001at this time I'd like to call this public hearing to order and we'll stand for the Pledge of Allegiance thank you I pledge allegiance 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 next we'll move to our public hearing for fiscal year 2022 and 2023 expenditure budget revision Mr Hicks thank you good evening Madam president pro tem members of the governing board superintendent Dr Dean colleagues and community members I am happy to be here tonight to prevent our final budget revision of fiscal year 2023. before I go forward and go through the presentation um as swiftly as possible I would always like to remind everybody of the hard work that goes into putting together
002these budget forms and everything that goes along with it Miss Mary Del Speidel and her team do an amazing effort during an extremely busy time right now as we've been working with Auditors for the last few weeks putting everything together she gets it all nice and ready for me to put together and do a presentation so I'd like to extend a big thank you to her and her team I would also like to first just say why are we here budget revisions we do have until May 15th so before May 15th is our last time to revise a budget for this fiscal year and because we are adjusting or doing a budget adoption with that adjusts our RCL we are required to do a public hearing as well um just before I go start going
003through the slides and explaining what's going on just a quick little um overview of the processes that we started this back in November of 2021 when we start looking at our demographics our projections roll into 2022 for the first six months we work on IBA other budget adjustments work with the board work with our team then we put together a proposed budget in June of 2022 then we do it an adopted budget in July this was one of the first times ever we turned around and revised the budget right again in July because the legislature gave us some more money then we turned around and revised in December the December revision was to clean up to pull instead of estimated rollovers and expenses we moved to actual we moved to actual and current year funding
004for our revenue and we pulled our carry forward budgets forward in actual instead of estimated so December was a big cleanup and a lot of changes the May revision typically is at towards the end we're moving from our 40th Day to our 100th day ADM so getting those final technical adjustments even though there will be one more adjustment after this but we can't do anything about that because our deadline by May 15th and that is for all of our concurrent Roland students that are online and other institutions we don't know what ADM will split will that happen so we'll probably lose some ADM in July that we won't know about and we'll adjust for the next year but it is a long drawn out process this year for this budget revision not this year this
005budget revision we are doing a lot of little ups and downs and so we have some increases in Revenue that we didn't anticipate some decreases in ADM and then we are moving some money from mno over to Capital as we're addressing our needs and making sure that we can meet all of our commitments we are moving some money over from mno to Capital so just a quick summary of some of these changes you could see our revised budget so overall total let me also just say between our m o and capital the overall total is a net increase but we are moving money from mno over to Capital and putting the increase over into capital so we are moving some over and you could see a reduction in our revised budget number three compared to
006number two that we're moving about 800 or about a little over a million dollars I'm sorry I'm doing math the backwards way uh sorry back to the 800 900 000 moving out of mno um and then that is going over into our Capital fund so you can see our Capital funds uh going up from 16.7 to 18.4 and then we also then update our final budget revision we update some other numbers one of them billion our emergency building renewal grant program and you can see it's at 14 million dollars so that's something we've talked about many times of how well we're doing and partnering with the school facilities division of the state um I think I don't know if it's on this agenda item or next uh agenda flow through me a lot but I
007think we have another three million going through the approval process right now and we continue to look for ways to maximize our efforts with the school facilities board um for our classroom side funds nothing is changing that is once we rolled over and it had the previous year ADM that was locked in we kind of finalized what we think we're going to be with the federal grants that changes a little bit because of our extra spending and plan spend state grants locked in same in our food service as we've noticed the expenditures coming in higher we do have the revenue especially from two years ago but also from this year where past the break-even point and so we say our expenditure is going up by 2 million in that as well as always we put
008all of our reports and all of our information on our website and I don't want to hit the last slide because that says questions but as always I put together the rainbow report and that's really just to be focusing not on all funds but just to give the board a perspective of where we're budgeting and what we're looking at in just a few of the funds that we look at the most mno classroom site fund and our district additional assistance fund and so you can see our percentages on that the 59.4 in the classroom we look at that we look at Administration which is 8.5 percent so we're looking at just a few thirty thousand foot view just to make sure we're operating and we have the comparison from the previous years on that as
009well the biggest increase is under transportation and other and that's not really Transportation it's the other side which is construction we have a lot of construction going on in some of our schools and so that amount went up dramatically and you could see a two percent increase in that transportation in other category I do put the auditor general dollars in the classroom down at the bottom so you can kind of fall and see where we're tracking and where we're going um it's kind of been a eventful year with lots of vacancies lots of uh increase in our sub fill rate our employee referral program has worked and so this budget kind of realigns all those expenses to account for all the ups and downs and ins and outs of our school year that we've happened
010this year to get us to the June 30th so I will step aside and either ask any questions from the board or we can let any public community members speak at this time foreign I just have one question um what about the legislature now that they've approved a budget that's on the governor's desk then when will we see how that impacts um Madam President Pro 10 members of the board this is this year's budget so we will talk about next year's budget at that agenda item and so yes I will talk about that definitely anything I'll open it up for the public to comment okay I'm sorry I didn't hear that oh okay oh thank you anyone else okay thank you so much all right and now we'll move to item C1 audience with individuals
011we do have one I'll go ahead and read the confidence or 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 38-431.01 H action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further 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 three minutes will be imposed for each individual or group addressing the board when you approach the podium please state your name for the record and tonight we have Dr Jody Weber good eating superintendent Madame Pro term and members of the board
012I'm Dr Jody Weber much more importantly though I am Mimi to this boy elysio via Alba Alicia is a second grade student at Mountain View and has been a proud mountain lion his entire educational career he also happens to be my favorite person on the planet and if he were here right now and heard me use the word Planet he would launch into about a 30-minute diatribe about all kinds of facts about the solar system which would be 100 accurate he was doing division at age four and has a beautiful way of seeing the world around us he is on the Spectrum and is in the special education program like many on the Spectrum he struggles socially and needs routine and predictability last year his family expanded which necessitated a move my daughter his mother
013spoke to an administrator about Open Enrollment policies before the move she was told that since he is an existing student he would be able to continue at Mountain View she chose a home just outside of your District's boundary and has provided Transportation all year to ensure that alicio has the stability that he needs however earlier this semester my daughter received a notice to submit a required open enrollment request she complied but Alicia was denied my grandson was destroyed at discussion of changing schools and said but I like my school and I finally made friends a course we connected with the school and with the District staff to whom we were directed the decision was supported with Arizona revised Statute language specifically indicating that open enrollment statutes allow District to set capacity limits for specialized programs
014that's true very valid in fact the language is taken directly from Arizona revised statute 15-816.01 what is not included in the district justification is the complete statute language that exact same statute ARS 15-816.01 also States anti-quote a school district shall give enrollment preference and Reserve capacity for students returning to the school from the prior year because alicio is a pupil returning to school from the prior year and because the statute states that capacity shall be reserved he should be permitted to continue at Mountain View I'm sure you're already aware that your District policy is uncommon and I hope that you choose to reconsider the decision for Eliseo the district's refusal to allow a special needs student to continue and the only school he has ever known not only violates the state language it seems exploitative
015of the most vulnerable student population if adherence to state law is not enough of a motivator to revisit policy I ask that the district act with moral imperative to consider the best interest of students specifically my grandson if humanity and morality are not strong enough motivators to revisit policy perhaps the district should consider doing so to avoid managing complaints made to the office of civil rights thank you Madam president pro tem we will follow up with Dr Webber okay next we have item D1 do we have a student update Madam president pro tem I'm going to turn this over to Dr crotto thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board cabinet guest tonight we have Haley Crawford from Valley Vista here once again so Haley it's all yours we have a special guest
