001like to ask our governing board president Christine Pritchard who will administer the oath of office to come up forward and we'd also like to ask Miss Don Densmore who has won re-election and will continue on our board to come forward to be sworn in as well as Miss Jennifer Drake would you come on up Miss Drake as well all right and we're going to need you to to talk into the mic you feel okay with that you want me to hold stuff are you okay without the mic I agree with that statement are you good okay very good then let me get out of the way officers and employees required to take loyalty oath form classification as governing board president I will administer the oath of office to Don Densmore and Jennifer Drake at the
002conclusion of the swearing-in Louisa Brown a testing officer will give further instructions to governing board members regarding the signing of the oath of office document and provide notary services Ryan McGinley will take photos during the event to post to the website so before we get started I have something for each of you are there roses and when we first look at roses we just note how beautiful they are which like the two of you but we always look at the top part of it again but roses are Hardy and again our eye initially goes to the bud and in this instance it's white white represents Purity and for the two of you I just felt it was fitting because your intentions your vision is always so pure whether it be advocating for parent rights students
003school choice academic achievement all that you've advocated for it's coming from a place of Purity in your heart and I've always recognized that for both of you and I just so appreciate that and then equally as beautiful but I don't think people typically see it as beautiful as the stem of the Rose um there's thorns on it and some people don't really necessarily recognize that as something um of quality or value or beauty but as you'll see the stem of a rose is very firm and Hearty and strong and not easily broken and the Thorns symbolize adversity and the two of you have had a lot of to face a lot of adversity over this election cycle and you've done so with Grace and your firm values just helped you continue to persevere through all
004you've had to endure and it just adds to the overall beauty of both of you so please keep that as a gift and with that we will continue on with our ceremony um okay so at this time I call forward Don Densmore before any officer enters upon the duties of the office the officer shall take and prescribe to the following oath or affirmation I will read the oath of office in sections and then pause to allow you to repeat out loud the section just read I Dawn Densmore do solemnly swear I Don Densmore do you solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of Arizona that I will
005bear true faith and allegiance to the same that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic and then I will faithfully and partially discharge the duties that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of governing board member for dicer Unified School District number 89. of governing board member of Dysart Unified School District number 89. according to the best of my abilities according to the best of my abilities so help me God thank you not this time now at this time I call forward Jennifer Drake and again before any officer enters upon the duties of office the officer shall take And subscribe to the following oath or affirmation I will read the
006oath of office in sections and then pause to allow you to repeat out loud the section just read I Jennifer Drake do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States at the Constitution laws of the State of Arizona I will support the United States Constitution and the Arizona state constitution that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same I bear truth to religion religious and the same and defend them against all enemies defend defend all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic and that I will faithfully and partially discharge faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of governing board member the duties of the office of governing board member the duties of the office of the governing board member for Dysart Unified School District number 89 Dysart
007School District number 989 according to the best of my abilities according to the best of my abilities so help me God congratulations congratulations [Applause] good evening at this time I'd like to call this regular meeting of the Dysart Unified School District governing board to order let the record reflect that all board members are present please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance okay we'll go ahead and start with our public hearing public hearing for fiscal year 2022 2023 expenditure budget revision Dr Dean Madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet and our community this evening Mr Hicks will present information regarding our budget revision required by law as part of the public hearing Mr Hicks foreign good evening good evening Madam president members of the board superintendent Dr Dean colleagues and
008community members I am before you to present our revised expenditure budget number two first of all you know that um I don't do all the work or maybe do know that I don't do all the work but there's a great team that works on all of this and they're led by Miss Mary Dallas spidel thank you very much and she has a great team and I just want to thank her and her team for continuing their great work and helping to make me look good um before I go through the presentation I'd just like to say a few remarks uh this revision is a little different than most um we are perfect with our projections but projecting this year we projected a little bit of growth but actually having a little bit of decline actually
