001e [Music] my [Music] than was I do like like might text there's stud not have your certific come to the table he did [Music] okay welcome everybody start oural school board meeting thank you all for coming first we'll have our call to order and we'll start that with pled of alleg pled allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all you could have the roll call of members please here and next is to approve our agenda which is a action name I'll make a motion to approve discuss Mrs Le yes Mr and yes next is to approve the meetings from our last move to approve meeting minutes from 10 second question discussion Mrs Le yes mrsas yes Mr M yes
002Mr that is our call to public I don't see any slips anybody on the phone okay moving right along we'll get to you guys sooner than you think with that we will have our superintendent presentation good evening president ay members of the community and all of our amazing students um it's been a very very busy month so um as you know our theme for the year is friends so this is season 8 episode three the one where Colts are running at full speed so we've had plenty of school activities with PTC sponsored grandparent Bingo we had our great Bingo callers Mr and Mrs Curtis there um I believe this is the second or third year that they have been the Bingo callers National walk to school day was celebrated we have field trips to Metta
003Canyon with our fourth graders red ribon week is this week and a big highlight is our book fair um sold $10,000 worth of books and in in sales so we received $4,500 um$ 45004 Scholastic book Scholastic dollars and you'll see the two students there they were so excited to get their books they had to take a picture of them um we had our Awards assembly for our state assessment so we recognized over 150 students at the assembly and thank you MOS Landscaping they are the ones who come and do our Landscaping they donated um certificates from Target they were $15 certificates and we were able to give certificates to all of our students so we're looking for new donors to get new gift cards for this year we did third grade since we received their
004scores prior to school ending and then we celebrated fourth through seventh graders so we're very very proud of our students and these were students who maintained proficiency and who demonstrated growth on the state assessment student leadership Lighthouse team meetings we had um anti vaping presentations presented by Patty Schuler um from the Amad Community Alliance so you'll see our students there we had our third through fifth grade group and then we had our Middle School group and um we're just very proud of them increasing their awareness and um they also presented the same group presented at our collaborative meeting with our counselor that we had this month as well first quarter Sports celebrations we are the football league champions any football players in the house our cross country girls placed second and our boys placed fifth
005any cross country students in the house well we have one of the coaches volleyball girls demonstrated amazing Improvement we had over 50 girls participate any volleyball girls all right the parents versus students volleyball game was a success as well so great great first quarter season for sports professional development Mrs quas and I and Miss Olivia from generation schools Network presented at the national Allah Summit during fall break um we're very excited about this presentation and we will be sharing it with the board at a later time and with our students because we talked about empowering communities collaborative leadership development and education so we have students videos students who talked about student advisory and leader and me we had parents from parent advisory and we had community members that and they were a highlight at the
006conference because we are really proud of everybody that helps make Continental what it is um continued community support thank you to Green Valley rotary for the donations of third grade dictionaries um and thank you to our greater Green Valley foundation and Continental Educational Foundation for the beautiful mural that some of you saw at Art night it's almost completed and it's in our cafeteria and the brick there the clar family want to thank Mr Nathan because he did um add bricks that we have that were paid for the last two years so it's all updated and so we will be getting sale doing sales again for eighth graders and for families who want to add to the brick Plaza so you haven't seen it out in front it is a really nice closet there um also
007Gabriel's Angels the r with the dogs program Gary and Ruby we did recognize them here before and Ruby and Gary are going to be moving to New York so um they're leaving in November so we will we're gonna try to get him here so kids can see him and Ruby but we'll send him off well well Wishing Well wishing Parts how do you say that well wishes well wishes um AAW the American Association of University women the Green Valley branch I presented to over 50 women and we received positive media from KAG N I don't know if any of you saw the KGUN9 report it is on the K gun9 website but they really did highlight our school and um talked about our override and our funding and our budget cuts so we very happy
008about that and the AAW women have supported Continental um in the past they they helped us purchase the second grade Chromebooks when we needed them and now they're willing to help us again with the end of life computers that we're replacing and they also have purchased a few bricks as well that are also in the plaza so again um we're going to make it a great year we're going to go forth and do please don't forget to vote November 5th reminder that our Continental override number 410 is the very last item on the ballot so if you haven't opened up your ballot yet you'll see Continental at the very end so we're saying start from the from the end and move your way up to the beginning of the B so thank you that conclude
