001we start do you want to just give a update on where we are with the monitors and stuff we have a PO in to the company they're going to schedule a technician to come out and look at it okay thank you m know our clock's two minutes slow just saying no points [Music] put well I don't know should I requested fr call us Mee to order welcome everyone Mr please lead us in the pledge i al to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation indivisible withy and justice for all thank you much call please Mr MCG M K pres Mr Ry here mrly I'm here Mr Aro like approval of the appr second motion second discussion Mr VG yes oh you're last I'm sorry M
002SK yes Mr or yes pass pass thank you okay have call to the I have free to read and we have gentl here us evening this is a nice surprise okay we are grateful to the voters that showed their support with a yes vote for the Continental Elementary School override it's override P with a higher margin than previous overrides it shows that we have the support from many of in our community in helping conell deliver the best education possible congratulations to Kelly Allen for her win on the scho our community heard our needs and voted in a parent who cares about our children teachers and the school she would be a great asset to the board with the continued school thank you thank you to all those who supported the condo School override especially those
003on the override committee both parents and community members who dedicated countless hours of their time to a cause they believe in some may have doubted that we had the support so the voters of Green Valley who clearly value public education and support our local school despite the many efforts both locally and nationally to undermine it I understand the override pass to the greatest margin in its history congratulate congratulations to new school school board member Kelly Allen and to Drew Shelly and Richard for being reelected to another term we value your commitment to this great little school in our community to all the Continental teachers students and staff especially in this difficult time we're so proud to support you go col go col thank you dear governing board I'm an employee of account school and a
004parent of a continental kindergarten student I'm writing today to urge you to take the students and help staff's health into consideration in the past month we have closed down the second grade classroom an entire preschool and our cafeteria it's very concerning that our school remains open while staff and students continue to contract covid-19 we're putting a community at risk by remaining open I ask you toe consider student and the community and the community's health into consideration respectfully thank you yes sir is that okay up here minutes than um my name is k g I'm the proud parent of uh my son who graduated from here last year moved to Walden I am the found National thank you letter day where three years ago we actually put together the world's largest thank you letter handwritten thank
005you letter with the help of our wonderful superintendent and all those concerned and what do you do with a thank you letter you actually have to send it so this last year we sent Inge world's largest envelope world's largest stamp again to celebrate National thank you letter day and this year uh our school decided to celebrate by creating uh thank you letter videos in which kids would actually write out a thank you letter uh videotape it and then send it off to the heroes of 2020 anyone local in our community who will helped us through the pandemic so that could be anyone from First Responders to delivery people to grocery clerks to parents and guests who teachers that's right so wonderfully enough we Val news article in November 15th and it was it's so easy
006to you pass was really how than all right so that was a wonderful success we got a number of interviews we were able to put um con School the app once again nationally and regionally I get the chance to shout it out I shout it out big and strong lastly or second to last we've um the 100 Year Continental celebration closet is finally finished this is where all the gr bricks go out there that was my son's EV project he's as happy as I am that it's finished um we're going to have a ribbon cutting this coming up Wednesday the newspaper will be there to document that and we're going to have some kids on at 10: a.m. in the morning so for those of you that can get out of work and come on
007over that would be great and um and as part of that we're now opening that up it's going to be a year-to-year fundraiser for the Civics Club to raise money for the Washington DC trip so the news will have an article concerning the reopening of of the fundraising for the local community it's open first to The Graduate graduating class for week and up to the general public to make to create um to to get money for this year's upcoming Washington DC lastly we have all this thanks going to all the voting public and whatnot but I want to thank the board personally profiles and courage is why you guys sent this override and you started the whole process so thank you so much as a parent who cares about this school as a community member
008um I really appreciate what you did and you started the whole ball rolling and thank youself and Mr um K pit to help us continue to spread kindness and to thank you we have our V Bell's kindness points that say thank you for sharing your kindness pass it on so in the back they say Continental ESD spreading kindness so I'm going to give you two and if you're at the grocery store or wherever you are and you want to spread kindness get some more great publicity for Continental we really appreciate thank thank you thank you appreciate [Applause] it and at this time we'd like to bring Miss Charlotte gates up to for a formal thank you for everything that rotary has done for us at Continental and continues to do we really wanted to officially
009thank you for supporting us and the outdoor music part and come on up here so we okay I even came with bells on y [Music] so we would like to present you with the Ben [Music] Bell the back it sayal es kindness and you know you to and we are also going to give you some kindness coins so you can have one Gary can have one you can give one to somebody else so you can catch people being kind this holiday season apprciate thank you all so much thank you thank you very thank you so I just added a few more the pictures that I had last time of us with our project and we update our project for our end of year graph report on our musical playground also our Foundation donor Saro so
