001foreign at this time I'd like to call the meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance thank you let the record show that board members present are Joe Grant Jennifer Drake Don Densmore Crystal Chapin and Christine Pritchard absent okay we will start off with a choir performance Dr Dean thank you madam president members of governing board members of cabinet in our community this evening I will turn the agenda over to Dr crota for the next three items Dr crotto thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board superintendent Dean guests we are very excited to have a choir performance by Dysart middle school today they are under the direction of Miss Hillary Bond and we are very excited so Miss Bond it's all yours thank you foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] another name
002[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we can't wait rage [Music] thank you [Music] we are ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] forever [Music] gonna burn place [Music] we are ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning forever [Music] okay well thank you very very much Dysart Middle School choir you guys are fantastic so way to go and if we could ask the board to move forward to the steps for the next presentation that'd be great all right why are they board uh joins us in front of the Deus tonight we have some special athletic recognitions for our Northwest Valley Athletic Conference champions if you remember the Northwest Valley Athletic Conference is a new conference we joined this year it is a competition between Dysart Unified School District Peoria Unified School District and Deer
003Valley and we have some champions in that so we'd like to uh recognize our Champions tonight so first as I call your team come up take a picture with the governing board we want to say congratulations to Canyon Ridge Boys volleyball so Canyon Ridge come on up [Applause] come on up shake their hands take a picture and smile parents if you want to get pictures please uh join in as they line up congratulations Canyon Ridge great job [Applause] continuing on it with our Northwest Valley Athletic Conference champions We have Marley park girls volleyball come on up thank you congratulations [Applause] continuing on we also have another Northwest Valley Athletic Conference champion in Ashton Ranch for flag football come on up [Applause] all right guys congratulations and before you guys step down let's have the cheerleaders
004in here for a picture too real quick come on over foreign that's awesome so you get to be in the picture too all right congratulations [Applause] of continuing on we had dinosaur middle level cross-country teams they participated in a Tournament of Champions with Peoria district and Deer Valley district and we had some top three finishers so we'd like to introduce and bring up our bronze winner in Mountain View Lions they're seventh grade girls come on up if they're here Mountain View cross country Missouri great job everybody congratulations great job [Applause] all right and last but not least the same division cross country for the Tournament of Champions uh Sunset Hills Bobcats the seventh and 8th grade boys cross country team thank you congratulations awesome stay there stay the stay up there we're gonna take a
005picture with Renee in them stay up there congratulations to our all our athletic uh Champions great job this year I'm continuing on with our recognitions uh the Dysart schools communication and public relations department won numerous aspiration Awards recognizing standards of excellence in school public relations from Arizona school public relations Association and we'll kind of hold on while they're eggs in can you hear me okay yeah okay I'll keep going each year school districts in Arizona submit projects for consideration and they're judged by members from another state Association so winning entries demonstrate how sound public relations principles and research analysis communication and evaluation and creativity as you can see out here um our public relations department pretty much cleaned house and won nine excellent Awards and three merit awards and you can see everything displayed here
006so congratulations goes out to Renee Ryan our director of community public relations Carly McVeigh public relations program manager Ryan McGinley our education media coordinator and Ambria Brown our communication specialists congratulations on all these awesome Awards you do an awesome job and that concludes our presentations and Madam president I would point out the two side seating areas are filled with all of the plaques that an awards that the our PR team won along with a couple of photos and I can't say this enough but um you know we have a back to school video or a dice informational video that was presented and one as well and it was the only entry to receive a perfect score so congratulations to our folks great job [Applause] that's awesome thank you PR team for all of your hard
007work I know that a lot of times you don't get all the recognition that you deserve and you work really hard behind the scenes so thank you thank you and thank you to our choir I know they're not here anymore but you guys sounded great thank you and congratulations to all our athletes that's wonderful all right next up we have item C1 audience with individuals Miss Densmore thank you all right this is the time for the public to comment members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on this on this agenda pursuant to ARS 3843-101 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
008in 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 first tonight we have Janet LeBlanc good evening my name is Janet LeBlanc and I'd like to thank all of those involved for working on correcting the open meeting law violations that have been pointed out regarding the curriculum review committees I have not completed my review of all the agendas and minutes that have recently been added for the curriculum review committees however from what I have reviewed thus far excuse me there are a few notations that I'd like to bring forward uh there is no name as to who is calling the meeting
009on all of the agendas and there's no name as to who is submitting the minutes on all the minutes the slideshow link on the October 1922 agenda is inaccessible and in the December 6 22 minutes um what was the feedback that was received within the slideshow of the January 18th 23 minutes one of the slides has a link to notes that link gives an access denied notice I'd also like to ask if another staff member is allowed to sit in on a committee in order to make a quorum and if so where is that policy and in order to further in in Partnership to further close the gap I am asking that a listing of all committees within the district be added to the dysart's website with a brief description of committee responsibilities a quick
010search of your policies produced a number of committees within the district I have not yet had the opportunity to review the policies for these committees to include the newly adopted policy for curriculum adoption I'm also asking that this listing be brought to the Forefront with other public meetings to include the agendas and minutes and unbury them from the from its current location which is next to impossible to find this would be a great place to put the newly created committee interest form as well so I thank you for your partnership your time and due diligence in this matter because together we are Dysart thank you Madam President we will have Dr ER Dr assai follow up with Miss levanc thank you next we have Larry LeBlanc good evening Larry LeBlanc I would like to address
011an item listed as a consent item to be voted on tonight under Section F1 and then under the drop down from item one is a title staff will be paid per mou for curriculum writing is that it just gets my interest because we've been uh discussing a lot of curriculum and we are currently prepared to spend millions of dollars for curriculum that's already been written so I'm asking for an explanation on that and uh with this it brings in a couple of questions that I'd like to ask and uh one of them is what are they writing and who approves this written curriculum what is the cost of the writing of this curriculum and where is this curriculum being used and I'd like to add that Mr Ken Hicks has assisted me on getting that
012information already and I really appreciate when it came to the cost of things and I'm hoping to understand just how that's working in closing I would like to address our wonderful educators of the Dysart Unified School District Janet and I are your biggest supporters your abilities to educate and provide sound learning are never in question our interest lies in the materials in which you are provided with to employ your talents please know that our actions are not personal it is Duty God Bless America [Applause] Brad and President we will also have Dr Psy follow up with Mr LeBlanc next we have Sarah Rivera okay good evening Madam board president members of the board superintendent Dean and members of the cabinet for those members that are new since the last time that I was here allow
