001welcome everyone uh if you would please join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the republic for which it stands [Music] this is alan absent this is kind here mr australia mr ellery here and mr mcgivern here thank you i'll entertain a motion probably yes mr president i would like to just switch two items on the agenda under new business i'd like to just switch a and b and put budget revision and better than uh i had a healthcare healthcare position swap a and b in a new business okay any further yes mr australia yes mr ellery yes and mr mckibben yes thank you agenda is approved as amended we have some minutes please november 9th i'll move to approve second discussion okay mrs keith yes mr australia yes mr hillary clinton
002yes and mr mcgivern yes classes december 7th 2021 moved to approve december 7. thank you hey call the republic do we have anyone on the line okay who sampson please you're up uh my name's lou sampson and i just wanted to know that i applaud this board for the transparency and open discussions during board meetings that i don't see at other schools other schools seldom discuss anything the superintendent will make a suggestion and they'll vote on it and they'll always vote with the superintendent so last month i thought that was an interesting discussion with totally different philosophies argued and i'm glad you got this discussion during an open meeting because as citizens we don't often know the inner workings of the state school board and we really depend on you to help educate us i
003would however caution the board as to the language used relative to the old white guys there are around 15 000 homes in the green valley wreck and that is not all the homes in the green valley area but the majority of those homes have old white guys in them and no children in this school whale creek has 2800 ponies with the majority of old five guys residing in them with no children in this school these homes and properties make continental a donor school for which you might want to show some respect to those citizens that provide more than adequate tax dollars to operate this school and as i thought about the meeting and i kept hearing chairman mcgiven's opinions ringing in my head about the divisiveness on the board and his heartfelt expression of looking
004at a child in front of him with no regard for the color or economic status he just wanted to listen and help that kid make sure he was getting good education it finally occurred to me that this last meeting was a perfect example of exactly what critical race theory is the oppressed and the oppressor the old white men are the oppressors and the three ethnic groups you're voting on we're the oppressed this is all about judging and rewarding people on their skin color and isn't that just exactly what crt is designed to do it shows how insidious and embedded this is woven throughout the total education system the national school board urged the white house to have okay ma'am two minutes thank you thank you thank you very much appreciate it uh mr bresni two
005minutes thank you chairman mcgibbon of members of the board community members my name is tom brezny i live at 1062 east lumberjack trail and i am the proud grandparent of two continental cults for those of you that don't know me pima county district court supervisor steve steve christie's record this area he applauds the continental elementary school administration staff and governing board and the efforts they've made to keep continental open for in-person learning our kiddos need that he wishes everyone a joyous season and he loves being your supervisor one of the things my wife and i love to do this time of year is to drive around and look at the wonderful light displays we drove through madeira highlands last year with our grandchildren and i was amazed at what we saw there are a number
006of opportunities to enjoy this past time in the area there are drive around green valley and quail creek your elder neighbors whose tax money and generous charitable donations helps fund this wonderful school for our children and grandchildren love seeing young families enjoying the displays they put up check out pueblo estates on the other side of i-19 south of the baltimore road they do an exceptional job go down to the historic canoa ranch just south of the santa cruz valley hospital and check out their display that's a county park and you might be able to learn a little of the history of the area at the same time sounds like a pretty cool homework assignment to me and when i looked at these projects that you've done over here i'd love to see a project on
007the his the canoe land grant and the deonza trail that would be perfect assignment for continental don't forget the town of saurita's celebration is this saturday night the hebrew word shalom basically translates into english as the word peace greeting someone with shalom is to wish for their heaviness good health friendship and general well-being so whether you say merry christmas feliz navidad seasons greetings happy holidays happy hanukkah salam cappy kwanzaa happy winter solstice or nothing at all at this time of year shalom thank you hey christy latham hello so i just wanted to give the board a quick update covet struck our dc trip again um so we have the company that we've been working on with for 15 years go out of business he's had a ton of cancellations on him this year because of
008cobin and then of course the last two years of covid he could just no longer continue his business so after i got this phone call thursday at 1 45 in the afternoon i wouldn't have my panic cry with greg and deanna saying i can't do this again with these kids these four kids um i got to work started on the computer and got new quotes coming in um greg and i are going to be sitting down thursday looking over i have four different companies who are fighting for our business right now to keep our kids on this trip um they're really working at keeping it the same price or very close to the same price and giving us the same quality of trip that we had already have planned for us um and so we'll
009be making a decision on who we would like to bring to the board in january so i just wanted to keep you guys apprised of what's going on and knowing that when you see in january another civic strip needs to be approved this is why so we're gonna still keep fighting for dc and going this year and hopefully things will pan out again and we'll be able to go and if not we got a wonderful arizona trip planned so we're going to continue with that if we must so i just wanted to keep you guys updated so we're still trying thank you okay mr davis you're up okay let's go i've never done this before so i'm a little nervous but [Music] all right um we have this uh large project um i'll let them
010go first that way if we run out of time we'll run out of time on their time go ahead who's gonna start pick up so they can get please christopher i'd like to say something real quick he wrote 24 paragraphs because he didn't like the way it was organized so he reorganized his own so we did a timeline on hunter-gatherers to the columbian exchange here's one together where it's alaska modern day monitoring canada and then we have where they travel so they travel from asia to alaska with a land bridge then we um the paleo indians um they this is the kind of these are the weapons um the fire um weapons of trap racks then then we have um in between everything we have um the four four tribes we have the aztecs omnics
011incas mayans the aztecs created medicine and chocolate the olmecs have these very stone heads and they've created popcorn um the mayans came at zero and calendars and then the english created um road bridges and roads then we're to columbus from the sailing here's the pinta nina and the santa maria um here's this is the formulation so here was a trade route and then the economy exchange started in um here's a map of that current era um nothing the sixth grade was slightly different um they went from hunter and gatherers all the way to the first city state that seventh graders went from hunter gatherers all the way crossing the landscape populating the american public so we did our product on the other [Music] and at the bottom you have like another timeline of what happens
012so there's the shelters and the tools that they use and then you go on there's only christopher columbus when he was getting bishops and the druids from queen isabella and king ferdinand and then go on there's loading at spain put on the three ships and there's a sailor san lorenzo europe and asia and then there's merchants traveling off the road and here's all the tradeoffs drugs land and tea and some things that they created okay one of the interesting things that i found out why we're studying this among a lot of things is that you think right away of italy spaghetti sauces they didn't have tomatoes and tell christopher thomas brought him from the indians so that was a pretty interesting thing the kids come up with like things and i've done this several times
013but these things just stick with me and that was uh one of them that's amazing anything else some of the items that they traded um what european america was bananas and bananas were from europe and africa uh cattle citrus fruits uh diseases grains grapes peaches sugarcane and honeybees and then the items that were treated probably americans to europe where beans cocoa corn potatoes squash sweet potato tobacco tomatoes and then up here this is like a timeline that has so it's from paleo hunting gathers in eastern asia and then it goes to like when they cross the land bridge um from uh the us and everything america and then the online and then this is when this sets sail i would arrive in any time trade so how we made this project our whole class we