010pieces that were purchased last year at our sweethart G were added during Thanksgiving break so we want to thank Legacy smilees the AUST family the Adano family Bill McNary and myself I got my little honey bird on there sponsors and supporters are displayed with pride and appreciation there in the front so we are doing another we're going to do a virtual sweetart data so we'll be offering some s auction items again so I'm sure we will have owls and hummingbirds up for auction for this year in February as well so stay tuned okay our final election results so I'm sure you've already seen them but again we'd like to welcome our newly elected board member Kelly Allen um she has a she has a kindergartener that's enrolled in our school and two students who have
011come through Continental who are in high school now she grew up in a family of Educators so we're looking forward to her um participation and contribution to our board final override election numbers we had 12,517 votes and 7,474 votes 543 votes um which was very nice to um to see because I did mention to you that I did go when they were hand counting the ballots and was very stressful and I don't know that I could have done three straight days of six hours of listening to them say no no yes yes no yes so I was very pleased with the final outcome again a testament to our parent and Community Support that we knew would be advocating for our student staff and programs and a huge thank you to our override committee members as
012well governing board minutes just an update the October and November audio minutes are on our website if you go to Administration then governing board under board agendas the link will take you to the audio Miss Jen R house will be transcribing the minutes um that will be submitted for final approval at our January 11th board meeting next our covid-19 school update so it is still the recommendation of Dr Garcia and Dr col from Pima County Health um to keep students in school um under the hybrid model there's still um we never went to hybrid because we do have smaller class sizes and we have larger classrooms than average schools do which allow us to be able to still keep our students six feet apart um so we will continue to stay the course as long
013as we can I don't think that they will mandate us having to go hybrid since we've been person but if for some reason things change we may have to go to hybrid but we're not anticipating that at this time and the new CDC guidelines for quarantine and isolation are being shorted shortened so that will definitely help us with um the number of people staff and students that we have quarantined so I put the information there for you and I will also share this Google do with you at the end that you will get it beforehand okay so it's going to be shortening to um 10 days quarantine can end after 10 days without testing and if no symptoms have been reported during the daily monitor um also when diagnostic testing resources are sufficient and available
014then the quarantine can end after day seven of a negative test results so what it was before is if you were quarantined and you tested negative you still couldn't come to school you weren't allowed a negative test wouldn't allow you to be out of corantin now this will um allow us to bring back people who have tested negative even if it's within that 14-day quarantine designation and I just want to commend mrsas um Mr Nathan but we have been working um closely with County Health and we uh you know we're steps ahead of this County Health is so busy that we have been able to control um the spread here at our school by acting immediately and by not waiting two or three hours till we he for human health because we already know um
015what the procedures are and what needs to happen and our parents have been very supportive um of calling complying reporting and coming to stud because they do understand we have a zero tolerance for any type of illness so I did send out the pum County mask mandate was sent to parents um and staff last Monday um and I know you've been inundated with emails and blank copies for mrsas because every time she sends it out we just L copy the board so you'll be able to see what's what we're sending out to our parents um I only received one parent um call concerned with the were going to have to be wearing masks at their desk um although they're six feet apart um our students have been wearing their masks um because they choose to
016and they want to and the students when we met W stent advisory were you know telling us please don't send us home and I just keep reiterating we're trying to stay the course if you help us keep your mask and keep safe wash your hands um we'll be okay so just an update today we had 23 students who were absent due to and there was a total of 62 kids absent so only 23 of the 62 were due to quarantine or isolation so the attendance rate is 89% and our absenteeism rate is 10% which is still really really good if you remember receiving information from sa they had 56% um attendance so we our students are doing well our St so we had 14 students out today nine out of the 14 were due to
017quarantine and isolation um we have a total of 92 employees so we have a 84.7% attendance rate um 24 staff members have generated 121 days of quarantine and isolation so of the days they've had to quarantine and isolate um those are 24 have affected of our 92 employees and then I sent an update to you today um on food service that is not reflected in this data so again as long as we can continue to provide substitute coverage for staff needing to be quarantined or isolated we will keep students in school and so I really want to thank our leadership team because we've all been in kindergarten we''ve all been in the food service we've been kindergarten snack time and um like we've played librarian so I think everybody has truly stepped in um to
018make sure that we can keep kids in school and that teachers are still getting their planning time which is important to keep that going as well our enrollment update so this slide we updated and so you can see at the bottom right hand side we're um down 49 students from the year last year at this time so we really are doing well um we are definitely not like other districts who have lost hundreds of students okay our enrollment stabilization Grant so we're excited to announce that we received $129,000 from the enrollment stabilization Grant which was probably triple we were going to receive um so this allowed us to free up funds in our M for additional needs throughout the year um and to also cover additional expenses for virtual instruction second semester so we're estimating
019um about $8,000 for courses and teacher stiens for students that will remain virtual second semester that have indicated they'll virtual and so here you see that we currently have 34 students that have educated they wish to remain online for second semester six kindergarteners five first graders three second graders one third grader we have zero fourth graders and three fifth graders four sixth graders 5 seven and seven eth graders so with the small mbers per grade level our kindergarten through fifth grade students will move to the adventum online cver learning platform and our sixth through eth grade students will move to the amentum online courseware platform for second semester once they're enrolled they will remain digital for the remainder of the semester we definitely have to reinforce to parents they cannot come back because that's going
