001to call the meeting to order let the record show that all members are present except for christine pritchard please join us for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you we'll move on to b recognitions and celebrations dr kellis thank you madam chair members of the board members of cabinet this evening we're very thrilled to recognize some of our extraordinary teams in the district and their accomplishments in athletics at this time i will allow mr dean to introduce the next two items madam chair members of the governing board dr callus members of cabinet and community members good evening and welcome to this evening's board meeting tonight we are excited
002to recognize our athletic champions from the winter season both at our middle level and at the high school level as well we had another very successful athletic season and we're excited to celebrate that tonight and so we're going to start with our middle level champions and teams when we call your name we'd like for you to come down to the steps governing board members and dr kelsey we would invite you to please come forward on the steps so that we can take pictures and recognize the accomplishment of our middle level champions and so we're going to start this evening with um our middle level champions in boys soccer and that's mountain view elementary school the mountain view mountain lions boys soccer team come on down guys all right now here's the rule on pictures you
003have to look at our guy first and then you can look at your parents taking pictures also congratulations again to the mountain view boys soccer team [Applause] continuing on with our recognitions if this evening we would like to recognize the champions of our middle level girls volleyball tournament and that is the marley park mavericks come on down [Applause] shake the handshake thank you thank thank you please christina i'm sorry okay congratulations to marley park give him another round of applause [Applause] continuing on with our recognitions this evening we would like to recognize our girls soccer champions and that's the girls soccer team from canyon ridge come on down ladies [Applause] thank just all right you three that are trying to hide in the back row i know you're front row kids so head that way
004nice try all right congratulations canyon ridge girls soccer give them another round of applause [Applause] we'd also like to recognize the champions of our dysart middle level boys basketball season and that is also the boys basketball team from canyon ridge come on down guys [Applause] so congratulations canyon ridge boys great job and our last middle school recognition for the evening as you'll recall the governing board will recall this year we have middle schools for the first time and our middle schools are participating in the valley junior high athletic conference this year for the first time ever we had a boys basketball team that was the champions of the valley junior high valley athletic conference with an undefeated season and that's valley junior high conference champions the sonoran heights hawks come on down guys so going
005there congratulations sonoran heights [Applause] moving on now to our high schools we had another very successful high school winter season with several region champions we also have state champions and national champions but this evening we're here to recognize our section and regional champions and we will start this evening with dysart high school they are the region champions in boys soccer come on down guys [Applause] as they're coming down governing board i will let you know that the dicer high school boys soccer team made it to the round of eight this year at the state tournament um losing to the number two seed southpointe high school lancers in a very close game and and the eventual stage champions all right guys now we have the biggest challenge for the entire season we got to crowd you
006all into one picture all right come on back and let's crowd in for a picture i think the box okay ready congratulations great job guys [Applause] continuing on this evening we're going to shift to the sport of basketball and we're excited this evening to recognize willow canyon high school's girls basketball team as region champions come on down ladies [Applause] three all right and congratulations again continuing on sometimes it's difficult um as seasons end to get students to be able to attend governing board meetings because they start playing club right away and so that's the case for our next two recognitions but we're excited to have a few people join us and so we're going to start in the 6a conference with shadow ridge high school girls soccer region champions [Applause] congratulations again and our final
007athletic recognition for the evening in the 5a conference is relocating high school region champs and girls soccer come on down congratulations again ladies [Applause] madam chair that concludes our athletic recognitions for this evening as stated previously we will be back in the first meeting of april to recognize our state and national champions from the winter season thank you dr dean next we'll move on to audience with individuals do we have any there are none all right thank you next we have student update dr kellis thank you madam chair members of the board of members of cabinet like to invite jocelyn poundstone from the dysert student leadership council to present a student update with dr kellis cabinet and community my name is dawson poundstone and i'm a member of the dysart student leadership council at our
008most recent meeting we continue to work on an upcoming event for all of the high school student councils to come together at this event we will have breakout sessions a keynote speaker and activities our main goal to this conference is to bring all the schools together to be as one we are currently working on getting donations from the community to make this event possible we're also we also showcased for an upcoming super n60 segment we're looking forward to sharing more information and accompl accomplishments with you all thank you justin all right thank you very much next we have the superintendent update dr kellis thank you madam president madam chair members of the board members of cabinet um it's been a great week this week as we wrap up another week just prior to spring break
009i know there's a lot of hard work going on right now in all the schools but there's also a lot of anticipation for taking a a few days off next week so we wish everybody the very best and that you stay healthy and safe and come back and ready to finish out the year with a strong stretch that's all i have to report thank you dr kellis governing board update i'll start um let's see during love of reading week last week pete the cat and i uh went to several schools and we read to students at countryside canyon ridge and rancho gabriella and thank you so much for the adorable little thank you letters they're they're so cute i also attended uh the sunset heels uh presentation of the musical beauty and the beast and
010then i just want to give a shout out that this is national school social worker school social worker week and so thank you to all the social workers in the district for all that you do for our students and that we are so fortunate to have the 2021 lifetime achievement in school social work recipient melanie carone i hope i don't mess this up the lastic at ashton ranch in our district so thank you all for what you do that's it just a couple of things uh attended uh beauty and the beast on february 25th sunset hill no i was there before you so there no i'm just kidding um beauty and the beast sunset hills uh mr basgard and miss brunier it was an awesome performance thank you very much um i could tell that
011the kids had a fabulous fun time on stage and so continue doing what you're doing it was an awesome and yes i sang again in the back even though they couldn't hear me i still sang in the back uh at on february 26th they attended the district honor band um for the junior high and high school students it was awesome um but i love attending things like that march 1st 2nd and 3rd read across america i was at canyon ridge for miss isla's uh class rancho miss dents class and then riverview for miss c's class loved the passion of all three of those classrooms the kids had a ball and um honestly so did i and on march 3rd and 7th i helped to spread sunshine like a lot of us did being a part
012of the dysart heroes patrol there were some tears and there was some shock and astonishment oh my gosh i won i won you got to be kidding and so when people actually open up those um booklets and see all the great things that other people write about them it does bring a tear to their eye and so congratulations to all of the recipients it was great to hang out with dr kellis assistant superintendents renee and ryan our camera dude always the best so please have a great safe spring break come back refreshed ready to go so we can finish the year off with a nice bang so that's it i did not have a chance to do as much as the other board members but i did make sure to attend the read across america