014we all had our own separate uh paragraphs the limit of what our class had was at least you're supposed to have at least 15. i wrote 17 paragraphs and so we all wrote uh introduction together the class and then near the end and for the conclusion we had to like come up with a conclusion that mr davis he would just like check it and stuff to make sure like it's perfect but we didn't know some of those work okay just for the conclusion i have one here just to show you how difficult the conclusion was it was a it was like pulling teeth because they didn't quite understand and so they would bring a conclusion and here's one young man i finally gave him this paper because he was tired of erasing his paper was
015looking bad he was getting frustrated so i gave him a separate page and he's got the date the 27th the 28th and there's a whole nother page that's in his notebook earlier days and it says so now you see how the hunter and gatherers then king hammer robin rules another one ruled all the buildings and then he came up with something that i said that's really good and it's cool to know that we went from sticks and stones to the tools we have today we domesticated animals with shelters farm soon after we built cities eventually the assyrians attacked and conquered the first city state that's how we evolved from hunter and gathers to military today and that turned out in my mind to be a really good conclusion after he worked so hard and they
016all that none of them wrote their conclusion the first time it took several times and i proofread them it was driving me crazy but they finally ended up getting their own conclusion and they ended up doing a really good job sure she wants to read the introduction we did shared writing to start out together so our philosophy wrote an introduction together like sentences read so this is the destruction there's a long history regarding the polo indians from the time they populated europe asia and the americas during the ice age hundreds and gatherers crossed the land bridge when the paleo indians crossed the land bridge into the americas they went groups of people behind to start new tribes so civilizations were created from the people that were left behind and they created many different tribes such
017as online incas mayans and aztecs then columbus journey opened ways for trading with these stripes now you know how the paleo indians evolved throughout time and helped the world become what it is today okay thank you now we have the sixth grade group which was slightly different they were hunter and gatherers also but um they stayed in asia and created the first city-state into the assyrians where they uh well that let them tell you what happens i'll [Music] these are our sixth graders this is and then the area right here is um okay so in this area this is an area where the civilizations begin to get more advanced [Music] this is the hanging garden which is just like a big irrigation system that has a bunch of places and over here we have a
018church and just [Music] um can't see in here their schema oftentimes was hard for them to understand somebody put a hospital in the red cross and of course that didn't come to claire martin so that opened it up to the classroom to have that conversation what kind of medicine did they have because they wanted the hospital to be there so bad and so then we talked about the kind of medicine they had and how that all probably developed and so there was a lot of different conversation based on the schema they had in their head that we got to talk about and work it out so the learning that went on is to be incredible that they retained all that they did and then they were able to write their paragraphs about it and you
019should all have that there and maybe energy and i just gave you a couple uh we put christopher's in there 24 and all the girls argue with christopher about what he does and how he does it but it's uh he does a great job in our class along with everybody else do you have any folks okay i would like you have any questions for me or those students they could answer just about any question you may have questions i need to read your papers they're on your page i have them and i'm looking forward to reading them thank you you guys okay and is what we did to edit um they wrote it rewrote it they checked each other's papers with their friends and then i had them sit in groups of three they have
020to trade papers they have to listen to somebody read their paper because our ears are great as a child to listen and hear when things don't sound right they go wait you can hear martial i didn't write down they go look that's exactly what you wrote and so then they got to go back and edit their own paper after they listened to it and we ended up doing that two or three times and so we went through that whole time and then for these students that are here to work on this um they weren't getting it done they were frustrated so i said you know we have thanksgiving break and um if you go home here's what we're going to do when you come back and i gave them the whole lesson that they were
021going to do when they came back and they came back with it done so i was in the classroom teaching i sat by the door and i got to teach the rest of the classroom they were able to work in the hallway to get it done because they already had their lesson finished and so it gave them more time so that they could come here and present um one of the things that went on is there was a little tip for tap between some of the teachers as far as why i wanted them to write a five paragraph paper and the teachers were concerned that might be too hard too tough and it ended up in one of the meetings with uh miss rico and deanna and one of the kids somebody came back and
022said well miss rico says why is mr davis stopping at five paragraphs they should write more and i go oh my gosh that's ridiculous wait a minute that's what other teachers are telling me my paragraph's ridiculous so i said you know what let's just see what happens and we created uh the outline and well they created it with the student leader i did not create the outline i put a student up front and they started taking all the kids ideas they came up with their five topics or six topics and then made a graphic organizer and then went all together and figured it out and then i separated them in groups and they organized it and then i put the groups all back together and they made one and that they could follow they didn't
023have to like chris didn't like some of the outline because he thought he could do it would tweak it just a little bit for him and that was perfectly okay they all could do that how they wanted none of the papers came out the same it was kind of an awesome project and i couldn't be prouder and i'd like to thank miss rico and miss clavis for supporting me and allowing me to spend the extra time that it took and give me the confidence to make it do 24 i think 24 was the most and everybody did 15 to 17 minimum was 15 and the other criteria is they had to have a compound our compound complex sentence in every paragraph so i had to stop and teach that along with talking with the writing
024teacher that went ahead and i looked at her a few times and she was going over that to get that and most of them were able to do that one young lady said mr davis i did a good job on it she used every connector word in fanboys so that's uh an acronym we use to get all the conjunction words and she goes i used every one of the words in my paper and so i went through it i checked and she did so thank you i'm good information discussion members of the board and members of our community and our students thank you for being here today and boys and girls great job great job mr davis and that's just uh a testament to when we want students to be actively engaged and project-based learning
025is again around doing projects based on what they're learning and writing about so thank you everyone for listening our theme for the year as you know is focused on the big rocks tis the season to count our blessings organize and set goals for 2022 live love laugh take time to relax and rejuvenate and soak in the self-care time parents students as well as our staff enrollment update you can see we're still um steady and holding where we have been we're up three students from last year on the bottom i have our attendance for today we have one step member out of quarantine 10 students i'm quarantined four students out of isolation our total students upset were 59. which is 91 and our goal is 94 or better so just to remind parents and students if
026we pull out the students who are on isolation and quarantine our percentage is 92.5 so boys and girls make your friends come to school the next three days okay we have a break coming up learning watch so we completed our second school-wide learning walk of the year and this is a model that came from the state department a couple years ago where we have teachers observing other teachers with our administrative team and giving feedback so we're looking for trends and best practices in inclusive learning environment instructional practices which means the what uh student interactions on the how what are we expecting students to do how do we want them to demonstrate their learning and student engagement in terms of the why and we have two more for the year and it was suggested by our
