001[Music] drew are you there hey hi anybody else on the call [Music] yes [Music] just here's i just so we'll go ahead and session and get back to our meeting can i get a motion to return to our normal meeting i moved and returned to our regular rescheduled agenda okay that's proof so um we are back we have um earlier scratching item six our special recommendations section so we'll move on to approve the december 14th uh [Music] any discussion um in the call to the public the information from mrs sampson while i think we captured much of the essence of the discussion i think we left some of it out and we may just want to go back and add some more to it and that's recorded so it shouldn't be yeah this is a
002summary but i can add more on the next one any more discussion [Music] anybody on the phone for call the public i think it's just andrew okay and we'll skip over that and miss superintendent it's your turn our screen's not working [Music] fine well quickly just to report um good evening everyone and we've only had a week in session so i'd like to wish everybody a happy new year 2022 and we know everybody's studying their new year's resolution so don't be the same be better our enrollment update we're still steady as you can see our numbers there we are still just down six students usually we see a lot of enrollment um increase in january students who are either moving into state and we didn't see that this year we had a few students withdraw
003but not too many students come in but we're steady quarantine and isolation so um we had 116 kids absent this was yesterday today we had 10 more kids out positive student cases we have 22 six were in the same class positive staff went from three to four for today quarantine students we have 32 students on quarantine three students quarantined on staff we had 16 students who were opting for the test to stay and one staff member of detest to stay we did have to close one classroom which is started virtually today the teachers here on campus teaching the students since we had more kids out with with close contact quarantine and isolation in that classroom staff and students hit the ground ready in 2022 we had our chorus center cheerleaders assist with the baja baseball
004first kitchen from here which was nice so there's our dream team there with mr ferguson and miss valetti and miss potterton who took the kids to this event also our staff kicked off thank you mr osterby and our governing board members and mr williams and crew patriots for their help and encouraging words it's always a great time to encourage and show appreciation to our amazing continental cold staff we had our asiana's winter conference so sunday monday deanna and mrs cuevas and mr maguianes and i presented it was leadership in action fuersa was the theme and mr nain and mr nathan were supposed to go present with us but both of them became ill and weren't able to make the conference so um due to increase of cobit cases we did have a lot of participants
005and even some superintendents who didn't make the conference because of close context upcoming events we have a long list on our board docs so i didn't really include anything on that slide and that's about it if we're focusing on the big rocks making sure that they're in first so we can eliminate noise to really look at data and um our teachers have a plan for our we teach and enrich this semester these next nine weeks so we really are going to be prepared for our state assessment great thank you so we moved to number 10 the consent agenda there's about three items within that do we have a motion for the consensus i'll move to a proof of concentration second any discussion mrs allen yes mrs yes mr australia yes miss valentine yes and mr
006mcgivin yes okay mr greg good evening everybody glad that you all had a great holiday season and we're back at it here um the district finance report is attached to decide your agendas but it was also asked me to bring up uh what our budget is versus our actual expenditures and conferences per category so i went ahead and did that for you here this is our ml budget everything in the yellowish column is what is budgeted for that line item everything in the bluish columns is what is expended or encumbered within that column um at the very end of that column that tells you how much we budgeted how much has been spent or encumbered and how much of each column is remaining another thing that was asked for if you can go ahead and
007move that to the right just a little bit mr thank you is you asked for the budgeted adm versus what ade is calculating our adm admins so our budgeted adm right now is at 583.39 and as of january 5th ade is calculating our adm at 577.85 so with that i will i hope this answers the questions that were put forth as far as what was expected of this report if it isn't please let me know and i can make whatever adjustments it is that you need to get the information that you're actually looking for but other than that i ask that you approve this month's district financial report do we have a motion and i do have some questions i really don't have a question on the district financial report or the budget actual report
008um but what i what i am wondering is some of the numbers don't match between the two exhibits at least as far as what i can see um i went through the whole m uh in the financial report looked at the the total expenditures including encumbered uh encumbrances and i'm the way i'm looking at this thing is that salaries are 28 000 less on the financial report than what they are on the budget and versus actual report benefits are fifteen thousand dollars less purchases match exactly and supplies are twenty thousand dollars more on the finance report than they are on on the budget versus actual report um i i'm not really asking you to let me show me where i've miscalculated uh or something that i've missed and you can get back to us later
009if you just want to shoot that to me an email i'd be more than happy to answer that question and that's fine with me fine with me um and and if if i'm wrong just point out again and that i missed an area but that's i mean those are round numbers uh uh but i i didn't think i missed it too much because the purchases matched exactly yeah and it could be a simple thing as i tried both number here there because everything on that the uh the budget versus actually once again keyed in so it could be something that i transposed the number here to there so i'd be more than happy to look at this for you if you can just give me the specifics of which ones you're looking for then i
