001the January 13th Garden Board meeting. We have our call to order and you will join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> Mr. Schubert to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation under God indivisible. >> Roll call please. >> Here >> Mr. Austin >> and I here. Next is to approve our agenda which is a motion by >> I move to approve the agenda >> for December for today. Sorry. Where are we? [snorts] January. >> Mrs. Lewis. >> Yes. >> Miss Peters. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Amar. >> Yes. >> Mr. Migan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Austria. >> Yes. And next is uh to approve the meetings from uh December 2nd. >> I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from December 2nd. >> Miss Mrs. Lewis, >> yes.
002>> Miss Peters, yes. Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mr. McG. >> Mr. Austral, >> yes. And one more approval of minutes from the special meeting on the 9th. I move to approve the um minutes from the special December 9th. Second, >> Mrs. >> Yes. Mrs. Mers, >> yes. >> Mrs. Amar, >> yes. Mr. McInn, >> yes. >> Mr. Ash, >> yes. >> And with that, we'll move to the superintendent's presentation. But first, thank you all for all coming and we'll have you out of here within the next couple hours. So, no worries. Well, good evening, President Austin, members of the board, and our amazing cults and your parents and family members. We appreciate you being here. A lot of exciting things to highlight. Again, looking at our mission statement, and I have to tell you that
003a lot of our students have the mission statement memorized. So, you can ask your your children on the way home if they can state the mission statement. And again, our vision, building for the future, learning, cooperating, and caring, which is the focus of all of that we do here at Continental for our students. It is governing board appreciation month, and a special thank you to our governing board, and we truly could not do the work that we do without their support and trust in our team. So, we are just super grateful and thankful for your time. And as you may or may not know, being a governing board member is not a paid position. It's a volunteer position. And um they spend a lot of time just dialoguing about what we can do to improve
004our school and make this a great place for our students and our community members. So thank you. We will do another little recognition in a little bit, but we appreciate it. [clears throat] >> December events to celebrate the Nutcracker experience for our students was amazing. We took our students who had perfect attendance and Miss Gracia took her kindergarten students. Do we have any students in the audience that attended the Nutcracker or were in the Nutcracker? >> Okay. [laughter] Yes. Yes. Wasn't it amazing? >> Some of you was a little bit long, right? It was a little bit long when you see the nutcracker, but um I think those experiences are what continue to help us produce well-rounded children, right? So, thank you. Um also, our preschool experiences are always so much fun and well attended
005um during the holidays. So, thank you Dr. Robinson and your team. Um you can see the teachers in action. They sang songs. We had parents parents involved making gingerbread houses. So again, it's just much appreciated that we have such involved parents. So thank you. Our Eagle Scout project, we're excited again and thankful for our former Colt Auto Grinder for making a positive contribution to our school and campus. So over winter break, they successfully installed the gaga ball pit for middle school. As you know, we had one here for our um intermediate kids, but now the middle school students have it as well. We continue to celebrate our A letter grade and just a reminder that Thursday and Friday is our A+ of excellence award site visit. So we're looking forward to highlighting our students and
006our staff on those two days as well. Tax credit funds, just a little update. Um, as of yesterday, >> [clears throat] >> um, we have received $42,673, which is, um, not as much as we usually receive between the time school starts in December. So, we did mail out letters to um, all of our past donors and we sent out this art um, invite as well. Also, we're hoping to get more of our um normal tax credit funds received between now and April. So, please we also let our club sponsors know and their families know and we put it in the weekly news. So, remember it's dollar for dollar and you get back what you donate um through your state income taxes. If you have any questions, please call and Mr. Schubert is very good at
007helping and explaining. So, just send people our way. Thank you. Our greenhouse progress and update. We have so many people to thank um for this project. Our Green Valley Rotary. Um we received a $6,000 grant for the project called Seating for the Future. You can see Mrs. Quas and Mr. Lean and I went to the Green Valley Rotary meeting and presented the plan for the project. And they're very excited. They came to help us over um winter break as well. And actually, you could see me down there because I was drilling and doing my best. I was super sore the next day, but I did manage to help a little bit. Right, Mr. Nathan? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. Thanks. >> You can see me in the middle there, my overall supervisor. >> Yes. Yes.