027teachers that our board members attend a learning walk if possible on the next two dates so we are expanding our team so we have next time we'll have three teams and we will observe a million teachers so our goal is that by the end of the year we'll have everybody observed and everybody else will do the observing so it's a pretty exciting process so board members we will check on dates for later time but february 8th and april 26th will be our next ones love and logic classes so i completed four weeks for 12 continental parents three sessions for kotamundi in rio ringo and a refresher for our preschool staff so the idea of love and logic is raising responsible children with emphasis on logical consequences and really empowering students to take responsibility for their
028behaviors and their learning and their actions veterans day we salute our veterans we had a great celebration so thank you to our veterans and our builders club for planning this special event that we do annually and we have our veterans who are on campus as well mr greg so thank you let's talk conference is sponsored by the better together coalition in green valley sawarita and we are part of a school resource team so we planned this day it was our second annual we had 25 of our students attend the day to discuss coping skills and assisted in identifying trends in student behavior and needs so we're firm believers that we have to hear from the students on what they need so that we can help them be successful again thank you to mrs gudford our
029counselor for organizing and chaperoning the trip thrive and send in so our kindergarten through fifth grade students finished our decline change chain challenge which circled the zen den with the kind chains and students had to write ways that others on campus were being kind to them so there were over 480 links that covered the room our thrive students wrapped up their semester presenting vision boards today to prepare for new year goals and thrive is a curriculum that our counselor is using in order to it's a self-esteem motivator goal setting so we have a group of students who have been through drive in the summer and we will start with the new cohort in general student advisory our student advisory kids when we meet with them they have been talking about their be kind efforts so
030what we do is they nominate an employee to receive the events bell awards so you'll see there mr stephen lewis he's new on our staff and he is jack of all trades he drives the bus helps he's helped covered in the nurse's office has helped supervised out on the playground to your left and the kids wrote little nice notes on why and they all vote and then they present and then we have mr jesus on the right who's our custodian who also is very patient kind loving and these are people who definitely work with our students and help ensure that their days go smoothly so i want to thank our student advisory and our employees holiday house thank you to ptc our foundation and our additional donors that was set up so all of you
031parents i'm sure you see the little wrap gifts that you'll be able to receive during christmas so thank you happy holidays continental staff and donors are amazing so there's just a list of all the outside help that we get for our students there's a few pictures if you were to come by the office you would see all the gifts um we provided five families thanksgiving food baskets that were sponsored by our admin team green valley rotary took 15 of our students shopping for clothes embassy tire donated two bicycles one for a girl and one for a boy our builders club provided christmas presents for a family of six children we did shop with the cop our madara church also adopted some families the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints members provided christmas food baskets
032for eight families and as a staff we had an angel tree with eight families 15 students and that's where you can see all the gifts and stuff that we have collected for them so we're super appreciative of all of our continued supporters and our staff builders club again rocks they did a diaper drive and they collected 2 350 diapers to donate we're hoping to make this an annual event and this over since kindergarten class won the cupcake party since they collected over 600 diapers a throw with continental school was donated by dick roberts one will be available at our swedar gala silent auction and so this was made by the green valley chamber and it has continental school on the top right hand side so we do have the throw that we will add to
033our wall and then we'll be able to bid on it at the siren auction at the street art data which is saturday february 12th if any of you know of some great site and auction items or knowing businesses that would donate different items for us at that time we greatly appreciate any needs that you have we our foundation provides scholarships money for our teachers grants in order to do special projects in the classrooms with kids that are out of the north again as a reminder if you um you can't ask specific questions but if you'd like for me to address something um specifically you can let his money but no one you can put it on as an agenda item in the future and we'd like to wish you all a safe and happy holiday
034there's our christmas card in the middle that went out to our board members and all of the other schools in pima county and all of our supporters and that is our student advisor advisory group so just wanted to show you our christmas card and a few pictures of our concerts that we have had so thank you for all of your continuing support thank you okay principal's reporters good evening everybody i hope you're all doing well we have we wrapped up benchmark week which is where we see where our students are progressing for the standards that they're taught from the start of the school year throughout to the very end and this is preliminary data because we are doing makeup testing this week for students who were not here so third grade right now i'm just
035going to show you so you know what the determinants are on map growth testing it'll tell us if our students how many are at high high average average low average and low high high average and average those students are at grade level or on track to being at grade level towards the end or at the end of the school year those who are low average some of them are on the cusp of being average so they're teeter-tottering to going up or going down so we have some more cut out for us and we've got to make sure that we move all of our students up so that they are where they need to be progressing so as we go through the slides we have a math and we have reading at the top of each
036slide it will say how many students were tested how many books are still needed and then when i give you the percentages just preliminary percentages i'm going to be talking about high high averaging average so students that are at grade level um or and on track so for third grade for math we have 61 percent of students who are at grade level and on track and for reading in third grade at this point of the school day for fourth grade we have 61 of students who are at rate level or on track we're on track for math and 67 for reading for fifth grade we have 51 percent of students who are at grade level or on track for mathematics and we have 60 percent who are on grade level for feeding sixth grade board
037members they're available on the slides that had been uploading there was some wrong numbers so these are the corrected slides um for sixth grade for mathematics we have 40 with the current students have tested we have 44 for a grade level for math we have 59 who are at grade level or on track for reading seventh grade we have 55 grade level or on track and 71 grade level and on track for reading eighth grade we have 73 percent of students who are grade level on track and for math and 72 for reading and that is working towards all of our benchmarks every time they're tested they're going to know more standards as the year progresses because due to our calendar our benchmark calendars so student progression data discussions and planning moving forward and continued
038school by data discussions on student academic needs based off of these current benchmarks will be taking place on wednesday january 5th site leadership planning and collaborative data talks will be taking place with each individual grade level team throughout the month of january so we can discuss these current benchmark outcomes as we strategically plan current math benchmark outcomes we're going to be looking at those passion formatives student work samples teacher observations and obtained attendance data which does factor a lot into the progression of our students our special education ell reading specialists are also going to be doing data planning they'll be studying the current benchmark data as well to plan and modify lessons unique to the needs of the students that they're also doing specialized interventions for so we can ensure that they're also progressing academically
039and those specialists are supporting our teachers in the classroom our class out of class interventions that are currently being employed are after school tutorials so currently we have 75 students kinder through 8th grade who are attending after school tutorials we have saturday school who we will also be planning based on the students that come to saturday school the specific standards based off of what their benchmark data is but right now saturday school the first two saturdays that we have were based off of grades so some of these students are high achieving but they're not turning in assignments they're not turning in work and they're receiving d's and f's some of them are struggling academically with their standards and the teachers are working on them with their interventions so we had 42 students who were referred
