001at this time i'd like to call the meeting of the dysart unified school district to order let the record reflect that all board members are present and we'll begin with the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all you i'm going to start with a statement prepared by the um by the dysart district public meetings are an important component of dysart unified school district governing board members sit together on a common platform to exchange views and opinions and reach solutions benefiting the dysart community behavior of participants and guests at a governing board meeting is important to the successful governance of the district dysart respects the first amendment rights of
002community members to share their comments with the board through civil discourse in that vein the following rules will be followed all present will demonstrate behavior that reflects respect for self and others disorderly conduct that interferes with the education processes of the district ars 13-2911 or failure to comply with reasonable requests will not be tolerated any person who engages in disorderly conduct ars 13-2904 will be dismissed from the meeting trespassed by law enforcement and or arrested thank you all right and next we'll start with recognitions and celebrations dr croto thank you madam president uh we have some awesome celebrations tonight and dr dean will take us through those thank you good evening madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet this evening we're very excited to place a final exclamation mark on the high
003school athletic season we had a tremendously successful athletic season this year and this evening we're here to recognize some state champions and some state runners up and so we're going to start with the 5a conference state softball champions and that's coach donnie tozano his staff and the willow canyon high school softball team come on down everyone all right we're going to need thank you congratulations thank you congratulations congratulations don't forget to tell travis congratulations coach congratulations while the team has his picture taken we should tell the audience that willow caning high school lost one game during the season 20-1 23-1 21-1 was their record and they won the state championship by beating canyon view 12-4 in tucson of all places in a beautiful location and the great thing about these kids they look nice right
004they'll kill you on the softball field and they only lose a couple for next year so they'll all be back and we look forward to another year give willow candy softball state champion team a round of applause thank you very much and congratulations continuing on this evening with our athletic recognitions we are excited to rec uh recognize some of our outstanding track athletes and they are from valley vista high school and you're not you're you won't be seeing double um you will be seeing two people um that you'll think you're seeing double but we'd like to start by recognizing the division one 110 meter hurdle state champion trenton givens trent would you please come forward [Applause] we'd also like to recognize this evening the 110 meter hurdle state runner-up tyson gibbons come on down we're
005all so excited this evening to recognize by the way both trenton and tyson placed in the top eight in the 300 meter intermediate hurdles as well congratulations guys we'd also like to give him a round of applause absolutely we would also like to recognize the division one 200 meter dash state runner-up from valley vista high school with the best track name ever blaze nelson come on down blaze congratulations and while they're up here we're also going to recognize the valley vista high school 4 by 100 meter relay team and we're going to ask donovan greathouse to join us as well donovan have you made it this evening come on down donovan [Applause] congratulations the 4x100 meter relay team finished as state runners-up to state champion chandler and lost by just a few hundredths of a
006second so a great race and congratulations gentlemen so we can get a picture that'd be great and then we'll give them another round of applause would you give our outstanding track athletes a round of applause congratulations guys and two of the four are back next year so we'll look forward to that as well just one just one all right blaze you're gonna have to run all four legs of the relay next year i'm sure it'll be great as we continue on with our recognitions this evening we would like to recognize although she's not here this evening valley vista high school counselor heather webb she has received the region 5 arizona career and technical education career guidance award at the organization's annual conference miss webb was honored for being a true advocate for cte and for
007her efforts to provide opportunities for our students would you please give miss webb a round of applause and madam president that concludes our recognitions for the evening thank you very much and congratulations to all next we have audience with individuals tonight we do not have any wishing to speak thank you thank you all right and moving to item d1 superintendent update dr kellis dr croto i will speak on behalf of dr kellis thank you a couple things last week obviously we had fantastic graduation ceremonies at state farm stadium so congratulations to all our graduates a great evening on that wednesday and we want to say a special thank you to all our faculty staff students parents community uh for getting us through a tough year this last year we made it we got through the
008year and everybody did a fantastic job so we want to say thank you to that and that's all we have next we have governing board update i'll open it up i'll go ahead and start just a couple of quick things attended the sundown completion ceremony that was on the 13th and that continues to be a great celebration each year thank you to mrs miss lockhart and her staff attended the growing minds preschool graduations that were held at freedom traditional and marley park also attended the graduation the class of 2021 and it is always a treat to see these fine young men and women walk across the stage to get their diploma i did find a saying that spoke near and dear to my heart for their dedication and perseverance behind you all your memories before
