001at this time I'll call the meeting to order and we'll stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pled alce to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you and let the record reflect that all board members are present the first item we have is item B1 addressing the governing board Miss Pritchard we have two I'll go ahead and read the statement this is the time for the public to comment members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda pursuant to ARS 38- 431 01h action taken as as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or
002scheduling the matter for future consideration and decision at a later date in order to facilitate accomplishing the business of the district in a timely manner a time limit of 3 minutes will be opposed for each individual or group addressing the board when you approach the podium please state your name for the record first we have Stephen killiam I'm Steve Gillian uh I live in El Mirage um 74 have uh five kids three that I bir and two that I adopted have 30 grandkids some of them are in or have been in the dice Art School District uh the rest of them are scattered and most of them are in charter schools what and I sat in that meeting in there the over here uh for a couple hours and and I thought it was interesting
003but what I'd like to say is Liars configure but figures can't lie you can say that I want $100 million for to do new schools and this and that and elmerage should be a good example for anybody who follows and crystal said she Chris you know you follow followed it El Mirage put out a bond for 41.5 million they lied to us and a couple years back we got 18 million doll Bond we're going to build a fire department with three Bays they built the fire department but they only took put two trucks in it there's one that's just a storage area so if you say you want a $100 million and you're going to do this this and that you have to do this this and that not well we got a new superintendent
004we got a new this and new that or circum IR ances are different no if you tell me you got that and if I show you I'm living on a budget which I am at 74 and my house is paid for and I get my school taxes that pay for this situation if you tell me that you're going to use the money when this money Runs Out Steve Gillian don't put it on a credit card and you guys shouldn't be allowed to do the same either you say you need the money use the money for what you say you're going to do it to do it and then let's move on but if it if it comes out that you need more than that if only 100 million pays for a facility but nothing no
005people no bus drivers no cafeteria food if if that's not all included in that try to buy a house with empty and and lay on the ground and sleep on the ground and eat on a cardboard box that doesn't work you're you're responsible for that so please do it and put it out truthfully to the public and let let us all know what you're going to do and what you plan on doing and what you will do not what you might do thank you thank you next we have Courtney bird I was worried I wouldn't be tall enough but I am um so hi my name is Courtney bird I'm a valy Vista High School alumni and before that I went to Marley Park and I'm currently a social work student at Northern Arizona University
006so I know last November that this board voted um to remove School social work from the district at the end of this current school year I know this decision wasn't easy um but I'm here today to talk about how important the retainment of school social work is and its integral to student and District success I know the funding for school Social Work came from covid-19 grant funding and I understand that that is ending in May I would like to offer other potential grant funding options for this position you have the federal school safety Grant from the Department of Education which can fund that position for the next two years you have the protect safe Grant the pre-service Improvement enhancement grants all of those are open for application right now and could fund that position um
007as I'm sure you know the district has a dropout rate of almost 10% which threshes the need for your current attendance matters campaign I love this campaign and these efforts could be furthered by implementing social workers within the schools to resolve those crises which result in treny um case management management which is a lot of what social workers would do in a school um becomes a responsibility that falls to guidance counselors um the maximum recommended Student Assignment to a single guidance counselor is 250 students daart employs 22 full-time counselors and has over 23,000 students which averages out to over a thousand kids per counselor that's a high case load um and as I'm sure you know counselors are responsible for um academic success uh College preparation preparation for high school graduation Etc um so they
008don't have a ton of time to dedicate to the school's most atrisk students uh the data measuring high school college readiness among high school students in the district is only 17.5 out of a 100 Point index I'm not saying it's the counselor's fault um I just wish our community could do more 20% of students in the dier district are economically disadvantaged meaning they receive um the food resiliency programs that we have in place uh so they face food insecurity and so just like we did in the covid-19 pandemic there are possible food resiliency programs that could be in place headed up by a social worker to ensure that everybody knows where their next meal comes from um and 60% of the daar district identifies as part of a marginalized group Culture competency and Equitable programs
009are trainings which are part of a social work education um but not necessarily teachers education um and March 3rd through 9th as stated by the Arizona state legislators now uh School Social Work week and they urge all uh school districts and educational agencies to continue their work with school social workers for the success of students in the school daer has done me a lot of good I want to help it do even more good I want daer to have the resources it deserves to thrive and I think school social workers is very very important for that so yeah if you have any questions do we have a student update right Dr CTO thank you madam president uh Mr muy will introduce our student update yes good evening Madam president members of the board Dr Cotto
010tonight we have brayy Ratliff here to provide us uh a student update on uh what's happening in the world of student councils um good evening everyone so um f um our State Convention um all the student councils we've kind of been on a little break getting ready to go up back um into spring and all of our spring festivities for like senior activities or spring Spirit weeks prom um is a big event that's coming up and also um our end of the year conference for our D our Dart student Leadership Council and we've been working on planning that um so it's ready this year it's going to be held at GCU and we're going to have a couple of um guest speakers come out and activities and it's going to be great time and that
011is all you're welcome next we have item C2 superintendent update thank you madam president members of the board tonight just a quick couple updates um our wrestling our Valley Vista girls wrestling team had a state champion again a back-to-back state champion uh Briana Reyes placed first in division one wrestling uh for our girls uh also Willow Canyon the unified boys basketball first place in the gold division um and and our Shadow Ridge Boys wrestling had two second place finishers so Aman passy in 150 PB weight class and Abel Garza in the 215 PB weight class so we're very proud of them uh we have two boys basketball teams that are still in action and a girls basketball team that is in action in another about 50 minutes in the state playoffs so we wish them
012well and we'll cheer them on that's all in my update thank you next we have governing board update I'll open it up um I attended the uh Luke um a rating celebration and I've also attended several um boys middle school volleyball game playoffs and it's always fun to go to schools middle schools and other districts just to see the layout and what the difference is in the different districts I also attended the Luke a plus uh School award and then today we went to Surprise Elementary I just want to say thank you for a great warm welcoming for both schools thank you okay thank you moving to item D1 I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda I move the board approve consent agenda items as presented motion carries next we have item F1
013Dr Coto thank you Madame President uh tonight we have an overview and celebration of CTE month so Mr musey will introduce our presenters presenters yes madame president members of the board Dr Coto and guests uh we are very fortunate to be celebrating CTE month and uh bringing that presentation to us tonight with some guest is going to be our director of CTE Jim GRE shaber thank you Mr musy good evening Madame President members of the board Dr Coto cabinet and Community as you all know CTE month is celebrated in SE in February CT month is a public awareness campaign to promote the importance of Career and Technical education and celebrate derer CTE accomplishments Career and Technical education prepares students for a wide range of high wage high skill and in demand jobs in a variety