040our first saturday that we had this november 13th parents were called emails were sent i'm sorry an accidental mask email was sent to the whole entire school and within five minutes i saw that that happened and i had a lot of panicked parents but we fixed that so about 18 attended and 46 students were the december 4th saturday school and we had 15 who attended so our teachers were also reaching out to parents emails were sent and phone calls were also made we had people who were out of town who weren't able to make it and their students so we do have upcoming saturday school dates as well gifted education update our reading specialist miss roman alley has been officially trained to conduct the testing for our gifted education referred students students can be referred
041by their parents they can self-refer and they can also be referred by their teachers so ms romanelli would be the point of contact for that she has the forms and testing is going to begin in january so we'll have more information for all of you coming up we i wanted to share some special things community food bank art winners each fall the southern arizona community food bank sponsors an annual kids calendar art contest and the drawings are about nutrition hunger the importance of food in our lives and this year we had three students whose artwork was going to be showcased in the 2022 calendar and those students were laini karen olivia rojas and sabrina so we're very proud of them last week we've been having many professional development meetings and workshops with our new math
042curriculum review map last week was a really exciting workshop our teachers are receiving from our math coach math games that are tied to the curriculum that are tied to the standards and the units that the students are learning so we had a workshop where we were all together they were learning the games that went with word problems fractions all the way from first grade to fifth grade it was elementary workshop the teachers loved it they were able to leave with our math coach had created bins and boxes for them with all the materials needed for them to be able to go back into their classrooms and start utilizing those games with their students and then we had our wonderful i hope many of you i saw many faces at the band and orchestra and fire
043concerts that happened last week i want to thank you all for attending and supporting our students they did a phenomenal job it's always exciting to see them perform as we're going through you know the second quarter and hearing them practice and see everything civilization come to fruition we're very excited for everything that our band our jazz band our choir our orchestra that they all work so hard and it's amazing to hear them at the beginning of the school year so it's really good we're very proud of them i want to say i'm very proud of all of you who came and presented tonight i have had the pleasure of seeing you work on that social studies project i was able to see when the team leads were taking action and as mr davis stepped back
044and he handed over the reins to his students and it was so amazing to see you all go up there and lead each other and i saw those webs of your outlines where they had like 30 30 different topics that you were going to create your paragraphs for i've been seeing as you guys don't think you might you might not know but when you turn in a lot of your slides it sends me an alert too from your google classrooms so i've been seeing your work as you've been working on it i'm so proud of you and i'm so proud of you coming out tonight during your time to present so if we could give them one more round of applause administration continental staff students parents and community members for your continued support of continental
045and for always coming out and showing up for us we love you very much and we hope you all have a very happy holiday season do you have any questions thank you so now the best part of the jungle yes we can we have our pulse of the month please pause for a second sorry hello [Music] also come on if you want to come are you ready your first first first third okay you're good not him not him so real quickly before we get going guys if you come forward and you get your recognition up here we're gonna go ahead and start by saying our name who our teacher is in one rape room then you'll go stand by mrs rico over here while mrs prabhas and i read really awesome things that your teachers
046say about you then you're going to go over there to ms martin the red sweater waiting at you and then you'll and then once you're done you'll actually come back around the back of the room and then you'll wait right up here in the front right next to special presentation okay all right right so jaylene from mrs mejia jaylene always works quietly completes her assignment and is happy to help she helps others and when someone isn't kind to her she walks away and she doesn't let it ruin her day jaylene follows the rules and stays safe everywhere she goes she is a role model to her peers and i really enjoy having her in my class and teaching her i have learned so much from being her teacher she is a true jewelry [Music] all
047right so miss marinette says gianna this is what ms nirenx says about you gianna has worked very hard over the last quarter she's always participating in class no matter what the subject she gets excited to learn and ask questions making her classmates and teacher think she's kind to her classmates encouraging them to keep trying and work hard too gianna can be shy although many would think this she's someone i could depend on to take students to the nurse a note to the office help around the classroom i am proud of the girl she's growing up to be this year congratulations my my teacher's name is michelle and my name is caleb miller and rodriguez says caleb miller is kind to his classmates because he shares with them and uses friendly words when talking with them
048he's safe because he uses personal and school items correctly caleb is responsible because he completes his classwork on time and is ready for class with all his materials congratulations caleb congratulations all right so miss jones writes ruby is kind to everyone great at following directions and always tries her best she's helpful in the classroom and with her peers great job ruby congratulations [Applause] my name second is my teachers release change christmas so her teachers miss marsky roman alley is who nominated her and she says shaylene comes to class every day with a smile on her face she works hard and she never gives up she respects others with kind words and encouragement she is such a joy to be around congratulations [Applause] okay so her teachers listen and she was nominated by this is late
049in our librarian hadley comes into library each and every week with a smile on her face she's quick to help myself or any other student if it is needed she follows the rules and is respectful at all times thank you bradley you rock my name so mrs lyon writes emily is always kind to other students and her teacher she's good about making sure that she's making good choices and being safe and responsible she's definitely all around a great joy to have in my class congratulations right mrs van porpik says tedeo is the perfect example of what it means to be a continental folk he cares deeply for his peers assisting them with assignments and inviting them to join the game during recess he follows class and school rules encouraging his fellow classmates to do the
050same and he puts forth great effort in his work in class whether it be a math problem or a large project thank you to dale for showing us every day what it means my name is mr ferrison says chloe cravos is kind in her interactions with her fellow students she makes a regular effort to help those around her and is a supportive friend when she has the opportunity she is safe in the way she enters class and moves about campus she meets school expectations and is aware of her surroundings she is responsible when she follows up with her teachers regarding her assignments and her grades if she ever has a question about requirements she is sure to approach a teacher for clarification she is a pleasure to have in class mr ferguson my name is
051gabriel molina and my pumpkin teacher is mr davis and i'm in seventh grade gabby is a delight to have in class she always has a smile on her face greets everyone and is super responsible when it comes to her studies she can always be counted on to follow the rules and do what is right she is a model student and sets a fantastic example for others to follow thank you gabby for all that you do flowers mrs cooler our elementary pe teacher is the one who nominated monica monica always comes to physical education and health with a smile on her face she is always willing to try new things and does so with a very positive attitude she is kind to her peers listens and follows directions and shows responsibility by coming to physical education
052and health prepared to learn and participate keep up the amazing work great job okay get better pictures so i'm gonna have you stand here and help me do these next awards because these are also just as important um here at south middle school we really like to recognize recognize the hard effort of our staff members and so something that we've done a few years back is created a golden horseshoe award um to recognize our staff it's kind of like the employee of the month if you will unfortunately one of our one of our employees we do one for classified one for certified um and so for our classified staff he wasn't able to make it this time so we're going to save that one and do that when she can be here next month so