010can go ahead and give you that information right since we're halfway through is there anything that keeps you up at night as far as our budget and you know that i'm a little worried about here that we're gonna run out of money or we've gotta so within the budget versus actual report that we said joe if you scroll down to the bottom of this moniker so it's kind of subtle in sections so within regular education we're still sit with 314 000 dollars that have not been spent or in comfort uh within special education we're at 91 thousand dollars that haven't been spent for encumber within transportation we're at eighty two thousand dollars and within our k three reading program for twenty two hundred dollars so that's roughly four hundred and ninety thousand dollars that has
011not been spent or encountered so with that being said and to answer your question what's keeping me up at night is how much am i going to have to get rid of that because the state doesn't pass the aggregate limit so that's where we're at right now we're keeping really close track on these numbers and we're just needing the legislature to override the aggregate limit so that we don't have to cut budgets because that is what i have available right now and when is that oh do we know the legislature has to act by march 1st you know so if you look within those categories so i've got 314 000 within regular education as long as you know the legislature does pass that budget that could go towards you know equalizing out the raises that
012we had to give last month or for this month for the for the minimum wage increase i can look at doing some raises for teachers and administrators off of that and the same thing with the salaries i've got what forty thousand dollars close to forty thousand dollars within special edit teachers and then like 185 thousand dollars within parapros and things like that so it gives us that opportunity to give those raises that we didn't get at the beginning of the year um do those also include any like unused salaries like if we just need to hire so can you scroll up again i'm sorry for so when you're looking so when we're looking at teachers instruction okay so that's going to be that 160 100 lives that's the teacher line so i've got roughly what
013is that fourteen one four four seven and one four nine two so roughly 48 000 within teacher salary so there is room for another teacher within that category now when you're starting to look at anything anything dealing with salaries is in that 6100 section so it's just a matter of taking the difference in between the two to see how much is left just so like if by some weird occurrence we get a a lot of bus drivers apply and i know we're always looking for bus drivers there's i'm sure stroller miss monica please so under 400 which is pupil transportation it looks to be 19 000 roughly so yeah i can afford bus drivers if needed for the remainder of the school year so we've got to march first there you go well yes that's
014what's keeping me up at night anybody else this is alan yes mrs yes miss rossville mr yes and mr mcgivin all right that moves on a new business [Music] field trip they want to go to flagstaff and in february we are excited that the field trip is back on in person for the jazz festival in flagstaff and it is during rodeo break so students do not miss school but our staff members are willing to go and take our kids for that weekend and its funding is all paid entirely by tax credit the music funds that they have do we have a motion to approve mode to approve field trip quest to flex second yeah and next year's calendar yes so it is um we have our calendar there proposed it has been shared with teachers
015as a draft form for feedback it is aligned to sabarita's calendar which we try to align it as close as possible to the same families and kids so we'd like to get it approved so that teachers can start to plan their vacations and their pre-service days and make sure they're back on campus when school starts um christmas break aligns with so anything yes we did make um two changes on this calendar based on christmas break because if you notice that it has christmas eve is well the 23rd is friday that's records day and we know that we do have families that go out of town so we moved wednesday will be a full day and thursday the 22nd will be our half day so we just flopped instead of making it wednesday every release and
016thursday full day we did that for december and for may as well so that the last day would be a half day instead of the wednesday prior but other than that it's similar to for some reason the way the calendar turned out it's giving us one extra day right albert on the calendar one extra day from this year and more days in fourth quarter but it is a line to someone in the student contact days of 176 does that include the 39 half days yes so we've got whatever that comes out to be about 140 146 actual contact days full days [Music] yes does that what is the state standard the state standard is by hours not necessarily days so um when mr bagnanesque um does our numbers we well exceed the hours of what
017is state mandated although i don't know if you don't have those numbers i don't have it with me right now they'll be the same very similar to last year's uh rk through fourth grades exceed the number of days almost by 33 days a year based on the number of hours they only have to go 760 hours for the year middle school goes a thousand hours that's seventh and eighth grade and then k5 is uh four or six is 900 900 hours a year so typically um elementary school kids usually go to school an hour less than our middle school kids and high school kids but we have all of our kids on the same schedule that's why we have so many extra hours for our elementary school kids because they don't go out at two
018o'clock they stay till three like the middle school students do and we've discussed the fact that as we continue to grow and with transportation at some point we may need to have two separate dismissals for elementary and middle schools other schools in tucson that are k-8 have separate dismissals for the elementary kids and the middle school kids but we haven't had to do that so we're just going to keep them here as long as we can for as many hours but our little kinder first figures are exhausted by three o'clock um no they're still um they still go home with a lot of energy even though they're tired and i think because of the energy power it does allow us to continue to provide the music and pe for our students and again our teachers