014of fields CT gives students the environment to discover their passion which you're going to hear from Tristan in a minute but it also gives guidance to their passion and a given purpose and a pathway for future education and career development please enjoy a couple of short videos diart schools is proud to partner with the city of surprise to offer a high school level Emergency Medical Services Program the program will launch at valy Vista High School and will give High School seniors the chance to earn an emergency medical certified technician certification upon graduation the program will be open to all seniors attending any dice Art School whether students are looking to work as an EMT medical transporter medical technician paramedic or firefighter this program will prepare students for entry level employment further training and postsecondary education
015learn more including information on the application process at dart.org CTE hello everyone I am kette lilan Jette I am the command major of the JC daart high school program hello my name is mine ctez Pilon I attend here at daer high school I am the in the jrtc program and this is my third year hello my name is Joel Lindy I'm a senior here at daar high school I've been in the junior Roc program for about four years now there is a lot of different personalities in this program and we welcome every single one of them you could have a future in going to college trade school military or if you wanted to just even work right after high school and the instructors will definitely push you to be the best version of yourself and
016they will also help you um get to the goal that is best going to be for your future we do a lot in the junior RTC program program a lot of the program is based on special teams and our outside of school activities you're only in the classroom for 3 days of the week out of all five and so a lot of what happens in jotc happens outside of school on our teams so we have three teams Raiders is a physical fitness team where we'll compete in events similar to CrossFit events we go by winners lose winners fail but winners never quit and then they have color guard and the color guard they do drills ceremonies at school at feeder schools for like Veterans Day for assemblies here um assemblies at feeder schools and they're
017a drill Cadence team and so they do a series of um drill movements and then we have a Marksmanship team and they're actually going to State this year they're pretty good and it's just a your air rifle shooting team personally I think the biggest thing I've gained is um my Independence because when I came here I was really shocked and I kind of just did what everyone else did it's just a great way to get out of your shell talk to new people and get to know your high school and your peers as well this is a family we want you to feel like this is a second home to you coming to the jrtc program every single day it's important for daart to have the jotc because of the values that it instills in
018the students and the benefits students can get from the program outside of that they can get things like community service hours for college or they can get rank UPS in the military so there's something for everybody in the program and so it's really important that daar has this so that students are offered some place to get life lessons that they'll continue to use it allows kids to have new experiences and it allows kids to become a better person a better version of themselves our mission statement of JY is to shape young minds into becoming better citizens and this program 100% allows you to become a better citizen for your um community and it helps you set up for your future come join us on October 19th at 5:30 at the district all right so a
019couple of videos of a couple of our programs we're really excited about our new AMT program that's coming to Valley Vista in partnership with surprise fire and EMS they are actually going to be teaching the class for us um and we're looking at some type of Prior learning credit with the community colleges we're still working out those details with that so excited about that and then this is our first year pull in RC in the CTE so uh excited about how that partnership is and how it's going I need to welcome uh sorry KJ um from West Mark and then Tristan is our student at derer they're going to be guest speakers with me I'm sorry guys for leaving you out all right so Career and Technical education is made up of four quadrants this
020is the model that we live off of classroom instruction laboratory instruction personal leadership development which is our ctsos and then work-based learning in Partnership we got the academic integration along with the business and advisory Council a little bit of data that I bring back to the board when I do this presentation every year this is our 40th Day C program enrollment um this is within our high schools and then the students from art derer schools that go to West Mech um and then all CTE you kind of see we got a little dip from last year to this year a variety of reasons enrollments down at our high schools I want to say I think D enrollments down at derer and um I forget the three that is down but it's down a little bit
021when I was looking at the enrollment comparison but again variety of different reasons why why enrollment is down um graduation rates students who take two years of CTE graduated at 97.9% graduation rate what's the State graduation graduation rate for SK kids that don't take two years 77% so um CTE kids are kick and butt when it comes to graduation another great thing that we're looking at is our approved industry credentials um we're really work on working on these every year uh credentials go anywhere from Adobe certification to um our CNA our nursing python physical therapy assistant personal trainer and silver more um our goal is that we're giving kids a credential so when they would leave high school they can go right to the workplace if that's what they choose to do here are some
022comments from students I want to say I think Tristan's is there to to me CT but I'll let him say that in person rather than I'm reading it but kids love our CT programs and our teachers a shout out to our teachers our teachers do phenomenal job with our current technical education programs here are some comments from parents I invited Tristan's mom to come up and speak but she said uh thank you but um but just some things that parents have said you know whenever you look at it my child CTE helped her go directly into a job she loves working in the lab um just great things um happening with ancer and Technical education so with that you don't want to hear from me you want to hear from Tristan and KJ so I
023am going to turn it over to Tristan first thank you uh thank you guys so I am a senior at derer high school I've been there four years I've been in business and marketing for four years I am a CT completer I am the daer DECA chapter president and I also am the DECA snacking Council for this school year there's like eight members um but CT has been amazing I mean I would have never thought and it's taken me to the places that has I mean the opportunities the um chances I've been able to um you know kind of take a upon and you know just kind of been able to get out of my comfort zone you know if I talk to myself freshman year I would not be doing this right now I
024would would even be able to hold a conversation with my friends let alone you know being here talking to the board so it's just you know it's been eye opening for me I mean I just got back from Florida that was incredible we got to speak with um people from the Jordan brand from Universal Studios from Disney um just kind of gotten to network with other students from around the world and kind of see the way they see the world differently and just kind of you know make new friends and whatnot that may not you know last but you know it's fun in the time and it's just a different experience that I won't be able to get anywhere else and that ties into you know CTE has gotten me skills that I haven't been
025able to learn in the classroom whether that's you know public speaking or working with people who think differently than me or understanding that the world doesn't revolve around me that I need to take into consideration what others think and that you know being a part of CTE I've been able to kind of just understand how the world works and that you know the shell that I grew up in isn't what the real world Works looks like so it's kind of a definitely an eye opening experience experience um and then with CT it also comes with running our school store that's been my absolute favorite thing in the whole wi world I mean I basically live in there you can ask my teacher Miss Palumbo she can't kick me out I could stay in there all
026day um and a lot of people think you know that's just run by Miss Palumbo but I will be the first to tell you not to diss her but it's run by students 100% we do most of the work um not to to my own horn but I do all our ordering I manage over 200 employees I um I work with vendors to see what works best I work with Mr G to see what new equipment we can and how to improve the program we're doing all kinds of stuff and this is all skills that I've learned through CTE where I wouldn't have learned in just a regular classroom or just you know just in my own kind of bubble uh I just you know I've gotten able to have op opportunities I would never
