October 4, 2022, Governing Board Meeting

001thank you can you hear me Sophia can you hear Sophia I hope she didn't hang up tell her to try again okay uh Hilda can you hear me yeah yeah we can hear you can you hear me yes I could hear you okay at this point all right and are we ready to start yes hello this is Sophia I'm here hi hi Sophia it's Donna I'm here too you and I are both by telephone is that correct I believe so okay I'm sorry you're feeling that I can hear it in your voice I'm trying to thank you um are we on a secret room or are we public yet or do you want to hand the travel to Heather so she can preside in terms of reading the room to your call I can go

002ahead and started Hilda is okay so I'll start off with the land acknowledgment then great School District understands that our community of schools is located on the ancestral land of Odom Jude and nakima otam people who descended from the Hohokam and have inhabited these lands since time immemorial uh Odom whose name translates literally to people our vibrant culture and Community spanning countless Generations into the past continuing to thrive at the present in carrying the powerful Legacy for Generations into the future with this acknowledgment the Creighton schools formally recognizes that the traditional care and keeping of these lands by indigenous people is an aspirational model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor with practices policy and human relation relations and then miss Ayers if you can lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance let's

003just do the flag back to the Republic which it stands one hey Sophia okay yeah I can't hear anything that's going on in the Board Room and I think that's going to be a problem if I can't hear it's okay I'll kind of I'll help you so you're okay to go on okay so the next one was roll call I believe we're all here so myself Miss Ayers with my Caleb did this measure miss mcshuffrey the only one that's not here is Mr compost and then welcome statement the governing board welcome statement we want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting and remind the audience of the request to address board cards that must be completed and submitted to the board secretary if they wish to speak to an agenda item board policy provides for two

004cards White cards to be submitted in order to speak to an agenda item and blue cards to be submitted in order to speak during public comments due to the opiate meeting law board members are not allowed to address items that are not on the agenda per reference policy bedh that moves us to approval of agenda I move the governing board approved the agenda as presented a second okay then the events we have a vote uh Ms referee hi this is Michaela aye of theirs I myself I and that takes us to public comments uh Miss Ayers if you have any public comments do you mind start reading those off for us please we do not have any public comments tonight okay perfect thank you that moves us over to superintendent report excuse me but um

005Mr compost wants to join now um he just wants to call somebody's um numbers so I'm gonna give him my cell phone number and that way he can call in I'll tell you when he's here I'll go ahead and start the interview okay with that Madam president that's fine good evening Madam president members of the board it certainly isn't a eclectic dialogue and uh Dynamic to to be sure uh I am on my last day of isolation uh with the recent positive covid test that where uh I've had mild symptoms um but they've been continuous so for everybody's sake I will be continuing remotely for just today and and I think my uh isolation period is done uh at the end of today or tomorrow um I want to first of all acknowledge all of

006our custodians it's been custodian appreciation day I don't know how our schools would have the sanitation and cleanliness but without the hard work of our of our hidden Heroes um these are the guys that make sure the school really does run and the gals who really make sure the school does run so I'm so grateful to our all of our custodians and I wish everyone a Happy custodian day we continue to honor and celebrate our Hispanic Heritage Month I know Miss Korea doll was on our um recent post and I know that Mr Angel compost will be on there this week uh parent-teacher conferences are October 5th and 6th so I'm grateful for all the parents who are working to learn about how their kids are learning I'm grateful for all the teachers and how

007they're working to make sure that our kids metacognitive processes are explained in the scaffolding where they're talking about what they are learning is talked about you know we so often get addicted to a deficit mindset that it's such a pleasure to see our teachers talking about what our kids can do and I so appreciate that they are indeed well deserving of the end of our first quarter and the beginning of our fall break our fall break will be October 10th through the 17th and that's for students uh staff returns for the professional development component on the 17th uh I would like to thank the teachers who have taken the time that we have used to really assess our enrollment and sometimes every year this time of year we have a few too many kids in

008one school and a few too few kids in another school and sometimes we have to make really hard decisions about how to even out Staffing and we've had some Heroes just step up to the plate and help us make sure that the kids who are in need get the kind of support services they need so thank you to all of those Heroes who have made adjustments in their friends and colleagues and making new more foundational relationships for kids that really need the stability of their teacher for the year I'd also like to celebrate a little prematurely but on October 14th pay for performance is coming out for last year's staff and I'm very proud of everybody who is uh given so much time and energy during one of the most uh horrifically difficult years I've

009ever had in this in this career I I belovedly call education so thank you so very much and we look forward to hosting the Maricopa County asba meeting at the the Creighton Academy on October 17th and that concludes my report biggest of us thank you so much Miss but Caleb you want to start off with your board report sure um so just to Echo yes um custodian day so thank you to all of our custodial Crews throughout the district it is an ongoing never-ending job and we really appreciate it um we know that our staff and students enjoy being able to come in to clean schools clean classrooms and it also helps with safety as well so huge shout out to them it's also principles month so thank you to all of our principals and

010our administrators throughout our schools we know that it's this quarter has been really long and really short at the same time but thank you guys for everything that you do and then I hope that um I know principals will still probably be working over break but all of our 10 month 11 month staff we have fall break next week please please use it as a break so that you come back to Quarter Two feeling refreshed because our kids need you and you deserve a break so please take one and that's all I have thank you Miss Ayers good evening um I would like to Echo what Lindsay said thank you to all of our custodians for everything that you do every day and thank you principals as well I am looking forward to upcoming Break

011um my house has been in um shreds for about eight weeks now and I'm finally getting it fixed over a break which I was hoping I wouldn't because it's so loud I kind of wanted to rest but you know at least it's getting fixed um and I'm hoping that all the teachers take the time to go do you and enjoy something that you want to do instead of working tirelessly like we normally do so thank you for all you do thank you parents for coming to conferences and learning about what your children are doing we appreciate you as well thank you thank you Miss big Shipley I don't have a board report tonight thank you um has Mr couples made it with us yet Hilda he has not okay thank you um the only board

012report that I have is thank you to our PTO said to our teachers and staff I know teacher parent teacher conferences are coming up I have my first one tomorrow with my daughter hopefully if I feel better um and um a while back I have said I have joined this Urban heat Leadership Academy that Phoenix um revitalization was putting up together and I completed successfully the class so the next step which is I'm really looking forward to it is grant money to actually start whether it's a planting trees or a vet or a garden or something within my community so I'll be looking forward to to that as well um and that's that's it for me um we go to approval of consent um uh move the governing board approved consent agenda items a through

013J in accordance with policy b e d b Dash e hi second all right all those are favorable bye the Caleb hi Miss Ayers I actually wanted to pull something um so I'm going to say no since I didn't get the chance to pull it okay um but both should pass us that brings us over to 6A Educational Services all right good evening Madam president members of the governing board and executive team this evening it is our privilege to welcome Mr Phil Weddle and representatives from the little architectural firm who are going to share with us initial Concepts and the progress being made toward the revitalization and Redevelopment of a brand new vision for learning at our property located 28th Street and Osborne we've began to refer to it as the new school because we

014want to keep in mind open parameters creativity and inspiration for creating something new yet again another signature school for the Creighton School District in Creighton community Mr weather welcome thank you very much governing board it's a pleasure to be with you here tonight and to be able to present the input that we received from the different Community stakeholders and the progress on the design uh that's been developed to date I think uh in terms of the feedback we have really been looking at taking the the feedback that was contributed during the 2021 new school design committee as well as the 2022 new school design committee that we've been working with and then we also had an opportunity to meet with the Creighton kids Congress to present some of the concepts to them and get them

