August 9, 2021 Governing Board Meeting.

001i'll start of the stream again mr mcgivern it's going okay one moment um [Music] one moment in very short order we'll get back from going here one personality feet yes okay thank you folks we're back in session now we're going to repeat roll call we have uh mr rollers uh online now mrs allen yes mrs here mr australia mr yes thank you uh we're on agenda item number six if you're following along four one minutes please i'll approve motion that yes thank you okay call to the public we have uh anybody else on the phone public okay i have one to read and then we have a couple of folks here okay this is from doug this is stallman stalling here to the continental board my son is a fifth a sixth grader sorry at

002continental elementary we moved to green valley in 2018. he started third grade with mrs flowers and continued in fourth grade in mrs abro during 2021 school year we opted to keep him home for fifth grade choosing virtual instead of instead of the confusion and danger of inter-person education during a pandemic with no vaccine available we returned this year hopeful that three available vaccines and hard lessons would make a difference of course the delta variant of copen has changed everything now we're back to spring of 2020 only the lessons of last year have been forgotten amid coded exhaustion political posturing and just plain lack of common sense the story in the july 30th greenville news says it all sarita unified taken prudent coveted precautions encouraging masking for all while continental is more supportive of the governor's

003executive orders my son is not old enough to vote he's not old enough to get a vaccine yet so it's hard to tell him those in power are more supportive of a politician than the men and women of science i am is the only advocate the only one who can stand up and ask you to consider his health and well-being above your own political beliefs and aspirations please consider requiring mass indoors for all students teachers and staff as as many other school districts i've ever excuse me as many other districts have already done as the cdc is recommending as 150 arizona doctors urge this past thursday in the letter to the governor i'm sure most of you are vaccinated so please so a plea to put yourself in an unvaccinated child's shoes is impossible but

004please or but just imagine choosing to wear a mask and knowing that others did the same the chances of you getting a lethal virus were close to zero to stand in the way of taking of taking every possible precaution of saying to these children good luck we send you and your families and prayers okay thank you sir okay new samson yep if you would please uh state your name and address there i think there's a picture good evening mr gibbons members of the board and community members is this the script yes can you hear me you know i have a request of you all if you would speak a little closer into the mind because some of it's not clear out there uh my name is lou sampson i reside in green valley i am

005a grandmother and i'm here today to speak about i wanted to compliment you last week i mean last meeting on the discussions that you had because i like the discussions that's how we learn things uh when mr uhlery asked the question about the hotel rooms and then we found out it was for some training and then another question was asked that the training is actually for a new edition of whatever i don't even know if it's a machine or books or what but it's a new edition that we don't have we bought the old edition but we're still going to learn something but i really appreciate because as a taxpayer i like to know where my money's going and i go to other school board meetings and they don't have a discussion they have board

006members that just kind of nod their heads and pass whatever the board wants so i really do appreciate the board and the discussions so thank you thank you appreciate it mr tom you're up sir good evening president mckibbin members of the florida community members my name is tom bresny i resigned at 1062 east lumberjack trail i'm a grandfather here of two students in the continental school district i'm here today to speak on behalf of or about the board's decision on july 29th to make mass optional on buses and in the classroom we truly understand that it is the parents right to make health care decisions for their children under arizona revised statute title one section 602.5 unfortunately there are those in pima county who don't care about parental choice or about the authority of the

007continental elementary school district's governing board and tomorrow morning's pima county board of supervisors meeting a resolution is being introduced by the district 2 supervisor to make mass mandatory for all k-12 schools in the county you still have time to write to the board on your disagreement to this resolution send an email tonight to the clerk of the board the email address is cob underscore mail at pima.gov stating your disapproval for this resolution which is item number six on the addendum thank you thank you sir superintendent's report we are starting our second week of school this week so again as a reminder our theme for the year focus on the big rocks and you see our analogy here that we will continue to reiterate that we have to focus on student achievement collaboration the health and

008wellness of our students working together as a team and the analogy that there's a bunch of noise and little rocks and pebbles that sometimes get in the way of the work that we're trying to do so i appreciate everybody's focus on getting our students in school we're off to a great start of the school year you see one of our students there and he has a little crown that says i rocked the first day of kindergarten there's our teacher in the classrooms you can see where we have put the student desk together back in pods and after school you see some of the kids here and our idea is that we do want the kids to go home more tired than the staff so which you see in some of their little faces they were

009exhausted after the first day of school but kudos to our team to all the work that mrs cuevas and mr nathan and mr lane and uh mr marianas did to get prepared for the first day of school so we're super excited our enrollment update you can see here on the left we have a total of kinder k-5 total of 613 613 students um at the start of our school year last week and of the school year 2021 last year we had 611 so we're up by two students and when you look at from where we were pre-covered we on the right our enrollment is down pre-k eight by six percent and k-5 by five percent but we are stable with our enrollment so we are happy that um we have approximately 100 new students and

010that new to continental so that's typical of our kids who leave and come back to see us so we balance out but right now we are up to students from the end of the school year 20 20 20 21 our current attendance so on friday we had 48 students absent six were due to isolation and quarantine seven students have been no shows which is really good typically in districts you end up with 20 30 kids that you're not sure where they went up so we had seven students who have no shows who will be dropped on friday due to the 10 day absence rule today we had 64 students absent 18 on isolation and quarantine 21 out for other illnesses six students will be dropped as no shows on friday and we have left voicemails

011to these students to see where they are we have one family that's going to come to withdraw two students this week so that'll leave us with six of the kids that we're not sure where they are just yet that we'll keep trying to contact current campus development so as mentioned on my friday's weekly board update to our board members we're exploring the turf versus grass option for our 4-5 and playground in front of the cafeteria we are in the process of obtaining feedback from our teachers students and parents in terms of should we do turf versus grass we've been trying to grow this grass area outside of fourth and fifth for four years now and longer but um mr ostomy thank you for sending us this information we have located rolls of used turf that

012came from douglas college football field and the turf is three years old and it is in really good shape it would be aesthetic turf which is more durable than regular turf and we've asked for and are waiting on three different quotes on the turf i believe mr schubert and mr mcgibbon went to go check it out the asking price on the turf is 155 dollars per roll each roll is seven and a half feet wide by 30 feet long we would need 99 rolls to do both areas at a cost of 15 000 not including delivery or installation the lowest bid that we have for turf installations thus far is 79 000 just for the fourth and fifth grade playground so we're looking at the turf option for a couple of reasons the playground is

013used multiple times a day and the grass doesn't really stand a chance of surviving we've tried no matter how much water we put on it secondly the optimal growing season for grass is during the school year and finally the watering system that is currently in place does not fully water the entire area so as we wait for the other quotes to come in mrs huevos and i and mr nathan will be talking to some of the teachers and the kids who use that playground primarily to see what their thoughts are in terms of turf versus grass we've been looking at strategic planning and future growth so according to our school facilities board based on our square footage at continental our capacity would have to be at 1140 students which you saw in the report that

014we have 600 kids when we look at doubling the student enrollment we do not have space truly that would mean our classroom sizes would have to be up at 30 kids in a class at some point but i did plan a meeting with mayor murphy to discuss the growth and demographic study of green valley and what that's looking like in terms of homes and kids so we will be meeting with him on tuesday august 17th so any of our board members are also welcome to attend um the meeting that you know if you're interested he also hasn't come and done a walkthrough of continental for a very long time so we'll be meeting with him and giving him a tour of our school as well we will continue to explore landon by continental to consider