019have an hour for technically a 40-minute lunch and then their teacher planning time is built in so teachers at continental have an hour for lunch and in other schools it's usually 35-40 minute lunch break that they have so our kids even have more recess than what is mandated or required can we get a motion on the calendar thank you any discussion seems like we got our discussion sorry um mrs allen yes mrs tykes yes mr australia yes mr hollery thank you mr mcgivern yeah all right looks like our last thing is the washington dc trip end of the year we're thrilled to report that we did find another company after sending out um more bid requests for gerber for the washington dc civics trip and the amount of 89 650 and you do see the
020other bids that we received um this company did allow for most of the things that we have really deemed that's critical that we want our students to have the must-sees plus some additional excursions that we haven't taken part in the past can we get a motion i move to approve the civic squad washington dc trip second any discussion i hope they get to go yeah do we know if you have a kid in seventh grade if we can go ahead and do a tax credit this year [Music] somebody's on livestream so they're repeating the next day it's just it's remember there's a delay oh and then so it's somebody was on live stream and had the phone that's scary like yeah give a tax credit to the civics club for your kid anticipation of them
021going in eighth grade so then you would have 800 already head start so i will just put it this way so that i keep myself legal technically tax credits cannot be donated for a particular individual they can only be designated for an event so if somebody wanted to to make a donation for the civic strips the answer is yes now on the other side of it we will keep track of who's making donations for whom so to make sure that that student gets credit for that donation it is a i was supposed to go last two years and still disappointed i didn't get to go okay do we have a motion yes we already have a motion in a second is this the three-day tour and they get um then this group to get passes
022so they go to the front of the line everywhere so that's really the way to do it once it's approved we'll confirm dates we haven't confirmed dates yet but they usually go the last week of april or the first week of may well it looks pretty awesome we're excited hopefully things will stay open and our kids can't go i want to hear about the ghost and graveyard tour this is ellen yes mrs price yes mr yes mr ellery yes mr mcgibbon all right school board events they're coming up tomorrow is the pre-k trot do you know what time that starts 10 a.m are we allowed to just come on yes yes it'll be out on the track 10 to 10 30 so you're welcome to come watch the preschool students trot for fundraiser around the
023track and their siblings are going to be out of class walking with them as well and then they'll happen and they'll have lunch outside and that's to raise money for sunshine yes shade structures for preschool and are the girls kindergarten boys basketball girls basketball and voice soccer games 3 45. also monica the the bolts training in tucson i believe has been changed to february 9th yes that is correct so they did send an email they moved it to february night and i will be attending yes okay in monday we are having a meeting about the february sweet art gallon whether we need to do it via auction or do it live again so the jury's still up in here i know we're still looking for items for the senate option because if we cancel the
024in-person data we'll still do the online option for auction would be nice to have a force in the quail creek switch we'll work on it i'm sure yeah you need to we need to get a gift card for a foursome at quail creek or golf on the show for the okay yes that should that's not thirsty that was on your list and you get to cross it off delegation that's good that's good that's good there i will do that thank you um okay so one um okay that's good so we'll go to the description um just for discussion um we're looking at the february 14th board meeting that is valentine's day so i just want to make sure that the board is aware of that and the march meeting we just realized is march 15th
025and that's on spring break and and that is when our teachers and our administrators are off work on the 15th so we are it's march 14th march 14th is that monday that's monday okay first day of spring break so we'd like to propose that we move that meeting to march 21st which would be the following monday um we can put it on the agenda for next month for approval but i just wanted to make and do we need to announce the study session next we can uh-huh so we'd like to have a study session on february 7th on monday at 4 to discuss board goals and our current strategic plan and start at the end with miss kais and work our way around the table for any last discussion well i see that our we
026have a fifth grade class that's out we had six kids that tested positive with covet and i guess i'm i'm wondering we have 14 students that are now at home for five days is that correct yes why did we make that decision this is over the course of two school days we had six students who tested positive for colby in a fifth grade classroom that cohort right before we went on our break was one that had a lot of positive cases two of our teachers tested positive and it started to spread throughout that whole entire cold war so to stop the spread from happening that's why the decision had been made for that to occur we did contact puma county health department and the health liaison they were going to get a hold of the
027epideal epidemiology epidemiologist department and then they never returned our call they said that they do recommend that if there are two cases that are positive there are not siblings that a classroom should shut down but that's a highly recommended case in this case here we had six students and that's not including the close contacts that have been testing to state to come into the classroom so moving forward if more cases like that happen throughout our school that's something that i think as a board and as side administrators we really do need to start discussing so we know what the game plan is going to be and we also have further directions to what you know as the site leaders what we need to do in making those calls and those decisions but with stopping this
