001you are currently the only person in this conference [Music] okay [Music] oh so we're all supposed to wear our college or our favorite college and since i went to the university of idaho i'm like by the way we must not be very scholastic because there are no vandal ties anywhere on the open market so i had to have this custom made yeah i don't know apparently there's not a lot of businessmen that come out of that college all right we are back from executive session we are going to pick up that item number six we've got um three items to prove separately of minutes the first one is our retreat meeting on july 8th so we'll need to approve the minutes of our border treats second the discussion this is guys yes this is alan
002yes mr mcgivern yeah mr elderly yes mr astronomy approved it takes us to the july 11 regular board meeting minutes thank you discussion this is skies yes allen yes mr mcgivern yeah mr aldridge yes mr astrid yes in our last minutes approval for our special meeting on july 20th almost uh to approve the board minister's election discussion yes you this is our call to the public we don't have any there's no calls from the problem so that'll move this to you through the superintendent's uh well they bring that up um good evening everyone thank you for being here um it's not my board report is very short due to the fact that we do have our opening of school uh presentation with all of the different departments reporting so as soon as we get this
003up we do have just a few things to share okay so again this is us welcome back colts this is us this is our sign in the school year we have highlights for the month so um it has been exciting putting summer learning and conferences into play with new teacher induction and pre-service dates working on finalizing title one grants preparing and planning for department abb and asba workshops there's um at conferences for sped director for ell we have a team that's going to the ade assessment conference which is a new conference that age is putting on in terms of assessment and everything that we need to know to be able to analyze data so we're hoping to bring some more information on on the assessments and the law conference coming up we have been preparing
004and inviting new students and parents to join student advisory and parent so our meetings are scheduled to start in september we're also preparing a presentation for national alas conference in october on board and superintendent relations we've had a lot of discussion about its safety measures in collaboration with regional school superintendents and pima county sheriff's department and um their the audition was selected committee members that will continue and mr david will be part of that committee when they meet in the future getting to know our staff and building positive relationships um i'd like to invite the board to walk around our campus and check out our teacher staff all about me boards so all the teachers have somewhere posted in their rooms are on their doors where they went to college where they went to high
005school there are models and information about them so there's this is the voice on the left we have miss boletti herself in the middle she's been used our theme and then we have a preschool they all did there so that's one of the preschool displays that they have outside the preschool door there's this reversal one of our new teachers you see more preschool and then we have mrs adams on the other side but everybody has some very interesting things to share which is exciting and those little pillows i thought were so fascinating um our new counselor has them in her in her room and she probably has maybe i don't know 15 of them that she's collected in the years painting it on the bulletin board so i don't know if you can see that
006but it says kind words so she has a lot of different sayings on the bulletin board in her classroom okay budget at a glance so our tax rates are not official until the county board of supervisors approves the tax rate so um we are estimating that the primary tax rate for next year will be 1.9324 which is an increase of 0.1124 over the previous year the secondary tax rate is estimated to be 0.5107 this is an increase of 0.0819 over the previous year with the uncertainty uncertainty of how capital expenditures will be over the next five years by adding a lease payment for our buses as you recall 153 an additional 178 000 has been added to the capital budget from mno giving our total capital budget of six hundred thousand the m o budget
007increased from seven point two to seven point six big tip fine um tip line update from mr magayanes um our security tip line that we had originally discussed and had access to was canceled july of 2022 so we need to find an alternative we receive quotes and proposals from tipline providers there's the two best candidates both offer the same level of response safe to say something is through the non-profit sanity book promise for preventing gun violence currently um that's available for staff parents of sixth to twelfth grade students cost free to school districts they provide investments and training for middle school and elementary age students they're currently not on boarding any new districts but with our enrollment of 200 6th to 8th grade students we may be able to onboard this school year once we
008choose a platform so mr mayanis also talked to p3 tipline through 360 which is who stay safe to say something is using their recurring cost of 2 800 per year plus a 500 setup and implementation would be so we're going to wait to see if we can get our middle school kids uh because that would allow the tickling to be available for all of our parents and middle school students so once we hear from them that i mean obviously we're going to go the free route if we can if not then we have to look at p3 tip money we navigate 360. again there's our vision and mission so we continue to work hard to provide a community environment in which all individuals are challenged to achieve excellence in academics character and life skills our
009vision statement building for the future learning cooperating and caring for all mrs cuevas did challenge the staff that we should all know the mission statement and the mission statement by heart so next board meeting we will have a prize for the board member that can state the vision and the mission and her statement so a little bit of homework can we bring your cell phones no cell phones is the camera it's your memory and the camera will be on so have a great you need it as a reminder it's not opportunity for questions but if you have anything specific you'd like for me to include on our next agenda please let us know thank you with that we will move to the principle of treatment oh all right good evening governor board and community members
010and teachers and parents i'd like to start this report for august just going to start with the first slide which is our new teacher induction which took place july 27th through the 29th was a great three days with our new staff lots of questions lots of trainings and um good community well building as a team before we went into the following week with all of our staff members and thank you to those of you who are able to make it or be part of welcoming our staff with the surprise we did have a super top secret mission for about a week and a half that we were getting out there to our students and our families and they joined in on a super top secret zoo meeting with us we had over 50 families that