015future sites so i'll be working closely with mr schubert and mr main and mr nathan um to keep this conversation on the forefront and updating you on information for future growth of continental so short and sweet again if you have any questions or discussion that you'd like for me to put as an agenda item please let me know and if the big rocks don't go in first there they aren't going to fit in later so thank you again for all your support and all of your help and increasing student achievement and keeping our kids in school thank you ma'am okay uh okay good evening everyone so we'll just start it's been great to have started school last week we'll start with discussing that we welcomed new team members to our pope family this summer some

016of them attended some trainings with us this one was the pima county sheriff's department's active shooter awareness training we had a total of 15 staff members they volunteered their personal time to go to this training leadership team teachers programmatic assistants and cafeteria staff were in attendance we had our cpi training that was put on by mrs fanning and mr lathan which took place july 19th through the 20th and that's them cpi training is a training that discusses how the last resort is to restrain students for any type of behavioral issues that could make the environment unsafe for them or others so we have many staff members who took part in this training we had our new staff orientation we began new staff orientation wednesday july 21st to the 23rd our new staff members are lauren

017marinick for first grade jennifer lyon fourth jeanette mills fourth alyssa walford there was fourth grade teachers because our fourth grade teachers moved around to other positions so we had a fourth grade teacher who became our science teacher a fourth grade teacher who became our teacher coach and then um we had polly potterton who is our middle school math 6.7 cynthia boletti who's our elementary music teacher and orchestra for middle school cali kohler for elementary pe stacey schaffer bertram is our sped director joseph virtual maintenance technician and christy stool our special education space clerk then we had our teacher and staff pre-service days these took place july 26 to the 30th we did a lot as you can see introduction of teacher high instructional needs guide which is a go-to for our teachers for all the

018documentations and resources they need throughout the school year to support their teaching of our students we went over 45 day screening trainings between mental trainings teacher eval training avid training as you can see we have a new math curriculum so we had our real math trainers train our teachers data review foundations k2 a lot of trainings mandatory reporting we went over our staff handbook positive behavior intervention systems which is pbis we had cpr training for transportation programmatic assistance and school leadership and then we have some online safe schools training that all staff takes which has to do with bloodborne pathogen exposure prevention coronavirus cleaning and disinfecting confidentiality of records sexual harassment and cyber security overview so that these are some pictures of our teachers and all these changes that took place over the course of

019our pre-service week then we the fun really began when we got to have our meeting degree and have all our students and families come on campus that took place wednesday july 28th and it was our preschool through eighth grade meet and greet we had a really really great turnout and it was great to see students and parents back on campus they were excited and we were excited we were then afterwards able to meet as a staff at arizona family restaurant and you know celebrate the beginning of the start of our school year a great way more colleagues and the following day we had an all-staff breakfast and for for our staff and we'd like to thank our governing board for the breakfast we had our very first ever substitute teacher orientation we had 14 substitute

020teachers who attended it and it took place friday july 30th mr lathan and i trained on subs and mr magayana's chamber substitute teachers on procedures protocols emergency preparedness health office information technology our mission and vision and gave them a tour of our campus so they're very excited some of them have been here for quite a few years and it was the first time they've been to training and have had a tour and they're very excited we're they're working on some autobiographies for us so that we can have that available for our teachers so when they're going to be out if they do a substitute request their students will know who's going to be coming to substitute for them and then the first day of school it was so great to see our students and our

021families they were able to walk in their their children say goodbye to them at their pot areas the middle schoolers were excited it was great to see that our kindergarten parents were able to come on campus and walk them to their classrooms which we weren't able to do last school year so it was really great we had our first early dismissal wednesday professional development that took place august 4th it was on multi-tiered system of support student referral process uh intro to beyond textbooks review for our returning teachers and for our new teachers we did teacher accessing for content well beyond textbooks gives teachers access to the court content in our standards calendar for the year we had a special education team meeting with special education resource teachers and programmatic assistants teachers were also trained on

022the map testing that we started today procedures and protocols how to set up the sessions refresher and then they collaborated in teams to set up their test sessions for this week and student testing rosters this is our schedule we started today our students did growth reading tomorrow will be math and wednesday second through eighth grade we'll be doing growth language usage which is writing components and standards and this will give us a good indication of where a lot of the gaps are and where our teachers need to plan for reteach enrichment and interventions upcoming professional development wednesdays we have beyond textbooks that's going to continue they're going to be sending the trainer to go over a lot of um the website and some revisions that they've made to it so we have people coming from

023vail school district who run beyond textbooks from one to three they're going to be focused on you the focus will be utilizing beyond textbooks frameworks and meet for new and returning teachers as well as how to best utilize the online resources to support the learning of our students wednesday august 18th is english language learning training our english learner coordinator mrs is able to instruct teachers on the state's english language proficiency standards that we call elps this training will allow teachers to walk away well versed on how to plan effectively with the elps to ensure that they're meeting the needs of the el students that we're serving and meeting our state standards wednesday august 25th is a daily math skills school-wide training our teacher math coach mrs coulee along with on-site teachers will conduct a training

024for our staff on how to conduct daily life skills instructional weekly data weekly data collection on student progression and math facts dms will be done school-wide grades kindergarten through eighth grade and it will officially begin the week of august 30th an update on gifted education at continental myself mrs stacie schaefer-bertram and miss lori romanelli are in contact with marianne landreth the program coordinator from the pima county superintendent's office she's the program director frameworks and foundations of gift day and we're going to begin the process of identifying and assessing students for our gifted education program so we will keep you updated on all of that and keep you informed as we prepare for our talented and gifted program update on covid cases pima county health department and parent concerns as of friday august 6 2021 two

025positive covert 19 cases were identified on our campus one on the fifth and one on the sixth they were tested and confirmed in our health office as soon as these positive cases were known our health office reported it to administration administration began notifying parents of possible close contacts based on the teacher and or student report if a student is already on campus when the positive case is discovered the classroom room is evacuated and is deep clean parents of possible close contacts when notified have been informed that their child's name will be reported to pima county health department and they will be called by the county health department in speaking with our pima county health department liaison we've been told that the school site does not have to be calling the parents of the possible closed

026contacts the school site has 24 hours from the time the positive case is discovered to identify close contacts and report those contacts to pimba county health department they will then contact the parents and give guidance as to whether they have to quarantine or not last week we made those possible close contact parent calls right away because we want to be transparent with their parents and we want them to be updated and know what's going on so they were aware as well and aware that pima county health would be contacting them parent feedback thus far has been appreciative of our calls to notify some parents expressed concerns to me that our calls are not done quick enough but i would really like to reassure our parents that as soon as we identify possible close contacts we

027do begin making those calls and then sending out an email to the specific class that the positive case took place in as well as an additional email to the parents of the entire continental school community that a positive case has risen transparency and communication is key as a friday august 6th pima county health department communicated to site administration that we as a site can continue to notify parents following the procedure we did last week so they are aware or we can stop doing that and report to parents that there has been a positive covey case and closed contacts have been reported to pinball county health department parents of closed contacts will then receive a call to notify them that their child is impossible close contact and will be given further guidance on whether they will