027get anywhere else I mean a lot of these are just skills I'll never be able to repeat skills that I'll be able to take into anywhere whether that's college or technical school or anything like that they're just things that walk carry I'll carry with me into life in general and just be able to look back and think wow that was really worth it being able to do all these things in school free of charge basically so thank you so much for the time all right now KJ with West Mark y okay excellent so I'm Kimberly Jordan I'm the executive vice president at West Mark and for those of you who may not be familiar with what the organization is all about we are a coalition of government education and business so we are a public
028private partnership organization we have been um serving the West Valley since 1990 so over 30 years and what we do essentially is promote the region as a whole for the purpose of business attraction Economic Development so underpinning business attraction and economic development is Workforce Development we are um very fortunate in the West Valley to um really be ahead of the game in Workforce Development we recognize several years ago the importance of bringing all of those sectors of government education and business to the table in order to um solve for you know uh our regional challenges and coales around Regional opportunities and so we're in year six currently of implementing our regional Workforce Development strategy called West Valley pipeline so there are several intended outcomes I won't read them all to you this is the appetizer
029version of the overview instead of the uh you know five course meal um but happy to you know answer any follow-up questions that any of you may have and I do encourage you when you have the opportunity to please um visit our website and check out the regional Workforce Development strategy that Jim has a a hard copy of here um some of the intended outcomes I just want to hit on are increasing high- wage employment opportunity for our residents um reducing Workforce barriers around access to Transportation Child Care things like that creating Pathways for business to engage with Talent Development AKA our Education and Training providers and just ensuring that we have a a viable pipeline of talent for what we need today but what we're also going to need into the future to not
030only support our businesses success but also set our our residents and our students up for for Success so they're armed with the skills that they need to be able to um take advantage of the opportunities that are coming here to the region so this slide here illustrates our Target industry sectors so these are sectors that have been identified by the region um and agreed upon by our all of our economic developers and our cities as to you know these are the sectors that we are actively attracting and growing here in the West Valley so some of these are no surprise I'm sure by looking manufacturing Aerospace and Aviation we have Luke Air Force Base here in our backyard what is new to this list for um West Valley pipeline 2.0 the the second fiveyear iteration
031of the strategy is education as an industry sector we can have the best strategy in place and the best Partners at the table but if we don't have teachers and career counselors and all of the people that you heard um the young lady speak about earlier then were really rowing the boat with one ore in the water so there are several strategies within the um overall strategy and I just want to hit on a couple that specifically pertain to education so addressing skills gaps through industry education and Workforce Partnerships this is so critical we need industry and education Partnerships we need those public private Partnerships in order to leverage capacity and really develop that healthy pipeline that we um that we need I identifying career Pathways for in demand occupations so we know the industries
032that we're targeting we also are tracking the occupations within those industries that we're going to need today and into the future we heard from Tristan I could not have asked for a better testimonial about integrating professional skills in K12 curriculum we hear from employers all the time that those are the critical skills um you know some people call them uh you know professional skills soft SK skills durable skills whatever you want to call them they're essential skills that the CTE um curriculums in particular are really reinforcing and developing in our students and it's just so critical um promoting and supporting CTE and stem education this is a critical strategy again we hear from employers time and time again that we're moving more from uh a degree based economy to a skills-based economy and so those
033skills are just so critical for us to continue to develop and support and again finding those public private partnership opportunities in order to advance our Workforce Development priorities uh we need everybody at the table so education can't do it alone industry can't do it alone they're hungry for opportunities to engage we're actively identifying opportunities to develop those relationships those Pathways those opportunities for career exploration for um uh sorry I'm losing my uh my my terms here um for internship opportunities apprenticeships Etc so we need everybody at the table um we're happy to say that daart is one of our member districts and so we just look forward to continuing that partnership and advancing the opportunities um for our current and future Workforce so I really thank you for for your time um this evening thanks
034Jim thanks KJ all right so you heard so the important part is our business partner parterships just to give you a quick example and I know I'm about done Dr CLE a Qui quick example of this is um at 3:00 we had a meeting with the city of surprise in tricolor how many of you ever heard of tricolor tricolor is a company that buys cars they fix them up and then they put them on lots and sell them they're building a new place down at the surprise uh rail Plex it'll be the first um shop that will be opening they're looking at opening May 27th they need 250 employees who's around the table daart West Mech UTI those are the type of opportunities that we're given our kids when they graduate from school with us
035they're going to um at the end once they're completely done they're going to need 800 employees overall that's just one of the big box companies that you see going up at the rlex and the great part is having Partnerships to be able to be around the table to give kids like Tristan the opportunity so with that I just want to take a minute to thank Dr Coto Mr musy cabinet the board for all your support and allowing us to do great things for kids um the last thing is I didn't get a chance to publicly congratulate Tristan and Haley Helman and I know Dr Coto you recognized him at the last board meeting for being Career and Technical education presidential Scholars so congratulations Tristan and Haley for that they are two of five in the
036state the other three were Paradise Valley so Paradise Valley and and derer like to think we did a Westside sweep um of that and so they will be up for the next round in that scholar so with that I take any questions that you guys might have thank you so much all right thank you thank you next we have item up two Dr C thank you madam president um and we move on in our presentations we are excited to uh present to you tonight an addition of a sport a girl sport for next year and ier so Mr muy will uh present to you a presentation on the addition of girls flag football and D Mr mcy yes thank you Dr Cotto Madame President members of the board uh this uh you know as we
037bring in another sport into the district uh very exciting uh and uh there's there's quite a bit of interest is that what I will start off by telling you is uh very much a growing sport um it's at the Collegiate level uh pretty extensively now and growing so I'm excited that we're talking about this in dard and hearing the interest that's happening out on our campuses um so uh just to give you some Mr some information here uh the the the recent addition it's it's happened recently with the AIA they brought it on board um it expanded with them this past year um and you know there was initially it it we weren't sure how fast I would say as a state how fast it was going to happen but we have over a 100
038schools in Arizona that are now offering the sport so um us coming on part of that we're going to be obviously the competition level of the opportunity for our kids to compete against other schools multiple schools in the valley um it's a sport that takes place in the fall uh so it's it's at that at that time um for our for our female athletes and then also as I as I made a note here similar football rules I mean some people might ask like when you when you break down the rule booklet it's the same type of things that are officiated whether it might be you know you think about the same rules that you would watch in a in a in a high school boys game it would be the same type of types
