001She thinks you're okay. He called me >> today. >> [laughter] >> It doesn't matter because it's a matter pulled over and they confused because then they're thinking It'll be another two hours before they drop. >> [clears throat] >> They can metabolically go back coach for military >> came from so they have >> came from somewhere in the valley is >> um no I believe >> no not yet she's still helping her mom >> maybe sometime next I didn't want to lose all my >> last week for two days. >> I could have two months apart. >> I want you to know situation. >> No, I can't. >> I don't have much to say. Good luck. >> He's coming. [laughter] >> I was getting worried about you, John. My secretary [laughter] was an English [laughter] party
002challenge. What's the stack that I have to sign? Is there a stack? There's not a stack. There's a stack. >> I don't think I don't see >> Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us tonight. Uh if you are able, would you please stand with me and join me in the pledge of >> allegiance? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Item number four is adoption of our agenda. If I could have a motion. >> I'll make a motion to adopt tonight's agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Moving on to item number five is call to the public. Mr. Campotelli, do we have any cards for
003call to the public? >> I did not receive any too much on this. [laughter] Seeing none, is there anyone that needed to fill out a card and didn't? Okay. Then we're going to go on to item number six, which is our information and discussion items. Um, first up, our presentations. And I have no idea what heritage >> it is heritage. >> Miss McIll, please come on my clicker. Thank you. >> Annie second. It's going to be a rough night from back just like you. splurge for you guys. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> And I got a pretty >> Oh, yeah. No, I'm I prepared. All right. >> All right. Good evening, school board. Um I'm Mrs. McIll, principal of Heritage Middle School, and I would like to give you a little review of what do
004what we're doing here. Um as you know, we are in school improvement. So, school improvement means that HMS has been identified by the Department of Education for additional support based on state assessment results. I didn't want to go into it specifically on the presentation, so I printed out really how it breaks down for you. So, we were not here all night. So, how we got here is our academic growth or lack of academic growth. So, this is our AASA spring scores. This is for ELA. So you can see the red dotted line. That is where the state average is. You can see how we got close in sixth grade last spring, but in seventh and eighth grade we were below the state average. Next one's shocking. It is math. So you can see the state
005average is about 33%. And sixth, seventh, and eighth grade are significantly low. Two grades being in the single digits. This is why we're in school improvement. And I need you guys to note something as well. I didn't put in my presentation. Um, special ed students are given the same test as general ed students. All right. So, what does this mean? This means that I get a partnership with the Arizona Department of Education. I get regular campus visits six times a year. Caroline Lynch is her name. She's very nice. I get bi-weekly check-ins with her. We are on a texting basis, her and I are and she is my principal partner. She is so kind and I feel blessed to have her. Uh we've had an increased focus on data driven instructions. Um we're using our
006scores from the state test and something called Nav'i which is created by Pearson which writes the AASA and um we also use our district benchmarks. I've implemented targeted interventions in math and ELA. We have ongoing professional development and instructional coaching. So what's my goal? To exit school improvement through measurable academic growth. Best case scenario, three years. It's a three-year thing. All right. So I want to show you the growth that we're having. So we're tracking our data by using Navi competency checks. So every other week the core teachers are doing these little check-ins. Um the curriculum provided benchmarks. This is done quarterly. Our Nav'i benchmark like Navi rolled out a benchmark. it required for all um school improvements to give it in the spring. And then of course our classroom assessments. This is just showing
007you how I track that the teachers are doing what they should be doing and what the teachers use as well. So this is the principal view. So this is Nav'i. I can see every single one of those are standards. So this is just an example. So you can see there that 6. E6 that standard for math kids are getting it. This is really exciting to me. If you guys remember, sixth grade was low. So, they're starting to really learn the standards. Even though I'm seeing 56% of them are competent in that standard. Oh boy, we were 12% earlier, right? So, you can really start to see the growth. Um, here is our benchmark scores. Unfortunately, we don't have quarter three because we're wrapping up the test this week. But you can even start to see
008the growth. I would like to um point out to you the resource which is the bottom row. Look, those are our resource kids. Those are our special ed kids. Look how they're growing as well. One of the factors for school improvement is a subgroup for special education. And we score really low on that. So a way to we've been working I'll get into a different side. We've been working on that. will clean up my stop working on me. So, um, HMS we had in the spring the department of education, my principal partner required us to give this AA I'm sorry, this Nav'i benchmark test. It is a snippet. It's kind of like a it was only one test per grade. Some were math, one was English. and it mirrors what the um AASA is supposed
009to be. So you can see that we have had growth. If we were to take the AASA at that moment, we would have had growth except in ELA. So I've been doing tiered intervention. Tiered intervention would be Friday school. So we have targeted math intervention. We are averaging 30 students every Friday that come in for math intervention. Is so exciting. The entire math department's there. We have advisory academic intervention. So advisory, you can think of that as our home room. We've been pushing math all year except now we've pivoted to ELA. We're focusing heavily on vocabulary. [clears throat] Uh one of the initiatives that we pushed out this year for all staff is trauma-informed teaching practices. So keeping the kids in the classroom, not kicking them out when they have a trauma like a an
010overreaction to something from that's trauma-informed. And then administration, Mr. Campatitali and I have been really supportive with our tier 2 and tier three interventions. So if the kids are really naughty, pull them out so all the other kids can learn. Another thing we're working on is culture and engagement. We came up with a new mission statement as a as a leadership team. So it's ignite the spark. I took the the leadership team up to LOL Observatory and we did a little leadership retreat. Um we've started this thing called byite-size learning to ignite the spark. That's monthly choice uh many mini PDs for the teachers. But the best part is it cost us nothing. It's led by staff and district leaders an hour a month. Um we've had an increase in unified sports growth. So just
011just everybody kind of now knows what unified is which I'm really proud of. That goes back to that cultural thing. We continue with academic competitions like spelling be and math leads. Math leads this year took 30 kids. We didn't win, but we win. Uh, we continue to recognize student of the quarter and we are celebrating benchmark growth. I got the idea from Miss Bryce. We're giving him ice cream. Thank you, Miss Bryce. I would like to show you an example of some professional development. So, the byite-size learning to ignite the spark. This is one hour monthly PD teacher choice, which I want I'm pushing them a lot to have student choice. So, teacher choice. It's led by small groups. There's no more than about eight teachers per group. And this is led by um our
012own teachers and then like I have Mr. Rodneck will come in and Miss Rosa Maria comes in as well maybe. Oh, thank you. All right. So, one of the factors that the state also looks on for school improvement is attendance. So, we're averaging 93%. We're doing this by having attendance the the attendance letters. We have an attendance team that meets. We're doing truency referrals. So we have 15 so far this year and then working with the SRO and the JO which is the junior of probation. So that seems to be working well. >> Congratulations on attendance. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Um >> really good. This you just learned what the state average is, right? >> Well, no. I'm nervous. So what in the 70s? >> Wow. >> Yeah, it's in the 70s. And because
013she's nervous, I'm going to toot her horn for her received an award for their unified sports program last week. >> Yeah. You want to say what it was? >> You got to miss your camp. >> I can't remember what it was called. >> Yeah. So, we received the ESPN honoral um for unified sports. So, on the west coast of the United States, um Heritage was picked as like the best school um for this. And essentially it just shows that we are very inclusive. So sped and Jenned um that we it was inclusion, it was uh leadership leadership and there was one more there was three things that we had to meet. Um but yeah, we ended up meeting those. So we were like the top dog on the west coast. Um so that was the
014ESPN honor roll. We got a nice little banner that'll be hung up in the gym and then a plaque. >> A huge banner. >> That's cool. You'll see a little push out on the social media too soon. We're building a little thing. All right. So, we have had also with all these positive changes we're having, we're also seeing a reduction in out of school suspensions and inschool suspensions. So, we've rolled out the schoolwide trauma-informed practices, right, with Tessa Brock. With that, all staff, all staff has bi-weekly reflection cycles. This is my front office staff. This is the janitor, I mean, not the janitors, but the dayer um admin. We all have this. We've have a stronger classroom interventions that keep students learning, right? Mr. Campetelli and I are trying to keep them in the classroom.
015There's clear behavior expectations across campus. You're not going to see the difference when you go in from classroom to classroom. Um, when we had a counselor, we had collaboration with the counselor and safety team for student support. We've also increased our restorative conversations between adults and students. This has been huge. Just a quick like clearing the air instead of the kids being mad. Let's just have a quick conversation with you and the teacher, be the neutral third party, work through it, get back to class, let's get this done. And then we continue to have our relationship with our SRO to address vaping, bullying, and fighting, which is a reduction. So, all right. Oh, sorry. We go back one for me. Thank you. So, um I broke it down by special ed discipline and gened. So,
016I'd like to focus on the sped discipline. If you look here the in blue is inschool suspension and in orange is out of school suspension. So you can see our inschool suspension has decreased and our out of school suspension has decreased for special education students. So the next the next one is the general education students. This one is been um blue again is in school suspension and then out of school and to me I'm most proud of the out of school. The out of school decreased from 64 to 37. >> Why do you think that is >> just what do you why do I think the trauma informed >> the trauma informed? Yeah. >> Why don't you explain to the board what that is? the um >> kind of the gist of >> Tessa Brock.