011joined in that evening and no teachers were allowed even if their parent teachers here and it turned out to be really successful and a really great surprise i would like to thank all of you who are able to make it and support us for this it was just a great welcome back we wanted to do something big for our staff because we really appreciate them we want them to know how special they are to not only us because they hear it from us all the time but from their the families that they serve the students that they serve and it turned out to be really great so thank you those of you who are able to make it and be there for this moment we did a lot of work during pre-service days we had
012we went over the continental way the governing board goals the district goals our cycles we went over the four domains with of the continental way we had a really great benchmark curriculum training on site for our primary element trainer intermediate teachers we had cpr trainings school safety trainings that were taking place 301 committee information behaviors differentiated instruction and roles that was put on by our special education director mrs juarez our math coach met with the teachers so that they could begin rolling out and discussing the school year as well as what services the math coach can provide to them middle school reveal math training also took place and will be having a collections training for how in mifflin curriculum for our middle school teachers this wednesday avid presentation our site team of teachers presented and
013we rolled out avid and it was a refresher for our team and our teachers were really on board for learning this school year and of course mandatory reporting we can eventual 45-day screening there's so many things to do the month of august this wednesday we're going to be doing um not this wednesday but the following wednesday the 24th the teacher evaluation training which we have to do annually every year and then daily math skills for math will be the following week so we have a few more things to close up the month of august before we start getting into our pd's trainings for the teachers starting in september teamwork makes the dream work it was we had a really fun day uh one thing i remember mr you're here she had told us at the
014end of the last year like let's have some fun and maybe we need to really do a lot more fun stuff together where we laugh and just bring this even closer but this is correct me if i'm wrong mr nathan but it was the ball represented a student and how we were going i have a video next time i'm going to show you all the video because it's pretty fun um how are we going to support different strategies that we could do utilizing and working together as a team to make sure that the student who was the representative of the ball doesn't fall off course and so at first they started off as a line and they were the ball was going so they were trying to like domino catch you know jump over each
015other so that the ball wouldn't fall off of the line and then they discussed and decided if we're a circle and we're united it'll just keep going around and around so it was a really great a lot of laughs but with the great message behind it first week of school you'll see a picture up there we met with our middle schoolers cheered them on for the school year and our eighth graders were very proud to stand when we said eighth graders stand up you know the leaders of our school sixth and seventh is well welcoming our sixth graders into middle school and then having an informational meeting for them systems in place were made for really i feel one of the smoothest starts to school year kindergarten breakfast was a success we had a lot
016of great current turnout for that and computer distribution which we're going to work on coming up with something a little different make sure we already started discussing it because we really want to make sure that our teachers get specials in their planning time our elementary teachers the first week of school but distributing those laptops and instruments prepping them takes a lot of work but we're already thinking for next year's pre-service and then we did positive behavior interventions and supports where the students rotated around the school and they understand what our school expectations are our rules and what it means to be respectful kind and safe on our school campus so they go to various areas such as the cafeteria playground the cafeteria the area by the flagpole where the restrooms are into the gym and
017there they discuss what it should be like when you're at an assembly and the teachers did really great at establishing the reporting routines and they're continuing to do so these coming weeks and throughout the school year but going over the handbook expectations procedures and protocols we're very very proud of all the hard work that was done by our entire staff all of the departments transportation custodial grounds and maintenance and of course our teachers for everything that they did with a really successful first week of school and then of course we have our baseline math testing district benchmark that has begun middle fifth grade finished last week middle school starts tomorrow and then everybody will be finished by the 26th and just around the corner things that i'm excited to talk to all about because all
018of us have been working hard especially you our governing board with what's coming up we're doing re-teach enrich but we discussed as a staff that we wanted to come up with the name that isn't re-teaching rich it's something else so we got a lot of suggestions and the one that one was win and it's what i need now so when we say it's when time pulse they're going to know that okay they're going to rotate and it's what they need now whether it's enrichment or reteach and that will be we'll be having a kickoff assembly friday september 16th and we'll begin monday september 19th but we still have a ways to go as we go into september with discussing with our team exactly what this is going to look like and how it's going to
019play out our rotations will take place for elementary monday tuesdays thursdays and fridays elementary all at the same time 1 to 1 30 and the focus is mathematics middle school when interventions will take place in all subject areas not just mathematics the first and last wednesday of each month that way they have the second wednesday and the third wednesday to be able to input what they need to do as a staff are as teachers and do their check-ins again the fourth and last wednesday of the month we're trying to also find a name for the colts gifted and talented program so we're going to roll that out to the staff too for some suggestions but we did have the 33 students that we mentioned before that were referred and tested third through eighth in the