028have to isolate at home or not return to school our current procedure allowed us to let our parents know right away while they wait to hear from penguin county health department for further guidance when i did this i was not sure how long that would take for them to contact their families but reports were made on friday and families started to get calls today some have not been called as of yet so if we are not calling to notify our families that we've been doing right away there's a possibility that they may not find out and um waiting on guidance whether they have to quarantine or not may not happen for a matter of days so that is something we're going to further discuss we greatly take we're very grateful for your feedback while we

029come up with the plan in the coming days so we will work to clearly outline our coping 19 procedures and protocols in regards to reporting close and suspected close contacts to pima county health department and get that information out to all of our families a special thank you to nurse maureen sports and trooper who's been working hard to answer questions of our concerned parents she's also been going above and beyond to test students upon parental requests throughout the school week and sometimes even on the weekends and i'd also like to thank our parents i know some are also watching the live stream but i would like to thank them and all of you who are here for your understanding for being supportive and the feedback that you're providing us which is extremely important and then

030i have for questions but i also one of the biggest things that i would just like to leave you with is we do want to outline and be very clear with what our protocols will be as a principal i would like us to still contact our parents as soon as we know we have a positive covid case and we take the chance that if we don't do that pima county health told us today that they were very backed up um and you know that that's the risk that was some concerns of some parents because if we wait for them to make the calls and give that guidance as they told me it could take days for that to happen so um that's my recommendation and that's what i would like to keep what we had

031been doing last year and what we did last week but possibly have to discuss with parents about possible quarantine it does state the pima county health department sanitary measure states that unvaccinated or partially vaccinated closed contacts remain asymptomatic may return on or after day seven upon providing documentation of about the negative copic 19 test collected on or after day five of quarantine so that's definitely stuff that we will be discussing further so we can come up with a solid plan that will be in the best interests of our students and families and just ensuring that it's very clear what our protocols and procedures are going to be moving forward you know a possible last mandate we did reach out to our district attorney um today to get some guidance as to what the attorneys are

032recommending and as of today and this is directly from the email from the attorneys that we consult with in our district as of today we can conclude that promoting or encouraging mass use does not violate the statute it is not clear what penalty the districts would face if it required students and staff to wear mass because we know that the law is in effect the governor and the legislator passed house bill 2898 which enacts a new statute ars 15-342.05 that specifically prohibits school district governing boards from requiring the use of face covering by students or staff during school hours and on school property so as the superintendent we will continue to reiterate the looking forward understanding and our parents that we will highly recommend mass be worn when kids are in groups working together if

033they're in a group in the cafeteria we are going to discuss with our mitigation team whether we want to go back to just the hand sanitizing of the kids hands when they walk in the gate um i believe the drivers are still hand sanitizing our students when they get on the bus um or when they're leaving the bus it's available on the bus on the bus so and just reminding our teachers to be vigilant about making sure kids wash their hands when they're in class after they go in the restroom before lunch after lunch to try to continue mitigating combat here on campus also i do know that it takes a lot of time to contact parents of close contact and so we need to go back and talk to our teachers as well to

034see if they can help us make some of those phone calls or maybe the front office will help us we have a pretty good script that mrs cuevas and the nurse have used to call parents that we feel pretty confident that if we can get an office staff member to notify our parents and just read from the script that will save time from i mean i believe we spend sometimes four hours a day calling parents directly about close contact and it's super important to us but we also know that we need to have administration and the team being up with teaching and learning and the trainings for teachers and being prepared so if we can get someone else to help us make the calls on staff that's what i would like to recommend and we

035will just encourage kids we do have kids on campus who would like to wear masks who you know are kind of in that conflict a lot of the kids are not you know some of them are so they you know they're trying to fit in as well so we just want to reiterate that if kids want to wear their masks and if staff members want to continue wearing them then we're going to support that and i did have mrs guevas put this on her principal report because these items can be discussed um when they're on her report about the board and if anybody in the audience has a comment you can ask to speak up at the podium in terms of what was just reported or what the discussion is any comments i have a

036question i just wonder are we going for zero amber coldwood is that gonna be it are we gonna be doing this for years and years and years you know because we didn't have any flu last year and flu's much more dangerous to children than it was so i'm just wondering how is it going to be zero ever never there's always going to be another variant just a question any further comments questions i just wanted to point out that there's only two people in this entire room oh yeah paul agui there's only two people in this entire room wearing masks we're talking about mask mandates it seems kind of silly obviously nobody in here wants to wear masks so i just want to point that out make sure that people that are watching online know that

037many of our students cannot get vaccinated like we can because vaccines are only available to children it's also not as dangerous for them i'm tom grisney again and so one of my other hats is the um representative for supervisor steve christie in this area and so i talked to mr latham earlier before the board meeting started he asked a specific question on what the board can do if the county comes out with this mass mandate he showed the permits operation so i'm gonna fire a uh email of the supervisor tonight so he can ask that specific question at the board of supervisors meeting tomorrow on what is the repercussions for condemned school district if the board decides that they don't want to follow this mass mandate thank you sir okay yeah as a parent with

038a few kids here at school i am i've already expressed this that if our kids go back to wearing masks i will be withdrawing my kids because it is so much more emotional damage done to them than any of the physical that could be done by the disease that has no effect on them as far as we know and seen for the last year and a half so i know i'm not alone i know there are many other parents that are right there with me that masks come back my kids are out so just be sure thank you okay with that i think we'll move on to the lincoln data overview take it away all right so um what we use our continental school district to help analyze our student data is a it's a

039service called linkit so they provide all of our data analytics we upload all any kind of data point into the system so that they then take care of a lot of bigger districts have a whole department that takes care of this they do this for us so we're going to go a quick overview of how we're using it what we're going to use it for right now in for the next upcoming school year so um all the data in this presentation is actual student data we see student data in there it is student data the names have been anonymized so not to give who that student is if there are any specific questions because there's a lot to pulling data how data is pulled different data sets we'd ask that you write them down on

040the sticky notes that way we can research them and get exactly and give you the appropriate answer that you're asking in a better time other than trying to rush through it and try to give you an answer that may not be totally correct um so we're going to start off we're just going to start off with the arizona exium2 data and uh showing the scores of where we at for our third through eighth graders now keep in mind what we did notice when we were analyzing this data and in uh talking to some of our students the azm2 test was considerably shorter than the azmerit test upwards up to i think some sections only have 15 questions which gave students very little room or very little margin for error one or two questions missed and

041it's probably put them at a lower level whatever in the past they had a little more room to maneuver with answering questions and the state did um communicate that to us before testing in addition to that next year's state assessment will not be azm2 or they call it azm2 it is going to be a completely different test of what was given this last spring just keep in mind so it's kind of hard sometimes we analyze the data it's not exactly the same steps that they have those same types these are our ela and mass scores for third grade um our highly proficient proficient was 29 and two percent for ela and 7 for math fourth grade these are our scores for again ela and azm2 uh we're looking at thirty five percent six percent forty

042seven percent and eighty percent for our fourth grade which are our current fifth graders so whenever this says fourth grade that's last year's fourth graders because that's the data points that we're using right now our fifth grade um 37 14 ela 25 and seven percent in math for highly efficient proficient our sixth graders last year's digital uh this year's current seventh graders uh 36 percent in ela five percent thirty six percent 365 proficient proficient in math eleven percent and three percent proficient highly proficient in our seventh grade daisy american scores for the laa math uh we got forty percent and eight percent proficient highly proficient nineteen percent and eighty percent uh highly nutrition proficient now so that's all fine so what do these numbers tell us how do we look at these numbers so what

