001foreign I will support the Constitution of the United States Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona that I will bear truth faith and allegiance to the same so there are two states and emotions and defend them and install enemies foreign sir discharge discharge the duties of the office the duties of the office of the district governing board of the District of report of Continental Elementary School District according to the best of my abilities [Music] so we'll have call to order here May 21st 501. and if you guys would join us for the Pledge of Allegiance about our newest memories [Music] thank you so foreign whatever here Mr mcgibbon Mrs Allen here and with that we will take a recess till about six o'clock for
002executive sessions instead so you gave an explanation of course but this is good how are you doing so fiscal year today yeah this is what he's amazing year to date today okay so the underwriters [Music] friends yeah okay everybody welcome we are actually on item number five we had an executive session between five and six so now it is the agenda which is a notion I remember we've got like a challenge any discussion um Mr mcgiven yes is this album yes Mr Austin all right can you ride along so we will approve the minutes from February 7th last month any discussion on the news this is a Mrs November yes Mr mcgibbon yes this is Alan yes yes and Item B which would be these super short meeting we had on the 13th to approve
003those months Cooper is the meeting at the meeting minutes on February good yes this is yes yes and that is our call to the public community okay please enter the conference clear number you are currently the only person in this country and with that we move right to these superintendent's presentation good evening uh president Austin members of the board members of the community and our students thank you for being with us today short board report for this month so as a reminder our vision and our mission is posted it's posted in your classrooms and it's posted in our hallways it's up here in our Core Group because we make all of our decisions based on our mission and our vision state enrollment update in summer school just letting everybody know that we currently have 654
004students including preschool preschool which has been our steady number most of the year we currently have 22 kindergartners registered for next school year from our preschool we're expecting 25 and we only have 10 of the 25 registered so please remind your friends neighbors that hinder enrollment is open our students are currently re-registering for next school year and we have open enrollment and as well that I will be reviewing pretty soon but we really this year we have four kindergarten teachers so the either it depends on the number of incoming tinders that we get or we might have to roll over one of our Kindred teachers to teach first grade if we don't have that enrollment in Kinder I need to have four teachers okay so let's just spread the word summer school will will run
005for three weeks Monday through Friday June 5th through June 23rd it will be from 8 to 12 30. so we will be targeting students who need additional support based on our end of the year NWA Maps assessment prior to allowing other students to enroll but we will have an enrichment track as well for students who would like to participate in the enrichment courses special events and celebrations love of reading week it was a great fun week I tried to get into all the classrooms to read um in the room so I enjoyed that time there's me with preschool we also had a lot of their rotarians come and read with our classes we had about seven or eight rotarians we read in two to three classes also our grade level musicals if you haven't attended
006one we have some up and coming that are on our website but thank you to miss the lady we had a third grade Musical that was presented prior to spring break which was phenomenal so we're very proud of all of our students and of our Miss boleti and our teachers great news our preschool dual language class are starstep champions they participated in the Southern Arizona regional science and engineering Fair they received they received first place grand prize on the category was food and they did how to make the perfect pizza and they won the creativity award so we want to thank Megan our preschool prayer prayer Pro and teacher or her work with the students so here's something that they said in their research we tasted three different Pizza sauces and other toppings one child
007stated that it smelled like soup another child said my mom says I can't eat that so we're very proud of our preschool preschool walkathon call Color Run fun you can see pictures there we appreciated our PTC and also help keep our annual events and traditions going so I stayed at the eg-13 table so I wouldn't get plastered with paint but usually our kids there our preschool kids we're ready to go to the Fun Run we have our third grade team there um and Miss Laura the fever thank you for she was born in at the county level at her first assignment coming in as a board member was serving PG so thank you Miss Laura and welcome thank you thank you our weatherization update so we are um still waiting for the school facilities board
008um to give the final approval on the on-dark project but just know that it is on the radar we're hoping that if it doesn't get approved by the end of this year it'll move to the next fiscal year but we will be getting new paint and windows for our school preschool shade update also the installation date has been set for the preschool shade so we should be you should be seeing shade structures around campus completed by the end of April foreign professional development with generation schools Network I spoke to our board a little bit about this today but today we had admin and leadership team participated in walkthroughs and discussions on professional learning communities on plc's and next steps in our school Improvement Endeavors Thursday we're going to focus on structured Ela and math data