020to we're going to plan for these 34 students and we're going to pay for them to to be on this platform so we're going to require that they stay and I currently have our virtual teachers are sending emails to their parents to say it is our understanding that you will be sending your child to school in January because we do have 105 students that are virtual now of4 rest anticipating will return so again the students will receive all the instructions and lessons through the amentum cber learning and online course Work Platforms our teaching staff will be the teacher of record they'll Monitor and provide any assistance with lessons if needed but it will not be your traditional videos of your teachers doing lessons and K see their online normal Continental teacher um so this is
021an online course all resources needed for the courses are provided through the platform students and parents to self paace and monitor themselves as they complete the lessons and we are having a parent Zoom meeting this Wednesday at 4:30 um with those 34 parents to explain what it'll look like for January so as we mentioned at our last meeting um Albert and I have been working with our Better Together Coalition and um to connect our students we currently have three families who have returned the consent so we're still waiting um Mr Bret Bonner and I are going to be on the around the Cracker Barrel show the radio station it's not really a show the radio station on December 18th to discuss the participation in the connector students initiative and there will be an article in
022as well in January okay so now our M RP and curriculum adoption timeline so um you can see here on November 9th we sent out an RFP we've receiv received responses um to the RFP and on the next slide you'll see who um who has responded to the RFP we sat with the curriculum committee and we talked about what programs um do we want to explore and look at we did look at the programs that were also um listed in the top 25 schools when we did that study to we're using what sites we're using um next Wednesday this Wednesday actually at 3:15 the curriculum committee will review the responses so if someone from the board would like to be part of the math Review Committee please let me know and I think Miss maybe
023um you talked about it before so still fits into your schedule is it this Wednesday this Wednesday I can't do it this Wednesday what will happen though in January the presentations so we'll narrow it down with the committee on Wednesday on the top two or three companies that we want to pursue and then in January the companies will do presentations to there'll be Zoom presentations also that you can participate in from home but they'll present to our board our parent advisory and our committee our staff committee our plan is to in February and Mar um the curriculum for 60 days for public to view and then April will be um recommending and requesting board approval for the adoption adopted material and in May through July we'll begin planning our professional development with uh implementation in
024August on the other side you'll see that we have hon mland harport they are the current vendors of go map which we are using new curriculum is called into math mcra Hill has reveal math curriculum and Associates has ready math and then we have Illustrated mathematics who also responded to the RFP and um we spent $85,000 The Last Five Years on gold math curriculum so I just wanted to give you a wallpark figure um they will be sending in um quotes as well which the committee will be reviewing on Wednesday to See's doable is that each year no this was a total so it it typically costs about 40 to 50,000 year one and then a lot of companies if you sign a threeyear contract and you know they give you a break for the
025following next two years so The Upfront cost may be a little bit more and one thing that was real difficult just with go math was we tried to transition our teachers into the workbooks rather than the hard copy workbooks and right when we had agreed that we would do it for this year is when we ended up having to shut down with Co and we ended up providing the books for the kids again to take home so again as a reminders this is not the opportunity for questions or discussions if you would like me to put anything on the January board or need clarification please feel free to call me and just want to remind everyone to keep calm calm and stay alone and it's hard to believe that it's already Merry Christmas and happy
026New Year 2021 it's crazy so thank you thank you very much report Mr P up can we get a clarification what is average attendance for students and teachers like what's a benchmark we 92% is usually what what district stri for best thing 95% we really do strive for 95% for students and staff each year and we've always been between you know 89 and 92 so it's really not any different no no okay I'm sorry this is I also while she's getting that up just wanted to say um well Mr P said the ribbon cutting for the celebration Plaza this Wednesday um we are canceling our staff holiday potluck um the sunshine committee decided not to have it um there is an error on our early release we do not have early release on December 16th
027ear releases on Friday is a half day for students on that last resence day and I just wanted to say a huge shout out to the Community Food Bank um for helping us out the next two days in absence of our food service staff I called them this morning and they um we've already received two days work of food for the students for breakfast and lunch so thank you all right thank you so I'd like to start um my principal's report showcasing instruction around our school so we'll start with e8th grade science our teachers have been I know I had mentioned a few months back that our teachers are posting learning targets and um essential questions so this learning Target in eighth grade science is we will use zinc and hydrochloric acid to generate Elemental
028hydrogen we will test for the presence of hydrogen using a combustion test and this was Mr Ker's 8th grade science class they had a lot of fun they many inquiries that came up things that came up in this lesson in regards to uh them working with the chemical formulas and equations that they had they were using different types of chemicals and wanted to [Music] see how the different chemicals would combust even when it wasn't in the plans for that day and Mr krazer brought to life their questions and made them into a reality so they could see what would happen physical education do you all know what they're learning these sixth graders yes pickle pickle they are learning about pickle ball and they have their learning Target students can recall forehand techniques and cues student