009you all your dreams around you all who love you within you all you need and so congratulations to everybody the the the uh athletics the um those that had received their art diploma and just so many different things straight from those that need ieps to help them succeed and those that are into the cte so congratulations to everybody and many congratulations to the 2021 dysart education foundation many grant winners these teachers write a small grant for their classroom that they wanted to expand on something in their classroom so congratulations to those winners and finally a big thank you to just like dr croto has said to the parents staff community members cities of surprise and el mirage for their support that they have shown to our graduates and our continuing graduates so they're on to
010bigger and better things so have a safe and wonderful summer and we'll see you back here at the in august thank you i'll just echo a little bit of what mr singfel said just congratulations to our graduating class of 2021. it comes um and just really wanting to recognize that entire class for how resilient they've been our teachers our staff members everyone this whole year has just have to overcome so many obstacles and they did it and the fact too with our district i just want to thank administration specifically mr dean i know you are working very hard with state farm stadium there's so many high schools and so many students who didn't get to experience half the things that our students did the ceremony wasn't quite the same and dysart really pushed hard to
011make sure that this year was as close to normal as possible and it took a lot of effort from a lot of fine people to make that happen so thank you all everyone who's involved in that and again congratulations to the class of 2021. okay um just wanted to also echo you know what everyone else is saying uh congratulations to the class of 2021. um just want to thank the the students for persevering um all of our staff for for all of their hard work and also the parents that were you know sitting behind all of those students all year long helping them uh with persevering through it so um also it was just an honor to be involved in their in the graduation ceremony something that we um really take for granted and especially
012last year um not having that so thank you to everyone that's made that happen and that's it next we have a motion to approve the consent agenda items and i will make a motion to pres to approve the consent agenda items as presented seconded by miss pritchard motion passes next moving on to information information item number one information on social worker program dr croto thank you madam president this evening dr dean will introduce this item good evening madam president members of the governing board and members of cabinet this evening we provide information to the governing board on our annual or our annual information item on our social worker program um our director of student services karen winterstein is here to provide that information just a reminder to the governing board that our social workers are
013not therapists they do not function in that role um nor do we allow them to function in that role so ms winterstein will provide an update on the social worker program good evening madam president governing board members dr proto cabinet and audience it is my pleasure to speak with you regarding our social worker update just to give a little bit of history we had a committee begin looking at the possibility of introducing social workers to dysart back in 2018 and in september of that year the governing board approved to move forward with the pilot program that pilot program consisted of five social workers uh four at a k-8 setting and one at a high school and which expanded or which began in january of 19 in that next school year we move forward as a
014district to put social workers in each one of our schools our social workers follow the ade approved castle sel framework which is the collaborative for academic social emotional learning there are five core competencies uh that include self-awareness which is the ability to understand your own emotions thoughts and values along with your strengths and limitations and how they influence your behaviors the second core is self-management and that's the ability to manage your emotions thoughts and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve your goals and and what your immediate wants are the social awareness component is the ability to understand the perspectives of and empathize with others including those from diverse backgrounds cultures and in different contexts such as the classroom playground the bus or hallways relationship skills is the fourth one which is the ability
015to establish and maintain healthy and supportive relationships and to effectively navigate settings with diverse individuals and groups responsible decision making is that final core which is the ability to make caring and constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions across diverse situations to give you an example of what these competencies look like in action i think of a ninth grader experiencing a high school set in an open lunch on the first day of school what they've just experienced is three separate and confusing classes and they're trying to absorb something called a syllabus they are trying to understand and manage their thoughts and emotions as they walk out into the loud courtyard and try to text their friends to meet them up for lunch then they have to navigate the lunch area with people who they've