017Yeah. Um, so we uh we do a PD. We've been doing a PD all year with Tesla Barack and uh trauma inform meanings just to to realize that all students, not all student, most students are dealing with some sort of trauma and for the teachers to remember that before they uh get upset with the students and to have that in mind in the forefront of their mind when they when they talk to the students. So that um so that you know obviously the behaviors are coming from somewhere. We all know that kids usually don't do something just to do it. Although it's middle school sometimes they do but a lot of times the big ones the big behaviors are usually uh because of a a trauma. So to and not only to just keep that
018in mind but to really get to know the kids and to make sure that they know what the kid is going through. So, um that helps with our out of school suspension, I think, because those are the big behaviors usually. Um and, uh getting to know the students really, uh brings those behaviors down. >> Relationship building, relationship building, relationship building. And with the trauma informed, it's having the teacher also recognize that maybe they're having a reaction and they need to be the adult in the room and calm themselves down and then deal with the small thing so it doesn't spiral into something bigger where Katelli and I are suspending them. That would be a a big a big thing that we're doing >> because those are big numbers >> and the week the every other
019weekly reflection I'm not allowed to read those. I just get little summaries of what the themes are. So Tessa Brock and I have monthly professional developments that hit the themes that we're seeing. So we're seeing where teachers are struggling with tier one intervention and we're addressing it at the next professional development. >> So okay, next slide. All right. So I have had some staffing challenges. We've had two teacher vacancies vacancies this year. So they walk, you know, fall break lost a PE teacher and then winter [clears throat] break I lost a science teacher, but they have been filled with dedicated substitutes. I feel blessed. I h I mean they come every day and they're in it to win it and they've really become part of our culture, which is great. Um I've also had a
020loss of a school counselor just mid year. Did not get that staffed again. There was no applications for it. So Mr. Cabatelli and I are counselors and um but the staff has been adapting to it and we've maintained strong academic focus. So and then committed to igniting the spark. So what's next for Heritage? I'll let you guys know the plan for next year. >> All right. And I want to point out, Kayn, that the teachers who left were people who were new to the profession and it was far more than they had anticipated. I'm not sure what they thought it was like, but they were very overwhelmed and left the profession to go back to prior professions. So, so I'll like to point out this picture and this picture right here was our recent PD
021day with Tessa Brock. She came out and I um because I'm an alumni of Embry Riddle, I got to rent out the chapel. So, we had this beautiful view and it was fun to get the teachers off campus and it was all staff at that as well. It wasn't just teachers, parents, everybody was there. So, it was fun to get together and do a PD. But, so for next year, I continue to work with Caroline Lynch, right? It's a three. Can you go back for me? It's three-year commitment. So, this summer, her and I are planning an ad professional development to prepare staff um for co-eing. So right now we have co-eing in math but we're going to also be incorporating that in English as well next year. So this is part of my school
022improvement plan for the 26 27 year. So we have a week-l long PD where the the great thing about having Caroline Lynch is I get free PD. It's not costing me. I just have to pay the teachers to come. So that's great for us. Um, so we have dedicated and then with the plan for next year as well to follow up with just the training, we're going to have monthly time for the teachers to work together and really hone in on the co-eing their co-eing skills. All right. And the next so for 78 model, right? And I'm really excited about it because we can really be intentional and what we're doing at Heritage, right? So, of course, we're going to continue to focus on becoming an academic culture, [clears throat] right? And then I'm going
023to be very intentional about being team-based, having those structures in place. I've been very intentional about my staffing, which has been really great. Um, and how we're going to have schedules and systems in place. So, be just taking advantage of those opportunities and continue to build on the positive momentum that we have seen this academic year. Right. And so Heritage will continue to build on this momentum and committed to igniting the spark. >> Any questions for me? >> I have a couple. What's the percentage [clears throat] of children with special needs you have? >> About 25%. >> Yeah, that's about one of out of four children. So, Miss I'll just car call Caroline. My AD principal partner and I are discussing next year how if 25% of every class has a a special education kid,
024how can I increase my teachers knowledge so that they're even more prepared? So, that's like an underlying professional development that we'll be having throughout the year. [clears throat] >> I mean, having them test with the typical children, the same test. That's That's kind of tough, you know, but I'm I commend you for what you're doing. You're doing a great job. >> Thank you. Bringing up those scores. >> I have a question. Um, do you know where we rate as far as compared to other middle schools when it came to our percentages? Are we really low? Are we in the norm? >> No, we're really low. >> So, we're low, but I want to remind us of a couple of things. Um last year um well two years ago Humboldt's um Glford Hill Middle School had
025an F from the state. So and we have a D. Um Mile High had a D. And so as far as our school letter grades go because of the way schools are evaluated and just all of it that in the area everybody's pinging pretty close to the same letter grade. Humble closed Glassford to erase the letter grade and move them to the other campus and gave them a new name so they could start over. Gotcha. >> If you flip over on the back, you can see what they want. I mean, they want 60% proficiency, right? >> I mean, really, as a parent, I want like 100% my students to score. >> So, [clears throat] I have I have a question. I came I'm say a new parent. I'm not a new parent, but I'm a
026parent. What? Considering bringing my kid to Heritage, right? >> Why Why would I bring my kid to Heritage? What would you say? What are what? >> Yeah. So, I guess the question is why do I bring my kid to Heritage, right? I mean, I bring my own kid there every day. Just bring my kids to the schools. Um, the teachers are teaching. There's learning happening and it's great learning and I prove it. I'll bring them to my campus and I'll show it to them. You can walk into any of my classrooms, you will see kids learning and you could even see the forward momentum. The way that they measure measure it, I don't know if I agree with that. But I really do think that learning is happening. I brought my kid from a small
027private Christian school and I think she's getting a great education and I think she'll be prepared for college. >> So, >> one of the ways that they were dinged on their letter was not enough of our special ed students were in general education classrooms. So, that was a that was a big ding because we've been serving kids more primarily like in pull out like in a resource classroom, you know, things like that. And so, um Nicole and Caitlyn have been working this year through the IEP process to rewrite the kids IEPs to provide them more time in general education setting because that's something like you're seeing the benefit in the scores as they've worked hard to do that. kids are receiving instruction at a higher level and they are um will also get credit for
028having more kids in an inclusion setting. The state values inclusion and gives us points for it and takes points away from us if we're not doing what they want us to do. >> Okay. >> And we were actually barely a D. >> I'd like to point that out. >> Less than a point. >> Yeah. >> Like less than a whole point. Okay. So, we're gonna get a beat next time. >> Oh, >> yeah. [laughter] We appreciate your positivity. [clears throat] >> I just think that you've implemented a whole lot of uh improvements and reforms and it's uh it's really fun to see. It looks like there's been some growth and I commend you for that. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. >> Any further questions, comments? No. >> Great. Thank you. All right. Item 6B,
029superintendent report. >> CBHS student council. >> Okay. Not on here. [laughter] >> Not it. >> Okay. Not. >> Okay. All righty. So, a couple of things that um I want to chat with you about. [laughter] At your spot, you have an invitation from Sunrise Lions and there's information on the back if you would like to attend. They just sent it today asking us to um see if board members are interested in attending. Uh all of the students at area schools who have a 4.0 know are recognized at this event and so it will be if you want to attend it's can I hold yours up just for a second because I don't have one. So it looks like this. So if you want to go you can um email Miss Audrey. You don't have to
030send the RSVP form in. You can always just let her know if you want to come. I think you don't need to say if you don't. Just say if you do. So I wanted to give you that. This is the first year they've invited governing board members. So, I thought that was kind of cool. All the other years they have it. Um, and then you have prepared for you a list of events um that will take place between this board meeting and the next one. And Ed, I don't know how you guys are staffed for readers for tomorrow. Do you have any holes left? >> We definitely have holes. If you'd like to come and read to third, fourth, or fifth graders in their classroom for Dr. Seuss Day, um, >> I'll come do it.