015feedback so it's really great to get some adult feedback get some feedback from some of the students and look at how that could really help move the project forward we had several different exercises that we have uh been getting feedback on the first was that we have developed three different site Design Concepts and we asked people to provide pros and cons for each of those Concepts as ways to try to uh get that input through this process um you know some of the high level things that have been touched on which are highlighted here is really the the focus on flexible Outdoor Learning environments becoming the heart of this community and really developing a safe and inviting campus um so there were of those three schemes you'll see on the left side of the screen

016a b and c those are the three different site Concepts that were developed and you'll see some of the pros and cons uh that were provided on those uh these are all the pros and some of the cons for each of those schemes without going into them in detail I think what we've really learned is that there are things that people like about each of them there are things that people think we can improve on with each of them so we're really looking at developing more of a hybrid scheme that takes this input and really tries to refine it and and look at how we can develop something that really tries to achieve the the vision that everyone is looking for with this the second exercise that we've done uh with both the design committee

017as as well as with the students from the uh um from the students from uh kids Congress was what we call a visual survey where we would have a series of boards up that would have images on them and we would ask them to select their top three images and then tell us what it was that they liked about those image to try and give us a little bit of feedback on on that a little bit of clarity so the the first group of images um were about what we were called The Learning lab environment um and what we've done is shown you the ranking of the top image that was selected by the new school design team those are the images on the top and then the images on the bottom were the ones

018that were selected by the Creighton kids Congress so you'll see some repetitive images some that are a little different between the the students and and the adults that we've we've gained input from and we've also asked people that participated in the community meeting tonight to also share their feedback on the visual survey so we've gotten additional feedback this evening that we'll integrate into our our record soon um some of the things that we heard about the learning lab environment that people had highlighted as being a priority uh looking at kind of plentiful and natural daylight connection to Nature you see repetitively through the feedback that we received the kids Congress were very engaged with these some of these uh learning lab environments the second group of images were about uh circulation and breakout spaces and

019really looking at how those can do more than just be about circulation but can really become Gathering spaces and breakout spaces for the different learning environments um some so you'll see the number one image on this was selected by both the kids Congress as well as the new school design team a little bit of variation on the other two um some of the things that we heard back on that was again this kind of view to natural light as well as connections to Nature um I think that uh really looking for a creative unique spaces within these kind of uh circulation and breakout spaces that provide different ways for people to collaborate in different kind of learning environments uh we had another one on daylight and Views you can see the kind of selections that

020were made on the top and the bottom and then some of the feedback that we received talking about views to nature but also trying to protect from the harsh Arizona sunlight um and then some feedback about really trying to introduce color into some of these spaces uh we had one on outdoor play and so you see some of the the nature play areas that were presented feedback from both the design team as well as the kids Congress and some of the things that we heard back through that process shade I think is a high priority for everyone obviously given our climate looking at the idea of having more nature-based play trying to engage kids with nature and the benefits of that and ways for kids to cool down during the hot months so and those

021are some of the key feedbacks we heard through that process the common and multi-purpose spaces the kind of images that were selected for each of those and then some of the feedback that we heard I think there was uh the views from the lunchroom were something that people were really connecting with the idea of having places where you could have bean bag chairs or different types of furniture and spaces and I think people some of the images they were very interested in what they were calling the invigorating geometries and things that were really kind of geometry that was inspired by nature and natural patterns and then the Outdoor Learning uh both the new school design team and the Creighton kids Congress selected the image on the left as their number one image for this category

022and then had some different images for the others uh some of the the kind of primary comments we had again shade shade shade and more shade seems to be the reoccurring theme trying to make the outdoor spaces more habitable and that kind of uh nature Connection Garden spaces uh was was really the the other kind of key comment out of all this feedback we received over the last few years uh through the different uh Avenues we've tried to consolidate this into what we're we're terming as the five design aspirations and we're really trying to look at trying to find a way to create these aspirations that can help steer us through the design process going forward so the design aspirations the things that we've heard uh both from the district as well as from the

023different groups that we have met with um kind of revolve around adventurous learning health and wellness indoor and outdoor connectivity uh Community impact and then stewardship and sustainability as being some of the main drivers for the design aspirations for the project going forward and as that starts to manifest itself in terms of the design of the different learning environments we have this diagram that we've developed that really just looks at how we're looking at the learning environments the indoor learning environments and how there can be collaboration between multiple indoor learning environments as well as breakout space that is immediately connected to that and then in addition to that Outdoor Learning environments through kind of Courtyards and Gardens that provide multiple layers of places and environments that you can have learning occurring so as we have

024looked at the design concept we'll kind of start with the original site and context that was here before the demolition occurred on the campus and then as it appears today and then we have uh as I had mentioned we have developed three concepts I'll just run through one of them because there are some similarities between them but I think for each of the concepts for the site design we're looking at the idea that the school continues to orient its front door towards Osborne we feel that that's the highest visibility area it really kind of creates a stronger visual connection to the neighborhood into the community so in each of these the front door faces towards Osborne and then the other kind of common uh commonality is that they're always about the new school being organized

025around a courtyard Outdoor Learning environment and that provides that kind of indoor outdoor connectivity between the different learning environments we are utilizing the access off of 28th Street the existing access off 28th Street so that we're not having to construct new curb cuts for the school but developing a long parent drop-off Loop and parking area on that southern Edge along Osborne trying to really expand that parent drop-off so that it doesn't become as congested as I know it has been historically um we're also looking at repositioning where the parking is at for the compass center in two of the concepts we had parking as is shown on this diagram uh kind of in that northeastern part of the site and then we had one other variation where we were looking at the parking for the

026compass center being located on the Northern end of the site we're doing that in part to allow the outdoor program spaces the nature play the the playgrounds and the multi-purpose sport fields to be more Consolidated so that they're not so fragmented it just makes it easier for uh for staff that are kind of monitoring kids and kind of making sure things are safe and secure the building itself um we're looking at two-story uh school that again is organized around a learning Courtyard in this as the centerpiece so this is just kind of showing you diagrammatically how that is organized and some of those kind of key outdoor spaces that are connected to that this diagram highlights some of those outdoor spaces we have learning Courtyards in the center of the new school as well as

027a series of smaller Courtyards that connect to both Media Center as well as some of the learning Labs that we have on both the ground level and the second floor and then there's a covered outdoor Sport Court that is on that Northern Edge that then opens up to the multi-use sport fields and the playgrounds as well the common areas we have the leadership uh main office administrative offices are located immediately connected to the main entry into the school and then the media and multi-gen spaces are located also immediately adjacent to that Lobby space and then we have uh the on the Northern side of the site of the floor plan diagram we have the dining area as well as the indoor PE the outdoor PE elements and then the Arts programs are located on the

028second floor with that North View over the site and to the mountains to the north the K1 program is located on the ground floor and it has outdoor play areas and immediately it connected to it for the youngest kids and then we're looking at the two through five grades being located on that southern wing of the building and it's on two floors that has a uh what we call a social scare kind of an auditorium style stair that connects between them a two-story space similar to some of the spaces you saw at Creighton Academy where you have those kind of a bleacher-like stairs that allow for Gatherings of kids and then grades six through eight are on that northeastern part of the site and that connects to uh also to some outdoor steam Courtyards that

029are connected to some of those learning labs and some of the steam spaces so that's the overall uh floor plan uh that has been developed to date we've received some really good feedback from the different groups that we've met with that'll again help us continue to refine this going forward in terms of next steps um there are a couple of key elements that we are looking forward to I think uh we're reconnecting with the new new school design committee on November 9th is our next scheduled date for that and then we are hoping to come back to the governing board as well as having another open house community meeting on the 15th of November um that if we can tie that in with that governing board agenda and then through the spring of 2023 we