013with countryside elementary i read to both miss pool's class as well as mrs carlovich's class and just such a fun time always at countryside and thank you so much for welcoming me back all right i was also fortunate enough to be able to read at countryside rancho gabriela and canyon ridge always a good time with those students wonderful wonderful campuses thank you next we have item e1 consent agenda aye dr kellis thank you madam chair um if there is a member of the board who would like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda this would be the time i move that we approve the consent agenda items as presented with the exception of item f3 i would like to move that to action discussion i'm sorry second three tracy there we go she
014said yes it's not me all right motion carries moving on to item h1 recommendation to improve oh i'm sorry what are we on g1 oh information discussion sorry i scrolled down too much g1 dr kellis thank you madam chair members of the board and members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr callus madam chair members of the board superintendent kellis cabinet guest tonight we continue with our board monitoring of adoptive policies tonight we bring you the second half of section 10 10.35 to 10.69 and at this time we are not recommending any changes and dr dean will stand for any questions you may have do we have any questions so madam chair this is just the first read and uh if there are no changes then we will just present that
015in the consent agenda consent agenda for the next board meeting all right thank you uh next g2 dr kellis thank you madam chair members of the board and members of cabinet dr polling will introduce this item good evening madam chair members of the board cabinet and audience i'd like to call up mrs marcy hessler principal at countryside for her presentation tonight all right good evening um chair chapman and members of the board members of cabinet community and guests in the audience my name is marcy hessler i've been the proud principal at countryside elementary school for the past eight years and since this is my last presentation on behalf of countryside this evening i did ask some members of our staff to show up tonight because they are the ones that really are in the trenches
016and do all of the wonderful miracles each and every day for all of our students so i just wanted to introduce them real quick right over here that's everybody from countryside um that wanted to come tonight so there we are so countryside elementary school right now actually we had six more students register this morning so we are probably at 576 plus our school colors are maroon and gold our mascot is the coyote and you can see the beautiful coyote up there our signature program is the whole child we look at strong hearts strong minds and strong bodies so we address all areas of our children in our school opportunities that we saw this year are merging two schools into a k-4 school that was a big undertaking that took place way last spring so we
017had both ashton ranch teachers and countryside teachers get together get to know each other start doing some planning during the summer we did the big move lots of boxes and and lots of things going back and forth and then starting off the school year with all of our families blending into one school so it's been an adventure it's been a lot of fun and we can honestly say at this point we are all coyotes and very very proud and then on our for this year's asaasa test we are looking at optimizing our growth again as we will share in our celebrations we yielded high growth last year in fact we had so many points we were hoping to give some away but they won't let us do that so we maximized our points with growth
018and that was in every category every every student um and then we of course and you've heard this theme throughout the year we're not happy with our proficiency scores at all and so that has been a big focus this year for us going from having grades three through eight to only three through four the pressure is on for us um for that aasa test and the data from that celebrations our first celebration um gross scores we like were amazed at at just all the work every sub-pop every grade level every category we maximized growth and and our kids really rose to the occasion and our teachers really did a good job of teaching standard by standard skill by skill kid by kid and it showed with our growth our other celebration is creating a new
019k-4 seaside culture we have had more opportunities for kids to be involved in clubs at grades three and four it's really just incredible watching our broadcasting club they do a weekly announcement and we had third and fourth graders and they are very charismatic on camera and do a wonderful job our stucco third and fourth grade i will tell you fourth graders want to do maximum work they are begging for more to do so it's really nice to to have them working and wanting to be a part of things we have a gardening club we have a book club we have an incredible choir and drumming club that's headed up by our music teacher mrs hewitt in the audience she's really brought the love of music back and for the first time ever i think everybody
020showed up to our winter choir concert and it was a it was a sold out crowd our third celebration is implementing pbis we are in training year one um we've had kind of a mixed bag of what our positive reinforcement has been so now we've formalized it through pbis and our team has been working very hard uh to get that ready for roll out next year and then our fourth celebration we've had addition of a data specialist additional reading specialist and a math interventionist and that has really made a big difference in helping our teachers dig deep for data looking at kid by kids standard by standard having those extra brains in the circle really have helped our teachers it's made it easier and to spend the time looking at data and understanding it at
021a deeper level and then number five we were one of the first schools to get our student services technician position filled and our gentleman has been doing a wonderful job working with our students processing behavior choices looking at more positive behavior choices and moving forward with that so it's made a big difference on our campus this past couple of months and oops i think i turned it off nope there we go um so focus for the year first of all building that new culture um was our number one priority um asaasa prep we've been doing intentional targeted instruction and now we've really amped that up because we are just a few weeks from the start of those tests we have coaching and support via our data analysis instructional coaching and our prep connect so we
022are able to sit down speak with our grade levels speak with all the people in the room and really maximize what we are going to do for all of our students and then we've had our plc plus focus for teachers this year so with that i will entertain any questions thank you mrs hessler all right any i just yeah sorry my voice is a little in and out um when you when you just talked about the increasing the proficiency scores but you but you mentioned that you had a lot of growth so can you tell us a little bit about that like the targeted growth each individual student when they take the test in third grade get their benchmark score and from there they get that growth component and so they predict other students how
023much they're going to grow from year to year so our kids are hitting their growth targets but that proficiency score that's always a moving target every year so we don't know what that score is until after the test is over and so that's the passing rate so we have students who have gone from minimally or from minimally proficient to partially proficient students are moving up the categories but they're not quite hitting that proficiency score gotcha but you see you mentioned that that the huge growth scores and so can you give us like an example like were they five or ten percent oh we we had actually um one grade level was like in the 20 um it's also broken down not just by grade level and from year to year but also by the categories
024so we had students who were in the highly proficient category and they showed um high they have high growth medium growth low growth and every category bumped up so we had double digits in in all of those categories there is a max point allowance of 50 points and i think we're at 56 or 57 points in that area they also look at ell um ess all of those areas as well so our kids despite the pandemic they came in they learned our teachers really came to school every single day working and doing what's right for for our students that's great um and that was for third and fourth uh it was for last year was grades three through eight oh okay okay yeah so um this year we only have our third and fourth grade
025gotcha so that's why i'm saying we're pushing a little bit harder this year because we don't have the big grade span we used to thank you so much thank you and i'm going to go it's my birthday so thank you no no not yet no no no no i just had a just a couple of quick things when i was at your school last month um and i think i had shared with both you and ms hill that uh your cafeteria was one of the quietest cafeterias i had ever heard and of course your sst was in there and they were very courteous they were they were um extremely it was quiet it was a little too quiet obviously for for a cafeteria because you know kids let loose and then they they want to