043we utilize link it for is this actually helps us delve into deeper into what is going on inside of those numbers this is fine because this gives you a great overview of what the grade levels have done but um last year's integrators so so it's current uh high schoolers so how do we go into how the students are doing now keep in mind when you look at these next steps today it's very important to remember what it looked like they'll come back to it later on in the presentation so um sub scores so inside of the data inside of the test when we receive the data from the state it's not just an overview like you saw in these previous slides they actually have their sub scores of the types of problems that were answered

044in on the test so for this coming school year where we looked at where did the kids fall what grade level what is the subscore that most of the kids have trouble with so for this year's fourth grade sub scores one of the focuses this is an example how we use the data and what we can pull out of it is operations elsewhere on numbers and base tens this one had the highest of the mentally proficient scores for those so that is something that fourth grade will focus on because this is where the third graders were a little weaker so that's how we would look at that in addition to all of the sub scores that come in that come in from the state um for fifth grade it ended up being the same that

045uh last year's fourth graders were a little lower in based on all of the sub scores and for sixth grade which is uh last last year's fifth graders is numbers and operations so this was a big thing that we need to look at and that's what we want the sixth grade math teachers to be focusing on help catch them up this will also be part of what we're looking at when we're looking at our targeted intervention for our tutorials after school saturday school these are what we're going to be focusing on to catch help catch the students up this is what what the standard is and where they they feel really need to help in so if you go back so this is another one that's kind of an overall tells you where they were

046where the whole grade was for a specific subscore but we can go into and look at what an actual student looks like how they performed on each one of those sub scores so take for example this student this is their spring ela azm azm not score they were a highly proficient student so a highly efficient student you would think they would be all greens all the way through it kind of takes into account where what section they answered the most in where they fell a little bit short so one of the things that we're able to do we've loaded multiple sets of data into linkit we load in if they're sped status if what type if they're on the free reduced lunch program if they're in ela ell if they have any attendance we can

047multiply we can add those multiple points of data into the system uh so you can see that this particular student happens to be on the previous program but here is what you can see they're highly proficient and this is where they scored the highest in these three areas but these areas they weren't quite as strong as the other ones so this one can help you look when you're looking at individual students data you can see where that individual student might need help and like i said before we've actually started loading attendance data in to correspond with our students so this student was highly proficient they fell within a 91 attendance rate they actually missed 15 days of school and so they had a 9 absence rate for the school year so if you look at

048another student so this student was minimally proficient what you're seeing here and you're seeing actually a couple of these areas where they weren't as bad as you would think but in the areas where they definitely need a lot of improvement but here here's what i was talking about here the program so this student this student here not only was is this a special education student they are on the free lunch program they were also digital for the first semester and digital for the second semester and this student actually had pretty good abstinence data attendance data this student is another example for the ela was minimally proficient you can see where their levels fell and what we need to look at when we're looking at that student of where we need to catch them up but

049the other thing that we look at is this student their attendance rate isn't as good so is this something this is also something we can take a look at see if this is what could be affecting some of their scores on that so our current sixth grade ela assessment data so this is these next set of slides and we'll go through every single one but i'll stop and give you examples because they're all identical in what they're reporting um and a couple things that we found when we're looking at this so this is going to be by student ac merit azm2 ati and nwea so azmerit azm2 state assessment datas ati and wa those were are what nwa's our current school assessment benchmarking platform ati was the previous one that we had before we moved

050down to the ea for the current sixth graders which was last year fifth graders 91 students are in the system that haven't been tested for all of these uh these assessments what we found out is that we only have 34 students who have complete third to fifth grade testing data the rest of the students all have one or multiple years of missing data which means that they were not enrolled at continental so we have no data for them on their data set or any other assessments because they weren't here to be assessed so this is what we're looking at so you can see as you can see their progression from the years where they started from the lowest grade up to the current hazy merit score so this report and i'll scroll down i'll skip

051this slide and we'll go to another slide to give you a better example so our seventh grade our seventh grade blf ela assessment data dubai student kc merit axiom two ati and nwa this one we had 168 students that had tested but of those 168 students only 44 of those students have complete third to sixth grade testing data with the district so if you come here and we'll pull this one up as an example um you can see where the students started in third grade fourth grade since we did not take the state assessment data in 2019 uh 2019 and 2020 the only the data point that we have there was ati that was last year that we used the ati's benchmark assessment and then 2021 this was their spring assessment and then where they

052fared with azmerit so if we go down we can see their progression where they were and where they ended up you know did they uh go up did they go down or did they stay stay the same so what we can do with this system is now we can start targeting and looking at those kids you saw before when we did the student data by being able to click on a kid that takes us to the data where we can see all of their sub scores for all of their assessments to see where their strongest and where their weakest so we know how we talked about the learning paths for the students how to target them where they need to go um and then parents also have access to us giving them those reports as

053well so they can facilitate the learning the arrangement the interventions at home so what would you see here is that you see these kids that have just never really improved and they just stayed in one category in addition to that the way that this organizes data is once you start to get to here from here to here this means that these kids right here are at the cusp of moving up into the next level so these are kids that we really want to target who want to show movement when we when they do our state assessments to move you know two to three kids up in each grade level and that helps the district scores and that goes for the same here these kids right here these next set of four to five kids each

054of the last of the level all those kids that are within points of moving up a category but also one of the things that we were seeing is that the scores as we move from different state tests they vary and they change which makes it a little bit more difficult for us to be able to determine i mean in one test they may be highly proficient but then with our new state assessment maybe 2573 is going to be proficient so it's not it doesn't continuously align with how the scores are and that's the information we got from the state because this test being uh different from previous years state assessments tests and then now even next year state assessment is going to be different from what the students took this past spring we are usually

055also given a blueprint that the state provides to us for state testing so that our teachers understand you know what is the goal standards wise that blueprint has not been released yet the state has said they're not going to be releasing it until fall time and they have not given us an exact date but that is a big that's a big document for us to help us with our curriculum and planning so we may have to modify once we um once we see what that blueprint is so i just want to point out on the slide there when you look at number eight the student holder as a third grader the student was highly proficient with the scale score of 35.86 up on the screen following year as fourth grade scale score went up to

05635.92 but it was proficient not highly proficient because the scale score changes by grade level gets harder so even though the student's scale score went up they did not that was not enough to demonstrate proficiency at the next level same thing when you look at hunter at the bottom on 11 on the screen proficient as a third grader with a 35-59 he scored the exact same score 35-59 as a fourth grader but it's partially prohibition because the scale score changes so that's where continued as partially proficient so that's where we have to dig deeper into the data to see what's going on with that student was it just and these are students that we have been here since third grade who are now our current seventh graders and what's going on so when we talk

057about individual learning plans for kids and to really have the data talks that we need to have with the students to say let's talk about this and what are the new goals going to be for the year so in continuation with the ela assessment data for easy maritasian 2 and the other tests the trend that we're seeing here is that it may not seem like it but we do have a highly mobile enrollment here at continental schools you saw the seventh grade the current seventh graders 168 students that have tested at one point in time from the third to the sixth grade years but only 44 of them have been here since third grade so what you'll notice you're noticing the same trend with our current eighth graders 112 students tested for the ela with