020spring 15 of those 33 students were in the ninth stay nine which is recognized by the state as gifted the remaining 18 tested in the sixth through eighth stay night continental schools program will be accepting the seventh united students as they're considered above average based on the kodak test parent letters of those students will be sent home this week by the end of this week and will be a form for parents to give permission for their children to attend the program a parent meeting will take place august 31st which we will have attached to that letter and we will promote to our parents from five to six pm with our goal of kicking off the program the week of september 12th referrals and testing will continue throughout our school year so we'll keep you posted
021and updated on on that how many of the 18 students that tested in the sixth or eighth uh are accepted into the give didn't tell there's about off the top of my head i believe we have about four who did not that are in the sixth stay night and we are thinking of even having them maybe do a portfolio or some type of an interview to see if they would like to continue on with this program as well we can take all of our students because the reason they were referred was well one of the big part of the referrals was teachers were also looking at their high achieving high achievements self-motivation but also where they were testing on their benchmark district tests so when you take the co gap test sometimes it can be
022a little tricky because so some of those six state nine students even the seventh and eighth probably if they were tested again in the spring they might show that they jumped up so that's something that we want to be able to make sure we have open for our students because they are high achievers all right and then just ending with the continental way this is us there's i want to thank anyone who's on online listening parents teachers past and present for really talking to us and giving us feedback on as well as our governing board as what we need to be aligned across our district and what's more most important to me as a principal and i know to all of us as site leadership and district administration is that we do have that buy-in
023from our teachers because it doesn't matter and our staff because we could do whatever we want to do and push it out there but it's really important that we take their feedback into consideration their thoughts and you know they're the ones that are that are serving our students day in and day out and we have a really great team we're really excited about this school year most importantly to really get to with how the past three years were it's really important that we get to make those bonds with our students with our staff and i can't i just can't express how excited i am for this school year it feels different there's a different feel to it thank you [Music] all right thank you much that will take us to the consent agenda which has
024a plethora of items seven of them we could have a motion on the consent agenda i have one question um i counted up about 11 after-school tutors how we've got that many kids that are staying after i know this is an hourly thing but um that need the after school tutoring and they're staying [Laughter] so we can't really talk about this year yet because we haven't started it yet because they haven't been approved but based off of what we saw last year we actually remember added so we never had had a kindergarten tutor before because it wasn't needed but we've seen with such a drop because of colvin and other things that it was beneficial and so a lot of our efforts have been targeting these students so i know with kindergarten especially mrs tesla
025started last year where she really started taking just her her class first the target amount and then she expanded that program where she was taking so when you say 11 yeah because we're dealing with you know middle school all the way down and usually we have a tutor program or after school program that is running at least two grade levels at a time so that's what that is and then some of them do it every day so they'll share so like mrs kais maybe it's taking tuesdays and thursdays and i'm taking monday wednesday friday so when you see some of them they work out a schedule and they're only paid for that they're paid hourly for their time that they actually work that so although you may see a bunch because it's a big commitment
026to give i'm not pretty much concerned about the cost here i'm just interested in the number of students and you know they're staying after school that affect transportation and that kind of thing yes sir so as far as that goes remember the board is put in that they like to see that nine to ten in any of our clubs tutorial is part of that so that's something that is director of student services we look to see that for anything that we have obviously sometimes that might get down but we kind of look at the averages right so if it's on a friday afternoon going into a three-day weekend we see that that kind of dives a little bit but we look at that average to make sure it's around that nine to ten or more
027so i know sometimes our middle school you can walk in to our math tutoring and then it'll seem like there's 24 kids in there um getting help so that kind of fluctuates but we do keep an eye to make sure that we're being fiscally responsible but then that those kids are receiving that and we are using that as there are options for them just to come because they want help with their homework but we also are really really focused last year and moving forward this year to target and do invites to those parents and those students that are kind of on that that bubble in that gap that's been a big focus of ours and will continue to be so one of the requirements mrs rico and i when we talked to the as they
028were signing up for the tutorials is that um we've kind of added a responsibility if you will that they look at data and kind of share that data to make sure that there's a correlation with tutorial and we're seeing that those students move in the direction that we want them to so that they're actually tracking that data for those students who are coming to that so that's one of the things that we're going to be also focusing just like to add that the expectation for tutorials is that i do we do you do so the teacher teaches the mini lesson and then the students and the teacher practice together and then the teacher then the students have to show that they understand and then prior to doing homework help so it is a specific lesson
029based on what standards kids need and mr nathan does collect the plans and he collects the sign-in sheets and we make sure that you know if they fall below five six students then we have a conversation of whether that tutorial session really needs to continue or what we can do to absorb the kids with another good teacher thank you anyone else i have something just to put it in the public is uh just wanted to thank mrs quillen for her service here at continental that she will be missed i think she's been a great asset i know she's really has gone over and above but i know sometimes personal things happen so best of luck to you and with that this is chris yes this is alan yes mr mcgivern yeah mr astrid district financial