028friend and having to lose a lot more of our students over the course of this month in that great level because they already got hit hard already and it's beginning again some of those students already had it in less than two months and are getting in again so that's a big that was a big um first semester we did have to close one first grade class and one second grade class at different times when we did have a number of positive cases and it it worked and we didn't have to close any other classes so we were anticipating after winter break that we would have more people testing positives so um i think you know we really are sitting in a good spot with our being able to contain and close contact and have these
029students be home monday is a no school day because of martin luther king day and they'll be back on tuesday so we're hoping that this will be the worst of it okay thank you i i actually asked that question because the the metric that they're using nationally is 40 and that was 30 so we have 14 families that have had to address what they're going to do for five days and i think that we need to have a little bit clearer definition as we spoke at our last meeting you know if they ask for an attorney we have to provide them with an attorney so those are some things that i think we need to consider when we're making these kinds of decisions that we we closed down a classroom with 30 infections and did
030i understand you to say that a child who had been infected previously was infected again yes and it's not the first case we've had a few others within that were infected at the beginning of november it's less than the 90-day window and they've already come positive again and stuff not just students so people people are getting it again and again yes and there may be other comorbidities that there are with that and but i just again with the national average of 40 so the the national statistic or metric that uh educational institutions are using is 40 we're shutting down at 30 um and we have students who are are not they obviously don't have the antibodies or they have comorbidities that are extreme such that we you know we can anticipate that we know that
031as a board we have some legal potential legal requirement um i think that may be something that we want to put on an agenda to talk about how we're going to address that then also we the good thing is is that we have parents when we call them and let them know we have parents who are supportive and in agreement who are also still very leery that we don't have a mandatory mass mandate so we still have some of the parents who are feeling like you know since we don't have a mandatory mass mandate that they are okay with trying to help mitigate kobed and are willing to keep the kids home for the virtual instructions so that still kind of were but our parents we contact every single one of them and i think
032our community also appreciates that we are transparent with them and we do let them know we've called it we've you know closed a class we do have a number of kids absent who are with just colds and flus and not feeling well and parents calling us to say they're just not feeling good and we're gonna you know keep them safe and make sure that they don't have coped before we send them back which is good which i think is why we've been able to keep our numbers where they are and they weren't they did stay in session all of yesterday so it's the tuesday through friday which doesn't you know four days to five days but they were we did um have them stay yesterday and contacted all campaigns to discuss the markets okay so
033pima county health department is the one that um you guys were in contact with and so they run them in closing with two that's that's probably what it had been it was two students non-related if their siblings and live in the same household and but there again those are recommendations so which we were at three then we're at four then it was five and we had a student test again from that same class and it was six and that's that's where you know i agree i think we like to have this on an agenda too to further discuss another thing we're starting to see with perhaps this year that we weren't seeing before was a lot of the students who are falling ill are having favors so going back to the drawing board and discussing
034our mitigation plan maybe just doing some health checks again in the mornings and just bringing that back because that wasn't something that was occurring in the in past past we had also talked about possibly the kids who were in school putting them in the other classes but then again we're just exposing kids who were in contact with their peers to another classroom and also for a little bit we had our teachers teaching virtual and in person simultaneously which is very difficult as well and this way all the entire class is virtual and the teacher is still teaching all of them because if she was only doing in person for the kids then the kids at home would just be doing homework packets and keeping up with the curriculum as best they could so don't they
035usually rotate like the math to the ela not anymore they don't no their cells can take now yes yes so the test two stages we're very grateful for that because it is keeping our students here a lot more than happening in the past and we've also had some test to stay students test positive like on day three or two of them coming to test to stay do you have a guess approximately how many tests that um maureen's given today well by 8 30 this morning she had already and maureen's probably listening but i'm pretty sure she had already ran about 21 tests yeah she still test through the day by nine am this morning i was here with her and i know that yesterday morning probably by 10 am she had 84 voicemails because people
036wanting to come in and get tested and we tell them they have to leave a message and she gets back to him schedules an appointment but she had over 84 voicemails so i'm sure majority of those work for appointments does that 84 students want to come in and get justin i'm not i'm not going to say yes but i know 84 voicemails because parents are told just to call her and make an appointment it could be the state parents it could be three times but we also so speaking of that with we did post our position for the health clerk help we have not had any applicants so what we are going to look at um for next board meeting is a possible proposal for an addenda um a stipend for miss marie because she