009concludes my presentation I appreciate you all for being here thank you so that means yes on 410 some of those things does yes mean no no mean yes so ours is Yes means yes and tell 10 people yes yes thank you so with that probably the real reason yall are here is for our Cult of the month um presentation with that we get all ours up here please and we're go no [Music] all right so please parents and family feel free to come forward piur and you want to meet your child over there to help out their shirts [Music] somebody move the St Connor is a great Colt he's he is quiet and gets his assignments completed and this shows responsibility he is friendly to all of the students even in the other classrooms he
010follows the rules to stay safe he works hard all month and earns this award by being kind safe and responsible good job little one I absolutely love being your kindergarten teacher Mrs kisley is a sweet and kind student and friend to her peers she's helpful in the classroom and on the playground she shows that she's kind safe and responsible Haisley has a heart of gold she's a motivated student and a kind human in every sense I'm so lucky that I get to learn with you and watch you grow this year I am so proud of you pleasley keep up the great work Mrs Sal Everly Everly is such a great helper with a huge heart she's a caring friend to all her classmates ever tries her best at everything and is growing so much already
011I'm so lucky to have her in my class this Tess congratulations Sage is absolutely a Fab is first grader she's very kind to classmates and staff every day she's always friendly and willing to help others Sage is safe with classroom supplies and school equipment because she follows rules and uses things appropriately she's responsible because she pays attention she's ready to learn and she works hard to complete her assignments correctly and on time it is a pleasure to have sage in our classroom terrific work Sage keep it up Mrs Rodriguez W Benjamin is really kind and responsible I love having him in my class and look at that smile very positive too Mrs congratulations [Applause] Benjamin Kennedy is always kind to her peers and adults she has a huge heart and is respectful she strives to
012be safe at all times and is becoming more responsible every day thank you Kennedy for always being a good example others Daniela is my Cult of the month nominee because she's the kindest sweetest most respectful young lady she's a very bright student who comes to school every day eager and ready to learn she likes to S front and center so she can participate and be fully engaged she helps other students if she sees they're struggling and need help she follows both school and classroom roles daily Daniela is a role model student and I enjoy being her teacher and having her in my class this is he get upia dollia helps out in any way she can around the classroom if she finishes her work early she helps other students if the class has something on
013the ground she cleans up the mess in every way possible during school hours dollia is looking to help out and be the best that she can be Mrs N congratulations Brighton is very kind and loving young man who shows kindness to his classmates he makes sure everyone is safe throughout the school day and shows compassion to anyone that is in need of help Ron has grown so much academically emotionally and with his confidence I'm so proud for him trying his best at all times and for being amazing at participating in all activities throughout the day way to way to go bright in Mrs HW congratulations Georgia is kind to all of her peers and to the principal to is walking and is always willing to help others each day she follows our tle and school
014rules without reminders she's responsible with her school work and always complet her work on time congratulations this is Lane Jacob has a wonderful work etiquette and is always on task he shows respect and responsibility by completing tasks in timely manner he is a hardworking student Jacob has shown kindness to all his classmates and teachers around him he tries to help those around him when they are in need of help congratulations Miss W I'm honored to nominate Alon for this month's Cult of the month award to recognize his outstanding display of kindness safety and respons responsibility Alden consistently goes above and beyond in contributing positivity to our classroom and school environment by regularly looking for ways to make those around him feel included and valued Alden is always mindful of creating a safe environment and diligent
015about following classroom and school rules he has prepared returns homework on time and is always actively participating in classroom discussions I think alden's most admirable quality is his perseverance Alden is not afraid to give wrong answers and always wants to try again I love that about him Alden I'm so proud of your hard work and I want you to know that it doesn't go unnoticed keep up the good work love Mrs Flowers congratulations Chloe you've shown responsibility and perseverance every day thank you so much for that you come to school with a big smile on your face and you're ready to get the day going if you're ever unsure of something you always make sure to check in and ask questions and if anyone in the class needs help you are there to answer their
016questions keep pushing yourself even when things are hard you have been an excellent example of kind safe and responsible H congratulations for Mrs M Zen is one of the kindest students in our classroom she's a hard worker she's focused and she's responsible enough to know when she needs help it is refreshing to see her commitment to becoming a better student daily sine we will aeve achieve great things this year congratulations Miss house McKenzie is an awesome Continental cult she shows this every day through the way she treats her classmates McKenzie is kind helpful and always positive everyone at Continental Can Count on McKenzie to have a smile on her face she's always is responsible in completing her coursework and asking for help when she needs it having McKenzie as part of our school and my
