regional hub for services. And what that means is um students from other school districts who've been at the residential campus, their home district would now pay to bus them to us. We would be charging them tuition to attend our schools and ASDB would come to um provide services here. So we've never been a tuition collecting entity before. Um so we're exploring what all that means. we've already ascertained, are there any other kinds of services the kids need to see if we're um able to provide those and it appears that we are. So, we're still working on that and we have um kind of a preliminary contract floating out and we're still gathering a little bit more information from ASDB,
030but that would be two classes also at HMS that are vacant, two vacant classrooms there. So, ASDB would not be paying for space from us, but we would be collecting tuition um significant tuition on the kids that would come to us. So, we're still working on that one. And we are in the middle of wrapping up the year as you know and in the middle of planning for next year. So, I wanted to provide to you and also Cheyenne provided to you this list um that you have and I encourage you to take that home with you. Um some of the dates overlap. We have coffee with the superintendent at Heritage this week. We have on April 22, the education foundation is providing lunch for all staff at every location. So like facilities, transpo, all
031the schools. So you're welcome to join in anywhere that you might want to do that and sit and have sandwich with the staff. April 23rd is coffee with the superintendent at CBHS. And I' I've been calling this Heidi's farewell tour because this month she's been making her last rounds with me to all the coffee events. Um Ed talked about the millionword challenge. Some of you have come to the banquet before. Um we would love to have you join us. It's fun. There are usually about 250 people there all celebrating reading which is super cool. Um all you need to do the foundation will pay for your ticket. All you need to do is let Cheyenne know you're coming so she can include you on the list. >> And where is that? >> It's in the
032Del Rio cafeteria. It is super super fun. And so we you can even shake kids hands that are sweaty and have Cheeto dust all over them if you want to. It's a great night. It's really fun. >> Um we have senior awards May 6th in the CBHS gym at six o'clock and that's when our scholarship awards will be handed out. May 19th is our last day of school and at two o'clock at Heritage we have staff recognition and we also recognize our volunteers. And this year the 42 community business folk that participate in teach our habitudes program at the high school are being recognized by Chino Valley Education Foundation as our volunteers of the year. So the habitudes folk will be recognized. We'll be recognizing some retirements. Some of those are on tonight's agenda, but
033you know, Heidi for sure. And May 20th is CBHS graduation at the event center. And then Thursday, May 28th is our strategic planning day in the family center at Grace, which promising to be a fun day. Um, we think the theme is going to be survivor, but we're not going to eat bugs for lunch. So, that's that those are the main things we have going. We also have all our calendars on the websites if if you want to check for things on the daily. And if you haven't signed up for our app, our app for each school in the district once a week, we'll send you the events that are going on for that campus and Cheyenne can help you get set up on the app. It's really fun and it helps you know what's
034going on too and you, hey, I'd like to really drop in and see that. So, those are the things that we have going. If you everybody has updated their goals for you. So if you have any questions about the stuff that you read in the goals, they could answer it here in the room tonight. We'd be happy to meet with you or via email or a phone call as well. So I'll be happy to entertain any questions that you have. >> You have any questions? >> No. Do we I I do kind of just out of curiosity like if if we did do the a is it ACVS or how many students would we be expecting for >> when if we went ahead and accepted >> oh the Arizona school for deaf and blind I
035um Christine I think it was six >> I think it's six or seven yeah >> good question though >> yes for ASDB It's very um we're trying to figure out just the bugs of it just because we've never been an entity that someone pays tuition to come to. So, >> but we're So, Leanne and John are working on that with school finance. Um John is walking through the what it takes to set up the tuition collecting accounts and so we have and then Christine and Nicole are working on the special education pieces of it. So, >> thank you. >> Accept more children. Um that's those are that's the only number of students from our geographical area that were at the residential campus. >> Yes. >> Okay. Anybody else have any questions? Nope. All right. Thank