030would be continuing to work with the uh the new school design Committee in terms of uh kind of design refinement as well as how curriculum responds to uh to the kind of new school design and then lastly looking at some of the critical path going forward as we go towards construction over the fall we're working with uh the Chase building team in terms of cost estimating and value engineering for the project to ensure that we're working within the budget that is allocated for the project we are thinking that we would recommend coming forward to the governing board with two gmps for the project for funding approval and that is really being driven by the fact that electrical gear the kind of Main Equipment for the facility is over a year lead time to order that

031equipment so if we don't order that equipment in January it becomes a scheduled problem for us during construction so the intent is that we would do an early GMP for that electrical gear in order to try and make sure that we're able to complete the project on schedule and then we would come back in May of 2023 with the full project GMP that includes the balance of the project um during that same month of May we would be doing building permit approvals and the goal would be to be starting construction in June of 2023 with completion in June of 2024 so that school is ready for the uh beginning of the Fall 2024. and that concludes our presentation if there's any questions I'm happy to respond to a couple questions um what is what does

032it mean what does native play mean um it's more of kind of looking at trying to find ways to do more natural Play Elements um so rather than uh pre-engineered playground structures trying to find ways to have more natural play that could involve uh anything from logs to water features to other things that just have more natural elements tree houses things like that that are they're getting kids a little bit more engaged with nature as opposed to some of the prefabricated play structures which tend to be plastic okay um and then so the next committee meeting for the design team is in November I think this is more of a question for Dr Lewis than for you but we're calling this a signature school what where is the vision that's what I was sort of

033hoping we would get next you know what is the vision for this school I like the idea of outdoor um but we can't that's not a curriculum you know um Creighton Academy is many things it's the best of Montessori the best of Waldorf that's what we talked about uh dual language and um multi-age classrooms but I haven't heard anything about what is the plan for this except that we want it to be a signature School I think that that's a great question and thank you members of the board I just want to share with you this is a co-constructed idea development an outdoor education does indeed have curriculum in terms of teaching life cycles and sustainability and the notion of interdependence and the idea of of soil conservation and the idea of physical engagement with

034the earth I think gardening so the highlights of outdoor education have been the main focus of the conversation with also a combined um you know teaching of reading and math and and social studies and science so it's continuing to evolve there's been no mention yet or of any kind of another language but it's something we could entertain and there's been a leaning towards a constructivist approach just like we did it at Clayton but it hasn't been heavy-handed like it was at the Creighton Academy so it can continues to evolve and I think that's a wonderful question we should keep focusing on and asking as we get ready to get our planning principle on board okay and and would so the life cycle sustainability curriculum is that a curriculum we would be purchasing we haven't gotten

035that far yet those are conceptual at this juncture okay um and then Dr Lewis I was I had asked you um you know I have some parents that are interested in being on the the new school design committee um and I asked you know what are what's the time commitment when what time do the meetings take place you never responded back to me on that is that something someone can answer for me it looks like the next one is November 9th do we know what time that is and where how how parents can attend who was on the committee so I'm wondering if we have that list ready to share uh yes we can definitely get um dates and as the curricular part of the conversation evolves we can also add some people to that

036team as well okay yeah I would like very much for um for people to be invited on that that part of it that Vision part of it too um I did have a question I did have a question about the committee the we do have that um can we I don't know who all these people are how many of them are parents I know Hannah Ali is a parent I think you recommended her I'm not sure yeah yeah Jay or Eric do you have that we have the list I don't know that um fortunately I don't think I have the list broken down I know um that there were it was either two or three parents that responded um that participated I know there are several teachers I think two or three teachers that are

037on the list there's also a number of community members and Community Partners including Farah fagner who is the president of the homeowners association for the adjoining homes and she's also involved with a student leadership mentoring program that has been at Kennedy in the past and so she's actually been a mentor to our students in the past so she brings that to the table and we have an individual who is a neighbor also teaches in our Virtual Academy and is also an aspiring principle working on a principal certificate so it's it's a pretty broad range of different types of people but I I don't have an accounting of you know exactly the ratio of parents to okay pictures to students and um to the question of the meeting time frame it is 4 30 to 6

03830. um on the 9th and the challenge with giving a sense of time commitment is you it's difficult to say but we're going to limit it to six hours or 10 hours because what tends to match the processes tend to be very organic and so as we find things I remember back with the vision team we thought we'd be done in four meetings and it took six or seven meetings because as you start to delve into things and it gets deeper so it's really I understand that people trust me my my own family struggles with with the ability to have the time to participate in certain things but the the best participants are the ones that are a little more open to maybe be able to be flexible with that time commitment but that doesn't

039mean there isn't value for people who can't so if someone can only come for the number of meetings they can come for whatever input they provide during those meetings is valuable so I would say you know anyone who's interested I wouldn't want to limit them from participating just because they may not be able to participate in everything agree yeah and I'm yeah I'm sure that's um that's people would like to participate regardless of you know why one of the meetings I went to is like eight hours or something so like that's a hard one I think for everybody to do and we've tried to make these in more manageable chunks one of the pieces of feedback we had from the last process was the four hour and eight hour meetings killed people yeah um not

040not literally pleased for the record um but um we feel like these two hour chunks of time are a little bit more manageable it also gives you know the team that's responding to the input that they're receiving an opportunity to kind of process that in but um and so the other thing that we've been doing is spreading the input across a broader Spectrum we've only struggled to get students it's just hard right they're doing homework at night and getting to bed on time and so this opportunity now that we have been creating kids Congress to have that ready-made group of students who are outspoken which is what we really need was a powerful opportunity for us to get students as well thank you if you if we could just get in our next board update

041um the committee list with who they are who the like which ones are the parents obviously I know who most of the staff is but just what roles they they play that would be great um because I have talked to parents and and neighbors and people are like what's happening what's happening and I say I don't know you know outdoor that's what I'm sure so um there this is a recruitment tool too you know there are kids parents with little kids that I are really excited about what's happening so um I do not want to miss that opportunity and so and and so back to and so you said that there will be a community meeting at um the board meeting in November I think would it be similar to what you guys did tonight

042or or is it a larger type of meeting idea I think that's up for discussion in terms of what we think would be most effective we thought pairing it with the governing board meeting made the most from a schedule standpoint so if we want to do it as a kind of a design preview similar to what we did tonight it does allow people to drop in whenever it's convenient for them to engage in kind of that one-on-one conversation so we do like that format it seems to be more flexible for parents and community members to be able to kind of you know if they can only be there for 15 minutes or they want to be there for an hour it gives them both of those options but yes that that would be our initial

043thinking is that we would do a similar format to what we did this evening but we would be presenting more refined and developed Design Concepts as part of that I like that idea having it the same night as a board meeting and I appreciate you guys having a list of who attended um please someone be in charge of following up with those people and seeing if we can get them on the The Vision committee you know the curriculum committee if if they're interested in in this aspect I'm sure they'll be interested in the all the other aspects too so um let's keep track of those people and continue to to grab those names when they engage I think that's all my questions thank you Miss Jeffrey Miss Michaela do you have any questions or concerns

044um one I'm just excited um I used to teach at Kennedy before it was torn down seeing the old picture made me sad but um I am excited to see all these ideas coming out um I know you know the the push of having more Outdoor Learning was has been around since before it was even decided that Kennedy would be torn down so I'm excited to see it's going in that direction um I also appreciated like you mentioned some of the feedback was um wall space for teachers so just kind of keeping that in mind because I know some of our other new schools that I've been in been like oh there's lots of natural light and all this you know all these windows and then from a practicality standpoint teachers are like I have