017fifth grade class is a real privilege I'm so glad to know McKenzie congratulations Mrs [Music] Adams all right is that all of our quots are we missing anyone so right now we're going to ask if they can please come back with their certificates and stand up here and then we just have two Golden Horseshoe Awards to our St [Music] also l [Music] count of three say Rock one two [Music] three and then stay right there all right so next we're going to give our Golden Horseshoe Awards and these awards are our employees of the month and they are voted on they are submitted by their colleagues out the school so the first award goes to Michelle [Music] W Michelle is a programmatic special education programmatic assistant she's also a continental parent and many of you
018know her know of her let's hear a little bit about what her colleagues have to say when Mrs wtha was new to our team she was eager to learn and help in any way and has continued to be helpful to all she takes initiative and always has a positive attitude she's always willing to help even with her own plate full and is always going above and beyond Mrs wtha is a great hardworking coworker always has a great and positive attitude and is extremely helpful to everyone she also wears many hats and is always so positive she will be the first to help when needed she's an awesome person to work with at Continental she started out as a volunteer here at Continental she's been the PTC president and has helped in classrooms Mrs wera is
019an important member of our Continental staff she's always willing to help and step in when needed she's now one of our cheer coaches and is doing a great job developing the program the students love and respect Mrs W she shows such kindness to the students that she works with and has developed an amazing bond with them she's a hard worker and always enthusiastic Mrs wtha is a true star when it comes to having a smile no matter what is going on and extending help for needed the students love her and it shows when she walks around campus it is a true blessing being able to work with Mrs wtha she's amazing when it comes to working with a variety of students her ability to adapt to the student she's working with is amazing Mrs Mrs
020W takes on the challenge with a smile and never back down from just W to add something you know it's your program has been around for a little while but it's been like this and getting consistency has been a challenge and since she has coming in um she's brought that where the program just grows and grows every single year and the excitement and enthusiasm which is what you want Sher Cod triy to bring that school spirit um just illuminates the school and we really appreciate what she's done there um but to me it goes a little bit further than that um she teaches the students how to do her her job or their job with a smile and have fun and the one thing that I absolutely love and adore about Michelle and she probably
021doesn't know this is when she's in the STA Lounge which is like a ways away you can hear her laughing out loud all the way to my office everybody knows and my job isn't always easy because I deal with discipline and just hearing that laughter just like when I hear the laughter of the kids on the playground reminds me of what I'm doing and who I'm doing it for and it's the simple things like laughing with your friends your co-workers but they don't seem like your co-workers they seem like your friends um in the staff lounge and just that having this joy that you bring to the workplace is phenomenal I really appreciate that and that's a great example to me so thank you I just want to add that when I started here at
022Continental Max was in a stroller and I was begging I couldn't wait for Max to start kindergarten because then I knew that Michelle would be available to come work with us thank you thank you and next up we have Mrs Martha BB Hall and your colleagues say Mrs Hof is an amazing person to work with she motivates those around her and is always there to lend a smile to those around she's a team player who contributes greatly to our school and Community Mrs Hoff can be counted on when help is needed she's a caring teacher and colleague with such a positive attitude and huge heart the loving care that Mrs Hoff has for her students is so heartwarming to see she's a p passionate teacher who will do anything to make sure that her students
023feel welcome she truly thinks about her colleagues students and families and is so empathetic towards everyone's needs she does little things that leave a huge mark on the hearts of us her work family and her student family we're very grateful to have Mrs and now a little bit about this this year there's been a lot of changes in our schools that any of you have noticed we've really tried to increase the amount of play time that our students have and their interactions to socialize which has been moving to reduce anxiety and one of the big programs and the research that I was looking at is the let grow play club and what that is is dedicating basically every single day after school staying here until 4:45 which we don't have any clubs that really do
024that um all school year not just you know Sports the coaches do it but they do it for a quarter and so I really needed two staff members to have this and that's a lot that's a lot to ask to stay for that extra two hours every single day um and when I trapped Miss H in a conference in a school van coming back from California I was listening to the book um the anxious generation on cassette because everybody fell asleep and so I was driving the van and she woke up and listened to it and just totally got clicked on it and took that enthusiasm and when she heard that I was starting it asked to be one of those sponsors and has just made an amazing fun place for the kids that's her
025personality um and taking on a hard job and she knew it was going to be a hard task and starting something from scratch like that can be very difficult and intimidating and she did that without even flinching done an amazing job her in the partner so thank you taking that on job really appreciate count of one two three so with that you guys are free to go but feel free to stay for the rest of the meeting which probably another hour take we that on thank you thank you congratulations [Music] all all right guys you're ready for the consent agenda moving right along item number the consent we can talk about it after we to any discussion on the consent agenda I have some I would like to welcome our new uh Executive Administrative Assistant