058only 35 students with complete third through seventh grade assessment data and it's the same type of report it shows you where they were at and how they progressed and where they ended up with the last year's asian marriage same thing for the math now the numbers sometimes will be different because sometimes kids will have left and not taken the test or when they're coming out depending on when or when they've left and when they've come back to the district so some we've had kids who've come back today we've started doing an assessment and we will assess them but they don't take daisy merit because they miss the cut-off for testing so the same thing sixth grade there's 85 students tested when we have 34 that had third to fifth grade testing data and like i

059said it's the same report you can see where they're at and where they ended up on those date on those data points so as you can see the same trend 100 kids tested only 44 with complete testing data and it'll look the same and for our 8th grade assessment data 111 students for the math it's fortunate not only 35 students to have complete third to seventh grade testing data so we were going to include some slides on how the digital kids fair in this presentation but since we had just started our assessments this week we decided to hold off on that so that we could actually truly get a real-time assessment of where those digital kids are based on their current assessment so then we can look at the historical data and where they're at

060right now to really target where those kids either excel or where they're they're needing help in so that's one of the reasons we didn't include on that just because we wanted to see what their scores come back after this week when we assess them this week from the beginning of the year same type of report so questions comments it is a lot kind of boring but it can yes i've got one sir uh in the first couple of slides you had you know the overall grade and then l1 l2 l3 these different areas within each math or language proficiency it was even farther back we're going to go to a new test but the state hasn't given us the blueprint for it yet so are we is is it are we speculating that the l1

061out those components l1 l2 l3 will basically be the same or we don't know so it's kind of hard to target those right if we don't know is that true so well go ahead well we can't because we know that they didn't hit these standards so you see that 61 of these kids really have trouble with this particular subscript standard so more than likely it may be included on tests we really don't know so the state gives us the blueprints but so aims the blueprint for ames was pretty much pretty close in nature to the blueprint blueprint for easy so but what we've been working really hard on we talked about beyond textbooks it's our scope and sequence standards calendar so i've been in contact with me on textbooks we've been revising because we really

062want our teachers to stick to that pacing calendar so as we have to modify we already know the system we've already started modifying for math based off of the gaps here and they've already started editing our pacing calendar for us it took them less than a week to do it for our fifth grade math and we are miss coulee our teacher coach has we started it but she's finished for the rest of our elementary grades so we're going to be submitting that to them and it might take them another week but once we get that blueprint in the fall and we've told this to our teachers we may need to modify again and they're ready for it but we have to do what we have to do to make sure that our kids are learning

063what those standards are and they're really getting it and grasping it so when they move on to the next grade they're prepared and that's the one and that's this is just telling us we know that we have a large population who didn't quite get that's family number is not creation it's a big one questions thank you okay perfect transportation so is all right well good morning uh good evening mr president members of the board staff and community i'm stephen lane i am the director of transportation here at continental and i just want to give you kind of a brief kind of welcome to our transportation department to give you kind of an idea of whose and what's within our department so this is my family i have a total of currently 15 drivers listed here

064are the drivers that are with the exception of roxy and lupita in the bottom right corner are my drivers that are every day assigned to the route so victor rick patty ken tom roger lorenzo gerard and berlin are my main drivers that take care of the routes one through eleven we don't have a route seven and around nine those are for my future growth as far as putting plugging things into place uh sub drivers i currently have five it is lupita and roxy from the cafeteria myself mr lane and mr lathan those are our four other drivers that encompass our what i refer to as our family um and our turkish overview um kind of what's new um we talked about it before through the school year there's no more elephant head we pulled the

065stop out of elephant head and we replaced it with the stop at kanoa and kanoa road and i-19 we give the parents sent out the drive so far by giving them an opportunity to at least get them on the school bus and it is working last count there are nine students out there that are registered with the school and i think it's four or five that are on the bus every day um we combined routes two and three last from last school year to this year because i needed to put an additional bus in madera highlands based on the growth in there so route 3 now takes care of uh hits i-19 and can know it from the east side of the frontage road and then hits everything west up to jim cliff and then

066on the other side coming down to breakup we had some uh various changes at the end of the school year uh with with covid and and drivers so uh for my before my main drivers moved to sub status um two of my sub drivers moved to full time what i refer to as full-time status being on a permanent route and then i have brought on two additional hires you see here in the picture this is mr steven lewis he is currently um training he's on he's one of my full full train meaning he has to go from for everything so he goes for his cdl test on august 24th at 8 a.m at marana at miranda school district jacqueline webster i don't know if you guys can see that on your end but jacqueline webster

067she's a transfer from maine she came in and she's just doing some classroom and behind the wheel training and should be able to go probably here in the next six or seven school days but once those once those two drivers are fully ready they will replace two drivers who want to go to a sub-sub-status and enjoy their retirement so how far do we drive each day on the average we're driving between all the buses 450 miles a day between the the various routes and stuff that happens which equates to about 77 000 miles a year that we put on the buses that doesn't include this is data that i'm going through just right now field trips we didn't have field trips last year but field trips will probably get closer to about 78 000 miles

068for the entire year and probably closer to 500 miles a day we currently have nine routes six and a half that cover here and then two and a half of the cover wall and then the half is my special needs bust that does content on them leaves and doesn't pick up the kids for walton grove as well out of those buses i i'll kind of kind of run down some numbers bus one currently has 63 kids assigned to it bus two has 68 kids three 67 kids route 4 has 68 kids assigned route 5 which is actually pictured in a cartoon version the bottom left has 78 currently assigned route 6 is 58 route 8 being my special needs bus has 15 kids that we give service for to continental and walton grove route 10

069and round 11 are my high school routes route 10 currently has 76 assigned to it and then round 11 has 46. so if you did that quick math i gave you those numbers that's 539 students that i provide transportation to for the two schools uh 417 of those students are assigned here um so out of that 655 that you saw i'm transporting 417 of them and 122 of that 539 i transferred to walmart and growth between the two lessons writers versus non-writers so doing the math again 655 that does include preschool i do have some preschool kids on my special needs route 417 writers versus 238 non-writers our first week numbers um i was kind of going back and forth with this and i called greg for some advice um we had a total we

070transported on the average in our first week last week 1 546 and a half kids when i say that we don't have that many kids but when we add up our morning and afternoon rounds that's how we get our numbers for our 40th day 100th day and that's how we get funding for our transportation department in total if we added all the routes and then divided by two it's three thousand three thousand ninety three kids that were on the bus in the first week of school between all the routes bus sign ups on our online versus in person something kind of went a little weird in the registration period i had over 500 students that said no to transportation so going into the first week i thought it was smooth sailing and i was all

071ready to go and i ended up having between the high school and continental with 264 total kids signed up on that friday before the first day of school so in the first week of school i made contact with the parents of 275 students and got them added into the bus because my numbers on the first day weren't heading out to what i had in the confusion we were having where the kids were so again um total between the two programs so from monday the second to monday or friday the sixth we went from 264 to 539 so the little bit of hair i did have left is now gone but that's okay that's okay that's what i'm here for so i'll be working with with albert and try to figure out a better way that