031>> Yeah, absolutely. Um, Just show up. >> Just show up. We'll plug you in. >> What time? >> 8:00. >> Yes. >> Starting at 8. >> Okay. >> Yeah. All morning. >> Okay. And I am reading Walter the Farting Dog. >> And that's the name of a book in Mr. and Mrs. Moody's class tomorrow morning. >> Can you bring a book to read or does it >> Yeah, you can bring a book. And we have books to choose from if you don't have one that's a particular favorite. It doesn't have to be Dr. Seuss. Um, we're doing we're doing spirit week, so it's dress up day every day. Today is wacky sock day. I wear boots, so hence my tie. >> Where are your socks, Mr. Moody? >> Um, they're right here. >> I have
032to say, >> but are you wearing them as a tie? [laughter] Tomorrow is uh your favorite color that represents your mood or favorite character. So, um, Vice President Mortonson, if you're coming tomorrow, I'm expecting important years a sort of cat in a hat. >> Can we do the wonky donkey? >> You You do you. >> Okay. [laughter] >> Or you could just wear clothes. [laughter] >> So, I definitely want you >> regular clothes and >> it's really fun. So that's tomorrow at Del Rio. Thursday we have coffee with the superintendent at CBHS. That's outside um behind the office. So if you want to do that, we've got some baseball and softball games going, the blood drive, cookie with a cop. So there are all kinds of fun things to do between now and the next
033board meeting should you want to make yourself available. The next thing that I wanted to point out and share with you um is the classroom spending report from the auditor general. I sent you a link to that and there's also a link in your um packet here. Um the auditor general releases a po report every year for all regular geographically bound school districts. So not charter schools. um talking about how much money what percent of the operating budget is spent where and a couple of things that I wanted to um chat about that were as we have it's the same everywhere right as you have declining student enrollment you inevitably um need fewer teachers but you still need a principal you still need custodians you still need bus drivers so it inevitably the the teeter
034totters tipped bit because they don't define classroom spent. They don't include all expenses that go in the classroom in the classroom spending report. It's very narrowly defined. So, it took us forever just to to get them to be willing to count pair of professionals who provide instruction in the classroom. So, it's a little bit misleading when you think in terms of how much gets spent on a classroom. Um, like for example, plant operations is, you know, everything that takes to run the school. But you figure lights, desks, custodial services, those can all be figured out by a classroom, but they don't allow those expenditures to count as classroom level expenses. I would argue that you need a desk, that you need heat, that you need lights of a classroom, but that's not how they see
035it. Um and then we also had um I wanted to note that statewide um instructional spending is down, classroom spending is down overall. It's because of the decline in student enrollment statewide. Um and then another thing impacts it as well. It's called the teacher experience index. When we have teachers who are have lots of years experience, then of course they make more money, so it's a higher percent. Um, like this year, you've known from our last few board packets, we have lots of retirees. Um, and we won't replace them with people with 30 years experience because they're not usually looking for jobs and it's usually a pay cut if you change districts with that many years of experience. So that means our classroom spending will go down slipply because of the number of years of
036the people who are in the jobs. So there are lots of things that impact it. Um I also wanted to talk about um on this report they had a segment on inefficiency and the inefficiency was um based on data from the last three years that they had combined. It's the first time that they've had an inefficiency report and they reported like statewide. One of the things that they reported on and said schools are operating inefficiently because they're maintaining empty classrooms and empty space. So as school districts are like abandoning buildings because they you know like need to close schools, the auditor general is dinging them for continuing to maintain unused space. We all know we've all seen it, right? Just driving around our own community. If if there's a house that's empty and isn't being
037cared for, it deteriorates. And the same is true of classrooms. Just because classrooms are empty or buildings are empty doesn't mean a school district can just put a fence around it and walk away from it. So, it's very interesting to me that like what they're choosing to um call in efficiency when those are things that are largely out of the control of individual school districts. Um, one of the things, um, John and Marty and I had an opportunity last Thursday, you'll remember a few months ago, the auditor general re released a report that they had never released before with all kinds of new statuses for school districts. And approaching high risk was one of the status points. And our school district was found to be approaching high risk for declining enrollment and control that for
038uh moving money from capital to M which we're legally allowed to do and we had squirreled money away in capital during COVID so we could choose to move it later. So we were dinged for that. So Marty and John and I um the auditor general's office requested a meeting with us basically to scold us. Uhhuh. And um and then to just check a box that said they had a meeting with us. So um they started the meeting and I and I said we've read your report and I said these are let me list for you all of the things that we are doing to address these concerns. you I shared with them the statistics about the number of students in charter schools, the number of students in um who are taking the ESA, the number
039of students who are being homeschooled, the number of students who Prescuit Unified runs buses out here to pick up and take into their schools. By their own admission, Prescuit does that because if they didn't come and take our students from us, they would be underwater. They have no problem putting us underwater to keep themselves above. So, I went through all the things we're doing, all the reductions in spending, all of the um something that will be on our agenda later tonight that um entering into contracts to lease unused space because god forbid we should be inefficient for having empty classrooms. Um so, we went through all that with them and I would say once we shared with them all the things that we were doing, I think they were satisfied that we're doing everything we
040can and more. So, um I thought overall the meeting was productive. thought we shared with them thoroughly all the things that we're doing to remove ourselves from the approaching high-risisk. One of the one of the things on their approaching high risk so is decline enrollment maintaining unused space. Another thing was um our debt service because we have debt service on the track and debt service on the housing and so we got winged for having debt that we need to pay our debt. So carrying debt, even though lease purchasing is perfectly legal, well within our capacity to do so, they also had deemed us approaching high risk because we had debt we were paying off. So it's very um these categories have never existed before. They seem to be very politically motivated. Um state treasurer wants
041to run for um state school superintendent. So there appears to be political motivation in these all these brand new categories that really aren't statutory categories at all. So it was very curious. Um but I felt like we were prepared for the meeting and had adequate answers. John had good numbers for them and and we it lasted maybe 40 minutes or something like that and that was it. So, we did have the meeting um and that was last Thursday. And then, um just a couple things I wanted to talk about. Um we're continuing to turn over every stone looking for savings. Um during February, Selena Ramirez, our transportation director, and I met with Humble. Um we figured out a way to outsource our major bus um repairs to Humble. They have a larger cadre of mechanics.
042Um we our lead mechanic position went vacant in December and we decided not to fill that. That was a position freeze. Um we save $1,000 per repair just by not hauling buses to Phoenix um for major repairs. So we have mechanic staff that can do everything except like really big stuff like transmissions or full engine replacements. Humbults agreed to um charge us very reasonable rates and um we'll pay for parts and pay for their labor. It keeps all their guys busy and um so we're trying to create efficiencies by working with our neighboring districts. Something that when it's mandated there of course are bills in the legislature this session trying to mandate people to work together. I don't know how it worked when you guys were little but if your mother told you you had
043to play nice with your sibling, it didn't always work out so well. >> [laughter] >> But when you got to choose to play nice with your sibling, it usually worked out pretty well. So that's what we're doing. We're trying to learn how to play nice with our siblings. Um we've been able to continue to monitor enrollment and determine appropriate staff levels. That's reduct that's um resulted in one additional staffing um reduction that we'll take that um in addition to what was presented to you in January. So that's a good one. Um we are presenting a contract later in the board meeting that would allow us to use unused classroom space um for a private program that would save us 140,000 and then next month we will have um a recommendation regarding employee health insurance that
044will save the district about 400,000. So um over over what I brought to you in January um I'm we're basically bringing to you another almost $600,000 in savings. So just since January. So um Marty and I went to a meeting in Phoenix in February to learn about bond and override elections and based on the knowledge that we acquired and Marty can speak to it as well. Um we didn't feel that 2026 is the right time to consider it. Lots and lots of reasons. Um state measures for increased funding to education from the state level. Um that was a biggie. A short timeline to be able to get on a ballot, things like that. But we're certainly open to pursuing it next fall like um learning more about it, hosting um information sessions or work study