016with you too so go ahead and introduce good evening Madam president members of the board as you guys know I'm Haley I've been with you guys all years your dslc Dysart student Leadership Council liaison and it's been my honor to serve this term being your liaison updating you guys on our meetings this is Val shall be one of the two students taking over for me next year as I move on to secretary for Diet Start student leadership Braley will be coming at the next meeting as well as will Val and they'll be taking over from there first off I just like to say it's been a wonderful year with you guys getting to know you guys seeing you guys around our campuses and just coming in every day seeing you guys and telling you what's
017happening at our Council speaking of our Council we just had our previous conference for all the student councils in our district and went really well it was exploring leadership and we all dressed as animals we thought it was really fun and we talked about leadership and what it means to be a leader we also all had our proms all of them turned out great we were all super excited for a lot of us it was senior year Proms and for a lot of us it was our first time planning a prom so that was super great we had our last dslc meeting last Tuesday it was really sad but we said goodbye to our seniors and we welcomed in our new incoming officers which I will be talking about right now our current president for
018the next year is going to be Kimberly from Willow I will be secretary it will be Brooke from Dysart and then as I said it will be Val and Braley also from Valley Vista so you guys will be seeing all of us we'll be making sure that we're all attending the board meetings just to come and show our support for y'all as you guys support us this upcoming year and then lastly I would just like to say goodbye and thank you guys for letting me come and speak with you and talk with you about all the good and the bad that's happened this past year and I really appreciate the opportunity thank you so much next we have the superintendent update Dr Dean thank you madam president pro tem members of the governing board cabinet
019in our community I'd like to start off by saying thank you to Mr musee who has taken uh the role this year of um being the facilitator for the Dysart student leadership team and what a great job he's done as evidenced by our great students and and Haley thank you for serving as a spokesperson this year Bob we look forward to let me rephrase that Val they look forward to seeing you here next year so very good this is uh you know there's a lot of weeks during the year a lot of days that are announced as recognition days and those kinds of things and sometimes there's different days for the same purpose but we know that this is teacher appreciation week and so we want to just take a minute and thank all of
020our teachers and and the tremendous work that they do in what I consider to be the greatest profession in all of the world um you know as teachers we we build the future and we continue the opportunity for our our democracy to continue and and uh thank you to our teachers thank you for all your hard work and thank you for being part of our team also last week with staff appreciation week and so we don't want to uh to uh go without thinking all of our staff and as we get very close to the end of the school year we just want to say thank you to everyone on our team for all the great work that they've done throughout the course of the Year there are nine school days left and we are
021looking forward to the last nine days and our teachers and our staff and our administrators are doing exceptional work with our students all the way till the last day speaking of getting close to the last day of school graduation is right around the corner I'm just a reminder that graduation is on Monday May 22nd and we are looking forward to celebrating with all of our graduates on what is an absolute blue celebratory day and so we look forward to that like to remind the board that uh tomorrow State superintendent of Education Tom Horn is coming to the district he is coming to celebrate two of our schools that were in the top 10 of all schools in Arizona district and Charter for academic growth and both of these schools did a tremendous job of turning
022things around and so uh superintendent horn will be at El Mirage Elementary School in the morning at 9 30. that's where they will be starting and then uh when we finish the visit there we'll be heading right over to Western Peaks and so as always we invite the board to join us and we are honored and thankful to have superintendent horn join us and with that that is my superintendent update for the evening thank you next we have the governing board update well earlier today we just went over to the Vista and thanked all the the volunteers at the vista for what they do it was really a nice event and the CTE students made them some delicious dinner and desserts um let's see I also attended last night Western Peaks Innovation showcase and it
023was just amazing to see all the student projects and what those kids could do with recycled materials it was incredible one girl used some flowers left over from a wedding and put it in with a um it was just it was really cute these kids are so creative um I also attended Willow Canyon El Mirage and Canyon Ridge they're a plus recognition and congratulations to those schools and finally yes it's it was staff appreciation week it's teacher appreciation week and today is Nurses Appreciation Day so we just can't thank all of them enough for what they do for the Dysart students and with that I also want to start out thanking all of our teachers and it was also principles day so all of our principals too for all their hard work and dedication that
024they put towards for our students because it shows our students are very blessed to have them I also attended Freedom traditional spring concert last week absolutely phenomenal I have a little story so sorry during the orchestra the the music teacher allowed a young man to get up and conduct the orchestra apparently this young man has been practicing all summer um for conducting he's very interested so the music teacher allowed him to do it and he was phenomenal he's got a bright future so I just want to say congratulations to him he did a great great job so thank you um I attended the Thompson Ranch Cinco de Mayo celebration last week and it was just so much fun and it's just a great artistic event full of unique culture and Heritage of our El Mirage
025community I also attended the a plus celebrations for the El Mirage Elementary and Canyon Ridge Elementary Schools very proud of all the growth and success within our district this year and also just want to say thank you to all of our staff teachers principals parents students it's been an amazing year thank you um just to Echo what's already been mentioned thanks thank you to all of our teachers and staff for all that you do during our last two weeks of appreciation but as you know you're appreciated um all year all year round so thank you for all that you do um I also attended the Canyon Ridge School a plus School of Excellence um celebration I was actually on the first a plus School accreditation committee for Canyon Ridge way way way way long time
026ago when the school first opened um my two daughters went there and so it was nice to see that they are still on a path to academic excellence and congratulations to Canyon Ridge student staff teachers parents everyone who put so much effort into continuing on um carrying on that Legacy um also briefly although very glad to be there at the vista before the board meeting to congratulate our Vista volunteers thank you to John Williams for all that you do to support that program it was great to see so many uh smiling faces um and thank you all for all the hard work that you do very much appreciated and then finally I would like to give the biggest heartfelt words of thanks and appreciation to Dr crotto and Dr Shelly assai for our beautiful lettering
027um it it was something that really it really means a lot because again I'm aging myself here way back when when we were developing our vision statement it was a process that was probably the most collaborative process I've ever been a part of we were it was a hot summer June at whatever year it was we are all out in the lobby and there were teachers different employee groups parents board members every students we sat there with our laptops and we were just collaborating on what what Dysert um should reflect in a vision statement what is a vision statement missions it was just a lot and we put our just our whole hearts into it and it used to be back here and at some point it was removed and it was very disturbing because
028we were all a part of this and and we took ownership of it and reflected Dysart and and our heart is Dysart so um I just really want to thank Dr croteau and Dr assai for leading the charge putting through all the effort in having such our beautiful vision statement but the way that it's that it's up there now is probably actually better than it was um and so on behalf of myself and everyone who is a part of that whole beautiful process and developing that vision statement I just really want to thank you it looks wonderful and thank you for making it a priority because it really does represent more than just the words on that wall so thank you and that's all I have Madam president I might add that we are still
029waiting for the national bring your superintendent Pizza day so if anybody finds that day on a calendar we're looking for that as well awesome we have item E1 and with this I will um motion to approve the consent agenda items as presented with exception of items F2 and F5 moving those two information seconded by Joe Grant Madam president pro tem I might recommend that we move those to action discussion in case there's action taken on those okay that's fine do you want me to rephrase it yes [Laughter] okay I'm gonna clear this out I'm gonna vote no on this um I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda items as presented with exceptions of items F2 and F5 moving those two action discussion seconded by by Joe Grant Madam president pro tem in
030light effect that we now have a rescinded motion and a second then we're working two changes so that we can have that vote we should be good member Grant if you would like to do a verbal vote we can go ahead and take care of it here okay very good thank you motion passes thank you next we're moving on to information item G1 Madam president pro tem I'm going to turn this item over to Dr crota thank you thank you Dr D Madam president member of the board uh guests tonight we have three uh CIP presentations um in our in our awesome principles and assistant principals are here so they can introduce them but we're going to start off with Asante tonight in a principal from Asante miss Emily Dean okay foreign president pro tem
031governing board Dr Dean and cabinet thank you so much for having me here tonight to talk about our school um the running joke when I'm around is if you ask me to talk about my school I usually go on for about seven hours so I'm gonna try to stick I've been told there's an important game tonight or something like that and budget stuff to talk about so I will try to stick to the timeline so we wanted to start out by talking about some of the celebrations we've had out at Asante the first bullet we really wanted to focus on was our early literacy a growth for students and at the time that this went to print Kinder in second grade mid-year were two areas that we really saw a lot of growth for students