072we can get through our online registration have a better idea from the next school year um exact numbers before we can greet so here uh first day of pictures bus is coming back on campus and dropping the students off you can see ken here with steve who's doing training um but ken all dressed up for the looking fancy for the first day and then the next slide miss stacy our spec director assisted me last week and going on and kind of getting a better idea of how the kids are with the bus she brought jefferson along and you can kind of see from the pictures all these parents did agree that it was okay for me to share the pictures so but you can see the calming features uh the two students with the with

073with jefferson um definitely that actually a little reassurance on the school bus the first day so it was fantastic so i kind of went quick and through a lot of numbers but if you guys have any questions or more than happy to answer thank you all right student services good afternoon president governing board i've been asked this evening to do a presentation on our positive behavior interventions supports which we'll be going through our goal is to have students who are ready to learn students who are respectful to adults and each other students are happy to be at school teachers who are excited to be teaching to curriculum and teachers who spend minimal time on behavioral issues so what is pbis pbis is positive behavior interventions and supports pvis is proactive rather than reactive so we

074try to create an environment in our classrooms in our school that focuses on good behavior rather than putting all of our attention and focus on the negative behavior to reduce the negative behavior from happening pbs teaches routines and procedures to reduce the possibility of students behavior so this goes right into classroom management for our teachers it's something that we train miss cuevas talked earlier about some of the training that we did on the non-violent restraint a lot of that is actually de-escalation skills there's a very small portion of that that's actually focused on restraining your child it's almost three-fourths of the program is how do you de-escalate a child so you don't have to get to that point we have a it's important to have a small set of concise rules that are is adopted

075here at continental that goes from kindergarten actually preschool all the way through eighth grade and they are be kind to be safe and be responsible we apply this to all aspects so our teachers in their classroom roles they have roles specific to being kind being safe and media responsible while out say in the cafeteria we have a set of rules that's school-wide since all of our students use that space that fall back in to be kind safe and responsible when kids cross the line and end up having to have that interaction with me get sent to the office et cetera these are things that i focus so when i ask them when you made that decision was it kind was that safe was it responsible and we talked about their decision-making process that led them

076to get incentives um teaching expected behaviors teaching expected behaviors should be done just like academics using the same strategy such as modeling scaffolding i do we do you do and etc specific class time at the beginning of the year will be devoted to teaching expected behaviors in a variety of settings sample lesson plans are available in the pbs handbook so we have a handbook that the teachers have access to this was already done in the first week so we're really excited to have all of our kids especially our new students as yourself we have a lot of new students i'm kevin with a school year this year and so all of our students and staff have been trained and taught about our expectations the acknowledgements system works like this so all staff holders demonstrate more

077positive interactions the negative interactions the recommended ratio which can be very difficult to hold to is five positive in favor um compared to one negative interaction for example instead of um saying mr greg i need you to pay attention i can say miss monica thank you so much for following along with my presentation i really appreciate that and so mr greg sitting there just got the message that he needs to key in and so that's the way that we train our teachers rather than always going with the kid who often times is the same kid who then feels picked on and then alienates himself even more from the lesson and so by doing that positive interaction we can try to entice them into focusing positive interactions include praise for students exhibiting expected behaviors as i

078just demonstrated praise for academic success and catching students doing the right thing i absolutely love the word catching right oftentimes we try to catch the kid doing the wrong thing and we miss out on praising the kids for doing the positive the right thing and so what this really does is trains our staff to really look for that positive interactions that our kiddos are doing on a regular day and we really focus on especially with our staff looking for the kids who don't make a ton of right decisions when they do make that right decision by golly we'd let her be recognizing that catching them and praising them for that and rewarding them for that in some way regular school-wide celebrations for positive behavior the board may remember this it's been a little while but

079we're going to get back to it now where we actually will have the kids who are selected by their teachers as the kindest safest and most responsible each month we'll start off our board member board meetings and receive a t-shirt and that's selected by their teachers and the staff and that happens on a monthly basis we haven't seen that because of code because that will fill our boardroom when we invite those kiddos so that'll be starting here we hope next month so uh kobach this is a fake dollar if you will that along with that positive praise i can check one of the columns there on the right safe responsible or kind or i can select several of those their name goes on it and it's important for the staff to tell the kid why

080they received it not just hand them that but to really support that positive behavior to vocalize that to them thank you so much for coming to the meeting today and sharing sharing your your ideas and your thoughts is really really helpful and so rather than just saying here's a cold buck and they don't know why they got it okay yeah hall passes for middle school students this is something we implemented the year before cohen happened it was really really helpful to reduce the amount of time that students were missing in the classroom because what was happening is they have six periods a day and we were finding a trend with certain students who were leaving the class every single period so although they have a passing period of five minutes to get a drink go

081to the bathroom get supplies things like that then get to class and then ask that teacher to go to the bathroom and then 55 minutes later then do the same thing in the next class so we started kind of tracking that and realizing that some of our students are missing an awful lot of the school day and so we implemented this system which allows it's a punch card so they have a hole punch where they get 15 punches for a month and each one of these represents for the middle schoolers they kind of like this style a little bit better where each one of these represents a cold buck and so if you have to go to the bathroom or go get a drink out the hall you lose one of those and so each

082month they'll get one of these so represents 15 passes throughout we find that by doing this it gives the incentive for our kids to stay in class we do make exceptions for medical and things like that so just to be aware of that that that's something that we there are some kids that do need to go to the bathroom on a regular basis and we are sensitive to those needs the reward system um students can earn cold bucks when they are caught being kind safe or responsible by a staff member and it's really not as staff members our volunteers also we give colt bucks to and we ask that them do that one of the big things that we've asked this year is our bus drivers to jump on with this as well and use

083that as a way to reward positive behavior while on the buses too so it really should be a school-wide thing that we're really pushing for this year the staff should be handling that handing out cold blocks on a daily basis greater impact than verbal and non-verbal praise caps kids doing the right thing we do not want to exclude those students who are always engaging in inappropriate behavior or those students who are more at risk for challenging behavior all staff members volunteers and substitute teachers should have the opportunity to hand out quote books roblox or designed to be user friendly as you saw just simple check mark in the student's name the real key to that is the praise that goes along with that cop it is important to teach and remind students that they will

084not receive a call buck if they ask for one so often times in society right we do things because we want something we're really looking for people doing the right thing because it's the right thing and so if they asked our staff and our volunteers do not give them a rollback there will be two opportunities for awards for coolbucks on the fourth friday of each month the ko plug store will be open on the stage in the cafeteria and prices can be purchased for goldblug during this time so what this looks like is it's kind of um i don't know you know the pizza joints for the kids where they have the really cheap fun prizes that kids love that are broken by the time they get home that's kind of what it looks like

085and it really gets our elementary kids really excited when they get to come through look at that count up their quote box we also have larger prizes from sporting equipment that they love because then they have their own recess ball which they really enjoy for the older kids we've done things like earbuds sports lanyards things of that nature we have gotten that money from a couple different places one of them big shout out to the baja club for a couple years heard about what we do here and the last two years even though we didn't do it last year they raised money for our school and so that really got involved and really liked this idea and supported us so we really look forward to their continued support as they really appreciate what we're doing