009analysis with Middle School teachers and we I can emphasize enough how excited and proud We Are of all the teaching and learning that was occurring today in our walkthroughs we went through 20 classrooms and it was so amazing to see all of our students engage participating asking questions teachers using poor curriculum so we are just super proud of our teachers and our students and that concludes my presentation number today so thank you very very much thank you so with that we will move to our principles of employment students practice [Music] good evening everybody thank you for being here for tonight and for your support this is a report that has to do with our winter data and where our students are at they tested uh at the start of the school year and this is
010our winter data so we can see where their growth was at so in mathematics if you look here the Rick sport is his Mac NWA math testing and these uh Country-Wide across our country the rate scores based off of the averages of where students should be at so if you can see kindergarten is almost meeting their race course growth scores meaning where they were in the winter a sense of growth Works where they shouldn't be cut the next one so Kinder is there first grade that little yellow diamond is if they're repeating the diamond we're pretty much where we need to be or where as you can see just a little off so third grade is a good example of that for mathematics fourth grade we can see that there's some working in more working
011interventions in mathematics fifth grade is above where they should be right now at this point sixth grade is almost there the seventh grade in each grade R where they should be at this point in the school year based off of their growth outcomes so if you look at preschool we won't have they don't take Maps testing but Kindergarten 74 students have tested the number of students who met growth projection was 28 10 percentage of students who met um percentage of them 38 no growth could mean that we might have students in any of these grade levels that may already be at grade level or above and sometimes it's a little more challenging for them to continue on or to show further growth but we're still working on that so this is just those who met
012a growthful outcome so that's for mathematics and then this is just a bigger snapshot out of um if you love theater the number of students suggested for each grade level the number of students at or above the grade level we were at for the winter time so if you look at our percentages we want to our as we keep going through our years we want to get into the 60s and then the 70s so we have goals for ourselves as a district and as a psych uh when I first started here we were a lot in the 30s and um some were in the 20s and we're really proud of the work that we've done given how the past four years have been so to be at winter point my point of the year to
013be already in the 50s with levels with percentages and growth is pretty huge for us and fourth sixth and seventh grade when we look at our data analysis we look at those indicators of grades when we meet we're going to talk a little bit more about what are the supports and the interventions of playing meanings but if you look overall out of all our kindergarten and eighth grade students 610 students we have 49 of students at the winter who are at where they should be at grade level or above so about 50 of our students language arts and reading again if you look at the diamonds there we're not super far off you can see a lot of them are meeting where exceeding or are right on the cusp of being where they need to
014be for winter you also have to keep in mind that we also have students who are English language Learners students who are in the process of being referred that we have deficiencies and some challenges in language mathematics and writing and comprehension so that all factors in to growth in our progression but we're pretty happy with where this is going from that point of the Year data as well if you look look at kindergarten percentages of students who met their growth projections 58 that's pretty huge and as we continue on with everything that our board has provided for us and you as our parents this is the curriculum that we hold out we're starting to see these shifts in growth and with our teachers with Fidelity to that curriculum we're seeing a big progression in jobs
015with growth oh and as you can see here we have 309 students out of our 610 Kinder all the way through eight 51 are at or above grade level mean right and then this thing with the same with language usage this is writing conventions writing and conventions so when they're getting when they're getting tested on this this is them looking at sentences for the younger children it's them looking at letters uh symbols in that nature but as you can see we don't have language usage all the way until second grade so it's test language uses is second and up but again when we first started Maps three years ago diamonds were above and we were well below them so this was really exciting for us to look at site leadership and we have our discussions
016with our teachers to see well where are we going to be at this point next school here because our goal is to continue to far exceed it's pretty good could you go back to that like just looking at the numbers of students who met their growth projection so our students have asked them about the finders you're going to get back to our finder checks where we get to our friends they show us the goals they're setting and its portfolios that they're they've created so we get to walk around they share with their peers their teachers they share with us what goals they've met and they celebrate their work so it's a celebration of where they started and how far they've come and we're really excited with all of their hard work and it's a testament
017to you as well and the help that you give them and as you can see here for a number of students at or above grade level neighborhood second grade 56 47 you jump to fifth grade 67 61 so we're we're pretty good for everything points 269 out of 470 students were at or above grade level mean ripped for where they should be for winter which is 57 of our students and science was the first time that we were able to give the science test so we're super excited about it because 52 of our students tested in third through eighth grade are also above are at Great leveler book and starting his Thursday we have State Testing for fifth grade science so our fifth graders are going to be tested Thursday and Friday and then next