016never seen before who possibly act and look differently than they do while someone comes up and surprisingly asks if they were the person in the tick tock video that they saw that morning finally they try to hold it together and find a safe spot to sit for a while as they eat a granola bar without finding their friends that's applying the sel skills that they've learned in middle school and elementary school as a principal i always made it a point to go and observe my kindergarten playground because i knew exactly uh within just a few minutes which kiddos needed support in certain areas and that's really what scl is about is to help the students be successful in whatever context they are in a school setting and all five of those core competencies help layer
017that that by learning and applying those skills in various contexts within a school setting and these competencies are directly tied to our character program and pbis positive behavior interventions and support that are in all of our schools so supporting students staff and families is the primary goal for our social workers as dr dean said we don't provide any therapy or or clinical support but it's truly in helping students be successful in what they need um primarily uh to succeed academically how the um sel information and and skills are learned and applied um are by whole group lessons that are provided by the social worker in conjunction with a classroom teacher ultimately what our goal is is that those sel skills are woven into what the students are doing every day in in in the classroom
018in athletics in our arts classrooms because truly it's whether managing and identifying understanding and managing their own thoughts and feelings interactions with others in a social setting building those relationships and then making responsible decisions our social workers also support students with small group skill based lessons such as grief anger management anxiety especially this past year problem solving goal setting time management anything that might be identified either in their interaction or primarily with a teacher recommendation they also provide individual support and check-ins it could be after a support plan or as part of goal setting uh threat is they're also members of our threat assessment team multi-tiered systems of support which is our rti process part of the behavior team also our crisis response when when something is happening on a campus or a school-wide crisis
019situation they also arrange cfts meetings for our child family teams re-entry plans there's food pantry systems at many of our schools for families in need they provide resources and they also provide staff training in a variety of ways primarily not primarily but as a big support this year was really classroom management and how to support behaviors within the the school setting so the plans for the coming year is to assist with the staff training so that the staff truly understands those five core competencies and how they can naturally integrate us we are doing some work this summer with our ela content and identifying ways in which um the stories and the the lessons that they're they're already teaching those uh lessons can be naturally integrated into conversations that are already happening within the the instruction
020uh and then making those purposeful connections within our three a's because when you think about performing arts or athletic teams all five of those competencies are really important to be successful whether it's academics arts or athletics or as dr dean would say athletics first but um and then building relationships within the community whether it's socially within their friend group or within their grade level or within the bigger context of a school setting and then ultimately it's really supporting students for their success academically because that's why we're here as educators the social piece is just an important part of that and with that i'll stand for any questions and if there are no questions madam president we'd be happy to go to the next item actually i just wanted to tell her real quick um miss
021winterstein thank you uh for actually providing that analogy at the beginning of your your presentation i think it just hit spot on because um i know when you when you go from eighth grade into that big setting high school uh you were the big man on campus now you're the little tadpole in the pond again and it it can be a little overwhelming so but i like the analogy that you use so thank you just a quick question um well i think it's quick you mentioned children that may be going through grief and maybe a teacher or maybe the social worker is identifying that so they're getting like a referral um is it also possible for a family to initiate that referral absolutely a mad absent absolutely in fact um our social workers have created
022some amazing bonds unfortunately we had several parents um die of covert this year and uh the support that they were able to provide the family because oftentimes i'll never forget a dicer high student and she was at school she's her mom went in the hospital and she died two days later it came on so quickly her aunt um was there to she was she was the only daughter so she didn't have any parents so her aunt scooped her up and so that family needed a whole bunch of support right and she's just one of many but absolutely they they are instrumental in making sure that the family have the resources that they're connected with community resources not that this our social worker can provide grief support to the families but they definitely have a wealth