026Jenna Ross on our six here with continental and say goodbye to our beloved na I fin learn how to say your name and also hang on we have a little for you best of luck thank you and uh Christy Stowell she left she left oh she left she she did leave well anyways she was here welcoming her as taking um Jenna's place as the new account so with that uh any other discussion on the consent Mrs Le yes Mrs Amar yes Mr mg yes Mr yes and now it's time to report items District financial report we've all been waiting well over a month for this Gregory you get this every month so yeah you have waiting a month for it no remember we had to skip last week so a lot AIT long so here
027is our district Finance report it is updated with all the curent balances that are roll over from the previous year um one couple things I do want to talk about within the district it's not really in the report but it affects the report um if you remember back in way back in June you guys had asked me to increase the ADM to 620 and we compromised at 595 our current ADM is okay um so we are currently 11.85 N5 ADM shy of our budget mon the importance of that is we get $513 per student which equates to $ 59,4 5167 in order to not have to do a budget Revision in December and have to cut our budget we have to be within 1% of that number which would be $ 56,18499 if we gain
028two more students prior to the 100th day and prior more specifically prior to the December reporting we will not have to cut our budget so that is a is a plus um have we had any new students so we have we have new students um but again we have withdrawn students and then new students come in so attendance is is increased by four students from the last board report but again the enrollment so ADM if you remember that only the special needs preschool students provide ADM for the school and kindergarteners count as half and the special needs preschoolers were also half so so we would need basically two full-time students to not have to worry about having to cut the budget this summer so yes we are $3,300 short but we would still have to
029cut out that entire $59,000 if we do not reach that magic number of of we anticipated that to some degree we we did plan a contingency for that so here's hoping everything goes our way good news yeah you have time and hopefully with the new boundary um the new families that were identified within our boundaries we might get a few students from that if not let our but they have to be actually enrolled let's say they say hey we're in a new boundary we're going to start second semester which is a logical thing to do right and so the 100 days January 24th okay but the revision is do in December so we need them before December so see gota love those accounting because we just have new students and will started today yesterday yesterday
030we had a tour for three students today and more people work for one more student so and the numbers I presented you were the numbers as of last Friday so they could have changed from what was reported Monday one over there you go we could be one there we just know we just know what has come in we didn't know what was left we're not let we always so as this is an approval item you done I I am done if you I will move to second more disc Mr M yes this one is a discussion great going to update us on the the balances that used to be held in the County's Treasury office that we were all I know I personally was confused about it for years like why is it just sitting
031there and we can't use it okay so there's recently a letter that's gone out discussing having cash on hand at the county treasurer's office and how we have no way of using it to a point that is correct we did have over a million dollar sitting um back in August of 23 and it's my fault for not reporting on this sooner so you know please hold your flogging until later um the County the County Schools office realized they had made a mistake um so they ended up transferring $1.3 million out of that fund and into the correct fund so they had deposited the money into the wrong fund we still have the money it's just not where it was when that board member had sent out his letter and was talking about it now the
032cash on having cash on hand and having budget capacity are two different things okay we need to have the cash on hand so we don't have what's called a registered warrant which means we don't have the money to cover our bills okay it's like not making sure you don't get a bounce check fee in your personal accounts okay that's why you have that money sitting in there so what this override does is because the the letter was discussing how there's all this money we don't need it what the override does is it provides us budgeting capacity okay so our budget is based off of a formula and that formula does not include how much cash you have on hand at the county Treasures Office okay what the override does for us is it increases our
033amount that we can budget for so the current 14% override gave us $559,000 so that's an additional $559,000 we're able to spend and it has nothing to do with the cash that we have at the County treasurers office now if go can you pull this up to the Excel sheet anyway okay so I don't know what happened with the spreadsheet so the county error the County Schools office error affected like nine 10 other school districts within within P County it went all the way back to fiscal year 200 19 so the 1819 school year they had been making the same error so to give you an example um T USD they had to transfer over $126 million you know Catalina Foothills was like 3.6 Serita was 1.9 you know there were just a whole bunch
034of districts throughout PMA County that had to have this this transfer take place so wasn't just a a it was wasn't us that had had this it was just about every District within Pima County there were some smaller districts like Bubba that didn't have anything um the accommodation District didn't have anything but the Jad had had money that needed to be moved so it affected a lot more than just our district where did they transfer that money back to Capital and it went to Capital white because that's where we're supposed to have gone original so we were running so when we were when that board member was here and we had you know $1.3 million sitting in our ml fund we were still negative 600 Grand with 500 Grand within our um Capital dollars after