030report greg has having some medical issues so miss gravos is going to step in so be gentle [Music] so we um we know that you may have some questions um due to the fact that mr um schubert is not here if you have questions you can ask them and we will we will try our best i can text him or get him on the line or if they're not imperative to we can still get the questions to him we can answer them but at this time we'd like abortion to approve the district financial report i'll move to approve the district financial report a second discussion i've got kind of one overriding question that affects a lot of different lines on this thing and um and i know that greg has talked about this um but
031i question sometimes why we even talk about the budget that we approved last month and submitted to the state because the the budget items on the district financial report vary in almost every category from the budget we submitted to the state except for the bottom line the bottom line so is 7.6 million on the district financial report and it shows that on the budget but salaries benefits purchase services supplies other title one title ii food service tax credit gifts and donations unrestricted capital outlay all vary um and i i don't understand why we changed the budget uh and in in the in in your report you talked about move we've just moved a bunch of dollars from m o into capital outlay we approved the budget last month and yet now the numbers have all
032changed for the district financial report except for the bottom line you know we could have saved ourselves a lot of time last month by just saying we're going to get 7.6 million dollars of income we're going to pay out 6.7 million dollars but expense we're going to have 900 000 left over and then you can move the money any way you want to but i just don't understand why we like why how we can change the line items within the budget uh from what was approved last month to the monthly district financial report that's my overriding question so i i did get him on the phone so he did hear your question okay he is still in pain but thank you mr skies yes is this alex yes mr mcgivett yes mr aller upstate mr
033astrid yes and we have the uh approval of the ratification of the vouchers so again at this time we're asking for motion to for approval and of vouchers while the move to approve the vouchers oh second any discussion i would just like to add on voucher voucher1005 there was one for new zela which is a program that we use that has expository text for our students there is a cell component a social emotional learning component i did print some of the articles there for your preview i just wanted to let you see some of the topics that are in terms of how to be a good friend why mindset is so important um on um there's just different topics over there they used to pass out to everybody yeah we can just i just printed
034some extra ones um so if you want to just pass the folder around in terms of topics that they have they're at different levels same topic different levels there are quizzes at the end of them that you could use um to quiz the students we did talk about when students get sent up to the office for behavior problems during recess to give them the how to be a good friend article and have them write about it what they learned in terms of um think tank when they in order to just not have them sit there waiting for mr nathan or someone to come address them so i just made a few copies just so you could see what some of the topics are thank you mrs kaise yes [Music] and that brings us to new
035business 12.01 the opening school okay again opening of school this is us we have enrollment update for you all to see there you can see by teacher by grade level class sizes so um when we look at again further in the agenda in terms of our request for meeting an additional kindergarten teacher you'll see that the kinder teachers have 26 25 and 26 students we also have fourth grade that has 25 26 and i believe 25 students again we will look at um it's harder to manage 26 five-year-olds we can manage the four-year-olds a little bit more they're a little more independent and responsible but we will be looking at as i mentioned to staff once we get our benchmark assessment to see about possibly having some fourth graders go to the fifth grade teacher
036for reading instruction or math instruction at their appropriate level if they're ready we have 96 students on open enrollment 61 students are returning students so 63.5 are returning 20 are staff students so we have 20.8 percent 15 new students which is 15 and we've i looked at the staff members there's three kindergartners and two fourth grade teachers when we look at if they're causing the bubble in terms of open enrollment of our students so that's just information on a moment preschool current enrollment we have 39 preschoolers 10 special education four for speech and six developmental delays five child fight screenings are scheduled 19 dual language enrichment students and after care is being provided for kinder through fourth grade students we have 30 students staying and we have a sixth grade student who's also helping with
037aftercare health office so from miss maureen i found that little clip art this morning that looked like her but she is allowing me to share her kindergarten picture with you so she's a lot happier in the in the recent picture of her to the right than she did in her incoming kindergarten picture but we've received a large supplies of ppe copic test kits large amounts of at-home test kits to provide to parents and staff we did have a meeting to discuss our our coped positive students and staff so again we are sending home our positive comment students and staff for five days of isolation and back five days with masking that's based on the cdc guidelines we are not doing tests to stay every day if you're a close contact and you're symptomatic testing can
038be done at school or at home but we're not calling the parents to say they've been close contact you have to keep them home they can come to school um less than five staff identified as positive for culminating less than 10 students have been identified so far um communication with parents is very positive and appreciated and we are off to a great start in the health office so we want to thank ms maureen and the team because it truly is a team effort and everybody's doing that special education department miss mrs suarez would you like to present your slide or partner all right so special education i have learned a lot in the last couple of weeks let me just tell you learn a lot so this is just a very small snapshot um as
039of august 11th we're servicing 95 students that's preschool to eighth grade and then jenny will have more on her slide about preschool so my slide is mostly k through eight uh we have eight special education programmatic assistants um with three pending board approval tonight uh three certified special education teachers for freaking five um obviously the intent to retire from mrs pollin um however we have been able to secure a long-term sub who is very well versed in special education so we are very grateful and thankful for that uh we have one speech pathologist who is on-site five days a week our occupational therapist our occupational therapist assistant and our physical therapist collectively are on campus three days a week to provide a variety of services we are collaborating with asdb for students who need a