039of rules when you're running the ball you know passing could be pass interference off sides I mean they they call the same types of calls but it gives them the same types of rules that they're playing with uh the Staffing and team makeup um they first of all that the team will be made up with a head coach and an assistant coach um will be the staff that'll operate the program um the the sport is made up of only of of females um and you when you play the uh actually on the field um it's only s players are on the field at a time um I can get it you'll understand that maybe a little bit as I move on but there's a reason for that but they run seven at a time uh
040that's pretty common within a flag football type of Set uh you only run one level so we have a varsity program um you may ask how many players can you keep they can technically keep as as many as they want but you'll see teams keep trying to get player you know potential playing typ for everybody you'll see teams keep anywhere from 15 to 25 girls uh um on the team so that's the idea of that but technically you could keep as many as you want and they use AIA officials uh for for um operating the games some of the equipment that we're looking at obviously you have a jerseys uh the the you know the the athletes will wear shorts or pants um they are we also will provide Flags um kids will will have
041mouth guards and rubber cleats just to sure and that's for some of its safety but then the rubber cleats is what you operate on those on our Fields um they use a youth-sized football that's the regulation football that's used for for the sport um and with the turf fields they do have a any field really but we have one on our turf fields it's a shortened width they basically shortened the width side of it because there's seven seven players um in that nature and and so you're you're just shorting somewhat the size of the field uh that they're playing on now our timeline and bringing that to daar and this is the important part I think that everybody was you know would would be asking is um we started to hear interest this past summer
042um as that interest built and we were able to see what was Happ operating at the AIA level and watching that uh develop and also throughout the valley it gave us a chance to start uh you know listening to what the interest was on our campuses and our our students and parents were beginning to ask questions about it um so we we have definitely uh been letting them know that this is something that we wanted to uh to explore um and once we have promote we start promoting that interest getting a coaching staff uh together hiring a coach we would begin also to get equipment together purchase the needed equipment that we'd have as any other program that you would have and uh there's a scheduling piece that happens as well we work at our
043our local ads do that as well but obviously they operate within a region so you're planning of similar competition So within the coming up here in the fall all four of our high schools will have a team games will be played on Tuesday nights so you think about management of that field um you can't and they do that some of it's because of the number of officials some of that do that this is the AIA has put that schedule out that they do it on Tuesday nights um you know we rotate within a within our Fields anyways of of use and and the ability to have access to it because we know that The Field's busy during the fall not only do you have your you know your varsity program that's out there practicing and
044know we're talking about the girls access to what they're doing on that field um and then we also know that there's uh you know the band is going to want to get on that field at least one time a week too so all of those things are elements of our of our game plan of how we set up scheduling to ensure that that still happens um and uh this will be uh the same supports that we provide other sports so we want to make sure that they're getting the same support on our campuses from our you know from from the administration from from us and making sure that it happens correctly and there is a postseason so uh we'll be looking at that as well uh you know and how well they farare going into
045this season so with that I'll uh stand for any questions I know that um on I think the third slide in here um you mentioned it's a female sport um and then it's also going to be following AIA um regulations what is the current AIA regulation on this particular sport are we allowing biological boys to enter this sport um Madame President um I can answer that for you in the state of Arizona um biological males cannot play in female Level Sports um that is a state law and also the rules of the a aiaia so I knew that but thank you anybody else oh I just gon to make a comment I'm always glad to see um more Sports being offered for females that's always nice um and I hope that at some point we
046offer at middle schools because we have middle school for flag for boys and it'd be nice to have it for girls because then you're cultivating and training those young ladies to be prepared for the high school will play again I'm not sure how that's going to work I don't know where girls is there City Sports for girls my backyard football work ye yes Madam president member Grant um we actually already it's uh it's been somewhat in the conversation of us just asking and and looking as we're working with lower level Sports anyways um and generally what happens is once you have a sport at the high school level the coaches already start to ask about hey can we get into the feeder and and do some of those things so I think it's definitely something
047that uh that we're going to hear more conversation about for sure going into next year is that currently part of the physical education curriculum at any of our K8 schools girls I don't well I mean we don't have girls PE and K through four you know what I mean I don't believe it is I don't believe it currently is it's something we could look at if that's an interest uh we look at our open and sequence every summer yeah I'm just thinking maybe it's something we could Implement at some point considering it's only a Varsity Sport yeah there are some schools where they do do flag football as as a unit their co-ed classes at that point but St otherwise I don't know how there would be any much interest yeah it would definitely be
048something we can map in you're talking specifically for girls president denmore I mean don't we have flag football like in I don't know 8th grade PE they do play like they're in a they're in a class and typically the class is co that's why St I'm talking about a sport I'm talking about in class oh in class I would say I would say most classes don't they have a co-ed you know they have a CO CL little blacks and yellow or red and yellow flags so it's so it's already there huh it's already it's already there we do have I don't know if everyone goes through it every year understood I would have to check to get a more specific answer for you and I can do that thank you I wonder though just as
049a followup to followup to that maybe we should make sure that they offer it like every school offers it because then how would our girls have an opportunity to know if they like or be exposed to it or develop skills along the way before they get to high school so I mean I remember playing flag football in elementary school during PE like everyone had to do it so right could you tell that in my voice I will I will definitely talk to D and when we do our scope and sequence and summer workshop we can make sure they gets mapped in especially that I think the seventh and eighth grade level is where we would really want it because that's when they get that interest it can be rotating before that but definitely in those
050units yeah I was going to ask too if they're going to do lower grades like maybe start freshmen so they can grow you know learn the sport up to varsity because just starting on Varsity if you have people that have never played it at least they have the opportunity to grow into the sport yeah U Madam president member Drake um that's set by the AI right now so being so new um there's not enough interest yet there's a lot of interest on the varsity level so as interest builds and more schools get involved I think you will see that Evolution into a JV team into a freshman team um that will come as uh this sport moves out of its empy I think this is wonderful I I think this is a great opportunity for
051all girls I know growing up we didn't have flag football we had what was called Powderpuff so basically the girls were the football players and the guys were the cheerleaders and it was it was it was we had a blast every year doing it so I think this is phenomenal for the girls so I think our high schools do that as well do they usually in October I think um all right um next we have item F3 Dr CTO thank you madam president uh thank you madam president um continuing on our presentations uh tonight um as requested by the governing board uh we have a presentation on bullying protocols and that will be Mr mcy introducing this item once again yes thank you Dr crto Madam president members of the board uh tonight we have