029can hit by forehand to their partner from partner soft tosses skill student can hit five four hands back over the net from partn TOs and so forth and then they went over their forehand hitting techniques how they're supposed to use their paddles their ready positions so it was very they accomplished quite a bit in just the first 15 minutes of this lesson he asked many questions and Coach Sue Williams was there to support them the students were supporting one another and that was the unit they had been working on and then we have some second math the learning targets I can create and label a bar graph essential question why are graphs important the students were able to uh collaborate across with their Partners from across at their desks and come up with data and
030you'll see some examples towards the end of class and this is how our teacher also can assess she walks around and monitors as many of our teachers do if students are understanding the Lear targets and the objectives at hand to be able to walk around and help them with any questions that they have but the students were really excited to share with their favorite Thanksgiving dishes and they also talked about the importance of graphs many of them were saying we use this for voting you know they heard a lot this was an election year so they were learning a lot about that and talking about voting and and um elections and then of course their favorite topic which is food and desserts e8th grade General music class learning targets were to generalize and conceptualize artistic
031ideas and work and to develop and refine artistic work for presentation the essential question posed to these students was how can I create and refine a composition through the collaborative recording process H it was so amazing to see this lesson they are as you can see in the picture to the right they were connecting reps and using applications to be able to record their work and then they were using an application where they could collaborate with a team of people from various areas sitting in the classroom be able to create work together and then check on each other and give each other feedback based on their reported compositions they were utilizing Google Classroom as well and in real time Mr Ferguson as well as many of our teachers when you walk you see their lessons
032is able to write away put links for to help them if they need to go back into their Google Classroom to refer to in this case they were trying to remember certain rules for Beats and that they're making and Mr Ferguson put a review link for them right away so they could refer to it during the lesson and through their independent work they were having so much fun at one point um I'm not one I heard the student say today is a great day for the yells are really loud and they're really excited they were asking how could we get these types of keyboards could we use these at home if we could order these so they're having a lot of fun with creating music and sharing it with one another seventh grade social studies
033they're learning about the Revolutionary War the war for Freedom taking notes and um The Learning targets where students would be able to track the technological impact on culture they'll spiral back to what they've studied they'll reinforce PRI knowledge and they'll be able to put US history in chronological order for the time period studied two students had worked on this and they used it as an example in this lesson for social studies and they had a great conversations of discussion the students were learning how to create timelines and then they'll be able to utilize their timelines to create an essay and it's all done in their own words based off of their own memory and at times they can create pictures for the timelines so that's where we're at with that I just wanted to share
034that with you because it's a testament to being in school right now and being able to collaborate and all of the hard work our students are doing and our teachers are doing to make sure that the learning is challenging and and rigorous next up I wanted to discuss data binders we have purchased ERS for all students Kinder through e8th grade each student in the school will receive one it will have the following but not limited to student math growth testing progress reports student goal setting worksheets daily math skills progress and logs of missing work we also have some other ideas that we've have the teachers brainstorming how they would want to uh create this binder because in a way it's going to be a learning portfolio for our students also when we have parent teacher
035conferences they'll be able to show their parents what their goals are what they're setting some of our teachers brought up they would like to have their students put a piece of work or pieces of work per subject that they're proud of and be able to refer back throughout the school year from where they started and where where they ended but it's a way to also have the students be excited to set those goals for themselves and hold themselves accountable and um be excited to show their work and their prop us this is just an example of one of the reports that would be in it which is a student progress report and when we have our next testing uh Benchmark 2 which will start taking place the week of January 25th we'll start seeing their
036their growth from this first Benchmark to the second Benchmark and this is a student goal setting worksheet that would be in the binder the teachers would go over these with the students they would write down their plan what their goal is and it also comes with the copy for them to take home for with their parents so they can go over with their parents and the teacher signs it the student signs it and the parents sign it and it would go in their binders an update on the data analysis tools we had a meeting with our um accounts manager for map for NWA map growth uh the RIT score we discussed the RIT score last board meeting it's a process for through e environment cor and it correlates best for student growth um as opposed
037to the Six Sigma which you know we had discussed at the last meeting so I did look into it which is a data- driven approach and it uses statistical methodology to help lead uh helps lead to defec and waste reduction Improvement in profits employee moral and quality of products or services but map growth would be best utilized um because it's a scale that helps us in measuring and comparing academic growth specifically scale measures level and AC academic difficulty so the RIT scale extends equally across all GRS making it possible to compare students score at various points throughout his or her education what does a specific RIT score mean it represents the level where students are ready to learn also known as the zone of proximal development the test finds that level by pinpointing where a