023of information as far as resources for them wonderful thank you absolutely good thank you all right next we're moving on to information item g2 dr croto thank you madam president uh for this item our discipline overview dr dean will also introduce this item thank you dr croto madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet this evening we are happy to present to the governing board a disciplined overview of the 20th 2020 2021 school year it is difficult to say miss richard it's tongue tying um i i i will tell you that ahead of time that this information is going to look a bit different um in the fact that the 2020 2021 school year was quite different compared to previous school years and so our director of student services karen wenterstein will also
024present this information to the governing board good evening madam president governing board members dr croto cabinet and audience members as dr dean explained we haven't had a regular school year for a few years last year was cut short in the fourth quarter and this year was uh very unique in that we started virtually and we didn't have our full in-person attendance as we usually do so for the benefit of just a refresher i'm gonna actually go back because i i usually share our discipline data every year i was not able to do that last year so in order to gain a perspective i'm going to start with a 2018-19 overview because that was our full for our last full year um of data and so two years ago i was up here and we were
025celebrating um these decreases in the amount of refer the percentage of referral decreases uh we were able to decrease our bullying by 20 by 27 defiance and disrespect which is our largest number of referrals by 14 verbal abuse profanity 24 endangerment 41 dangerous instruments 32 and threatening intimidating behavior that those are combined behaviors by 35 so we were really we really were focusing on that respect and responsibility in that last year the downside of 1819 that's when we really saw a huge spike and this was nationwide we saw a 216 percent increase in drug tobacco paraphernalia that is the vape alone uh 179 increase in drug use possession that was with the vapes that had the thc cartridge typically we had very few actual physical drugs they were almost predominantly in the vapes and then
026a 288 increase in tobacco use and those would be the tobacco vapes so we definitely had a huge area of growth in but again we were not um atypical from what was happening staten nationwide so last year it wasn't the typical year so what i did as far as the data is i took last year's comparison because we had completed three quarters and did 75 at comparison of with the the previous full year so we were pretty much even on just about everything um the the celebrations were not very many we had uh disruptions were down 15 threats we were down 23 that was big the drug tobacco paraphernalia only was down 21 this year it's very difficult to compare because as i said we didn't have full enrollment we had we've varied anywhere once
027we opened on september 14th or 21st we anywhere between 70 65 to 80 in person uh while the rest were we're learning virtually we saw a huge decrease but many other factors play into this we were socially distant we were we had our masks on behavior was very much different than a typical classroom so i hesitate celebrating these too much because i really want to see a full year of course these any time we can decrease referrals that's that's that's a great thing but i i just don't want to put all of our eggs in in the one basket if you understand so you can see by some of these numbers um pretty drastic decreases but again it's not your typical year but 51 decrease in assault i'm not going to read them all but
028fighting 43 which is a huge um interaction physical aggression so you'll see the more physical ones the assault um the the fighting the physical aggression threatening intimidation uh verbal abuse profanity in red we we did see at the end of last year an uptick in vaping again um and which is definitely on our radar to hit strong uh when we open the school year next year um harassment was also up 15 um and it was typically in that the last uh quarter maybe february we saw an uptick in that and i don't know if the kids were really struggling but it was more of that mean behavior and really saying some things that um were absolutely not appropriate and and met the definition of harassment so again those two areas will continue to be our
029area of focus long-term suspensions in 1819 we realized that we need our kids in in class so we re-looked at our processes and we asked our administrators to really be more reflective with our students that included and restorative that restorative piece included when the students returned from uh suspension uh they would be do a check-in with either an interventionist a high school counselor or an admin at the k setting to really set the student up for success yes they served a consequence but just like with anyone okay you made a mistake now what are you going to do to change that behavior so we really focused on that piece and we saw a drastic drop in last year now remember last year in 1920 it was only three-fourths of the year but as you can
030tell in the first three quarters to only have seven compared to 38 the year before i take that as a success and then this year again different circumstances we had two we have i have the three we have a long-term suspension um next tuesday on june 1st um so i've included that because that is a recommendation it has not yet been been formalized but i wanted to be forthright in saying there are actually three recommendations so with that i stand for any questions i'll go ahead and start thank you very much miss winterstein two things that i would like to ask you about one of them attending the cips that some of the schools well some of the schools reflected in their cips that they had noticed themselves decreases in office referrals um do you