008And um and things are complicated when you're left-handed, but we made it happen. Um and you can see Mr. Nathan there as well with one of the Rotarians. And to the right, you can see that the greenhouse is completely covered now, which was our mission to get done over break. Mr. Woodward was here um today working on the final little detail. So, the next work will be where we'll invite involve all of our students and parents in u making the greenhouse functionable. So, we're super excited to hear [clears throat] um a committee of committee members to help us develop that plan. Again, [snorts] thank you to Freeport Macaran. We received this check for $75,000, which is to help us with our instructional technology curriculum and it will pay for all of our incoming second grade
009Chromebooks. Um truly helps to ease our budgetary constraints and capital funds. So the $75,000 we'll have available for furniture and equipment, bus repairs, etc. So much appreciated to Greenport and their continued support. Green Valley Quilt Guild, they um came and donated an amazing quilt that will be a beautiful asset to our library. And I want to just you can see it here because the picture doesn't do justice um to the actual quilt. So, we hosted the quilters um conference or what was it called? The quilters convention. >> Quilt show. >> The quilt show here and Mrs. Webas saw a quilt. Was it the same quilt, Mrs. Webas, that you saw that? It was similar and she said she loved it and talked about it and they actually worked on it and brought it over to
010us for our library. So, thank you for your networking and again the support of the Green Valley field is much appreciated. Thank you. Um, our project updates from SFB, I know we've been talking about them and hopefully they'll come to fruition soon. Our roofing project is supposed to start on February 23rd with [clears throat] an expected completion date of of July 24th. also our weatherproofing project which is the painting of our buildings. I feel like we've been talking about this for a long time as well, but we're still waiting on SFB approval. Um, and just a reminder, we didn't qualify for the approval at the last round of approvals. So, the next round should be in August and September. So, hopefully we'll hear news about that because we really do know that our school needs
011to be painted and um it's well overdue. bottle cap mural project. Thank you to our continental foundation and via ver the rotary. Students will paint the mural and apply the bottle caps to complete the finished mural. The art projects will include all of our students and staff and work on the project is going to begin on January 20th with our primary grades and they are going to be designing it. So, this is just a sample, but our students are going to be deciding what they want to do for our mural. Again, please mark your calendars for the Sweetheart Gayla February 7th. We have um a lot of sponsors, a lot of silent auction items, live auction [clears throat] items, and it's a great time. And we want parents to know that even though the title
012is a gayla, it doesn't mean that it's a black tie affair or you have to dress up. It's at the historic Canola Ranch. We do want you dressed up, but not you don't have to wear hormone dresses because people think that that's what it is. But please join us. Mark your calendars. Our jazz band will be performing there along with a special musician, Jerry Slade, who played last year. Our Willy Wonka performance update. We have 26 students who auditioned and are going to be in the play. Do we have any students here who are going to be in Willy Wonka? Okay, good job. All right. Um, and the performance dates are there, so stay tuned. Um, hopefully you were all able to see Alice and Wonderland last year, but it was an amazing show. So,
013we're looking forward to another great performance by our students. Again, thank you and happy second semester. And just these are my little ornaments that I made for our staff members this year that said thank you for being such an important piece of our whole family. And I truly mean that from the bottom of my heart that I really appreciate every single one of you um and your contributions to the success of our students. Thank you. That concludes >> well thank you to kind of segue to um Mrs. Rico was talking about the sweetheart gall is it gall or kaya? >> Either way controversial. So that said is that sheet is all the classes are put in the last couple years put together baskets. So that is a link to an Amazon wish list if you