013me to introduce myself my name is Sarah Rivera and I am the President of the Dysart special education PTSA the PTSA was started at the end of July just seven months ago it feels like much longer as it has been a very busy seven months um I haven't made it back here as often as I would have liked to because I've been very busy with the planning and organizing of a new PTSA but I would like to update you now that I am able to come so over the past seven months we have consistently had 20 to 30 members or community members at our monthly meetings which I was really excited that to have that much participation every single time we have held a workshop on strength-based IEP goals that was attended by both teachers
014as well as parents our trunk or treat and holiday party were both very well attended with over 100 people at each event as well as a lot of community support for donations because we had no money at the time we have reached our first year goal of 60 paid members this past weekend we held our first annual Walk and Roll for inclusion event at dreamcatcher Park that was attended by at least 150 people including members of the Texas Ranger baseball team who were also sponsors of our event along with Desert Vista Dental Health and the Dysart Education Foundation also I'd like to take this opportunity to thank board member Joe Grant and Dysart cabinet assistant superintendent Ken Hicks for their attendance at the event as well as those that sent well wishes through email that
015they couldn't attend but they were in support of our event anyway and also the members of the ESS Department who attended in their tutus we have launched nominations for the Ginger Lee Francia awards that will seek to honor our ESS teachers general education teachers paraprofessionals staff members and a community champion who has gone above and beyond for our students who utilize special education services nominations are still being accepted through March 1st through our website so there's still time for that and I am very excited for all the work that we have ahead of us I have so many plans I just hope that I have enough time to utilize all of them and I can't wait to come and share all those things with you when I'm able thank you thank you that wasn't thank
016you very much we will move on to updates do we have a student update we do Madam president and I'm going to turn this over to Dr coroto thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board superintendent Dean cabinet guest tonight we have braylee Ratliff a junior at Valley Vista High School here to share the student update really all right so um one of the main things that we've been discussing in our dslc meetings are prom so Shadows releasing their theme March 1st Valley has already released our theme Willow is going to release their theme on March 1st as well and Dysart has yet to release her theme or tell us when they're going to another thing Willow hosted their sweetheart dance on the 11th and um from what I've heard it was really
017good they had a lot of attendance Shadowridge is hosting a movie night upcoming on the 25th I believe and we started planning our spring Spirit weeks all four schools Sundown is hosting a blood drive and so is shadow in the upcoming week and we've been really heavy on planning our end of the year conference together thank you very very much all right thank you next we have our superintendent update Dr Dean thank you madam president members of governing board members of cabinet and our community will keep this brief tonight congratulations to all of our high school choirs who last week competed at the NAU Jazz Madrigal Festival um that Festival features more than 140 schools and each one of our high schools improved upon their scores last year with some Awards being given out and
018the awards were as follows Valley Vista High School's concert choir received a superior rating Shadow Ridge High School's Stellar FX choir received an excellent rating and their constellation choir received a superior rating and Willow Canyon High School's concert choir received an excellent rating so congratulations to each of our choirs also want to say congratulations to convergence our Winter Guard that's in the district they took first place in their competition last week they are upholding their tradition of being the best Winter Guard in the state we are also very excited to have had several state champions at uh last week's State wrestling tournament and we look forward to honoring each of those State uh Champions at the next governing board meeting where um Dr crota will have to pin them before the meeting will be over
019so I would plan for a lengthy meeting Additionally the last piece of my update this evening is that our winter our other winter sports seasons are winding down we've had great playoff performances I mean in soccer and in boys and girls basketball and Valley vista's girls basketball team the defending champs are still alive and they play in the semifinals next Tuesday night against Hamilton good luck to them and that concludes my update for this evening thank you Dr Dean next we have our governing board update Madam president before you begin the governing board update I have a very very important piece that I failed to mention today is Denise birdsell's last board meeting and Denise is the person who sits behind the glass in the back taking care of all of our technology needs and
020no Karen's back there I know she's back there Denise is retiring um and she's really retiring and um after eight years of running board meetings from behind the scenes we wanted to just Express all of our thanks she's always available to meet all of our technology needs throughout the district office every single day I usually see her about 7 15 in the morning checking on us to make sure we're good and she takes care of everything here so Denise happy retirement and thank you so very much and that concludes my update are you sure really you want one more okay okay governing board update go ahead Joe well Denise enjoy retirement I will tell you it's the best it is the best I just want to say congratulations and I was surprised you didn't want
021to come back and do that about the a plus recognition oh next week okay well I get it this week so to Canyon Ridge and El Mirage and Willow Canyon so that's awesome to have that A-Plus recognition and then as you heard I did walk in the uh Dysart special ed parent teacher Association first annual rock and roll the weather was absolutely perfect thank goodness because if it was done just last week a couple of days I don't know if I could have made it but it was a fun day it was a lot of kids there a lot of attendance and those kids really love the Texas Rangers and their interaction it was a great day so thank you so Miss Grant Denise does that mean retirement does that mean Denise is going to
022sleep in and not do mornings is that what retirement means thank you Miss Grant do you guys have anything I do I attended the freedom traditional talent show and outstanding Talent was performed so kudos to the students and and also the teachers that performed we had a great ending to the show it was wonderful so I just want to say congratulations to everybody that participated it was a great show thank you and I will once again Echo and say congratulations on retirement thank you for all that you've done Denise um I attended a training put on by the Arizona Coalition of school board members on Saturday and that was a great training on finance and some open meeting law and it was really great so that concludes our governing board update next we have item
023E1 I will move to approved consent agenda items as presented second motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Don Densmore motion carries next we have item G1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community as you are aware and if you had forgotten thank you to CTE for the great reminders at our seats today this is CTE appreciation month and so this evening I'll turn this over to Dr crotto and he will introduce our presentation Dr Grotto thank you Dr d-man and president members of the board we'd like to welcome our amazing leader of our CTE team tonight for a great presentation on CTE so Mr grishaver it's all on you all right hey thank you Dr Crowder good evening Madam president members of the board
024Dr Dean cabinet and Community I am really excited to be here to share CT month with you before I begin the presentation and we have wonderful guest speakers behind us and I'm not going to take up a ton of time in fact I'm going to start my timer Dr cuddle so I keep an eye on where I'm at um I want to take a minute to thank our 39 Career and Technical education teachers that are in the classrooms day in and day out doing what's best for kids you take a walk and you go in the culinary you walk over the fire science I will say we had a new lawn Public Safety teacher that started a week and a half ago and he's coming back he came back um so we have teachers in