009has a compounding effect and makes it feel a little bit different so I feel a little compelled to say a few more words budget revisions are mainly focused on the revenue side but obviously they include adjustments to the expenditure two the three main reasons why we have our budget revisions are one because we actually revise based on our actual carry forward after we finish our AFR which was done in October adjustments to the current year student count because we are current year funded in a lot of funds and formulas but then also adjustments to the previous year funding which we have some of our funding formulas and streams are also predicated upon our previous year funding amount all three of those occurred in this revision and as a board you're fully aware that we're constantly
010battling the inflation pressures the supply chain challenges and the labor issues just in general that are putting pressures on our budget our process and its basic form that we've been using for over a decade begins about seven months before the year begins we use demographic reports projections current year data we apply our staffing ratios we then have projected Staffing numbers our staff is roughly about 80 percent of our m o budget and if you include Outsourcing it's probably closer to 85 percent once our staffing is set we don't forget about it and as superintendent Dr Dean says as good teachers do we always Monitor and adjust and that's what we do out throughout the whole year I can't say that there's been a week that we don't look at our enrollment numbers and our staffing
011every single week in cabinet as we're going through the year the adopted budget included contingent positions so we did have growth in there we put some contingent positions so these positions were eliminated we then looked at our staffing based on our class size guidelines and it was clear that we had some excess positions and they were vacant so we worked with the principals Dr Poling and such work with our principals talking with them and then where appropriate we eliminated those excess positions so as the board knows superintendent Dr Dean also had HR freeze some positions at the district level to also guard against some of the inflation and also some reductions in our enrollment so although we are here to revise our budget and I'll be going through the numbers I just wanted to let
012you know that we're constantly looking at it we're constantly trying to address discussing enrollment discussing staff discussing Staffing and that during all of these I know I've said we've eliminated some vacant positions and froze some no staff lost their job during this process um this occurred in our MMO budget and we have a very defined process that includes our staffing ratios and which we use when we're growing and we use when we're shrinking so it's a both sides of it on the front end we collaborate through an IBA process in a worst case scenario we will use some of our carry forward to cover any of those current year shortfalls I look at a process as at one that at the very minimum will self-correct every single year because we re-look at all the Staffing
013and really build all of that on a year-to-year basis we do try to address issues before they become uh and so they don't snowball all the way to the year and we make a pro appropriate adjustments as I mentioned with the vacancies of cutting some of those excess staff and the contingent positions we handle that I know there's been some articles and some other stories about some of the other districts and the shortfall issues that they've had I guess in a very long-winded way I'm saying we don't have that situation here because of our process and how we work on things and how we constantly look at Monitor and adjust so with that little long-winded explanation to say we're doing a pretty good job I will go through our budget so uh as Dr Dean
014said it is required by law so we did receive a letter by November 1st from Ade advising us that we're required to revise our budget doesn't always happen and when your numbers are going up they do not require it when your numbers go down they do required and as I've always said as we have a a budget revision we're required to have a public hearing and here I am so we'll go through the mno quickly just in general you can see this is uh representative of about 2.7 2.8 million dollar reduction of which about 20 don't know if it's 25 or 28 positions that we did eliminate that were vacant to cover most of it and we made the appropriate revisions downward in the budget on the expenditure side for the revised budget and you
015can see a couple have gone up we are actually still continuing to grow in our special ed population and so those expenditures reflect that are capital funds um in general they're going up the unrestricted Capital just a very minor adjustment from actual carry forward going over uh into this year so there was a small seven thousand dollar increase in that one the building renewal grant that is the Arizona school facilities oversight board the azs fob and although it's up to 3 million here you see additional approvals that the board continues to approve as we continue to submit our recommendations and our applications to the board I believe this week alone we received two additional ones that are in excess of nine million dollars so this will probably at our next budget revision be upwards of
01613 14 million dollars hopefully the state doesn't run out of money but once again that's a positive thing that the state is covering it and not relying on our local budget to have to cover that classroom site funds once again this is adjustment from our carry forward from actual because when we're putting together our budget in the summer it's using projected and so this is just tying up and as we always said unspent money in classroom site fund stays in actual and classroom siphon this will be caught as this little increase will be caught for our projections when we make them we get our numbers in March so we put them together in April and this will be included in that special project funds is the biggest dominating one is our federal this is where
