May 12, 2025: CVUSD Board Meeting

001I'll let you down. Try to hide. That was only one time. Hey, that was only a one time deal. Good evening all. Thank you for joining us this evening. It's nice to see so many faces. Okay, let's see where we're at. Sorry, I got to take this lightsaber out. Forgive me for I thought I could do it. camp. If you are able, would you please stand 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, liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Moving along, we have item number four, which is our adoption of the agenda. I am wondering if anyone wants to pull anything out of our consent agenda this evening. [Applause] I

002kind of agenda. Yes. agenda. Can we So if it's in the back of your consent or not part of the consent agenda, we will be discussing that at some point. We're just looking at just looking at consent. There were a few things that I thought there might be some questions. All right, seeing none, then I will entertain a motion to adopt tonight's agenda. I'll make a motion to adopt tonight agenda. Thank you, Annie. And a second, please have a second. Thank you, Marcia. All in favor? I. Thank you. Next, we have call to the public. And I'm going to guess that y'all want to talk about something. So, um, we're going to, according to board policy, we do allow a time limit or we can allow a time limit. Since there's so many of you,

003what I'm going to ask is if you guys are talking about the exact same thing, maybe get together a spokesperson or two or three. We're going to allow 15 minutes for a call to the public. And each person gets a three minute time frame. So if what the person in front of you has spoken or has already said and said that you want to say again, just come up and say ditto or say I'm good. I don't need to talk any longer. That will help keep things moving and keep everything fresh for all of us. All right. Our first one more than that. Thank you. Let's see. Do we have anyone else anyone that has not filled out a form? Bring it on up. If you'll give it to Miss Massie, please. She'll record the

004Anyone else. Okay. Our first speaker this evening is Mr. Thomas Silva. All right. Okay. Um, so my name is Thomas Silva. I'm currently a senior at Chino Valley High School. And so far with Officer Noden, I've seen nothing but a positive impact on him from him at our school. Um, as a student, I interact with him every single day. And he treats every single student with kindness and respect, and he's made such a great impact on my life and many others lives. And I would not like to see Thank you for your time. All right. Next, we have Mr. Kevin [Music] Monttero. I'm Kevin Mont. I'm a junior at the CB Hs F. And I want to take a look after N is what we tend to chew and what we funny. Thank you. All

005right. This is moving along. Thank you all. Um I'm going to presume Mr. Corbin. set. Hi, I'm Corbin McGuffy. I'm a senior at CBHS. Uh, Officer Nodden, I think, has had a great impact on our school system. Um, he doesn't not only interact with kids, but he goes to kids and sees what they need. Um, a lot of kids, I think, trust him and speak to him about personal matters. And that's someone that I think we need at the school. Um, it's hard to talk to someone that's not at the school and to come to them because they're not around you all the time, you know. So, I think Officer Noden has made that trust very great. He's at a lot of extracurriculars, um, soccer, football, all the sporting games, and I think that's an

006amazing thing and I think we should keep on tomorrow. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Michael. I'm gonna say wrong, so let's just go with it. You're probably Michael. You'll tell me what your My name is Paulo. I'm a senior here. Uh all of us have come to support Officer Noden and keep him on staff. I have here, not just speaking for everyone in this room, but everyone out of this room. I have the signatures of 446 students, staff, and community members in support of keeping officer noted on as the student resource officer. None of us want to see him down. I'll leave this right here. All right. Now, we have a miss, Miss Lindsay Noble. Laura, good afternoon. My name is Lindsay Orbell and I'm a senior at Chino Valley

007High School. These last few weeks, I have heard that one of our school's greatest mentors, SRO Noden, may not be allowed back next year. And officer Nodden has been an amazing SRO for these last two years, but honestly, he's been much more than that than all to all of us. He has been an inspiration and a great mentor to all of the students at CBHS. He is one of the very few administration that students feel safe and comfortable to have a real conversation with. And not only does he put so much time and effort into the school, but also into clubs such as FFA activities, youth live meetings, culinary events, and many, many more. Officer Nodden is needed at the school. So much so that I have over 25 letters that students, teachers, and even

008parents have written stating why we need him to stay and the difference he's made in the school, in students lives. I have a couple of quotes from these that I would really like to read to you guys. One of them was by William Patton and he wrote that even kids who have been in trouble at the school have a good relationship with officer. As a student at CBHS, I would like to see him back on campus next year. Another one of our students, Ava wrote, "This decision is not just harming, but it is also harming everyone that walks the ground at Chino Valley High School." Timothy Shelton wrote, "Officer Nodden serves as a mentor and an approachable figure whom students can turn to for guidance, support, and safety." Isabella Karns wrote, "When my friend is

009not at lunch, he will accompany me for a few minutes so I am not alone." Alexander Aasher wrote, "In a time of school safety is more important than ever. Removing someone as dedicated and effective to this campus as officer not would be a major step backwards for our school and community." One of our teachers, Mr. Holder, wrote, "His approach, demeanor, and willingness to build a meaningful relationship has created a bridge between law enforcement and our youth that is increasingly rare and extremely valuable." And lastly, a parent of one of our students wrote, "When you find a police officer that can reach our kids and help them for the better, in my opinion, is a cop who is truly doing their job." As you guys can see, removing him from our school would cause a great

010downfall in the men mental health and the overall atmosphere of China Valley High School. I would encourage you guys to read these letters as most of them contain many concerns, heartfelt notes, and kids personal testimonies as to why you need not. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Okay. Yes. Shay Stinski. Good evening, Chino Valley Board students and staff. I'm Shayen Suzinski and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today. I'm here to voice my support to hopefully continue the presence of our school resource officer. While I understand personal changes are sometimes necessary, I believe it's crucial to understand the impact the decision could have on our school community. I attend China Valley High School and I'm one of the 50 surviving seniors. And being in the Chino Valley School District

011for the last 12 years of my life has always brought me a sense of security and has always been my community. School should be a place where students feel safe, heard, supported every day they step on campus. The role of school resource officers is not about safety in a crisis. It's more than that. It's about building positive connections, relationships, showing you care, fostering trust, and preventing problems before they begin. A qualified SRO being a part of our community is about working with students on campus, helping out the staff, providing us with a small and sec or providing us with a safe and secure learning environment in times of a safety concern. It's important. It's important to have your SRO who knows the students, understands the students, and knows the community of the or the culture

012of the community. It's a necessity. Our current SRO, Officer Noting, is not just a figure of authority. He's a mentor, a counselor, a good friend, a trusted adult. Many students feel comfortable turning to him. He's been there to resolve conflict, prevent bullying, simply being someone who understands, someone who simp someone whose students feel comfortable approaching in between passing periods. He's built connections with the students as well as many families the last two years. Snowden being one of the few staff on campus to take a pause, put the students first, and show us that he actually cares for every person on campus, making sure we're heard seen. Replacing the SRO would be meaning Replacing the SRO would be meaning losing the trust that's been established, losing the relationships and the connections, losing an individual on campus

013who actually cares for the students and potentially disrupting the sense of safety and stability within our school environment. I believe it's important to acknowledge the current positive impact has already brought to our campus and carefully evaluate if a replacement can ideally fill his role. I ask you to consider the values and the importances of maintaining a strong familiar presence in our schools. Before making a final decision, I encourage you to seek input from students, staff, and parents regarding their experiences with our current SRO and their thoughts on potential impact of a replacement. Chain Valley High School, you have bigger problems, and it starts with your administration. All right. Second is a Miss Sarah and you'll tell me your last Hi, my name is Sarah Frano and I'm a senior at this high school. Um, I