026eat and they talk and because they haven't seen each other but the addition of your sst has made such a big difference in your dish in your district in your school oh definitely um he is able to help our students who need that extra assistance with behavior whether it's at recess in the cafeteria in a classroom and he's able to process with the students you know what's going on what do you need let's take a look at your behavior what could you choose differently and and who are you affecting you know not just yourself but who else is being affected by your behavior and it's really just awesome to have that extra body because it used to be michelle and i and now we we have that extra person so it gives us more people
027to help our kids that's that's excellent and uh congratulations it's your birthday march baby's rule that's right yesterday dr dean yes so congratulations for everything i don't have a question i just have a comment besides happy birthday coming to your school and reading the student escorts they were awesome and mine must have thought that i was going to wander because he would not leave me i kept saying i'm really okay i go and he goes no he took this very very serious but it was so cute and talking to him i just wanted to tell you that it was adorable to have these kids escort us around well thank you very much i appreciate it so i do have one more question whenever you're finished um so i'm i'm i love the growth what do
028you think attributed to the growth such big growth scores what what is it that you and your staff were doing to gain such grounds well what we did you know besides everything through the fall semester in january in february we basically put everything on hold and we said let's take a look at our standards let's take a look at the skills let's take a look at the dok levels let's take a look at what the kids need and really not just through rti but that small group teaching within the classroom our teachers were very committed to that and so all the kids got that reteaching for the areas that they really needed and then the kids that were able to do extension were able to do their extensions so it really was that drill down
029to the individual student that just gave us the most bang for our buck that's great thank you all right and happy birthday oh thank you thank you i'm going to go have a margarita [Laughter] wait i'll be right there [Applause] thank you mrs hessler now we have sundown mountain dr kellis thank you madam chair dr pauline will introduce this one madam chair dr polling is throwing his voice this evening madam chair members of the governing board dr kellis members of cabinet community this evening it's my pleasure to welcome sundown mountain alternative program principal bobby lockhart to speak about our outstanding high school alternative program good evening madam chair members of the governing board cabinet dr kellis i'm bobby lockhart the proud principal of sundown mountain and also the proud principal of high school but tonight
030we're focusing strictly on sunday mountain i've been at sundown mountain for just about a year and a half now and first i want to acknowledge the extraordinary team that i have at sundown mountain i know you hear every principal come up and say that i have an amazing team of relentless educators not just a teaching staff but also the office and support team and our counselor and teaching team it's often said that it takes a village and it certainly does and we have an extraordinary village by design um at who we are i need to learn to use this i told diana i'll probably mess this up um who we are as i said we're relentless educators we do whatever it takes to get those seniors across the finish line our enrollment is currently 188
031at the high school and seven middle school students just to to offer a little bit of information on that very different programs the middle school students do typically come to us for disciplinary reasons they're there for a 45 day placement and we've had extraordinary success this year with them um the high school students typically come in their junior year or senior year and like i say we're at 188 right now we do have capacity for 220 fourth quarter we're always a little bit lower because they have the opportunity to finish at their home school rather than start and only earn two credits at sundown in the fourth quarter our colors are blue and orange we do not we we do have a mascot we're called the eagles we don't really use it but uh my
032my counselor miss jones is after me to get us to bring back a program we had there before called soaring eagles so we are looking into doing that the student council talked to dr kellis about perhaps changing the name of the mascot so we're looking at that as well we are a credit recovery program students come to us credit deficient like i said typically juniors and seniors mostly seniors but we do have the occasional sophomore students have fallen behind at their home school they they were not successful in the comprehensive high school and they come to us and we show them success opportunities and challenges our campus set up the staff likes to think that's a challenge i personally love it because we are a small and mighty group we have 20 total classrooms but
033we are landlocked a little bit we don't have room for for more growth there as you know sundown returned to its original home well not its original home it did used to be next to district office way back 20 years ago but it was moved to shadow ridge where it did a short time then it went out to where asante currently is and it was returned about two years ago we call it a no-fluff classrooms and we have a small cafeteria we did at a student commons this year thanks to ischool student apathy has been difficult since 2020. as you know 2020 changed the lives of our students it also changed our lives perhaps forever student apathy apparently has an all-time high and has led us to the attendance and tardy problem which we did
034not really see so much prior to that our students also have a lack of understanding when it comes to academic progress and transcripts so we are working on giving them the knowledge we educate them on exactly what they need and we ensure that they're aware we teach them to self-advocate for themselves obviously and we create a grad plan and their post-secondary goals a plan for the future what comes next after high school sometimes they're afraid to leave they get comfortable and believe it or not they will self-sabotage so that they can stay and then we also do financial aid workshops as vab school visits just like the typical high school our five successes we had increased our number of graduates last year we set a record which was really extraordinary coming out of 2020. so
035in 2021 may 2021 we graduated 119 students and then we had six additional in summer school bringing that total to 125. so um we did return about 75 juniors who are now seniors we streamlined our enrollment process established quarterly timelines communicated communicated communicated and really worked with the other schools to ensure a smooth process we streamlined our processes for ess for our mainstream students and as well as our middle school and we've created a very efficient process we have what we call an orange list what that is is a student tracker system we track students weekly if their seas are better with no absences they get some select mondays off it is a huge incentive and they are so proud to wear those orange lanyards they don't get every monday off because if we had
036a thursday for veterans day or a friday off they have to come to school on that monday but they do get some mondays off and it is a huge selling point what we use mondays for typically with a shorter schedule is make up time so our students work to mastery if they haven't hit mastery the first time we also have academic enrichment so that orange lanyard gets those students free time during academic enrichment which is 30 minutes tuesday through friday and we have the student commons we have ping pong dr dean was there playing the other day during the during the heroes walk so they have unstructured time they can charge their cell phones they can be on their cell phones they can play what's that bad bad game ping pong or they can just
037chill with their friends outside or in and it is it is really created some opportunities for us the decrease in discipline is simply astounding i don't know if miss winterstein is here today she is so she'll vouch for the numbers um because you won't believe them they're quite unbelievable i reached out to her and i said can you just pull the trend data for for sundown i haven't i hadn't seen it prior to preparing for this presentation in um school year 1617 total referrals for sundown were 203. in 1819 they were 234. in 1920 which was that abbreviated year due to covid they were down to 92. last year i was there from october to may and we had 25 total referrals this year we've had 12. and i well thank you thank you it