053for today we're going to do our certified um this person who is nominated um and selected for for the month of november is somebody who really has been here at continental school a very long time and no matter what position they're at they really put their all under the job and they started off here doing kindergarten and have done many different place jobs ended up being the pe and health and then as they near the end of their career has decided to go back to the classroom and has accepted the challenge of kindergarten again during the pandemic which as you can if you can imagine um you can't have a lot of challenges um so miss tesla what are you coming up with that patty tessa and i we actually had the privilege of being
054pe teachers i was middle school and she was elementary for about seven years together so she was my my lady and what a pleasure it was to work with her this year in a pandemic i really really saw her step up when she came to admin and we actually approached the board and we haven't had um tutorial or homework help for kindergartners before and she came and said because of the pandemic i have kids that i would like to hand select and really work with starting with one-on-one and slowly grow the program and so she did that with just her class and now she's got them caught up she's reaching out to the other kindergartner teachers and working with some of their students who due to the pandemic didn't get that socialization didn't get you
055know the basics of education that is so vital to learn as a kindergartner and she's staying a couple days a week after school and running that tutorial program for kindergarten students and that just goes way above and beyond to put in that extra time and effort to make sure literally no student is left behind and everybody is there in chemical and receiving a quality education um so this is tesla you rock and we really appreciate having you [Music] i just want to ask mrs tessel what an inspiration you are she brings a smile to our faces we could be having a challenging day and miss tesla will come around the corner and she's like hey guys how's it going you know she's just she's so inspiring and it's wonderful to see her in action as
056a kindergarten teacher it's been an honor to see her transition back into that type of teaching and she's doing a phenomenal job her lessons are seamless she's just 20 years congratulations folks we'd love to have you stay if you'd like but you're more than welcome to we know you have things to do and energy thank you for coming congratulations thank you [Music] good job congratulations okay moving on to our consent agenda i'll attend a motion on the consensus [Music] yes yes sir so before you tonight you have the district financial report last wednesday that's the belief that's the day that i printed that off i'm also going to kind of give you an update on some sr3 spending that has been going on lately um we did have the well done so that was that
057that came out of the yes or three funds um yesterday on campus they came to start installing the new winches for the middle school gyms those electricians showed up today that's our lane conduit for the electrical um i spoke last week with the vendor doing the shade structures and they are currently just waiting on the actual shade structure to be manufactured before they set a date to come into an installation so that's where we're at with the sr3 funding so far as far as expenditures so i bring this tonight for your approval okay marshall please on the finance report how much we approve the december 14th okay any discussion no i'm surprised we're getting the electrical work and the work done on the gym given the supply chain things on some home improvement stuff i'm
058trying to do personally probably stuff you're trying to repair the ranch [Music] further discussion questions mrs kais yes mr oscar mr ellery yes and mr mcgivern yes thank you financial report passes uh copenhagen update please to eat so me too um in our last full board meeting it was discussed coveted updates and different things and per the board's request we have followed up with several of those things so our code task force did meet shortly thereafter we did discuss different things as well and so i just kind of talked first about what was discussed in that code task force meeting and all the stakeholders are involved in that so with that we have parents we have residents of green valley um we have teachers we have parents we have teachers on that as well as
059administration and school board members and so a lot of the conversation went back and forth with where we're at because we started to see if you remember a month ago a spike in our numbers here that we're starting to get a little bit uncomfortable and so per that discussion the very next day we decided to make a few minor changes that kind of goes not necessarily backwards but being safe with our students and so we really worked with our teachers for the recommendation of the task force to increase hand washing again um we increased spraying the playgrounds in between every single flight recessed area which we were doing a few times a day but not regularly at every single recess time we also decided to encourage and start checking the teachers spaces a student's proximity
060again to make sure that we're at a very minimal feet three feet or more preferably around that five or six range so we went back to teachers and said ask you just to spread that a little bit more and then especially encouraging our staff that when they're working in small groups to make sure that kids are wearing masks or making sure that they have that the proper spacing when working in a smaller uh space with students kind of that face-to-face to either minimize that or make sure we're taking the proper precautions when working in small groups so those are some things that we the task force at that time we didn't feel that we wanted to move back into phase two on the task force felt that we should stay in um in phase three
061but just kind of remind our teachers remind our students of the importance of following the simple basic things that help keep us all safe um the big concerns that were brought up in the task force that people have questions and concerns about a lot was the isolation and the quarantine that's happening because right now the current policy is that on day seven you can test if you are counted as a close contact so if i have um end up positive with covid um the protocol goes that anybody that i've been in close contact with then has to be quarantined well that means that oftentimes lots of kids are missing school and that's become a big issue as some of our students are now on their fourth corning team from school being anywhere from eight to
062ten days every time so do the math that really adds up for a kid even into the first semester has hardly been here and so with miss rico's permission the nurse started doing tests to stay kind of as a pilot thing we're programmed we're working on coming up with an actual statement that we hope to have at the january board meeting to have the board approve um as a plan moving forward of what that looks like so we're consistent all the way across the board instead of moving kind of from the pilot phase into the official school-wide phase um back to our our task force that was our biggest concerns is a lot of their kids um in the community are missing lots and lots and lots of school with having already missed lots and
063lots of school or point being digital learners and so we're really working on a solid plan to see if we can do it safely and one of the suggestions that we're kind of kicking around we're still fine-tuning we're working with our school nurse is test this day possibly instead of doing it on the first day doing it on the fifth day and then they would only have to test the fifth sixth seventh and on the eighth they can return without testing so instead of currently where you test this day on the first day you have to test all the way through that's challenging but on a weekend it wouldn't be you know five days we'll hit it somewhere with the weekend and that will greatly reduce the amount of days our students are missing um
064but also reduce the amount of tests that our nurses have to give on a daily basis which blocks her down okay so that's one of the updates the other um thing that is on i believe on the consent agenda that was already approved um as you'll see is a covenant don't if you can help me on the actual title of the position but it's a i believe a code that's underneath it so you'll get to there in a little bit but it will be before you tonight for a covet liaison to help the nurse um in filling out the paperwork for pima county because that's a big part of the back end where she was having to take the work home and work late through the evening trying to keep up on the paperwork every
065test that she administered um and so that's a great program that we do along with testing originally remember we talked about possibly going digital the first two weeks coming back from break our numbers have started to slow down and become more stable and steady so we're willing to continue our on-site learning for all of our students we are going to have a testing opportunity for our staff returning our tests are the 15-minute tests currently that you're already familiar with that we've been using in the district um and so we're going to do that on january 3rd starting at 7 a.m for staff members and it's not a requirement but it's here and most of our staff have been through testing many times and are willing to do that and so that's something that we're opening