038student would would just as likely answer incorrectly as correctly the point KN and not knowing answers so I just want to show a quick little clip with the right Insight you can shape the future I love to teach and watch my students grow as a teacher and would like to tell you about how I use math from n to benefit our students and our school beginning two years ago our school district implemented the measures of academic progress or Ma on map to assess each of my students unique needs and to chart their growth what's more map helps me prepare for the important skape test let's look at each of these benefits starting with assessment of each student's needs a map assessment challenges every student as the student responds correctly or incorrectly the test items adjust
039in difficulty if an answer is correct the next question is harder if an answer is incorrect question is easier in this way I'll learn exactly where each student currently performs that's an important difference from traditional tests which only tell me whether a student is at above or below their grade level with math assessments I'll see just how far above or below my students are performing and knowing that I can Target curriculum to their specific needs all students grow at different rates and that enables grow to millions of other students here's what makes it possible map assessments use the RIT scale or R this scale is like a yard stick with equal units across the scale just like a yard stick shows changes in student height the r scale shows changes in student academic growth as
040the school year progresses I'll use the RIT scale to monitor that growth knowing that every student grows a R for comparison I can also rely on the Norms data built into map based on millions of test item responses and over 30 years of research the norm data give me a reference point as I assess each student's unique growth rate as my students progress through the school year I need to know how prepared they are for the state test again map has the answers nwea researchers scale with State tests for both reading and Mathematics This research makes it possible to project how well my students would perform so I can make adjustments to boost their proficiency so now you know how math helps our students so I just wanted to because we're all learning about math
041growth and in the coming hopefully next month we have a 4our it'll be over two sessions it'll be two 2our sessions for our staff and for all of us and I would I would let you know when it is so that you could take part in it if you have the time to do so but it's going to go over all the data analysis tools the RIT scores and more information as we move forward with this uh new program so that our teachers know when we're going over the data with their students and with our parents as well and we're all very clear testing updates the NWA macro testing window is closed for this first Benchmark testing data has been uploaded to link it for more detailed analysis report upcoming testing that will be taking
042place is dual language students will be taking the M grth Spanish reading test at our January board meeting we will review the map growth Benchmark number one overall data and um January 25th our M growth Benchmark testing to will begin have any questions and just I want to say happy holidays to all of our students staff fames board members and our Continental community and I really want to thank parents I'll be reaching out to them individually that came and surprised us um they came on a weekend and decorated the cafeteria they wanted to lift the spirits of our students the whole entire cafeteria has probably about Christmas trees lights slaves and um little reindeer that light up and it was a big surprise for not just our students but for all of us and the
043love that we have from our parents it's extremely moving and from our community that they would take time out to do this just because they want to show love for our school so I really want to thank them for that and happy holidays to all of you okay thank you very much consent agenda please a motion for the consent agenda I we approve the December 7 consent second any discussion I have a couple of questions in the voucher area um I $2,700 approximately for Co supplies and another almost 12,000 for air purifier is there any cares money left that could cover those so what we did is we used the car's money to free up ML money okay so we use the car's money to pay for salaries and benefits for Miss quas and Mr
044lean while they were working on our litigation plan so that that freed up all that money which is why those purchases are now able to come out of our account okay uh lastly $1,735 for reimbursement for p County for elections given the debacle of the voting machines and uh and the staff time that our superintendent had to invest to go observe the process can we get a rebate on any of that P county is just like everybody else their prices are set no matter how incompetent their process is Mr President that's my question thank you sir I appreciate that further questions please Miss K yes Mr O yes Mr ol yes and Mr yes thank you motion passes 11 a first semester payment 301 funds so this is motion for approval of our first semester
045payment of 301 funds um like we mentioned before our committee has a extensive documentation of ensuring that teachers comply with all the requirements of the categories in order to earn their first payment motion please I'll move that we approve the first payment three funds second any discussion questions um was this the total amount that the district has received for for profit 301 for this payment this is so what we did we took the budgeted amount how much we're were supposed to be getting from the state and this is half of those amounts okay um I understand that in the in the account 013 in the proposition 011 is is basic pay 02 is performance pay and and and and three is is uh for actually numerous one of which can certainly be a salary um
046but there's also a whole bunch of other things that that that that 013 can go for I mean including um uh teacher development uh assessment inter Intervention which would be like uh summer school and some of some of those sorts of things is there any need to allocate some 301 money for those purposes uh rather than all going into salar that is not actually a question for me sir that's actually a question for you well I guess I mean to be to be perfect because the board sets the board sets where that that payment goes to and if if you would like I mean it's set for this year but you can bring this up as an agenda item later on okay that's an excellent point app have that discussion about for the upcoming school