014want to start with saying thank you for allowing me to speak. I'd like to say that um, Officer Nan is a kind, respected person and is sorry makes the school more welcoming by his presence in the school because he always says hi. He always says hello. He makes sure that everyone is having a great day. Even if we're not having a good day, he will still make sure that we're having a great day. He will also He's also one of the most trusted people I know. He will always make sure that everyone in the school is most trusted and if we're having a problem, we can always go to him. That's what I have to say. So, thank you for your time. Thank you. All right, Mr. Robert Lawson. Hi everybody. How you doing? I'm

015Robert Lawson. Uh, I work at Channel Reynolds. I'm also a baseball coach and I'm hiring chief at Channel League. So, I deal with kids a lot. Um, thank you, Miss Crawford, for this year. Um, wanted to say, Mr. Lawson, excuse me. Would you address the board, please? Sure. Thank you. Sure. wanted to say I'm at the little league parked every day and I see this officer Non come up. He has a daughter on the team. I see these kids racing up to talk to this man. This man is more than a police officer. He's a mentor. Okay, these kids come up and I know a lot of these kids. A lot of these kids have problems. They confront him. They talk to him. He's a very good man. Most police officers blow people off because

016they think they're above God. Okay, that's my personal opinion. Okay. But these this officer takes the time. He talks to him. These kids respect him. They shake his hand and all that. You don't see that. Okay. I'm really confused why Chino's even talking about this tonight. This is craziness. Okay. This man's a mentor and we're talking to him about even possibly getting rid of him. It's insane. My in my eyes. I see this man on a daily basis and all that. My my kid has some issues. Okay. This officer gave him some guidance. If you guys want to see something worse, go to Safeway at 7:30 in the morning. You see all these kids get loaded up on a probation bus and get taken away to do trash. No one sees that because no one's

017at Safeway at 7:30 in the morning. I promise you guys, you get rid of this officer, it will be worse. You'll have two buses there taking care of these kids. This man's a this man does great work. Now, he may not be perfect, but who is perfect? Um, once again, I'm telling you, this man has done nothing wrong except for gave his heart, his commitment to kids, and if you guys can't see that, then you guys might want to check yourselves. Thank you. We have two more. We have Mr. Tanner Stinski. Please rise. I'm Tanner Suzinski, general contractor here in the area. I went to school here. Fifth generation. All my kids that went here, I love the Chun Valley School District. I used to. And the last couple years, it started when my boy

018was a senior three years ago. Started going downhill. After these last two years, this is a totally different deal. I guess that's for another meeting. We'll stick to not at this point. I don't get kicked out of here. Um, Officer Nan, the great man. My daughter started talking about him last year and I didn't know who the guy was. I would have known him if he pulled me over. I wouldn't have known him. I'm at the coffee shop maybe eight months ago. First time I met the guy. I heard him talking to someone about the students at this school. And I'm listening going that's got to be him. I go over introduce myself. That is the nicest man I've ever met in my life. My daughter talks about him all the time. Her friends at

019her house talk about him. I didn't know the numbers. 4 what? 46. 446 signatures. My kids, that's unbelievable. My daughter has every right in the world to hate this guy. She's been in trouble. I don't how many times? She goes right back to him, gives him a hug, and talks to him. I don't agree with the reason she's getting in trouble. That's a totally different story. Let me know when this meeting is and I'll be back at it. This is a joke. Complete joke. People come in my office asking me what they think about Chino Valley School District. What should they do with their kids? I've always told them, Chino is the greatest place. I wouldn't send my kids anywhere else. Right now, I'm debating to send my stepdaughter to Prescuit in the next year.

020It's this is a joke. This is should not even be a discussion. And this is the problem with Chun Valley School District. They get good people, kids respect. How many kids are in the Chun Valley school district total in Chin High School? Anybody know? About 800 800 almost threequarters of them, I think. I don't know if math teachers in here or not. I'm horrible at math, but either way, that's a hell of a lot of damn kids that have respect for an officer. If you guys think about getting rid of him, you're done. I mean, it's might as well's wipe. It's done with the school district at this point. It's getting bad. You guys better wake up. Everybody, there's a lot more problems in this district. And like my daughter has already said it once

021that need to be said again. Everyone's heard it. Have a good day. All right, Miss Angela Moody. Oh, hi. I apologize. Oh, my name is Angela Moody. I am a parent. Um, I apologize. I was not totally prepared. Honestly, I just heard about this and my heart sank. Um, I have a daughter that graduated last year. She's been in Chino lots of years and Chino has been fantastic for her. She was president of I think like everything you can be, played volleyball, gave her heart to the school. She has loved officer not. And I first had the opportunity to meet him when he came to her graduation party last year and my husband and I, we sat on the porch with Officer Noddeden. He shared his heart for these kids and I was blown away.

022Now, I had heard of Officer Native because obviously I think it's been um said here tonight that he has loved incredibly and um and I don't even know what even brought this to the board today, but I do know that I have met a man that has heavily invested into not only my daughter, but multiple kids around campus. And I personally have been a team mom for I don't even know, eight years in volleyball. And I love teenagers. I love what they give back to this community. And when I find or see another person that is willing to invest into our youth, I mean, that just blows my mind because I hear constantly on social media and everywhere else, how disruptive our teens are, how, you know, oh, they're raised wrong or like all these

023crazy things about teenagers. And I think here is a man that loves them, that knows them, they are seen by him. Why in the world would we even consider not having him? Like that just literally broke my heart. So I was literally doing yard work. I saw it. I text my daughter and she is taking the final over at Yavapi and she's like, "Oh my gosh, mom, no way. Like you and dad need to go fight. It's officer Noden. We love Officer Noden." So I am here. I apologize again for being illprepared and I am amazed and blown away by how these students have come up here and fought for something that they not only believe in but they have a personal connection to and what what more could you ask for out of your

024students? I mean that's phenomenal. So again, I apologize for not being super prepared and I'm just up here from my heart, but if there is any way to reconsider this as a parent who has loved Chino, who has screamed at games and has loved kids on the side as well, like please reconsider. He's a phenomenal man. He loves our kids. Thank you. Thank you. All right, everyone have the piece. Just making sure not exactly sure what I can and cannot say. So when I go above my boundaries just want to number one thank you all for your comments but also I want to as you I'm sure are quite aware officer Noden is not a school district employee. Thank you for your comments. We'll take all that into consideration but again he's he's not even

025our employee. So um we'll move forward from here. Thank you. That's paying for him. I apologize. A grant that pays his salary, is it not? It is a grant through the school district, too. But he is a he is still a town of Chino Valley Police Department employee contract that we actually contract services with. So, who's requesting to get rid of him officially? It's a personnel issue between him and the town of Chino Valley. So, it sounds like a more personal issue with oneonone that they need to figure it out, get over it. police department said they had nothing to do with this decision. You know what, again, personnel issues, so we can't go into it any further. Again, especially you students, thank you so much for your time and thank you for the effort

026and energy that you put into everything and we will contract through you guys, who would would you be the ones that are canceling the contract or is it the police Chino Valley Police Department? We'll leave it to Miss Daniels. Thank you. So we contract for services not for an individual. So PD can provide any individual they would like to meet the contract services and we still have a contract for another year with the town for services. Okay. So it's the police department that is making the choice not their employee. So ultimately it is their choice because it's their employee. Is there influence by the board or the school for the decision? So there's input um from the school personnel and there's input from PD. So okay. So if there's input from school personnel, does input