038is just a testament to the team the teamwork and what they what they are willing to do our students did not participate in those little what were they tick tock thank you tick tock challenges we did not have any issues in our restrooms we did not have any graffiti we didn't have any problems with that and that is a testament to our students and our staff so i i couldn't be more proud of that statistic it shocked me to be honest and then our increase in communication with schools thank you again dr kels for the wrap it's in the front office i know a few of you have been there to visit and i appreciate that that wrap in the front office was just instrumental to those kids i think i'm probably going to get
039emotional talking about it they walked in the next day and they stopped wow and they would just stand there and look at it and then what it helped do was bridge that gap because on this wall it's sunday mountain and on this wall it's their four schools and we just combined so that they understood i'm still a dicer high school senior but i belong this on that mountain right now and we did that with each of the schools and that communication across the board i just sent an email last week to the other administrators and counselors thanking them for the teamwork i use the cliche teamwork makes a dream work but it really does and it it's just a it's a tremendous effort from across the district our focus for the year was the streamline
040process for sundown um it was my first full year we established the timelines we calendar and communicate and hold everyone to it and working with personnel at all of the high schools to ensure adherence to those timelines it's very critical because we are on a quarter system so if those students are not enrolled and their intake is not completed on day one of the quarter they just start behind the eight ball and we just couldn't allow that to happen anymore so communication celebration consistency to increase the attendance rate which i think is every school in america's goal since 2020 the awareness of academic progress tracking self-advocacy progressing completing and then ultimately graduating and then establishing post-secondary pathways like i said the picture there represents um asvab and all of our seniors took the asvab which
041goes back to their home schools ccri points we also do civics and cpr and 100 of our students make that as well so firm fair and consistent procedures and i'll stand for any questions thank you mrs lockhart just had one quick thing um if folks have not had the opportunity to attend a completion ceremony at sundown it's one of the brightest things you could ever see and um the students those that give um a little speech you know that planned and give a little speech you could tell that their time at sundown meant the world to them and a lot of those students even though that their technically would be graduating with their home school that completion ceremony and everybody that has helped them get to that point today it seems like all of their
042relatives all of their friends are there to cheer them on it's one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen and so it is a testament to miss lockhart um who else was there mr capuano mr greece haber a lot of people were there at different times but the staff make the students there and i am very thankful for that so thank you member sourcing phil we we are always amazed that they come back for that because they are walking with their home schools but they still come to celebrate with us with the seniors that they worked with i just want to say that i know you got a little emotional but i got a little emotional too and um i i'm just so grateful that they have you and i can't even think of
043what i wanted to ask you now um but i i know that you say it's a testament to the to the students and and to your staff but i think a lot of this is a is a in big part because you are there and i am just so grateful that they have your leadership so again thank you thank you so much thank you i do have a question so you mentioned that there's only 12 referrals this year that's incredible and i know at sundown it's structured entirely different and for some reason students tend to respond really well to that and i think it's amazing can can you tell me what is the most what is the most common reason students get referrals at sundown vaping they really and and we um we limit you
044know the restroom use and we've only had eight incidents this year but that's eight too many um they'll still sneak it you know but that's the number one and then defiance would be would be second and we've only had three incidences wow so do you guys have somebody who like does bathroom sweeps goes in and kind of checks every so often we do we have um he's technically ocr but i use them more like security because we haven't had to use the ocr which is wonderful and then i also have a job coach who goes out in between with me every hour so we're definitely keeping eyes on the restrooms and and we're very limited space so it's a small area to much easier than a valley vista and do you have security on your
045campus just the ocr security cocr but last year for summer school we did not have security and we did not have any issues wow that's incredible and just a quick rundown kind of what is the model what is different about sundown that makes it so successful for these students well i think it's many things it's a 20 to 1 ratio so 20 students one teacher it's also a blended learning we use we use the florida virtual i almost just blew up drew a blank on that i went back to the a plus in my head i would have had to call jim to help me out um the florida virtual learning systems but also blended so teachers doing direct destruction small group work and i think that i really think the structure small learning community
046is what makes a difference as well as the staff madam chair i would i would add to this miss lockhart as being a bit modest but miss lockhart regularly meets with every student on campus to review their progress um to assure that they continue to stay on track to graduate and encourage those who may lose their way for a bit of time and so between miss lockhart and her counselor they do a wonderful job of continuing to keep students on track motivated and the ability and keep them having the ability to see the long-term goal of graduation and it's really a testament to um to the program um but additionally as as member densmore stated it's a testament to ms lockhart's leadership and she does a tremendous job with our program that's incredible and i've
047heard amazing things about you ms lockhart thank you so much i've heard a lot of and i do have a question i don't know is it possible for us to do more of a to take do we have the capacity to do something similar to this structure at our high schools madam chair we continue to look for opportunities to expand what we're doing at sundown ms lockhart expanded the program by about 50 students when when she took back over last year we would like to continue to expand they're a bit landlocked in terms of their campus however we continue to explore opportunities to look for the smaller community model anywhere we can implement that as well we potentially could bring some portables to the sundown campus to make that campus a little bigger and that's
048something that we always have in the back of our mind as well they do a great job thank you so much and thank you miss lockhart thank you very much [Applause] okay now we're on to h1 right i i was just trying to speed things up you know i know i know um all right so h1 dr kellis thank you madam chair members of the board and members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kellis madam chair members of the board superintendent kelly's cabinet and guests uh tonight administration is proud to recommend to you mr matthew gilbert for the posit for the position of assistant principal at kingswood elementary a little bit about mr gilbert he received a master's degree and and that leadership from nau i has three years with
049dysart two years uh with peoria and seven years in the agua freya district uh he's currently at valley vista for us so he went through a very comprehensive process to get to this uh piece and we are happy to recommend him to you tonight he is here with us in the front stand up please mr gilbert there he is and with that we'll stand for any questions thank you dr croto do we have any questions just the fact that you have a concentration in cte business and marketing yay that's all but congratulations all right thank you then i will move to approve the appointment of matthew gilbert as assistant principal second motion carries thank you congratulations [Applause] next we have h2 dr kellis thank you madam chair members of the board and members of cabinet
050dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kellis madam chair members of the board superintendent kellis cabinet guest in our second recommendation this evening administration is proud to present to you a recommendation for our director of student services and we are proud to bring to the table mr craig musee for that position mr musee has a masters and ed leadership from arizona state university he did his undergraduate at u of a so he has self-conflict depending on what sports season it is i think but he has 27 years of extensive educational experience as well as 21 of those 27 in administration so he brings a wealth of knowledge we're excited to have him on board he did go through an extensive process to get to this and he is joining us tonight if you