018week for middle schoolers it's 8th grade and fifth grade you'll get tested on on science so as you can see here um we have when we look at data we can see like we go back and we say okay what what's the learning that needs to continue in these areas what supports can we continue to give these great levels and we're continuing to look this is with teachers um utilizing me on textbooks uh planning together and collaborating and I know we're going to continue talking next year about adopting a curriculum for science Special Education data so this is all about growth because we really want to make sure that our students are growing throughout the year academically so kindergarten six students we're testing six mini growth and reading five food growth in America first grade
01910 were tested instant reading eight we've broken Math so as you keep seeing it was growth all across the board and this is something to be celebrated because our special education resource teachers are programmatic assistants who are working one-on-one with our students our special education director in collaboration with general education teachers and parents this is a testament to all of that hard work you just see drove third grade 10 students tested nine-day growth in Reading eight in in writing seven in math and then when you see those little stars one student's fault all 22 Baseline Sports not available they started um this was the first time they took the test so we don't have their growth reporting it but we will be able to see that growth in me so we're really excited about our
020special education students and the growth that they're making next steps we're continuing to have our grade level day-to-day meetings we will continue to have those with site leadership and our teachers and departments and they will use that data to employ those one-on-one interventions enrichment and re-teach and they're also working right now on preparing for State Testing throughout the month of April familiarizing students with testing strategies and the sample tests and becoming familiar with what the the dashboard looks like at the students and just so you know from fall to winter we had challenged the students and told them when they took the winter test that those of them that showed growth were going to be we had bikes community members had donated a lot of prizes so we had them displayed up in the cafeteria
021on the stage for quite a few weeks about three weeks and it's amazing just to see the shift in in the culture of our students here excited about what they're learning and wanting to share and knowing that they've set goals for themselves and when they did their quarterly Benchmark it's not just you know this test it's they're seeing how far they've grown they're challenging themselves and they get excited about it and so I was very pleased we were very pleased we had ordered EG's for 300 students and as we were going through the data over 600 students there was 19 students out of our whole students population tested k through eight who struggled in showing growth in any of the tested areas just 19 out of all of our students so we were making cups
022of EG's half because we told the kiddos we were like you know we had ordered this these species ahead of time and you guys just blew it out of the water they were so proud of themselves and excited everybody got awarded and celebrated for their hard work and their dedication and then we did Raffles so we're going to continue to do that because we want to be able to make sure that we can celebrate our students they're doing great things and then we have our state testing schedule which is also on our website we sent out a Colts family news so that's also listed there I know sometimes families will ask us if they're happy to head out of town or there's doctor's appointments when are we testing testing third through eighth grade and we
023have our testing dates that we've sent out we'll send them out again but testing starts this week officially and it goes into all the way through April 20th we don't do all the tests in one week so we break it up so the kiddos aren't overwhelmed with all of these tests and and um it's about two tests a week um we're excited to see veterans and they're very proud that their hard work moved our school from looking to mini school and they're really excited to keep it that way are there any questions well thank you it's great to see progress that's really exciting well now the real reason why I get all the problem here was it for the pizza or the entertainment so far so here we're going to do our special recognition which
024would be the first part is the cult of the month and the second part if you could stay around this really cool look um it's me too carrots please don't forget it's time to come up and take pictures and we were recordings and then they'll get t-shirts over there so if you want to meet them at that table to pick their size shirt Okay so then pointers first grade [Music] so Bennett was nominated by Mrs Lake in our school librarian and she writes Benny is always wonderful to have in library he always comes in and follows directions he's quick to let me know if I needed to update my calendar and is ready to help me then it will gladly help me at any point with any project I have I feel develop smile on
025YouTube Great Library friend congratulations Mrs Linda [Applause] everybody um for kindergartners we kindergarteners have to be thankful for our teachers to your teacher because they may use standards we were so proud of yes Santiago is a happy little cult he's kind to all of us in class he's safe and always follows the rules in class and on the playground he completes his assignments with a smile I really enjoy teaching him every day congratulations so my bird um is Kinder and my name's um and you gotta be thankful for your teachers and don't feel don't make them angry um and these teacher writes Sebastian has shown so much improvement academically this year he completes all of his assignments and really concentrates and does his very best every time I look at him he's working hard and
026is focused on his work he raises his hand to speak and cooperates to help his peers he follows all the rules and stays safe on the playground and in the classroom he's truly a responsible quote congratulations foreign Eden is always ready for a challenge with a smile on her face she's willing to help her peers while studying the great example to others Eden will definitely have a bright future congratulations thank you these flowers right for the month of February I let my students vote under they felt was the best example reports of the month Evangeline this is what your classmate said about you imagine always has a smile on her face when I first met her she was really kind to me we've been friends ever since I see Evangeline always being kind to others