014want to donate a trinket for the basket. Um it's not mandatory by any stretch or if you have something around the house that is similar that might go well with that you're we're more than happy to uh have that regifted to us. And with that, we want to have some more appreciation. Besides the Freeport grant that was $75,000 for new computers and software and Ila, um, you know, everything from a telescope to, you know, money for different causes and stuff ranging from, you know, $200 to $1,000. So, we actually are very blessed to live in such a great generous community. But keep it up. Right. So with that we have a special recognition and you guys will be up shortly. [clears throat] [laughter] All right. >> [clears throat] >> In honor of governing board appreciation
015month, we have certificates of appreciation and it says proudly presented to and I will call you each up. Thank you for your dedication to our students and public education in southern Arizona. And it and I'd like to have Miss Michelle Lewis who's a school board member this year. Thank you. AND WE'RE also governing board member Golden Horseshoes. Michelle Lewis, thank you for your service and dedication to Continental since 2025. [applause] Okay, we have Miss Laura Peters, school board member since 2024. Miss Laura, thank you so much for your service. We appreciate you. [applause] And then we have Maras, full board member since 2022. >> [applause] [cheering] >> AND THEN we have Mr. Andrew McGib, board clerk, and he's been a member since 2013. [applause] >> See, he's a [laughter] great place to be, right? Thank
016you. Thank you. Oh, not to mention that Mr. McGib went to school here at Continental. >> Yes, I'm old. >> And tomorrow or Thursday and Friday when we have our artifacts, your yearbook picture will be there. [laughter] You're an artifact now. >> And last but not least, our governing board president, Mr. Austral school board member since 2017 [applause] and again like I mentioned we truly couldn't do the innovative things that we do and we do a lot of innovative things and I always remind um our team that because we are rural and we are small we can get things done faster because We are one school, right? And we don't have to wait too long for permission. And most of the time, if we have a plan, they're very supportive of all of our crazy
017ideas. So, thank you so much. [applause] >> They always send me pictures of other districts and what they do for the board. Thank you. And we also have our um be kind shirts and parents so you know be a kind human all our students have them. And what days do you wear these? >> Good job. Yay. Thursdays is hope. >> Thank you. We're going to move on to our pulse of the month. So students, please come forward. Make sure you have your certificates with you. Parents and family, please feel free to record to come up and take pictures. And they will once you read through their certificate, please join them if you'd like at the table so you can pick out a t-shirt for them. Perfect. All right, you will come up students and you
018will just say your name and then you're going to give me a certificate and you'll stand over here with superintendent. Okay, stand up here. >> Alan is an exceptionally helpful and caring member of our classroom community. He consistently supports his peers, offering help when needed and stepping in with kindness during classroom routines. Adan is also a wonderful helper to his teachers, always ready to assist with a positive attitude and willingness to learn. His leadership, cooperation, and thoughtful actions make our classroom a better place every day. We are proud to rec recognize Aan as our December preschool student of THE MONTH. CONGRATULATIONS, [applause] >> [laughter] [snorts] >> THANK YOU. >> Ryan is a kind, safe, and responsible student. He is friends with everyone and always makes others feel welcomed and appreciated. He has a smile that
019will light up a room and he gives the best hugs. He is capable of making the quietest, most withdrawn students feel comfortable and begin to shine with his guidance. Ryan shows that he is a safe by being a trustworthy student. He is someone that I can rely on for tasks. He contributes to a positive and honest classroom environment and always is helping others without being asked. Thank you, Ryan, for being an amazing p. Congratulations, Miss Will Cox. [applause] >> Kennedy is our cult of the month. She is a safe and responsible student who is kind to her peers and consistently shows respect to teachers and staff. Kennedy demonstrates a strong interest in learning, stays focused during lessons, and is always ready to participate. She sets a positive example for others and is a wonderful role