036you, Miss Daniels. All right. Mr. Livingston. >> Hi. >> Yes. Madam President, members of the board, administration, [cough] staff, ladies and gentlemen. Quick look at the month end March of 2026. our budget of 19.3 million for our operating fund. Uh spent 14.4 million as of that date. That's 75% of the year gone and that's 75% of the budget spent. And you can say that's a positive. We always like two or 3% lagging. We don't but that's where we're at. Exactly 75% of the year gone. Exactly 75% spent. Uh our capital budget is really tight 770,000 and we've got incumbrances there. In the past that's been over 2.4 million and this year it's 778,000. So we've got a lot of things to do with that capital budget and it looks like we're going to have perhaps
03710,000 unspent out of that 778 on those uh capital fund. Uh we've talked a little bit in the past about our 620 fund adjacent ways to the project to the north. Um when we get our new classrooms built out there, there will be some fire lanes. We don't call them parking lots. We call them fire lanes in case of a fire. Where would the fire truck drive and be able to get around on that will probably be our nickel to pay for those? And those dollars will come from 620 fund for the state likes to say you want to have fire lanes, we'll let you raise those funds locally and then use them for that dedicated purpose. So right now there's this this year's levy is another 500,000 coming into fund 620. A quick look
038at a couple other funds. Um we have fund 580. I just wanted to mention fund 580 real quickly. That's the one that's set up by the auditor general for collecting fees when we have our own teacherage and we have these 10 houses by Del Rio. Uh we call it the casita. Do you have do you have another name? Well, that pretty much do casitas. >> It's the casitas. Okay. >> So they generate $550 per month times 12 months of the year is if we do it and they're 100% around 66,000 a year. The debt service 138,000 a year for about five more years. And once we break even and have all that debt service paid, then we'll be making uh perhaps a surplus. We'll be in a surplus situation. It's not a profit. It's just
039a surplus because we do have people coming and going and we use those funds also for paying electric bills when people leave and we've got to pay $150 electric bill hook hook up utilities there. But at this point, that's where we're at. We got five more payments of that $1 138,000. That's fun 580. Kudos to high school student council uh for the prom. We do have the venue paid for and the DJ paid for. You've been busy for the trip to Disney. We've got for 65 students going to to Disney. We've got the bus paid for and the tickets purchased. So, that's a big big deal. Now, we got some more fun, some more some more good news. Go ahead. >> I've been contacted over the weekend. Um, I had one couple that wanted to
040donate some money towards the senior trip and then I was contacted again and um, Willow Hills Baptist Church has been very kind to us and they are donating more money as well and the education foundation donated um, $1,000 for spending money for our students. So, our students are very well taken care of. >> That's awesome. >> So, thank you. >> That's that's [snorts] great. Just just two more things then on on buildings. There's still building projects going on. Uh in regards to what we call 2.0, that's the south end of Del Rio campus, just the main building, 101. The original bid for that was 3.5 million. That came in in September of 24. We sat on it till September of 25. We added another 400,000 to it. The state paid for that. uh took the
041project up over just over four million. To date, we've received and paid out 1.3 million on contractor costs including uh architect fees. So that is approaching the halfway down point as far as funding's concerned. Uh we when do they believe everything will be done? Uh Dr. Moody >> for the HVAC project. The HVAC >> they're saying the middle of June. >> I didn't say that. You didn't say that. They said that contract >> the okay the on-site supervisor was saying middle of June >> that's [clears throat] Kendall so prior to prior to school >> okay uh another one that we have uh on on the docket here is and superintendent Daniels mentioned there's been some asbestous abatement and remediation work uh in fact we had a big three-hour meeting today for weatherization for again for
042the Del Rio campus and [cough] we've got we've got three things going on uh around some windows. There could be some asbestous containing materials on the sealant and we've got a window project that the states got on the docket for 160,000. If they approve that, all the new excuse me, all the windows in the south building 101 will be replaced and the contractor will at that point whether that's July, August, September, at that point they will remediate [cough] the asbestous containing materials there. a little bit of asbestous in the m in the mastic and then the rest of the building we've had studies done already uh for the connection joints they're called and those studies are done so the contractor is just waiting on the last two reports and that I would imagine would be