052a uh presentation providing that and uh joining us this evening uh we have our director of student services Uh Kevin kashat and our director of safety uh Jason jger good evening uh Madam president members of the governing board superintendent Coto cabinet and guests uh tonight uh as um Mr musy just mentioned uh you did request some information regarding the buling policy and procedures we're going to be looking at it from the standpoint of our uh policy so we have the bullying uh policy 549 so we're goingon to be looking at it from that lens as we go through this presentation we're going to also be looking at how we are reporting and how can PE parents can report that to the schools and then how we investigate those and then what the resolutions that the
053consequences that go along with that so we're going to be looking at it from that lens tonight so what is bullying as it pertains to policy 549 uh it is aggressive behavior by one student to another student uh there is observed or perceived power imbalance so when you think about power imbalance like a eighth grader to a third grader obviously there's a power imbalance there it's repeated multiple times it inflicts physical psychological social or educational harm and distress to the targeted student and then there's the use of social media there is an asterisk next to that because uh with social media those things a lot of times happen outside of school time and so what is the educational disruption one thing to note on that though is that when we look at that uh as
054those are reported to the school schools uh at a minimum the schools are following up with the students and following up with those families that this was reported um it is not allowed or prohibited on our school grounds our property at all times at the bus stops uh School sponsored events and activities uh School uh technology the Chromebooks used with our Network so anytime there's anything with with the electronic devices any of that type stuff um we definitely are looking into those things um it's not allowed uh with those uses uh at the school level so it pretty much covers anything School related that that it's not prohibited uh we do have reporting mechanisms it is a requirement that all staff members if they do observe it it is to be reported um anyone can
055report uh the what is an act of perceived bullying at that point then of course Administration would look into it reporting forms are located in the offices we also have reporting forms online um we also have our safety hotline with the diart safe reports um at the beginning of the year all these uh Avenues are communicated to the parents uh through our student handbook so that they know where to get those forms and how to report that bullying but it's it's to note anytime it's reported any way it's reported Communication email all those types of things the staff uh then do report that to Administration and they do go through an investigation with that turn it over to Jason all right so just kind of to segue and talk about how quickly the report get
056taken care of as well is obviously when you come into the office and reported that's instantaneous same thing if you bring a form in that's instantaneous and then there's always questions about how long does it take to get that information from the safety hotline or maybe the safe report and the answer to that is a couple different things um that safety hotline rings to uh our admin secretary's desk but then we get the immediate uh email notification if there was a message left on that and so I answer those nights and weekends whenever those come in and then the same thing for safe reports there's multiple people that um that follow that program as well um they go to the site themselves and then also if they're marked as urgent they go directly to myself
057and Kevin and uh Renee and PR and a couple other people and the expectation on those is that uh if it comes in as a regular report that they're uh followed up on within 24 hours and if it's an urgent report that they're followed up on within an hour so uh still pretty fast on that and like Kevin mentioned all of them regardless of how they came in how they were tagged um are getting some type of investigation and then we kind of filter those out as you go forward and so what does that look like for afterwards what kind of things do we do and and certainly there's a a gamut of options again it kind of depends on the totality of the circumstances on what's happening with that particular incident and the way
058the report comes in but obviously the the first and foremost we have the ability to increase supervision provide some intervention techniques um but then also supports right whether it's counseling whether it's one-on ones whether it's mediation a lot of different options there uh certainly uh more so now with our uh multiple ssos and the sro's law enforcement is a lot easier to get jump in on those if necessary but typically they only get involved if physical injury has occurred um there is a possible change of the students schedule or even further than that we could even change a school if it was uh that egregious and then we also have the uh separation orders and no contact orders and those get a little tricky but uh there's that may include the the changing of the
059schedule as well just to make sure that they're not having contact with each other while they're passing on halls and so forth so really to put it all together there the way that this happens is we'll get that report on any of those mechanisms that were on a couple slides back uh we'll meet with the victim we'll meet with um their parents and their uh just kind of lay out all of their their options their protections their rights as a victim uh we'll conduct an investigation uh follow the discipline Matrix and also uh like Kevin mentioned page 11 in the handbook talks about all the different levels of bullying and the definitions if there's any questions there uh we use that Matrix to really kind of figure out what is needed at this age level
060at this level of uh the the the the problem that we're dealing with uh it repeats the supports there but we're we're doing that on a regular basis talks about the law enforcement if necessary and then just the uh the options there is changing the schedules and contact door so just kind of a repeat of everything that we can do all in one slide um but the most important thing is that again uh we don't put any uh disclaimers or any butts or anything if it's if it comes in as a bullying report it gets uh investigated is one until we find otherwise uh and um honestly as I look through some of the data here the amount of reports that come in versus the amount of reports that end up on that bullying uh
061path is is a very small percentage um but I will leave it at that and see if you guys have any questions if anything specific that we can answer for you thank you very very much for putting this together and presenting it tonight I just wanted to I don't know maybe just um provide or get some clarity on when you're defining bullying um I mean here we're defining it as aggressive behavior by one student to another is that you know specific from policy or is that just how we have generally defined it that both both yeah okay um I just know that you know the whole thing that that brought this up for me was um a local student that was being bullied um by other children after school but no one had determine whether
062they were our students or not and you know we don't know whether they're diart students we don't know if they're students from another charter school we don't know if they're homeschooled we don't know if maybe they're adults um so if someone is being bullied on their way home and we're responsible for that kid until they're home how do how do we manage that if we don't know that initially if those other students or other party is a student of dice art I mean certainly positive identification is going to be the first step before we're still we're still managing it if if it's unknown I guess is what my concern is correct initially if we get a if we get a report that somebody's being bullied by an unidentified individual thank you um I mean obviously
063our first step is to try to identify that individual if if that is possible and it turns out that that individual is not a part of our district then we can refer those to law enforcement there are outside statutes that um harassment threatening intimidation assault they're all ARS statutes that cover the same definitions that our bullying does obviously there's a difference there between the right um but that would be the first recommendation then but clearly uh like I was was starting with is that we have to be able to positiv identify that individual um you have to have a suspect to to investigate a a crime okay and then I know that we have had several instances where you know and it's not necessarily the best use of someone's energy but they'll they'll put out