045sessions for the board so you can make an informed decision because we could run if we felt like we needed to we could run an override um at some like we're not time bound just to to do it right now. So um the other thing is regarding goals for safety and communication in February we rolled out our new parent communication system and so far it's been pretty seamless and this system is a cost savings to us. Our newsletter went out to Chino Valley and Palm residents and this just this afternoon I was working on our application for a three-year renewal for our school safety grant that helps pay for officers council art heritage things like that. >> Question. Yes. >> Are all of our re are all of our officers on grant? >> All but
046one. >> And what one is not? >> Um the one that's currently at territorial. >> And why? >> Because he is you have to be postcertified. That officer came from corrections and has um a couple of decades of experience in law enforcement but in corrections not and has not been through a police academy. So if we got So I mean I'm just asking but if we got somebody that has been through that what it is why so why don't we get somebody who has been >> I've met with Chino PD twice they don't have any more officers they could provide us >> okay because that could really save us correct if we had some >> Yes. And that was one of our potential savings on the January list that I presented to you. It was
047um a position that the school wants to retain if possible. And you had expressed that you felt like we needed one at every school site for sure. >> But I did meet with PD and they don't have any more officers. Like we have Hawk at the high school and we they loan us an officer that we don't have to pay for. Um currently it's Torres at HMS. It probably will be somebody else for next year. Um, and that one doesn't isn't on the grant. Um, that's by their choice, not our choice. But I have met with them twice. Um, and they do not have any extra officers they could give us. >> Okay. Are you still visiting it? >> Always always keep keeping at it. In fact, um, I had Matt because they added a
048new section this year in the grant that didn't exist before called retired in Good Standing. And um so Matt's been working with everybody he knows who is and and so is Doug and and we've had lots of people trying to get in touch with folk that they know who are either close to retirement or may want to retire who they think would be good candidates for school resource officers. And I met with one and um that person decided and and I really appreciate his honesty. He shadowed Matt for a day, loved it, thought it over, talked to his wife and came in and talked to me last Thursday morning. He said, "Cindy," he said, "I love Chino. I loved being with Matt. I guess I don't want to put on a vest and a gun
049anymore." And I respect that. >> I respect that. And that's what we find is that officers who are coming out of law enforcement, unless they're younger, they're they're done. >> Yeah. >> So, because that's the other thing, we do anticipate um that um our school safety officer who's at Territorial right now will move to Del Rio next year because you'll see in your packet. >> I did see I don't think we're going to allow that. >> It's moving out of state. So, don't make him cry. [laughter] >> He's not even looking at us. Look out. Cry. We love him. Um, >> what if we don't approve it? [laughter] >> His wife might come after you. Um, and we have an officer from Chino PD who is retiring. Um, and Bry's met with that officer. I've
050met with that officer. That officer would like to come as an officer in good standing for territorial. We think that officer would be a great fit there. So, we'll have um Bry's had counselor on the grant before. She'll have an officer this time. Del Rio will have one that we pay for if you guys approve that this evening. Um HMS will continue to have one that PD provides at cost to them and um CBHS will have the one that we purchase his services. And the big difference, just so you know, because I asked them this um because PD needs to add positions. I said, "Do you want us to pick up your officer on the grant?" Because Caitlyn has a counselor and we could switch it for an officer. I said, "Do you want us
051to pick up your officer?" So then that frees up money for you to add a position at PD. And they're like, "Yes, no." And I said, "Okay." And the reason is they need to be able to pull a person off for calls or patrol if they have to. Okay. And so they're so tight on staffing and and because the schools are all in Chino Valley um the town limits um uh YCSO officer it's not in their jurisdiction to serve our schools even though most of the districts in the county the schools are all in the town. >> Oh gotcha. >> So yeah I' I've tried about 20 angles to make it work for the last couple months and this is >> best one. >> This is the best one so far. So Um, anyway, those
052are the those are the biggies for this month and I'll take any questions that you might have. >> I just, you know, the school I work at, we have officers even from Clarkdale, Jerome all over come in there. So, you know, it doesn't make sense we couldn't have some officers from other. >> So, what you do and and this is an option. Um there's something called ODM which is the officer it's the offduty management system. We could apply for officers through ODM which would mean that like so if we applied for one for Del Rio we would have a different officer who's off work that day from any jurisdiction in Arizona that wants to pick up the job. So it would literally be [clears throat] a different a different officer every single day. and ODM
053officers are about between $800 and $1,000 a day. I think it's important that the children have consistency in the same person. >> The relationship. >> Yes. I would like to point out that um Officer Matt >> Uhhuh. with one T in his name that um when he started with us that he didn't hug and didn't do and now you might note if you go by Deler in the morning he's got music out there and he's dancing and he plays he plays catch with the kids and I see kids hugging him [laughter] so you're right be it's the relationship part >> it is it's one of my things when I from my shop I get to see the greetings from that and the movie they And believe me, every day that it's below zero in Minnesota,
054I text Matt and I'm like, "Are you sure? [laughter] >> True facts." >> Any questions or comments? >> Thank you, ladies. Thank you. >> And Julie, I don't want to move on yet if Leah's coming. >> No, I don't believe she is. She's at track. >> Okay. So, nothing has changed. They're going to be doing another blood drive coming up. That'll be their third blood drive. >> Yep. It's on the thing, too. So, that's good. >> Um, and prom is set for April 24th. >> And it's in Chino. >> In Chino at Windmill. >> Oh, really? That's fantastic. >> So, they're very excited about that. If I could find that I could Does she have something on here? >> No, I knew. >> Oh, you knew. >> Yeah. Um, and really I think that's all
055we have is a blood drive. They're trying to talk us into more right now. Um, so so the other thing I know that student council is planning on coming to the Chino Valley Education Foundation to ask if the foundation will help sponsor, you know, how we've had sponsor a student for the senior trip. Um the kids are looking for people who are willing to provide spending money for the kids so they can you know get beverages and food and stuff like that on their senior trip. Um they may have had the trip sponsored but they're concerned that the kids won't have spending money and stuff too. So I know that they'll be asked they're coming to the foundation on April 1 to ask for that. But I just wanted to put it out there, especially
056since, you know, we're have the reporting and stuff, too. If there's anybody that wants to just donate any money, I'll make sure I get it to Julie. So, the kids have >> Disney gift cards. >> It could be Disney gift cards. >> I would recommend Disney gift cards because they could be used anywhere at Disneyland. >> Are you going? >> Yes. Of course, I'm going. She'll >> I mean, if you need another chef, >> but then you could That way you can give them to the kids, too. like you could hold on to. >> Yeah, that's the plan that I'll be holding on to them and um sending the kids >> to come back with. >> Yeah, we still have three that need to be sponsored, but um I will want to say Willow Hills
057Baptist Church in Prescuit has been phenomenal and they've already sponsored three and they've offered to sponsor the rest that still need to be paid for. >> Nice. And how much is it per student? >> It's $300 per student. >> So, I do still have three that need to be sponsored. How much spending money do you think that they have to have? >> Um, for food and drink, I think $100 would cover it. >> That's what we're going to ask for is $100 per person. >> And then the other thing, um, safegrad. >> Yes. And I'm I do not have a lot of information about that. They're still in the planning stage of that. >> Can you explain to the board real quick what it is? So, safeg grad night, it's a group of parents that
058are going to put the sign down after graduation that evening and they will go to the gym and stay there all night. I did it when I was at the high school years ago and I absolutely had a blast. Ka I think Casey Barnsworth and I had more fun than the kids and um we were there all night long and [laughter] I don't know if I can do it though. I'm a lot older. Um but it's where they're going to play games and I'm there's a theme wild Is it wild west this time? >> I haven't even seen the um anyway. So, they're putting that on and they're still in the planning stage. I believe right now they're taking donations for um because they'll um auction online. >> I do I do know that too
059that they are starting their auction items soon because I donated some stuff >> and that's what they're doing right now is collecting those. So they collect gift cards, they collect gift baskets, you know, things that kids would want when they move out of the house, you know, that kind of >> good for college and like suitcases. Yeah. Microwaves, things like that. And I don't know if it starts at 11:00 or at midnight, but it should go till about 6:00 a.m. So it'll be a lot of fun. You're welcome to join. >> I think that's the big stuff. >> It is. Uhhuh. All right. Then item 6C1 is our financial reporting. >> Yes, madam president, members of the board, Daniels, staff, administration. Quick look at the month end February of 2026. I did a little math.