043again if everything's done uh a really quick project and that could also be done when school starts [cough] the last one is with the new buildings over to the north here and we had a meeting last week and the state when I was down there December 13th of 2025 Before they figured $330 for the 9200 square foot building, about 3.2 million for construction costs, and now at $335 a square foot is over 500 per square foot. That's the estimate from the contractor. We haven't selected a contractor. We've got one that's working with us, but there's been no award above that 4 million yet because that 4 million has 3.1 or 3.2 million. That was the original award set aside for construction. There's another four or 500,000 for furniture, fixture, equipment, and then the rest is
044design fees. So that 4 million is probably going to have to jump to six and it might take a few more months for the state to honor that [cough] cost. >> You think they will? >> I do think they will because that's their that's their statute and they they're tasked with when we end of useful life a building, they're tasked with replacing it. >> [cough] >> I do believe that there's support to do that. Um, and I just said, oh yeah, one of the things they talked about was site conditions and then things like mechanical, electrical, and plumbing. They just said some of the costs that the state approved the budget on were a little under electric. So, we hope that we hope that that happens sooner rather than later, but we're not in a
045position to start raising funds to do that ourselves for those construction costs. And that's uh that's really all I had. Any questions for where we're at in March? >> Anybody have any questions? Oh, I you again. >> Okay, student activity. So, there's one more thing in student activity. Uh we do have and I'm personally interested. So, we have kudos again to the high school to getting everything done that they need to, but we do have a pickle ball club at the high school. [laughter] We have we got any and that's kind of near and dear to my heart. I like doing pickle ball. Do we have any any pickle ball advisor set up for that? I wonder at this point. No, we don't. Austin, you ready to share that? [laughter] No, not something we >>
046What about you, John? >> Share. You see? So, one of us is out of town playing pickball. You know, the other one could be here. So, >> be a volunteer from someone in the community or does it have to be a specific >> Staff member. >> Usually staff. >> Staff. because I have a I know a retired [clears throat] teacher that's very much involved in tickle law. [laughter] >> So they could probably be an assistant if we wanted to do volunteer >> volunteer but they can't be the >> we want we want [snorts] a staff member to be the main advisor. >> Okay. Any questions on the student activity report? Anyone? >> No. >> All right. Moving along. Um I will make a motion for the approval of the consent agenda. I will I will
047um approve the agenda. Second. >> All in favor? [snorts] [clears throat] >> It's going by pretty fast. Sorry. Personnel report. >> All right, Madam Chair, board members, uh Miss Daniels. Um, we have three new certified employees, three new classified employees, four new classified substitutes, 13 resignations, two retirements, eight certified changes, 11 classified changes, four coaches, six 64 extra duty stipens, and 267 time sheets. >> Wow. >> Three. >> We're getting ready for that. Extra duty is for next year, a lot of them. So, do we have um [clears throat] personnel to take over? >> Yes, slots are open. >> Yep. >> That's awesome. >> Right. I will make a motion for the approval of the personnel report. >> I will make that motion to approve the personnel report. >> Second. >> Yes. Go ahead. Go
048ahead. >> Second. >> All in favor? [cough] >> Okay. Moving along curricula. >> Um, I have benefits. >> Oh, okay. She's like, you're still you're still good. >> Yeah. Thank you. Um so we've done a comprehensive selection process looking at our um health benefits and the district staff is recommending that we go with ASPATE which is the Arizona Arizona school board association insurance trust. Um the medical insurance will be covered by Etna Choice which has a lot of um doctors and facilities that take Etna Choice. So we don't feel like we're um decreasing the amount of doctors or choices for our staff members in the local area. Um and then while um the move results in a 9.6% increase in premiums for the coming year, which is about 143,000 um we hold 500 I'm sorry