051can stand up but he's already standing already so with that i stand for any questions or you're it's yours for the motion thank you dr croto do we have any questions no i just feel sorry for glendale union high school district and i know a couple of board members that i'm going to rub it into so congratulations we welcome you yes he comes highly recommended from yes employees of the glendale district they're no longer taking our calls that's okay i got i got a name i got an n all right i will move to uh appoint craig musee as director of student services second it was a tie it was a tie for scissors congratulations mr music welcome to both of you motion carries thank you all right next we have h3 dr kellis thank
052you madam chair members of the board and members of cabinet mr hicks will introduce this item good evening madam president pro tem members of the board superintendent dr kellis colleagues and community members tonight i am presenting our employee benefits plan for the twenty 22 2023 school year first we'll um we'll begin with our main aspect which is our medical plan and we we our provider is blue cross blue shield of arizona and for this year through december our claims are running at 96 percent of um our premiums um the revenue coming in so it's running a little bit high as just a quick reminder we did carve out our pharmacy a couple years ago out of this process so previously it was paired with blue cross we carved it out and it's now with magellan
053they are a pharmacy benefit manager and this has been a very good decision that we've had over the last two years in our last 12 months rolling 12 months we've had in excess of a million dollars of rebates it's a good deal because in general those rebates were going back to blue cross before and so blue cross did charge us more for collecting our own rebates and so that's the gross amount not the net amount so that amount is uh around 900 000 in that sense but it is still a very good decision that we've made the benefits costs keep rising around eight to ten percent and so that is just medical inflation going on uh one of the things we look at is we look at benefit plan changes to try to look at
054and address either better more efficient plans or to mitigate any cost increases and so this year we do have a plan design change and so we are looking at adding a tier and so before we had an employee plus one option and now we have an employee plus spouse and an employee plus children so we split that one up into two so we now have a total of four tiers this creates a benefit to the single family with children option and it's creating an opportunity for our family coverage as sometimes we had employees that chose family and they either added the spouse because it was no additional cost or that was the only option and now they have a better option because a lot of times we've already heard from multiple staff members about oh
055well now my spouse will go back onto their work plan we were only on yours because it was no additional cost and so that will actually have a savings in their plan so i'll go through that a little bit more on a few other slides just as a reminder there was a presentation made to our iba team it was a little bit earlier in the process and so there were general ideas talked about creating a tier not talked about in detail last week we had an employee benefits trust board meeting and this is the recommendation there was extensive conversation around this as the employee benefits trust board is constantly looking to make sure we're doing right for employees and seeing where we can save costs and so i have some follow-ups to do with them
056but we had an extensive conversation about this presentation here and they approved it and fully supported it going forward for tonight's presentation oh i did the same thing okay sorry here is our total plan overview currently we're scheduled as you can see under the current to have 15.6 million dollars in this fiscal year next year the plan is to go up to 17 million that's a 1.3 million dollar increase so that's about 8.8 percent um with this i have budgeted in the 600 000 for pharmacy rebates as i said it netted out to almost 900 000 i really you can't predict exactly what pharmacy and what everybody will use and sometimes specialties come on and off so i don't like to budget high on that i like to be conservative and hopefully it over performs
057and we do see greater benefits but i don't like to bake that into our rates and take a savings that might not be there and then the plan hurts one thing in the total cost we've also one other change increased our matching amount in our hsa plan from 500 to 750 for family only so we'll have two differentiated hsa matching amounts and i'll say that i'll show that again later and then here's the split of the cost share of the increase for the district and then the employees increase premium is also going to have an impact on them as well as they'll have to pay those and so that's split out and shared between the two the next one is just to show this page is just to hear a summary of the total rates
058and the participation planned um on each of those tiers and where we are and what we're expecting and so this really just shows overall what the total costs are on a monthly rate premium total so this is not the employees i'll show that in a second this is just the grand total and then just the participation in each one of them here is as i referenced before so one the district covers the 592 for every single plan for every single employee um that's on it um and so that's our district contribution contribution we also on just the regular hsas this is where you can see the differentiation between family only and we're added the 250 to help them with some of their costs and then we also it's just maintaining so the first hsa base
059with the 500 match we incentivize if you get a physical we'll give you 250 and if you meet the wellness incentive we'll give another those two are the same for routine physical and wellness on the hsa family only it is a matching so it's the employee has to put in 750 and then we'll match up to 750 to encourage them to put more money aside for their hsa plans to cover their medical costs here is uh sorry for the smallness on this but we just try to show a history of the actual employee premiums that are going to be coming out and so the very far right so we do show a sixth year but the really far right is the premiums that are projected for next year that we'll be implementing and you can
060see that first under the hsa our employee only cost is zero so that is a foundation principle that we have that we try to always provide uh for an employee only a no-cost option for medical and dental and so this continues that and this is where you see the two the tears breaking apart from the spouse and the children so the spouse is going up the children's going down probably uh makes sense because when you take kids to the doctors you're probably only playing a co-pay when an adult goes uh my i could use myself in his example of none of mine have been co-pays and i've already hit my out-of-pocket maximum already it really quickly happened so their costs are greater for adults and so this is more representation of an actuarial cost-effectiveness plan
061of plans or paying for what their costs are so you could see um and then a family where they were paying 584 before we'll be going we'll have a lot of well not a lot i don't want to overstate it we have employees that will be moving to employee plus children where before they were in the family and so they'll be saving a couple hundred dollars a month you will have some that will be going up that is the opportunity to say do i really need that spouse on there and and look at their plans and we've had um a number of employees that have already said now i'm doing this why am i doing this why have i been doing this with the cost going up before it was so cheap i'll do it
062now i won't and so there are people are making some good decisions and our benefit manager and our benefits team works with every single employee and walks through all these so that they're making the best most informed decision and just the bottom is our ppo plan obviously a lot less participation but you can see the same increases that i talked about in the top are rolling through on the ppo plan down below and our benefit financial position so this is so we do have an employee benefit trust it has a separate uh fund uh where the money is accounted for and that so we set up premium rates it generates revenue coming in we deposit into our employee benefit trust and we make all the payments out of there so we are self-insured and so
063this is uh we need to have reserves in there to cover uh unexpended costs or if our actuarial gets it wrong in the projections when they're looking at all the numbers and tables and make their projections for us so we do have to have a reserve we do and so you can see we've been using some of that reserve as a high back in 2016-17 from 10 million going down so it continues to go down and it went down a little bit harder because covid expenses where they were not charging co-pays or doing any of those expense but the plan was covering 100 of all the costs as that was going and so that has had a dramatic impact on our plan the medical plan this is just the detail of those plan designs there