020model in our school community. Thank you, Kennedy, for being such a kind, safe, and responsible cult. We are very proud of you. Congratulations from your elementary specialist teachers which is library music. [applause] >> McKenna is cult of the month for December. McKenna is a joy to have in class and is an active participant in her learning. She is helpful and kind to others and always lends a helping hand. She lifts up others when they are having a rough day. She is funny and inspiring to all. She is responsible for herself and her actions and she always does her best. Keep on shining bright. Congratulations McKenna MISS [applause] >> [clears throat] >> Anna is my cult of the month nominee because she is a true leader in class. She comes in every day, does what she's
021supposed to do, and sets a great example for everyone. She is always kind, safe, and responsible. I can always count on her. Anna always made some big improvements, and I couldn't be more proud of her. She is such a pleasure to have in class. Congratulations, Anna. MRS. [applause] >> Max is a fabulous first grader. He shows kindness every day with his polite manners, big smiles, and respectful words. Max is safe with classroom supplies and playground equipment, too. He is very responsible because he comes to school with a terrific attitude. He follows directions and works hard to complete all his assignments on time. I'm so glad to have you in our classroom, Maxmilliano. Keep up the great work. Congratulations, Mrs. Rodriguez. [applause] Hi, my name is Amaya Michelle Gonzalez. [applause] Amaya is an exemplary student whose
022positive attitude and dedication inspire all those around her. Her natural leadership is reflected in the way she offers guidance and support to her classmates in any situation. Always with kindness, respect, and sincerity. She consistently demonstrates responsibility in completing her assignments and tasks, showing commitment to her academic growth. Amaya treats her peers and teachers with respect, creating a warm and collaborative environment. Thank you, Amaya, for being a true example for your classmates and for everyone who has the privilege of being around you. Congratulations, Amaya Portis Gonzalez for Mrs. NEGRON. [applause] Mason right there. Mason this month. I am so proud of Mason. He has been coming into class every day with such a positive attitude and no issues and it has made such a big difference. He started the month off so strong, especially after our
023week off from Thanksgiving. He has been incredibly helpful with his classmates and teachers, always making sure he's doing the right thing and reminding others in a kind way. His area is always clean and organized, and he takes pride in being ready to learn. I also appreciate how polite he is. His sweet thank yous always make my day. He has been trying so hard in class and participating so much more, and I love seeing his confidence grow. I am so proud of you, Mason. Keep it up. Congratulations, Mrs. NEVADA. [applause] >> My name is My name is Emma Esto. [applause] >> Emma brings so much excitement and joy into our classroom every single day. She is such a hard worker and is always focused on doing what she needs to do. Emma's positive attitude and enthusiasm
024make our class a brighter place. Every day she tells me how much she loves me and gives me the biggest hug. And that hug truly makes my day. Thank you for being the sweetest Emma. I'm so proud of you. Congratulations, Miss Mills. [applause] My name is Bernardet is always quick with a smile and a hello. She's very kind to her fellow classmates and friends. She gave her time and a gift to a friend that was crying. She's an excellent student and citizen of the school. Congratulations, Bernardet. Mrs. VERY [applause] has shown an enormous amount of empathy for another student. While everyone is exceptionally kind to this student, Amamir has taken it upon himself to teach the next level of a game we play so this student can participate completely. His interactions with this student have
025been very heartwarming to watch. Thank you, Amir. Congratulations, Mrs. BOOKI. [applause] Chloe is kind to her fellow classmates. Chloe responsibly completes her work on time as well. She is safe by following school rules and helping those around her. Congratulations, Chloe. Mrs. AGENTA. [applause] My name is Maverick. >> Maverick is always kind not only to his teachers but to other students as well. He is well-mannered and is conscientious about his academics. Keep up the great work, Maverick. And Maverick was nominated by the entire middle school team. CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] ALL OUR students can come forward with their certificates. We're going to take a group picture and if they can stay standing up here, we're going to give our golden horseshoes to two of our staff members who will then join them for a last picture. It's Cool.