031feel that a lot of it may have been because of like pbis or just i mean because a lot of these percentages and areas uh difficult to compare your slide on number five um you know those are a those are decreases but would you say pbis was a strong thing that helped with the office referrals being down madam president member sorry st pal i do think pbis played a part we currently have eight schools implementing pbis and four are are starting the the training next year so um i i've spoke with several principals at pbis schools that have there that are in their second third fourth year of implementation um and their referrals did go down uh one over fifty percent again um i would just rather have a full year so i know that
032the pbis practices are definitely working and that the teachers are having common terminology and students are having they know the expectations wherever they are on the campus so those those aspects of pbis are definitely in place and effective um but again we are going to continue our efforts in in full implementation and we look forward to seeing what a full year of data looks like next and i know that's kind of a difficult question to ask but because we didn't have the normal year that we've had but there were several schools that had noticed a great change in not so many referrals and stuff and my second part had to do with the vaping and of course not only dysart but all different school districts across our nation are having issues with students vaping are
033there any new programs out there that we may try to grab a hold of in order to get these numbers back down madam president member sorry zeke bell there are a few online and we do use a few online courses as part of our diversion to help those students understand the the dangers of vaping we also are doing not necessarily the road shows but we are definitely doing lots of education next year that continued education uh what was interesting this year is we found that students have a much broader access to devices and drugs and and drug paraphernalia at their home and outside in the community so it's it's a tough battle um i know when i was up here two years ago talking about our vaping road shows we were really targeting on the
034the smoke shops and that type of access that is still a concern but our students have a much broader access um within that is within reach um outside of school so we're still doing the road shows right we did not do them this year okay because of the year yes but yes um we have uh talked with doing uh in-person education absolutely whether it be a whole group like our road shows again or um in a smaller group setting that has yet to be determined okay because i i would really like for us to really ramp it up especially after the year that we've just had so right thank you can i just ask really quick is dysart high school still our only high school that utilizes pbis or do we have uh sundown also
035utilizes pbis are there any plans to get our other high schools on board with that especially if we're going to be really implementing them in the k-8 or the middle schools then when they transition to high school it's going to be a program they're already familiar with yes we are gradually doing that um as we have cohorts uh like this year uh we have another co we have a cohort starting it's a three year uh training process and so the following year we plan to put additional schools in the co in a different cohort okay thank you any other questions okay thank you very much next we have item h1 dr croto thank you madam president members of the board cabinet and guests tonight we bring to you a series of three recommendations for new
036administrators in our district so we'd like to celebrate that we're going to start by our recommendation to approve miss sunny resh as the principal at dysart high school sonny received a master's degree in educational administration from grand canyon university um she has extensive educational experience as well as seven years as assistant principal in our district and she is here tonight so after you vote we can welcome sunny i just have to say that sunny has been part of that campus part of that culture part of that atmosphere for many years and i can't think of a more dedicated person to continue leading leading the charge at dysart and with that i would like to go and make the motion to governing board to approve the appointment of sonny rush as principal for dysart high school
037second motion passes congratulations congratulations sonny and welcome aboard next we have item h2 dr croto thank you madam president h2 is a recommendation for an appointment of a high school assistant principal and we're proud to recommend moises centeno for the position of assistant principal at shadow ridge high school for next year moyes has received a master's degree in educational leadership from arizona state university he has seven years of experience as a middle school and high school teacher as well as two years as a teaching and learning specialist with our district so he is here also sitting behind sonny and we can welcome him after you vote again thank you and with that i'll make a motion to approve the appointment of moises centeno as high school assistant principal seconded by ms grant motion passes congratulations
038mr centeno welcome aboard next we have item h3 dr croto thank you madam president members of the board cabinet and guests we continue on with our third recommendation this evening for a new assistant principal at mountain view elementary and we are proud to recommend sarah sarter for that position as assistant principal sarah received a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from grand canyon university she has six years of experience as an elementary school teacher and two years as a teaching and learning experience with the dysart district so she is also here uh this evening so after you vote we can welcome sarah board you know sarah you will enjoy working with gail miller out there i know you will she's right oh she's right beside you oops with that i'll motion to approve the appointment