027in the classroom at recess Amazon I did Evangeline because she always listens to the teacher and she's made a lot of growth I chose Evangeline because she's always hanging out with your buddies she takes care of her stuff and uses appropriate language and for Mrs Clowers Evangeline I'm so proud of you you've come so far from the beginning of the school year and the growth that you're showing has obviously not gone unnoticed by your peers I love your kind heart and how you randomly give me stickers and pictures that you know I'm going to love you have a great big heart and see good in others always keep being you because I love you congratulations [Applause] thank you all right Mrs off Wright's Lillian has shown a lot of growth in caring for his classmates
028and being responsible with his choices in the classroom as well he's safe and reaches and reaches and puts those that need help around him very proud of you Dylan congratulations [Applause] so bead ends teacher Mrs Cruz writes Eden is a great student outstanding in all activities she's always kind to her classmates and very responsible with all of her work she's a very smart student who always try and confess I'm proud and happy to have her in my fifth grade class congratulations [Music] thank you great so her Middle School teachers write Erica is a great student an incredible young lady she's kind to all very supportive of others her peers and her teachers with the smile that can warm your heart Erica works hard in academics while also participating in sports her assignments are in on
029time and completed well Erica has mostly A's with 100 PE in music The Challenge of moving from elementary school to Middle School seemed seamless Erica's patient funny hard-working and looks at things with a positive lens it's a pleasure it's our pleasure to nominate Erica for culture well deserved congratulations my name is Chloe and I'm in seventh grade Chloe's Middle School teachers write Chloe is a perfect candidate for this award her prime dedication and aspiration shows through in everything she does on a daily basis Chloe demonstrates safety and responsibility to her peers and teachers and therefore as well liked and well respected by everyone she encounters she's a wonderful model for other students as to what we expect from our students here at Continental it has been an honor and privilege to work with Chloe this
030year and we look forward to working with her again next year great job Chloe keep up keep up the Stellar Workshop foreign [Music] parents if you want to come up closer yeah so our Golden Horseshoe awards are given to our classified and certified staff members and we want you to stay up here so you can celebrate our staff member that was able to make it tonight um they are very special because they are nominated by their colleagues and this is done monthly and what they write about them come straight from the people that love care and work with them every single day and for our assertive for our classified we have this is nisi Venegas who works in preschool she wasn't able to be here tonight she says she's very honored to receive this award
031and maybe we can save it and present it to her next one and then for our certified staff member Mrs Lacy Salisbury thank you [Music] so her colleagues right Mrs Salisbury stepped up to taking the position of kindergarten teacher after school had started and an additional class was added Not only was it hard to start at that point in the school year but this is also her first year of teaching she always has a smile on her face no matter how her day is going she's she shows such loving kindness to her students she's always willing to step up and help her teammates and other staff members anytime they may need it she just radiates positivity everywhere she goes Mrs Salisbury stepped in and began teaching kindergarten with finesse and Grace she's a team player
032and welcome addition to the staff Mrs Salisbury is a welcome addition to our staff at Continental she's kind of her students at doorford she jumped into a position and has given it her all her Joy compassion and knowledge I've given her students a wonderful kindergarten experience we could have never done it without her she's a true gem thank you Mr small series thank you [Music] I'm sure [Music] why aren't you excited to me yay okay they're a little bit tired we like when the kids are more tired than the staff so good job boys and girls means you worked hard today good job so with that we'll take a couple minute recess foreign thank you so we'll move into the consent agenda so there's a bunch of items probably all at once problems um sorry
033I've seen this evening she's been here since 2005. and we will celebrate her at a board meeting not years ago okay cool um so with that and I would like to comment on two other things um one of them is I guess we broke down and renewed your contract for another little while so I'm just very happy to have you thank you where's Mr Ferguson and it's true in item I Joseph ferson as director of Technology services so we just wanted to say congratulations if you want to take a bow at the crowd or anything more than happy I moved to approve the district financial report second okay this is my favorite yes this is Mr mcgibbon yes Mrs Allen yes Mr Ulster yes and item 12b the school district spending report so every year
034the state's auditor general releases a school district spending report and what this does is it gives you a outline of where the district has spent their money over the course of the year so what this report is doing is it's showing you in each each category of how we spend our money over the course of the previous fiscal year um oh I wish this report would have laid out but I look better on my email or something um so yeah this is really hard for to read so I'll just go ahead and give the the high level overview with without being able to actually see the report it's not presented correctly um we spent pretty close to exactly what we had spent the previous year in each operational category um our administrative costs actually I