026>> Yay. That's what I [laughter] >> Stay right there. We're going to award the Golden Horseshoe recipients that have been nominated by staff from by their own colleagues here. And the first that we'll be calling up is our school counselor, Milo Spas. [applause] And her colleagues wrote, "Millie continues to work hard in servicing our students as families as our school counselor. Her can do attitude is appreciated. Her caring heart is appreciated by students, staff, and families. Milliey's kindness is contagious. She is a valued part of our staff community. Thank you, Millie, for always being there for us as a staff and community. [applause] And our next staff member is JENNA ROLAS. [applause] AND HER COLLEAGUES WRITE, "Jenna continues to be a team player in juggling all of her responsibilities and duties. She is a quick
027learner and has quickly learned the ins and outs of a board and superintendent administr administrative assistant. She continues to be involved in exhibits for our eighth graders and is now working with our students in the Willy Wonka production. Jenna is so kind to all she works with, staff and community. She is such a great team player and is always willing to lend us a helping hand. Thank you, JENNA. [applause] >> YES. And if we could call up our board members. >> Take a big picture. [laughter] >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> All right, everyone. This is going to be on our extraordinary board. One, two, three. [screaming] >> All right. >> Good job. Good job. Thank you. Goodbye. [laughter] >> [laughter] >> Um, thank you all for coming. You can more than welcome to stay, grab
028a cookie on your way out, or you can certainly stay and hear about the budget, all the other fun things. There you go. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> I never do. How about you? >> [laughter] [laughter] >> Oh Lord. >> [laughter] >> 90 days. >> All right, we'll go back in session [clears throat] and it is time for the consent agenda. Is there any discussion on any of the items agenda? Rather large one this week. Everything from hiring to retiring to pay and substitutes and vouchers. [snorts] I'll move to consent agend. >> Yes. Mr. Peters. >> Yes. More. >> Yes. Mr. McGrust. >> Yes. That moves us to item 10, new business. The first one is to uh talk about and vote on the open enrollment. >> And again, it's just a formality of having to
029open up open enrollment for the year for this school year. >> And this is a uh a motion item. I'll make a motion to open um open enrollment for 26 27 school year. >> Second. >> Mrs. Lewis, >> yes. >> Miss Peters, >> yes. >> Mrs. Amas, yes. >> Mr. McG. >> Yes. >> Mr. Oer. >> And yes. And before you leave, you're going to get a uh every year we have to sign a conflict of interest form. So don't leave without it. And the next is Lean. You here? Did you see this on here? >> No, sir. So, we are we've written a letter. Jenna actually wrote it. Sign my name, but it's to oppose Senate Bill 1071. You know what that is? >> Rangers. >> So, it's to they want to put limits
030on uh the rangers authority stuff they can do. I don't remember exactly all the bullet points. So, anyways, the community foundation has already written a letter and sent it and endorsed by them. And then um we're doing one as a as a board as well. >> Awesome. >> So that'll go out this week. >> So that is a motion item. >> Is it? >> No, that's just discussion. Sorry. >> And now what we've all been waiting for. >> Really? You've been waiting all night for just for this? >> Yes. >> Well, then I can tell a story while you're [snorts] >> Go ahead. No, that's [clears throat] >> I might have told Greg yesterday we were having an emergency meeting last night during the football game. Kind of made that [snorts] [laughter] >> you would
031have been better off. >> Yeah, that's true. [laughter] >> It's a meeting profession. [laughter] All right. So, let's go. You know, we always look at the M fund. Tonight, I just wanted to take a quick glance over at fund 610, our capital funds, since we were talking about the free port grant that freed up some funding there. So, I just want to kind of go through that. All right. Can you make that bigger? >> All right. So, can you scroll down please? [clears throat] right there. Okay. So, this is the capital budget. It shows you what we budgeted, how much we spent, how much we have left in those categories. Um the Freeport money was able to come through and free up a lot of funds within um the capital fund. We were able to