027of the student body and the community have anything to do with it as well? Because if the if the input of the board or the school has preceded in that decision, shouldn't there be precedence and input of the people that are here? I can't I don't know exactly what PD's evaluation process is or if they take into account like public constituents as part of their evaluation process. But in the school district, we don't routinely gather student input when we're evaluating our employees, but he's not our employee. Him not being your employee. And we have contacted parents have contacted the China Valley Police Department. They say it's all coming from the school district. You have the school district saying it's the police department. You have the police department saying it's this. Where's the transparency? As parents,

028we want to know what is where does where do you draw the line? So what we So what I could share with you again like President Thomas has shared any personnel issues can't be discussed in a public meeting without asking the employee first. Like there are laws in Arizona for that and he is not our employee. So that's not something we can initiate with him. But yes, it's a it's a joint. It's we work together both agencies with services that we share. So how does the principal feel about him leaving? We we cannot go into personal issues and just keep being around the Can we have not come here and speak possibly at a later time? It's not on the agenda for tonight. Of course it Um, could I is there anyone here with discrepancies

029about not that would like to speak? Anybody? So, again, this is the Chino Valley Unified School District coordinator for tonight. We do have an agenda. Again, we appreciate each and every one of your your time. Ma'am, if you would state your name for the record and sir, you'll state your name so that Miss Massie has it in our minute. Jessica Martin. Yes, sir. Thank you. Um, we can look at this further and if need be, we can put it on a an agenda item for further discussion if it comes to at some point tonight. We've had several meetings. Okay. So, there have been meetings with this. So again, thank you all for your time. You're more than welcome to stay for the remainder of the meeting, but we are going to go ahead and move

030forward. Again, students All right. Um, item number six is our information and discussion items. Item T. [Music] special services. Oh, Rosemary, are you on coming at you? And if we'll just take two seconds and we'll Dr. Moody, can you check the thermostat, please, and see what it reads? I don't know what it feels like in the back of the room, but it's really cold in the front of the room. You go first class. said to 72, but it is currently 74. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Hello. Hello. I'm president. I'm your um district e program coordinator. So, I'm just going to give you a a brief update on our e program here in Chino. Um one of the most asked questions I get is what do we do in Chino for our second language learners? So

031the super short really concise answer to that is we do um follow the AD approved uh pull out SEI model. That's the really short end. So um as far as participation counts for for um for us which is is probably the the most um uh important thing at the at the moment is um in September we started with 151 students. Currently we are at 113 students um which is a a a downward trend of we lost around 31 students. Um we were at 142 in January. So um and that is a trend that we see um mirrored in our sister districts. Um but I would like to note that in the last five years that has not been the trend. Each year our numbers have increased. Um and so I'm happy to report that we

032uh will as of next year we will have one full-time EL teacher at each campus which is a fabulous thing. Um we did just um have our by the way the the the up upward trend has has been about 18% increase um in student enrollment for Yale program and qualifying for for the Yale program. English learners. English learners. Yeah. You know alphabet just get used to it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Just get used to it. But the the to to leave on a super excited note. So we just had our our annual reassessment. Um meaning that this is where you know everything that determines um you know numbers game, successes, failures, whatever. Um we saw a year of tremendous growth that I'm very very proud of districtwide. Um I I will have you note that um

033the Arizona um as a whole is at about 14% reclassification rate mean meaning that we take a child who's learning English as a second language and we move them out of the program where they demonstrate on this yearly test proficiency um in English. So statewide is about 14% um and that number is current as of last Thursday. Um, Chino, we're at 25%. So, I'm super proud. Super. Thank you so much for your attention. Any questions? Keep up the good work. All right. Oh, look at you. You're ready. You just have to tell them when you want them to advance. All right, I'll do this. Hello, Madam President, board. Everybody, Daniel's book. Um, oh, this is wobbly. Okay. So, I'm here to It got a lot of action. I know it did. Okay. So, I'm here

034to talk about our special education department in Chino Valley. And I try to put a lot of thought into giving you a glimpse of our world and then sharing at the very end some really wonderful things that we do. Well, the whole thing is wonderful things, but anyway. Okay. Go ahead. All right. So, alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much. Helen Keller. So the key to special education seriously is teamwork. It goes from our superintendent, our principles, our parapros, our transportation. We all have to work together as a team to make it happen for all of these children and all of their unique needs. And so teamwork is vital. Okay. So our team, Christine Gomes is our administrative assistant. Christine Felton is the compliance coordinator. Next year she's going to

035be the assistant director. Joe Kumer is our current special ed assistant director and then myself the special education director Nicole Bette. Okay. So we provide related services um on top of education. It's physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech orientation, mobility, vision, hearing and we work closely with the Arizona School of the Deaf and Blind ASDB. We also contract with um Ascend, which is a private day school for students with autism. This upcoming year, we're most likely, it's like 98% sure, going to be contracting with Rise, who is based out of Cottonwood right now. They are going to be renting a building in Humboldt. And the reason we're doing this is our numbers are growing so much so for students with severe forms of autism. And our program is bursting. And I'll explain that a little further

036down, but Ascend is on a waiting list. So we are needing to work with another entity to try to help meet the needs of all of our kiddos. Key terms. Um so first I wanted to share whenever a student is going to qualify for special education, they come with a referral. It can be from a teacher, it can be from a parent, guardian. And we um if it's deemed to be necessary, we have a lot of variables we have to consider. We conduct what's called a psychoeducational evaluation. This goes through and is very thorough and comprehensive and tells how the student learns what their needs are. We have to follow AD criteria and federal laws and we review this a minimum of every three years to redetermine eligibility. If they do um become eligible, we

037then develop an individual individualized education plan. This is um completely individual to like their needs, their accommodations, their service minutes that they need, what type of program they need to be in. And then we revise this a minimum of annually, but parents um can call a meeting at any time. Okay. So, we have to follow two primary laws. There's other ones as well, but the key ones that we really consider all the time are the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. we call it IDA and the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA. So, these laws are extensive and must be adhered to in every aspect of what we do. My job is to make sure every little thing we do in this district is following these laws. And so, we have all kinds of layers to make

038sure that that's happening. Um, it was making sure I covered everything. Okay, go ahead. Unfunded mandates. A lot of people do not understand or know that we cover private school evaluations and some of their services. So if a student is in a private school, we are responsible for paying for that evaluation, conducting the evaluation, holding the meetings and then if they qualify for speech or occupational therapy or physical therapy, we have to then provide that service and pay for it. Then we have the empowerment scholarship account which is the ESA. We also then have to provide these evaluations. And just to share with you um because ESA has grown so much now we are getting requests constantly through the year. It has grown. I've never seen it like this for evaluations because if the student

039qualifies as having a disability then their ESA funds increase and so we're getting a lot more requests. 504s, we also must cover 504s. They are unfunded. Uh and just explain what that is to you. It's more of a medicallybased document that provides accommodations. So, if a student has diabetes and they need to go to the nurse or they need to have certain accommodations to help them in the classroom or they have to check their phone more often because that's where their monitor is, things like that. Or if a student has ADHD and they need frequent check-ins, they need small groupoup instruction um often, you know, or a preferential seating off to the side to where they can concentrate better. So, we have to develop those also and follow them. Homeschool evaluations in services, same thing.