025classrooms that are doing amazing things so I just want to publicly say thank you to all of them um I was one of them up here with me and we just appreciate so much what they do day in and day out and we're here to support and they always keep in mind when and every staff meeting that we're always going to do what's best for kids so thank you to all of our teachers all right so we're going to move on can we play the video beneath hit the button all right hit the button nope wrong button oh there we go [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] so just a brief uh video so think back in the day the old vocab that vocational education is what people think of when we talk about CTE
026and obviously by watching the video you don't see that anymore so we have wonderful Innovative programs within the district um you can see CTE follows a program model that will have classroom instruction lab instruction work based learning and personal leadership development which is our student ctso organizations one of the things with CTE is per Ade we have to have 51 percent of our time in lab so we have to make sure that whenever we do so for instance we have culinary has 600 kids how do we get 600 kids in lab twice a week we do we move them through we have two Labs we're able to to get kids in there so they're getting the true experiences all right I'm going to kind of fly through the data this is some enrollment data um
027from 2021 and so on I'm not going to kind of go through it you can see our numbers have held pretty steady I want to say we have about 7 000 high school students and a little over 4 400 are in a CTE class this one we're really excited about this is our industry credentials so one of the things that we pride ourselves on is that when a student graduates from one of our CT programs they have a credential so they're ready to go out into the workforce yesterday I met with the owner of Fastsigns and we were talking about they're looking at hiring a graphic design student to come and work for them I say well hang on a second let's get a graphic design senior in and do some internship for you and
028then that way you can kind of do a little job interview for a year and then we'll have them come in he says we'll we really need them to have illustrator Adobe Illustrator I said guess what the kids are getting Adobe Illustrator and it's not costing them a thing to get it so that student or those students coming out of our programs are ready to go all right some recognitions we have uh our ctsos as you will see in our board agendas we have a lot of travel and that kind of stuff coming up competitions we have Regional skills USA starting tomorrow we have Deca State starting tomorrow down at the Arizona Grand skills is over at GCC UTI we have a lot of things rocking and rolling with our 17 programs um here are
029some of our national um level from last year Deca all these programs participated in National Nationals not in Arizona they're I want to say Louisville Kentucky Atlanta Georgia I want to say Deca is going to be in Orlando Florida this year so kids get some awesome opportunities to get out in fact Trevor one of our speakers today is going to talk about his experience with skills all right so speaking of that all right I'm right on time um we have former student from Willow Canyon High School that was part of the IB TV broadcasting program I'm going to have Trevor come up and tell you a little bit about his CT experience at Willow Canyon and what he's doing now Trevor hi I'm Trevor Tuttle I graduated from Willow Canyon back in 2019 I was
030a part of the TV broadcasting program I started taking it just because I had to fulfill that credit and I had I didn't think I'd have any interest or in it or anything but I didn't know what I want to do and then I found out that's really what I was passionate about and that's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life so I started taking the classes one day I was told about this competition called skills USA it was part of that ctso and I joined uh competed in my first competition I loved it didn't win or anything but I was like okay so I joined the that chapter uh and eventually went on to become their president and everything but during that time we myself and another student we talked
031about how cool would it be to do something like create a sports broadcasting program and that's what we did we started working on a sports broadcasting program and after school we'd get together and we would meet in the gym with some of the equipment that we had in the studio which is industry standard equipment that you would get to use in the industry and we actually ended up being selected as the 2018 National skills USA model of Excellence winners which they select 24 schools out of the entire country eight per their three categories we went to the national competition in Louisville Kentucky and we actually got to win the like final trophy the national award which is one of the coolest experiences of my life but through this sports broadcasting program we also got to
032do interviews with major league baseball players which is part of what we got to win that award for uh one year was the Kansas City Royals and then I believe in 2019 it was the Seattle Mariners and then we had I don't remember how many students but they got to participate in MLB media day and they actually got to interview the different coaches and general managers for all these teams and I got to interview my favorite teams manager Joe Madden which is the coolest thing ever but one of the things that I've noticed about students who take these ctsos and the CTE classes is that they they have a lot more initiative and everything than just the standard student not that they don't have initiative but taking my first introductory college classes in film and
033broadcasting they were they came off really easy because a lot of it I already knew I couldn't believe that I was walking into a classroom and my professor was talking about yeah I have to teach you guys how to turn on the camera because this is something that I'd been doing since my sophomore year high school and there were other students in the room who didn't know how to do that type of stuff but you can always tell which students took part in CTE classes and ctsos because they're the ones who have the initiative and the ones who when they get put in a group to do a project they're the ones who step up and actually lead the group forward and know what to do so thank you that's all I have thank you
034Trevor and I will tell you I just met Trevor today you know when we came inside I didn't pre-load anything so perfect and and it just attests what our teachers do in the classroom and so whenever I look at tea and I our other teachers I just I'm in awe of what they do all right next is a huge business partner of ours she's also a parent in the community she has a daughter at Shadowridge High School on the Senate Sonoran Heights you know what huh good memory good Noel trigger is a huge business partner with Banner Health so I'm gonna have Noel come up and share a little bit with you and I time I'm exactly four minutes okay I think all right so hey everybody I'm Noelle trinder I'm here today as the
035senior director of Healthcare careers at Banner Health and thank you for having me to share about our CTE program partnership with Dysart Unified School District and Banner Health so I'm here today obviously as an industry partner but also as a mom I'm a parent as mentioned of a seventh grader and an 11th grader and both are in their CTE programs of course so just a little bit about Banner Health and myself short little thing um so I've been at RN for 18 years from bedside nurse to Chief nursing officer and now the senior director in a Banner Health is the largest employer in our state second is Amazon so and we're in six different states we're in Arizona Colorado Wyoming Nevada Nebraska and California and we host remote employees in 38 States so 60 000
036employees 18 000 nurses okay that's that's big in 2022 we strategically created my team which is the banner Healthcare careers team focusing on the Six States we serve and part of the work that my team does which is a bit novel in healthcare is focus on K-12 strategy and solutions to meet Healthcare Workforce needs so we intentionally and always thoughtfully partner and align with with business partners such as yourself to make Health Care easier so life can be better which is our mission so as soon as we met Jim and the teachers we knew that it was meant to be both parties are aligned in our vision of creating Pathways of employment for our communities so I'm going to start with one example is our nursing program that we work with at Dysart which is
037at Willow and Banner Health became a part of the advisory committee we've had time dedicated with CNA students and we host all of their rotations at Del Webb and Boswell now here's the really cool thing about the partnership and what Healthcare and CTE can do I say I have air tags on all of these kids but we really do we track all of them and we will do conditional offers to all these kids prior to graduation for employment which is really cool so they will be offered different working options because we know a lot of the kids want want to go to college of course but let's say they do want to work full-time or part-time we already have them tagged for Banner Health to be a CNA which means they'll be eligible for all