035believe actually went down this past year um in the classroom spending was roughly the same the points where you've seen that we did spend more money in is we spent more money in facilities and we also spend more money within transportation um our food costs are slightly higher than peer districts so overall and all we spent pretty much what we did the previous year in those those formative areas you still see that we spent I'm trying to remember because it's been almost a month since I was actually look at the report it's right around 78 of our money was spent within classroom funding so so if you take that that m o budget 78 of it was actually spent towards kids and in classrooms so you're looking at 22 for administration of Transportation um for
036um clerical some Clerical Service Services uh food service is a different fund so yeah pretty close to to what we had done I I feel really bad about giving this report right now because I don't have it in front of me that actually presented very well but I will be more than happy to discuss this report from the auditor General's office with any member of the community or any board member as you would like can you email that to me at a later time Yes actually the one in the agenda is kind of walking too yeah okay so whatever I have a question regarding their transportation yeah yeah no we are doing um help with other districts that we're being compensated for so it's that kind of so this is this isn't for this year
037this is for the previous year we weren't doing it then okay um what you're seeing within transportation is um is our number of students writing our per pupil cost is higher than most most functional areas if I remember remembering her to court correctly so our our transportation costs are down or below at below everyone else's average it's just our cost to transfer on a per-pupil basis far higher and that's just you know we've got some really rural areas that we have to go to so to go to um elephant head to pick up you know five six kids it's the cost for doing that is just pretty expensive to do yes okay well give us a second we may actually be able to get through this [Music] as well Statewide yeah we can just send
038them yeah it also will be on our website yes we'll post it onto our website as well and it was just discussion information there's no voting so we can continue the discussion other questions for Greg so with that we have a couple guests with us tonight that are going to talk about the cable Road Extension if I could reduce this Kevin Kenyan who is president of the Green Valley Council and Tom bresney a long time friend of Continental School who in Green Valley areas representative to Pima County District Four supervisor Steve Christ some info as to what's going on grandfather [Music] okay next slide please the Campbell Road Extension um I have the dubious honor of saying that I've seen Continental School District appear on my tax bill for 15 years and I'm proud to
039say this is my first time in the building and we should be very proud of it it is a beautiful beautiful facility and congratulations on all of your accomplishments so couple of years Campbell Road I came into knowing about Campbell Road because my husband serves on the sheriff's Club silver and volunteers as the commander and every time they have a new commander-in-chief at the substation here in Green Valley they get to go on a tour and that's affectionately known as The Road to Nowhere you know they come and they look and so I've traveled it I traveled with the chief going around all the barriers and looking access and it's it's always been a site that has been within art purview at the council but it was deemed um safety issue you know we looked
040at it as what is the feasibility of extending this and because it was a safety issue there is virtually no funding in the county they didn't want anything to do with it and our Good Neighbors in saharita saw no need from their end to extend it so in June of 2021 um Pima County Department of Transportation Department the supervisor's office the staff that there were 4.7 million dollars of impact these collected in this area of Pima County so how those impact fees come about and the president may know how this works uh they're assessed when homes are built and so if a if a developer wishes to have the streets that they developed put into the public maintenance program and there's an impact to be discussed to uh the new homeowner so there was 4.7
041million dollars worth over a period of time that were made available for projects in this area and so what supervisor Chrissy told us to do or told me to do was you know all the president came in the Green Valley Council start working through on what you want to use they have 4.7 million dollars for it impact fees have some very stringent qualifications though they can't be utilized for safety purposes one of the what precipitated after the supervisor told me I had money was a call to our local First Responders and I wanted to have a dialogue with the people who are on the roads every day all over Green Valley our jurisdictional area so I brought them in I had the lieutenant I had the commander of the sav and I had and I
042actually wondered I said if you had had 4.7 million dollars to spend I said where I identify a couple of the sites for me and the first thing they all said was the Campbell Road Extension the second thing they said was how are you going to get to the capacity issue and that's when I called Tom and I said how's the building going on in saharita and he said I think we've made the capacity issue now so we set up a series of meetings with the town of saharita we talked with the mayor and their their Town planner and engineer and said that you know this wouldn't be something that really hits uh hits the marker on two fronts one IT addresses the capacity issue but from a safety issue it gives our fire district
043all of our First Responders access to this area that they don't have um it came to it came to light after a couple of situations where we had some Hazmat spills one we had very recently but um I deal with worst case scenarios in my job and one of the worst case scenarios I look at this area and go Wildfire we had a Wildfire by the grace of God it went over the mountain rather than coming this way and as we all know that it's a simple shift in airflow so my concern always is how in the world do we get children out of here we have subdivision back there that's one of our members and how do we keep everybody safe so um fortunately with this new capacity ruling we were able to put