040um we have to provide those evaluations and speech, PT or physical therapy, OT, occupational therapy and then also something that people don't understand or know also is that we cover the evaluations for students who were in our district and now are in residential treatment centers. So even if they are in Tucson, we then have to meet with that team. We have to go through the evaluation evaluation process. We have to go through all of that through our voucher system. So it it and it's all considered an unfunded mandate. Okay. Child find. So child find is something we are required to do. We are required to make sure that any child two years 10 and a half months are screened um and that if there is a suspicion of a disability and then if they come

041through ASIP which is our Arizona Early Intervention Program, we have to have an IEP in place by the age of three. wheel child finds. Bry's team does an amazing job at Territorial setting up the appointments, having um speech there, the psychologist there. Everyone's there to screen these children. If they fail the screening, they go right into the evaluation process. We get them rolling in special education and it goes all the way up through 21. Okay. So, part of the law that we have to follow is the least restrictive environment. We always have to consider is the student with their non-disabled peers as much as possible. So whenever a child is in a special education class but they're showing a lot of growth, the teacher, the parents, everyone needs to be thinking, is this where they

042need to be? Do they need this much support? And so um that is according to the idea. Okay, next one. Sorry. So, we have in your packets, you should have the continuum of special education services. I broke it down to explain um the least or the most restrictive, least restrictive, and it has little arrows for you. And then each program is explained in detail and it's colorcoded for you if you your board, you want to read about our continuum of services. But the least um restrictive is obviously the general education classroom. Then there's inclusion. Inclusion is where a certified teacher goes into the general education classroom and works with special needs students in the classroom. Then we have resource. These are students who typically have an average to above average IQ but they have a

043specific learning disability or other health impairment which is usually ADHD to where they are having difficulty learning in a larger environment. So they go into a resource room with the special education teacher in smaller groups and they're then instructed at their level as well as grade level. Extended resource. This is the in between between resource and self-contained. So it um I'm going to jump to self-contained real quick. So self-contained is for students who have more severe learning or severe disabilities. You may examples may be um they may have a brain injury. They may have um uh lower well lower functioning autism, uh down syndrome, things like that. And then they need to be in a classroom the majority of the time with more adults in the room to support them. So we have kids that

044are in between. They don't need to be in self-contained. They don't need to be in resource. It's not appropriate for them. uh maybe their their academics are low enough to be in the self-contained classroom, but they their social skills are too high. And so we have extended resource to work with those kids who are kind of in the middle to give them their little niche to help them. Then we have special schools, um EDP, which I'll explain a little bit in a minute, and residential treatment centers. We have homebound and homebased and then our most restrictive hospitals and institutions. Okay. So, what we do, our philosophy is um we really focus hard on using the general education curriculum and the teachers have been told that we need to really get these kids to where they're

045the gaps in their um learning are closed. So what we do is we teach them at grade level, we teach them at their ability level, and we try to close those learning gaps so that our goal is for them to not need our services as much or at all. Um, so that is one of the key ways that we have focused on it this year. But another thing that we did this year to really try to increase our special education state testing scores is the teachers started working on test taking strategies at the beginning of the year because a lot of kids unless they're told those things, you know, we just don't know it. So they were they did a lot of work helping those kids learn those strategies, teaching them at grade level so

046that even though they're let's say they're working at the second grade level, but they're in fifth grade. If we're only presenting them with second grade material, they're going to get further and further behind. And so there's concepts in the fifth grade that they're introduced to. Even though they're at the second grade level, they're introduced to those concepts in the fifth grade level. So that when they take that state test, it's not completely overwhelming to them. They're like, "Oh, I've seen that before. I'm a little familiar with that." Or maybe they have a better guess because of it. Right? And then our goal is to get them up and to keep keep you know working towards closing that gap. So what we did is um HMS and Del Rio that was our our those were the

047target schools this year and we really worked to get everybody um placed in groups of six students or less with a proctor and we went through a specific script to try to encourage them to do their best. We gave them strategies to help them um calm their bodies. And we proctored that test in these tiny groups in both schools for all of the um levels. I'm not Yeah. all the levels, the grade levels, and the um ELA, math, and science. So, we're hoping that helps us when we get our scores. Next, we also have an Ames program, which is autism inspired minds. that is for students who um are um on the end of the more severe end of with autism and they need a lot more support. So we um have that program that's

048at territorial right now and we do trainings for our pair professionals according to the guidelines as well as a 20 additional hours of modules and specialized trainings for autism and then they do intensive trainings with specialists who in in autism um EDP trainings that's emotionally disabled private public campus programs those are for kids with emotional disabilities we teach them CPI which is deescalation and straight training and we use the foundations for life program and that is the behaviorally based program that they use. And then to the good part, the really good part is the special needs rodeo. Um this Miles puts this on and it's fantastic. I don't know why there's a an O there, but okay. It's just a random O. It must be. Um so that that was a picture from this year.

049And then next, um, horses with heart. This was at Territorial. I just got these pictures off the internet because I didn't have the actual pictures of the horses, but they're tiny. They're tiny like that. And that's for the little bitties. And then and then we have Unified Sports. These are um some pictures Jinda Ballard shared um of Unified. And she is she and her team, they are just amazing. what blessings to this district they are for all that they do for our kiddos. Um, kids love this program. And I think that's Yeah, that's it. Questions? Ladies, a little disappointed that wasn't the real horses this issue. Oh man, I shouldn't have said it, but they're that cute. They are that cute. I know they are. Yeah, I would like to just make a comment. You

050guys are amazing. What you guys do, the special education department, I think, in our area is like the best. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome. Next item 6C is our superintendent Daniels. Okay. Good evening everyone. My spot here. So, this is celebration month um in the school district where we get to celebrate all the amazing things that have been happening. Um, one of the things that I wanted to share with you was we, you'll remember that Chino Valley Education Foundation had had a request from parents um, who are Spanish speaking if there was a way that we could offer classes to help the parents learn how to speak English so they could better help their students. That's not something that the school district can use our public funds

051for, but the foundation wrote a grant and was able to um provide uh classes all year long. We had as we had 60 people who um attended the classes. We had about 20 who were regular attendees. The kind of change in administration at the federal level created a little bit of student loss and some parent loss in those classes. But tomorrow night they no Wednesday night they're having a celebration and sort of like a little graduation ceremony and we've had several parents request that we continue to kind of go to that next level. So we are seeking some instructors because we had community volunteers who told me Cindy we're just too dang old for this. Um, so they're hoping that somebody else can um, step up to the plate and continue the classes because they

052were so popular, which was super cool. U, I wanted to our enrollment has held steady throughout the course of the year. Um, you remember we started about a hundred kids down because of empowerment scholarship accounts. Um, we have pretty much maintained that level and so we're finishing the year pretty much where we started. And as you know, we have been really hitting that whole come to school thing hard this year. And our staff, especially I'd like to give a shout out to assistant principal Richardson who's made attendance his full-time job practically um to make sure that high school kids are there. And you can see our daily attendance rate for um since second semester started. And in your packet are the rates since school year started. But we have consistently held um at or above

05390% average daily attendance. The our only little um downturn at fourth quarter which is to be expected is the senior class has been attending at 89%. So as the year wears on you know we're not quite as interested in school our senior year. So I had left a blank in your report that said about the value of the scholarships earned by the class of 25. That's because we were waiting till we had the final numbers last week. Uh $3.5 million is the value of scholarships earned by this year's graduating class. I think that's the second highest tally ever. I think class of 2019 is the only class that has had they had over four million. So, and then I included for you in here, and I think that Becky made you a separate packet that