064is no changes so even though they're in red that was changed from the previous year there are no changes we really just add the tiers and the hsa change is the only changes for our medical plans so that was medical in general so i know that's a lot going forward and i talked to it really quick now we're jumping to our other parts of the plan which is our we'll start with our dental but most of this is supplementary or voluntary but even in our dental our prepaid dental program with tda we do still provide that zero cost for the employee only option and then with everything else as you can see from current to next year's rates everything is exactly the same with no increases we do have a buy up voluntary dental and
065that's through delta dental of arizona and uh this isn't because we offer the no cost option this is a cost it's a buy up but as you can see all the rates are exactly the same all of our additional supplemental voluntary programs just looking at health equity for our flex spending and our health savings account no rate increase no annual renewal fee increase or no rate admin rate increase our pna which is our cobra administration that is no rate increase but just as a note that only goes through 1231 that was our i believe that was our when we bid it last time and so we're looking at other options we might re-bid it again we do have some time or we might look at other pools or consortiums and the main one we're looking
066at is the valley schools pool to see if we can grab their pricing and program they have just went out to bid and have just now selecting i have not heard who they selected and so we'll look at how that works to see if that would benefit us not only in cost but in operation there's a lot of time and effort that goes into our cobra administration and so we'll want to see that it's seamless and easy to transfer as there's been some hiccups and other things when people are leaving us and we want to smooth that out and look for improved operations our teledoc and our annual reserve also have no rate changes and continue to stay exactly the same from this year our visas our vision no rate changes our life insurance so
067symmetra from basic involuntary accidental death and dismemberment no change current rate no change sun life financial our voluntary short-term disability which we do access through valley schools also has no increase our interface eap that has no rate we did have extension extensive conversation at our employee benefit trust about that as we are seeing a lot of usage in that so we saw a usage report for the last six months and then also we didn't see the usage report from last year but our valley schools benefit consultant mentioned that of all the schools in there that i think there's around 25 we have the highest utilization rate and they attribute that to our increased communication our administrators know about this we really push this hard as there's been a lot of stress anxiety challenges we push
068this out as a first option we do still have when certain things have crisis teams that not only help students but we work with ms winterstein to help our own employees when that's a need in certain situations and so we have a good wraparound coverage in that and so they just gave us a lot of accolades for it's something we pay for no matter if they use it or not so it's something we really would like them to lean on it's just hard to get the word out for people to make that phone call and it is um confidential and then last is our colonial accident insurance it is also voluntary and still no rate change with that as well too so that is the um presentation so the summary just eight percent eight point
069eight percent increases it's a split uh share of that increase we always uh work to make sure that we have a zero cost option for employees on mental and on mental on medical and dental that was not a freudian slip that was a blending of two words we have our continued participation in our hsa plan of our contributions but we added that family so we're increasing that matching to 250. our stop-loss claim is continuing at 3 20 we were happy with although they charged us more for it and so that is always something that districts and organizations can look at to lower their costs on self-funded plan that just means when you have those high costs you pay more of it and so we're happy with it but the cost is getting higher and higher
070we might start looking and right now it's through blue cross we might be looking outside that is another way to save some money and as i said our employee benefit trust board approved of this and also continues to fund uh employee contributions as well so they subsidized a little bit is also part of the plan so i know that was a lot in total but uh i didn't mean to talk so fast if there's any questions i'll be happy to turn off the presentation happy to answer thank you mr hicks do we have any questions just a couple of things but you did answer one of them one of my questions for me um and i was just wondering if the employee assistance program had increased if there was usage and because of the things
071that have been going on for the past two years i was just wondering if there was an increase but yeah you asked you answered that so thank you very much and also with the hsa contribution um as far as the district are we we're not front loading that entire 750 are we splitting up we do split it up i don't know the exact dates of when we pay it up but yes okay it might be monthly or it might be every six months paying okay i know some places will do the entire thing some will split it up in two different place two different places during the year okay thank you you're welcome any other questions all right i will motion to approve the employee health benefit plan for the 2022-2023 school year that's correct
072motion carries thank you all right next we move on to h4 dr kellis thank you madam chair members of the board and members of cabinet this item is the uh request from the board for the board to approve an award of contract for an assessment and instructional improvement system and i will defer this back to miss chaffett all right thank you my concerns with the illuminate education is as i've discussed with dr dean and dr pauling and dr kellis the sel data that it wants to collect and acquire amongst other data with our students and i've been assured that we are only purchasing questions from the banks for math ela science and social studies to replace the galileo that is correct ms chapman yes that is correct currently we have a database company basically when
073we say a database an item bank these are all the questions that we can select there's over 80 000 questions and the four core content areas that you mentioned and this allows us to create our own benchmark exams any common formative assessments or any other if a teacher wants to create tests all of these questions which in the assessment world are called items so when you have an item bank it's a repository of questions that can be used in tests and each of these items or questions have been aligned to the arizona state standards so that when we select the the questions from this item bank we know that the students will be experiencing the same types of questions that they would see on the on the state assessment so we are switching from one
074company to another interestingly the company that we currently have for this year that we are moving away from has a contract with the company that we are proposing and the company we currently use gets their questions from the company that we are proposing we go to um if that makes sense so the company illuminate that we are proposing like many companies has multiple products that they offer we are not purchasing any other products except for the item bank for the content areas that you named okay because my my concern about the item itself it just says award contract assessment and instructional improvement system so it's not very specific my concern is if we approve this motion as presented it would leave it open to purchase those things that raises concern thank you for that feedback
075we can certainly be more specific in the future i think one option if if you made a motion to include only those things and that would certainly uh be clear but we certainly have clear guidance from the board on on on that item as well thank you i apologize if i missed this part but you mentioned it was replacing an existing curriculum that we have i'm chair miss densmore it's not replacing any curriculum these are test questions and we use these test questions which there's over 80 000 questions or items in this item bank that we are basically buying access to the questions and these are made available to students all over the country who are preparing for assessments but these particular questions would be aligned to arizona state standards so that we know that
076when we're preparing for our benchmark exams that the questions that we pull from the the bank are questions the students will basically be measuring themselves against the state assessment so did you say that it was replacing something maybe maybe i had the terminology wrong was it vendor uh my president does correct the the vendors are changing the current vendor is galileo oh okay and the new vendor is um illuminate and as i was just mentioning that interestingly galileo is subletting the questions from illuminate in our current contract so it's the same item we're accessing the same item bank just through it through the the host vendor and not through a sub vendor and what other companies are out there did they share similar setups if i could call dr asaya she led that rfp committee