064something on um as a generic message about a bullying incident that happened to their child or somebody that they know on social media instead of using the Avenues that we you know that you just presented um when that happens and when those issues are brought to your attention and you don't have a form you still have a cap ility of investigating correct yeah I like Kevin chiman as well but no that's why we give them so many Avenues it doesn't matter how that information comes in and several times especially on the safe reports there'll be a student that says hey I feel like my peer is being bullied or a parent that says I I believe my child is and so like he uh mentioned it doesn't matter who brings it in we're still going
065to investigate it as long it is brought to us there's several times where we'll get some complaints from parents to say well my kids's been being bullied for months and they're like okay well this is the first time we're hearing of it we'll certainly take it serious at this moment in time but but it has to be reported for us to be able to effectively you know help them yeah and Madam president I think it's important too to note anytime anything is brought to the to the administration it is investigated it may not end as a bully situation it may end as something else sure and the consequences will then be addressed to the student uh and their families working through that process and and it we might just not be labeled as bullying a
066substantiated bullying situation but they are still investigating it still appying the uh discipline Matrix uh consistently with those families when we work through those things thank you else go ahead Joe I just have a couple of questions under U your definition of bullying it says repeated multiple times so if I report or a parent report the first time is it treated differently because it's the first time this child is saying I've been bullied because it's not multiple times mam president member Grant no um so when we look at that yes so it is a a reported for the first time but if there is evidence um through the investigation that this was an ongoing situation obviously then at that point the school is going to then look at its discipline Matrix and apply a consequence
067at that time it's important to know too that we are looking at you know working with with young adults and trying to mold their behaviors to be positive rather than negative in these situations and so there are times when we apply a consequence and then that consequence works for many kids but then some times those kids will then go do something again at that point then we continue to ramp up the consequences to a level where the level of concern changes that behavior hopefully and then could you please tell me what educational harm mean well uh member Grant it would be uh basically if a kid starts to get depressed about that they start to fail their classes they're not doing well in their school that would be educational harm don't stop coming to school
068because they're worried about being bullied right and then you talk about providing the victims with support such as counseling who's going to do that counseling uh well there's at the high schools obviously we have the guidance counselors um then we have at the local schools we have the we'll do check-ins with administrators we'll work with the students and their families to find a trusted teacher that they like if there's a teacher that they have trusted you know they're um so a coach and so we'll work with the schools to try to find somebody that hey who do you really connect with on campus and try to design and create an opportunity for them to have some check-ins with them but many times that checkin a lot of times with the administration how's things going has
069there been any more continued issues with this you know if there do if there are please let us know so that we continue to help support you on that so to follow up to miss Grant's question it's not like counseling counseling it's more like a check in checkout process it's hey I just wanted to check in with you everything going okay as opposed to we are sitting down and I am providing you with an hour of counseling support because I'm a teacher and I don't have time for that now that is a correct that is a check in seeing how things are going do an okay um how's your classes go on those type things it's not a counseling service number and then if if a student did need those Services then we could refer
070them to the appropriate service providers correct there's a lot of external resources that both our ssos sro's can point them to and others on campus that have those knowledge as well thank you and I just wanted to kind of clarify so if a student comes home from school and says they're being bullied and parents go okay tell me about this and the student goes well this kid said this today okay what else happened well that's it that that's not necessarily bullying bullying is an established pattern over time correct that's correct and I think that's some of the educational piece that we try to have with staff and students and parents for that matter on on what exactly that looks like and again that doesn't mean that there still wasn't a punishable offense in some other
071category that that might fit right um but the bigger thing is how do we continue to teach these different age groups to learn how to collectively work with each other live with each other you know learn on all those things uh in a positive way but to your point correct I we would hope that they would have that that opportunity for us to explain them okay well that's that's not bullying that's still inappropriate behavior and this this is how you work through that or this is how you know we we walk get through the Matrix but but yes thank you and then as a parent if you know I go to work before my student gets on the bus and I come home after my student gets on the bus so it's outside of school
072hours and my student comes and says to me hey I'm being bullied and I can say okay what has happened and if I do think it's a bullying I can fill out a safe report and it will go to the appropriate person is that correct correct those safe reports again will go to the school that you select on that report and then again depending on how you mark that is either urgent or standard it'll go to uh my office as well okay so I just wanted to clarify that among the many Avenues if you're a parent who works and isn't available during normal school hours to make that phone call you can fill out that safe report and it will be followed up with okay yes I've spoken to many parents after I was death
073thank you so much just I I think my question was answered but just to kind of um piggy back off of what crystal said so I understand you were saying um that there may be other offenses that a student would be held accountable to wouldn't necessarily fall into bullying but do you feel like all of our administrators like you've talked to all of them and and they understand too like if if someone says I'm being bullied and they're like well no this is the first time it happened that everyone's on the same p page that um there is something like in our Matrix or somewhere it can be addressed just to make sure that we're not having children endure ongoing emotionally disruptive things and nothing can really be done until it's been repeated so many
074times you feel like our site administrators are pretty clear on that too I know that uh we have regular meetings with them especially when we revamp the handbook this last time there was a long discussion about the Matrix and what that looks like and again in The Matrix itself it has those definitions listed next to bullying so as you're going through that and trying to determine what discipline you want you you can clearly read that like right okay you know what that actually doesn't fit and it gives you that opportunity to have that second kind of discussion about what that looks like but yes the quick answer to you is yes they they do know that we do talk about that even even uh when we're working with them even if it's not bullying we
075still run the investigation the same we still try we still follow up with the families to close that Loop and so we talk about how do we close that Loop it's been investigated yeah it's not bullying it's this but then how do we reach back to that family that reported it and close that that Loop and say hey the situation was investigated and we've handled we've done it the appropriate consequences or the handled the appro appropriate way um and so that that piece there of that communication of following backup with with the the families is is important that they reported it and we investigated whether it was comes out bullying or Not that we're still continuing to communicate with them to let them know that the uh the investigation is closed well and not just
076that they that the investigation was closed but just that followup with the other the other student who was the one that was maybe causing the whether it be verbal assault or intimidation or something like that because I can tell you like in my job the majority of kids I see that don't want to live anymore it's because they're bullied at school or they're bullied by someone and it's alarming to me to sit and listen to these stories um because a lot of the time that's why that's why they're feeling the way they're feeling and so I just want to make sure that even if it's not repeated and it's ongoing thing where it's a true bullying definition if if a child is being because even if they're just you know backed up into a corner