017your Esser funds are but we also have our title funds I IDE funds and a few other federal grants in there um that is going up for our projected of what we're planning on spending or hoping to spend not all of it comes to fruition as we have timing and Supply chains and other issues uh but we're working on that uh state grants uh slightly going up I believe this is a projection of our results-based funding going up a little bit so that includes it Food Service looking to Hold Steady as always we put all of our information for more detailed information that can get the actual Budget on our website they also can look and see how to contact me or my department and I would gladly talk to anybody about it before we
018go to questions I also just wanted to pull up the rainbow report I know sometimes I go quickly through it and don't really talk too much about it um really this is just a reminder this is just a 30 000 foot view of looking at multiple funds and not just looking at one page in there and then in the bottom half of it I'd pull in the auditor general data that we have historically and then also what we're projecting uh for us to be the biggest takeaway um first if you look over you could see Transportation other areas growing faster than other categories that is by Design other includes some of the construction and other modifications which we've been doing our safety enhancements and modifications facility improvements and also our buses that we're purchasing and
019so we've been making a more concerted effort to purchase more so that number is going up and then if you look at the estimated auditor general calculation probably the biggest calc takeaway that I see from there is if you're looking at our administrative costs continue to stay in line and below the state average and as well projected to be below the peer average as well so we continue to monitor what our administrative costs are to make sure that we're in line with where we should be and not overspending in that area and so that is the end of the presentation we could pause for a second in case we have anybody from the public that would like to say a few words um in the action item of our agenda I will have nothing additional
020to say at this point so I'll stand for any questions or comments or for the public thank you this time anybody who would like to um pose any questions is welcome to come up to the podium thank you very much not hearing any we'll go continue on with uh the regular meeting and that's moving to item C recognitions and celebrations Dr Dean Madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet and our community this evening we are pleased to recognize athletic accomplishments from the high school fall season and I'm going to turn that over to Dr crota thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board superintendent Dean cabinet and guest uh it is my privilege tonight um an honor to recognize our regional and sectional Champions along with our coach of the
021year and our division uh gold division winner in the state tournament in badmin so if I could have the governing board Dr Dean come down for some pictures I'm going to introduce the teams and have them come up and take pictures with you and we can give them a round of applause foreign all right first up we'd like to invite our Southwest sectional champions for boys Golf and Shadow Ridge and Coach Scott list come on up please [Applause] congratulations relations congratulations hey blue shoes still out of score what do you shoot what's your hand again all right I would rather race I look here all right another round of applause for Shadow Ridge congratulations moving on tonight our 5A Northwest region Champions and football Willow Canyon come on up Willow Canyon is also coached by
022head coach Justin stangler so congratulations thank you [Music] um congratulations all right moving on to more Regional championships our Valley Vista football team our 6A West Valley region Champions Valley Vista come on up the head coach for Valley Vista is Mr Derek wallstrom so congratulations like this All Right Moving On Again in our regional Champions we'd like to uh invite up Valley Vista girls volleyball who were the 6A West Valley region champions Valley Vista is coached by Mr David Chavez good job coach foreign [Laughter] all right the awesome thing is you will remember that forever congratulations oh next up we have uh will Canyon High School unified badminton Partners Nevin Joyce and Tim kaxer who won the gold division in the state tournament and their head coach Kendra Melby so come on up congratulations [Applause]
023and Coach Christine cook so congratulations [Applause] all right and moving on we have some uh Regional and sectional coaches of the year in our district so first we want to uh welcome back up uh coach Justin stengler uh the 5A Northwest region Coach of the Year coach stengler [Applause] to join coach stangler we have uh coach Derek wallstrom who was the 6A West Valley region coach of the year foreign coach David Chavez who was the 6A West Valley region coach of the year come on up [Applause] and again a round of applause for all our recipients tonight congratulations and that concludes our presentation thank you I got soap all over myself all right next we will move on to uh section D addresses the governing board audience with individuals Ms chef this is the time
024for 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 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 we have two public comments that are agenda item specific so we will save those when we for when we get to that agenda item we have Miss marsley Marcy Hessler Madam president president governing board members members