077okay and she did it no she also had a suggestion regarding the course good evening thank you so much we had two vendors respond and we went through the rfp process looking at the different things they offer one of the great things about illuminate is they have an act predictor that we can that we can also add on they also have a custom assessment package where we can give them the blueprint with the standards and they'll give the test right back to us that'll save us a lot of money with curriculum writing and teachers vetting those items i would propose members of the board we have no intention to use the sel screeners i would propose that the item be passed for an assessment vendor excluding the purchase of any sel any sel items i
078think that makes it very clear that if there's anything to do with sel that we will not purchase it my department has no intention to dabble in sel or crt um anything like that we we are about standards in my department uh we're about teaching standards and aligning to standards um the purpose of the assessment system is to serve as predictors as ati currently does um ati galileo is you've all had your kids probably come home and complain about benchmarks or heard someone do that i know mine never have um but our benchmarks are within about five percent prediction rate of the state test every year and when schools use them well and some schools use them better than others i can speak to when i was at canyon ridge we grew every year about
079four to five percent because we would look at our benchmarks and we would say what does tracy know what does joe know we need to work with tracy on rl1 we need to work with joe on rl1 and rl2 that's the intent of the benchmark is to be able to make that up between times and the items that our teachers write we haven't had enough assessments classes to really do good predictors and so that's why we do ask to purchase assessment systems thank you all right do we have any other questions all right then i will make the motion to approve the award of contract number 22-1818 assessment an instructional approvement system for math ela science and social studies second wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait does that limit this does that is
080that what she i i'm so sorry i i would respectfully request because there is a chance that we can partner on cte items and other assessment items if the state puts something out for it if there's any way it could be approved without any sel because with just those four contents i'm afraid is it it might narrow that scope too much i understand that but i also want to guard against other content not just sel anything that could be used um how does the rest of the board feel i don't want to limit what the district is going to do because we never if they do have like you said other things come along then they can use it so if you just make it specific that excluding any sel items that should um in
081the item itself on bullet number nine the committee's recommendation is based on the evaluation criteria set forth in the solicitation document is the solicitation document does that is that limited to everything except for fcl it was a really long document i i i want to say there's no sel in it i would have to go back and double check um but my concern is cte so there's had the product available we might be able to share test sets with other districts which increases the the reliability when you have two thousand kids taking it versus a hundred um and if they have something that comes out gym grease shapers kids take the tsa so if they have something that they can practice for the tsa we would want to use those items they're not associated with
082anything like that i don't know if you could include i mean cte is the big one that we looked at when we talked about it so cte and i mean if there does become an art assessment i don't know if there's going to be with the seal of the arts will that ever come into play i don't know it it has and it hasn't in the past standardized testing for electives and arts typically comes in and then they realize that you cannot assess a performance-based class with pencil and paper so you and i are on the same page with that they should be performance-based i personally think science should all be performance-based as well if not social studies i just want to be prepared because the state does change back and forth so i guess
083that would be my concern is usually the bids for five years or a period of years and to go through the rfp process is a lengthy process um so is this a contract for five years or is this contract just for one year you're approving the purchase typically they give us a one year and a three year price i believe dr pauline yes yeah it's typical it could um the rfp is good for a certain number of years but we typically we go to year to year or it is possible if they offered a three year we could do that and it's always our desire not to change systems uh these changes can be really big for our teachers because to use learn to use galileo our teachers have been with galileo so long and
084one thing we do hear from our teachers is that we don't like to keep changing because i want to get good at what i'm doing so that would be i guess my concern i still share my concerns about having just awarding the contract in general um i would be okay adding cte but i i want to be specific because i want to make sure that what we are getting is exactly what you are describing to me so yep thank you at some point we're going to have to trust our administrators i'm i'm okay with it um i understand your concern but i don't want to limit ourselves and by putting roadblocks in the way i certainly don't want to do that i think the cores and cte um we would like to get act predictors
085but that aligns to act as in the science english and math so the cte was the big one and we don't even know if that's going to work out for sure but i wouldn't want to limit it i don't think currently they have world language i'm trying to think of all in my mind going through what's tested we would put do we put world language we have world language but typically we build them out in galileo but usually we put our own items in there so i don't think that would prevent us because we're not using their items button but this is not but to dr kelly's point this is not curriculum this is just the assessment it's an assessment so stitch marks huh benchmarks it's for benchmarks is we do our unit test in
086them because we pull our unit data currently out of galileo so we've been able to put all our world language tests in galileo we're using their items but you also use their system to do the testing i guess my my question is if we excluded sel like you suggested what's what's the point of that if it's not curriculum-based um i just think it's a safeguard for the board i know it's a concern of the board and on the board's mind i have no intention of ever ever putting it but i think it's good i mean you know i voters elected the board it's the boards doing the will of the voters if that's a if that's a concern to the voters then to pass it without the sel i think is be you know in
087line with what your constituents are concerned your constituents have i i'm i have no problem the way it's been presented i i don't i understand what you're what you're saying um dr assad but i i guess um and i i appreciate that the thought you put into that um but if i'm understanding it correctly that if it's not curriculum if this is not something that's going to be taught to our students if it's something that's just being used for assessing them then i i don't understand why we need to to limit it maybe but i i but i'm going to give miss chaffin an opportunity to speak to that i'm chairman miss densmore you're correct these were again we're we're purchasing permission to access an item bank the sel component is what miss dr sai
088was suggesting there's an sel screener that and they have a whole plethora a whole catalog of assessments that you can you can access if you purchase those those pieces and parts and so if you say that you want to exclude these items from the bank um these accounts if you're using the bank analogy um then we would not access those accounts those those those items the ones that dr is mentioning is there's plenty others that we can find value in and so if we were to say we're going to purchase access to the bank and through the motion directing administration not to access anything that's related to sel or crt and that would give us the clear direction but still allow us the access to those other items in the bank that would be very