045nowhere to put my anchor charts and the things that I need you know um so making sure that you know as the refinements come that we really make sure that we have the how do you take these beautiful spaces conceptually and make sure that they work um in an actual teaching way um with that too like I know I've been in a few newer schools that have been built in the last couple years and sound has been a really big issue I know we've had some with our buildings so um the the bright and Airy spaces are great but I know like we have a school in our my district that you can't hear anything when kids are having discussion in two classrooms right next to one another um not that the kids are being

046loud but it's just the way the construction happened it's coming through the pipes it's coming through the vents and um and it's really hard because it's a beautiful beautiful school so um just kind of thinking as the refinements go to like make sure we have that practicality piece too um I did have a question this is me the techini um on the learning environments and again this is probably more down the road for refinements but um was there talk about having some kind of power sources out there because I know like when we got the iPads it was really amazing to do projects with our kids with iPads but inevitably they will be dead halfway through it so um I didn't know if there'd been any conversation about how do you meld that um we

047have not gotten to that level of detail but I I think that the Outdoor Learning environments that we've been involved with we found to be the most effective you really do need to find a way to kind of integrate that kind of power flexibility so that it can be a multimedia opportunity um where that's appropriate so uh certainly it's something that we would recommend trying to find ways to integrate that into the approach to the project but I'm sure there will be many ongoing conversations about that that level of refinement about those outgoing learning environments and what can we do to really make them effective and also give a diverse range of Outdoor Learning environments so it's not one size fits all but there can be different approaches to how we look at those spaces

048awesome um and then I just had a clarification because I was looking at like the pros and cons so like kind of the a b model are those well maybe it's all of them are we planning because I know there was conversation before about ensuring that there was some way that kind of the fields and some of those outdoor areas can be open to the public after school outside of school hours while still maintain you know making sure that we're not getting vandalism to the school itself and things like that sort of these designs built around that kind of plan where the North West part would be kind of open to the community that is correct I think we're looking on all of the schemes that the idea that the the main new school building

049and the learning Courtyard in the center could all be secured throughout off hours and weekends so you don't have people wandering everywhere but the balance of the site we're trying to create kind of Gateway opportunities walking paths that kind of connect through there so that it can become an amenity for the community there's not a lot of open space park space necessarily in this and so it'd really be nice if this could serve that capacity so it's not only the sport fields and the playgrounds but walking paths the nature play really trying to give all those opportunities as well as the community garden I think there's a lot of benefit that can come from that and also starts to build a stronger Bond a connection to the neighborhood community awesome no that's what I figured

050I just wanted to clarify because I know that was something shared by a lot of people throughout even before this process got formalized was making sure we have those Community spaces and I'd love to see you know like you said like having kind of going back to like what is native play and it's not bringing in the big plastic tube it's having learning spaces for kids and exploration spaces for kids that mimic the patterns of Nature and have those kind of things and to be able to provide those opportunities for our kids even outside of the day and to our families with kids that might not even be school age yet I think is really important so absolutely thank you Caleb did you have anything else nope I'm good okay thank you uh Miss Ayers

051I'm not sure I have too much more to add I'm really excited about you know being part of this project I wasn't part of the last one um so just learning um about all the pieces that go into it I'm always really jealous looking at all these things because I do work I am a school teacher and I don't even have windows in my classroom so when I look at this I'm just like thrilled for our students to have this opportunity um I just think it's going to be wonderful for them thank you thank you Miss curio doll it's Amy um I did have a couple additional thoughts and follow-up okay can we just wait until Mr compost goes through and then I make my comments and we can Circle back to you yep thank

052you Mr Campos I know that you joined us at 6 15 do you have anything to add or any questions foreign thank you Mr Campos the only questions that I have is that I know that we say that we joined the community and Community a Tamika Community input means also um leaning for expertise tour Community a non-profit organizations within our city already that are like Chi spa or arizonaland org or all these different organizations that specifically have expertise in Outdoors spacing how are we communicating with them and bringing them to the table so they can share their expertise on on this as well we're um we are doing uh quite a bit of Outreach to to get them involved in in the initial phase um we had about seven different organizations involved including project wet

053um we're engaged with a number of organizations that do tree planting um uh through uh member Mick Jeffrey's connection with uh Dr zeiker from ASU he's participating as well as one of his graduate students they're also helping with some connections to some other organizations but if there are specific organizations that anyone is aware of we would love to have that feedback because we want to cast The Net as wide as possible and bring as many partners to the table um both to get there expert input but also to create ideas to expand what's available on the campus through a variety of different grants that may be available okay thank you and then the other question that I have for example I my two kids do not go to that school but my address is supposed

054to go to that school in Kennedy I obviously have my kids in other places I not ones have received any communication of a rebuild of any meetings so my question is how are we targeting community members from that would be going to that school to see if they would like to join or even be in this process so the community and parent communication how's that being said I mean posting on Facebook isn't sufficient so I'm hoping we're doing other things than just posting on social media we are doing a number of things but um based on the feedback that I'm hearing an additional thing we might want to try to find uh budget capacity to do would be to do some sort of mailing or door hangers which we have not uh done until today

055we did do it in relation to the demolition we typically do it at the point of construction but I think it is definitely good feedback and another way that we can engage the community would be to get something written out to all of the homes that exist within the the current boundaries for the school and just like I think mailers would be helpful because to Echo what she said I have parents that would have previously went to lck when I was there and they asked me like where are we in this so I think going Old School Is Not a Bad Thing Miss Korea doll may I go if you're you're done yeah uh yeah and also another good thing just to add um is making sure that we're connecting with our neighborhood associations and

056our district has two very strong neighborhood associations and not once have I heard any of these topics in those either so the more we're reaching out to people and letting people know in the community and that's what community is it's not just you know parents that go into the school or children that are tender school it's um actually using the community too push forward whatever it is that the community wants so that's another good idea too I must make sure you have done um I just wanted to I know this is like a session to for us to provide feedback as a board so um I want to Echo what Lindsay said about noise I would like to get Miss Cartier and Miss um uh Dr Demar involved in this and make sure and I'd

057love an update on how the noise situations are at those campuses but um that is definitely a problem that we've had so uh let's not Overlook that um and access for the community that is a very very important to me I love the idea of being able to open the campus when we have someone to supervise um so I love the idea of doing that also I assume you guys are thinking about this but water and Lawns is that lot irrigated still okay so we don't want to get rid of that because that's like a huge thing and it will if we can save the trees that are there it will allow them to survive I mean treat you know the trees Big Trees won't grow if we don't have irrigation so um that's really

058important too um and I think let's not Overlook the fact that little big Minds is there and that is a huge potential partner for a dual language program which is very has been very popular in our district so I think that's something we really seriously need to consider and engage those parents specifically too we do lose a lot of those parents to Madison and other dual language schools and they'd be right there um and I know for a fact there's parents that live in the community that would love to see something like that um another place to get the word out is next door I know it can be a little crazy but I mean you know we want to explain that we're using our taxpayer money in a great way and we'd love to

059hear from them you know as long as you know they can be constructive but I think that's people do read that so um and then I just wanted to add to when it comes to communication um in our latest board update are um the kids the representatives who are representing the kids advise us to communicate with those participating multiple times before the youth Equity stewardship happens so that participants are not surprised by the event it takes multiple hits to reach the people we want to reach um and we might want to reach out to our strategic planners I was really impressed how many people they reached when they were out surveying people so you know a survey would be another good thing to try and do too so that's it thank you I don't believe