032on both acadians but also in their 95 percent skill groups the movement that and those two grade levels in particular was outstanding we just got in right before today the summary for our kindergartners for end of year and I just want to give a huge shout out to them the students in those grades and also those teachers they went from 71 of their kids who were below Benchmark to 80 percent of their kids at or above Benchmark and 51 of them were above Benchmark so it's just a huge shout out to what they were able to accomplish with their plcs and their hard work and their data focus with that 95 skill group so huge shout out to them we hope to have all of our grade summaries as soon as the acadians website comes
033back up on which we've been told will be on Monday our second area of Celebration that we really wanted to talk about was the involvement for our students and our parents and our community and our school that's been a big huge focus at Asante because we're a changing community and so we want new members coming in to feel like they're a part of this community so one of the things we focused on this year was adding another signature event we had the pleasure of Hosting last Thursday imagine design create we had we believe over 700 to 800 attendees at this amazing event there was student work that was showcased our choir and band performed we had dsb Live come out to show our kids the excellent and exciting opportunities we had members from the news
034media who came out to show them career paths there was interactive stem activities robotic activities interactive art activities and it was just absolutely an amazing celebration as an end of everything our kids have accomplished this year so it was sparking our Innovation we're excited about year two for that in addition we also had over 26 clubs and activities for kids to be involved in this year and that's something we continue to look for we might be getting into new Uncharted Territory with e-gaming next year we're exploring that right now we'll stay tuned next year to see if we can pull it off um and then one of the things we did this year is we did talk a lot with our school Community about how to keep a tight-knit feel and so we launched the
035use of houses this year to build that cohesive Network and it's been really cool because we have kids in kindergarten through eighth grade in the same color house with staff members from all different grades in it so they have house points that they try to earn every week and then they get to see who wins by what color Miss Pearson I wear on Mondays and they get to celebrate that every week so that's been a really huge thing and what are the names of the houses house fidelius housecrete you want me to do it I won't stick to seven minutes then they're all Latin based names and they're all based on things that came out of our mission and vision that we were focused on but the kids know them with their colors and their
036animals more than their official Latin names but we do have all of those in place but I invite you to come out and see them anytime also we focused on small group instruction with targeted support in tier two this year and we really did find huge success in areas that we were able to Target those students so we're going to talk a little bit in challenges about what where we didn't see as much growth as we wanted based on that so our challenge one of our biggest challenges our growth in student populations currently enrolled in our school as of May 1st we had 1057 kids including preschool which we do count our little preschoolers we've had over 110 kids transition out so that's over 1260 kids that asante's seen this year and so that always
037provides its unique challenges as our our data the groups that we're looking in by the time we meet on groups we already have new kids and that we're like okay we need new data on those kids so that's our new student program that we've initiated we are looking to advance that with immediate testing when they come in and that's been a struggle to figure out how exactly to time that and who can do that at the time but we're working toward that and then our growth in literacy in grades four through six is lagging behind where we really wanted to it and we'll talk a little bit about that when we go into what how we're approaching that for academic successes as I mentioned before our early literacy has been a huge Focus for us
038we have a lot of kids that come into us that are not at level that's not unique to any school but it is definitely something we've seen a lot of so our youth of 95 and those skill groups have been a huge area of growth for our school this year and then our math growth especially in the numbersense strands we did a lot of focus on number talks and getting kids to understand place value deeply so that when they get to the application of word problems we'll see that transition over and so we did see a huge growth in that area as well this year but we always have our challenges and so two of our largest challenges in the area of academics that we're focusing on are lower growth and reading comprehension so this
039was especially true for our RL standards versus our RI standards so we interestingly enough in every grade except for Fifth and seventh on every unit assessment on every Benchmark that we took our kids scored higher on informational text than they did on literary texts so that really has us examining like how much are we getting the kids in front of books and how much are they reading on that literacy literacy area so they can transition that and then math with multi-step word problems so we saw that building of the base of place value but getting them to transition that into real world problems where they're having to do multi-steps we're still looking to expand in that and Asante is approaching those challenges through four main ways one of them is focusing and continuing to focus
040on breaking our standards down with the learning intentions and success criteria to get our kids to help to be able to self-assess exactly where they are so breaking down that success criteria gets them to be able to in the middle of a lesson be able to look and say yes I can do that part I haven't been able to accomplish that yet um getting better resources for our kids that are not being pulled into the small group so that while they're working independently at their seats those that aren't sitting with the teacher so we're expanding our use of IXL next year we've saw several schools in the districts have success with that so we're going to expand that use with IXL Reading next year our continued work on academic conversations we know kids learn best
041from other kids and so looking at those structures and making sure they're consistently throughout of all of our blocks and then last but not least our tutor Center so we did a tutor Center this year focused on academic standards one of our biggest challenges was getting the kids we needed to be at the tutor Center at the Tudor Center so we offered it after school we tried offering it before school we have over 11 gen Ed buses just to give you an idea so where parents can't provide transportation that's been our difficulty in getting those kids in front of us for that extended time so we'll continue to brainstorm ideas for that for the 23-24 school year and with that I think I did it I'll open it up for any questions you might have
042I don't have any uh questions I just want to congratulate you on your kindergarten growth that's amazing and then also um just how you when you're going through some of your challenges number one I I really appreciate any any school such as yourself that is open to discussing challenges we know there's challenges so it's always refreshing when I mean unless you acknowledge that there's things going on that need you know more more work um nothing's going to change so thank you for at least being open to speaking to it um but what struck me is your reference to IXL because you had said we've heard that other schools have had success with it in their schools and that's kind of exactly a lot of the premise of why we do this is because it's like
043if things are going really well somewhere else you know why can't other schools be doing just as well and so the fact that you reached out and you're you know looking into how what's successful for other kids in other areas and reaching out to your colleagues and bringing that into your school it's just really proactive and I appreciate that so thank you for doing that I would like to give a short shout out to the curriculum team too on that because because they really did launch like which schools were using it this year and tried to help us get the price point down because I'm going to be frank with you it's expensive and they helped us be able to expand that too without you so shout out to Dana and her team great teamwork
044thank you thank you so much okay thank you Madam president members of the board we continue on with our second school tonight and that will be uh Surprise Elementary and our principal Miss Gary Burns wanted to make sure that um I follow suit with what um Miss Dean talked about and things that are happening at our school and I'm really excited to talk about the growth and the challenges that we are seeing at our school as well sounds like a lot of our concerns and successes are similar which tells me that there's a lot of alignment starting to happen and that makes me really excited between the schools so um when talking about our celebrations and our successes we I wanted to focus on the Three A's so for our academics um our district has
045supported our schools with achieve 3 000 and we have been implementing that for a number of years we rolled it down into some of our younger grades so we started at third grade at our school and Achieve reached out to all of the Dysart schools and implemented a contest between the schools and it wasn't just about the amount of achieve reading your students did it wasn't just about how well they were doing it was about the quality instead of the quantity and for they rolled it out for each semester and this most recent semester surprise one for third grade sixth grade seventh and eighth grade which is very very exciting the next thing we wanted to focus on was our Athletics this is the first time we've had three District championships which is very exciting
046for our students so our girls softball team and our boys and girls soccer teams both had District championships so that was a big celebration for our students and then for our Arts this year we had four theater performances for our fifth through eighth grade every grade level had a choir concert we had students involved in the Honor Choir and the Festival of choirs which are district level involvement so that was really exciting for our students as well so some of the behaviors are sorry some of the challenges have been our behaviors and implementing our first year of our school-wide behavior intervention plan so we've been doing that this year for our first year and um rolling that out and so we have a team meeting this summer we are having them work together to just