040vision and hearing services however we are still in need of an on-site psychologist but we do have a couple of great things that we are going to hopefully have some great news in the next couple weeks so thank you [Music] just stuff that needed to get out we distributed 219 chromebooks we have additional chromebooks issued to kindergarten and administration to accommodate the larger class sizes we needed to uh we needed to give them extra chromebooks so mr ferguson was really good at repairing a lot of those screens and keyboards he hold out the digital citizenship lessons that we're going to be using for our students to get their digital driver's license uh so that they can it's part of the requirement for them to have their chromebooks in addition to signing their uh their use
041agreement all we have all interactive displays in all the classrooms the thing that's new this year for all of our kids and staff is we went with a clever sign-on and identity management component so what that allows us to do is we take our sis and integrate it with clever and when a the student comes in and the new staff member comes in it automatically creates their google account which is the main component that we use for sign-on to all our devices and most of our services here at connell for the kids and the staff the clever signal sign sign-on offers one single dashboard with all of their applications that are needed on there so this is one dashboard with one click to log in onto the batch benchmark that i excel the review map
042and those products so it's that way they're not having to go to multiple products multiple logins they've got one place to go one stop shop for the kids on that um the one big change that we did this year is we're up to a gig of bandwidth for our our energy from our internet service provider uh for this year for the e-rate and ended up when we looked at valuated proposals for this year the cost was the same uh 200 megs for having split host and transport with fox and sun cordar and with sun porter doing both hosting and transporting our isp service instead of being the same price but at one gig speed and that's up to 200 banks mr ferguson has developed a system to help hold students accountable for damages lost pieces
043on any type of issues that are going wrong with the chromebooks which are kind of user related issues for not taking care of them not doing what you're supposed to be doing with the devices and then uh this month we're basically just focusing on staff it seems i see issues to get started the usual start of the year good evening everyone [Music] so we're off to a great start at the beginning of the school year um we are at 10 routes this year that covers continental cerrita high school and walden grove high school last year you guys approved to bring route 7 back this year we actually had to make sure route 7 was back in place i am currently transporting the next two points 513 out of the 618 i lost one from friday
044to today and i'm now at 83 of the student body on my school buses from my first year three years ago to today i've gone from about 55 to 62 being my average last year to now 83 of the student body on the school buses um we have 105 students that are being transported to walden grove on our three buses that go to waldo grove this year i have taken on helpings the cereal school district who has down numerous drivers and i've taken on three high school routes for them so my drivers finish here and then they take off and head to the different areas in rancho behind uh walmart and uh by the lake in rancho and we're transporting um they've it's been about 180 kids that were transported between those three routes to
045the heisters one route to cerrita high school and then two to baltimore after tonight's approval we brought another driver on to replace one who stepped down to a sub status and then i had one that came on and test for her cd on august 31st um which will have every driver instead of using all my subs every single day i can give myself to break and actually have drivers who give on their own services um our sped bus is growing in population not only here but to the two high schools walden grove lost their extended resource teacher and all this and most of students have been moved over to cerrita high school so lorenzo transports not only to walden grove the students for this vet program there has also taken students to study high school
046so we are hustling and bustling but out on the road so everything is running smoothly as of right now and yesterday um somebody that is paying us correctly yes so we are so yeah we are we working on we work on an agreement um we also are helping them with their with their field trips as they as they need it so we are charging them an hourly rate which is 22.50 an hour and then 48 cents per per mile um they will claim just so everybody knows they will claim the miles for the additional high school routes that i'm covering in their 100-day report but we are being paid for the mileage thank you news from business maintenance grounds and food service so you see our incumbent our unencumbered funds with them and knowing capital
047are listed our new grounds maintenance employees started on july 25th so we did bring mr curtis then prior to school starting and he did an amazing job getting our campus ready along with the other custodians and help from a lot of family members and children the lathans for helping also with getting things ready for the first day of school and as you know we our weatherization assessment failed so we are looking forward to um sfd funds to help us out with replacing the painting of the windows so you know it will be a process so people are in the process of acquiring bids for that job breakfast we've been serving 100 an average of 100 students for breakfast and 250 students for lunch so we are getting our free and reduced applications in there at
04830 percent and um so that that's really good considering um this time of school year we also did um hear and get information on is it heart then um where now the applications the free reduced lunch applications are going to be online so albert i believe we have uh yeah so so we have a appeal in place to get that started and i sent that off to the rep uh this afternoon so we get the process started so we can get that and make the working video for families with us on the website and they just fill it out and then it goes to the appropriate people um it's very simple very straightforward i've done two of them already so don't personally have to do so that that should go pretty quickly but even if
049parents have already filled out paper forms we'll still just have them fill out the electronic application just to walk in and cover and get as many applications as we can in the system it doesn't hurt if there's more than one application and i want to thank mr mangalyanas for doing that because we're dealing with other schools and he's like how come other people have it online and you know there's things that we never hear about so he went out and did his research and found out where it was coming from and um obtained a bid so thank you for doing that yeah just uh one comment again along the same lines this says we've got 707 000 and unencumbered within mmo the district financial report shows 8.75 okay okay i'll check with mr schubert on