060Uh our budget's 19.3 million in our operating fund. We spent the end of February 12.8 8 million which is 66.3% of the year if you want to say excuse me got to get this right the percent of the year gone is 66.6% 6% we've only spent 66.3% of our budget. [laughter] So if we'd spent 80% of our budget at the 66% of the year, we'd kind of be in trouble. But we've only spent 66.3% of our operating budget. So that's that's a good place to be. Um and so that was 12.8 million spent as of the end of February. Capital fund spent 448,000. We do have some more debt uh service to spend. We've got three debt service issues that we're funding. Our track is 93,000 a year. Our student housing or is 138,000 a
061year. And our four new pieces of equipment we got last year is 72,000 a year. And at that point, we got the bus last year. We got the lawn mower, we got the lift truck, and we got a trailer. So those have their own debt service. So those are our debt service amounts. >> And we know the track of the mini houses can't be repossessed. [laughter] That's true. >> But we wouldn't want a black a black mark. >> That's right. That's right. So, I don't have a lot uh more if you have the report in front of you for the month end with the expense and the funds. Any questions on that? If not, I've got two other things I'd like to focus on in just a second. This is a summary. This little sheet
062is a summary of it's a I call it a landscape Excel summary, Microsoft Excel. There's four things with our school facilities board projects and I think all four of them are discussed in this little summary and I came up with the best categories I could for each of these four. The one I didn't really focus on we've spent 32.8 million in the last four years on school board projects from the state. So that's already spent projects are close. If you look at section one up top, the category funded or in progress or near completion. These two projects, this is putting HVAC at the high school, that's the first one, 7.96 million. We started that September of 2022. We are now into the 43rd month, pushing four years to finish that. It's very close to being
063done. Uh for our maintenance department was here. Maybe Steve could even Well, I don't see Chris here. The plan is to in the next Monday, the plan is to next Monday the 16th do some tests with them electrical upgrades. And once those tests are complete and all the the contractors have passed with that electrical installation for the high school for HVAC, we can submit that last $700 of that project. 7.9 million and that's how close that is. The ones the one below that 5.4 million over at territorial are complete. Everything's going territorial even since last summer. Basically, this whole year you've had HVAC. It's just that there's been some delays with the architect approving contractor invoice. That's really close to being fully. So, those are the only two that we started say before July of
064last year and they're nearly finished those two. The next one are recently awarded and there's [clears throat] 9.3 million there. You know, the well, you might not notice the south end of Del Rio wasn't finished when they pulled in there two and a half years ago. They just left the south end because there were old HVAC units. Well, they weren't HVAC. They were just evap coolers on the roof. Is that correct? They've never used them. You got this. >> Well, we had there were some evaporative coolers up there, but we had a chiller system that was from like 1980 something >> at the time was still working. They had some AC that was questionable a bit and that the CO2 levels got higher and so they left that completely. Now they're doing it and that's
065a brand new project there [clears throat] in section two 4.1 million and contractors and architects have showed up and the facilities there for the temporary classrooms. We plan on being done that I think by the end of June. That's what I'm hearing. That's the plan. That other four million. So it's a kind of we call it 2.0 HVAC PBLO 2.0 South and then we go to the weatherization of Delg Rio. That's the only one. >> Tell me that's the painting. >> No. >> Well, we're getting to the painting. >> Oh, yeah. >> We're getting to the painting. That's another one. >> Good news. >> Yeah. This is just Hback on the roof to put a bunch of three ton and five ton and six and two ton chillers up there and then duct it and
066then reinforce the roof structure to hold the weight. So, that's the first one there and recently awarded. The second one is weatherization. Very good. [clears throat] and that's had some cost increases. That's at 1.1 million that's been awarded and we've got our contractor and we've got our construction architect there for that 1.1 million. They haven't started the the hold up there is they have to have a 24-hour period at which at no time does the temperature go below 40 degrees and Chris Sheriff thinks that'll be about April 1 facilities guys. So that's when they'll move in and that's the word painting and that's what happened with [clears throat] the south side of the high school front entrance and the north side of the high school just just gorilla snot and silk oxy and any kind
067of combination you want and it's about a almost an eighth of an inch thick and that weatherizes the building but paints a better word. So 1.1 there and then the new classroom construction the 4 million 38,000 that's very close I [clears throat] believe the architect designs are any day now I think superintendent Daniels has had what 14 meetings with them and >> tomorrow's our last meeting on the plans at 1:30 we we had like one last thing and then it'll go to engineering or go to the construction company for their for all their workups >> so that's within striking distance we applied for that April of 2024, December of 2024, I was in Phoenix talking to the school facilities board. That's when they gave us the 4 million 32,000 38,000 I should say. So those
068ones recently awarded but not really really in progress. Just just slowly barely get to 9.3 million. The next category is kind of a large one. You see the 1,ion325,000. I think there's nine maybe 10 projects there. Weatherization studies at all three other schools to seal them. uh carpet. We've got some classes at HMS. We've got three window projects uh right over here to the east, window penetration. We've got one above us here, $29,000 for this West Gym. It's $28,000. You see that right there in the road, 20870, but they're in escalated status. We're in a queue behind however many what 230 public school districts in the state. We're moving slowly up the list, but they're not considered life safety, window security, and these things. And then we've got a fire alarm replacement that we need
069a quote for. And hopefully tonight you'll approve us issuing an RFP for that. And the way those RFPs work, [clears throat] there's maybe four companies. One of them is Fire Security Electronics, one of them is Canyon State Fire, and [clears throat] they're on they're on cooperative contract. So if we get bids from them, we don't necessarily need to do a RFP to get quotations. We can just buy off that company. But the one we've had great success with Del Rio, they did the whole fire alarm at Del Rio for 136,000. That's Surefire. And these other companies were coming in over 400,000 for the same same service. So when we use Surefire, they're not on a state. So if we approve tonight, that's going for an R and put that on the street. Anybody that wants
070to bid on it can, but Surefire is not on a co-op, so we have to give them a chance to bid. And then we get other bids as well. And then we put that application in, but we don't have cold yet for the for the territorial fire alarm. Excuse me. [clears throat] Fire alarm at the high school 227 is already in escalated status. The one for go to the next. Any any questions on the first three categories? [clears throat] A little choked up here. The last one then is for new projects we haven't really applied for at all. And the top of the list there is a proposal for the fire alarm for territorial. That's where the new [snorts] one is 150,000. That's my S based on square footage. Then we have two more places
071we can put floor sealant down for a school lunch cafeterias at the high school and at Del Rio and for intercom systems. Intercom systems are in what the state calls minimum adequacy guidelines. Just like roofs that don't leak are in minimum adequacy guidelines. So if that's something they say every school district in the state should have, we don't really have functioning really trustworthy intercoms I guess at any school. We've got ones that have opens, ones that don't work real well. So that's another 1.1 million. So together these these are 15.7 million perish. So, any questions on where we go? If we do that, we spent 32, we add 15 to it, we're pushing $50 million and a half years from the state. So, there was a well, there still is the lawsuit in place, but
072this extreme support might mitigate some of the lawsuit facts because we've been very well supported. >> That's all I have. Seeing none, we're going to move on to item C2, which is the student activity funds. >> Student activity. We have uh starting the year with 166,000 right now after incumbrances, after these expenses, 136,000. And I thought I would just let you know how this works. Uh I believe every school has a a variation of a student council where the students fund raise and get to spend those dollars on students. I just took a quote from a [clears throat] a policy here about how difficult it is to make student activity work and how many people have to be involved. And here's my question. Student council is sponsoring a dance and has hired a DJ. Can
073the DJ be paid cash from the dance proceeds after the dance? So survey says >> yes or no. Everybody says no. No is the answer. Cash dispersements are not allowed. So, a person in my office that's the purchasing director for the school district keeps on her own spreadsheet with uh QuickBooks behind it with a bank account behind that just down the street at the National Bank. She keeps all these funds in a separate bank account. So, when students want to spend it, they have to go through her with exactly my answer. No, cash dispersements are not allowed. You can't just pay the DJ after the dance proceeds have been turned in. A purchase requisition must be submitted with signed student council minutes authorizing the expense. Then services may be obtained with an approved purchase order.