047see what that would look like as we roll into our tier two how do we continue supporting our students with our school-wide Behavior another General challenge has been our attendance we have seen an increase by about three percent in our attendance from last year to this year so we are about 92 percent one of the ways we've been focusing on that is by trying to celebrate our students who are coming to school so all of our students who had 100 attendance for the aasa they got Otter Pops they get recognized each month for perfect attendance and so we've been recognizing them that way we still have we're not at where we want to be so 92 percent although has been an improvement um obviously we need to increase that the three grade levels that we
048have found that have the lowest attendance are our Kinder first and eighth that's really hard when it's our Kinder first because they're missing out on some of those opportunities to learn those basic skills and to start a good foundation of education and a good practice of coming to school every day and then our eighth graders seem to be getting senioritis four years early so um we're needing to fix that as well so some of our academic success we have seen some big gains with our Kinder second and third grade closing gaps from fall to winter our kindergartners we doubled our Benchmark students who are our students who are reading a benchmark for Dibbles which is the first time that that has happened for us and then for our second and third grade we are using
049the 95 just like the rest of the schools however our teachers noticed that this year they got to skills nine and ten faster than they have in years past I that we bring that to consistency amongst the teachers consistency in making sure we're doing our walkthroughs we do weekly walk-throughs with our instruction with their TLS making sure that everything is happening what it's supposed to be so it's just that account accountability piece and we have seen huge gains and for our K second and third closing those gaps our third grade as well from Benchmark one to Benchmark three we've seen over a 10 increase in students who are at Benchmark for Math and over 16 increase if for students at the reading which has been exciting for us to see that growth in between first
050and third benchmarks some of our academic challenges include just implementing a new math adoption for our fifth through eighth fourth through eighth one of the the pieces of that is just the new language that it really encourages a lot of academic conversations and having that start at fourth grade when the students are not used to that initially it was initially we had some tough challenges with just having those students having those kind of academic conversations and I'll talk about how we supported our teachers when we get to the next Slide the next part was putting in our more structured tier two and our upper grades we have a very structured tier two in our K3 and it works so we're implementing those similar strategies into our upper grades so for our how we're working on
051those challenges we really worked with the district content Specialists and had them come in and plan with our teachers individually so those teachers could Implement and then get feedback on how to implement those academic conversations with their planning how are we going to get some more individual practice so just like Emily Dean we have our purchasing IXL for next year we've started it we asked if we could start it early this year so we were able to adopt it early this year and get some training for our teachers so we knew if we heard it was working let's get it started right now and then the structured accountability of our seventh eighth grade so for our tier two with them our teachers are putting in um every two weeks who the students they're working with
052what program they're using what standards they're working on and what data they have to show that they're two weeks that they've been working with them if it's working or if it's not working that is something our teachers and our K3 use with 95 so we put in those similar structures into our Upper Grade and we've seen a big increase in our student growth that is it any questions thank you for the presentation under academic challenges is there any area in particular I know you mentioned the math adoption but then as far as the structure tier two upper grades is there any particular subject area that seems to be a bigger struggle math math is um math is a one we're seeing I think across the board um and I think one of the reasons why
053we're seeing for math is that in implementing a new program sometimes it expects them to come in with a certain skill set or at a certain level because of the change in program that our students may not be as solid in so as our fourth graders go to fifth grade next year some of those practices that they have so when how how the day starts for math it has them do really looking at patterns that has them how they open up their their anticipatory set tabs and looks at patterns and routines what are you seeing and our students haven't had haven't attacked math that way before so is it really just getting them to start thinking on their own about math um and so as they go on to fifth grade next year they'll already
054have some of that academic conversation that skill set of okay we're looking at patterns here and I think since we're going to be we've adopted it for our younger kids as well our students that are in those early grades will get those skill sets early and I think that will only help the upper grades that's the reason why we brought in um Cami is so that she could really support the teachers on okay here are some scaffoldings to put in place to really help those academic conversations um and the mathematical practices here are some ones that you should put in along the way to really help support your students and scaffold that um so Cami was it was vital in working with my teachers that one-on-one planning was very helpful how are your math scores
055before the new math adoption um so our seventh grade was pretty stagnant um we weren't we were we would see a rise from fifth grade to sixth grade and cohort of students and then once they got to seventh and 8th it was pretty stagnant you wouldn't see a lot of growth it's kind of if the students got it they had it again in eighth grade but if they weren't getting it in seventh grade they also weren't going to get it in eighth grade we didn't see a lot of individual growth we did see just kind of some stagnant numbers we were about percentage-wise about 30 passing for that information Dr doing I know now we're really on top of evaluating new programs and things to make sure they're effective and not just sticking with them
056but are we are we supporting more in any way just to make sure that they're getting what they need as a school Madam president pro tem ever pictured a couple of things come to mind the first is Miss Burns mentioned that uh just a reminder to the board that next year we've adopted K3 math which is the same program as four eight that will show results over the course of time because we'll have a consistent approach to math from kindergarten through um through eighth grade actually through high school and we haven't had that in a long time that Continuum one of the advantages of being a unified school district is that you should have that opportunity and so we're now on a better path curricularly to have more consistency with our students the other thing
057that Miss Burns mentioned is that they've started IXL early and as the board has seen that's shown results in many schools including our title schools and so we're excited about that piece finally the last thing that I would say and again Miss Burns mentioned this as well is that our curricular team has dedicated a great amount of time to spending with surprise and that has helped in terms of helping our teachers um to to better understand the new curricular approaches within our our adoptive materials and then how to gear that towards our students and meet the gaps in between as well and so all of those tiers of support have been in place for a surprise and they've been doing a great job of taking advantage of those and our curricular team can go out
058more often if needed to give them whatever support they need yes as a matter of fact we we take we take a very strong approach in that our curricular team we believe should not be spending much time in this building and they don't they are out in in school buildings in classrooms on a daily basis working with our teachers working with our administrators our teaching and learning Specialists to help them really improve their teaching instructional capacity which then in turn helps increase academic achievement okay thank you thank you so much for the presentation um I'm just going to Echo everything that she said I mean just about the the level of detail that you provided in your presentation it's it was really nice I really appreciate your um your dedication to academics Athletics especially the
059Arts here I love that you've had the four theater performances I just had a question about the grade level Choir concerts Is that real like per grade yes so granted some of them are short 30 minutes okay because that's the the attention span of the kids that are singing yeah yes every grade level whether it be from a Winter concert or a spring concert or a kindergarten specific every grade level has had a an opportunity to stand up in front of their family and even other peers other grade levels and seeing acquire my Miss Richardson my music director is a does an amazing job of really encouraging um our families to participate and our students love to sing and it really brings out the families when you have little kids sing it really does and
060I I just know that sometimes it's difficult as a parent when you're sitting there waiting for your kid through so many different performances it's nice to have one that's specific for your child's class you know class level so that that's amazing thank you so much for doing that of course Madam president pro Tema I just as we conclude this presentation how many years Carrie so Miss Burns is leaving us for opportunities for advancement to a direct role in other in another school district but I want to take just a minute and thank Carrie for her dedication to not only the school district but to Surprise Elementary School as she stated she's been at surprise for 13 years that was two years as assistant principal and 11 years as a school principal so Carrie thank you
061so much for all that you've done for the kids of our school district thank you thank you [Applause] all right and our third presentation tonight is from Thompson Ranch and that's our principal Mr Scott Kerr foreign good evening a little better Madam president uh board members cabinet Dr Dean thank you for the opportunity to be here today this evening and we will do our best here um I'm the proud principal at Thompson Ranch and so thank you again for the opportunity to hit I'm excited to be here under our general celebrations and successes I actually have a bad graphic here because it's changed so that's going to be a good thing my first my first bullet says 30 30 fewer suspensions that's out of school suspensions than we had last year that's wrong it's 40