038of our full health care insurance are matching 401K our tuition assistance to continue on for nursing isn't that pretty amazing think of yourself at 18 just graduating to have that opportunity that you went through the CTE program have a job and all these benefits how cool is that so as a parent and an industry partner I've also been invited to the CTE Sports Med advisory committee and I was able to in-depth review their sport Med curriculum so I'm a doctoral prepared nurse I work with 400 Higher Learning institutions across our country and I was thoroughly impressed very very impressed as the content mirrors both private and State University curricula so the focus on the modules prepares the student for really any health care role so I know they're focused on Sports Med but when I
039look my daughter is in the program she wants to do nursing it's absolutely preparing her for Grand Canyon where she wants to go also Pharmacy respiratory ptot speech athletic trainer so you guys are really teaching incredible content to these kids also a shout out to miss Donovan that's her main name that's my daughter's favorite teacher so I had to put that in there okay and just a little bit more and then I'm done so when we talk about Healthcare we usually think okay doctors and nurses right but there are so many different key people behind the scenes such as it so Banner Health was able to partner with the dicer High School CTE program for it and we are hosting two of their interns for free which is incredible and they are virtually meeting with
040our leadership team at Banner Health corporate for it it's going very well and they're learning from the best of the best in the industry of how to create apps so they're with our Banner Health corporate I.T applications team and the head of that team so in conclusion this is just a little bit of all the things I wrote culinary down I wrote culinary down okay so in conclusion we look forward to the future with you and the programs and Partnerships and I really feel with things like this we can be rest assured that we are building solid and knowledgeable so solid and knowledgeable Healthcare Workforce for our community we're very very grateful at Banner Health that I represent in our partnership with Dysart so thank you guys thank you now obviously I've known Noel for
041a little while but our partnership started just this year though so at the very beginning of the year so where we've come when she really quick on the I.T side they interviewed all seven of our I.T interns and they wanted to hire all seven of our but they only had spots for two so um just a great example um all right moving on hang on I want to thank Dr D Dr Krill yet um that'll come in a minute yeah how's my time all right I'm a few minutes over all right so I also want to take a minute to thank um the CTE staff in the office um Tracy Carroll Holly Dana and all the work that they do each and every day I'm doing what's best for kids from the behind the scenes
042side of it so whenever we look at the travel and what Trevor talked about about going to Louisville and winning Awards there's behind the scenes stuff taking place and the staff that we have in our office is absolutely amazing so a shout out to them all right so now I'm going to thank you all for all your support of current technical education I have to tell you I do feel like I'm one of the luckiest people in the district and I I tell um Ken and John that all the time because being the director of current technical education is an awesome job because we have awesome teachers and awesome people we work with thank you all for all your support that you guys do for CTE thank you all right thank you so much thank
043you I feel like one of our biggest strengths in our district is our CTE programs and I love the fact that our students have this opportunity to explore these careers they don't have to just go to college and spend thousands and thousands of dollars and just kind of puts around for a couple years before they figure it out and they go oh well I could have done this two years ago and they don't have that debt for the college that they spent two years just kind of wandering around I love the fact that these students who may not want to go to a four-year University have this opportunity for a career and they're certified that's wonderful so thank you Mr grishaber thank you to our partners thank you to our staff and thank you to
044everybody who makes that possible all right we will move on to item G2 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet and our community this evening we have an information item that was requested by a governing board member as it relates to the governing board receiving information um for uh from those who attend out of state conferences and trainings um so as to keep the board updated and informed as to what is happening as as folks are attending those trainings and so this evening I will turn it over to board discussion but I may offer the following um thought as this is discussed and that is that we would be more than happy to have when folks come back from an out of state training or a conference to have them
045provide just a short summary that we can forward to the board to keep the board updated so that's something that we can put in place probably as soon as April and so with that I will turn it over to board discussion thank you Dr Dean um I I think this item came about because we constantly are having conversations you know we look at conferences and we say well this session is offered and this session is offered and that goes up against board policy so I think I could be wrong but I think the whole intent of the agenda item was just to kind of clarify how we make sure that these employees are not attending sessions that go against board policy thank you for that Madam president and I will tell you that we've taken
046a couple of steps this year that are new that we haven't done in the past the first one is when we have any staff who are requesting to attend trainings out of state or in state and or conferences we do have an acknowledgment box that they acknowledge that they will not attend sessions that are contrary to our district values and and we lay out what those are additionally the supervisors of those uh folks who are involved in traveling to conferences meet with them to go over the conference agenda and what it is that they'll be attending as they move forward all right thank you do we have any other points of discussion I just have a quick question um when they submit their synopsis of the the conferences to the board is that going to
047be for the public also or just for the board um Madam president uh member Drake you can certainly have that conversation to determine um which way you would like to go on that but our our thought on that is that it would be just a short a short summary of what um you know they had gleaned in that conference piece and that we would likely provide that to the governing board in writing at you know at some point in time so that's certainly something that that you can discuss um you know but again communication such as that with the board is certainly available for the public if they so choose thank you anybody else um I I guess sometimes these conferences you you go to and you're absorbing a lot of information um and you're
048not going to implement all of it not all of it is going to make sense for Dysart maybe a few pieces of it here and there and that you know will make sense for what we do in our district um so I think from my point of view um I would like a summary of what people come back with and intend to implement just because you go to a conference I mean I could go to a conference and I could you know fall asleep halfway through because none of it applies to what we do in our district um you know maybe it's just completely out there and just it just it's just not applicable so I really couldn't come back and give a summary on something like that and they wouldn't expect our staff to
049either but maybe on the flip side of that if it wasn't applicable maybe come back coming back and saying well you know I know that when you spent a lot of money on this and you know um but here's here's why I can't apply anything Madam president member Densmore thank you for making that point because that that does happen um and it actually happens more often than perhaps you would think um unintentionally correct where where we may attend a conference thinking that um a session that we're going to see that we have strong interest in right and then there's a a different take you know presented or it's not applicable to our community or whatever the case may be and so I appreciate that piece because there are likely far more sessions attended at conferences
050than those that are brought back for us to look to implement in the district for example um Dr Cotto Dr Psy Amy hartun just came back from the National School Association administrator conference in that conference they would have had an opportunity to attend probably up to five to six breakout sessions per day over three days and three or four General Sessions so that could be 20 to 25 sessions that they sat in of which maybe one is an applicable piece that would come back to us or that we went to see and so I appreciate that piece on that and it would probably help those attending conferences um to narrow down to things that we believe make may be applicable to us coming back right um but in that same vein though if they're coming