074So student activity uses purchase orders just like we do when we buy a $217,000 bus like we did last year. So it's very tightly managed and Charlie assists and trains people all the time with student activity because all the sports you can see lots of people have student activity funds and programs. So, tremendous staff support and I think adequate district office support and thanks to the community for supporting the fundraisers that the students go out and do. >> Questions? >> No, but I am glad that that's >> Yeah, that's something a lot of districts get in trouble. >> Yeah, we try to be really >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Okay. Well, then moving on, we're going to go to our consent agenda. And I would entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve
075the consent agenda. >> I'll second. >> That was Ann. >> All in favor? >> I I Thank you. It's going to take me just a second to get to our next one, which is item number eight, personnel report. Um 8A is personel report as well. So um my first item for today um madam president [clears throat] board members and Miss Daniels is that we are uh district staff is recommending an upward adjustment of 50 cents per hour um for the 2026 27 classified um entry salary schedule. We're making a recommendation of that currently um as of January 1st minimum wage went up to 515. We want to make sure we stay competitive and that um we keep our employees. Um and so you'll see that there is a new um salary placement schedule. This is
076for new employees um with a 50 cents increase. Is that >> It's the classified entry schedules page 97. >> 97. >> Sorry about that. >> And it is the It's adjust. Yeah, it's the place book. You said it right. >> No, it just wasn't on here the way that we had read it. It didn't come next for us, >> but it is now. We I'm there now. Okay. This is February 6. >> Okay. >> Oh, it was. >> Yeah. >> No, it's on it. So, we we have the wrong >> We have some of us have February. >> February. >> You have February's. >> Yeah. >> And so that's what we have. >> We miss We miss. >> We're okay. We're okay. We can make Yes. [laughter] I'm just giving you >> page 97. >>
077Thank you, Miss Nanny. [clears throat] >> Okay, we're back on track now. >> All righty. So, um, >> so this is an action item. >> Yes, please. >> Okay. [clears throat] I'll make a motion to approve the 2020 26 277 classified entry salary schedule as presented. >> I'll second it. >> All in favor? >> I I Thank you. Thank you. Let's see if I'm good here. Is item 8B the certified interest? >> Page 99. So, um we're also looking for um approval of the base salary, and this is again for placement for new um employee certified staff um to be increased by $1,000. Again, to be competitive, to attract um qualified applicants, and um this includes the new one includes um you'll see a difference where we've included the classroom site fund in there. So
078anybody that's looking for a job will know right away what what the total salary is. We used to have a kind of like what it with the base and then we said that the um there would be an additional classroom site fund of 165 and now we just included it all together because that's hard for some people. I know what you know go I know what I make and and doing all that math. Um, and we find that we are competitive and um, so competitive that we've had some fully certified, really good staff from other districts come and join us for next year. So, we're really happy about that. So, in order to keep that up, we were asking um for your approval of this certified entry salary schedule for teachers. You are are you
079good with this? >> I have another data sheet. [laughter] >> Oh, okay. >> I can distribute as well. Good question. And and then I [clears throat] appreciate that question. You can go back to the I think a couple weren't here for the February meeting and we approved a budget increase >> and a budget revision save time. So, we can start by taking a look at that budget and then I can show you what I guess you could say there is a bit of of a description here to put you in the driver's seat about what our funds might [clears throat] look like next year. So, if you go to the back sheet that's got the data that we dealt with last week or last board meeting and you see the 19 million 350128 on the
080lower right corner. So, that's our operating budget as of the February board meeting. the February 9th improvement. I'll just go through the numbers and you can see those numbers at the top. You see the 17,204. You see about halfway down the uh 850,000 that we brought in from capital. [snorts] The very very very middle you see the 982,761 that all came in from M last year. And then there's a couple numbers at the bottom. 313,000 pushed together. And it's some of it's free and reduced lunch. It's a onetime capital little bit there in terms of state aid there. So now flip the page now that you've taken a look at that and then you should be able to track the first the first two sets of numbers. The one on the far left talks about
081the data and then the first vertical column has this year's numbers in it. So this year's numbers uh for student count average daily membership 1952 students. That's where we're at. Uh we get a waiting for some of those like a high school student gets a 1.2 weight, a middle school student, a KH student gets a 1.1 weight. uh preschool students get a 1.5 weight. So we get 383 weights right there. And then we have group B weights from our special needs students, 695. Then we go add all those together, we get 3,30. As if we had 3,30 students, which we don't, but we get weights. So then we take that number and we say, well, how much does the state give us? Well, they give us $5,11326. That goes up every year. And sometimes people
082will say, "Well, we get the money for the 2%." And they think that's 2% of your whole budget. It really isn't. Uh it's just the number, but we do get that extra money. So if you jump to the next column, you take 2% of 5,000. That's, you know, $100. So we go up by about $12. So you see the next column is what happens if we have next year coming in at the same number of students. So you can feel some of the some of the anxiety I feel as we put these together. Okay. So we're just going where we are today is kind of the middle column there with the 15 million497. Then we do what Superintendent Daniels talked about. The average teacher in the state as far as I know has about 7.4
083years experience. So you have if you have a brand new district, which has been a while since there's been a brand new district. If they get brand new teachers with no experience, that whole school district, then they're going to get a 1.0 here. Our teachers, I think, are average about 11.3 years, something like that. So we get a rating. We get a teacher experience index of as you go down there 1.0283. See number seven there. That's a teacher experience because they know it costs a little more to hire teachers with more experience. So we take that 15,497. We multiply it by the 1.0283. Now we're at 15,936. That gives us a nice little boost. And then we have two more things to add because we have buses that go up and down our highway. Uh
084we get another 1.2 million a year pretty much pretty much in the budget. So, our revenue control limit based on what students generate plus the transportation is 17.2 million. You saw that back on this sheet when we did our budget revision. The question is, do we have any more money than that to get through the year? Well, thank goodness we do. Uh, we've got 850,000 this year that we bring in from capital that we could spend on more buses if we wanted to. And we brought forward because we talked to the auditor general uh I did maybe in June, July, August, maybe 40 times. So we could bring in uncaptured capacity from three and four years ago and we brought that up to 982,000 carry forward from last year. So those two, the 850 and
085the 982,000 plus the 313,000 from the state bring our budget up to the 19,350 for this year. And so if we go over to this this column right here, then we say, well, what if that happens next year? We don't lose one student and everything's the same. And the only change is we add the 2% to the funding, which takes it from 5,113 to 5,215. Now you look at what happens. The revenue control limit then goes up from 17 even. Well, see, I had to stop there. Let me stop. All we have is number six. We have a new number six because we don't know how much we're going to bring in from capital next year, we don't know how much we're going to carry over from M& but line number six, instead of having
08615,497, we jump to 15,807. So that in and of itself brings in another 309,000. Now after talking with Superintendent Daniels and assistant superintendent Wolf, that's ballpark ballpark for the cost of raises for next year. Ballpark. That will like feasibly cover quite a bit of those. So if we don't lose any students, we just stand on our hands and we bring in the same amount of people and we get that extra 2% brings us another 309,000. That's helpful. That will cover our cost of raises, especially with cost of living, so to speak, all of our expenses going down. Then we've got kind of squirreled away in fund 570 another 150,000 for indirect costs if we need it. So that's a nice scenario. We say, well, what if our students don't maintain and we lose 100? Now
087go to the far column on the right. Let's say we go down from 1952 to 1852. That's going to be a little different, but we're set up for that because we're reducing expenditures again, as you know. So, as we come across here now, we don't have 383 in the weights. We've only got maybe 370. We don't have 695 in this group B for sped. We all counts are down 100. We're down from 3,30 to maybe 28.97. Down 130 for that formula. We still get the 2% more. So, we're still getting the 5,215, but our our revenue produced there goes down from 15.4 million right now to 15.1, which is in this case, you know, down to 695,000. So, now we're going to be a little tighter for sure, but we still got that 150,000 sitting
088there in fund 570 if we need to use it. That's unrestricted as long as it's for a legal purpose. And then we might have, you see my last number there, the 850,000. We might have to still do that in capital. And all I can say is all our administrators, doesn't matter if the transportation director or the principal, they all know that three years ago we were spending 2.4 million in capital and this year our budgets the 778,000 and we're going to come in at about 700,000. So they know we're tightening our belt in capital. If we have to transfer to M again, we can do it. We think we've made enough cuts in in operating costs that we'll be between scenario with no reduction in students and the worst case maybe 100 down. We still
089think we can offer raises to stay viable to stay confident to be a going concern to be a thriving school district. I I think we can work this. >> Okay. >> And that um and the average tenure of the of the teachers which was at about 11. So, we're fairly certain we can keep keep that 1.02. >> I I can't say much about that. I know we have some >> We've hired some experienced teachers. >> Most of our teachers are >> This doesn't account for all the cuts either. Yeah. >> This only accounts for actual expenditures. It doesn't account for all of the cuts we've taken. >> And I guess like for me, we I've been on this board for a while and been presented with a financial decision that we didn't have the facts