047year okay I appreciate that thank you you're right it is our responsibility so it appears that we kind of gave everybody the same thing the information that we received was that everybody had earned 100% there were two teachers who chose not to participate within the 301 program so then all the teachers performed equally there were no high performing feates so the way we base 301 is they participation on their committees um so we have our emergency committee we have oure so they meet monthly so they meet mon we meet monthly with category a committees which are curriculum and advis the child support committee so we have those and then they have to attend monthly meetings for their category B so all of them are it really is schol functions and operations so it's really not
048performance it's no it's aend yes so the 301 money at Continental is being used for attendance and not performance a performance pay component within 301 that is f 12 right okay and that is a one time payout at the end of the year and there are specific Cur specific guidelines in order to receive 100% And what the 301 I I don't have front of me so I can't I'm not even going to begin to to guess at what it says but there are certain components within fun the fun 12 to the 301 plan that each teacher has to make to get 100% of that into the evation system superintendent Rico where do we and I I understand that's something we're really not going to address until the year end performance pay and that is the
049one2 I guess uh in there but it says that on the performance pay there is a system in place and it was approved at a public meeting of this board as far as how that performance pay is allocated and it's based on like 12 factors where do I find the Continental policy on that I tried to hunt for it on the website and I went into the um the policy section and is all there is in there is asba uh uh policies there I I I don't know where Continentals is I will I will dig it up because it's been the same established prior to my arrival four years ago so I'll go back and hunt it down and go through some records to get that information discussion great all right Miss K yes Mr
050over yes Mr asy yes and Mr M yes F thank you request for after school elll tutoring isable okay so this is a request for us to um provide some tier three intervention for our all students um we are going to be audited with our El students this next semester so in preparation for the audit we just want to make sure that we can Target the students with a little bit more guided attention from thisable I move that we approve second motion and a second discussion please okay all right call Miss guys yes Mr over yes Mr a yes and Mr Mi yes thank you passes minimum wage increase to 1215 we have two employees that fix so in order to comply with the minimum wage increase of 125 by January 1st 2021 I move
051to approve minimum wage increase to 1215 beginning January 1 motion the second discussion I do have a discussion I remember when it went from like $10 $12 a few years ago this is just another unfunded government mandate that I know 15 cents isn't going to make your break is but the last time just for the record it cost us like 30 or $4,000 that was unfunded um just I don't know just had bent that out I guess I'm sorry but um this one probably is what a th000 or so it's it's about that minim yeah is this the last of no every year from here on out is the uh cost of living indicator the there's two different there's two different ways it's either this Consumer Price Index or the or cost of living whichever
052is the least so with this one we came in I I forget what the percentage was I I don't remember it off the top of my head okay but it only came in at a 15 C rate so from here on January it'll be the lesser of those two indicators to a maximum of $5 right yes I believe that was part of that legislation I would have to double check it but I pr sure that that's what it said valid yes yeah that's the elections have consequences okay any further discussion all right M K yes Mr yes Mr overy yes Mr mcin yes thank you motion passes approval of fy21 budget revision number one yes so miss you pull that up I do have to make a a notation on this on this cover page
053that you were given I have had to make an adjustment I thought the board meeting for this was going to be December 14th so in the documents that you'll be signing today that will actually say December 7th so you have my apologies for that I either forgot or just completely missed it but that is corrected on the versions that you will be signing today that is the only change within the budget forms from what you were given so I just wanted to start off with that and my sincerest of apologies so this quas can go to the next page pages so this budget here that is in front of you today is more aligned with what is actually within our accounting system um one thing that you will notice is that our budget from what
054we are revising to today from to approved in July as are adopted is about and I'm just going to round the numb about $179,000 light um I was going to bring this to you in February just you remember right when I had my one ones with you I told you that I was going to bring a budget revision to you early um but December is when or late November is when ad sends out their notices for for districts who have to do a December revision so I waited until that came out what ad calculated versus what was proposed at the beginning of the back in June and then again in July there was a difference of $179,000 that being said we are currently sitting with just over $300,000 left unincumbered which means it's just sitting
055there waiting for a place to call home okay and that does not include the enr stabilization Grant funds that we have which will free up another $129,000 so financially as a district we are looking fairly well right as at that halfway point of the year so you will see on this page you know as I said those numbers more accurately reflect what is in our accounting system um a couple Pages down you'll find the classroom site fund which is also now aligned with what is within our accounting system that's it so this is the salary and all this is is salaries and benefits for teachers out of prop 301 so the 301 payments that you that you made were actually based more on this revision than they were of anything else other than that those
056are the only two areas that are that are really changed the M portion back on page three is where we had to remove that $179,000 from but again as I stated you know that now actively reflects what is in our accounting data and I will open it up to the board for any questions about the revision is is this caused by like a change in the waiting formula it so generally when when so ad allows you a percentage to be off from them they require you to do one um generally when you're putting together your proposed and adopted budget you do not carry you do not include carryover funds because you have what's called an encumbrance period which lasts into into September okay which is paying bills from the previous year in the previous year