051back and say they really can't Implement much of what they've learned but I'm sure that they've maybe had some experiences at that conference that were helpful in other ways as far as what not to do correct so there's always learning you know right in in those experiences that might not seem worthwhile at the time but upon reflection it's telling it's giving you a clear indication of all the things we don't want to do so agreed and there is Great Value in that type of learning yeah as well and so I think you know our our best approach at this will be to start a process yeah and then we can continue this conversation down the road and if we need to refine it or make adjustments to it we'll be more than happy to do
052that and we would we would likely begin this process with folks that are attending conferences starting in April we have spring break coming up and uh you know and those types of things so it's never good to start an initiative then but if we can start that in April and then we'll we'll work with the board to gain a frequency of when that occurs so all right thank you next we will move on to item H1 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community this evening we bring to you a recommendation to approve the English language instruction specialist position for title schools for next school year this is a position that will assist with our English language Learners and assist with our current state with the
053or our current situation with the state board or State Department of Education as it relates to corrective action with our English language Learners this position will be funded by both the SEI and title III grants it is not an m o based position and we seek approval this evening from the board thank you do you want to start oh okay sorry um so you you mentioned the corrective action plan is this position a requirement of that plan Madam president miss Densmore I'm going to turn questions specifically over to Dr acai um as she is the content expert in this Madam president member Densmore members of the board the position is not a requirement of the grant what is a requirement of the grant is that El students get an hour of targeted instruction a day
054that is only our El students you can't mix them with any other students it's just those El students and that they also receive an hour of integrated instruction a day this position would serve as a model class for our targeted which really helps with our schedule our teachers can only do so much you can imagine within the regular schedule a teacher carving out an hour of a day for targeted instruction we currently have three El itinerant teachers for the entire District that try to do this where some of our schools have an abundance of students so this position will help to provide for the targeted instruction needed as well as serve as a resource for teachers who need help with El instru with the integrated okay so I just want to clarify though um so
055Michael you said it's not a requirement of the Grant I appreciate that thank you but is it a requirement of the action plan sorry thank you in the action plan it requires us to provide the hour of targeted in the hour of integrated so this is not a requirement of the action plan however it enhances our action plan and our duty from the state it's saying that here's what we're doing we're dedicating resources through our grant funds from our SEI funds and our title III which is specifically dedicated to El Learners and we're spending it specifically on that population to increase achievement and to do our due diligence with English language acquisition thank you and so these um these positions they would be doing like a pull out service they would be doing pull out
056because we are required to do the hour of pull out they would also help teachers to integrate the El in the classroom as well okay when I read through the the job description I for some reason I didn't interpret it that way I thought that this was being presented as a support position when it says model there's a there's a specific line that talks about them being a model classroom they have to have students with them to be a model classroom so through pulling the students they could also serve as a model classroom okay and in fact they will because that'll be helpful I would add that this what we are presenting and proposing in terms of our approach We Believe will take us out of corrective action very quickly it provides a specific and
057designated employee specifically for providing El instruction for our students which right now we struggle a bit with with our current Staffing model um would these positions with these El instructional Specialists would they also provide resources for teachers or students that are not identified as ell like initially identified as Madam president miss Densmore I think that I might be able to answer that question in terms of the way that we approach all of our students and so um all of our teachers do an excellent job of meeting the needs of any student that they see or getting them resources in which they need so one of the things that Dr assai talks about with his position with the pull out and pushing in piece of it so not only would they be providing pull out instruction
058but they also would push in during during general education Court let's just say core instruction for example let's say it's math and they would be assisting our teacher and our students with any language-based needs to meet their needs to help them be successful in that core subject while at the same time meeting their needs as ell students in their transition to the English language that being said they would have access to any student who may need assistance in that in that course as well if that makes sense or in that class as well I guess what I mean is I have heard I've been given some feedback in the past where some of our teachers feel not as supported um you know with the ell I when seeking resources for you know first comp you
059know having those conversations with um the parent or the guardian that sometimes the only resources that we had were Spanish that we didn't have alternative languages or other resources but I mean in just reviewing the consent agenda yeah we we're paying for interpreter services but I don't think that all teachers are aware of that so I'm wondering if these positions can maybe create a little bit more transparency for all teachers and not just ones that they've identified as ell resource teachers So within the within the job description it does mention doing professional development and that would be for all staff and I think that that it you bring up a valid point that not all teachers are aware of all the resources that are available to them uh when they do that PD they could
060definitely integrate that and here's the different resources you have that is part of the job is thinking of ideas to help kids but we can also easily with the PD how do we connect with families because we know that's a huge need is to better connect with our families and our community regardless of the language they speak they're also responsible for when children come to us and the families and answer the flow like do you speak another language in your house is arranging for testing for those students so when they do that that would be a great time because they're going to be connected to campuses to connect with those teachers and how can we support you and the other the only other thing I would add related to this this question and and it's
061a fair point that you bring up is I would add that we've discussed with the board a few of the changes that we're making in some of our federal project approaches moving forward and this is one of those as well and so we believe that we will see great benefits for all of our teachers with this piece and the transparency piece is a fair point and we'll make certain that we do a substantially better job of communicating with everyone as they as they work with our English language learning students thank you um when we do the pull outs will they be multi-grade levels or just one grade at a time um although the state would prefer it to be one grade at a time that's not always realistic with the amount of kids we have
062we would definitely try to group them at least by proficiency level which could be multi-grade sometimes not saying we would ever have a first grader and eighth grader but you know three four five together six seven eight uh it's really dependent upon the population of children in their proficiency okay I have a few questions do you have questions okay um how many ell students do we have currently do we have that information I think about 900 don't we can I believe about 900 I don't know if that's a firm number I'd have to go back and look and then how many students would each teacher be responsible for all 900. [Music] we haven't planned for how many they would be responsible for yet I mean that's that's a large caseload they're not going to be