050that as well okay thank you in our executive session we had met about the superintendent evaluation rubric i think it's um we need to move this um for a future meeting because we decided to take it back to next week yes i moved a table to the september meeting so [Music] yes 12.03 the governing board resolution legendary teacher day which we've never done so so we have done it in the past i don't think continental has done it in the last maybe five or six years but this will allow us school districts in arizona are again passing resolutions to declare september 22nd as a legendary teacher date it's a time to recognize teachers and honor their contributions throughout the community so further information can be found on dr nick clement it's something that he started
051legendary teacher's day website so we are looking forward to again getting our teachers recognized and we adopt the resolution and we'll be able to publicly submit their names for this recognition this is an action item so we need to have a motion i'll make a motion to approve the governing our resolution for legendary teacher day second discussion do we have a resolution we do it's attached yeah it's an item attached to the actual resolution and i believe the teachers receive i don't know if it's two hundred dollars or a hundred dollars no it comes from actually dr clement's um fund for his foundation he's a gracious guy yes yes okay so it's no cost to the district just good pr good for him do we have the resolution that we can put up on the
052screen there it is would you like me to read it yeah oh i think it has to be read okay okay governing board resolution in support of legendary teacher day thursday september 22nd whereas the governing board of continental esd number 39 believes we have all had special teachers that made a significant difference in our lives and whereas the continental usd 39 governing board recognizes that those teachers demonstrated unique skills allowing them to transform their deep content knowledge into life-changing student learning and whereas the continental usd 39 governing board highly values the caring family culture created by those teachers and whereas the continental esd 39 governing board understands that we often do not fully understand and recognize the profound influence teachers have on our future until we have lived our future and whereas the continental esd39
053governing board realizes the importance of taking time to fully recognize the legendary teachers in our lives therefore it resolved that the continental usd 39 governing board does hereby affirm its support for september 22nd 2022 as legendary teacher date we encourage our entire community to take time on this day and contact the legendary teacher in your life and express your gratitude for the difference they made in your life this is skies yes is this allen yes mr mcgibbon mr allering yesterday yes okay so the committee um added avid as a committee a 301 committee so that they can meet on a regular basis and roll out our avid initiative so we're just amending the 301 plan for 2022 by adding avid as a committee motion for approval please yes i have just a just a comment
054um this is the one resource that we have to really reward our teachers and we make no distinguishing between a proficient and a highly proficient teacher and i would sure like to see that and i know that this came up from the committee um but i think there should be some incentive for a teacher to aspire to a highly proficient status in the school and us be in a position to reward those teachers jesus christ yes this is alan yes that's really given yeah yes mr ashrae yes thank you adding an additional kindergarten teacher so again as you saw in the presentation number so we are asking for approval of an additional kindergarten teacher once we get this teacher class sizes would be 18 or 19 in the kindergarten classes which is still fairly high
055for kindergarten class but we do have a pair of pros a general and parapro in kinder that rotates and we do have some special education programmatic assistance in those classes as well i'm going to approve the additional kindergarten teacher position i'll say any discussion i only have i i have approved this 100 but it looks like to me that we got the same issue in fourth and fifth grade and it looks to me that and i'm sure greg might be able to prove me wrong but we've got the money to hire additional teachers to try to reduce the class sizes in in fourth and fifth grade too i i think the administration should look into that thank you i would second that um mr ulri plus some of the other i don't have that grid
056in front of me right now but some of the other classes are creeping up there as well the only ones that are really low is the middle school it's just something to keep an eye on but then again our overall school population is ballpark about the same right well yes okay this is guys yes are you salmon yes mr mckinnon yes mr gallery yes mr astrid yes 12.6 to add a human resources slash administrative assistant position so as we had previously discussed during the confirm and listening to the administration we're asking to approve a full-time human resource slash administrative assistant position and it was proposed during meet and confer and due to the continued growth of continental school i'm requesting approval of full-time hr admin assistant who would alleviate some of the responsibilities of human
057resources department which currently include payroll coordination of employee benefits and human resources as well as assist the principal and student services director of clerical duties this would be a full-time 12-month position funding would come from eminem and i i just want to add that you know mrs also has been doing hr and payroll and they are both very huge responsibilities in terms of paying attention to detail if you recall our pars used to be handwritten and sometimes difficult to to read and if you notice all of the club tutorials and sports and coaches they're all tight and um with the appropriate signatures with the appropriate appropriate routing making sure that we have letters of intent with mr lathan so it is a lot of work and moving over to insurance and making sure that insurance
058paperwork and everything is submitted and not to mention just the normal hr duties that occur on a regular basis of hiring and checking letters of references so it's a huge it's a huge task and again as we grow and employ with our employees it's just really doubled her work and she's given up a lot of time on the weekends having to commit and then um and it is it is scary that she does do payroll and we do have to have other people who um know how to to do what she does to assist her in case of an illness or an emergency i mean most of us can call in from wherever we are but payroll needs to have a person that gets that done and we have a job description also for you