057with funds from the previous year so in in the budget that that was proposed to you the carryover amount was there it didn't exactly correlate with what ad said but you know so there's slight changes in ADM slight changes in um weighted ADM for our sped students as far as um number of students in each category so there's a lot of small factors that that factored into it okay will you be adding back in for as a revenue Source the uh the enrollment stabilization money that's coming in add in and I'm not sure what you mean by add in but let me answer my question add Revenue so it'll become a revenue within the enrollment stabilization Grant it'll become fund 328 what we will do we will journal entry um salaries and benefits out of
058M into the enrollment stabilization Grant one of the things that the enrollment stabilization Grant allows us to do is they assume $500 per student as a CO expense so we I went through I did the math um I believe it's like $177 in change for student when I add in the benefits I spend all but $466 of the enrollment St yep I'm I'm good unless you guys have any other questions but those are the only two areas that yeah were any any changes to the budget that you seen in July thank you sir motion please approve second Mo or second further discussion do we have to make a motion about the budget we pass no no there's nothing needed with the previous one okay so this is just approval of budget revision number one Mr
059overy yes M K yes Mr O yes Mr MC yes motion passes thank you st request for digital teachers okay at this time we're asking for approval the second for digital teachers for our uh one teacher took on two grade levels another teacher took on two grade levels two three and then we had fourth and fifth grade teachers who are doing um both digital and in person simultaneously in order to keep numbers low so as we looked at our budget and met with um Mr schuber and what we had um available and the funds that we freed up we thought this would be a good um thank you for their hard work that they put in this order so can we ask a question I um is this retroactive yes this is for this is
060for third quarter right okay because moving forward you're going to they won't be doing that because they're going to be using edum right and we're going to be we're going to be designating additional teachers of record but they will not be happy to record less um teach um video record or teach live they will be the teacher records look very different where you might have to transfer grades into our Synergy program so what we are looking to pay the teacher of record for second semester is $150 a semester a quarter so that's just to kind of monitor yes okay that's what my son's doing at wal on the engine right so it'll look very different for the teachers because we are expecting all of our digital teachers to come back in person in January noal
061respons motion please I'll motion that we the statement second further discuss uh just would this be another item that could be funded with prop 301 money seems to me that it would fall right into that 013 category um the other services it it technically yes it it it could be if if that was part of the the 301 plan that was yes so I just got information from Miss um and she let me know that the governing board approved the 301 plan in May for the for this school year so we'll have to go back to our name right I think we need to probably rediscussed because right now we have it as lack of a better word of bonus um if they fulfill certain things sitting on committees going to the foundation thing Etc
062versus meeting my CL came up 10% and all that which it sounds like you guys might be hinting to is performance type pay but that's has never been at least until now are um reasoning for looks like we can address that April May yeah so Part B is the performance P part A and for the discussion okay m k Mr yes Mr yes Mr M yes pass thank you okay now we have Mr sh and a school facilities board update so back a few months ago many many board meetings ago I I talked to the board about the wonderful world of the school facilities board and I told you that I would go ahead and give up the board as I had them so just wanted to let the board know the 4 in fire
063pipe that we needed to have replaced has been replaced um by using the the sfb that save the district 2300 um we are still working on PO approval with Mojave Mojave has to approve all sfd POS U but in order once we get the approval with Mojave you know we'll get the uh compressor placed on the middle school which will save the district $5,800 um we are currently waiting approval from the SSB board to replace one of the 25 ton units on top of the Middle School um this this Project's taking us a little bit longer because when one vendor came in with their bid they had an add on there and when I talked with the sfb about this ad he said absolutely go back your bers and have them added what it would
064do is it would add a hot water loop within the within the unit which will help us keep it from freezing up so that project in itself is just over it's almost $48,000 or I'm sorry 30 it's almost $40,000 these three projects alone have saved the district just over $ 47,600 so I just wanted to move forward and let yall know what exactly it is we are doing with the sfb and where we're at with those projects can you paint the school too so okay okay so that is actually a good question the sfb will not do beautification but pres but they will do water prooving if we can prove that our buildings are leaching water through the walls the sfb will paint the buildings okay yeah hey Thursday is% so I will see if
065I can get somebody from the sfb to come up with their RAR tube and and put it up against the wall to see how much moisture is actually within the wall well Greg that is a really great thing you brought thank abolutely thank you sir I look forward to more reports on that that okay that's discussion information we have gon textbooks discussion information so again I provided um information just I did ask teachers what they were using Beyond textbook score so I included it in um on the memo and just looking at what we get for on textbooks for the cost and entertaining questions continue to can you open that what is DMS daily M daily math skills thank you so it's a time test that we use and the information um the assessments come