025of cabinet thank you tonight for allowing me to speak I'm Marcie Hessler and my purpose for being here tonight is to publicly thank Tracy Sawyer sync bell for an incredible decade plus of service that has just been with a lot of love a lot of care and just always having the community our students our staff and everyone around you in mind and you have done so with so much grace so much dignity and um I don't know nothing rattles you and I wish I could get some of that skill um but you've just been amazing and it has been an honor and I am so humbled to have been able to work with you in all these years that we've been together here in Dysart and happy retirement I know that you're going to fill
026your time with other opportunities um to serve the public and serve our community and like I said I am just amazed and and you are the epitome of a class act and a role model for all board members across this nation to follow so thank you from the bottom of my heart and I'm very honored to now call you friend have a good night and happy retirement [Applause] thank you we next have Andrew simik good evening members of the board uh staff and superintendent Dean my name is Andy simic and I'm here to thank Tracy Sawyer sink Bell for her service Tracy Sawyer sink Bell has been a pillar of the Dysart Community since she assumed office in 2011. in her 12 years with Dysart we have seen this District grow and change in previously
027unimaginable ways her leadership her strength her kindness will never be forgotten Tracy has been the example of a servant leader someone who puts the kids and the teachers of this District first before any other priority I remember a story my mom told me about Tracy when she first interviewed for the governing board position she brought a spark plug with her and she said that she wanted to be the spark that would ignite Dysart to new heights well miss Tracy your spark will never be forgotten here thank you for everything that you've done and happy retirement thank you [Applause] thank you we next have rest Smith good evening to all of you and thank you for this three minutes how am I gonna do this Tracy in this room a few years ago at another event
028honoring the school system and Tracy I say to everyone which probably is not a surprise you you are an outlier you you don't deliberately or rebelliously break rules but you you change rules you create new boundaries I I today took the time to scroll several Pages back in your in the f word the Facebook page and your Facebook is one of the few Facebooks that's authentic it's one of the few Facebooks that really shows the struggles and the successes the victories and the failures of life you're you're very open you're very transparent and you use that in such a redeeming way and I looked through your page and I saw that you are so strong you've you've broken so many racial barriers you've broken social barriers in terms of the female versus male you've you're
029constantly posting for others would you remember or please pray for your you're sure to put something in there about the community and and your love for what you've done here in the last 12 years and so this community is blessed to have you and this board has been honored to have you serve and I agree you you will find something to fill your time from here I'm certain it will continue to be an outlier influence and I'm blessed to be a part of your life and I hold great gratitude for the night that I met you here and that our paths have crossed and may you never cave in to to being somebody that you're not you've got a strong track record of holding true to being a woman of integrity and strength and Leadership
030even your influence of your CPR training so I congratulate you on your tenure I'm excited for what's next for you and I'm honored to be a part of your life God bless you thank you that's all we have for now superintendent governing board updates do we have a student update Madam president our student was unable to attend this evening for intended update Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community Tracy the first thing I need to say is it sounds like your pastor's lobbying for you to come work for him um so I just wanted to point that out and to work with him on a bit of a somber note in terms of my update we were saddened by the loss yesterday late yesterday afternoon
031of two of our Valley Vista students and I would be remiss if we did not mention that their families and all of our staff are in their thought our thoughts and prayers and we will uphold them and continue to support and provide support in any way that we possibly can so um we'll move forward Willow Canyon High School's theater troupe won the gold honor troop last weekend at their competition and Shadow Ridge High School won a superior rating in the one act Marathon for the play biscuits and so we're very excited about our theater programs congratulations and we look forward to our theater programs continue to do great great jobs I want to provide just a bit of clarification to the governing board and I know I did this in writing following our last meeting
032but I feel like it's important that I do so in in public as well I did misspeak in our last governing board meeting as it related to our counselors and their responsibilities as it relates to 504s our counselors do facilitate the 504 process and I wanted to just make sure that I corrected that with everyone this evening continuing on we are excited to announce that our Glass Project in our front offices has been completed at all of our K-8 K4 and middle schools and we're happy that that's happened and and we had our first High School completed as well at Valley Vista and it certainly makes a very big visual difference and a perceptive difference as well we have the remaining high schools are scheduled for completion as well as growing Minds preschool our support