062now just so you know um a couple of things um that I'll mention the numbers are big I apologize for that but there's a trend and that's a good Trend 278 out of school suspensions this current year as of five five so that's about a week ago last year at this time it was 467. since the break it was about 198 at the break so that means we've had about 80 suspensions the whole semester up until now so you see that Trend going down that's a great Trend we're happy about that the reason is is because when kids are out of school they don't learn we want them in school improvements in hiring and teacher retention this past year I hired 20 of 21 certified positions the only one I did not get was my
063social worker but I'm thankful that that particular person is not in charge of a classroom in charge of kids so to speak every day in and day out this year right now hopefully as of tonight it'll be 11 of 13 but it's 10 of 13 right now hired I need 13 positions 10 of them are hired so substantially less last year classified I hired eight of eight classified staff this year right now I'm two of the four the other two are going to be just a matter of time here I'm not worried about that and actually I'm really only worried about one of my certified positions right now so I really we've done a good job of making sure we're filling our Spots I'm excited about the quality of teachers that I'm finding too really
064happy about that got some good ones coming improvements in the school Aesthetics we want to make our campus look great because kids deserve that the community deserves that we have done several things in our front you may not know but it used to be pretty Barren we've added a lot of rock to the front we've also with teachers and administration have gone out and dug ditches and planted plants and worked with our maintenance and our our grounds crew to put in irrigation and now we have plants out in front growing and pretty soon there'll be nice bushes and nice looking plants that are all blue it's a good color just so you know we also the the staff and the administration teamed up and we used money from um Community Ed renting our facilities to
065put back into the school so the rock the plants that's where we got that money from that's what we're using it for partly but another part we used it for was buying um winter Rye winter grass and we planted all that too and we did that as a staff and it looks great we did it in our Kinder playground the Kinder kids love it because it's nice and soft on those little guys and they're always falling down so it's a good thing for them we also planted it in the front and off to the side where our where our entrances for our parent pickup in the back we worked hard with our maintenance crew of identifying any sprinklers that were not working and got those repaired and you know what the first day of school
066when kids came out onto our field that was lush green great job with the maintenance it was wonderful to watch kids smile and and roll around on the grass because they they weren't doing that before it was dirt and rocks so glad that was happening it was great to see wraps on the front doors make the front look great and we had some extra help in the cafe getting some wraps in the cafe and also in our hallway and I have to thank upper Administration for helping me with that because that's what happened and um I just have to say put this Shameless plug in it's not Shameless I should say but I'm not kissing up to anyone here they've done a great job helping us at Thompson I've never felt more supported and I
067don't tell you that to tell you that if any of you know me I like to joke around but I don't there's no baloney okay I won't belong to you we have several future projects in the work works also all right General challenges continued work in the classroom with classroom management that's our IAP goal number two we're looking at professional development and accountability we've done a lot of this work this year already but we need to continue to do it and always make sure our staff understands how that system works students can't learn if behaviors are interfering secondly improved instruction means improved student learning IAP goal number two also we want again professional development and then accountability the accountability piece basically means the administration goes back and looks in classrooms to see the professional development
068in action so what we teach and present we want to see it the only way we do that is get in the classroom take notes and share it with teachers later may not be perfect that's okay we'll work on it and we'll get better but it takes that that system and that process to be able to make that work we're looking for measurable objectives state standard Focus backwards design academic conversations and engagement Kagan strategies teacher collaboration I.E professional learning communities AKA plc's and assessment and feedback sorry that was that slide that's this slide got ahead of myself hiring academic challenges I just talked about hiring a second go I'm going to talk about it again because it's a challenge it's a challenge to find teachers number one and it's also a challenge when your Thompson
069Ranch when I put up a posting I might get one teacher applying for my spot as opposed to a place like Canyon Ridge that might get six well I've got to figure out ways to make sure I'm getting teachers that are going to fit in at Thompson Ranch and do a great job so hiring is always a challenge and I'll talk about that specifically this way this year I had two teachers leave my school during the year one of them left on a medical leave can't do anything about that love the gal I'm you know and she's doing better but God bless her the other one needed to leave it happens last year however three ESS out of four teachers left two third grade teachers left one sixth grade teacher left and two seventh grade
070teachers left I'd say I'm doing a lot better than that it's vitally important for the morale of the school that we keep teachers and I'm aiming to do that it is a challenge though increases in confidence the student students teachers and community the way we do that is I will start with admin first because you got to start with the top holding teachers accountable with their responsibilities again IAP goal number two support for Mad Men because not only do you have to have accountability but you have to have support you can't have you can't be a heavy handle that it just doesn't work you have to support people too in building a family atmosphere goal number three our IAP goal number three um building that community and I'll talk a little bit about that in
071a minute the second thing I want to look at is our win what Stu what I need as students we call it win time it's our time in our schedule that we dedicate just for kids and what they need we need to make sure that number one we know what they need we do that by looking at our data when we look at our data we we have a specific time in everyone's schedule to address the needs of kids and we use our chief 3000 for ELA and we use key curriculum for math I'm one of the only few with not IXL I'll give you a great reason why though I like key curriculum you approved it so it must be good and number two um kids have to write in the booklet I want
072to see as a math teacher I'm a math teacher I want to see what work they're creating right and a computer I can I don't see that so we want our kids to write and it's really important for our kids to do that so challenges there's uh way too much hiring again it's a challenge to hire so we need to make sure we're always doing our best um I talked about that enough already academic gains and absences I know um Kerry brought this up Mrs Burns I'll give you some specific data this data scares me honestly I got the report today kids with 20 or more absences in my school 198. 198 kids with 20 or more absences that's over that's over 10 percent of the the year for them 18 absences is 10 that's
073a lot that's a lot so we have to work on making sure we're cutting absences that's about 30 percent of my students if students don't come to school they can't learn we also have it you know I'll just say it a covid I don't know people I don't know I'm not I'm not I'm old okay baby boomer you work that's what you do and I don't know sometimes with some of our younger Generations they don't want to work some of our teachers are that way too we got some absence issues with teachers I have to figure that out make sure again family atmosphere we work together we look out for each other we have accountability too but we want to make sure there's a balance there how are we working on our challenges we want
074to make sure we have celebrations we want to make sure again creating that family atmosphere and this is our goal IAP goals one and three we're going to create our own ptso we don't have our own ptso right now and we're working on that and we're putting things together now so that when we start next year we have our own ptsl creating a community uh Mission Vision and values that's an IEP goal number one we are going to add not only as a staff but as a community students parents are going to come in and we're going to work on our I on our mission vision and and values that will be done the first day back with all teachers my AEP goal number one assemblies creating student uh celebrating student achievement growth honor roll
075principles list character I know that's not a novel idea but you know what has been happening at Thompson Ranch so it's going to happen um bullet number two professional development in classroom management we talked about it research-based instructional strategies we talked about those classroom walks for accountability goal number two in my IEP leadership opportunities for students this is the piece that I'm most excited about we need part of turning our culture at our school is helping kids realize they matter they matter sometimes I don't think they do I don't think they matter they think that nothing matters it matters everything does and we want to make sure we build in two specific projects for um our kids number one peer tutor and get our older kids to help our younger ones and I'm just telling
076you watching some of that because we do a little bit bits of it right now the big kids it's great for them you think all the little kids get the gain they do but the big kids get a gain too and that helps build that Community then I want to see that helping that I want to see also Community projects Community projects one thing I loved um Dr Kellis for was we went out and did a community project as admin and I want to do that with my staff and I also want to do with my kids I want to do a community project where we go out and help someone else out so in conclusion I'm just going to end with this I know there's nothing here that's earth-shattering but these kids that are
077at Thompson Ranch need a solid foundation just like all the kids do we need to make sure they have the values we take care of the community and that students can be successful for a lifetime questions all right so first it was Chrono when I walked in here I thought I was going to start crying now I'm like you're gonna have to excuse me if I get to that point you've said there was nothing earth-shattering that you just did I can't tell you I I'm not going to try to explain how I'm feeling right now that was earth-shattering that was like all I've ever heard from anyone whenever I ask about Thompson Ranch is how amazing how amazing things are how they're being turned around your leadership that it's just I mean everyone in different