044this through as a project right and then how we looked at the capacity as she was with the build out of Quail Creek and Madeira Highlands you had a lot more traffic on Old mcgow's Highway which our school buses Traverse on the way back and forth to the school of the Thomas Arena took over the intersection of White House Fan in Old Nogales and Continental Road they put in the traffic signal so the area has been combating with that because that's the issue we looked at the other roads in the Green Valley area we knew their Continental La Canada Rego esperanzo Camino Del Sol would probably not be the requirement to increase Lanes or anything like that so this was really the only viable option that they had that we had so once we were
045able to get the Department of Transportation to Pima County to say okay well Campbell Avenue Extension is a go then we had to start talking or they had to start talking with the Thomas Rita um how are they going to fund it because it will show on the next slide where the demarcations are at so it's gone over uh when over a number of every number of months actually for 13 months Department transportation Town Sarita coordinated with the planning area went through the attorneys with Thomas Sarita and Pima County to uh finish up an intergovernmental agreement the Board of Supervisors on March 7th approved the intergovernmental agreement with the Thomas County the Thomas Eureka Council will vote on that IGA next Monday at their Town council meeting so I encourage anybody here to to go
046to the town I mean Town council meeting and say thumbs up on on item 5C on your agenda next week so I want to thank the Green Valley news for giving us this uh letting us use their photo that they had their article from about 10 days ago on newspaper and uh you want to point out real quick I added a couple of things the line or the the line Campbell Road Extension between the two yellow circles that's the total length I added in there a red line and that shows the demarcation between the Thomas Cerrito or the South End of Madeira Highlands is just south of Sawmill Canyon wash and then it comes into unincorporated Pima County so the town of Sarita has 500 about 515 feet that they haven't paid yet they can't
047Campbell Avenue extension and the county will have the rest um how do you how the intergovernmental agreement will work is Pima County will have project management and the Thomas Cerrito will reimburse the county for their portion of the Campbell Road Extension or Campbell Avenue Extension because we cannot use impact fees inside of a jurisdiction so we couldn't use it in Sarita or Tucson or anything like that it has to be used in unincorporated Pima County and you'll see up there where the blue dot is I'm sure all of you are realized that that is property that the Continental Elementary School District owns I don't know how many acres is it about four or something like that I mean it's how much 20 20. tomorrow oh it's 20 acres so what's your plans are for that
048I know you were given that property when they started building up here are Highlands because when a developer comes in they have to give up space for open spaces and schools if they see an expansion in the school so um you'll have much easier access to that property with this extension instead of going all the way around any questions on this slide okay thank you okay so it's safety wise for the school anyways you won't have to contend with your computer Pacific Railroad anymore on your transportation new school buses you know I know for my granddaughter she has to go over those tracks twice on the way to school place on their way home the school buses on one route across the tracks four times four times in the morning four times in the afternoon
049and so just not having to deal with the Union Pacific Railroad I've heard uh reports in the past that sometimes the roads are blocked trains stop and uh this is just a much better route for getting to the school like I pointed out before this will give you direct access to your property I'm in Madeira Highlands you know we've seen a lower Transportation costs you know fuel bus maintenance shorter routes and Lincoln time five or ten minutes for a first grader like my granddaughter would probably mean a lot and uh with with less money going into transportation that goes the more money into the classroom are there any questions for us yes ma'am when White House Kenyan promote if you have a wheat will it be a money or some form of directory we have
050already talked with Pima Department of Transportation and said that that intersection needs to be looked at and addressed at the same time that's going to open up traffic and we need to make sure that it flows properly and that's a rough left turn it is it's a very rough Lan turn and Department of Transportation has already been out and they're looking at different ways to reconfigure and we'll agree I'll reiterate that with the Department of Transportation tomorrow we have a meeting with them and the supervisors office tomorrow morning so it's one of those points I'm going to make with them to be verify and bring that home that we need to do something with that intersection and I would assume that the discussions are going to happen when they fix the road where the road
051at the stop sign where the watch is where it dips will that be addressed and fixed and raised because when we get rain that's that's a spot of washout as well it's just past the railroad track so just want to make sure we're just looking at that whole area it's been a while and coming but they know that shall we increase traffic that is certainly interesting do you guys have a assuming everything sounds like it's moving right along the timeline very very quickly and I went not in my world so so the engineering study will begin as soon as the town of cereal yeah in a governmental agreement so we're hoping that engineering I think that's probably reasonable and we'll just keep surprised of what's happened you're very welcome it's just a matter of record
052the school did write a letter um supporting the attention as well thank you um thank you any other questions thank you very much for advocating for us for us well you're welcome very much and thank you for having us tonight [Music] well the rest of stuff isn't as fun but our uh we had to approve the Supreme insurance um superintendent goals as discussed in the executive session action item I'll move to improve the superintendent goals as a specifications for what three years thank you and with that uh we'll move on to approving the resolution for section 125 the cafeteria so the IRS has raised his ugly head again and we do not have a resolution for a section of 125 cafeteria plan what that is is it gives the district the authority to take money