086for that positive interaction and then the last one there that is on the first monday morning we do a giant coat walk which is a super cool buck and it equals five and so from the kids that spend from the friday previously we draw a name and then we take that um that and then they end up getting more cool bucks so they get rewarded for spending their gold bucks and that's for each grade level so the cold box store is is a big deal the kids absolutely love it it is challenging because it takes a lot of manpower and so one of our pcc representatives is here in the back they come and help us out as well so if you're ever wanting to just get involved that's a great volunteer opportunity to come

087in and to do that we probably won't do it this month because the kids we like him to get a little bit of cool box built up and so we'll start that on the preview on the following month so that they have that enough change to really buy some stuff so um discipline correction system we respond to problem behavior only in ways that maintain the safety well-being and dignity of the child a primary focus a response for problem behavior is the instruction of the expected behavior our primary goal is in responding to problem behavior is to minimize the loss of instructional time from the student and all other students in the setting so a lot of times traditionally would be we're going to put you in detention or send you to the office or suspend

088you um and really that doesn't help our stores we spend a lot of time so those kids and we've actually can look at behavior as well on the when we look at the linkedin stuff but the kids that are struggling usually are the ones that have some behavioral components going on as well and so we don't want them out of the classroom so we need to find other ways that relate directly to the poor decision that they made that takes them out of the classroom less and less our goal is to try to keep them in class this is just our disciplined procedural flow chart so we train our teachers if you look here so this is teacher managed this stuff on this side is things that they should try to handle in their classroom

089rather than sending them to the office so that they can stay in class and stuff on this side would be office managed by myself or mrs cuevas consequences typical consequences so loss of part of recess for elementary students um and i point out part of recess a lot of times the kids that struggle and end up getting in trouble they're the ones that really need to have that time to blow off steam and get their energy out so we don't recommend to our teachers taking the entire recess because the students do need that time to exercise and get their wiggles and giggles up lunch detection for middle school students natural consequences should be used as much as possible for example clean up a mess or if a student made a mess rather than some office

090you have them clean up the mess writing an apology letter so if they offend up here one of the big things that we do if they come to the office is restorative conferences i hardly ever let a student go back into class without getting the two together so they can talk it out to work out those problems before returning to class make up this class time and reteaching expected behaviors the check and checkout system this is when we continue to have repeated problems so same student lots of issues we move them into a check-in checkout it is a six-week tier two intervention for students who are not responding to tier one implementation which are things that we just talked about at the end of six weeks if the student has reached their goal usually eighty

091percent they are finished if not a behavior plan is put into place and that will move them to tear free and will be put in and they can possibly take this with them so the check-in checkout system can also be used in carefree each morning the students will check in with a designated adult they will have a quick talk per parade for the day and this really looks like a pep talk like you can do this it's not pointing out their negative behaviors it's saying look at all these strengths that you have you can totally nail this and get these scores that you're that are your goals throughout the day and make sure they have all of their materials so when they show up to class they're ready to go um and get their cult

092club card which i pulled out because this was originally an hour-long presentation of mr graves says i can't take that long go ahead okay so that's it on our pbis program um first quarter sports we're excited to say that we actually started today and so we're really excited to be able to bring that back after it's been five full quarters that we've now missed and our students really we've seen the negative impact um and the socialization of our students not being able to have extracurricular activities so this year we're moving forward not only with sports but our other clubs and things that you'll see later on in the consent agenda today so today our numbers cross country we had 18 students there today and football we had 31 which is higher than we've had in

093probably five years and then volleyball had 36 students today i expect these numbers to go up as today's the first day and so a lot of students you know they're seeing the hype and they'll come out the next day or two and then we also had in football will go up significantly because we know several students for a quarantine that do intend to be on the football team and we'll make those exceptions and excuse those absences for practice for them um the league the southern valley league that we belong to did every single school has decided to participate so we're really excited about that um so seven schools total which we weren't sure that was going to happen but they're all in 100 at this time and so we're really looking forward to a great

094year of athletics and giving that back for our students and our kiddos so um the calendar will be going out later this week and sent to all staff and will be posted on the website as well so we look forward to your everyone's support in those endeavors as we move forward in thank you sir thank you okay under the consent agenda second discussion i just think it's really great we're doing these field trips again and let's keep our fingers double crossed with whatever it is okay this is ellen yes mrs yes mr austin mr yes and mr mcgivern yes senator john passes thank you okay our district financial report yes sir in your packets you have the district financial report this is the district's finances as of august 4th and i will open it up

095to anybody who has any questions on that report mr roller any questions yeah greg i just have one question um and and frankly i think i just need to sit down with you maybe the week after next um you know obviously this financial report is totally different than what we were seeing uh you know over a year ago and and just for example uh in in the m o budget on on on salaries you know i see in comfort salaries is like 78 and a half percent of the budget which makes all kinds of sense to me but then on the benefit side of it it's only about 26 of the budget and and it just seems to me the salaries and benefits ought to run in tandem with each other so i'm not understanding

096something i don't want to waste the time on the board i would just like the opportunity maybe to sit down with you the week after next a little while and walk through this financial exhibit and you can help me understand it better not a problem sir just let me know when you'd like to meet thank you we approve the district financial report as of august 4. a second any further discussion mrs allen yes mrs kais yeah mr officer mr hillary yeah and mr mcgivern yes mr bass thank you new business superintendent's contract and performance pay criteria entertain a motion to approve the contract and criteria that we discussed in the executive assessment a second any discussion okay this is alan yes mrs kais yes mr austrian miss mr ellery yes and mr mcgivern yes ocean

097passes thank you okay field trip request jazz band to anaheim california outstanding right there [Music] a second any discussion i went on this trip um i think mr lang and i met on that trip two three years ago and it was a blast it was a super good trip first time they did it and you know the kids experience to get to actually play at disney and then the other one was a backstage tour of how they produce it was it was just to me it was really all the kids loved it and i don't know steve and i liked it better than the kids did it not counting the rides and stuff further discussion okay mrs allen yes mrs price yes mr oxford mr hillary and mr mcgivern yes thank you motion passes ptc

098calendar 2122 motion to approve the ptc calendar second any discussion okay mrs allen yes mrs heist yes mr australia yes mr ellery yeah and mr mcgivern yes thank you okay uh trip to washington d.c any discussion on that no we're just going to keep our fingers crossed that it happens and we need your approval in order to proceed with the fundraising and starting with your parents mrs allen yes mrs yes mr austin mr so we do have and you've seen some of our morning videos we do have a lot of students participating in the av club um this is strictly strictly tax credit funds that we use for the club sponsors to support our club's boards and tutorials okay all right how will we approve the audio visual club additional sponsor i think it's very

099refreshing to see the kids do the morning announcements um versus an admin person doing it no offense mr it was wonderful but uh it's run its course but it is i think i remember being called to do that as a kid and i still remember that and that was many moons ago so that was i think it's really cool question yes will all the others will the stipends of all the club members uh all the club sponsors be raised to 500 a quarter so they're based on the number of times that they meet in the quarter is how we have a scale of what the they're able to earn as a sponsor based on the days and the hours that they need so this is moving then last year we had them at a lower