090on. And one person was telling us one thing and we didn't really ask our financial person because we were trusting the supervision of somebody and we our district could be in better shape be if we wouldn't have made that decision but nobody really pointed us and we didn't really know that we had the option. So I really appreciate you giving us this and showing us what could what could happen and then also letting us know that we're okay to go ahead and make this. um thank you >> to approve this. So, I really do appreciate that. >> Thank you. And that's that's where I accept the job and and I love my job, but I don't know our budget really until this time of year because we didn't know our 100 day count, which determines
091this count right here until February 23rd. So, if we stick to and member member Inger brought this up, remember John, that some of those expenditures might have been more staff related than student related. So, if we stick to student related costs, I think we can really tighten these clearances up because there's there's not a lot of room for movement. I can't guarantee every year we'll have that 982,000 carry forward from M and I can't guarantee we'll have the 850,000 to bring in from capital, but as long as we just focus on student and student outcomes, I think we can stay on the same page. Thank you. >> Good to know. >> All right. With that, I will make um the motion to approve [clears throat] the 2026 2027 certified entry salary schedule as presented. >>
092I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I item 8C. So, um the my next item is a um is a is an entry um salary schedule for um speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists. And what we in my um investigation and looking at other districts, they clumped them all together. And so um I went ahead and um came up with a um entry salary schedule that is competitive um in our area and I'm asking um that you would approve it and again we um um this is just for entry entry level our new anybody new >> and it's um very competitive in our area. >> Any questions? Yeah, we try to aim for the middle not be like comments. Well, I'm thinking having a four day school day four day school week has
093helped bring people into >> they're not willing to take a pay cut for it though, >> right? Yeah. No, but [clears throat] I'm just saying that he can help bring life in the big >> and it's really important um with the amount of students that have um special needs that we get those specialists that they um need in order for them to make um progress. >> Okay. >> All right. I'll entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion uh to move to approve the 2026 2027 speech pathologist occupational therapist and physical therapist entry salary schedule as presented. I'll second that. Marty, >> all in favor? [laughter] >> item 8 D, classified hourly rate increase. All right, since we made our entry salary schedule for classified staff increased by 50 cents. We want to do that
094also for our staff, our current staff um so that um that they don't um we wish we could give them more, but this is what within our budget. We feel like it we're comfortable with it. If we're doing it for entry level, we want to do it for all of our um classified staff. and um and work closely with uh John to make sure that we can afford this and we appreciate his input. >> For sure. >> I'll make a motion to approve the 2026 2027 classified wage increase beginning July 1st, 2026 as presented. >> I'll second. All in favor? >> I I item 8E are contract renewals for certified staff this. So again, district staff is recommending approval of a certified staff renewals. Um staff is re recommending an increase of um $1,500 from
095M and $250 from our classroom site fund um for our eligible employees. And these are returning teachers. Um, and there's teachers and there's also eligible support staff that get um >> counselors and some of our other um uh staff. And so again, um made sure we worked with um Mr. Livingston, >> Mr. Livingston's recommendation. >> Yeah. [laughter] to make sure he was happy and approved and that we can um keep our um our staff happy and also ahead of that um that increase to our entry placement schedule for certified. >> Maybe they'll be able to buy a gallon of gas. >> Yes. >> I'll make a motion. Any questions? >> That's okay. Any questions? Yeah, got one for John. Are you okay with this? >> Yes. I'll make a motion for to approve the 2026
0962027 certified contract renewals for certified staff of contracts to be issued by March 15, 2026. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mora. All in favor? >> I I item 8F, administrator and director contract renewals. So, um um for our 2026 um contracts, we would like to incorporate a 2.75% salary increase, which is about about the same percent as the other increases for our um administrative staff. um and I gave you the information about the total impact on M would be 40,000 and including their um employee related expenses. Additionally, we have grant funding for some of our positions which will cover 53,95 in salary and um costs of of the assistant superintendent, our ESS director and district nurse. And again, this has been um blessed by Mr. Livingston. >> I'll make a motion to approve the 2026
0972027 administrative and director contract renewal list. >> Before there's a second, may I ask if there is any questions or comments for either miss or just wish we could give more. >> We had hoped to, but Mr. Livingston like put our brakes on. I'm sure. >> He keeps us keeps us towing the line making sure we're on. >> I I just have to tell you, I feel like this is like my 800th year on this board. But when I first got on the board, I didn't ask questions because I didn't feel confident enough to ask the questions. >> And with that, I've also seen decisions that we've made maybe not be the best decisions because we didn't have enough information. So, if I'm going to be the person that asks more questions, that's going to
098be me. So, I just wanted you to know I trust you and if I ask questions, >> that's why. >> We're grateful. >> All right. With that, we will um move for a second, please. >> I'll second. >> And all in favor? >> I. Thank you. >> The actual personel report. >> Yes. So um you have the personnel report. The a March personnel report includes seven new certified employees, two new classified employees, one new classified substitute, nine resignations, one termination, one certified change, three classified changes, three coaches, 10 extra duty employees, one riff and 240 time sheets. >> And I would like to note that our riff put in a transfer to an open position. >> Yes. So we're really >> so the person's won't be leaving the district. So through all the things we
099talked about and planned for positions being eliminated in that building, but the person will go to event position in the district. >> Okay. So question, if we choose not to accept someone's resignation, then >> then [clears throat] we'll have to terminate them when they don't show up for work. [laughter] >> But we could continue to rub it in for like the next several months. sad about it. >> Sure. >> Sister, >> okay, I'll make a motion to approve the March personnel report with time sheets as presented. >> I will second that motion. >> All right, we have two seconds. Uh, all in favor? [laughter] >> I pick your poison. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> The staff appreciates it. I know that. Thank you. >> Item 9A is a request pilot summit
100K through 12. Miss Price and Mr. >> Madame President and members of the board. >> Julie is excited because you just approved the change in the personnel report [laughter] >> to Mr. Eric Reddick. Y [applause] is your new curriculum director for the district and he is going to do a phenomenal job. [laughter] So, I'm just going to stand here and he's going to present to you. Perfect. >> Okay. Thank you for having me. I have two requests. Um, so the first one was going to be for um coming from Rosa Maria Karate for the ELD program. Um, she has attended in case you have any questions. I want to give you a little background on this program and why we're interested in looking at it. So, the district English language acquisition coordinator, that's Miss Karate,
101is requesting to pilot Summit K12 for EL classrooms across the district. It is specifically tailored for EL students in Arizona. There are a few highlights that the program has that I wanted to share with you that makes it a little exciting for us and our ELEL students, our English language learners. Um, first up, we have a targeted English proficiency. So, we're trying to move those learners and get that proficiency level up. This program talks about guaranteeing um a year of proficiency for kids working on their English. [snorts] Uh also prepares our students for the high stakes testing that they have to take whether they're English or Spanish. A cool uh a few features that the program will will have as well. It has personal learning plans, personalized learning plans for the students [snorts] where they
102have tailored instructions that's specific for listening, speaking, and reading and writing what they're all working on for the assessments. It has autoscoring features for speaking and writing, so the students can interact with the program and it helps to guide them while the teacher is working on other parts of the the class. It has up to 30 languages, so not just Spanish, which we're familiar with, but we do have other learners as well. So, it it gives us that capability. Lots of data reporting. And the piece that caught my attention was the family engagement because u the students in the program, the parents get the same log on that the kids get to the program for free. So the parents could work on the same standards, the writing, the speaking as part of the program, which
103I thought was pretty a pretty neat piece. So we are looking for uh to put that out for um our curriculum group. We're going to form a committee and Miss Karate's here to answer any questions if you might have for summit K12 >> and the invoice that was included. We're not paying for the pilot. This is what it would cost if we bought it. >> Yes, the pilot. We are not paying for the pilot. >> So, good. Anybody have any questions? >> Are we going to purchase the program or just keep the pilot? >> I didn't hear you, >> Mar. Are we going to purchase the program or just keep the pilot? >> Right now, we have to pilot it for 60 days. Okay. >> And so once we pilot it for 60 days, Eric
104will be back and ask you for an approval [laughter] to purchase the product. >> You sound very confident. [laughter] >> And in the mean within those 60 days, we'll have two committee meetings and we'll um teacher will be there to present to let us know how the pilot's going. Right now, we're gonna pilot it up at the high school in our EL classes. >> I think >> how do how do we know if it's if it's if it's working? I mean, are they going to take the Isella test or is there >> Well, they've already taken they just finished the Isella testing. >> So, you know, next year when we take the Isela test, we hopefully we'll see an increase on um proficiencies, but um right now they'll just be taken. This is a supplement.
