CorpusRecord 19138

July 29, 2021 Special Governing Board Meeting.

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Source
YouTube / Continental School District CESD39
Date
2021-07-30
Location
Pima County, AZ
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,446 words · about 9 min
Collected
2026-06-05

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001[Music] uh there's a couple other things [Music] good morning yes good morning everyone let's call this meeting to we please please i will i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and his justice for all thank you we'll call please is to pull item k which is approval of occupation therapy services physical therapy services and psychology services to a separate alignment okay we will move that to e under new business any further changes to the agenda okay i knew that we approved the second motion in a second further discussion or changes okay mrs allen yes mr australia yes mr hillary yes and mr gibbon yes uh agenda is approved as amended you call to the

002public i do not receive on this incentive yes yes thank you discussion and approval of the mitigation plan and who's up on that we have attached the documentation that i did send to the pilot county health department the recommendations for back to school and the governor's orders so at this time as a leadership team we had already decided that maps were going to be optional on campus and we are going to make the mass optional on the bus as well so we know that there are covet cases in other districts there have already been outbreaks so we're just we really are trying to get back to business as usual of course with caution we did ask teachers they if the kids are in groups to maybe just separate them just a little bit more to

003provide a little bit more distance between the students but again it will be optional and last night at our meet and greet we did have um a fair amount of kids and parents who did have masks on so we know that two kids and a few staff members will continue to wear masks for precautionary reasons but we're asking at this time that the governing board support our mass to be optional and we'll continue to follow the mitigation plan in terms of hands advertising and cleaning spraying the rooms okay i'll entertain [Music] is the nurse still able to do covet testing yes that's the rapid one right yes the nurse is still able to do testing we are also still pima county health has asked us to continue to put ourselves in a situation where we

004can contact trace if kids happen to contract copics so that you know we'll follow that same plan of getting seating charts that the nurse is still able to test and another quick question is are we going to be doing the temperature checks at the drop-off and buses and stuff we are not okay further questions okay mrs allen yes mr australia yes mr hollery yes yes motion passes thank you and thank you for putting that together by the way the mitigation fund uh b approval of prop 301 base pay oh mr schubert is recommending the approval of prop 301 base pay as you um remember we had to make a decision as to how much of the 301 was going to go into the base and our committee decided that they wanted to keep the 80

005percent as duties as assigned and committee work like we had done so the 20 that will be added to their base paid is 2 611 spread out overall paid periods for all teachers i'll move that we uh approve the fiscal year 22 prop 301 baseball second motion second discussion this is spread out over how many page periods i guess it depends on whether they're on it it's going to depend uh if the teacher is on a 20 or 24 period 100 bucks further discussion okay mrs allen yes mr australia okay this is routine the only um two that we had to add this year was lebron hill for our math curriculum and action communications which is the radio equipment repair company that we use so other than that then this remains the same okay it

006just just clarified though with action communications we're bringing them to you for sole source because we use their antenna and their array on the mountain for our communications so going with somebody else within you know radio repairs and purchase things like that it could hamper our ability to use that antenna is keystone is not intended yes okay i will uh prove that we approve the sole source second any discussion okay mrs allen yes ms johnson mrs thank you mcgraw-hill purchase order so this is a motion for um approval of the purchase order for 10667 for the math manipulatives it was brought to our attention that in the bundle price of what we were purchasing did not include the manipulatives so as we started to unpack the boxes we realized that we did not receive the

007manipulatives and we are working with the vendors right now as well because there were some student licenses digital licenses for students that were left off of the original order so we're working with the vendor to see what they're going to do but they definitely know that they're going to have to cut us a break since bundle did not mean bundle okay entertain a motion on the purpose of it please i'll move to approve the purchase from them that teachers need to teach math so they're the cuisinaire rods they're the base 10 rods they're the counters so the manipulatives are used throughout the curriculum to teach number sense so there's graphs and pie charts and they sometimes have money like coins so that they can practice counting but overall they usually are for when the students

008are going over place value in the primary grades so they have the hundreds blogs the thousands and like she said the tens rats but they're for the teachers to utilize so that they have the hands-on teaching when they're teaching the lessons and each student has has them in front of them so that may answer my question i had a question about um in my mind i was thinking this was digital so this is not sorry because because my question was a 1300 shipping charge and something was digital it didn't jump in my head so apparently that just answered that song and and we needed kids for everybody because prior to um last year we had teachers doing departmentalizing so we had one teacher per grade level teaching math now we have all teachers teaching math

009so we're limited in the manipulatives that we have third grade and beyond thank you any further questions okay mrs allen yes mr austin yes mr mullery yes yes okay i'm sorry it's now um approval of uh occupational therapy services physical therapy services and psycho psychology services um correct me if i'm wrong please clarify this change yes so at the time of um us posting the agenda we had not yet received best and final we did ask our psychologist and our physical therapist to give us the best and final because when we got the rfp prices were a little bit above what standard hourly weight is so we received best and final so we write we'd like to recommend that doctor that will continue she did decrease her outing rate for us which is nice we'll

010save us some money and obviously it's good to continue with someone that we know she understands that we're still trying to find a school psychologist per se because we will always save more money with the school employee rather than having to contract out so the motion will be only will be specific to dr valeno and the others will still be it would be specific to dr berlin as well as mrs rodriguez all right and as of right now we're still waiting on the best final for our physical therapy services got it okay so two out of the three two out of three okay uh occupational therapy is mrs rodriguez psychology and holding on physical therapy yes okay i'll entertain that question so moved second motion a second any further any discussion dr balloon's the one

011we had last year yes okay mrs allen yes mr hospital mr hollery yes yes motion is approved as amended thank you uh any information from governing board members let's start down there sir i do there are two things one is i would like to give a pitch to the so you guys know there's something called the sunshine fun which um wendy fanning does she's a middle school math teacher which correct me if i'm wrong it helps it pays for the birthday cakes flowers if somebody's sick or somebody passes so the staff and teachers all contribute all you have to do is put a check or cash in the envelope and put it in a lindy's box and the other is could you introduce us to the new mascot to the therapy dog yes jefferson come

012here boy so jefferson is a registered service animal let's see have a seat good boy and he's a cavalier king charles he is he's been in school since he was like 12 weeks old he is specially trained to work with kids who are elevated in there like they could be very frustrated or upset and they're very vocal he's trained to go up to them to start with and then go back to a safe distance and let the teachers and coaches help de-escalate the child and say that jefferson will come back to you if you will go ahead and have a seat or you know when you come he knows he can come back to you and he'll be safe and a lot of times the kids are able to self-sued and to calm a lot

013quicker because he um helps him and he's like the carrot for them to also calm down and um and he wanders around the school and he all the kids have gotten to know him that came to a meet and greet last night and parents and stuff and he was introduced at the of course at the um presentation last night too and so he um he's got lots of experience he does real well he um hasn't gotten hurt that he does shy away from kids who will like pull on his ears so that's a teachable moment helping kids understand how to care for pets and so that's jefferson so he came as a package with you right he did all right try that to our staff as to our staffing numbers that jefferson will be at

014the board meeting so i'll watch closely as to which adult he chooses to go sit by them and we've already noticed even going up to certain people who we know are maybe not having such a great day or feeling stressed so it's pretty amazing thank you welcome jeffrey okay thanks anything else i guess guess we're set i'll uh retain the motion to adjourn it's removed okay okay opposition thanks all right let's go have breakfast

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