060we have anything further thank you very much thank you that moves us over to 7A uh compensation adjustment recommendations thank you good evening Madam president members of the governing board here in the Creighton School District we have been watching a compensation and inflation very closely and we are very blessed to have uh some people who care very deeply District leaders engage together our cea president as well as our education support staff of the year and our administrators all met with Mr Mann to come up with a following recommendations thank you Dr Lugo as Dr Lugo mentioned Kelly Blakeslee Daniel Lopez Tim conore Jesse Valenzuela Yvonne Carvajal and I have the pleasure to sit with them as we worked on a recommendation and with that I am going to turn it over to the team good

061evening Madam president and fellow board members tonight I've been passed to talking about challenges that we have come up with as a team we have just we have discussed in down we have come up with our challenges our challenges our competition increases at neighboring districts and it's just pretty tough to try to compete with other other districts when it's when they are paying everybody more and um we are still stuck at the bottom and in order to keep us we need it's tempting to go somewhere else it's very tempting to go somewhere else you know we worked here in this District we love this District we love the kids some of us live in the community and really loved a sticker I have honestly I love this place like we all do but um like

062I said other districts there are their conversations they're paying everybody else their their salaries are more and it would be nice if we can get there you know I'm another one of our our challenges is uh rapid inflation I know that myself along with probably everybody in this room here has had to deal with them some kind of inflation whether it be gas groceries um rent all that stuff like that and again it gets pretty tough um another thing is our funding source for trying to get our funds from we're trying to get our funds from the our vacancy savings and maybe we can use that it would help retain some of this keep us here so we can all continue to grow as a family as a Creighton School District family um one of

063our last challenges was time and we feel that it is time is time time is of in essence and it is now that we need to do this um because if we don't in little by little some of our family members our creating School District family members I just be tempted to walk away for better pay and so that's what we asked for you and thanks for listening as yes he will eloquently explain some of the challenges we also have some of the needs that these challenges create uh one of those is they not only attract Italian but retain the Italian that we have and so when other uh other districts are coming with different process and ideas to provide compensation we need to remain competitive we need to be remarried to remain the best

064choice for people to stay in our district and continue to learn and grow together for our kids and our families another need that we have with all of the critical needs for retention and attracting in keeping our staff members is the appreciation for the silences and the extra powerful staff are taking on just when we thought that there's no longer a pandemic there's a normal year then we still get positive cases and now when uh secretary is no longer there somebody else pulled from their essential studies to cover that and everybody does it with a smile everybody does it because they're team players because this is a family and we put together to overcome those challenges but when we have all of this Gap it's also stressful because people who were hired to be elite

065teachers bring interventions behavior interventionists um child just as an advocate they have their passion and they pursue that position it's those essential duties and now they're doing something different they're just like yes I get it but when do I get to be that that person or those teachers were still in the classroom and waiting for the replacement to take that new position they're doing it with love they're doing it with great effort but their heart it's in that new position the Gap promotion that they got and so we need to celebrate all the effort and all of the struggles that everybody's uh it's going through inputting together and the last thing is we need to find ways to communicate that message of strong that we see you we value you everything that you do does

066not go unnoticed and this as you can hear the recommendations that we have that the rest of the team members will present to you will send that strong message that we're here together where one team one family and that this is a way to say we value you we see you um so our first recommendation the big ticket item is like everyone I'm saying we see we value and we decided to follow it up with here's a three thousand dollar check um the idea is a retention stipend for all employees um based on full-time employment so if you are someone who is hired by the district before the um if approved today before the rollout date of January 20th then you will receive the full three thousand dollars if you are someone that's brought on

067after January 28th you'll receive half of that or some of the halftime employees will receive fifteen hundred dollars um this is something that um our committee came up with and then was moved towards the pandemic relief funds committee to discuss and be approved and then finally again approved by the pandemic relief steering committee on the 21st um the cost is based on the available Esser funds money which is approximately three million dollars investor fund availability because of unfilled positions because of programs that didn't work out money that was left over that wasn't being used to meet those needs that um that were previously spoken about um the cost of this decision is of the three thousand dollar retention checks for all employees would be about 2.7 million dollars which assumes full Staffing so that assumes

068we fill some of those positions that are currently empty and we'll leave a little bit left over for new positions or again getting more people on board where we need staff um and then like I mentioned assuming it is approved today the rollout will be on January 20th um because largely because of payroll decisions that's the easiest and soonest day that payroll could roll this out without interrupting any other payroll um disbursements um in addition we discussed the possibility of methods to prevent people from essentially getting a stipend and then leaving their position or quitting or doing something that would feel unfair to teachers who have worked the full year and received the same amount of money or to employees who worked at 4 years and receive the same amount of money but all the

069solutions we came up with with inconvenience 99 of people that would receive the stipend like reducing the check because obviously that feeling of being told you're getting three thousand dollars but then it's split up and then taxes right so we decided that you know even if that were to happen with a couple of cases um it'd be worth it to not try and inconvenience all of our employees um or somehow undercut the message that we are getting extra money we are getting compensation retention um to try and save essentially pinch a few pennies out of a three million dollar property I'll be presenting the following recommendation and then I do just have a quick comment that I want to share as well so the the second recommendation is to increase the salary schedule for our

070emergency certified teachers so essentially bringing the emergency certified teachers up to the same pay scale as the first year incoming certified teachers and the reason that this was brought to the table was to be more competitive with our neighboring districts as Jesse shared we know that compensation is increasing across the state in in many districts and that includes for emergency certified teachers and we also know that this aligns with changes in certification requirements unfortunately it's becoming easier to step into the classroom without a certification and because we have the issue that we're in where we don't have enough certified teachers entering the classroom we do need to stay competitive with the emergency certified teachers um so this this point was brought to this side committee as well and of course this aligns with our highly

071competitive market and uh do they mention almost I think I got it all um the note that I want to make is just about um the makeup of the committee and the way that we decided to come to these decisions so as you know we adopted our meet and confer policy last year and it was my understanding that all compensation related topics would go through meet and confer when this one came to the table it was actually brought by a different cea board member or a board member about how we're going to spend these additional vacancy savings funds and the request was to go through the meet and convert process and we ended up with this side committee which I just want to make clear was um we did have representation and there were half

072of the team did consist of cea members um but in the future I just want to make sure that we do adhere to our policies and it was very important to all of us including the board that we adopt this meet and confer policy and in in to make sure that we have that we don't muddy the waters and that we maintain the the relationship that we have with the association that we continue to use the channels that we've adopted and put into place I understand that this was a sort of extenuating circumstance because we had these additional funds it was a little bit unclear whether it was outside of the scope of mutant confer or not but I just want to be very clear that moving forward uh it's preferable and as the policy

073states that we should rely on the policy and go through the mean can process and with that I will take any questions or we will take them quick Jim wasn't here for the practice Tim was linchpin to the conversations I have I um so the it doesn't say I didn't see anything in here about um part-time employees getting a stipend but you mentioned that they are oh so the calculation is based on full-time appointment part-time employment if I'm correct so for example for a teacher right a full-time teacher receives the three thousand dollars same thing if you have someone working half time they received the 1500 okay the way I sorry I only explained someone being hired on because that was a point of continual discussion but your hours determine the percentage of a stipend

074okay and it's so it's not written and what we're voting on anywhere just FYI so that find that problematic because it says based on FTE correct which is full-time equivalency so that would be the percent like the percentage of employment okay okay so that's not clear to me so um so that may may answer my question so the 2.6 million doesn't add up like the math doesn't add up is there payroll tax on top of it yeah there's um thank you member Mick Jeffrey there's there's a number of different things that that are affected by this because it is considered a portion of the employee's compensation for the year so asrs is part of it or transactions acronyms Arizona State Retirement System is part of it um the um all of the you know employment