054you probably found with your board packet or you can remove it from here about some data that we'll be looking at on May 29th about um enrollments like uh data, residential data across our two zip codes and enrollment trends and how many students there are that live in the community who either take the empowerment scholarship, are homeschooled, or who make other educational choices. So that data was provided for you so we can um review that on our work session day, our strategic planning day May 29th. And then we also have um I included for you the results of our parent surveys that we ran recently. We're compelled to run a parent survey and that survey was run and you can see um the results of the surveys. All of the schools had favorable um results

055and returns from their parents. The other thing I wanted to share with you which is kind of new and unique this year is that we have had an increase in public records requests. So entities can make public record records requests for the things that are publicly available. So it would be like financial information, um qualifications of personnel who work for the district, years of experience, degrees earned, things like that. Um most of our requests this year, we've had one unique request for information about hiring trends and we responded with some questions so we could provide accurate, you know, like the kind of data the person was looking for and we never heard back from that person. Um but we have sent out requests about our financial expenditures from the last four to five years, vendor

056names, PO amounts, um all that kind of thing. Most of those requests are being generated by companies who are AI and so they're using they have every right to request it. We've been responding. Big kudos to John and his crew because it took them many, many hours to put all the information in a format that was requested and would be usable. Um, and what we know is AI companies will use that data, call it, and then sell it to vendors to try to get us to purchase things that are consistent with our purchasing patterns. So none of those none of the financial requests for purchasing records have come from instate. They've all come from companies on the eastern seabboard or in Florida. So we know that it's more marketing oriented than anything. We've had one

057um local resident who typically requests every year a copy of our budget and our AFR and all the backup documentation. And even though it's available on our website and the auditor general's website, John was very kind and center 120 pages of our information. So I wanted to um John's going to talk a little bit about our SFB projects just a little. Um, but the one thing I'd like to address is the end of useful life that we've talked about off and on since the school facilities board determined that 10 classrooms at the high school had reached the end of their useful life. And those classrooms when they were built were never intended to be used as classrooms. Those spaces were originally sheds. Um, when we had rapid growth in the late 90s and early 2000s,

058they were converted to classrooms. Um, those are 10 classrooms we cannot put air conditioning in because the roof is not designed in a way to hold the weight of an HVAC. So, what we know now is we've entered we've had several meetings with school facilities board and later on in your you approved tonight in your consent agenda the ability for us to take the next step and to gain um a general contractor to do the RFP for general contractor services so we can move forward. So then that person can work on hiring architects. We can work on forming our community committee. Um the general of course will be responsible for subs and all that stuff but to it's being um viewed by school facilities board as a new construction project and we know that the

05910 classrooms will be demolished. what they're trying to figure out is, and I explained to them how we use the classrooms now, right? Two of them are art rooms with kils and water and, you know, all that kind of stuff. And two of the classrooms are for our most severe and profoundly disabled students that Nicole spoke about this evening. So, they have um showers, changing facilities, washer, dryer, um life skills, kitchen, and those things can't be replicated very easily in a portable classroom. And those are all part of their IEPs. So, what they're thinking now is that they may construct those 10 classrooms just north, which would be right kind of beh like right this way from here, just east of where we're sitting in the vacant space between the school building and the tennis

060courts. And that after the construction project is complete, then they would demolish the other classrooms. So, we're, you know, we're kind of taking it and going at the pace that they need and want us to go. But the exciting news is when we told them, they said, "What is your timeline?" And I said, "I really, really want us to be able to put high school kids in those classrooms when we open our doors in August of 27 for that school year." And they're like, "Doable." So, that's what we're holding on to. Um, we probably will start some of these early design phases and those things between now and January and then start on the next more intensive phases perhaps in January. So, that's where we are with it. SFB pending final legislative allocation. Um, if

061that all goes the way they're planning for it to, then the first $2 million of the project will show up in our account with SFB sometime right after July 1 to help us get moving. So, that's where we are with that. Um, and then we have I gave you a little bit more detail about that regarding food service because I know you want to be kept up to date on this. We don't have any updates. So, in fact, I checked again today. No, no updates for the community eligibility provision. And then you also may have seen uh two weeks ago that new legislation was passed in Arizona with a and announced also at the federal level by RFK about the reduction in certain dyes additives and things like that. We are actually already 97% compliant

062with the the change in law. So we're really far ahead on the last 3% Sedexo is working on a plan for us for those items. So, I want to also talk a little bit about we've had complaints, understandable, totally justifiable complaints um from the residents of Heidi Lane. And some of you may or may not know where Heidi Lane is. It is just west of the farm. So, if you go on Center Street, like the first little road, you can come to make a left on Tidy Lane. It's actually like kind of like an easement for an emergency ingress or egress to the backside of the farm kind of by the double wide on the farm. And we've got all kinds of conflicting information from the county recorder and the county assessor's office. John has

063been in there making best friends with the people at the county. Um the town has different set of information. We have a different set of information yet. Um, the residents want us to maintain the lane. Right now, at some point, it was chip sealed. We don't really know why. It would cost several million dollars to pave the road, which the school district doesn't have. Um, and we can find some evidence that some residents were deed a residential easement. So, we're kind of in legal no man's land right now with trying to figure out if it's the town's responsibility, if it's the resident's responsibility, or if it's the school district's responsibility. So, your attorney's working on that part of it for us. John has sent I don't even know six inches stack probably of more documentation

064back to the attorney to try to help with it. So, we're waiting on his opinion as well to know how to move forward with it. And I know I felt so bad for everybody because after it rained two weeks ago, I'm sure those potholes were like gigantic swimming pools. It's horrible. I went over there this weekend to look at it and it really is in bad shape. But we just need to do the right thing for the residents and for the town and for the school district and make sure that like every little bow is tied so everybody knows going forward where the responsibility lies. But I wanted to bring it to your attention because it is something that we thought we had resolved a couple of years ago under Superintendent Schol, but we aren't

065finding that final piece of the resolution. Um, and then Mrs. Massie prepared a list of activities for you. Is there separate list on your table next month? There won't be a list really at all because school's out. Um May 13th, which is tomorrow, Heritage has their awards assembly, but I think we change the time's not at 1 now, is it? It's at 1:30. And at 14th, on the 14th, Territorial has their first and second grade awards because Kinder is so heavily attended. They're their own thing on Thursday. Uhhuh. On Thursday. and um May 21 at Heritage. We would love to have you there. We do our employee and volunteer recognition. This is the first year we're recognizing volunteers. Lasts for about an hour and it comes with a free ice cream Sunday at the end.