089valuable to potentially provide assessment data for non-core content areas and my concern with the motion as presented is is it just leaves it open to purchasing the whole system and when you go on their website and you look at the different things that you can purchase i have not given a clear answer on what exactly we are going to purchase i've been told what we are not going to purchase i'm sorry i can't i can provide that so we will directly be purchasing um hopefully the ac the act package i believe it's 11 000. i included an email to dr dean earlier this week um we would like to buy custom assessments with custom assessments so with ati and galileo currently dr kellis mentioned the inspect item bank is going away which means if i
090have a 30 item test i only have 10 items left right now when i ask ati galileo what are you going to do for us the answer was basically nothing it was not a great example of extraordinary customer service uh thus we went out for rfp um so with that with the custom assessments to get them up to speed and make sure we have good good unit tests and good finals what we can do with custom assessment packages is i can say i want a unit one reading assessment with three three questions on ri one three questions on ri2 three questions on ri3 they'll turn around and make that test versus teachers digging through countless items to find them so that's the custom assessment package that we would want to add on for a year
091or two and then we have the item bank which is the bulk of the which is the bulk of it and it's one it's in the hundred thousands i know that sounds a lot but for an assessment system it's about run of the mill um so with that with those items they come based on standards i do believe there's items in english math social studies science i do believe they have some they're piloting with cte um i don't have a list of all the items i could go back and look and that's the reason if they have some for foreign language they talked about going out with foreign language for some that i would request that it not be limited to just the four cores okay can you list those again i got the act
092package custom assessments custom assessments and then what is there um oh i wish i had the name it's on my email um it's just the regular just regular item bank really i mean it's tons of items for different for different standards i think what you're referring to that you see when you go into their landing page membership is um they talk about fastbridge a program called fastbridge that has reading screeners math screeners and sel screeners why i do feel the reading screeners and math screeners would be useful for us to screen kids when they come into high school or the seventh grade or third grade we can't detangle that from the sel screeners so we would not be requesting to use any of the screeners or purchase the fast bridge thank you for that so
093i guess you could exclude fastbridge from it i mean that kind of is where the where that would be found i guess my concern is that things of the seo nature would show up in other products that we purchased to or could purchase i think it's very hard in education today to say any book i mean you know the vendors you've seen conferences you've seen vendors i think it's very important that the staff understands the wish of the board i mean my understanding is the wish of the board is sel is something that's better left in the home and that's our directive that's been our directive to our you know to my coordinators to my teachers to to the and so i mean i we're not going to purchase it but like i said if
094you want to put that safeguard in place i think it's a reasonable thing to do in other words to say the assessment and instructional improvement system um minus the seo that's what excu x minus excluding the sel component i mean with that and fast bridge and fast and fast i think that would take care of it is excluding fast bridge and chair miss uh sourcing bill fastbridge is where the sel is located okay the the sel screener okay to my knowledge my understanding is that those scl questions are located within the sel screener which is located within fastbridge and fastbridge as as dr hassai mentioned has several screeners within the fastbridge module that includes reading screeners reading screeners mouse screeners and the sel screener it's kind of like when you get a tesla and then
095you can add on the self-driving part except we don't we want to say we want the tesla without the self-driving part okay because we don't want to get in an accident no one wants that and the only reason i was saying that yeah yeah and the only reason i was saying that was because miss chaffin was talking about that sel being possibly found in other components i think that's what i was understanding you right okay but i would like to get a tesla too could we exclude fastbridge and sel just to make sure we have our basis my department would be thrilled with that recommendation yes and then can we also put a time limit on as in one contract one year and then take another look in a year doesn't mean we have to
096change anything could it say we bring it back to the board of the year instead of having to go through the entire rfp process again yes that would be like number 10 kind of says that though um which would give us the option to renew annually for up to five years we just need to understand that the price might be a little bit higher um sometimes for an example with um defined learning that we use for our gifted kids a stem-based product it is 50 like 52 000 a year but if you package it you can get it for 80 000 let's say sometimes sometimes you get that multi-year discount however i think so the board feels more at peace it would be worth it to say okay we'll pay a little bit more and
097we'll come back in a year madam president pro tem uh members of the board all of our rfps are year to year we we always check in with them to make sure that we're still this is what we want so it's never a five-year commitment thank you you're welcome i would feel good about moving forward with the two exclusions we have a motion so i can make a substitute motion well we already have a motion on the floor right now substitute well she needs to approve the board for math ela science and social studies do we have an amendment to that motion yes that we would improve so just uh maybe we're getting chair point of order that the motion is yours to withdraw or to amend it would not be appropriate for somebody else
098to amend your emotion if you'd like to call the question or if it's not seconded if you could call for a second if there's no second then the motion dies and then a second motion can be presented thank you very much dr kellis i will amend the motion to award the contract number 22-1818-009 assessment and instructional improvement system to exclude sel any components with sel fast bridge or crt for one year second um i seconded it and not but i had already seconded it um i approved the amendment my second amendment excuse me that should work i didn't realize your second still stood sorry this still does okay and this is for one year correct within the as presented or do we need to include that in the motion um madam president pro-tem members of
099the board our rfp's awarded for five years we bring them back to the board every year for renewals so this will come back on a yearly basis with the renewal process so does it come back in consent or does it come back consent madam chair we're going to re-post the vote um with the we missed your your motion was complete we failed to include the one-year component so do we exit out of this okay thank you madam president for clarification was that just a one-year award so we're doing a new rfp next year or was this this was a revisit after a year but are you wanting to go through a full rfp again no i just want it back brought back to the board for approval which every next year all of our annual
100come back to the board every single year i'm sheriff my understanding is that you'd like if not in consent you'd like it as a board discussion yes please [Laughter] i know good job information i'll try this so does this mean it's going to show up as an information item i'm chair yes this is an information item as actually if it was brought to the board for approval every year through consent then it would be an action but it can be presented as a action discussion because we'll have to vote on it right just like if it was in consent if it was an action i'm yes it would require an active vote but we could move it from information to action but then we'd go home before nine o'clock yes i'm fine with that okay
101not present what they're not you guys weren't present you're not here present did you vote i did i did vote it was a ghost vote it shows you guys weren't here okay that's interesting oh okay okay we're redoing it you're back okay yeah now i'll be out okay action discussion okay perfect for sure i voted three times yes hey it's verbage gotta make sure it's right it's getting scary motion carries all right that moves us to i1 does anyone dr kellis madam president members of the chair members of the board if there's anybody who has requests for future agenda items we'd be happy to to receive those and just as a reminder from the last board meeting there are several requests for gen items if you haven't yet submitted your generate request form please do
102so so that we know the specifics of what you're requesting and the administration can prepare those items thank you dr kellis do we have any requests all right i'll move to j1 i move that we adjourn the meeting second second second take you