063at every school some schools do have to you know they currently provide that service on their own working within their schedule so I don't have that answer okay so we're not gonna end up with one El instructional specialist who's got 10 kids that would not be the plan the plan would be to look at campuses and their populations sometimes we currently we're combining two or three schools together to get that support so it would be to look at the populations and have them share campuses unless you do have a high number on the campus Thompson Ranch for example has a huge population you know they may get their own teacher why you look at somebody like Canyon Ridge Mountain View and sunset who may share because they have that number of of kids not teachers
064I'm sorry and do we have a goal our goal is to exit them from their El status as quickly as possible to comply with the state regulations the state has those regulations because they believe that's the quickest way to get children to English proficiency we know that's always our goal because after we get them English proficiency we have a ton of extra work to do with English math and science okay and then what happens when we get off of corrective action and our ell students become proficient and they are exited from the ell program what happens to these positions I think at that time we would monitor them and say you know do we still need six you know can we go down to five can we go down to four I think your need
065drives that you know some districts it depends on the influx are you going to get an influx in the 90s we got an influx of Bosnian children and kids coming uh coming that way that needed eal assistance depending on where immigration is from you could have a lot we could come back and say you know can we have seven we could come back and say okay we're going to take it down to three I think it's looking at the effectiveness of the program after we have it for a year we have sufficient staff are we reclassifying at a higher rate than we did before and then what is our need based on student numbers and then where does the funding come from next year the funding would still come from our SEI in title III
066the grants uh yes the federal grants okay and those grants are planned to be reoccurring for the next foreseeable future Madam president um yes the answer that question is we receive SEI and title III grants each year so this would be currently an ongoing expense that would be planned for and as Dr assai mentioned it would be based upon need and we would adjust up or down if needed in the future the intent and the goal would be to adjust down okay thank you a couple more questions so this basically I'm looking at the requirements and it's this is open to any certified teacher who's got their SEI and endorsement correct so are they on a teacher salary teacher certified teacher salary yes it's a 197 day contract which is a typical teacher okay thank
067you I have a question not sure it's valuable for this but for this position under the certification or under the Education certification is there any possibility to have the individual that we put in this position be certified in Spalding to help with this would it be practical to have the ELO specialist certified in Spalding would that help our El learners Madam president Ember drink and Madam President we certainly could look at that it is it is certainly an option part of the the targeted ell instruction involves teaching English and so what we find a lot of times is that students will pick up the English language fairly quickly and as most kids do in terms of learning a lot of languages I wish I would have picked one up when I was younger however then
068as Dr assai mentioned then the work really begins in terms of making that connection to great you can speak it now we need to to read it and those types of things that's where Spalding could possibly come in from an effective perspective so we have not looked at that we'll go back and look at the budget for SEI and title III to see if we could entertain the cost of the Spalding training into that as well it's um sorry I was thinking because of how Spalding works with the letters and how you pronunciate the letters I thought that would be an excellent source to utilize understand completely okay I think that's a very valuable thing so I appreciate you looking into the Spalding piece you bet thank you at this time I will entertain a
069motion less position for the title schools as presented second motion made by Joe Grant seconded by Don Densmore do you need her to repeat it yeah I need you to speak into the microphone I'm sorry I'm losing my voice well motion to approve the addition of the English language instructional specialist positions for the title schools as presented second motion carries next we will move to item H2 Dr Dean Madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community it's been a while since he presented but he's back Ken Hicks is here to present our employee health benefit plan recommendation for the 23-24 school year Mr Hicks it looks a lot like the CTE presentation I'm not going to lie thank you very much good evening Madam president members of the board superintendent
070Dr Dean cabinet and community members I am before you tonight to present and request approval of our employee benefit package for 2024 so thank you for allowing me to come up and make that presentation to make this presentation before we get going you know there's a lot that goes into a lot of this stuff so I do like to thank all the people that participated in this process of course Marydel is always there to help and support but um and you've seen Janice this is benefits so Miss Janice peel Ava also helped we had our consultant Elvis we had our Actuarial Jamison we had the EBT the employee benefits trust board provide input and we made presentation to IBA and getting all their feedback so there's been a lot of people that have taking a
071lot of time and energy to look over all of this and give us feedback so I appreciate all their efforts before I go through the benefit and renewal plan that we have I do want to just um because a lot of this is not in there I just want to always of course we get lots of awards for wellness that you see or hear Janice Miss Janice Peel's name a lot and she does an amazing job just in the last two months she's going out to all schools or available through Google meets to present anything on benefits she's promoting Outreach to learn about our our Wellness coaching she's our employee assistant program answer any questions about benefits so she does an amazing job thank you for all the principles that are taking her up on
072participating in those staff meetings you've heard Dr Dean has pushed us a little bit and we're doing uh Financial Wellness so we'll be rolling that out next week we've identified and got the emails and hopefully that will get finalized we just got to get the purchase order done let's drag it taking a long time on that and then also part of our medical plan which um I'll just allude to right now which is a new program this also thank you for Janice always looking for innovative ways it's called hinge Health that Blue Cross Blue Shield is partnered with and it's a amazing Innovative way to do physical therapy to help reduce our muscular skeletal costs which are probably in excess of two and a half up to three million dollars and so we're always looking
073for ways that we could Implement something that will then reduce future claims this comes at no cost and a guarantee so Blue Cross is guaranteed that we will save at least 150 thousand dollars so um it's what those type of attitudes and mindset that's always looking to grow and innovate and make our plans as best as possible so I appreciate all their efforts so um I just haven't talked in a while so I'd like to continue speaking I know I know Dr crota woke up grumpy this morning um so I'm just trying to wake him back up a little bit on that so um thank you for allowing me we'd like to thank Mr Hicks for his presentation are there any questions what's going on thank you very much Dr Dean um so um our
074our medical plan is running at 84 percent uh claims uh ratio claims lost so that's a good thing uh over 100 men's means that it's costing us money right now um it is only through 12 months um or six months out of the 12 so it's doing very good we want it to continue to do good Blue Cross is our provider so we are a self-funded plan Blue Cross is our provider and about three years ago we carved out Pharmacy because we knew they were getting rebates we they said they were giving us this recorded they are they did give us discounts and everything we believe that the rebates coming back to us would be bigger and better we were right so the first year we saved approximately a hundred thousand dollars net was about
075750 there were some costs expenses in that the last 12 months I looked our rebates were up over a million dollars so it has been a good uh good decision to carve out Pharmacy and that is through Magellan and they do a good job working together just in general cost inflation we know everybody talks about inflation now most times people did not but medical costs continue to go through the roof specialty Drugs Pharmacy continues to drive a lot but we do still see in part of our Actuarial only uses about somewhere between 8 10 maybe a little bit higher but we're really looking at what our claims are what our usage is to see what that inflation is but we do make that part of the process so but when I look at and I