066So, it's a way for us to recognize people who've had five years 10 15 who are retiring. Um things like that. And Nicole said about that Joekumer won't be assistant sped director next year because Joe's retiring and lots of you know her because she's been in the district for a really really long time. So what time is that? So it's at 2 o'clock on May 21 which is uh only a week from Wednesday which I can't believe. And then we have May 21 at 7 is our graduation at Finley. I recommend that you re arrive about 6:30, drive around to find the loading dock site. Looks like you can't go in there, but you can just go up the steps. You'll actually be behind the stage. You just kind of feed your way through the

067curtains and come on up on stage. And then May 29th at 7:30 is the beginning of our strategic planning day and we will be done by two o'clock. So those are in the next two weeks. There's like all kinds of stuff going on, but it's all super fun stuff. So, does anybody have any questions? Um, we normally wear blue to graduation. Yeah, it was not something that like was surface, but I'm really looking for an orange dress. I'm not even looking dress. I have Well, I guess blue and orange, but just so you know, because Marsha told me the first year that she was upset that I didn't wear blue. Yes, these are the important decisions of our board. No, no, it just is what it is. So, I guess you could wear green if

068you want, but I know I just I make a motion that orange. No, I don't want to wear orange. Can I answer anything else for you guys about the about any of the things in the report or high lane or I will do my best. I have that day I have two graduations to go to. Great graduation at Frank. This will be a fun one. This the class of 25 is a phenomenal class as you saw tonight. Every student who spoke tonight was a senior and they're well spoken and they they have a a great interest in the school district. I class 25 because they didn't have to come and they still chose to come. This is a great class. This is a great class. Yep. They did. They did a fantastic job. Absolutely. All

069right. Good. All right. Item 6D is financial reports. Madam President, members of the board, staff administration, ladies and gentlemen, just a summary of the financial condition of our main main funds at the school district at this point. Our main operating fund which we used for a lot of salary, a lot of benefits, a lot of purchase services, utilities, etc. 19.3 million on that uh that budget at this point, the end of April, which is the 30th expenditures 15.8 8 million revenues follow those expenditures pretty closely. Uh the revenues the district brings in are about 11 million state and equalization about 7 and a half eight million local property tax. Our operating fund is at this point then we hope we can increase that with an amendment tonight for our final budget for a slight increase

070of around 300,000 for some free lunch money. The state is now paying us based on our free lunch ratio that was 155,000 increase for this year and another proposition 151,000 that's under budget that we look at. So we want to anticipate hopefully tonight taking that budget up from 19.3 to 19.6 last year budget ending was just over now for a few different reasons. Capital budget slightly down from last year at million60. We've really worked with staff to deliver everything we need as far as capital that pays for licenses for software textbooks pays for capital items. Um 711,000 spent there another 114,000 cumber to get us through the year which will look at expenses of about 825,000 budget of just over 1 million50. So about 240,000 to carry forward next year. those carry forward amounts really

071hold us accountable but they give us opportunities for the next year so that that really helps uh a couple things with with some funds 691 fund I just want to focus on for a second uh expenditures year to date this is all paid by the state the school facilities support project this year year to date 10 million 90,000 that we spent most of that is on HVAC installation we have a few extra things uh I'd like to just highlight we might get to if everything is approved. If you look at everything that's that's coming just above us here, we've got a $200,000 project to rebar in and order in all these 20 windows in this west gym. If we were here last July, we would have been scrambling because we had water coming in throughout

072that heavy rain. That's a unfunded project, but we do believe when money hits the state that that 200,000 will be funded. We do have some more buildings in addition to the ones that have met the end of useful life. Just like Daniel's mentioned, another $800,000 bid. We hope to get down to 600,000 to redo the windows in these red brick buildings and the north tag. Over a thousand windows were involved. The first bid came in at 800,000. We talked to folks at the state that are funding this think we could do a little better some other contractors. We're hoping to get that down to 600,000, but still that would be if it's paid for by the school for um in addition to that, we've got the 4 million for the 10 classrooms that have ended

073useful life. 4 million for Dr. Moody's Del Rio southbend administration for air conditioning. We uh we hope that will be funded July money. And then about 7 million weatherized all four schools. If you've seen the south end of the high school or even the north end of the high school, you know, they put on a super thick layer of elasttoic and in those areas even some of the gym at the high school south and north end that's been done to do every other building is about another 7 million. Uh takes us to about 15 20 million and we're getting bids right at the moment. If you approve this tonight for us to issue a bid for some high school fire alarm quotes and we've already had some meetings here with contractors that issue these documents

074to. They would then work to design a fire alarm and install it and take their plans to capital for approval rather than us trying to get a design team and then a construction team. So, so that's where we're at in the state of 131,000 last year to put a fire alarm at Del Rio. We're hopeful they can do it for 250 maybe 275,000 but that is a deficiency. Fire alarm not working super well at the high school. That's a quick look at those seven projects and look at our financial situation end of April. Any other funds or or questions for No. Um student activity. Student activity. I thought I would mention uh two things with student activity. We have the highest fundraiser group is high school student council over 13,000 year to date. And the

075highest expense group, high school band, uh $3,700 expense by one of our student activity groups. And I all I hear about the band at the high school is that the teacher is is rocking it. And we talked to her about the stuff she's doing. She's holding her own fundraisers. She's extremely proud of her program. And you can just you can tell when she turns her inventory in and there's four 400 items on the she knows where every one of her hobos is. One of her bass guitars is so I think the community I think really supports everything at the high school band. That's really all I have. That's great. Thank you. Anything? Okay. Fellow board members, I do apologize, but I have another obligation I have to go to. So, Vice President Martinson is going

076to take over for me. Thank you. Sorry for the interruption. Thank you. [Music] Okay. If you want to We're going to move along to a consent agenda. I will make a motion that we approve the consent consent agenda. Second I will all in favor. All right. Moving along to the increase in costition. Um board members and staff and visitors. Um Senovia is in charge of CASA and has ever asked me to um request because of um increasing costs that we're all dealing with to increase um CASA the monthly tuition fee for $10. And that would be um and CASA is our Chino after school advantage program. And this would raise the a standard month for tuition from 220 to 230. And um and then we have a a a discounted rate for our employee students

077from 145 to 155. And there will be no increase to the actual student enrollment fees that they take out. So that she's requesting that to help keep up with costs. And is that um four days a week the cost? And then what time does it go till um to six o'clock. Do do you think that that that's a fair number? Yes, I think it's a very fair number for a month for $10 a month. Yeah, I do think that's very fair. Okay. I can understand the increase. Yeah. Is there like any scholarship programs or anything for lower income? She she does um work with um getting vouchers from and I forget dees. Yeah. Oh yeah. So people can use dees vouchers and our homeless students. Um we have funds to help cover the cost for

078homeless students that may be in our after school program as well. Okay. Great. No, that's fine. Okay. I will need a motion. I will move to approve the 2526 increase of the cost of monthly tuition fee by $10 for each student. Second. All in favor? I thank you. All right, moving along. So, as we've been working in HR um on um job descriptions and evaluation tools, my esteemed colleague, Mrs. Bryce, helped me with the dean of students evaluation tool. We escalated you to esteemed. She is esteemed. Can you remember that, please? So, what she did is she took the job description and then came up with a um a dean of students evaluation. We're working on other ones that you'll see next month. So, that they really um the ones that we had before really

079did not pertain to the job. They're very generic. So, we went a uh we're working on making sure that the evaluation tool for for our employees meet with um the job description of what they're actually doing. So, we're asking you to approve this. I'll make that motion. We are motion Okay, I'll make the motion that um we approve the CB USD students evaluation and a second. Second it. All in favor? I thank you very much. Okay, moving on to Mrs. talk. Sorry. And this is how you are weing it again. We are. So, um, good evening board. I come to you tonight because I I was very optimistic thinking $10 would meet our budget for next year by raising it by $10. I can't look at Andy now that you see, but because John Livingston

080is so into every little detail, he pointed out that is not going to cover it. And because we've lost key grants is really the reason um that we do need to raise it. And to make it work, we're raising it to $250 a month. Um which is a $45 increase, but it's to keep the staff to keep staff that we have and to keep a successful program running, but also to stay um revenue neutral in our program. Our neighboring districts were charging more for fewer hours. So, we're still cheaper than the neighboring districts. But, I know I gave her such a hard time when she came to me with the $10. She asked me, she's like, "How's this gonna go?" I'm like, I said, "Is Annie going to be there?" I can't come here. She's