078settings so it's not just the same person telling me all I hear is good at and under your leadership and the great things that are happening there um this is you were talking I'm just making some notes the culture You're Building I mean listening to you talk about everyone getting out there and planting you know getting the irrigation system in and planning bushes they're this color of your school colors and and just caring enough about those things hearing you say that kids were rolling in the grass number one I apologize that you ever had a school grounds that was just dirt and rock that should have never happened and I want to hear more about that but for now I just want to focus on that positive I mean because you can tell as you
079were talking too like and you get it that the kids deserve more and to come to a building that is is feeling either run down or there's just no life that has been breathed into it for a while how are we expecting them to be healthy and gross for some of these kids who have nothing at home school is their only safe place or school is their only that could be their happy spot and and and to be you providing them with an environment even if it's just for seven hours a day where it's their bright spot and they get that somebody cares about them and that's just again you say nothing earth-shattering that's just incredible um you know when you talked about how people have left and it's a hard School your attitude though
080and your approach to what you're doing there makes that piece irrelevant I when I work for the district I was assigned a Thompson Ranch my first year and I remember the exact place in my pool that I was standing with my husband saying so are you going to be okay if I just break my contract like I didn't I couldn't think about going back because it was there were things that were happening that were just you you might have walked into some of it I don't know but I can tell you that even if it was the hardest place to be if I would have felt or been surrounded by the culture like the culture that you're building I would have loved to go every single day it'd be give me a hard day because
081it's a team and we're we're we're grabbing these kids and we're doing good things by them and we're doing right by them and feeling supported and just that energy that's that makes all the difference give me hard all day long to me I would love to work in a hard school where you can actually see like the fruits of your labor I mean and and again you're doing that so um do you want to come with me when I hired my next set of teachers yes I've been in that school so I know um I like the fact that you mentioned accountability um and you said it in a way that is how it should be viewed as a good thing people think of accountability and they're they're threatened by it or the board likes
082to hold people accountable like they're hard no to me and that was my joke when I was new and my first year in Dysart I'm like I hope I get on a plan I hope I can be put on a plan because then I will know what I'm I will know my expectations I'll know what I'm supposed to be doing I will have a blueprint to success like to me that would be a great thing hold me accountable tell me what I would love to have that and what you say it is you know we do this training we come observe we support you when there's gaps that's perfect accountability isn't bad and I think you're probably you're probably the only if anything just because I don't want to insult anyone because I I there's
083some we have some great principles there might have been maybe I'd say a handful that have gone they may all believe this but a handful of them has that have actually come to me and verbalized that they like accountability that it isn't a bad thing so I appreciate you saying that um towards the end you made a reference to being old I hope that doesn't mean that you're getting close to retiring because like so you know this man can never let go anywhere like you are thank you so much for caring enough to do everything to walk into a school that you knew wasn't going to be easy and you're doing the great things and you're starting where you need to that relationship building place and the rest will come it will so thank you
084so much really you're welcome thank you I like challenges wow yeah Well you certainly certainly a challenge and lucky to have you it's it's exciting to see do you still have the Gopher problem yes we're working on it they're not in the grass though right they're further out or they like the grass they like the grass we're working on it there's less now than there were when we learned that you were going to be moving to Thompson Ranch we were overwhelmed with emails and complaints about you leaving your former School they did not want you to leave and now I see why um and just last week I was over at Thompson Ranch thank you by the way yeah no thank you and it was an incredible transformation I have not been there I'm sad
085to say in over two years it was a completely different school it was almost unrecognizable and not just in the facilities and I loved the rocks by the way they were beautiful um but the the energy from the staff from the students completely completely different from what I've experienced before um there and I it's it's just an incredible feeling to know how much you care not just about your students but about your staff and holding them accountable is is not a bad thing it's it's a it's an act of love so I just really appreciate you thank you thank you I just want to say thank you for all your hard work you are putting in tremendous amount of dedication and love I can I can feel it um the students the teachers the staff
086they are blessed to have you absolutely and um I can I can see great things coming for you in the in the school so thank you for everything that you're doing thank you I just want to say I think you're officially longer than Ken Hicks that's not right no way I was going to say you guys need to gag that guy like you was sorry Dr crota are we thank you good thank you yes thank you so much Madam president members of the board superintending that concludes our presentations for tonight thank you so we're moving on to item G2 Dr Dean thank you madam president pro tem members of cabinet or members of the governing board members of cabinet and our community with the opportunity to regain his crown um we present Ken Hicks with
087our IBA recommendations for the year I would like to start this process and I'm sure I'm going to probably step on a couple of Ken's slides but I just recommend or just reminding the board in our community that our IBA process is a collaborative process between groups of uh or people who represent employee groups throughout the district and administration and so we're proud this evening to present the recommendations Mr Hicks thank you very much Madam president pro tem members of the board superintendent Dr Dean colleagues and community members thank you very much for allowing me to present our IBA recommendations I would like to first start with um just a quick thank you to our legislature This was um actually it was a very difficult year going through I don't know if you remember some
088of my updates to the board some of my updates to IBA some of the comments from our legislators and governor coming out it was very difficult coming out of the gate and they actually all came together and we have a bipartisan budget that supports education so very appreciative of the work that they go that went on down there and their efforts I don't know if there's a correlation to this is the least amount of emails I've ever sent to legislators in my life so maybe if I leave them alone they do a little better than if I'm emailing them every single week so but I do want to thank them um neither one this is how I extend my time well says it's green how about I'm just gonna go like this to I believe
089he's looking for the last slide of the presentation here is the IBA team so I do want to I'm not going to go through all their names and everything but they sacrifice their time and effort they come together to help shape our recommendations and so I appreciate all their candid conversations and the Frank discussions that we had as we go through our process so thank you very much to all of them um just as a reminder back in September 8th is when we adopted or I don't know if it was actually an action item to adopt or presented the board just a discussion of our standards and the board did make one a change at that meeting I believe Equitable was fair and we moved it Equitable but these are the standards that we look
090upon to make sure that any recommendation we come out with is meeting these standards just as a reminder our process is very Dynamic so which means it could look all messy and everything we're telling stories we want to know more context we want to know more information that leads to interests we find common ground because really behind almost every group that's in there everybody wants the success of this District this organization they're looking for what is best and even though they might be identified as one type of representing one type of employee group we all are out for the best of everybody and that is one of our benefits and our positives we go through brainstorming that we start identifying options and and although I'm talking about IBA right now as you as the board
091is well known we we jump out and talk to the board we start off in January and executive session we come back in April find out information from the board to help also guide us and you have Representatives on this group we do make sure that everything that we go forward is a consensus space we do not leave our IBA process and tell every single person feels comfortable with every single recommendation so we double check or we at least check before we leave every single person feels comfortable and confident that whether they support it or they can live with it they do not oppose it and so that is true of every single one of these recommendations um I will remind uh it's always good to remind retention stipend in January the governing board came
092out really quick and just looking at where we are and our finances and the Esser funds we made the board approved at that point the retention stipend and so that was seven percent to our certified staff and our classified hourly and five percent for administrators and classified exempt it's paid over two payments and there's the whole details but that did also set the foundation going forward our next month we looked at and approved our benefits package which did have a constant to the district but none of that was passed on to the employee that was just born by the district and so we approved our benefit package coming out for the group we did look at that we are trending down our ADM our enrollment continues to go down year after year so we did