033center and the last facility that will be finished will be the district office I also would like to a board I've let you know this but I think it's important that we announce to our community as well Dr crota was selected to serve on the transition team for the incoming State superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horn and Dr croto has attended a couple of meetings thus far and will continue to serve as a resource to them and more importantly as a proud representative of the Dysart School District so Dodge Chrono thank you for doing that and then we have just a quick thing we want to say Tracy it's it's been 12 years uh since I met you I was 23 at the time I remember stinkley and um we we thought about how we
034could uh mimic 12 years and uh and make people feel like it was 12 years and the first thing we thought it was to have Ken speak again and we chose not to um but Tracy I want to on behalf of the Dysart School District I want to say thank you for all that you've done all of you know that being on the governing board is a sacrifice of time it's a sacrifice away from your family there are times that it is a very thankless job it is one of few service opportunities in a governmental system that comes with no pay whatsoever and it truly is a labor of and a sacrifice of love and I know that each of the five of you know that um Tracy we want to thank you for everything
035that you've done for us in the school district it seems like a blink of an eye 12 years and uh it's an opportunity that we will never forget having you having you been part of all of our lives and so we want to thank you in just two ways tonight and first of all any leftover food that's still out in the reception we want you to take home it might not still be good it might be bad but we want it out of here so um send Brian out and start boxing it up but we want to thank you with with two things we we have just a gift that says cheers to you and thank you for your service with a Dysart Community from 2010 to 2022 but more importantly than that you know
036we anybody can get a plaque on a wall and we felt like it was important for us to give you a memoir of the Dysart school district and so we have a blanket that we've had made for you that has a t-shirt from every single one of our schools on it and we hope that you will display this proudly in your home and remember the times that you served in the desert school district fondly so Tracy thank you very very very much that's a nice idea [Applause] and finally more and finally I would like to wish all of our staff all of our students and our entire Community Merry Christmas happy Hanukkah happy Kwanzaa and happy New Year and happy holidays I think I covered them all but we want to wish you a joyous
037and peaceful holiday season may you spend time with family and friends and truly reflect on the reason that we have for the season and Madam president that is my update for the evening update I'll go first you can because I know you're gonna talk let's see here I attended band Jam at Shadow Ridge High School and this morning I attended a great event uh as the a school celebration at El Mirage Elementary and that was just so much fun and congratulations to that school um Tracy it has been an honor to serve with you and a former board member asked me to read a statement because she could not attend tonight uh Tracy it has been an amazing board member an asset to the Dysart Unified School District she is dedicated in her service and
038is a tremendous advocate for public education I was lucky to work side by side with her for eight years in that time I witnessed her love for each School her desire to be at every celebration her well thought out comments on board topics and discussions her Quest and continual knowledge and professional development and most important a friend and listening ear to everyone she's done all this through health issues and extremely difficult family hardships she is selfless and just keeps Trucking Tracy I appreciate all your hard work over these years and it was a pleasure to serve shoulder to shoulder with you and to learn from you your voice on the board will be missed best of luck on your next adventure Jennifer Tanner the last time I want to push this um okay so I
039had one thing I think um and that was uh to Echo the sentiments of uh Dr Dean the prayers and thoughts go to the families affected by the vehicle crash yesterday um not only does it affect the families but it also affects the community as a whole and please keep the families and the Valley Vista family in your thoughts um children going leaving this Earth Too Soon Is it can be hard on everyone I also attended the a school breakfast celebration at El Mirage and it was an awesome celebration thank you to Southwest Foods yay their stuff is always great so congratulations to Ms Davis Mr Haney and the fabulous staff at El Mirage you deserve the success and looking forward to the breakfasts there's a couple of them that's going to be next week
040and I plan on being there and finally um thank you Dysart for allowing me to serve you over these past 12 years so many people have asked me what am I going to do with my Thursday nights um I'll find something one of the things I plan on doing is taking sign language learning something totally different and uh um it's going to be kind of hard but uh I will continue to reach out to the schools you're not done with me I just might not be sitting up here on the dice but I would still like to come out and attend the events and the dance recitals and the celebrations and um uh different events and so if you need to get in touch with me Luis has got my contact info um 12 years
041ago um during the election I lost my son a month before the elections took place and so I did not campaign and uh you know my heart just was not in it and uh to win to me that was a sign from above from my son and so I'm leaving the district after 12 years um it's kind of odd I started in this position and um each year the president of the board has the um the duty if they wish to move people around so uh Miss Pritchard thank you for putting me back over here I greatly appreciate it because uh I started here I ended here I would like to thank so many different people from the district whether it was staff students and parents it has been it has been a ride uh