100rate but because of the number of hours they meet and the number of students they service they qualify for that additional standard how does that stipend me is there a list of the clubs and the sponsors and the stipends that is available yes i'll make sure to send that to your questions mrs ellen yes mrs yes mr australia mr ellery yeah and mr mcgivern yes thank you we have a purchase order action communication new staff radios so we are bringing this before you tonight um a lot of our staff radios are old the batteries within them are old so they're having a difficult time maintaining a charge this purchase would allow for 75 new radios it would also include six senior staff member radios which would have the ability to reach out talk with buses

101and where the other 75 would you know just be inner area communication this would allow us to get a radio to every staff member that would actually need one versus those that are out there now without radios so um this uh the reason why we're using action communications again as at the last board meeting you approved them as a sole source vendor because we use their antenna array so we ask that you approve this purchase for twenty three thousand nine hundred eighty three dollars and nineteen cents for new radios but i did quite a bit of research on it and we are getting a discounted rate yesterday or radio this is what it is i cannot tell it's pretty good price i can attest to that fact my company uses quite a few of them

102and they are there's nothing cheaper so thank you budget revision one is clear 22. all right hard to believe that we're only two months into the fiscal year budget revision number one um this is the latest forms from ae so it has the updated amounts you will see that our total budget went up in our mno account by two hundred and five thousand eight hundred and six dollars our capital fund went down 6 278 and i'll explain that in a moment and our federal projects went up 11 the reason why capital budget went down that 6 200 is we didn't move as much money out of our eminence fund into capital as we previously had one of the questions that board members have been asking because we are a give back district some board members

103have asked how much money is actually going back to the state for them to reallocate to other districts continental is giving back 409 440.55 that is the amount of money that the district is back to the state to ready to reallocate to districts who cannot fully cover the amount for um for schools across the state um i just wanted to quickly go to the page one of the budget which is the mmo fund just to kind of give you a high level overview so what i did is i actually went through and i looked at what the differences from our adopted budget to the current budget are so i'll just kind of go down the line real quick and you can so they can see that it's probably about as big as we can get

104it yeah so for line one which is our 100 1000 which is regular education under the instruction category when we guys approved our adopted budget that was at a 10.1 increase it is now to 16.9 line two uh the adopted budget was 43 this budget is 42.6 percent line 3 remained the same it went down 9.4 line 4 the adopted budget was 36.9 it is now 16.7 line five the adopted budget was down 3.2 percent here we're down 3.5 line 6 the adopted budget was 2.4 increase and this was a percent increase line seven the adopted budget was a four point two percent increase this is a three point nine percent increase lines eight and nine remain the same line ten the adopted budget was a 73.5 increase this is at 54.6 and lines 11

105through 14 or 11 through 13 remain the same and the overall regular education budget that you approved for the adopted budget it had an overall increase of 10 percent this budget has it as a 13.9 percent increase as we get into our special education pupil transportation and our k3 reading line 15 which is our instructional line for special education the adopted budget was at a point four percent it is now a 5.2 percent line 16 was a 0.1 this is a 1.9 17 18 and 19 remain unchanged line 20 was a 0 this is now a 3.6 increase and everything remains the same until you get to line 24 where the subtotal for special education where it was an 8.8 increase in the budget is now a 12.8 percent increase within transportation the adopted budget

106was at a 28.5 increase this is now 14.1 k3 reading which is line 29 it was a 12.1 it is now 11.7 and the total expenditure line on line 30. you have adopted a budget at 10.8 and this one is now 13.8 so some movement within the categories themselves so with this being a revision to the budget i will go ahead and open it up to the board for their discussion do you have any concerns anymore my only concern is still with the state and their aggregate limits when when the house and the senate when signed died there was no movement on whether they were going to increase the limit or waive the limit so as it is now the limit is what it is um we really won't know until the 100th day that

107this every every district in the state has had their hundredth day as to what's going to happen with that um i am hopeful that we will still come in underneath that aggregate limit um that way i can give much needed raises to our employees with with some of the contingency funds that we have built into the budget so by the end of january we should know something okay and i don't know if now is the time but when i first heard that 400 thousand were given back because as a district if you really back up we've got you could dispute the numbers to 25 000 or so taxpayers if we had a the non-age restriction thing wasn't here like we were a town like maybe sarita or we'd have a heck of a lot more

108students and we would be needing more than that 400 back so while it started like what could we do with that 400 grand i get it but i now you know i had to wrap my head around it and um it does make i get why it has to go back but did you come to the very first page i also want to bring your attention to this i almost forgot about this on the cover page we finally got updated tax rates from the county um good news well it's a good news bad news situation that's good okay here we go tax rate is going to go down to 1.82 from the 1.91 it was last year don't go clapping just yet value home values within our area went up six percent so while the

109tax rate went down you will still most likely see an increase in your tax bill because your homes increased in value by that six percent our emino override and our bond tax rates those both also went down so our secondary tax rate went from a point four five nine to a point 1.4288 so overall taxes are going down but again as home values went up you still may see an increase in your taxes but the good news is the taxes went down any further discussion mrs allen yes mrs heist yeah mr officer mr hollery yeah and mr mcgivern yes thank you emotional passes okay school events august september i guess just wanted to point out you're invited to our middle school open house information night on august 18th it is going to be in lieu

110of the normal open house elementary will have a separate open house but um middle school staff wanted to have this meeting want to be able to speak to parents and have their parents go through the rotation of their classes for the kids so they're welcome to come and join us and picture day august 24th just for us we need the board members to come also for your picture for the yearbook and we did already get a request for um jeffrey to me in our yearbook so he has a staff badge he's pretty excited okay thank you governing board information uh mr elvery you're up uh i have really nothing to report i enjoy coming to the meet and greets uh i had a very interesting conversation with a few teachers uh uh roxanna and deanna

111i you know i'll set up a time to meet with you and we can just chat about those discussions a little bit perfect thank you okay well hats off to a great opening day i'm glad school has kicked off and everything's going well and i think the kids are certainly glad to be back i see them it's so fun now to drive in the morning and see them at the bus stop and they're pushing each other it's so fun so congratulations on a great first day and looking forward to an awesome year thank you so much um mr lane sounds like you had a very chaotic start to the year but i'll let you know from from this side from the parent side i didn't notice anything i have gotten a lot of text from

112uh serena's school district though because my kids are enrolled in their buses are delayed life almost every day today yeah so good job and um please give my regards to jefferson or jefferson jefferson yeah jeffrey he understanding pretty much yeah he's my favorite place in the cafeteria but i appreciate you guys notifying parents right away with the whole code thing not waiting on the county i mean that's kind of what we do here you know let's just if you need help just yell we'll find it i'll help you we'll all help you whenever you want this room up if you need phone callers or whatever we have an outstanding team and we've been through a lot last 18 months keep pushing forward you got it you know what you're doing we have a plan and

113just keep pushing forward and like mr australia said you better support i mean i'm i'm so excited to have some sports back i kind of need this sort of sense of a little bit of sense of loneliness right and i'd like to personally thank all of you for being here i know it makes for a long meeting when we have uh presentations but i think it's very important to kick off the year with knowing what our directors do services does how transportation is going to really look at the data to understand um the level of analysis that we're putting into the data the wednesdays i want to again just thank our governing board for supporting the collaboration days of early release wednesday every wednesday because you can see that our calendars are full and that's

114going to help us to continue to steer the ship in the right direction and look to the same drum as we look at school improvement endeavors so thank you for listening to the presentations and thank you to our team okay so at this point we will reset to sign documents thank you very much for