0495 5,500 credit that'll be apply applied to the renewal. And so we're still going to offer three plans. Um, and you can see on my sheet there, um, there's the classic silver co-op pay plan, the HDA plan, and the HDB. And the one that the district will be, [snorts] um, paying the full amount is for the HGHP plan B, which is 62350. our current um amount that we pay through Chyros is 690 which was going to go up immensely next year. Um and then also um we have dental and vision insurance will be voluntary as it is now. Um the employee will play the employee will cover the entire premium just so that some of our staff know that our asp will be BSP and currently we pay 719 next year will be seven even
050so we'll save a little bit there 19 cents. Um dental will go up about [cough] a dollar um 90 cents almost $2 um for dental. Um so um we feel like we've uh made um with the help of our um uh committee and I have to give a lot of credit to Shelley Daly, our HR specialist who did a tremendous amount of work putting this all together and working with um the vendors to see what would be the best. Um, we'll also still continue to pay for $20,000 in employee life insurance for our employees and we will continue with offering retirees dental insurance. Of course, there's Cobra, but they would have to pay for that, but they will also be able to to continue with dental. >> Do I have any questions? >> Our committee
051members were Larry, Ed, Marty, Heidi, Shelley. Yeah. >> Anybody that was on the insurance committee? >> So, it's $4,200 deductible. >> Uhu. >> So, that means they have to put $4,200 in when insurance kicks in. Is that what you're saying? >> They have to do 5,000 this year. >> This year now 5,000. And again, it's up to what's happening. Like with for me, if I go to the doctor, I play some of it goes toward the deductible and some of it I pay. So, it's just kind of it's it's up to it. But it's less than it has been. >> Okay. Yeah. >> I just thought you ask. >> Yeah. No, that's a great question. >> Yeah, it's a great question. >> I know what deductibles are. >> Yeah. I mean, >> are we? >>
052You're ready to I'll make a motion for this, please. >> So, I move to approve the 2026 27 employee benefits plan and a second. >> I'll second. All in favor? >> I. Okay. All right. All right. Our next item is the um HMS and CDHS coaching stipens. So, every year when our um our base pay increases, and this year increased by $1,000, um we take the base and we calculate it by the percent here. So, our base went up a thousand, which you approved uh last month. And this is our current now our stipens for the next year for both Heritage and CVHS. >> And if if I am correct and correct me if I'm wrong, but our female coaches are is comparable price to our male coaches. >> Yep. We leveled it. That was
053one of the very first actions we took the first month that I had this different job title. Um we'd had coaches in sports in prior years who had pointed out the discrepancies that we had between >> [snorts] >> um some sports [cough and clears throat] and um some girls sports compared to boy sports. It that would have been a direct title n violation had anybody decided to file a a claim against the district. So that was one of the things that Heidi and I worked on first thing out of the shoot was to get everything equalized. you did an awesome like salary study of coaching jobs with like life-siz districts and things like that. And so this will mark the two-year mark that you guys as a board have done the right thing by women's
054sports and by um all of our all of our coaches and all of our sports. So I think huge kudos to the board for that um who and huge kudos to Heidi for that salary study. Well, I I appreciate it because um um we are very competitive and for those of us that have been coaches or have been around coaching, we know how many hours it t really takes. So, we we do we're very very competitive with our salaries for our coaching. >> Um sports is a big deal. >> Yeah. Right. >> I really that's good. Okay. Um I will need anybody have any questions on that? >> No. This is an action item. So, I'll need a motion for the approval of the 2026 2027 CBHS and HMS coaching stipens. >> I'll make that
055motion. >> I'll move to approve the 2627 CBS HMS coaches statements. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. >> All right. Our my next item is um because of the changes at the high school um where we're going to have a lot of um classes online for dual enrollment and career technical education um we are expanding the role um to be uh the person that's been helping to be our college success specialist. I have a new job description attached and a salary range. And this is important because we're going to need somebody to be in there with our students to provide targeted tutoring and technical troubleshooting and then navigating online with the CT classes and the dual enrollment. And then they also will be taking attendance and and checking on academic progress.