105It's not the main curriculum. >> Okay. So, we'll continue with our curriculum that we adopted last year for our ELA. >> It doesn't have an assessment. >> It has an assessment. That's what it is. It's an assessment component. So, we should see growth when within 60 days hopefully we'll see some growth in the assessment piece. >> Okay. And that's for the students, not for the parents, right? >> For students. >> Students. [laughter] >> So, the parents are going to be involved in this too. >> They can be. They can be. I thought that that would be great for the especially the Spanish speaking families to help them learn English to communicate with and help their children with homework and you know be involved in the school also. So >> so we'll have a link available
106on our website because so parents can go on or community members can go on or you can go on and preview it as well and it'll be on the um our website for 60 days. So, what uh what kind of clued us into the fact that we might need a supplement to our normal curriculum? Is that >> Well, I'm going to let Rosemaria answer where you at, Rosaria, on our scores. Why don't you talk a little bit about our Isela scores? >> Um, sure. So, can you repeat your question, please? >> I'm just wondering why we decided to go and explore a supplement. So, [clears throat] we've we've tried um several supplements um throughout the at least that every one every year in the six years that I've been a part of this district, we've
107tried one um to try to fill the the the gaps. We know that that all the curriculums that we have, there's there's always going to be gaps. Um and so um this isn't a new need. This is a continuing need. Um and the programs that we've tried in in the past, these supplemental programs have had limited success. some of them have been complete flops. There's there's good and there's bad. And so I kind of for this year had given up said, you know, we're we're just going to stray from that. And then I came across some at K12. Um and one of the so the question about um how will we know um they have three benchmarks built in which I really liked including one that is specifically timed to because it's um geared towards
108Arizona. It's specifically timed to the release of the testing window. Um so Azela testing window for next year is we already know what that window is going to be, right? And so um the the one of the one of the three benchmarks is just before that and they're claiming a an 80% um accuracy in predicting um scores on Azo. So you know as a classroom teacher I I think I could challenge that and say I'm pretty good at predicting what they're going to get as well. So it's not a new need. It is a continuing need. Um, this is the first one that I've seen um that checks all of our four strands, reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It checks them all. Um, and um, with the the income use of increased use of AI
109technology, they are um, so there the AI will be is responsive to the to the kids. Um, and again, this is a first time I've come across a program that will actually as the kids are speaking into into the program. Um, it's responsive to what they're doing. Um, which is phenomenal. Um, the also the amount of data that so we we'll be able to see I feel pretty confident that we're going to be able to see whether this was a good fit for us or not. um based on the the lots of data that they get. Programs that I've tried in the past, they especially for high school, which is why I want I really want to focus on high school and and middle school as well. Um they assume a minimum proficiency. Um and
110so it seems reasonable to say that, you know, an eighth grader coming in would have a first grade reading level, which is what they assume. But that may be the case in their first language. Not necessarily. And we know that at the high school level, the older they get, the bigger the gaps. Not all uh countries have the benefit of our education system. And so the kids that um the older they get, the bigger the gaps. And they come here and now they're, you know, 15, 16, and realize, oh, I have to go to school. It's not legal for me not to go. And the gaps are huge. They maybe haven't been in in schools for years. And so that assumption of a of um a basic reading level doesn't really apply. So the need
111has always been there. I just haven't found the right one. And I'm super positive that this one while there's going to be things we'll probably come back in 60 days and say, "Well, um I feel like it's checking more of the boxes, more bang for our buck." And I agree that that component of home connection is fabulous. the home connection that would be like on the internet for the >> it is a web web based program. So um yeah there it is completely welcome. So there's no materials to hand out. It's all web based. >> So parents don't come to the school. >> No they get the link. >> Yeah. And of course the kids can also we'll carve out time classroom time for them to to be on but because it's a web- based
112they can do it from home. They can do it during hur time. [snorts] Um it it's web based so they can get out of it as much as they put into it as well. about how many students in the junior high level do we get that don't speak >> at the moment? Um the middle school has the least number. There are 24 students who we've identified as having a second language need. We service 21 of them. Um and at the high school um is the high school has the biggest number of YAL students. We're at um sitting at about 38 identified and we give services to about 32 of them. >> So what what when you mean we give services to what do you mean about the other ones? >> Yeah. So they um parents
113always have the ultimate right to opt out of services >> um which tech doesn't typically happen with the little ones but as always they the parents can say I don't want services and they and they can sign. Yeah. And so it doesn't typically happen with the little ones. I mean, you know, I don't want my 5-year-old to get extra reading and writing help. I don't want that. I mean, it doesn't happen. But the middle school and high school, um, it is a class period. So, in order for me to provide services to your um, e student, I have to take one of your electives. >> Okay. >> So, that's why it's a little bit more common at the >> And you still do immersion too at the same time? >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you.
114>> Ladies, >> thank you. >> All right. I'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to recommend approving to pilot Summit K12. >> And I will second that. >> And all in favor? >> I have a question. So, does that mean you're moving out of the classroom? >> I haven't been in the classroom. >> He's been in it. >> Oh, wow. >> He's been in it. He's moving out of it. >> Oh, you're moving out of They took you out of it. >> We're sorry. >> Okay. [laughter] >> All right. >> Sorry. Actually, I get to go to all the classrooms. I'm sorry. It's not my own. >> Now he teaches teachers. >> Yeah, I teach the teacher. >> Oh, good. >> This one I'm actually really excited about. Item 9B, request to pilot schoolings
115for career prep. >> Great. >> Okay. So, our second program that we're looking for is also from the high school. This is put up um with uh Mr. Pareda. So, he's here to help answer any questions we might have on that. But, let me give you a little background on school links. So, this is a career exploration and college readiness platform designed to help students discover their interest, build personalized graduation plans, and prepare for life after high school. Through in interest inventories, career assessments, and goal setting tools, students gain a clear understanding of potential career pathways aligned to their strengths and aspirations. School [snorts] Inc. supports college applications, resume building, scholarship, scholarship searches and documentation management in one centralized system. So currently the high school is using u kind of a built home built program
116that they've built over time. So, this is going to be hopefully something to give a little more support and as you could tell to kind of build to some of these other things like college applications and things like that. Um, Mr. Dan Eisenberg will be piloting the the program. Um, we also be looking for that 60 days to check it out and be having a a meet meeting and curriculum uh group that's going to meet on this this one as well. So if you have any specific questions about school links, Mr. Praa is here. >> CTE budget picking this up, not the regular budget. Correct. >> That's correct. >> Yes, that's correct. This is a CT schooling. gives them giving them a choice of careers is awesome. So, I like that. >> Yeah. And I
117feel like this will help give them a little bit more guidance with what they've been doing, not so much the teacher having to pull things together. So, >> and this is for our ninth graders, our freshmen. >> Good. So, that'll be before they actually go to CTE. >> Yes. >> Oh, that's great. Okay. >> So, this is an action item. I'll make a motion. It is recommended to approve the pilot of school links and career exploration cost. >> And I will second that. All in favor? >> I thank you ladies. >> Good job, Eric. >> I can't wait to hear back on. >> Okay. Item 11 A is just first reading of policy 3-43. [snorts] That would be great. >> Daniels, do you have anything to >> It's secretar's handling. >> Mr. Campelli. >> Good
118evening, Madam President. Uh, superintendent Daniels. >> AI use policy. Does this mean you can't like put a principal in like a swimsuit or anything like that? Or >> does it mean principal [laughter] swimsuit? >> Oh, in a swimsuit. >> Smoking a cigarette or something. Well, >> none of that. >> Um, so [laughter] >> about your your picture, >> your AI picture. >> Oh, can you not mention we're live [laughter] >> in a bikini? I look good >> at her desk. >> At my desk. >> All right. Tonight I'm presenting [laughter] a review of the proposed artificial intelligent use policy uh for Chino Valley Unified School District. Uh as AI tools become more common in education, it is important that we establish clear expectations for the responsible and appropriate use. policy provides guidance to ensure AI
119supports teaching, learning, and district operations while maintaining student privacy, academic integrity, and staff oversight. >> The policy outlines guiding principles emphasizing that AI must be used in a safe, ethical, and educational purpose way. Um, it should not support nor replace human judgment. It also establishes expectations for both students and staff. Students may use AI when permitted by their teachers, but but may not submit AI generated work as their own. Staff may use AI to support instruction and professional tasks, but must review all AI generated content, protect student privacy, and use district approved tools when you when working with students or district data. Uh this is intended to be a standalone policy uh likely placed in chapter 3 under technology although the trust will determine uh the final placement. We are also currently developing supporting forms
120from the trust form bank uh to assist with implementation which we plan on is that next school board meeting. Hopefully we get all those uh forms done by then for your review. So thank you. I'll answer any questions. >> I think it's crazy that that we're doing something like this because just how far things have come. I mean, but again, what do we have to have? >> It strikes a good middle ground because you can't predict what's coming next. So, it addresses a lot of the the most important topics without getting super nitpicky because the minute you get nitpicky about something, then it's replaced by >> gone. >> Yeah. >> This is no action. This is first reading only, but we can >> comments if we want tonight. >> Not go ahead. >> See, I
121I don't know if I'm really for AI teaching have a choice. >> Yeah, I know. But I'm just saying that I'm just giving my personal >> Yeah. No, I can't >> because that personal >> um touch with the kids, teaching them even one on one if you have to, it gets further than um [laughter] the computer. I really have a hard time with that myself. I The kids are constantly playing video games. They're always in front of computers. didn't have their phones, you know, and losing that personal touch as with the teachers. They're losing that touch with their parents. Um, the middle schoolers that I teach, I'm teaching home. I ask them, "Do you have family meals where you sit around the table?" Oh, no. I get my plate and I go in my bedroom
122and I go, it [clears throat] just breaks my heart because, you know, when I was raising my kids, we sat around the table and we talked about the day and that's when it would come out if they had a good or bad day at school or, you know, they had any issues. Um, we're losing that personal in touch with our kids, you know. I mean, >> yeah. Well, we're losing a lot more, too. But um already it's already well on its way. >> I know. I know. But just >> I hear you. >> Perfect. Anything else? Any other comments or questions? Nope. All right. See y'all next month. >> So I wanted to while we're still here as part of the uh contracts you uh approved the restructure like the administrative restructure at Heritage because
123of course you saw people's new job titles. Caitlyn, can you introduce your dean of students, athletic director, allpurpose? [laughter] Um, this is this is Abby. This is Abby Sabato. This will be the new dean of students, athletic director, unified sports. Yeah, college sports. [applause] Here [laughter] you go, Sydney.