039of sarah sarter as elementary assistant principal second motion passes congratulations congratulations sarah welcome next we have item h4 dr croto thank you madam president um tonight we bring to you a motion to approve travel and contra conference registration and reimbursement travel fees for individual board members to attend training and conferences that include the arizona school boards association or national school boards and other events and with that miss brown will kind of take you through this and answer any questions okay um the budget um hasn't actually changed i know the past two years budget amounts haven't been used to their full extent so every year every board member gets four thousand dollars allocated for travel and for conferences the remainder of the previous year's budget is going to roll over so i just i gave to
040you earlier what your rollover amounts will be adding that to the four thousand dollar budget will be your budget for the 20 21 22 school year the second page that i gave you guys is just an example of what this past school year looked like as you can see there was no nokias that were really attended the big one is the national school boards association annual conference that is usually out of state that's the the big one every year so i know that this year it was virtual next year they are planning that it is going to be an in-person training probably in april may or june of next year so any questions i have a question so the top portion where there was a carryover is that not brought down to the bottom no
041your carryover is only the previous year so the 2021 the 2020 22 21 this is this school year that's the only amount that's rolling over has it always been that so what happened what happens to whatever is not spent where does that money get back turned into then ken where does the money go uh madam president members of the board when we have uh expenses or encumbrances that are not realized it just rolls into our balance so when we talk about a carry forward that's where it goes and it goes back into contingency fund can you talk a little bit more about a contingency fund i wasn't aware because i um i mean i think it's if we're i think it's great that you know if board members don't use all the money it should
042go back into something i suppose that would either be equivalent to continuing education or professional development or is there a reason why it just wasn't rolled over though it's never it it always only the previous year has always rolled over it hasn't been if you didn't use your 4000 and then you didn't use your 4000 you're not going to get 20 000 it goes back to the district budget so that the district can utilize the the the funds according to what's needed and that's great it just we should do you think we should have like a definite plan of where it goes rather than just a i just want to know what a contingency fund means madam president members of our board it's our k it's our carry forward so it's not a separate fund
043it stays within it it's what we've talked about in our conservative budget approach that gives us stability going forward so when we budget staffing new positions coming on we use the average salary if somebody comes above the average salary we're eating into some of that unencumbered money that carry forward going forward as we have years that we have this year where we lost 900 students we gave contracts out 18 months ago and so to be able to honor all those contracts we have to have a carry forward a budget so we do not spend a hundred percent of every dollar that comes in it goes back into the pot we re-look at it and we spend about 99 percent of that money and so it gives us the cushion and the stability to maintain all
044of our expenses as we're going forward is it um a contingency fund that's very specific to the governing board or is it just one big uh madam president members of the board if you're asking two years ago the money not used did we set that aside and put it in a separate fund no it rolls into the carry forward that's just into the pot and reallocated into our budget part that's not carried into the carry forward um the rollover well right now two years ago right it rolls into the district's carry forward not into your carry forward right yeah okay but is it is it a specific line item that you can actually line up to that it was a governing board fund there is not a specific line item we allocate out almost all
045separate account it goes into the district's account yep okay all stays within it does not there's not a separate fund that this gets set off into this all stays within the district's mmo budget do you know just out of curiosity the history of why it wasn't rolled over in general understanding you said we haven't done that before typically but just been thinking about it because i know the way the policy reads is if you um use your budget and another conference comes up if you don't have enough in your budget then then you have to either can't go or it has to come before the board for approval so you could especially if you go to one of the national conferences that could that's probably going to be your only major conference you go to
046because it's a lot um but if you have that extra then that might allow for more professional development if it's already attached to that one particular board member so do you know just out of curiosity with history of it why we just never did that i don't think we can we can't we can't roll over and continuously hold money aside for one for two one school year or two school years the the district has to use the money according to its budget uh no madam president members of the board we could keep a perpetual fund of tracking somebody's going to have to account for it and do it if we would like to do that my personal philosophy that i've been put on uh the district as i've been here is that schools are able