075taxes types of things are part of it as well and that totals up to it seems to grow every year I think we're up somewhere near 22 percent so so that is factored as well and as Mr lope has pointed out this also is taking into account assuming that the currently vacant positions being filled and participating as well the the actual dollar amount is likely to be less but we wanted to make sure we were allocating based on the maximum amount that might be paid okay um and why would we not pay the stipends out until January originally that's a great question so we are as Dr Lewis mentioned in her um superintendent's report um in the month of October we're in the process of paying out the um paper performance um in the months

076of November and December there is so much work to prepare for the January so keep in mind our fiscal year is July 1 through June 30 but the tax year is January 1 through December 31st there's a lot of work that has to be prepared and there's a cut over in the beginning January so and there are also multiple payrolls in December and January so just to get our normal payrolls out our payroll team will be working probably about six days over the course of winter break they they rarely get a break because payroll constantly goes and in order to make sure that we're ready for the January tax tables and all of that the earliest that that we would be able to ensure that we can guarantee a date and tell employees and have

077them count on it was January 20th we had also put forward an alternate date of February 4th but everyone on all of the teams involved in the conversations felt sooner was better than Wayne thank you so I can add to that to that comment um because I just want to go back and give some context because the the goal is to get compensation at this you know incentive to people as soon as possible as soon as his face are well endurable and in the years that we have less money we had a lot of our Cuts positions in a district with over 700 employees we have two people and most of the time is one people getting all of their payroll too and if Daniela Milan was watching thank you Daniela for making sure that

078we all get paid on time I don't know how she does it but she always gets and so for such a large large District to have two people taking care of the payroll which has got this type in paper performances coming very base coming they're regular they're not getting all of their vacation or working during the winter so everybody gets paid over the break I mean yes we want everybody to have the money as soon as possible but I think everybody else will be happy to get the money that they need to survive and to retain our talent whenever visible and as soon as possible like I think without breaking our current system January 20th would not be by Christmas but it will be after Christmas so you can have on Christmas after I think

079too it's there is benefit in it as well because in February is when you start putting out contracts so a bad idea to say reminder we appreciate you um so I do want to address what Miss blakesley brought up um so we're not following our policy right now um and why was that decision made who made that decision oh in in this case um we have an extra layer beyond the policy implications that affect it because keep in mind that all of these pandemic relief steering committee funds are driven by the federal requirements behind them and so ultimately typically it would be the pandemic Relief Fund steering committee and at the time that this team was put together our existing policy around meet and confer had a Time limitation on it and that time limitation

080did not extend to um the time window in which we had to work so um the the process that was put together was intended to the lack of a better term reflect the intent of the meaning and Affair policy which is why it was a team selected from a cea and representation selected by the superintendent side okay um so so my thought here is this this pitch is to say you know I've heard Rumblings of teachers saying if we do not get some sort of something raise something I am out of here so we are working on that right now right um I the salary schedule for the Emergency certified you know that seems absolutely we need to do that um is it enough you know I don't know that's the question I have the

081stipends you know for quite some time we continue to say you know it's most fair if everyone just gets a one percent raise um I do not know why that narrative continues because that is basic math people who are making 275 000 are going to get a much higher raise than someone who's making 50 000. so we did something differently last year now we're once again wanting to give stipends to everyone um we are just lining the pockets of our administrators when when our administrators already receive thousands if not tens of thousands stipends already I'm going to do a foia request to to to dig deeper into this um because it's it's not fair we are not losing administrators we are losing teachers weekly um and it is just it is just not right and

082now we're not following our own policy um I think this is a slippery slope um and I've never I've I we have never not followed a policy um the intent was to go through the process um these stipends aren't going to be ready until January anyways we have time um you know I have my opinion on who should get the stipends but that's not for me to decide you guys are supposed to come and bring us through the meet and confer policy that was years in the making I know the history very well um we are not following our policy the board can suspend policy but we have to vote on that none of you have the authority to suspend policy and that is what has happened here um I think we need to table

083this and talk to Jennifer and see what she thinks about it I think someone should reach out to Marisol at aea and see what she thinks about it from a teacher Association standpoint um this this process has been manipulated um and it is a slippery slope if we vote Yes on this tonight then we're saying we don't need to follow our policies because of this reason or this reason or this reason that's the precedent we will be setting thank you Ms Jeffrey Miss Ayers do you have any comments or questions we have somebody that wants to speak at the yeah my name is Danny Lopez I'm a classroom teacher at Gateway um I teach seventh grade English I wanted to jump in because some of the things you just spoke about were part of the

084important context of our discussion when deciding how to spend extra money um one of the considerations is that this is Esser funds um meaning that this money we can count on it as disappearing at some point um the soonest point that is is that late 2024 early 2025 2022 2024. at the earliest we can expect this money to disappear in 2024 so when teachers are saying we need raises um I sat on the budget committee all last year um you should know as well as I do that our District's enrollment is declining like spoken about earlier one of the challenges about our surrounding districts is they get desegregation money um they get money for school ratings that we don't get they get money they have opportunities to pursue funding that we can't pursue we're getting

085our enrollment eaten out by charter schools in our area as well as gentrification obviously and so when it comes to allocating raises to staff that has to be money that's going to exist in two years because giving staff a raise that will disappear in two years that is almost going to guarantee is that someone I completely understand that yeah and so unfortunately with this Esser money um it has to be that that sort of one-time payment right that's the necessity of the structure acknowledging the money is going to disappear what you spoke to about um giving administrators money um I promise as a classroom teacher when I walk into a meeting and I'm advocating for other classroom teachers that my priority is not how can I make the administrators in our district as rich as

086possible right that's not my my goal um especially as a classroom teacher I know how overworked we are I know how underappreciated many of us can feel um which is why our emphasis in making this decision was it seemed like at the time the policy was not flexible enough to address this this time concern because we had teachers that essentially were ready to walk out the door without some kind of raise some kind of benefit some kind of bonus Etc that people in the surrounding districts are getting and so I understand apologize for your concerns about the policy and that's unfortunately not my area but from the perspective of a classroom teacher I greatly appreciate that we did put this committee together and we were able to work as a team of Administrators of classified

087and of certified teachers to get something out the door that would benefit people and then also from that mathematical that budget perspective um an administrator who is making a much larger salary than a classroom teacher three thousand dollars to them is a nice chunk of change but proportionately is much less of a raise than a teacher would be getting and even less than a classified member would be given right and so that is a um you know that's a progressive scale that benefits people that are getting paid less far more than people who are getting paid more and especially when you acknowledge that we have hundreds of certified and classified employees and a relatively small amount of Administrators so a flat bonus such as this is is going to disproportionately benefit people who are getting

088paid less those classroom teachers and again you know I think that there is something to be said about saying well everyone gets three thousand dollars except our administrators I don't think that I would be so calloused to say that I think that would be inappropriate and would cause a lot of hurt feelings and even though I don't think we're struggling for administrators um I don't I think that would kind of introduce a bad Dynamic when discussing compensation and wages especially when compared to a three million dollar Top Line budget our discussion was that we didn't want to pitch pennies we wanted to spread the wealth as much as we could and benefit those earning lower wages as much as we could and that was a big part of our discussion as a community I mean

089administrators are getting thousands of dollars of stipends some tens of thousands and teachers are not getting that kind of stipends currently so um you all should know that my name is I have something to add what Daniel said the key word here is relief and the more the longer we wait to bring help to people that need this stipend that this is Acer monies like Daniel said they're not in that policy but they don't require that police because it's not imminental that's not true that's not true in the second comment that I have as an administrator that who didn't receive a raise last year and I give my best like all of the administrators and that there's about 25 administrators to lead a district of 700 employees everybody wants my salary nobody wants my responsibilities