081like, "I think it." So, it's but it keeps amazing staff in there and it keeps us revenue neutral because what is required from the state is only to offer preschool for our special needs children. So, this is the tuition it needs to have. And those special needs children don't have to pay. They do not get some funding. We get about 60% compared to the cost for special needs. So this is for typical children. Yes. Children. [Laughter] So that is our proposal to raise it. We think that will be we talked about doing monthly increments and that's just too much. So we're just going to raise it one flat fee for the year and hopefully John doesn't come back to my office a month. Yes. Four days a week for three and a half hours a

082day and for head start. Okay. I will make a motion. I'll make that motion. I make a motion that we raise that it is increase from 205 to [Music] per year with the exception of your All right. All in favor? Thank you. Sorry, Annie, but thank you. All right. Personnel report. Yes. Any questions? I I actually have a question. [Music] Um number 10 on the supplement. Yes, she's leaving. had an opportunity to make $3. Oh, yes. I was really hoping that my kids would get to be with her. I tried really hard, but it's more money. All right. So we are looking at with our um supplement we have six new certified employees, three new classified employees, one new classified substitute, five resignations, one termination, six certified changes, six classified changes, one extra duty, and

083141 time sheets. Do approve Okay. All in favor. Thank you very much. Okay. M my colleague, I have Mr. Lady before me. You didn't say your title, so she didn't know what was her. All right, I can go before Mr. Livingston. Good evening, vice madam vice president and members of the board. Um I'm in front of you today. Um Anger and Beverly um we're on my math committee. So we've been looking at KA math curriculum. I've been looking at it since November. Um, but the staff has been looking at it since January. Um, we looked at the platforms. We looked at six different companies. We looked at platforms and then I held a curriculum fair, if you will, for a week and where they came in after school and previewed it. And I I was

084really pleased with the turnout. I was really worried I wouldn't have anyone that week. I had 46 people and so I was really really excited to have that many people. And um and then we met for a long day for present for six presentations and um after the presentations and looking at all the rubrics um the committee has chosen amplify and I ready to pilot for the fall. So, I'm here asking um your permission to pilot I Ready and we'll pilot I Ready the first seven weeks of um the fall semester and then we'll do amplify pilot amplify for seven weeks. We'll come together right before Thanksgiving maybe um when we come back from Thanksgiving and make a decision and I'll be back in December asking for approval on whatever um curriculum has been decided

085on. So you can see there I had um 14 teachers, two SPAD teachers, one EL teacher, a high school teacher, three administrators, three instructional coaches, and two board members, five parents. Boy, this thing is bad. by parents and the the district it need um so anyway um sorry for a squirrel move back to it normal location thank you I appreciate that so anyway I'm here to ask for your approval do you have any questions for me yeah is this basic math or algebra it's K8 math so basic math uh no algebra Okay, I just want to say Julie, thank you guys so much for answering all of your questions. Yes, I'm pause for just one second to make sure we answer Marsha's question. Eighth grade algebra book is we teach eighth grade algebra for high

086school credit. So we use the high school algebra book for algebra in the eighth grade. So it's general. Yeah. I just want to make sure because elementary level school. So I just wanted to make you know so there's there are algebra standards that start in kindergarten can attest to that. So algebra standards actually start in kindergarten. So all the algebra standards and instruction is woven through all the general curriculum, but algebra 1 as a standalone uses the high school book. Yes. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify that myself. I I have a comment and I I just wanted to say thank you to Julie for spearheading the organization of this. It's it's I I could tell it was a tremendous organizational feat to put everything together, to put all the studies together, to gather

087the different people, the different stakeholders, um, and really get into the specifics of of KQA, be able to serve the books and, um, and then get feedback from everybody. It was a tremendous job. Um, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I learned a tremendous amount. I don't know how much I contributed to it, but but but I I agree and I I was I very much approve of this. So, thank you very much. Thank you. [Laughter] Any any questions or I'll make a motion for the recommendation to pilot the K through Now curriculum with I ready and amplify in a second. I'll second. All in favor? I thank you. All right. Thank you, ladies. Okay. Moving along. Mr. Livingston, back to you. So, this is our last chance then to revise our

088budget. It has to be done by the 15th of May for the current year. Uh just a couple things to bring out a term I'd like to hit just a little bit. If you can turn to your your big landscape pages and it's u it's on page I believe it's page in your there I believe it's page three. There's pages that are blank that don't have a page number on them but if you can kind of fast forward to page three. Can you show them what it looks like? Yeah. It's got this funky little chart on the top. It's a landscaped Excel. You've heard us talk about this this fund, fund 010. It's called classroom site fund. I'm just so impressed that the state has had the the foresight to set aside these funds for

089teachers and related services that some other folks other than teachers sometimes share. And what I wanted to bring up is if you go down to the box on number 10 there, you see a number and it's called limit 3.06 millig. That's what our limit was last year. Now, we didn't have the cash to spend that and we didn't have the revenue coming in to spend that and we didn't have it in people's contracts to spend that. We spent just over 2 million like 2 million40,000. So, you can see uh well actually it was even it's going to be more than 2 million this year. It was 1,834. I'm just going to talk and look at so that's what we spent. So, that means we got to carry forward that 1,ion232. really powerful that we could

090carry that forward into the 25 year trainer plus we got the 40,362 of interest. So we really watch this fun and when we started this in the year 2000 the state could never bring in $270 per student. That's 610 of 1% of the sales tax. They never could hit it. So districts would budget as if they did and then spend as if they did, but they went into the into the red. So now we're to the point we're at over 700 per student coming in. So it's just really a real benefit to the district and we've really started to lean pretty heavily on that for teacher compensation which gives our operating fund a little break. If we didn't have this fund, it would be very difficult to to be competitive for teacher salaries. So that's

091just a quick look. If we take a look further down then on page 10, uh I just like to draw what a little attention to what you heard from Daniel and page 10. You're going to see some columns there and you go down a little bit. Is it this one? Yes. Yeah. Page 10. I think I got a number in the lower right. Yeah. Hopefully everybody got a page with that number on it. Hopefully. So, if you come down about an inch and a half, you're going to see a column that says average daily membership. And that you could kind of say is full-time enrollment, so to speak. Uh that's been adjusted a little bit for some populations. But you see in the 23 year 2253 that meant we had almost 2400 seats in and

092students in seats. Last year 24 down 21 to 2170. Uh about an 80 student drop. And then this year, our last report as of the 18th of April, 2070. So a full hundred down. Can you remind them the difference between ADM and actual humans because a kinder in preschool? So my understanding is if you have a 100 typical kindergarten students that are funded at half day, your count here will go up by 50. Whereas if you have a 100 typical high school students and they're here taking enough classes to be counted as full-time, your ADM will go up a 100. So there's no deduction. So yeah, kindergarten and preschool we only get half ADM for so ADM isn't it's always less than the actual number of students in lower because kindergarten preschool are only half.