076know a rule of thumb is 10 inflation if we're working at 84 that means 94 percent for next year looking at that so that's a good thing so our our cost increase is very minimal going into next year um we are looking at a little bit of a plan design and this is out of network so we have a now and a network option right now um people can select it I will say that I think at least 98 maybe not more percent of our claims are in network a very small out of network and just because we're recommending out of network being eliminated does not mean that if there's an emergency you go to a emergency room if they're out of network that does not count in this place that still is covered and
077if they're going in for surgery and maybe the anesthesiologist is not in network that also will be covered that is not what we're talking about mainly it's page management centers that have manipulated the coding and medical billing that have caused a huge spike in um in our costs and our administrative claims and so we are recommending to carve that out every single claim that came through in an out of network there's corresponding services in network available so they're just choosing out we're going to carve that out and not let that that we are paying for if they want to do that they're just going to go on their own dime which most of it was on their own dime but a portion was coming through our plan at a higher rate so that is the
078major change that's happening within our plan is the out of out of network option going away and I know of three other districts that have done it and they have not had a single complaint single issue it is not a huge cost driver it is just something for management and when I see a manipulation of the billing codes it just seems wrong and so I feel very strong that this is the right direction that we should do on that and all this recommendation obviously as I mentioned was shared with IBA but in more detail we do have an employee benefits trust board and that went discussed last week with them and presented in this was their recommendation as well so just in total just uh we'll go through a couple of these slides hopefully pretty
079quick um really we're looking at current year this is estimated for the rest of this year um at 15.8 million dollars we work our Actuarial looks at all of our history not just this year doing good that's only weighted at a quarter of what the weight is they look at last year and they look at the previous year every Year's weighted they come up with here's what we think based on your plan design the the cost will be next year at 16.1 so really you're looking at three hundred and seventeen thousand dollar increase which is around a two percent we do put down we do not Bank on a million dollars a pharmacy so we really I just wanted to highlight we know there'll be a lot of Pharmacy rebates we go down low just
080in case it comes in it'll hopefully it will come in more with not a lot of claims expense corresponding with it and so really we're recommending that the two percent increase be completely absorbed by the district and none of it being passed on to the employee so all the premiums and everything will stay the same will go down a little bit and we'll go into that in a second here's what our demographics look like we have two plans our PPO buyout and our HSA base and you can see the corresponding in each one of those tiers either employee only employee spouse employee children employee family how many employees are in each one of those plans in each one of those tiers and then below that the 227 the 1463 is how many employees are in
081each one of those plans and then the corresponding total cost of that tier for those plans on a monthly basis um we contribute 618 dollars is what we're asking that's the two percent going up so the district provides 618 for every eligible employee we also provide two other contributions which is going to the HSA base and last year we added the HSA family because that cost changed a little bit and so what we want to do is try to offset some of that and so that provided the extra 250 so that's the only deviation that we had and that was new last year here is the employee premium when we take that monthly amount take off the district what's provided what is the monthly amount for employees if we go over to the far right
082we would just like to provide just in case you want to thumb through this at the middle of the night looking at all the historical side but really just looking at the right side employee costs we always like to provide a no cost for an employee only option so you can see this has employee only on the HSA base is it zero cost to the employees so the district pays the whole amount and then the corresponding premium amounts for those monthly for each one of those tiers and you can see they're the exact same as last year going down to the bottom the PPO buy-up plan you can see almost all the same except for there are two plans the employee only and the employee with children they actually both went down just a slight
083amount we're not promoting there's a reduction in costs or anything there's not a lot of people on those plans but they will see a slight decrease in their premiums in the monthly amounts our financial position so the employee benefit trust we set the Actuarial sets the premium sets the dollar amounts that funds the fund the employee benefit trust fund and then we make all the claims payment out of that and so you can see that we're really operating if you look at the last four or five years at around a six million dollar balance insurance industry standards do like for uh claims incurred but not reported you should have about a 25 balance in there so we try to hold although we're not audited by the Arizona Department of Insurance that's what they would be
084looking at are provided that we purchase food they like to make sure that we have balance to make sure that we could absorb any claims that are coming through and you can see holding at six million four million would be the minimum that we would talk about do we have a problem but you could see it I'm here every year so it would be self-correcting every year looking at the rates in the premium so the worst thing we could ever do is go down in one year that we would address the next year or we would not address if it goes up or down we would have that conversation and so now that's the medical plan um looking at just our dental plan we have two dental plans TDA tele Dental administrators and once again
085you could see the proposed rates there are no changes to that but you could see the employee monthly costs and employee only is zero so we have medical and dental that's provided at no cost to our employees and there's no changes for anything else there is the buy up PPO plan for our Delta Dental of Arizona that costs a little bit more but you can see those rates none of those rates have changed as well jumping over to our supplementary uh supplemental and voluntary programs we have our Health Equity Flex Pay account and Health Equity savings account and neither one of those have a rate increase at all and then we have wex health wex health is our Cobra administrator that we pay to help us when people leave us and we have to administer
086it COBRA they were new last year we had problems with our previous vendor and we were trying to leave as quickly as possible and luckily we were able to access wex through Valley Schools I believe is how we got them and they have been a great deal of help and a lot better for our employees and for our administrator which is Janice on our Cobra administrators so that has been a blessing so that change was really um this year um and but no change and no rate increase for next year teledoc does have an increase in so this is a virtual medicine when you log in you could see a doctor from your own home and we pay per member per month this is not an employee cost this is a district cost and that
087is going from 250 up to three dollars so that's approximately about ten thousand dollar cost increase and we have an annual Reserve vendor that provides that and there's no rate change on that one next um or just continuing our vision which is a voluntary Vision the district does not pay for this but there's no rate changes on our vision plan uh symmetra life this is our basic life accidental death and dismemberment this is the district provided um uh life insurance package and this is our cost that we pay and this is going up from uh four cents or four and a half cents per thousand to four and a half cents per thousand very small increase so it's about a three thousand dollar increase to us some of it is their claims but it's also
088we asked them to move the age at which the life insurance amount that we pay to employees up all right they reduce it it started reducing last time to cut in half at age 70 we've asked them to move that up to age 75. we do have some older workers I think there's about 60 to 70 people that this impacts and this just provides just a little bit more not penalizing them for being older and working with us we like to keep them and don't give them a reason to leave us and at a small cost of three thousand dollars the symmetra life insurance that this is the voluntary this is they could go above and beyond what the district provides that has no rate changes there's a voluntary short-term disability rate that increase is