032journal the expenditures that we had made for educational software. were able to to gerald those out of this fund and put it into that grant. So if you scroll down just a touch. So you can see right there we now have 29% of our budget left. Our budget for that category is 414,000 and we have an accumulated expenses of 294. So roughly $40,000 out of that bud out of the grant, $45,000 out of that grant was spent within moving the educational software out. Um the money for the computers for the second grade is still actually within the grant itself, which is another C, you know, category a little bit higher up in here. So, as you can see, capital expenses, we're looking pretty fine. We're doing pretty well there. Um, should be a healthy year
033within capital for the rest of the year. >> And you can roll certain amount of that over to next year. >> Whatever isn't spent get rolled to next year. >> Sort of related to that. What's the schedule on the buses for disposal? Is that coming up or is that >> Okay, so we put two buses out or I'm sorry, we put four buses out for for auction. >> Um, two have been sold. Two were sold and picked up. >> Okay. >> Um, >> just the two in the corner left out here. >> The two that are in the corner left. I had to issue a refund on the one bus. Um, it wasn't an engine harness that was causing issues. It was a transmission. So, they couldn't get it off the property. [clears throat] And
034the other gentleman I've been trying to get in touch with, he's got an international phone number and our phones are not the most friendly when it comes to trying to make an international call. Um, so I'm still trying to get a hold of him again and see when he wants to make arrangements to come pick up his bus. >> It's not the same guy at the bottom. >> It was not the same guy at the bottom. >> Is that or something? >> Yeah. Everything everything that we sold this time was state. >> If you consider California so far, >> did we do okay on them? >> We've done better. >> Three, four, five grand. >> total. At least they're out of here. [clears throat] >> Any other discussion, guys? motion. >> I move to approve
035the budget. >> I'll second it. >> Miss Le. >> Yes. >> Miss Peters. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Amar. >> Yes. Mr. McKin. >> Yes. >> Mr. Austin. >> And yes. >> So, next is just the uh events coming up. We know we have the A+ walkthrough Thursday and Friday of this week. No school next Monday. And the 100th day of school this year is the 23rd. Michelle, do you know the significance of that? >> No, we don't. >> You want to besides being 100, it's when we get our take our correct me if I'm wrong. It's when we take our um school enrollment and that's our official number [clears throat] to get funding. >> Yes. >> Right. That's nutshell. >> Okay. >> And there's lots of sports stuff. So one thing just on the upcoming
036event is you all received the staple paper of the bolts training coming up. [clears throat] So I believe Mr. O is going to attend the end of the month >> in Flagstaff. >> Michelle Tucson and Mrs. Peters will do Tucson as well. >> Okay. So Miss Hamas and Mr. Mhibit if you'd like to attend. But I think I'm pretty excited that three of you plus Jenna will be attending as well. We'll be able to read back the information and we can include information during the study session if needed. >> Looks like no call to the public. And we've just got some any discussion anybody just um keep up what you're doing. Very proud of you guys and thank you for call >> Happy New Year. Yeah. Happy New Year. >> Last week we can say
037that last week. >> I know. I think I wrote 26 Whatever. >> I'm sorry. >> Do you want me to sign this? >> Um, >> whatever. >> Yeah, whatever it >> It's It's Peter's name. >> It's Peter's now. >> Oh, because on the form itself, >> I just made sure I didn't want to. >> No, you're fine. >> Did you guys see our new name plates? >> Yes. >> No wonder Jen is getting the word [laughter] driver's license. Can you spell them? All right. [laughter] >> Still here. Those guys I was having lunch with the other day had two [laughter] go >> just a quick question. Um, do we already increase rates for preschool? >> I'm having that conversation with Mr. Schubert tomorrow. >> Okay. So, then we'll be presenting at the next board meeting.
038Yeah. Okay. >> And with that, we are turned to 6:47. Wow. >> Good job. cardio.