059that was attached need a motion please i'll move to the new human resources admin assistant position oh second any discussion i i will vote to approve this but again we're adding administrative costs um when i sure like to see more stuff going into classroom teachers would you say this is going to help us in our clean audit adding this position definitely yeah yes make sure things stay buttoned up yes and how will that help how will an hr administrative assistant help we still have an internal control material weakness so when we look at again the checks and balances and the work that um that we've had to do with the auditors in terms of paperwork for clubs and tutorials and student services when when teachers receive money again we don't have enough people to be
060that second and third person without putting that extra duty on you know existing staff who are already um working as hard as they can and spending a lot of time so it will definitely help us to make sure that we're not making errors and also part of the hr will be part of our marketing efforts i mean when we're putting stuff into green valley news on vacancies that we have being able to help manage and beef up our our website and we talk about um having the job fairs and planning job fairs and sending somebody to the job fair without having to pull our main hr person is very necessary so i see this person also helping us with our marketing efforts um to help us retain good teachers keep them here and attract teachers
061have they done a position management study um not by an external audit but we have looked at different job responsibilities and job duties and um christina and mr schubert have looked at what other districts our size have in terms of personnel and health to do to do the job and so payroll and hr is one position that definitely has been separated and we when and that's part of the theme with the auditors is they really will probably keep making comments to us because of the separation of duties and it shouldn't be the same person doing hr and payroll if you recall that is the internal control right that's the insurance it is an issue there's no doubt about it right as an auditor you should be written up every time yes but that you know
062i still think that there's going to be more work and saying we've gone from handwriting to typing says to me we've gone from the 19th century to the 20th but we're in the 21st so i i think we really you know need to look at some other options as well and and i'm all in giving support in these areas but i i think that we're just um we're just we're jumping on it too quick and i'm not seeing any supporting information that says a position management study has been done and this is what we've identified as um what this a good position management study some physician classification and and the this is just good business practice and not that not that i'm i'm saying we shouldn't add support but you have to be able to
063justify it and so maybe what we should have been doing is looking at going from handwriting cars to automating parts and so those that's just some of the discussion that i would add to this i understand that we don't add positions and pay people more because they do more work we add positions and we pay people more because the knowledge skills and competencies required have changed so i think we just need to get a good assessment on that and we can part of it and with hr in terms of policies also you know there's regular policies um on our policy bridge that we through hr typically you have that rotation and these are the policies that you'd be reviewing and working on but there's just she's been one person so it's been very hard for
064us to also keep up with the policies that need to be brought forward to the to the border in the timely because times have changed you're right and our policies need to reflect that and we have not um done a very good job with that being that we have the same person but we can pull that document and also look at you know looking at the providing the information that's needed and again it would be an opportunity to look at cross-training rotational assignments detailing making sure that you're that you've got cross-training i mean we're sitting here tonight not getting information and not answering questions because our business manager is out that's the material weakness that can't be allowed to go on for too long what what is your backup plan so who's been cross-trained to
065address those issues that that's the point i'm well i think if uh christina's coming in on the weekends on a regular basis there's not a lot of capacity for cross-training i think this could help you see we don't know that though you know we don't have the assessment that tells us that yet thank you this this is allen yes mr mcgivern yeah mr alvaree yes mr austin yes and under the uh get mr lathan paid back at 64.42 for his emergency procurement he has been the first american to approve the emergency movement i'll say on the weekend on the weekends yes is this allen yesterday mr rowlery yeah the music program would like to increase their feed from 10 to 15 we've approved the ensemble the increase second coming discussion how many students will this
066impact dude i don't i'm not sure how many we have right now in orchestra workers was typically pretty small between 1912 that's your chamber orchestra that means before school then you have beginning orchestra and advanced orchestra who she generally carries about between 15 and 18. i haven't looked at her class roster so that's typically her average class sizes there beginning band i know is really small this year so they only i believe have about 12 kids in that but then the advanced band is huge because he's built a program where he's got a lot of kiddos in there and so their will of over 28 i believe is where kind of 28 to 35 is where that is at so those are the students that are playing instruments i think correct me if i'm wrong
067but fifth graders also do their first year i'm not sure if the fee applies to them but they do use instruments in there as well are all the instruments owned by the school or do the kids by their own they're given two options they can rent from the school and do it that way a lot of this dude not a lot but the more accomplished students choose to rent from agencies where the instruments aren't 20 years old and have been used by people that aren't avid lovers of that instrument and so a lot of times the quality of the instruments are better if you go to the shops and tucson music departments and stuff that have those for rent so the large majority of our students do rent and use school instruments i just wonder
068is this going to impact any child i we sit here and we say five dollars doesn't make a difference but it does it does for some kids it does are scholarships available yes just like all of our programs all of our clubs all of our sports all of those fees we have scholarships available we have community members who always have let us know we've got a list of them that say if anybody even needs a pair of sneakers or cleats call us let us know but then we also have the right to write scholarships and waive that fee for them we just have to put that down we provide that signed signature to mr schubert of her release and so that counts and with the auditors that's part of that audit so for athletics for