090my duties and my loan hours and so if we're gonna talk about closing the Gap let's close the gap from position to position not from different positions because if somebody makes the same amount of money without having my responsibilities and my duties then I'm out them amount and so a stipend it's not a race that is a little appreciation of what I do because I'm a teacher advocate I'm going to classified Advocate I'm a children advocate I'm a family advocate and I have different just like many of the teachers here so I have Masters and all their other bachelors and I can go back to business world and more make more money I have other friends who are administrators and do the similar positions and they make triple the money that I make and they

091worked Less hours they're definitely not in Long meetings like this one and so I just want to bring that I advocate for everyone not just for two groups or one group my goal is to make things fair and adjustable and enjoyable for everyone not for one particular group because that will be unequitable and Ice them for equity and so I just want to add that comments we have a difference of opinion on Equity here my point of bringing up the whole thing was just to to talk about the president exactly what you said um Mrs mcshuckery about I don't want to make this the precedent that we go around and start creating side committees and that's why I wanted to bring it to the table I did speak to to Mr Man beforehand to make

092sure that he was aware as well I don't think we're here to debate the merits of whether we should or shouldn't give who and who not to stipend that is behind us it's just the precedent and I wanted to make it clear in full transparency that um it wasn't the policy wasn't followed as it should have been um uh Dr Luke and I did sit down and revamp the ranking for policy so my hope is that moving forward that we can rely on the policy that we've adopted and that we can move Beyond and as I said it's not up to me we're looking to follow the meet and confer policy um and certainly this is not personal this is I believe everyone works very very hard but we are losing teachers we are bleeding

093teachers and we none of us can do our job well if we have empty classrooms without a teacher there I mean that's the whole point as an organization it doesn't make sense to do this and we are we're breaking our policy that's the fact and that is we've as far as I know we've never done that it means I can break policy when I want to our students can do it anyone can come up with an excuse to do it it's a slippery slope I just want to Echo I want to Echo what Kelly was saying I don't I think we're going down a rabbit hole here we the meet and confer policy had flaws it was just revised we are looking at using the revised version that we just approved moving forward this has

094an added layer of a pandemic release fund steering committee that was already in place regardless of meeting confer and everything we went through with that because they're Esther funds because this is one-time funds so those pieces have worked in tandem even when we didn't have the mean confer totally sewed up we are moving forward I you mentioned that you know we're losing teachers and we can't function without teachers in the classroom at school so can't function without administrators and I think we need to be very careful it was brought up like this is not meant this recommendation is not meant to further divisiveness everybody in this district has worked tremendously hard we are not talking about raises we are talking about using money that we wanted to fill with humans but we couldn't find the

095humans so rather than just let it sit here can we show appreciation to the staff that we have that are here now who are all working tirelessly regardless of their role Mrs do you have any comments to add on lovely um so I just pledge to read the same thing I mean you all did come to a decision I'll look at the policy later and um you know and I will talk to Maury Soul she's one of my best friends um so I can talk to her about that and I'm sure Kelly can get a hold of her as well um I think everybody is at the point where the 3000 was decided upon for everyone um I know we didn't give principles any sort of raise last year and I I kind of find

096that disrespectful in the fact that I think everyone should get raises and I and I'm not saying that they should have gotten more or more of a percent but I think we looking back on it um I I think it was not a very prudent decision for us um to have yes we want teachers um yes we want compensation for our teachers we want the best we want to pay the best you guys aren't paid the worst and I'm and I'm not saying I'm not saying that to be like rude but but literally like looking at other districts like say my district I'm not sure it's even as good as this so yeah and I'm not saying that so people leave um I'm just saying that you know I think that what we what you

097guys have brought up um it is delightful I think it's lovely that especially our support staff will be getting I mean that's going to mean a lot to them um because that percent if we were to do percents would be a lot bigger than other people and to tell you the truth three thousand dollars isn't that much because I just got my three thousand dollar performance paycheck and guess how much I brought home nineteen hundred dollars so I love the fact that we're giving people money it's not that I mean we give as much as we can and we do as much as we can but this isn't life-changing this isn't keep changing I'm not sure how much we're going to retain people I love it I think it's it's beautiful and gracious but I

098don't know why we're arguing over such a small moment that's just my opinion thank you Miss Earth Mr Coffee do you have anything to add yes uh I I've been listening and uh by the way I was able to enter into the web so I can hear better uh uh and uh I don't think it's that difficult uh to understand that everyone will be blessed by that amount everyone [Music] and uh uh I believe that uh especially after listening to my uh these and appreciated friend uh is he is correct sometimes uh everybody wants uh the rewards uh and and I I think everyone deserves a piece of it but I totally agree with with what he said that uh the bigger the title the biggest responsibility and the bigger the one the one that

099you get the uh the tires that you get and and and and they continue with Passions but they also need to be recognized and to be rewarded so uh I am ready if we need to make a boat I'm ready and I I believe that we should uh these birds as soon as possible that helped for everyone thank you Mr Campos um my only concern with this as well is Miss lexley is concerned that she brought up we do have policy for a reason and at other times it's been a few months I believe that we've been knowing that these vacancies have been there I had asked personally about stipends and I was getting the run around and I just feel like this was a last minute thing one that have been following policy from

100the beginning so I guess um Dr Lewis my question to you is is there a way that we could still put it on paper through the commute and compare policy and still give this three thousand dollar stipend just so it's void through the pop-up channels the way that it was supposed to or is it too late for us to do that now it's not too late and we're not out of compliance with policy the um policy when we realized that we did want to reconvene at least a group of people to look at this single opportunity versus the overall meet and confer process that had the giving middle and end we sat down and said Kelly and Susan work on a rewrite and we brought it to the board as fast as possible and had

101this meeting begin as fast as possible with key representation for the purity of intent was there so I see uh some ways for us to maybe iron out a few wrinkles and I think Ms Ayers you talked about this policy when you first brought it Forward realizing that it would need to go through some Growing Pains need to go through some wrinkles need to go through some adjustments and and I think we did make that first adjustment so it keeps us in alignment and then I would say let's look at it again and keep working on it I know the intention of of the board and I understand uh Miss Blake's because when she first said let's reconvene I'm like let's find a way to do it and let's not violate policy so that was

102very clear in our meeting with cea so yes there are lots of ways we can continue to iron out these wrinkles okay well if we're not um in violation of any policy currently then I'm going to go ahead and call for the vote and move the governing board approve of 3 000. I have a question for Dr Lewis does Jennifer agree with you that we're not violating policy I don't I haven't talked with her yet so I certainly will but thank you for bringing that up yeah I'd like to get her opinion on this to the board yeah I think that's a good idea and we are we are in violation of our policy according to the person I talked to so I'm not just making this up okay after the meeting we can discuss

103this but um she did state that we were not in violation and if we are then that's going to fall back on the person who just said in a public meeting though or not so we can handle that afterwards solutions that we were working on and as Mrs Heather Ayers said when she first presented it was we'll go through some Growing Pains I just want to make sure we're not in violation in Ebony policy and that there's a question that we are then we should table this and not move forward so that was my question Dynamic with a new dollar I'm sorry so you know it's up to you however you want to move forward please please continue sorry it's hard for me to not see the room sorry about that I mean this is

104the second edition of the committee so I don't know why we're even arguing it's not the mean confer committee this is a side side committee that Dr Lewis formed herself after she decides being confirmed was that emotions I moved the governing board approved approved three thousand dollar retention stipend for the 2022-23 school year I second all those in favor Ms Jeffrey okay Mr Campos yay yes Miss um heirs yes and Miss McCaleb I and I'm gonna vote nay because I don't have clarification if we're in strictly violation of anything so I will put on the record no motion passes that brings us so that takes care of all three correct or do I have to do a separate motion for each one it's uh just a separate motion for the salary schedule adjustment okay and