077and not necessarily screamed at or hit but things are happening to them that they are being emotionally assaulted in some sort of way that we have staff that are making sure that our kids are emotionally safe as well I think we do you know obviously like you say maybe you're not checking the box for bullying but we want to make sure that those students are comfortable with the outcome of that as well and they feel supported um and so yes I I'm pretty comfortable that everybody's doing that okay thank you um in the event that that a crime has actually occurred if it's an assault or you know a serious threat or harassment even um and we and if we are getting law enforcement involved you know surprise and El Mirage um police they have
078victim advocacies um ADV advocacy positions um on their forces correct that's correct that can help the them as a victim correct is once the uh the parents or and the student themselves determine that they uh want to press charges as a victim um and go down that process they're actually provided victims rights at that moment and it lists all of the resources and the contact numbers on how to do that for that particular jurisdiction okay and all well we're providing resources you know the police departments or law enforcement agencies they're also providing resources if they're involved correct okay thank you I have a question where it says um you can change a student's schedule or send them to another school are when do you make that determination are you separating the students are you sending
079the the victim to another school are you sending the perpetrator to another school and then if we're sending the person who is causing the issues to another school how do we know that those issues aren't going to resolve or um continue there you know we're just going to continue the process you know moving an individual from school to school to con continue this Behavior M Drake uh we we would typically those are rare occs but there are times that if it was a situation that escalated to that that level it would be the victim of the bullying that if the parents felt like they we that it couldn't be resolved on the local campus um between the two kids obviously we've done a number of consequences and those type things with with the the offender
080of that we would you know if the if the parent felt like hey my kid's not going to be successful here um based off of these things and and with with open enrollment and those type things we would then work with them to see if we could you know place them at another campus to make them feel like they had a fresh start uh we wouldn't move the you know maybe it's hard to say because each each things is individualized but with uh most 99% of the time you're moving the victim and it's a conversation with the family that they need need that a new a fresh start new friends that type of stuff um and then of course we're still working with the vendor so he does not continue to do that with other
081kids and it can get it to you suspensions to all the way if we had to to an expulsion our our policy does allow that if it became uh so egregious that we we needed to do that but like I said we're working with young adults and we're trying to change behaviors for positively and that was my next question if it does continue we do have Avenues to where we can long-term suspend or expel a student if it gets that extreme to where you've gone through all these other interventions and this child teenager is or whoever is still doing this we do have Avenues to remove them from the campus correct Progressive discipline and then obviously again we don't have to start any particular place if it's bad enough thank you next up we have
082item G1 Dr Coto thank you madam president uh tonight we have a recommendation coming before you for the employee health benefit plan and Mary Dallas padel will present this thank you Dr Cotto good evening Madame President Dr Coto cabinet Community tonight I'll be presenting the recommendation for our employee benefits package for the 2425 school year for your uh recommendation or for your consideration so annually or every month we receive throughout the year our um claims experience reports through our consultants and so what that does is provide us an update on where our claims are running in comparison to the contributions that are being received currently at 6 months into the year we are running a little high we're running 109% of our claims meaning that um we're spending more in medical and pharmacy from rather
083in comparison to what we're actually receiving in employee contributions and premium contributions so the PO plan in comparison we'll talk a little bit in in a little while about the two different plans but the PO plan is actually the one that's running the highest it's running at 131% of claims while our HSA plan is running at 95% so we see the PO currently is driving the majority of those costs to our healthc care plan um last year at this point for comparison we were running at 84% so we are seeing more claims activity um which impacts our renewal percentages which we'll discuss just as a reminder we are um covered through Blue Cross Blue Shield for self-insured plan and for our Pharmacy we uh our outsourced or carved out with Mell and health as our
084Pharmacy benefits manager um we made that change a few years ago because what it does is allow the district to receive those rebates directly from the pharmacy um benefits manager and so we last year received a total of $882,000 which helps offset the costs that otherwise we would be incurring um this year two quarters in were about $400,000 that we've received to help offset some of those those claims costs the initial estimates for the benefits was shared um with IBA uh about a month ago or so just giving initial projections where we thought that potential increase was going to be and then last week we did go in in farm more detail with our EMP employee benefits trust board um who ultimately approved this recommendation that we bring to you tonight so we do have
085our District offers two medical options it's the HSA plan and a PO plan and so the recommendation is to continue to renew those same two medical plans with no plan design changes for the upcoming year as you see there is is a change that um was put forth through IRS guidelines and so that does affect our HSA base plan and they impacted this change to any High deductible Health Plan where basically if you're a three or 6,000 um deductible they're increasing it for this coming year to 3200 and 6,400 so we will um have to implement that change based on those IRS guidelines so overall the renewal rate for the 2425 plan year is an increase of 4% um this 4.1 0% this is still under the 7% National Trend um we are hearing of
086other districts that sometimes have some teens um in the increases and so for us to be able to offset some of those um costs is is um overall it's impacting plans across Across the Nation so every year we do work with an Actuarial to determine what our expected claims may be and what they do is they look at historical claims Trends they also look at our demographics to estimate what we anticipate our claims will be so for the upcoming year we're estimate about a 16.5 million um dollar amount related to claims um which is the increase of 4.1% or about $650,000 for this coming year um just to knowe the district and we'll talk a little bit about that the district is intending to absorb most of that increase rather than pass that cost onto
087our employees um and then we'll talk a little bit about what the trust fund is doing as well for that um there is $894,000 is what we expect will'll be receiving in Pharmacy rebates and so that helps offset some of those costs as well on the claims um so without that rebate we would actually potentially be seeing an even higher increase cost for the coming year here are the different um detailed breakdowns of our two plans the PO buy up as well as the HSA base and then we also outlined there all the various employees who are enrolled in those plans so we see that um we offer four tiers employee only employee EMP plus spouse employee with children and then employee with family and so we currently have 225 employees enrolled in a PO
088buy up and, 1449 in the HSA and obviously the the PO buy up is running the highest on those 200 employees um are driving the majority of the cost on their plans and so below is the amount that you see um that each of those tiers costs on a monthly basis so for the coming year that in the District continues to um recommend to absorb most of that increased uh benefits cost so that would be and ultimately comes out to about $517,000 is what the district will be absorbing on increased benefits cost for the coming year um last year the per month per eligible employee contribution was 618 so now we as a district will um be paying 643 per month per eligible employee so that's approximately $7,700 that the district does pay um annually