066up for staff at this point and then if we turn here and this is our our code update um as far as our numbers so if we look back we saw that when we started to get really concerned was in november around the 8th we started to see some big jumps leading up and then if you look down it started to stabilize shortly thereafter go ahead and keep going for me okay and you see that we kind of started to even back out to where we were in the beginning and we're starting to see that that continues we can guess and speculate the reason for the big jumps we talked about it was right after um a significant break where lots of people go on vacation um we didn't see the huge spike after thanksgiving
067and so we're hoping to to continue with that trend and that's the reason why we as an administration team are recommending that we come back on site um after the winter break mr nathan and i'd like to add that we were doing the test to stay option originally pima county health has stated that we needed to be a mass mandated school in order to participate in the test to stay but pima county health has now allowed and released information for all schools to do the test to stay option which we were piloting um and it's similar to what we were doing and of course i know that some of the conversation was that our parents wanted us to allow tests to stay for everyone and to send out a statement but there's really a lot
068of things that we need to look at in terms of how many kids in the classroom did test positive how many were on quarantine did it come from the home or is it here at school so we will continue to do that but i'm pleased to announce that what we were piloting and what we were doing is now in effect for all the other schools and we'll continue with the test to stay option and test to stay starts from day one through day seven so um we'll continue to keep our kids in school thank you are there any questions any questions here have we had any um challenges from parents about quantity um absolutely so i i would kind of was surprised we didn't have more here tonight but last last month we had quite
069a few calls to the public that stated their concerns with quarantine because of the amount of time that their kids are missing and several of them that were here last month their kids have been quarantined three times um so you're looking at for some of them that was 30 days um that's that's an entire month of school so that's huge and so that's why we're working really really hard and that's why we're going to continue as a team to develop something that you can put out there so our parents are very clear on um what we're doing to move forward and we'll on that plan try to have all the variables so everyone could know um and we can just be up front and forward about that and have a better concrete plan doing the
070piloting program it wasn't available to everybody and so we had some people that were upset about that because why did you do it with just this class you know this class and you know we have our reasons because if you have to quarantine a class of 25 the nurse can't test them every day there's just not enough time in the day for her to be able to do that but if there's only three or four in a class then she can easily manage those numbers that's also one of the reasons that we're asking for um a go to liaison so that she has that help and assistance so that we can do that more efficiently and effectively and so we're always looking at how to improve that and how to help those parents and we
071also are listening to those parents and trying to come up with alternate alternatives and you know if they weren't accounted for the test this day program and they contact us and they give us a valid point we listen to that and we go to administration we talked about it and we have allowed some of those that have been quarantined for the fourth time to go test this day on day one because of that well i guess my point is according to the arizona revised statutes a person isolated or quarantined pursuant to this section may request a court hearing regarding the person's treatment and the conditions of quarantine or isolation and um that is paid for and i i mean we have to pay for the attorney right so far we've been able to work it
072out with all the parents through administration where all parties have been satisfied this far but one parent did want me to share that one of the hardships and this is a parent whose child was going on their fourth quarantined that the hardest part is work having to leave work and then no one wanting to watch their child for fear that well if they're close contact maybe we might get something if they end up getting copic so she did say you know it's it's also what a lot of our other parents are are sharing with us as well and i will add to that that in the task force most of our all of our teachers that were on the task force were in support of that as well finding an alternate because it's also very
073challenging for them to try to teach in person keep the kiddo who's out for eight to ten days this time and then they come back for a few days and then let them forget they're next to somebody else who ends up with cobit and then they're out again and the challenges of that so the teachers are also asking us to come up with a reasonable solution that's taken into the safety of all the students the ones on campus as well as the ones but especially the education of all of our students well it's a big issue and ars 36 789 addresses thank you very much thank you okay on the new business budget revision number two fiscal year 22. good evening again um before you deny his budget revision number two just to kind of
074get some background on this if you remember back in april and may when we were putting together our budget we had estimated a rather high and aggressive adm number to come in with the opening of the new lots in new housing within midair those numbers did not pan out like we had hoped um during this rico's report you've seen that we are down as of today 36 students from where we were last year so the adm figure that we had budgeted at is not where we came in so this is that december revision that i told you all that may be coming um as you can see in your package you've got the letter from arizona department of education had to cut out 691 thousand five hundred thirty five dollars from our mmo budget and
075a hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred forty seven dollars from our capital budget that changes our budgeted amount to accept just over 7.2 million within our ml budget and just over 435 000 in our capital budget if you also remember during those times i told you that i had um place money in reserve in contingency because of this happening as a possibility as well with that other thing that's being held over our head with the aggregate limit so i was able to tap into that reserve make those revisions and that is what it's before you tonight entertainment question please on the budget revision how much we approve the budget revision is presented i'll second that discussion yeah i've got i got several questions greg um i mean i understand why we had to do this
076when we when we get a letter saying that we're going to be over the over the limit based on atm yes that the budget has got to be changed but that also means that we've got to make some significant decisions on spending we just took six hundred thousand dollars out of the regular ed budget now to me that could be seven or eight teachers please remember though that money was sitting aside within a contingency fund just in case this was to come about to happen so we had planned for this to happen in case our adm did not come in as we had estimated so it really hasn't taken away from anything it's just dragged our contingency clubs do you remember that large sum in this in the 6200 fund that i had sitting there
077i i do okay and that's where it came from but if that money is then available to spend in the regular ed budget we're going to go over this budgeted amount no sir no we won't be going over the budget amount because while it was in the budget set there as contingency it hadn't been touched it hadn't been allocated it wasn't going towards anything it was just sitting there as dead space i mean maybe greg maybe i'm just totally naive but but i'm seeing that that we're spending i mean this is six hundred thousand dollars down from the revision that we made in december in the regular ed budget in expenditures that that when it's budgeted at that amount that tells me that's the amount we're going to spend am i totally wrong in in
078this instance yes well then then the money that's coming that's why it was told in the very beginning then the money that's coming from the contingency budget to me i'll be able to go into the expenditure budget for the regular end if we didn't have to cut this money out of the budget it would have went into regular end this is what we could have used to get rather substantial raises in once we figure out what's going on to the aggregate limit we still have money sitting within our budget that is it that is has not been allocated we still have over 800 thousand dollars that is not incumbent we are still in a good spot so you don't believe that we need to change anything from the standpoint of what we're planning to spend
079for the year right now out of that budget no out of our capital budget we need to slow that way back because with the purchases of a bus purchase of curriculum you know that's that's half of our of our our capital budget remember that bus was i believe 150 686 thousand dollars so we do have to cut back on it we have to be very careful with what we're watching it's what we're spending within curriculum or i'm sorry within capital and we're doing that so we don't need to make any changes in the sped budget even though it's down by a hundred thousand dollars within fed the spen the spend is down by a hundred thousand no no okay no we don't okay hey greg this is just a contingency if we lose that funding