105we haven't talked about um what we kind of have do we have any other discussion on the seller's schedule I mean my question my question is it is it enough because I think these emergency certified teachers are the ones we're going to lose if they don't get enough but we've already decided we're we don't aren't going to follow the policy so it's not worth discussing for me well I would like to interject here I also had the same question as mcsheffery about whether we could go ahead and make it the same as um a first year teacher it's a thousand dollars difference and I didn't want to you know disagree with the group that had worked on it so I didn't you know insert but that certainly is the same question I share I share

106your sentiment on this so it is the board's prerogative to say that they would like to consider um adding another thousand dollars and make it equivalent to um new teacher or first year teacher salary um but the committee did make a deliberate decision to make it a thousand dollars less I know other districts I think you have a data sheet um that says what the difference is per different districts so I I really like your question um mid-air if you have any comments yeah I just want to ask the committee um why was it made why was the decision made that it was going to be a thousand months if somebody wants to speak on that um if I could I'll share what I recall and if members of the committee would please correct me

107if I'm incorrect on anything the concern was brought forward that we would devalue the fullest full certification of a fully certified teacher um there's been concerns in the past about Leap Frog effects when these adjustments are made and so you could potentially end up with someone whose emergency certified ultimately making more than a fully certified teacher and so the goal was to create at least some measure of a gap there so that emergency certified teacher would not make more than a fully certified teacher and in addition to that um would be incentivized to get to full certification because the higher rate of paying for that um sound that good okay that's what I thought because I totally agree with that as well so yeah I think we one of the questions I had for that

108we we do need to increase it because we do need to stay competitive um as the committee shared you know those are our emergency certified teachers the ones that we want to push to get certified and stay with us for the Long Haul um so we do need to be more competitive and we need to do that now before they leave us um but I do agree with having the committee's recommendation to have that thousand dollar buffer um I think it it shows that we are competitive for emergency certified but it doesn't have an unintended consequence of devaluing our fully certified teachers so I I feel comfortable that it is a a compromise and I recognize that the group came forward with that for a purpose um because it's it's a balancing act essentially so

109thank you Mr couples do you have any questions or comments no nothing at all okay thank you I don't either so I moved at Aberdeen board approved every Vice future schedules for 2022-23 school year second all those in favor Mr Campos aye aye Ms Jeffrey Mrs McCaleb hi Ms Ayers hi and I that brings us to 9A Miss Korea doll I will get a copy of the meet and confer policy to everyone so we can unpack it together and be sure the purity of intent as well as the following of the policy was enacted as intended so you know if anybody's feeling like it was messed up I want to make sure we're all super transparent and convert and having a good conversation about it I'll also call Jennifer and make sure we have a

110opportunity to meet with her to talk about it so any apologies I I can offer for um you know it's feeling like it was something on the side was by no means intended it was intended to get money into the hands of people who have worked their tails off and deserved the praise you just showed for them so thank you very much for your support and your vote of the meeting okay thank you Miss McCray um that brings us to 9A presentation and approval of annual financial report Madam president members of the board Dr Lewis executive team I would like to say that it is my pleasure to introduce um our annual financial report but given if you take a deep look into uh astumaline in my eyes this year's annual financial report has been

111a nightmare unto which we have had few previously every year there's additional things that are added to this report additional requirements every year it seems like the time frame to prepare it is shortened and given how short of Staff we are in our district office it was particularly painful this year having said that I'm very pleased to introduce Miss dumeline who worked for fingers to the Bone along with her team to be able to have this statutory requirement prepared and ready to be presented to the board in a timely fashion so that I will turn it over to you good evening Madam president members of the board Dr Lewis and our exec team this is our annual financial report these are for expenditures for services and goods received prior to June 30th um so it

112it's not like the budget where we're looking at is our past expenditures the first slide kind of breaks down our expenditures over what we call functions in account codes so very similar to what you've seen in Prior year as far as a percentage of our expenditures and what categories they go to the only changes from last year to this year classroom instruction increased a percentage School administration decreased two percentages physical plant decreased a percentage but some of those expenses that would be incurred in mno are in Esser for that one year period for extra one for covid cleaning supplies things like that and the other one was Transportation which increased by two percent but obviously we're finally getting to a point where we are hiring more bus drivers and we're getting some Aids on those

113buses as well so overall pretty similar to what you've seen in the prior year presentation the next slide shows the breakdown you have the school level report in your backup documents this is just a summary of that information and kind of a readable I will say that you know comparing spending by school is is not as transparent as you would think because each school has some differences so um when you look at state and local expenditures those include things like gifts and donations so if a school got a large donation for a specific project or um some new program that they implemented and others didn't that obviously increases theirs similar we have capital and bond that are rolled into State local so if you have a bond project at one school but the other school

114is brand new and didn't have one those also kind of throw you off for federal expenditures it's similar you have grants that are competitive that some schools have that some schools don't many of our grants are based on free and reduced sped populations ell population so depending on what the populations are at those schools that's going to determine how much of those grants were allocated to those schools they're very outlined in Grants you know you can you have to go with where the students are you know so but this kind of gives you a breakdown you can kind of see where the schools are at I think next meeting we're doing Bond and capital so you'll get more details on that as well um and basically some some big changes from the prior year our

115ADM decreased again it's almost identical to last year's number in fact I I thought I just did a typo and cut and paste wrong but it's it's what within one I think one of what it was last year so that 250 declined 252 decline is right in line with where we have seen our pattern for several years now um you can see basically increased spending across the board That's Not Unusual we're comparing to a year that you know we still had some covid left over we still have a lot of expenditures that are in Esther that are kind of relieving the mno from some of its pressures um the big increase is that Capital spending um and I believe we talked about this during the budget process the reason the capital is so much higher

116was because for three-fourths of the years we did not have new bond funds come in last year so a lot of the renovations and a lot of the furniture purchases that may have been available to come out of bonds since we did not have cash flow a lot more of that went into our capital uh and then the other one is we we did have an increase obviously in federal funding mostly driven by Esser and we do have a breakdown there of how much we're directly related to covet expenditures out of besser um and with that you have all the backup and we would entertain any questions specific to all of your nice Excel spreadsheets that Jay spent hours trying to PDF into a correct form for you uh Miss Ayers do you have any

117questions I do not Miss McCaleb nope it was a lot of fun Light reading uh and then Mr Campos have left as well and I do not have any additional questions either so I'll call for the vote move the governing board approve the annual financial report for fiscal year 21-22. I oh second I would like to somebody second okay this is Michaela I Miss Ayers hi myself I motion passes thank you that brings us to 10A governing board asba policy advisories number 737 and 738 um I did go through these I already knew that these were going to happen through the legislative session so I do not have any additional questions or comments or concerns on this uh Miss errors to you I do not and Miss McCaleb no he has left no no she

118stepped up oh I'm sorry I thought you were saying machine no questions okay and I know this is just the first read in this discussion but there's really no discussion because it's pretty um pretty forward so um we'll move on to the next one which is future agenda items I do not have any Miss McCaleb do you have any um no but just a reminder for you president creodol that I will not be at the October 18th meeting okay perfect thank you and uh Miss air if you have any future agenda items yes I have one I would like us to re-look at one of our resolutions that the board adopted um on testing in school that are grades okay perfect all right other than that I go I move the governing board adjourned a

119second um I met Michaela hi this is Ayers hi thank you guys so much everybody have a great night and try to stay as healthy as you guys can guys feel better