093look at that we're going to probably drop down and Peg our estimated revenue on down 75 ADM to about 21 760. we do continue to see if not flat in most areas some growth in our special ed and we looked at at that time on the books was a two percent increase to our base support level um we the the good part of our conversation in IBA is everybody was well aware that we do have federal funds that are supporting our budget so we have 26 positions that are funded out of our Esser fund it after next year they either have to find a place or they will be eliminated um and then we also have other continuing factors or pressures on our budget with either minimum wage increases our anticipated utility rates inflation in
094general as everybody knows the cost of everything is going up and so we had to consider all of those as well with that consideration and assumption our resolution is to provide a one percent base pay to all of our groups so to all certified staff to all administrators to all classified exempt employees and all classified hourly um part of the process now this was not voted on in IBA but this was in a previous IBA that we said going forward we wanted to only incr approve the salary placement schedules by half of whatever is going to our current employees to kind of prioritize our current employees over future employees and so this represents those salary schedules going up by 0.5 and as our everybody else is getting the one percent um there was a couple
095we actually looked at a lot of things there were two grades of positions um that were um recommending to increase our security guards grade going from e to a j and then our classified ESS assistant positions our codas slpas and ptas moving from a grade U to a grade W there were other grades that were on our docket that we were available we didn't go too much into it because one of our standards is it has to be affordable and sustainable and so we did not have a lot of money to work with just with the two percent increase in our base support level and so these were the two positions that have the high turnover High vacancies can't get applicants and because it was affordable these were the two grades that we are recommending
096to make a change also as part of that um as part of our ongoing challenges with our budget we have seen our carry forward shrink year over year so probably close to 10 million dollars a few years ago down to nine down to eight down to seven down to six so we are continuing to burn through uh overspending a little bit from what our Revenue to expenses are each year we do have the Reserves to cover it one of the resolutions that we issues that we've talked about a couple times over the years was to freeze the 301 equivalent funding supplemental pay at the current amount so that it does not exceed 11 500. this is paid through mno and so this was just to maintain the level that it's at right now uh this
097is just a summary of what those costs are and so uh of all the areas that I just identified what those costs are the additional funding coming in was 2.6 so it's a balanced budget going into uh for this recommendation now this is all um I know I had a question from governing board member earlier about the current budget what was actually passed we're working off of that two percent assumption not the current budget that was passed so I'll get to that in a second the other areas not specifically discussed in IBA so this goes a little bit beyond IBA as our classroom site fund prop 301 our current amounts are the 6600 and 4 900 between the two levels ones that just included in their base pay and the performance pay is based on
098their valuations and that is uh in the 301 plan that the board approves that's a total of 11 500. last year it went up by a thousand uh this year recommendation is to look at it moving up another 1500 to 13 000. we've had a few con discussions uh myself with a board member about what are we doing with some of our balances we do have a balance in our classroom site fund and so um we reached out to our ed services team and asked here are some options what could we try to do to see if we could have an additional impact into making an improvement to student achievement and what we can have a positive impact looking for most bang for your buck and so Ed Services reviewed it a few months ago
099they came back with a recommendation said they'd like to hire two additional classroom teachers at surprise El Mirage and Countryside will be pretty strategic about it was strategic about picking those schools and it's strategic about where we're going to place those which grade level those come in that's ed services is working on that and working with those principles for that we're really trying to see if just being very strategic about where we could lower class sizes if it's going to have an impact on student achievement as well and so that is using up some of the balance in that recommendation part of the IBA process at the end we do talk about what if the legislature gives us more money and if you remember last year we had a specific ask that went beyond the
100original IBA and we identified where we wanted to spend money if the legislature was to give us more money the legislature last year gave us a lot more money and so we were able to do almost all of those and just as a reminder sometime last year we added a school aid at every single K8 K4 middle school with the additional funds um athletic statements longevity sped hard to fill increased sub rate the original request was going from one percent on certified one percent admin one percent classified exempt and six percent for hourly added four seven three three so that our total amount was last year certified got five percent classified hourly got 13 our admin got four percent our classified exempt got four percent we increased tutoring and then as I already said we
101increased the 301 eligible amounts from ten five to eleven five so there was a lot of lists that we continue to brainstorm and identified in IBA last year this year we knew that there was going to be struggles we know that there could be pressure of a potential recession we know that there could be continued inflation minimum wage to those things continue to happen and not knowing exactly how much was going to be provided by the legislature the decision was to to just hold that amount for the following year so that we could try to address some of those issues some of those issues as I mentioned before where we have 26 positions and federally funded that if we want to continue those we need to find a way to find a funding source for
102them that could be the funding source or we could just uh add it to I think the general consensus is we'll just add it to the pot next year so that IBA will be dealing with more money next year in that sense so that was the decision made in the recommendation um I will say that this is only an informational item so I can answer any questions but what you will see is all subsequent agenda items will have these recommendations embedded in them either explicitly or implicitly so our budget that we will propose in June 15th will have all of these and you'll see some agenda items later that Dr pulling will be handling will have these recommendations embedded in them so I will stand for any questions thank you questions one I just want
103to say thank you so much for changing the grade for those ESS assistance I know that those employees have to request maintain a license in order to keep their job so that was very nice that they did that um can you please remind me what is not naming all 26 but approximately the 26 jobs that are funded by Esther money the majority are in two areas we have some in our I.T department and the majority of them are student support technicians okay thank you and then finally I just want to clarify something on page 11 I think the people that receive everyone will receive the M mou equivalent 301 money right that's on page 11. right the current um so if I currently receive that equivalent I'm still going to get it it's just Frozen
104at that amount so if the pool goes down I still get that amount if the pool goes up I still get that but they're not eliminating it right I understood that correctly Madam President Pro 10 members of the board you are correct it is not being eliminated um the expectation is that they will be Frozen at that level and maintained whether the funding and the other corresponding goes up or down you're welcome I also want to thank you just so much for this presentation um I had a quick question about the security guards can you remind me are those just at our high schools or do we have those at other schools as well just at our high schools okay and about how many do we have at each school can I guess a little
105bit yes well not at e-school we have about 24. 24 total yeah okay thank you um and then I thought go ahead did you say something okay um the other thing I I just wanted to ask you you mentioned the consensus consensus coming out of the IBA process um it I just want to clarify the IBA process in itself it is it's much like an executive session is it not like there's a an expectation of confidentiality during that process um Madam president pro tem members of the board I would say absolutely in fact we all signed confidentiality statements perfect thank you you're welcome that was it thank you thank you great next moving to item H1 Dr Dean thank you madam president pro tem members of the governing board cabinet in our community I'll turn
106this item over to Dr polling thank you Dr Dean Madam president protest members of the board and cabinet Administration is proud to recommend the position of director of student services Kevin kashat is being recommended for this assignment for the 23-24 school year Mr cashette has a masters in Ed leadership from NAU his extensive educational experience as well as 14 years of administrative experience he's currently the high school principal at Shadow Ridge and he will receive salary and benefits to measure it with the position his education and experience his resume is attached for Board review a comprehensive selection process was used to identify Mr kashat for this position the position was posted for a sufficient length of time for candidates to apply a paper screening was conducted any pool of qualified candidates was determined through a
107screening and multi-interview process with that I'll stand for any questions thank you I moved to approve the appointment of Kevin kashad as director of student services seconded by Christine Pritchard Madam president pro tem as the board is voting I would just let you know that Mr kashat is in the audience this evening with his lovely wife as well motion passes congratulations [Applause] moving to item H2 Dr Dean Madam president pro tem members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community back to Dr polling thank you Dr Dean Madam president pro tem members of the board and cabinet Administration is proud to recommend Charisse Moore for the position of assistant principal at Valley Vista High School for the 23-24 school year Ms Moore received a master's degree in secondary education from Grand Canyon University