080this funding has already gone down it is already gone yes and this would have been in addition to the impact of the 301 money correct no that's what i mean but the 301 money is going into the aggregate limit now the 301 goes into the aggregate limit but this is two separate these are two separate um topics okay because we won't know anything on the aggregate limit until march they have to deal they have the legislature has to deal with that by march 1st okay so this so that's two separate conversations so this conversation is the one that we had back in april and may when we said we're going to have 700 adm or 760 adm and we came in at 645. so we didn't experience the growth that we were expecting we didn't
081see the the number of students coming back from digital platforms or other areas that they had gone to to get their education we just didn't see that and we were expecting you know a lot more digital students to come back in we were expecting you know housing to um bring in more students so there was a lot of things that went into us thinking that we were going to be getting more students and it just didn't materialize so one example would be like mr mcadams and i went to wakefield to look at the library renovations and the maker space rooms and the um different types of seating that they have for students so had had we had this money available then that would have been something we could have used to purchase furniture for the
082library you know sky's the pipe you know pie in the sky let's just order all this cool stuff so now we have to just be more frugal and be patient and not spend money on furniture and equipment that and where we the good thing is that our students have their chromebooks they have the furniture we have desks chairs we have the material that we need to continue to operate and even as far as some capital items go to light computers we are getting grants from outside sources that are providing us with money to purchase computers uh mr magnion has just received a grant and all we're responsible for is about three thousand dollars and we're going to get how many laptops that i've had so there's 70 laptops that's gonna cost us three thousand dollars
083mr president so if i understand this correctly greg we had a budget not a cost-based budget but just a budget a guess based on projections which didn't come through regardless of the fact that we met with the mayor of sarita we talked to developers yes the kids didn't show up our kids didn't come back to school so you had built in there about 600 000 in education that you just said would have been nice to give raises whereby my calculation would have been about twelve thousand dollars a teacher which would have been a nice raise but the money was really just sitting there just in case yes ma'am and so the just in case happened yes the money is gone and we now have to be a little bit more aware of our expenditures particularly
084in the area of curriculum based on the uh discussion that we heard tonight where many of our we've in some cases we've got 50 percent of our students not performing at grade level in math and reading so now we need to be a little bit fiscally conservative here as we move forward so because this isn't a cost-based budget this is more of a just an estimate at what point are you going to be able to show us where we are and where our projections were over or under and what your assumptions are moving forward as far as so let me ask you to answer your question with questions are you asking for as far as a student account goes or are you talking as a line-item budget item fiscally both both i so within your
085your um your district financial report it it tells you how much of that money is left within each one of those those categories so yeah so you have that in front of you monthly um i can give you i can drill it down as far as you'd like me to drill it down and get it to you that way if you would just let me know exactly what it is that you're looking for i can give you that information i'd like to see proposed uh student count and proposed expenditures on a monthly basis from now to the end of the school year and i would like to clarify that are in order to close the achievement gap and increase student achievement our after-school tutorials are all covered through tax credit funding so that's not going
086to affect our students who are at risk who need additional help and our saturday school is coming out of our sr3 funds which has already been approved so that's not going to affect our work with the students and paying teachers and supporting our kids further questions greg what's your any feeling on what's gonna happen in march with the i honestly right now i got no update for you i i couldn't tell you one way or the other i i know that there's still organizations and groups that are lobbying to have something done but outside of that i've got no new information for you okay i don't know if miss kais has any insight with her connections at the legislature as to how that's going but maybe she could answer that better than i could i
087really don't have anything at this time do quarantine students count against our adm no they do not so there used to be a thing called average daily attendance which was taken into account within the budget that was taken out 12 13 years ago so there's the the attendance does not is not a factor it's how many days of membership and when's the 100th day january 20th and the students have to unenroll by january 20th for us to not be able to count them is that correct so any student that leaves by january 20th it's like they weren't even here that's so they but they have to unenroll prior to january i mean i've had parents say i'm going to keep my kids home on that day well that's not going to do anything right i
088mean keep them home it doesn't do anything right you're still active and so as long as we have not owned a role with students they still count for their that's the point okay anything else the only other comment greg i would make is is this this letter from the department of education was sent on october 28th um to me this this should have been shared with the board almost immediately so that we could at least grasp the possible gravity of this thing and and maybe in in conjunction with you and the rest of the administration we could have talked about this a little bit on our study session um uh just to understand uh this situation a little bit and to be perfectly honest with you i didn't pull this letter until after that study
089session it was just before we went out on um the thanksgiving break when i actually pulled this off the ad website took a month for this to get it to us it took a month for me to get to it to pull it down it's not they don't send it in the mail okay how do they send it they don't it's just on the on the ad website and you go in there when you check your reports but it's addressed to us it's addressed to the district governing board of continental elementary district and i didn't know that i should be checking and this and you normally wouldn't it's not something like i said it's not something that comes out in the mail it's just one of those reports that you have to dig for within
090the ad website to find in your house well but it's not a report it's a letter to the governing board it's this letter is in with the budget inc reports that's what i'm trying to tell you so our budget 55 reporter bugs 25 reporter buddy 75 reporter our el reports our fed reports it's all in there with those reports well i think charlie martin probably needs to know that we didn't get it and you can't hold us accountable for things that we don't get and so i'm a little bit concerned about that yes thank you passes a health court position any background know we had just discussed at the last board meeting that we um we're going to seek additional support for this morning and now that we are doing test to station have some
091additional help in the reports for abc i mean i obviously added this they're heavily switched on the agenda because i wanted to understand the impact on the budget of adding another staff person when we're taking that much out of the budget i understand totally the need for this position um but uh given the need as my colleague ms kai says that we're going to have to look at some things a little bit more conservatively hopefully that contingency fund is so if i could try and set your mind at ease just a touch there is still about eight hundred thousand dollars in uncovered funds within our mmo budget okay out of that 800 000 roughly 120 000 sits in the category where this position would be paid from okay i'm surprised it's been this long since
092we've fulfilled this position that we haven't done it a year ago and god bless maureen and thank you very much you're not here but any further discussion mrs yes ms mr yes yes motion passes thank you okay on to our bond refinancing now before we actually discussion i'll entertain a motion to adopt a resolution author authorizing the issuance and sale of refunding bonds on the district and adopting certain post issuance continuing disclosure procedures and issuance and post-issuance tax compliance procedures i'll move to approve the resolution second okay discussion i have some questions um if you don't mind i'd like to go ahead and introduce our guests so that she's on here i'd like to present to you tonight is erica combs she is a vice president with piper sandler the resolution book before you tonight