035fixing a couple of different errors within uh from Pima County now our Capital fund has like $2.1 million sitting in it and we're at a negative 500 Grand within our M budget here we go all right so just click down there at Morana scroll down so there's what Morana had to transfer so $4.3 million for Mirana go to the next one I think it's Flowing Wells $2 million Flowing Wells next one ampi 11.5 so it was all transferred to their Capital yes it was all transferred out of their M funds into their Capital so that's good so it's really just all a bookkeeping thing it didn't negatively or positive no no just caused more work for you to be honest it didn't even cause that much work for us because they sent us a journal
036entry saying hey we made a mistake we've been making this mistake since 2019 here's a journal entry to fix it so we just enter the journal entry on our side our books go back to matching their books I can certainly understand somebody question you you know barely makes any sense yeah so so but I think a big thing to remember here that a cash balance and your ability to budget are two totally different things because we're only allowed to to spend what we can budget so our our budget being 5.7 million for this school year having have if that million dollars was still sitting in cash I can't spend 6.7 I can only spend that if that helps PowerPoint be nice next time I gave you an Excel spreadsheet thank you just okay new business
037the second reading of the new board policy advis and this is our we didn't have any no new business so these are the policies that um as I'm sure you have reviewed they changed the language from sexual harassment to sex discrimination and it's just including that language in the policies and providing HR departments um more a formal way of dealing with staff grievances or any type of sex discrimination complaints that might occur in the school okay so those are they've just been cleaned up by way and changed a little bit in the language there's not anything new in terms of what we have to do it's just the policy some of theab [Music] change and this is an action item [Music] I'll move to approve the second reading of the board policy I'll second it
038any discussion Mrs Le yes Mrs Mr M Mr yes and but wait there's another policy [Music] we did a first reading a few months [Music] ago so should this be okay so so we did we did a first reading on this one a few months back uh just some some background on this the district did not have a policy in regards to um security and surveillance cameras as well as audio reporting devices um what Mr Ferguson and I had done is we've gone through other districts actually did have a policy and we took what was in their policies to create this one so these are already you know coming out of Asda approved policies it's just customized to what Continental would we we did this one mon or two there just a mistake is the
039use of technology so they're both second reads separate Poli so there's no so the confusion is that usually all the policies in the first read are listed underneath each other so when we do second read They're All listed under each other so they're just broken up that's why we're doing three and just to clarify a little bit further the first one is a policy advisory that came from ASG this one here is something that we put together based off policies that as yeah looks so I'll make a motion to approve the security surveillance camera Poli discussion Mrs Le Mrs Mr M Mr and the second reading of the new advisory considering on technology so this one what they did is they added the um AI use so the policy ofd addes Technologies including the use
040of gener generative artificial intelligence programs and or Platforms in the classroom so again it's left up to a District's discretion on as to how and when AI can be used action item again last one for the night all right I'll move to approve policy discuss this Mrs I was still looking at the screen sorry yes M Mr M Mr yes and we've got uh getting into the holiday season it's anything jump out we got the carnival coming up [Music] Friday know that was on back think no ideas so with that any uh cover board discussions anybody got anything they want to about Laura do you want to share on the county meeting that we ATT um just kind of a collaboration on how to save yourself sinking ship I mean just kind of what things
041putting things in perspect perspective on um most importance on your task that you're trying to conquer um to least important so just kind of knowing where things need to be put in order um good food good night good company and it was a beautiful school so we were in Bale at aronda high school very nice very tght School but one thing with asba is that they are really trying to simplify their policies and narrow them down like the trust is um because I guess a lot of districts have left asba and are going with the trust in terms of the trust policy bridge and when we had looked into it we were still under contract with asba so it wasn't going to be cost effective for us to move to the trust year right two
042years two years so now asba is going to um narrow down their policies and simplify them so they asked if um I would be able to help preview and do some of the the reworking of the policy so we'll wait to see when they send them to me what they look like so it'll be interesting it'll be interesting no one I'm doing them a favor they asked would you be willing help so I said okay sure cost Grand sure sure give us a discount that we'll take a quick break you know what this is about I I'll talk to you at the okay all [Music] does every District old forms so with those forms so the county is moving over to a new system and as of right now they don't even know if they
043will still be those forms so we ordered just one packet of those forms just in case at least there's not like black carbon paper in here I'm surprised what was it AO machine maph that smelled so good the old copier remember that [Music] no okay come on Drew am you're making copies with two rocks and a chisel all right well thank you we are adjourned and pretty much now you