089per employee uh for benefits and additionally the district is committed to continue to provide an annual matching requirement um or matching contribution for employees who are in the HSA plan so you can see those different amounts if you're in the HSA base you as a district we match up to 500 and if you're in the family plan uh we match up to 750 in addition to that we do have additional incentives if you receive a routine physical uh we contribute an addition $250 into the HSA plan and then we also have our Wellness programs we offer it through our wealth Styles and what that does is throughout the year employees are able to participate in different um Wellness incentives and and and program participation and so if they reach a certain amount of points and
090participation in those they receive an additional $150 so we see here um across the board if you are HSA based you can have a district HSA contribution of 900 and if you're in family another 1,150 towards your plans so for context here's the six a breakdown of the recommended employee premium with the six-year history and then on the far right column is the proposed um 2425 um insurance rate so this is the employee Premium cost and so as you can see we do still continue to offer an employee only um zeroc cost option for employees who are enrolled in that HSA employee only plan um we ensure that our HSA plan there is no increase for employee premium rates for the HSA plans we do have as you can see on the PO 2500 some
091slight increases where they did absorb um some of the increases due to as I mentioned that is the plan that is um running a little bit high on on the plan and so we're just shifting the related um costs that way but overall um the district absorbed the majority of those increases as mentioned we do have a benefits trust fund which is what um ultimately any of the contributions um the premium amounts that are that are collected through employee contributions are deposited into this fund and then we play we pay all of our uh Pharmacy and medical claims out of this fund and so um the benefits trust board has committed a few years now to actually help subsidize a portion of the reserves of the net position to help offset some of those increased
092costs and so they'll continue to do that for this coming year um and so there you can see the the multi-year history in that fund so overall it is still in a healthy um healthy net position we do review it annually to ensure that it is because we are a self-insured plan ensure that that net position is still at a healthy balance um and then overall if there's you know any large uh claims that come in we have to ensure that we're uh in a position to be able to absorb that so that was the coverage on our medical plan now we'll just briefly go over all the various supplemental and voluntary employee benefit programs we do offer two different dental plans our Delta Dental po plan um you can see here the employee rate
093as well as the district monthly cost we are not uh proposing any plan design changes nor any rate changes for this coming year the district does offer a prepaid dental plan um which does have an employee only no cost option um to the employee with the district covering the amount of those premiums through the year and similarly we are not recommending any plan design changes nor any rate changes for the coming year this is the in entire list of all of the V uh the various voluntary programs that we do offer and the vendors we are not recommending any vendor changes they've actually um been working pretty well with the district and so again no plan design changes no rate changes are being proposed to any of our voluntary programs we are having a slight
094decrease in our Colonial Accident um voluntary Employee Program again this is entirely optional for the employees that they choose to take this it's 100% employee paid um but there will be a slight decrease of 12 a half% in those premium rates for the employees for the coming year and those are the four um similar tiers as our medical plans tedoc currently the district does pay the per Med per medical per member per month uh rate and so our um our Insurance Consultant Valley Schools is finalizing those contract negotiations with teledoc if anything we expect it to go down slightly um but any potential increase we don't expect any increases but any that due result would be a very minimal um charge to the district the employee co-pay is still expected to be at the $10
095per consultation so this is just a a brief summary of of the various plans um we'll be increasing again a 4% to our medical plans with the district covering most of that increase um no employee premium changes are being made on the HSA plans and there are some small increases on the PO plans we will continue to provide a zeroc cost employee only option on our HSA employee only plan um and as mentioned we do offer various incentives um for participation in our HSA plan so the district will continue to provide that contribution our claims our specific stop-loss amount is still at $320,000 per claim and again as mentioned when we met with the trust board last week they agreed to continue to fund and help subsidize um that increase through the um reserves in
096that fund just to help reduce any potential increases that the employees would otherwise would otherwise feel um again we review our claims experience throughout the year so if something we start seeing that the claims starts coming in a little bit higher than our projections we do start planning for that for the coming year um knowing that we would have to cover that through the trust reserves um and so again all of those adjustments are are considered every year and and adjusted accordingly so with I'll stand for any questions I have a question um so we and I'm not 100% familiar with with HSA is that I know it's not HMO but is there a reason why we don't have an HMO so we do offer um so the PO is probably more in line with
097if you just go and you have a co-pay so if you go to the pH if you have a $25 co-pay $50 co-pay I forget what our different tiers are the HSA is a high deductible plan and so that's where you basically um have a certain amount that kicks in when you have to meet that annual deductible and so ultimately you fund you try to offset that increased or that deductible through your HSA contributions through the year which is why the district also helps to provide a little bit of um contributions to that as well but yeah as a district we do just offer the two that's been offered for for a number of years so then after you meet that amount through the the year deductible then it goes to like an 8020 or
098something like that correct is there a reason why we we stopped offering an HMO just assuming that's like the least expensive option I didn't know is that just you know any discussion around that I would have to go back to the few years I mean it's been a while since we've offered one I think for the majority we we've been trying to go to Just you see more of just usually an HSA or a PO plan um so for whatever reason I think most of our employees are driven to the HSA plan overall um because also you can do the contributions into your HSA plan which does stay with you regard if you leave your employee or not so that's something that can even go towards their retirement later on um so just curious cuz
099I know normally like HMO is a is a cheaper plan so just didn't know why we weren't offering that um and then just uh as I usually like to follow up we we had that grandfather situation in place where do we have any employees or what number of employees do we have now that are down to um being grandfathered in under the if you're an administrator at a certain level then we pay for your family as well we actually a few years ago gosh I would say maybe yeah about six seven years ago probably that entirely went away um so we don't have that coverage for it went away we don't offer it anymore but we honored that for those employees so I'm just making sure we're still honoring that for the people that are
100left yes we are still honoring that I think there's six around there is that right Dr ping if I recall they gave them that amount of money into their contract amount correct so that stay with them ongoing to cover that yes okay all right thank you all right thank you thank you all right um I'll open up for requests for future agenda items um I move to approve the employee health benefit plan for the 2024 2025 school year second thank you no problem motion carries okay now I'll open it up for request for future agenda items I have one it's more of a just a um clarification and a little addition from my previous one so I'd like to request a CIP of the ESS Department presented by the director of ESS that follows the
101same format utilized by School uh cips like an overview of the department challenges celebrations interventions being utilized to address resolve challenges and Department goals Etc within the overview of the department I please include organizational structure and that outlines specific roles of each position and then finally please provide a thorough presentation regarding the workflow or process that occurs when a new student en rolls in diart that has been identified in their previous school or by their parent as having es Services the specific this specific information can be presented as part of the CIP or it can be a separate presentation in a March April meeting please thank you we will get that on the either the March or the April agenda thank you okay I move to a journ second motion carries