069example we do scholarships quite every single quarter and we just document in our spreadsheet that we have and provide for documentation that a scholarship has been issued so this is a fifteen dollar increase no it's a five dollar income t-shirt there's a t-shirt so five dollars for the increase in the fee and then ten dollars for the teacher yes and even the t-shirts we we've done where would do a scholarship essentially and give them a t-shirt as well there's 15 students on the ensemble and then there's a total of 80 abandoned orchestra students but not all of those students like mr nathan said we need repairs because some of them are renting them and as long as this isn't a barrier to entry for any student that's the most important thing this is public education
070and we should not deprive any student of their ability to participate i might add that our fees when it comes to this stuff in sports are the lowest in the entire community in the area so when we bump up we're just we're typically not bumping above anybody we're bumping you know slightly below them so even our athletic fees at 25 to sport is still a far cry from where sarita's at most of the schools there are look at 40 and plus for the same exact opportunity we're providing here so we do pride ourselves on trying to keep those costs low for all of our families but at the same time we do need to be you know with instruments unfortunately our teachers can't fix everything and so a lot of those things we have to
071pay out and like i said we have some older instruments so you know there's they do break and so there's a lot of cost there and i think they're just trying to make that active yeah mr latham if you could let the music department know that the continental school foundation a few years ago bought a bunch of violins so if they're in need of i don't know trombones or whatever it is um you know that may be a source to there's a set of instruments that are like super ancient and cost too prohibitive to get it fixed you know that may be something to have them approach and i know that they've used lots of clubs the optimist club bought a few years back i want to say 50 guitar cases so the school purchased
072the guitars the optimist club so mr ferguson is really really resourceful when it comes to that sort of stuff and community outreach so they are constantly doing that but it doesn't take away the fact that every single year instruments get get broken and need fix so those costs are up there is mr ferguson still working on those kinds of things mr ferguson he part of his job is in the classroom remember he was left in the classroom so he's in two periods um one period a day but he has advanced uh band and beginning band and then he still is running our jazz band in the morning and then miss boletti is doing chamber orchestra and choir in that zero hour time slot so yes he's he as far as the instruments go he's still
073the teacher of record for that for the band stuff and the miss boletti is for the string instruments this is guys yes this is alan yes mr mcgivern yes mr alvarez yes mr astronomy yes and that's just to prove the ptc calendar of events this is because um they are covered by the trust hence that's why it's an agenda so we'll need a motion to do that i'll move to approve the ptc calendar i'll say it discussion the calendar is up on the board screen i still say take this recording it's like i said over there okay jesus yes mrs allen yes mr mcgivern yeah mr alderweire yes mr answered yes and it looks like our last voting item is the new elective for our cooking and engineering this does come with a 10 course
074fee to offset materials but there are for this as well scholarships are available um i'll move to approve the new elected force feeds any discussion this looks like a really cool program my daughter's in this so i'll be interested to i can get status in the reports yeah so okay this is guys yes mrs allen yes mr mcgivern yes mr allery yes mr astronaut yes our events coming up in the next couple of months we've got um when we had our first day of school with the house we've got the law conference coming up in september i believe um rico and myself are going and you've got the special education course our next meeting and you guys can reinvest ourselves we did add an executive session to be added here and that was again september
0756th the 23rd and that's to review the superintendent evaluation rubric next is a governing board information and discussion any discussion items just start at the end and work our way back down mrs well congratulations on fine school opening i thought your welcoming for the teachers was very very well done having been that person that shows up for the first day of school for 10 years i don't ever remember getting welcomed that much and i remember all of us just being pretty grumpy so i'm very excited to see how cool that was so congratulations know i just uh i just think that this will be a fabulous school year i i can sense the enthusiasm of the staff and i i know that that enthusiasm is going to carry over the kids and i congratulations on
076just a wonderful wonderful kickoff you know i do have something that you reminded me of your rule day where the kids all went around and learned the different roles different areas procedures procedures well that afternoon it was rule day in my house so thank you very much i got like a 45 minute lecture of how to beat everybody you have a second grader right yes um two quick things so i have a couple friends that are teachers in south america and i told them like a lot of the stuff that we do and then they're like get breakfast you welcomed everybody back this is right you did what wow but that said um you should have me being recruited so my daughter is in eighth grade saturday she said i can't wait to go back
077to school can i go back now can you believe that she knows but you know you guys all know her but it they're just something different maybe part of it's being a big shot eighth grader you know but she's got this new confidence this year that it didn't happen from home you know i mean it just is i think it's the environment's got a big thing to do with it um and that so thank you guys keep on doing what you're doing and i just want to thank everybody also our team is amazing the work that we did as an employee as an advocate for the summer and the hours that everybody puts in collaborating and planning and preparing um we were definitely ready and it was amazing to walk through the classrooms because on
078the very first day of school 26 kindergarteners sitting at their desk organizing counting with legos and counters and pattern blocks just amazing and it looked like like it was the every every class students were just busy ready to work teachers were prepared kids had fun and it's like we never left for summer and um even our kindergartners looked like first graders already ready to go so i just really i'm very very proud of our team and the work and i it is going to be a great year we're looking forward to all the success that everyone's going to experience this year so thank you so with that we're going to recess to sign some paperwork fix it