093was put together by james deal and his team from the law firm of gus rosenfeld so now now that we all know who erica is please ask away okay um we've talked about at the study session i remember originally that the minimum savings was we wanted to establish was at a very minimum three percent yet the resolution calls for six um i'm not overly concerned about that given the net present value savings at least are projected around 14 now but i do get concerned if all of a sudden that would drop to five and this resolution would go away um yet we would still be in the position of possibly saving some money for the taxpayers i mean if the board would like to make it five percent we could write that in um in
094this resolution and move forward uh we will be providing additional updates to the district uh and so if we if we are getting closer and closer i would say if we get below 10 i would immediately be sharing that information um but i mean if if everyone would be more comfortable we can make that change in the resolution and make it five percent that's um that there would be no no questions um like i said before three percent is um would be a minimum best practice uh we had doubled that i feel pretty confident that we are gonna achieve that what's in the resolution right now so i mean that i would think we have bigger world problems going on if if we see this savings dramatically um and at that point maybe we decide
095we want to hold off and a couple months and see what happens in the markets so that's a possibility as well so i think we had this discussion at the last meeting that that's something we could bring up between now and the time of the issues on the bonds correct we could have we could have a meeting to make that adjustment if you felt that maybe that was i don't know at this point it would be six percent and if it's anything above that this resolution is going to give authority to move forward um if if we were looking at a situation that was going to be under those parameters we would be coming back to the board um with the new resolution right okay that was my yes so that's what would happen well
096we require a new resolution we couldn't just amend this it would be a new resolution yeah go ahead on page 14 and talk about bond insurance or credit enhancement do you see absolutely any situation that would cause us to be obligated to provide that that's that's a wonderful question and um we are looking right now at a private placement and working with the bank directly and that would not be an option um if we were going into the capital markets and doing a negotiated sale which the district has done previously three times with that 2010 bond election um it would only lead to the benefit of the district so if we purchased the credit enhancement um the cost of it would over weigh the the benefit so the only way that we would move forward
097that would be if it gave the district a lower cost of borrowing um and in the last um three bond sales that what that was the case the credit enhancement gives a double a credit and the district's in the a category so it's a higher rating um but there would be an analysis to make sure that the the cost of that is going to make sure that the district's getting better rates yeah i i just want to say for those that are here in attendance and then the millions of us that are watching online i just kind of wanted to give a quick little background on why we're doing this um about a month or so after i had started here it was brought to my attention that we should look at boundary financing so
098we went ahead and we had those conversations and at that time the the recommendation was to wait a year so that we can add this whole other series of bonds within that so that that's the kind of the back story as to where we're at now um the way that these bonds and this refinancing is set up and how it benefits our community i know it doesn't sound like a lot but it's going to save our taxpayers roughly three cents on their on their tax bill towards you know paying for the bonds that we got backstage so i just kind of wanted to give a little bit of that back story for for the couple hundred people here in attendance so if i could follow up with that absolutely sure so four questions or from
099if i remember right from last week so currently just ballpark our current rate of the bonds is four and a half to five percent give or take yeah there's one series that's a little higher yeah so some are a little higher a little less and then the new bond is going to be below two given current rates today so that's a significant change there right so that's where you come to 14 16 okay so which then translates into ballpark again 16 well we're not doing all 16 million we're doing how much in the first round eight million baby quarter yeah yeah which is ballpark 140 150 000 a year savings back to our tax base which goes to three cents per yeah right so unfortunately we can't use that here at the school because i
100invest so it all goes back to the taxpayer which you know we're just trying to do the right thing to you know save everybody money um and that so is that that's the right kind of synopsis of what we're doing yeah it would be savings on the district's debt service and that's part of the tax bills um so it would it would automatically make everyone's tax bill in future years at a lower um a lower tax rate for the bonds than it was and then there's one future bond issue that isn't available for refinancing for another year or two it's and it'll be available next spring i guess there's change in federal legislation so and it is available now but it would be at a higher cost right because there's free payment penalties so there's
101like a five year prepayment and yeah it's a taxable rate versus taxing them so yes higher rates so yes we're recommending waiting until closer to that next spring to look at that one so the thousands of you listening to good pr at the school we're giving 150 000 back to the community yes right yes over 1.1 million aggregate i like that that's yes that's the that's the current estimate further questions just a comment it's this is fascinating to go through this it is it is i learned a whole new word called defeasage yeah and i would really like one of our english teachers to come to look at one of the sentences in that clause that has 181 words in one sentence it absolutely blew me away and i it's absolutely a full employment for
102our attorneys you have too much time on your hands sir i know i know it's unbelievable okay with that thank you very holidays thank much very much for providing additional information thank you and she will be hanging around after the meeting because she is taking some documents that some board members will have to sign okay boarding school events it's hard to believe here at the end of the year yes i'd like to just remind you to please join us for breakfast on friday at 8 30 if possible and we are having our staff new year kickoff at 1 p.m on january 5th something that mr olerie um mr osterly started a couple of years ago so we'd like to continue to celebrate on the new year so we'll look at what we're going to serve
103dustin williams has agreed to come and be our guest speaker to kind of give our teachers some kudos and energize them to stay the course for the rest of the school year so we can discuss how what we want to serve and what board members will help us with for that new year kickoff so in the past some of us have cooked and brought things down yes just saying yes fairly certain you don't want me to do that it was pretty amazing if we're gonna have a chicken we might have to have something all right we can just get pizza okay your running board information just casually you know what there are new maps being drawn right now for redistricting and why that might be important to us is we're one of those districts that
104is split between the current legislative district 2 and the current legislative district 14. the good side of that was we've had six legislators who should be taking care of us and a couple of times we've gotten a little bit of a pinch and we could put a little bit of pressure and get it from six of them and that was helpful um what it appears moving forward in the latest maps that have come out is that we're going to be under one legislative district and i think that would be good as well so as you know we watch all these things moving forward we're hoping that we have new maps by january and um that becomes you know that's the political side of this business so uh that is coming and i'm pretty excited about
105it and i wish everyone a very happy holiday you do merry christmas at my house so merry christmas to all of you thank you and my only comment is that this is a very special time of year for me as it is i'm sure for most of you and it's a time of remembrance it's a time of reflection and i just wish you all some wonderful times with your families celebrate this season and i just wish you all the most blessed christmas and hopefully 2022 we'll get this pandemic behind us well thank you all for coming special thanks to erica from coming down from phoenix have a safe trip back and um you know i think that's a great benefit we're doing back to the community um happy i'd just like to say i'm very
106very proud of the school and what we've done this semester well what we've done in the last couple years this whole pandemic is part of what concerns another amazing job everyone here has contributed to making this all work and i say thank you very very much uh let's move forward and have an amazing christmas and a great new year and let's uh let's see the ground running in january thanks folks and we'll continue to be cold strong thank you with that i think we will uh recess to sign thank you um