056So the job has really um increased um the responsibility of it. um and they're going to have to develop indiv individualized action plans for atrisisk students and constant followup. So um I have the job description and it's going to be paid out of a grant fully 596 out of the um the CED grant for Mountain Institute >> and this is a full-time position correct. >> This is a full-time position for next year. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Any questions on for anybody? >> This is an action item. So, >> I move to approve the updated HR documentation for the college success specialist as presented. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. I know the high school appreciates that very much. >> Thank you. Uh my last item is that we need to go
057ahead and approve the new position at Heritage um a dean of students position um for the upcoming school year with the change following um the assistant um principal position moving into my position and then also a decrease enrollment due to the sixth grade um remaining at Del Rio. Um, we feel that that new role will effectively meet the school's um, need for administrative um, the administrative needs to support Caitlyn and the rest of the staff. >> It's not new to the district. We have den of students at um, Del Rio and Territorial already. So, this is just firming up. So, it's not a new position of the district, but it's new to Heritage. >> Yeah. And do we already have somebody before this issue? >> Yeah, we actually issued a contract last month. So, we
058kind of carton horsed it. Yeah, I kind of went I went backwards. Sorry. We're just gonna ignore that. [laughter] >> Okay, I'm just making sure. >> So, this might be a crazy question. Is a dean a students kind of like assistant principal? Is that or is it different? >> Well, it's it's usually um with not the full responsibility like an assistant principal has at a high school level. Um or or else um up to how many kids you have that has something to do with it. Also, there's a variety of um things that go into um and then um Abby will be doing also will be the um athletic director for the school too. >> We may or may not evaluate staff. >> Yeah. >> A lot of buildings they don't. >> Yeah, it's up
059to the number of staff you have. >> So, an Abby wave. >> Hi. [laughter] >> Okay. Okay. Any any questions from the board? This is an action items that we'll need. >> Okay. I will make an motion for the approval of the new dean of students position at Heritage Middle School. >> And a second. >> A second. >> All in favor? >> I thank you very much. I appreciate it. >> Moving on. >> It's Marty. >> Oh, it's Marty. >> It'll be Marty. >> Marty. What am I doing? >> Policy second reading. >> Oh gosh. I'm like caught up. Sorry. >> It's okay. It's page 147. >> I'm keeping you busy. You want me to bail you out? >> Okay, I'll bail them out. >> Sorry. [laughter] Not ready. >> So, uh, this is the
060second reading of our trust policies, which you guys have been working on for the last six months to replace our Arizona School Boards Association policies. Um, we have, Marty and I have met with ASBA again or with um the trust again, gone back through everything, um, made sure that all language was clear. We had a couple policies we wanted to double check on. Um they're exactly what we thought they were that we had localized before with um ASBA. So we made sure that the trust policies were remaining consistent. And then we started working on the form bank which you don't have to approve. You only have to approve the policies. The forms are like like if someone wants to come and visit the classroom here's a form for it. You like that kind of a
061thing. So this is the second reading. unless you have any questions from all of the months of hundreds of pages of policy that have been in your packet. Um, if you have questions, we'll be happy to entertain those the best we can. Um, and if they're questions that need further research, we'd be happy to do that and table it for another month. But otherwise, um, we're happy to present to you this new policy manual. >> One question. >> Yes, ma'am. Since we're changing our insurance over to ASBA insurance, will that affect that? >> No. So, we have to maintain a membership, but we had a a $5,000 credit. So, it's we stay a member of Arizona School Boards Association. So, if anybody wants to go to any of the conferences, we still would pay the
062member rate. Um, and even so, we saved $143,000 switching insuranceances. Our membership cost us five. This year we had a credit because we had contracted [clears throat] a few year like three years ago with ASBA to do some like strategic planning and then the lady never came back. >> Oh, I remember that. >> So, and they never refunded us because they switched executive directors. And so when I asked, "Hey, what's it going to cost?" She's like, "Hey, can we just give you a credit?" I'm like, "Sure." So, >> worked out. >> Yes. So, we have a free year. >> So, I just thought I would ask that because >> I just got to say, Marty, thank you so much. Every time I'd reached out about a question about the policies, [laughter] he was so quick
063to get an answer. >> That was his superintendent internship. [laughter] >> He did great. I wrote a letter and said how great he was. >> And this is an action item. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. I would like to The action requested is to opt adopt new policy manual for CBUSD as provided by the Arizona Risk Retention Trust as presented during all first readings. Can I have a second, please? >> Yes, I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I >> And I believe that wraps us up. >> Good job. >> All right, we done. >> 51 minutes. That's it. Thanks everybody. Cindy know my petition. anyone who lives in Chino.