066from Beyond textbooks and we keep the data and we're currently looking at adding that data into link it so again it'll be another additional Source on information for us to know where kids are that's the thing you said earlier yes about putting in the binder bind the D thank you thank you any report items see look at the events believe 2021 around the corner mentioned December 16th will be a full day so we'll be we'll make sure that parents know that that's not a half day December 18th will be early dismissal and we are canceling our um staff holiday party thank you governing board information we'll start at the end Mr OS any wisdom uh you know just um continuous thank you for you guys keeping it together this next couple week and a half
067or so is going to be tough and the only other one I think I I want to say is um you know thank goodness we got the override on the ballot because it was the right time of year to do it um so I I'm just glad that we got that done and got didn't thank you to anybody that's listening from the public uh just couple of comment again I also want to express my thanks to the administration for keeping the school if you read the article I think it on a Daily Star yesterday this morning about the incredible spike in failing grades uh by by kids um uh that are all trying to learn in a virtual environment um the more we keep our kids in class the more we're going to be way
068ahead of the curve in comparison to the the kids who I I really feel for that are trying to do this virtually um just one item that maybe you could help me with u uh de in your email that you send out every suay um there's there's links in there to open stuff up and it always ask me for if I don't have access or whatever is there a way that I can do this stuff yes I can start making sure that you're I just have to give you permission with your emails so I'll make sure to all okay some of them will require for example the past Weekly News it has um some videos to watch on growth um but that would require logins for you all so we have to look into that
069because in order when you click on the link it will make you log in and the video we can ask for one for the governing board like we did for beond created that that okay um I guess lastly uh I participated in a 2hour webinar called grade leaders grade school Arizona Summit on excellence and education Governor duy kicked this thing off uh seven or eight panelists that went through most of it was focused on professional development for principles and and and and what resources are available to build great principles um U although I must say that the vast majority of the emphasis of the entire 2hour presentation was except for me so as I'm watching the reports come out from Fairfax County Public Schools and other schools that are just showing these these horrific uh
070results of students it is it is so cool that you guys have been able to pull this off and keep keep the school open and keep the kids coming and I I know every day just got to scary as can be uh when another teacher or student gets sick or or faculty or you know there's any kind of an issue so you know thanks for um you're showing true resiliency uh managing this every day and I'm I'm really glad for that um Greg I'm glad that we got our override passed and if I've done my math correctly we're good till f 27 yes so um yeah so so we won't see any decrease until FY 26 correct so that will be the first 25 we'll start again well you'll probably do it again in 24
071but okay so um I just wanted to make sure I got that um that we agree on that date um and I hope that our new board member enjoyed the new board member training it was um we have a new asba president uh so here's here's hoping that we're off to a great start next year so that was going to be my question because usually the onboarding takes place in January did it already occur through as the new board member new board member orientation was Tuesday the some Tuesday the whatever so I wonder if um if she was notified because I didn't know about it either we didn't get any ASD information on that that's why I was going to ask for January but they're typically recorded too so I'll look into it and um
072because yeah the new board members at veale were all there and they board member dinner and um okay defit into that to get that on board done um one other thing I wanted to ask we could I just when we met with our account Specialists for NWA um we asked if they'd be available for our board to also present some more data and information for our board so you guys have a good January February good bad times in those months I think late January or early February M training is going on again in late January okay let's look into that and I'll send an email a coup options possible times together around BS training because we really need to get to that training as well um I I think it's been said but you guys
073are amazing very very could be more proud as a parent um the resilience and just the flexibility you guys have to do whatever needs to be done from serving sandwiches to driving buses to whatever needs to be done I'm very very proud of all you guys for your hard work I know it's not easy I get that and um you guys should hold your heads high you're doing a great job and just keep pushing forward because the reality is I think we're about it in terms of schools that are still have our doors open so least in the area we're the only public um School in compy that Isa and with um the high schools going virtual W that it did provide some relief to poor Mr Lane in our transportation department because we're very
074shorthanded we did get these two new drivers board approved but we had him and Mr Na and driving buses um so again a true Testament of everybody pitching in to get the job done and get our kids transported so thank you and just real quick I wanted to uh by chance Sergio are you on did you happen to HP on I want to say thanks to Sergio Ado for his service we'll miss you buddy and we hope that you stop by and don't be a stranger thank you so much for what you've done for continental and we we wish you the best moving forward I just wanted to say special thank you to our attendance CL regist Miss EV we've been working around the Christina too trying to find subs and working with our employees
075and things come up as they come up on the weekends or sometimes messaging at midnight Saturday mornings at 7 a.m. just trying to make sure everything's set and ready to go for the next the upcoming week so I want to you know especially thank them everybody's you know you're right because I made it hard for her too because I told her that my daughter wasn't coming back after Thanksgiving we had a little change of mind but you know who knows what to think in these days anyway well we appreciate the the fruit basket your peace offering of the fruit basket is very well received and we have parents who have dropped off donuts and cookies to us to just say thank you so it's very nice so again thanks and Merry Christmas Happy New Year
076and here's two uh a much better 2021 with that we will recess sign quite a few documents sign the