053out of an employee's paycheck for their health care and benefits like that so this resolution is what was presented to us for you to approve and we will just make sure that this stays on file and we will keep this for eternity and we will not have no important issues with taking money out of employees paycheck for for any of the healthcare leads my question tell them to approve the resolution for section attorney for a second any discussions on the plan is there a reason it's called a cafeteria plan that is a part of it no I have no idea yeah is there jello okay Mrs left Weaver yes this is Ellen yes and with that that takes us to the first reading of the amended the word policy which is this one does um
054address the professional support staff we've asked about this is uh an action item it's a first read so it's not an action item so it will bring it to the board for next board meeting for customer so when you get a chance to read it is yes so please try to read that before we can vote on the next one or next month um with that one that will take us to the governing board conflict of interest I believe this is here because uh our new member will review that and sign it from technology and then we also have a memo of understanding between the children and family services and continental and as mentioned before I have reached out to emilito to see if they could come service some of our students at one of
055the students of us parents or Gardens and um they returned with an option for us to be trained with their curriculum and we would in staff provide the services to the students whether it be during the school day obviously with their permission um but with the mou being approved they will come and do a two and a half hour training with our team and we are looking at also on getting somebody that malt also mail is currently in using the model that the medigo has and they train all of their counselors and they're providing the curriculum um absolutely question the approval and the uh and when you did go to our legal counseling so we're just waiting for approval so we can schedule the training only to approve the mlbu between two people and best
056I guess okay Mr and the mno override raises its head again so the attorneys that helped us out with our our last override were reaching out looking to see what our level of interest is in going out early um normally we would be going out next year for our renewal and that would give us two opportunities to have it done before it starts to decrease um currently they're expecting that with the next presidential election as well as they're also affecting the legislature to move the aggregate expenditure limit to out to voters that the next the year that we wouldn't normally go out would probably not be in our best interests they are looking at a lot of bond issues and they're expecting a lot of failures in bonds and and overrides for the 2024 election
057so right now it's basically a discussion of do we want to go out this year to renew our override do we want to wait until 2024 and and try it in the midst of the presidential election Lord we want to wait until that 2025 here which would be the last year before it will start to go down um just because of time so I leave that in your most capable hands of telling me what you'd like me to do so this department or on this of somebody reach out to you about this yes this office of people who went to school for analyzing and assessing these they spend all day as their full-time job doing this and specifically these made this recommendation these are the attorneys that go over all the bonds these are the
058attorneys that work with the bond and the overrides to make sure everything is done correctly so it's the attorneys that we're looking at this but it would shift the time frame of the overhead correct and shift it yes it is a set point in time so a renewal would just start to clock over again until we start earlier yes instead of waiting until ours expires correct could you ask them if we could we voted off this year if it would take effect and the other one started some thistle out that would have put this it doesn't work like that I'm sorry can you can you explain like how so next year so if that's just safe and we wait till 2024 and it doesn't get approved how the money so if it doesn't get approved
059in 2024 we're still okay we still have one more year so the election for November 2025 would take place for fiscal year for the upcoming fiscal year so fiscal year 27. I gotta get my numbers right is when the actual decreases begin and we start losing a third of that until it's completely gone unless we get an override passed and ballpark how much is in the other right here five hundred and seventy thousand dollars so we lose 150 160 it it doesn't start until yeah so if we went out this year and the voters don't pass it then we have next year to try to we would still have two years to go to get it done I know before the last the last one we the voters did it pass it and then they
060we had to believe [Music] so yeah I came in in July of 20 right in the middle of our last override so I had a lot of catching up to do so that's why we're just kind of looking for some guidance from you guys from now so what so if we went early to be in November of 23 it would be November this this November would be the election so we'd really be cutting it short or we decide to go out against the recommendation and do it during the presidential election which we did minutes but we end the past we put more voters during the presidential election also yes so we did we did remember how we went for our override during the non-recommended year and and it passed whereas last year a lot of
061districts they just went for their overrides to get up they may have many mentioned about the economy no there was no discussion on the economy or anything else it was just a lot of districts are currently looking at not going up against the presidential election so that is that is the reason why Gus Roosevelt sent reached out to anybody who hadn't talked about the election saying this is what we're hearing where are you at what do you want to do so hypothetically if we were to wait until the year after the election yeah yeah I mean 25 November of 25. so then we would have one chance that would be our chance a plan with what we've been ordering how we're going to reduce it and that's the advantage of going earlier because then teachers