042there's been good times there's been bad times but we've all done it together as a family and I so appreciate that so thank you very much for allowing me to be a part of dice art I greatly appreciate it I'm the governing board approved the consent agenda items as presented second motion made by Tracy sourcing fell seconded by Crystal Shopkins where she carries so we moved to action discussion items each one recommendation to approve the appointment of assistant superintendent for Education Services Dr Dean Madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community this evening I am pleased to provide a recommendation to the governing board to finalize the cabinet for um for this uh this administrative team upon removal of the interim tag in my position in October we were excited
043to begin the process to finalize the hire of the assistant superintendent for Education Services and we'd like to thank Dr Shelly assai who has served in that position as interim during this time however this evening after an interview process we are proud to recommend to the governing board the full-time appointment of Dr Shelly assai as the assistant superintendent for Education Services and again the completion of this administrator team and so it's our pleasure this evening to recommend Dr acai for hire do you have a question are we going to insert the marathon Clause into her contract as well I I have no problem with inserting the marathon Clause into anyone else's contract except for mine thank you any comments or questions from the board just one quick one congratulations fellow Warrior I just found out
044that we went to the same high school so congratulations with that I move the board approved the appointment of Dr Shelly assai's assistant superintendent for Education Services second motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Don Densmore motion carries congratulations [Applause] next we move to H2 recommendation to approve administrative certificated and licensed employee contract language and benefit packages for the 2023-2024 school year Dr Dean thank you madam president members of the governing board cabinet and our community this evening I will turn this item over to Dr polling thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board cabinet and Community it's hard to believe we're already planning for the 23-24 school year and uh we're in full motion and preparation this is an annual item and it's asking for approval of the contract language and benefits
045packages there are minimal changes and they have been approved by our attorney Jennifer McLennan and with that I'll take any questions I do have a question or comment on the certified teacher contract if you look at item number 14 it says teacher agrees to teach such grade grades or subject as the teacher may be assigned to teach and to perform other such duties as may be assigned um my concern with the language of the other such duties as may be a sign is are teachers getting assigned a bunch of extra duties um like some teachers have before school Duty they have after school Duty they have they don't get their duty-free 30-minute lunch teachers are expected not required to attend a bunch of evening events like and anybody who's been in the classroom knows that
046once you step foot on campus it's non-stop until you leave so we've got teachers some teachers stepping foot on campus from 6 30 not leaving till 3 30 or 7 o'clock and not leaving till four and then we want them to come back for a bunch of extra night activities we've got Chick-fil-A night we've got um McDonald's and I they've got the Fall Festival they've got uh what a Polar Express it's like it's never ending you know so I I'm concerned that our teachers are going to get burned out and every single time no it's not required but this is how they get us other duties as assigned so that's that's kind of a concern for me for our teachers because we keep hearing that they're burned out and I I can attest that when
047you go non-stop all day the last thing you want to do is go do something else at night Madam president member Chapman I'll be happy to comment on this first of all I want to say that I'm a big fan of any restaurant night and I think that there are important things but I understand the concern and and we we share the concern that we want to protect our teachers and their energy and their their Vigor and excitement for what it is that their primary responsibility is and that is of teaching and we have worked with our principals and will continue to work with and have conversations to try to minimize aspects that are outside of the classroom we want the vast majority of their energy in the classroom with our kids and while there
048may be a a Duty or two that's part of a daily responsibility we certainly don't want to do anything that's burning them out and so you have our word that we have been and will continue to work with our our school principals to help them find ways to cover things that continue to free up our teachers to do the excellent work that they do in their classrooms thank you I do appreciate that and it would be nice in a in a dream world if we could just pay teachers for the teacher duties because otherwise we're paying people with master's degree salaries to open milk boxes at breakfast you know and we've got instead of teaching and Grading and calling home and working with students you know we've got teachers running around doing this doing that