047to carry forward 100 of their money it's based on number of students and their allocation our departments and others it's based on what is your needs and so we just give it to them it's not based on students and so if they didn't need it we sweep it they're still provided the amount the following year so we're not taking away from them in the future years um if the board would like it to be treated separately we can continue to do that it's um it's just somebody's which would be miss brown would have to maintain and manage that and historically if a board member has used all of their travel they present it to the governing board on an agenda item because some board members don't travel some members will never use their budget and
048that budgeted allocated for that board member can be transferred over and they can say you can you can have my have my you know four thousand dollars when's the last time the board has looked at that particular amount that fourth is that pretty much just this this meeting right here this time of year where it's the 4000 this is the same agenda item that's been presented um because i know like again like for an example i like the and even though i've only had i was supposed to go last year because of covet but the previous year went into washington dc for the advocacy institute which is amazing but i know if i go to that one then as far as going to the national level school bus conference i'm not going to have enough
049so that's why there's been some years i didn't realize that there was a uh you couldn't continue to roll it um where i would forego certain conferences because i knew i needed to stay within my budget of what i thought i had but it sounds like that really was to my detriment because there's no saving or budgeting for a particular conference it just disappears and goes into a district contingency fund uh madam president members of the board it only rolls the previous year going forth so if you were saving from two years ago then i did have one question for you miss brown there were two of us that were wanting to go to the national school boards association um that was supposed to be last year the three three well well three yes one
050longer here um and we had purchased plane tickets and then covet hit and so uh the airlines were not too friendly you know fry the fly the friendly skies wasn't quite friendly so they extended when we could use those tickets is that extended till march of 2022 march 2022. so you have vouchers those that were already paid your vouchers are in your name that is ready to be used until march 2022 and that's not already figured into this total no that's already been used so the vouchers are already paid for so if you decide to go to the now the nsba and it's been announced in december and you go ahead and book your flight for april and as long as you book that flight before march of 2022 then you're good your plane ticket
051is already paid for okay so that won't come out of your budget okay thank you and i apologize the motion is really long okay i have a question before we proceed with that um so i i know like it on this itemization that you provided it has my total expenses at sixty dollars um but then on the second page i have two um trainings or something or two events that i attended so one was free and one was not um what are the months i only have two things february february 12th and february 18th the bolt stream no no it's only february 12th nobody attended the february 18th there's no name there on the february 18th oh i thought that was just my section oh no no no if there's a name what are we
052going to do there's no name there so nobody attended the asbo legislative workshop so okay so then i'll scratch that question so the follow-up to that though is so as we attend you know trainings or have travel um and i've never traveled under the district budget but except for maybe a mileage thing one time um so do we i don't know what the communication is like do you um tell us what what the cost is oh yeah okay so i will when you when i pay for you'll know how much i'll let you know what the conference registration fee is what the airline ticket is you'll every year i try to let you know because i know i've had board members ask what is my balance how much do i have left and then i
053explain and give a breakdown this is exactly what was what was budgeted this is what was used um so just as a note for the new board members mileage if you're going to be traveling um and submit mileage reimbursement that does come out of your budget cost okay and i know that typically we you know it says you know appropriate board conferences and workshops and that typically is you know asba or nsba but if there were other types of education related workshops or conferences are those included in that i don't see anything that disallows it in the policy but the motion says to attend training and conferences that may include but are not limited to arizona school boards association national so whatever you okay you find in it's gonna be it's pertaining to district right
054business then yes okay that's the only question i had anybody else okay that is a long motion okay i am going to motion to approve travel conference related and reimbursable travel fees for individual board members to attend training and conferences that may include but are not limited to arizona school board association and national school board association events events for each board member for the 2021 2022 school year an approved amount of 4 000 is designated plus any monies remaining in an individual board member's travel allowance for the 2020 2021 school year that will be carried over and added to that individual's travel budget for the 2021-2022 school year if an individual board member exceeds the allotted travel and conference allocation the board member would need to bring the travel request to the whole board for
055consideration and action as part of the action discussion agenda second it was that long motion that did it motion passes okay all right next we have the request for future agenda items going once going twice i'll entertain a motion to adjourn okay i'll motion to adjourn she seconds you