062aren't worried about it we're not happy to really it's kind of like how we with the advocate expenditure limit and that stress of not knowing with the stress of not knowing that they can also go to the voters or like again we just vote that's what I was going to say yeah yeah we just did this three years ago and that's my only concern that we have so soon pleasantly economy of this kind of thing marginal demand I don't know I mean but this is discussion only at this point yeah this is just a discussion with you guys providing some sort of a guidance as to where it is you're standing as far as what you think we should do yeah either way it's a gamble like me personally I I my my thought is
063to go up against the president that is my opinion and it's simple because you're going to get a larger voter turnout and you're going to see folks that are really pro-education show up whereas if you're up against a non-election cycle you know you're really at the will of who shows if I were to remind everybody here that uh is here knows a lot about this process I did I did the the override to have saved money if we do it during the general election or if we for a presidential representation we go on and off here I can't remember um I I think that our it would be best if we go 2024 if it doesn't get approved or pass it doesn't pass that we trial in and our voters have come through have faith
064in our voters my other concern is just seems like it was happening yeah right and they will remember for sure I guess we can nail that down like next meeting or what is that the best things you need to get on it if you're done um June is the the when we have to submit our paperwork and then we have between June and November this year so for every um if we're gonna do an override for this year 2023 we are just sitting here so we're stated we wait to 2024 it would be June uh okay let's all think about that and maybe would that be something to code on or just discuss again and it's it's really just guidance is all we're looking for because if you want us to go out and start
065that process we can go ahead and begin the process with the attorneys and then we can bring you all the stuff that you need to approve in order for it to move forward so we can if if you'd say to us to look into it now we can start that and then they'd send us everything for you guys to approve the movement forward that's part of it but the biggest part is the public people like Ruth's that the t-shirts and signs and campaigning and that's it's recent yeah that's where you know I don't know how receptive the same people so you can reduce the stuff just change yeah we're hearing it's over with I'm gathering is I think we're all that agreement and looking more towards 2024 during the presidential election not going sooner 25
066of the yard back up and that would normally be our process anyway you know I said hey guys yeah okay all right so the next one is uh discussion of uh the dates for our next fiscal year which pretty much the last year we had him on Mondays for first semester and then on Tuesday s were still in the draft calendar has them all on Tuesdays and um I mean typically that was most boards meet on Tuesdays and it gave our team recommendation was Tuesdays because it gives us more time to get the board package ready get it to you on Friday and plus have an additional school day on Monday for questions on Monday Tuesday prior to Tuesday board meeting so it's in draft so we'd like for you to just check your calendars
067and see um if those dates will work for you and we can put them onto the export agenda for approval or if there's a conflict within one of them then we can make that change as needy as well okay I thought it was because uh not really but for some of you yes all right now we have the uh this is actually an action item the second reading of the word policies would pretty much addresses uh foster care that there's a bunch of policies as we um as you notice that we looked at for a first read which are now for approval and I can reassure you that we're in compliance with all these policies that we have our systems and searches in place to ensure that we are following asbased thanks okay I moved
068to approve the second reading of the new board policies is recommended by asba a second okay this is life Weaver yes this is Mr mcgiven yes Mrs Allen yes right and you will say the um School event between now and pretty much the end of the year um I don't see the may even here again you'll see that next which is basically the kindergarten graduations the 23rd and 21. right yes I have that right yeah which are the cutest big things of yourself and I know that we have had discussions about whether we want this um do we've got this to do calendar invites for these activities um do you want them all or if you want us to put down the one so we will put the school events that you can attend and
069we did if you noticed as our invitation for um our 15th board and school events we put possible Quorum because that's when possibly all of you could be in attendance at a school event and we also did add the foundation meeting dates since we have missed the fever and miss somebody yes and Mr ostery's members of the foundation board okay so I'm thinking that maybe we get the calendar invite for the meetings that you would like for us to prepare okay okay and they can't be all of them yeah all right and then the last thing really is any discussion so we should start in if you've got anything in your two cents you want to see something on the future or a jet item or say pass glad to be here and just learn
070the common care today so welcome aboard thank you thank you okay with that we will take a short resistance on some paperwork foreign thank you okay remember me perfect numbers [Music] all right [Music] okay guys um because foreign [Music] what are some of these innovative some contracts require complete for signatures DVD today is everybody um I'm sorry these were created before we had Laura future since we have a foreign um [Music] please give attention um yeah I think with that we are adjourned thank you all do your homework for next time thank you