108Dr Dean to say something oops up thank you now I can continue Miss Moore has extensive educational experience and four years administrative experience in the Peoria Unified School District she will receive salary and benefits commensurate with the position her education and experience her resume is attached for Board review a comprehensive selection process was used to identify Miss Moore for this position similar to what I just outlined and with that I'll stand for any questions and Miss Moore is in the audience as well I moved to approve the appointment of Charisse Moore as high school assistant principal hit by Joe Grant wave your hand Charisse she did motion passes congratulations [Applause] all right next up we have item H3 Madam president pro tem member of the governing board cabinet in our community back to Dr polling
109one more time thank you Dr Dean Madam president pro tem members of the board and cabinet Administration is recommending restructure in the Community Education Department this is the position that runs the groin mines preschool um the recommendation is to eliminate the program manager position Grade B on the classified exempt schedule and a new position would be a child care coordinator grade F and this will help as their teaching 300 future Dysart students help recruit and hire some of expertise and understanding in preschool leadership the overall budget increase would be covered by Community Ed funds which are generated by the preschool itself with that I'll stand for any questions [Music] I moved to approve the Staffing modifications for Community Education as presented second Ed by Miss Pritchard motion carries right moving to item H4 Dr Dean
110thank you madam president pro Tem members of the governing board cabinet in our community this evening we bring to the governing board a recommendation to approve the employee salary increase and placement schedule as presented to the governing board through the IBA recommendations okay there's no discussion I moved to approve the salary for certified licensed administrative and classified employees and the 2023-2024 salary placement schedules as presented seconded by Miss Grant motion carries bear with me just a moment I got booted from the meeting time to go around this one right yeah age five Dr Dean Madam president pro tem members of the governing board cabinet in our community this evening we are recommending approval of the 2223 revised expenditure budget as presented earlier during the public hearing any discussion I moved to approve the 2022-2023 revised
111expenditure budget second Jennifer Drake second motion carries and next we have item H6 Dr Dean Madam president pro tem members of the governing board cabinet in our community we are happy to answer any questions regarding this item that was pulled from consent placed on action thank you I'll open it up for discussion I have a few questions um how many students and families participate Madam president pro tem member Drake we don't have those numbers in we do not run this this vaccination clinic it's a partnership that we have with the county where we provide a facility and someone to open and close the facility and the county then runs the event for our community okay is there a reason why they don't utilize like a Walgreens or a CVS or maybe even like the city
112of surprise I I think or Manpower and funding I I don't know the answer to that question other than I um I would just speculate that um that they try to find public places where people are or where people are familiar with okay thank you I'm sorry that was bad English if they look for places to which people are familiar there's an English teacher somewhere I guarantee that's watching I'll just offer this up for for discussion um when I entered you know just my home ZIP code here in Surprise looking for a vaccine site I had 50 within 25 miles so I just don't know that this is an absolute necessity and if it's using any of our um our staff to to man this I know it's um small fries and a big you
113know in the in the big scheme of things but I just don't know that it's really necessary that we do this for opening and closing oh let's do the thing like they're Manning the event and they utilize our buildings and then we also provide the communication we send out the communication for this Madam president pro tem I would just want to make sure with Mr Hicks and I believe the information I'm going to say is correct but this agreement is separate from the agreement that we have for uh through benefits for our employees to receive flu shots so yeah correct right so I just want to make sure that we clarify this is just a service the the county looks to provide and whether we have it here or they have it elsewhere it's yeah
114are they as far because I just want to make sure I understand the concerns so um when our employees open and close the building they're because I'm trying to remember way back when I might have taken it because I think we were like elementary school if you're told your child doesn't have an uh vaccination or whatever that hey they're going to be here if you want to do it so I'm it was like during the regular school day like are we having to request our staff stay longer than their typical agreed upon day or Madam president protem member Pritchard yes these clinics are usually held after school and it is at our expense that our employees work so we absorb the cost for our employee to be there and it's an after-school piece as Miss
115Densmore stated there are other opportunities where students can get vaccinated if need be this particular one is related to flu and covered shots it's not correct I'm sorry I apologize Mr Hicks Madam president pro tem members of the board I do not speak with authority but it is not flu or covid it is normally all the shots required to be in school for school age students measles mumps rubella is the main vaccinations um under a the purpose on page one um the purpose of this agreement is to develop a framework of cooperation between Maricopa County Department of Health and partner to provide childhood seasonal influenza and covid-19 vaccines to students um yes I'm just uh reading I'm reading that verbatim Madam president members of the board we read that ourselves earlier when we were putting
116the agenda on so we saw that too I think that it that is covered but I'm getting texts and other information of tetanus Tdap or the focus and it is for school-aged children thing are we able to table it until we get clarification on the coveted piece Madam president protest member Pritchard uh it is not time sensitive for this evening because my only thing is I'm just thinking like I know for the ones that are required for school um it's it could be convenient for parents who maybe can't get to the doctor or don't have insurance stuff like there it's right there but it would be quite different if we're if we're covering the cost of having covid shot I don't want to be like a covid point of whatever you call those things now
117what do you call those things point of something point of order no never mind I I know what you're talking about I will tell you that um again we we are happy um to if if the board chooses to table this item we can bring the information back um if the board votes the item forward we'll move forward and if not um we'll continue forward as well I mean I find out either way that's my my only I I I'm concerned about the coven piece but if it's not if it's not that and this just wasn't an updated agreement or something like that I just feel like it it's a convenience for our families to get the mandated required childhood vaccinations um that's my only thing I just don't want to make it harder for
118our families who Maybe would have hardship and either getting off work early or paying doctor fees or something for an office visit if we could provide them at school but I'm not I have concerned about the coveted piece I well I totally appreciate what you're saying I think that the local CVS Pharmacy or Walgreens or wherever you know it was on that list that I happen to look up that's more of a convenience than one of our schools I don't think CVS does the MMR or the tetanus and those or whatever those shots are that you have to get to get into the school I know they do the covid and they did the flu shot but I yeah well let's agreement so maybe we actually have flu and covet on it I know but
119I'm just saying that's why I think we need a clarification sure we'd be we'd be more than happy to gather more information if the board so chooses I will make a motion to table this item between um table the partnership agreement between Maricopa County Department of Public Health health and Dysart Unified School District wait a second second and then okay after there's a photon segment I can actually there can be discussion right because I have another question if there's a there's been a motion in you just second yes can you clarify if you call them um can you ask if there's even an option that even they're like yeah we provide the coveted vaccine can you say well in our agreement we just we wanted to exclude that Madam president protem member Pritchard we will
120certainly have that conversation Mr Hicks is taking notes vigorously so I'll call for the vote yeah yes the motion on the on the floor is the table yes the table no to not table [Laughter] Miss Bowen is stating that you might need to refresh your computer to see I'm getting tired okay motion carries moving to item H7 Dr Dean Madam president pro tem members of the governing board cabinet in our community we are happy to answer any questions as it relates to approving the unconfirmed minutes of April 27th thank you all right and I'd um requested that this item be pulled um I just wanted to allow everyone to have their comments um documented and for when you open up the minute document we had conversations around this is on page three for the superintendent
1212022-2023 goals report and I just wanted to offer Miss Grant an opportunity to share what she stated last meeting if there was anything I thought I recalled you saying something okay I don't recall I really do not remember okay thank you without opportunity I recalled you saying no ditto but I want I didn't know if that meant that you just didn't want to agree with anything else that was said or if that just meant you didn't have a comment to add instead okay perfect thank you who's the microphone mine I think it was me okay so are we adding any are we adding that or are we adding anything then no okay okay all right Madam president pro tem um we would request to um or we would yeah we would request that the governing
122board consider approving the unconfirmed minutes of that meeting perfect and the reason I don't want to add anything is I'd rather hear the hear it because I don't want you can't add something that did not happen no no so that's why I'm not offering anything no I know but I'm just saying I don't recall okay so perfect okay so I'm sorry I got booted I'm going to make a motion to approve the minutes of the April 27 2023 governing board meeting do I have a second Ed by Joe Grant we're having some um as am I I'm trying to get back into the meeting so if it's me you're waiting on sorry there it is I voted motion carries okay um moving to request for future agenda items and I just asked this to know
123what my ETA is for the one that I requested on April 13th Madam president pro tem member Drake it will be on the May two weeks from now 25th meeting okay and that's the 95 yes conversation thank you yes anyone else okay I will make a motion to adjourn the meeting seconded by Jennifer Drake foreign we're on