049they're doing this Duty they're doing that Duty and somebody's out so this para is being pulled for that and so I just want to make sure that you know especially with our parents that they're not being pulled to do other duties as assigned point take it I think we're on the same page on this so thank you very much I'm of the board approve administrative certificate and licensed employee contract language and benefit packages for the 2023-2024 school year motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Tracy sorcingfield motion cares next we move to action discussion item three recommendation for renewal of eligible and administrative certificate and licensed staff and authorization to issue employment contracts for the 2023-2024 school year Dr Dean Madam president member of the governing board cabinet in our community Dr Poling thank you
050Dr Dean Madam president members of the board cabinet Community this item is in concert with the previous item this is another annual item and we're asking approval for eligible certificate and licensed staff re-employment and authorize the issuance of employment contracts our timeline for issuing contracts is very similar to last year we would release certificate contracts February 17th of 2023 and have them due back by Friday March 10th of 2023 and this timeline will allow us to remain at the front of the competitive employment Market identify vacant openings and search for new hires in a timely manner and contracts would be due back April 14th of 2023 and excuse me due back Friday March 10th staff can get out of their contract without liquidated damages by April 14th of 2023 and that date has been moved
051up two weeks to allow us more time for recruiting identify open positions but teachers would still have from the time of March 10th until April 14th to gather their contract without paying liquidated damages and administrative timeline those contracts would be released February 9th due back by March 10th and have the similar April 14th deadline and pay liquid liquidated damages after that so I'll stand for any questions 23 2024 school year motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Tracy sorcing bill okay discussions Madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community Dr polling will present this item as well thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board Cadman Community this is another annual item and it's similar to the previous item you just approved but it's for classified staff so we're asking
052approval of the notice of employment language and again these have mental changes and they've been approved by our attorney foreign Madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community this will be the last item that Dr polling presents this evening thank you Dr Dean Madam president members of the board cabinet and Community this is another annual item and it's attached in concert with the previous item and this is asking approval of the issuance of notice of employment to eligible classified staff for their positions for 2023 2024. it's on the board I move the board approved the issuance of notice of employment eligible classified staff in their current positions at the 2023-2024 salary level with benefits commensurate with a position second motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Don Densmore motion carries next we
053move to action discussion item six recommendation to approve 2022-2023 revised expenditure budget Dr Dean Madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community Mr Hicks will present the remainder of this information Mr X do you have anything to add very good Madam President we request approval of the revised expenditure budget okay any questions or comments from the board approve the 2022-2023 revised expenditure budget motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Tracy Sawyer syncfeld motion carries Extreme Action discussion item seven discussion and possible action and temporarily suspend policy 2.19 School Board policy process for the December 8 2022 meeting Dr Dean Madam president members of the governing board cabinet in our community this evening as we have discussed in uh previous sessions including our study session today in order for us to take action
054and make decisions on our policies in one meeting we are requesting that we temporarily suspend policy 2.19 from our current board policy which would require us to have two reads for policy to make any changes we ask over two meetings I'm sorry we ask that we suspend that policy this evening so that we may consider action on our policies in one meeting in the next agenda item do you have any questions or comments from the board I move the board temporarily suspend policy section 2.19 School Board policy process for the December 8th 2022 meeting second motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Don Densmore motion carries through the action discussion item eight repeal of governing board policy sections one through twelve and Adoption of the trust policy model Dr Dean Madam president members of the
055governing board members of cabinet in our community as we've discussed in multiple settings as well as today during the study session we are recommending the repeal of our current governing board policies sections one through twelve and the adoption of the trust policy model in so doing this will sever any remaining ties with asba as it relates to policy and policy services and will move us forward in the adoption of a new policy model as has been discussed with the governing board as well in the study session we will continue to go back and review our policies to make sure that we add meat to the bones that we're asking to be adopted this evening and we will once again in July begin our process of policy review where we will be reviewing a chapter each
056month as we have in the past and so this evening we would uh request that the board approve repealing policy sections one through twelve and adopting new policies with the trust policy model and we do have two people that requested to speak to the item if you want to read the statement this is the time for the public to comment members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda pursuant to ARS 38-431.01 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