037is testing on the weekends and well into the evenings documenting and reporting and she's here early in the morning to be ready to start testing at seven so we'll be bringing something to the board next month but we're still hoping we can find a house nobody does that we don't have any so and i'd like to think right now take the time to thank um mrs evan our registrar mrs molina and jenna our attendance first because they have been helping so much with the close contact calls but also tracking because if our students are doing test to stay we also have to track if they're an after-school sports tutorials or clubs because starting yesterday they have to test to stay every day students who aren't have to test they test to stay every so many
038days so the first 35th day so now we have two groups that we have to keep track of um and have to they have to make their parents decide for them to do that test to say they'll be working masks but there's a lot of keeping track and some a lot of moving parts that are happening since we've returned so miss marie just reported she did 40 tests today and a lot of phone calls from other districts trying to get allow their parents or kids to come test and also we had 11 staff members out today so again that's this morning does spending nights and evenings and starting at five o'clock in the morning um contacting and getting our subs to fill these positions i also did a shout out to our support staff because
039we have miss romanelli miss marilla miss collay and miss sable covering for teachers as well throughout the day which takes them away from their normal job duties but there really is a team effort to try to keep everybody healthy and in school um i was just going to give a shout out to maureen um i passed by the test to stay line of recording to drop off addie and i feel like it's kind of a not if i'm going to be in that line but when and i really like we've got something special with maureen and this achievement gap that's developed over the last couple of years and quarantining and isolation do not do not work together and so i'm really really happy we have this test to say program because it's going to keep
040more kids in school and help us with this achievement gap but um it is a lot of work so mr over yeah i've got some comments on on this whole situation um i've been wanting to say a few things for the past few months but when the fifth grade class went to virtual learning this week it kind of just took the bucket for me um i read this seven page document that we passed out to the staff last week and a lot of these guidelines i think come from the cdc pima county department of health um trying to understand what these things say is is absolutely unbelievable just unbelievable and how we expect our parents to monitor their kids at home according to all these guidelines on these seven pages is beyond imagination to me
041i read an article yesterday in the in or in the january 6th issue of the atlantic that included comments from other health experts that criticized cdc guidelines as being convoluted wishy-washy and even unscientific and yet this is what's governing what we're doing in our school and schools throughout this state and the nation as my colleague kelly just said i am alarmed at the long-term and in many cases i believe permanent damage that we're doing to our kids educationally mental health that's caused by virtual learning isolation and quarantine guidelines absences and yes mask requirements masks are not stopping the spread of it they're not kids can wear masks they can be vaccinated and they're still going to get coped with the omicron variant now i want to stress in no way am i attempting to minimize
042the fact that 800 000 people across this country have died because of this disease but it's also been pretty proven that our kids are the least vulnerable to this disease least full of infection and spreading infection or having serious health problems if they do get infected and the omicron variants are even less dangerous than previous variants in this of this disease rachel wolinski who's a director in this centers for disease control admitted in the last couple of days that the overwhelming number of deaths over 75 of the 800 000 plus deaths due to this disease happened to people that have at least four comorbidities that's diabetes that's heart disease that's obesity and elderly could probably be thrown into one of those too they were 80 or 60 percent i'm sorry 75 of all those are
043sick of over 600 000 people who are already unwell when they get traffic our kids need to be in class they need to be in class now rest assured there's going to be a capping period there's going to be a gamma variant there's going to be a sigma variant and we're just going to have to learn to live with this disease just as much as we deal with the flu and we deal with cotton colds our kids need to be in class i think that kids ought to stay home if they're sick if they've got symptoms and if they're well they return to class thank you and again i'm honored to take this position and do my best to serve everybody i might be a little rough and running some of the meetings to start
044but i'm a quick learner so they tell me so andrew and um mr mcgibbon i'd like to also thank you for your um service as president and in leading our board and um glad that you will continue to be with us and look forward to our continued growing relationships and growth as a board as professionals as we move our students forward in teaching and learning so thank you albert does have a updated numbers just for the calendar for you that we can we we didn't include them when we put the counter because we just put the days uh but our hours our k-8 hours are 1140 for the year um what 1140 hours for the year our k-3 students uh from uh the ada numbers only have to attend 712 hours for the year our
0454-6 students only have to attend 890 hours for the year and our seven and eight students have to only have to attend a thousand hours for the year so we are well over uh the hours the minimum hours needed for ade for the year on based on the days the number of full days and half days that we are attending thank you okay okay so now we're going to uh