089a half a percent so they did see some rate increases and that's the last couple years there have been some high claims and uh and whatnot from the Sun Life program so that is a corresponding increase and our employee assistance program and Colonial Accident insurance has no rate increase as well so just to summarize up our benefits um the medical premium costs going up two percent with the district absorbing the entire cost lower premiums on just the PPO employee only and employed children we are removing the out-of-network coverage for both plans we have extensive in-network coverage and so this will not affect emergency rooms it will not affect um where um you're having a surgery and there's the providers at a network as well we're maintaining the zero cost employee contribution for the base employer
090fan plan as well as our TDA employee only plan and continue incentive participation for our HSA plans and we're maintaining our specific stop-loss claim at 320 000 per claim and the employee benefits trust board agrees to continue to reduce so they cover a slot I almost I'd rather say like a subsidize a small amount of the premium so what the actual premium is and what we charge the employee there's a little bit of a gap employee benefit trust board continues to fund that because as you saw previously we were up over 10 million dollars and we're like hey why do we have so much money let's start covering some cost of the premium for employees and so that is what that is so we're going to continue those amounts and as previously kind of alluded
091to but we if our claims experience exceeds any of our actual claims expenses exceeds any of our projections the employee benefit trust has sufficient reserves to kidney to cover any and all access claims for the 23 24 year and we continue to review premium costs as I mentioned before that we would adjust and monitor future premium costs for presidential adjustments if the balance was in Jeopardy so hopefully I did that quickly painful enough not too many changes but I will stand for any questions thank you Mr Hicks do we have any questions um just a comment too thank you for absorbing that increase because we give employees a pay raise and then health insurance goes up and their pay raise goes away so it's nice to see that they're truly getting a pay increase on
092that teledoc is there tracking done on how many employees actually use it Madam president members of the board that's exactly what the employee benefit trust board asked last week and we're getting them usage reports so yes we do get in total usage report obviously there's patient confidentiality so we don't see exactly what they are but yes the numbers yeah and they do they of probably save themselves a lot of money because a a teledoc appointment has a co-pay of only ten dollars as opposed to what you pay going into your doctor's office so it's a lot cheaper also to stay at home so um if the board would like I will send on the next usage report over to the board just so you get a context of how many people are using teledoc I
093was just curious as long as you have a thermometer and a blood pressure medicine or blood pressure machine that's usually what they say what's your temperature and your blood pressure um by taking the pharmaceutical out of the plan does that increase your job or your Department's job at all at all Madam president members of the board a little so when we did the first transition of course when you add a vendor into another vendor's wheelhouse yes there were transition problems and issues and although you say me no not me Janice Candice our payroll department they all had extra work and burden but now that we're three years in it I I think it's pretty seamless and I think they work very well together sometimes a file doesn't get transferred appropriately and they each point fingers
094at each other and it's hard to determine and really I just want the right file to get over so we just tell just get it done kind of thing so there's been a little bit but right now I would say very minimal you're welcome and then do you think maybe you could include that usage report in either this Friday or maybe next Friday superintendent update thank you definitely by next Friday yes thank you you're welcome um as far as the the claims being uh the 84 percent can you speak to um how much that's decreasing from and for the previous year I know we had a spike um Madam president members of the board we've had spikes and we've had declines so covet play a really crazy year so if you remember we that all
095happened around March 2020 and they froze no surgical procedures for the rest of the year the rest of the four months we had no claims coming in so that year was great but what did they do the next year they pushed it all to the next year so claims that should have happened in one year were all added on to the next year so we went way down then we went way up and now we're kind of leveling off and there's kind of a little normalcy so so you think it was all maybe kind of a wash um that's a good question isn't it um I still do think there's some good um in the plan and um some say it's luck uh maybe people just don't go to the doctor maybe they're not getting
096sick enough maybe they're not saying anything maybe they feel guilty leaving the work I I don't know exactly it does feel good right now when I look at trends of course July August High numbers because teachers are home and so they can make doctor's appointments they're also home in December which normally does Spike up this year didn't Spike up so we still had a positive month in December so so I don't know if this is a new norm and this was a good settling and costs our costs and claims are coming down or is this an anomaly I actually don't know that's a good question I don't know that well it's good to know we had a good month yeah okay at this time I will move to approve the employee health benefit plan for
097the 2023-2024 school year second motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Don Densmore motion carries we will move on to item H3 Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community it's hard to believe that it is very close to the end of February which means that it's time for us to start looking ahead in terms of calendar planning for the 23-24 school year actually we started a couple months ago but now it's formally time with the governing board to take a look at our governing board meeting cycle and policy monitoring cycle for next year and so we bring this item as a recommendation for governing board meetings for the 23-24 school year along with us resuming the policy monitoring cycle thank you do we have any
098questions comment that I'm really excited to see the policy monitoring cycle back we're excited to have had successfully transitioned our policies to the model policies with the trust and look forward to beginning that as well all right at this time I will entertain a motion I motion to approve the 2020 wait a minute sorry am I on the right one okay sorry I motion to approve the 2023-2024 governing board meeting schedule and the 2023-2024 policy monitoring cycle as presented motion made by Don Densmore seconded by Joe Grant motion carries at this time I will open it up item one do we have any requests for future agenda items yes um I know that Dr Dean mentioned earlier that we would he would give us an update on something that was mentioned earlier but I would
099like to request um in a an information item on the board committees versus the superintendent committees and how the open meeting law requirements are different for each I would also like to request an item to answer Mr leblanc's questions about curriculum writing and what our staff members are writing who approves the curriculum how much it costs and what subjects they're writing for an information item anyone else okay at this time there's a there is a call for an executive session pursuant to ARs 38-431.03 and Irish one ars-15-843 for the purpose of reviewing and consideration of the hearing officer's recommendation to expel a student in the student Discipline matters hqr223-029 and hor 2223-030 and receive legal advice from the attorney for the public body regarding the same at this time I moved that the board established
100executive session motion made by Crystal chicken Chaffin seconded by Joe Grant been a long day I have a six week old baby okay we will now go to Executive session yeah at this time we will reconvene the regular meeting we move on to item K1 I move to expel a student in the matter of student discipline hearing hor 2223-029 motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Joe Grant motion carries action item K2 I recommend or I move to expel a student in the matter of student is just student discipline hearing hor 2223-030 second motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Don Densmore motion carries at this time I will move that we adjourn the meeting motion made by Crystal Chapman seconded by Joe Grant thank you motion carries we are adjourned