057imposed for each individual or group addressing the board when you approach the podium please state your name for the record we have Janet LeBlanc foreign hi good evening I'm Janet LeBlanc and as a tax paying citizen of this District I do not support any language in these policies that state gender identity or sexual orientation it's time to get this right I am asking on behalf of parents and our community that you not approve these policies as written there are only two genders male and female regardless of how anyone might identify any other exception is false teaching and I believe none of you want to teach anything that is false if I tell you I identify as a dog and even dress like a dog or act like a dog or bark like a dog does
058it make me a dog no and if you believe that or even entertain the fact to allow me to believe and act like a dog then you become part of the problem please quit entertaining and promoting false teachings within this District by incorporating this language into any policy by doing so each of you are guilty of twisting the minds of our children and creating yes creating mental illness and then it's no wonder we need social workers and have behavior issues please quit polluting the minds of our children by allowing them to live in fantasy land through the adoption of these policies Jesus tells us specifically in Matthew 18 6 if you cause one of these little ones who trust in me to fall into sin it would be better for you to have a large
059Millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea please examine your conscious and moral code and remove this language out of these all these policies and District policies and stop promoting the unrealistic fact that the that there are more than two genders we all know there are only two facts show it DNA proves it please teach the truth thank you [Applause] thank you we have Larry LeBlanc good evening I'm Larry LeBlanc I wish to make it clear that I Echo every word from Janet to further ad stopped indoctrinating our children by acknowledging gender identity in truth it doesn't exist one man one woman it's God's love that is not to be broken please do not approve these policies or anything that is heading this way of similar character thank you
060Madam president members of the governing board um the trust policy models that are being asked to be approved this evening are have been created by the risk retention trust which is which serves multiple school districts in the state of Arizona they all policies have been written by attorneys and reflect law I'm not aware of any aspect of any of the policies that we're asking you to adopt this evening that are related to any gender identity curriculum gender identity teachings or gender identity conversations I didn't see what you just said but there is um something in there um I think it was the Civil Rights piece in the student section I just did a quick search um as they were speaking and there is something that states you cannot discriminate against someone based on their gender
061identity but I didn't see anything in any other way supporting that Madam president miss Densmore you are correct that that we cannot federal law prohibits discrimination of any kind whatsoever I appreciate the concern of those that have been voiced this evening however it is my understanding that that those concerns are not found in these policies that we're adopting I I didn't see um as we go through the policies though I mean beginning in next year and Madam president yeah Madam president again I appreciate the conversations um this evening by Mr Mr LeBlanc thank you very much for um your comments and and we certainly understand the concern as we discussed in the study session what we are adopting we're asking for adoption this evening are the bones of the trust policy we will go we
062will spend the next six months doing even a deeper dive than than cabinet has already of going through and making sure that we fill any holes in the policy process and we will bring those four forward um you know to the board in the next six months and then begin our uh our review cycle in July however Miss Densmore as you state should we uncover anything uh in which we have not seen or or or see anything that is concerning in terms of any type of a discriminatory piece we would bring that back for revision any other questions comments and I moved to motion to repeal all current I start governing board policies within sections one through twelve effective December 31st 2022 and adopt the trust policy model and policies within chapters one through five
063with changes discussed in the study session effective January 1 2023. second lotion made by Tracy Sarah sink Bell seconded by John Densmore Joe Graham oh Joe Grant sorry we sound alike I got confused push and Carries we moved to action discussion item nine discussion and possible action to approve superintendent's performance pay plan for the services of superintendent Jim Dean pursuant to ARS 15-341-39 Dr Dean Madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community this is the final piece that needed to be approved within my contract it is the exhibit for the pay for performance piece it mirrors the the past two superintendents in terms of this piece with one exception and that is that instead of the paper the formulaic piece of the paper for performance being tied to 301 performance
064it is tied to the number of A and B schools that we have moving forward have any questions or comments I moved the board of the superintendent's Performance Based paper second motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Tracy sorosinko oh she curious uh item I request for future agenda items I would like to request an agenda item to just review what the current practice is for our documentation of meeting minutes got it thank you can I second I will say careful no no [Music] oh wait there it is