093So I suppose high school districts, there are a few high school districts only in the state. They come a lot closer to heads in seats. so to speak and ADM because usually those students are full-time high school students. Of course, some aren't. So, we're there for a half a semester, but so that's that's where we're at. So, even with those numbers, uh we've been able to maintain our counts because we've had some carry forwards from prior years. So, the number if you go back to page, well, even on that page, you can see I'm right below those counts, budgeted expenditures and budget limits. And that's the way the state does it. You have a limit, you can't stay beyond that. your expenditures that should be budgeted in your line items to that limit 19,600,000 19598

0943.4 million for classroom site 1 million29 for our capital and that's right in that chart. If you approve this tonight, I'll be coming around to have you sign vice president, madam chairman, uh, Miss Martin right here, president of the govern at the top of page 10 and then I'll ask you all to sign my copy on and any any questions. All the other funds have estimates for revenue, estimates for expenditures. This is just our final chance to raise our a little sheet at the very end of everything here is a little one of those little sheets like this. just gives you the final numbers from the department of ed based on everything that goes into this 15 page. That's what they're saying. It's got some carryover numbers. It's got some 1 plus two plus three

095equal stuff and their their numbers equal to the penny capital and everything else. We just do the best we can. I know I've said this before, but we are really lucky to have you speak tonight. So, thank you. His allergies have the best You don't have your fan tonight? No, I should have a fan. All right. Any questions? This doesn't count what we need to do with building. That's a separate account. Yeah, that's on fund 691. Okay. And we do refer to that. There is a page that refers to that. Uh, but that's all again us getting on our one knee or two knees, whatever, and letting the state know our needs. We send in applications. Sometimes they remove them. For some reason, Heritage Middle School didn't get their $25,000 for the carpet. I know

096every other school every other school got $25,000 for the carpet replacement, two or three classrooms. So, we're we're still about that. We're working on it. Who am I fussing? So it's not a foolproof method, but if they know our needs and it's a deficiency, they will usually they will try to So that's a 691. That's fine. I just want to clarify that. Any other questions? I'll move to approve policies as presented. I'm in the wrong one. I knew I thought that I go that's not the right one. Yeah. I'll uh I will move to approve the third vision of the 2425 expenditure budget. Um final FY25 budget was determined as at least 11 uh April 1725. I don't think I read that in a second. All in favor? Okay. All right. Moving right along. Okay.

097The next one. Okie dokie. So, we have a second reading of policies that you had last month. And um I'll entertain any questions you had about policies or if there are any that you would like removed from the approval process. You have just the short list in your packet and those were primarily tidying up to meet changes in statutes, modernize and make wording consistent or remove redundant policies. Yes, ma'am. Remember last month? Great. Any questions? for the motion that we did do the second reading. No, we're we just need to do requested BA through BKA. I'll back to you, Miss Daniel. Okay. So, um I am respectfully requesting that we change the date of our June board meeting from the 9th into the 16th to accommodate Mr. Livingston. Just kidding. The auditor general hasn't released

098the forms for next year's budget yet. We received notice today that they hope to have them out in early June, but this allows Mr. Livingston to prepare the proposed budget for the board using all the correct forms. Um this happened last year as well. So, we always just wait and see if they'll get the forms out in time, but if that's agreeable to the board members, we respectfully request moving the meeting to June 16th. June 16. Okay. Um, we need to make a motion for that, too. Make a motion for approval of the change of the date. I will move to approve the change of the date of the next board meeting from June 9th to June 16th. Second. All in favor? Excuse me. Larry, you don't get to come for us very often. I

099know. Welcome. Good evening, madam vice president, members of the board. I come to you tonight as a representative of the Superintendent Employee Advisory Council, CEAK, we go by. Uh what you have in front of you is a proposed first reading of a revision to policy GCCA which is our lead policy. Uh this kind of began as a subcommittee within the within SEAK. Um it kind of exploded a little bit into some minor tweaks into some major revisions that uh soon involved the human resource department, human resources department and Shelley. Um the original committee was myself, Dr. Moody uh Jenny Ted Bird and Paul Romati. And so, uh, it kind of got a little crazy, but this is a good crazy. And so, some of the highlights that, uh, I would like to point out, we

100tried to simplify it. Instead of calling it undifferentiated leave, we're just calling it leave. We're trying to make it easier to, uh, for the employees to use it, take out some of the loopholes that that have been built in. We're also asking uh for the maximum amount of leave to actually go back up to 960 hours. A few years ago, we requested to drop it. It did not have the impact that we hoped and so we're requesting that goes back. We also have a different scale now for leave payback we're calling it. Instead of it being a flat 40% for everybody, it is a it is a scale based on continuous years of service with the district. Anybody who is a current employee now will stay at the 40% even if they would drop. But

101anybody new would be impacted by this scale. And it also could uh elevate some people's leave by back or payback if they've been here quite a while. But I think you'll see on the scale is quite a bit. I also do want to point out that the term blackout dates Dr. Moody he insisted. So, do you have any I know there's a first reading, but do you have any questions on this? And I know we'll be back next month for the actual So, my math isn't too good tonight. How many How many days is 960 hours? And that's that new that allows people to accumulate. Oh, I see. Yes. That's a maximum accumulation. So, you don't use right. Every July 1 leave is built based on how many months you work. um your your FTE.

102It's different for every employee the number of days it equates because not everybody works a 10-hour day. Some people work a seven hour day or so 900. So that many hours will be well we don't pay off days, we pay off hours. Full time 12 months would typically earn 96 a year. 10 years worth if people didn't use le for 10 whole years in a row. I have read this like five or six and eight times kind of you know because yeah kind of but I wish in a way we could take a part of this and do some more research. So every 30 hours that an employee work the way I read it maybe they get one that's for people that were are like on a contract or work agree for a teacher. Yeah.

103Yep. Somewhere in here though I think I read something about like every 30 hours. Yes. It's on the first page the employees without a contract work the leave allowance will be one hour per 30 hours. So that's so um several years ago um under the Obama administration um leave and benefits were changed. So if an employee averages 30 hours a week for 20 weeks a year then they're entitled to benefits. So like let's say somebody was a um substitute paraprofessional for example then if they average 30 hours a week for 20 weeks a year under federal law they're entitled to benefits and so which would mean health insurance and access to leave. So that that's what that refers to. Yeah, we're we're using the word employee that's not they're not classified under employees in the

104desk. So there we have several classifications of employees. So we have like that kind like the classified substitutes or temporary employees. Sometimes it could be like temporary like someone that does temporary summer custodial work for example. We have our I'm just saying it doesn't really spell it out. It just says for employees. So just reading this the way it's written it's Yes. It's it does without a contract or work agreement. So it's temporary. So it's employees without a contract or work agreement. So not a pair not a classified employee who has a work agreement, not a certified employee who has a contract. So it's it's all the other people from when the law changed under the Obama administration. Like substitutes, not substitute teachers because we contract through a third party. So classified subs or temporary

105employees and this is not an approval item and that's federal law too. But yeah, we'd be happy to answer any questions. This is the first reading so we'll have if you want to pull it out and keep it up. So you can give Heidi and Shelley a call and HR Larry a call any of them. Larry chair the committee they would be half they would be happy. calling you guys and I appreciate Superintendent Daniels for a lot, you know, we always have to make sure that she's supported this and and these are some of these changes we've been trying to make for a few years and and was very glad that she was uh willing to talk about this. We were able to to cook this. And Larry, is it safe to say that the

106change that you guys are recommending in the buyback is to encourage people not to use their leave and to encourage them to stay with the district because we have people who our average term of employment is under three years and they tend to either burn all their leave or have a leave payout even though there's no longevity. And so I believe that this was constructed to and Jenny could tell you that to really to be beneficial for people who are loyal to the district and who don't use their cell phone numbers. This is not a action item. Very good. Thank you. Okay, moving along. Our last um madame present I would like to move to table this agenda item okay to our till our June 16th agenda. Okay. All right. So can somebody please right

107we agree to table this item to our meeting. Right. With that said that's it. [Music]