001good evening we'll go ahead and get started let the record show that everybody is all broad members are present except for miss Tanner and we'll go ahead and start with the Pledge of Allegiance go ahead and move to approval of Djenne items all motion that we approve let's see what am i improving here all motion to approve the agenda items from the consent our motion to approve the agenda items from the consent with the governing board policies I move that the governing board approve the agenda form consistent with governing board policy and temporarily suspend any policy with which this agenda may be inconsistent motion made by Tracy story of sink Bell and second it by Chrissie mr. pritchards go ahead and take a vote they passed again motion carries all right now we'll go ahead
002and get on to the fun part we'll move to section c1 the choir performance dr. Kellis Thank You mr. president members of the board and member of cabinet we would like to excited today to have the willow Canyon choir here under the direction of Logan McDonald's so the extraordinary willow canyon choir [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now I can't make you stay but where's your heart but where's your heart but where's your [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] stop going I am not afraid to keep moving [Music] me going home [Music] [Applause] [Music] see you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you that was amazing job thank you so much definitely pay to see
003that group again [Laughter] awesome thank you so stage presents great well done very well done there's definitely something special about show choir for dinner yes you guys are amazing and and I don't know if the board knew we have to McDonald's in our district oh yes yes we have to I always confuse like you keep your talent coming back you're here as students and then you're back continuing to share all of your talents so we really appreciate you thank you so much thank you love to thanks so much [Applause] all right we'll go ahead and move on to see to the district spelling bee winners dr. gills Thank You mr. president members of the board and Ken Hicks we would like to ask a do drew eight-year-old grieshaber to introduce this item good evening mr.
004president members of the governing board dr. Kellis and mr. Hicks it's with distinct pleasure that I get to introduce our district spelling bee winner for 2020 we had to be on January 30th and we had wonderful contestants here you see on the screen our top five contestants I believe just our winner is here this evening but all five of them will be going to our regional be on it's in February on February 22nd and it's in Buckeye so they will be representing Dysart the runner-up was Alexandra sily from freedom traditional Hayden Bostick from Western Peaks caleb dan from marley park Lauren cook from countryside and then our winner spelling the word marooned correctly was Alden Alana's and he's here tonight so you can come on up all day [Applause] come on take picture okay and
005again Alden and our four runner-up students will be representing us on February 22nd and but guy if anyone's interested in attending the regional beat they will be there thank you awesome thank you so much and congratulations on that it's a great accomplishment all right we'll go ahead and move on to c3 recognition for Career and Technical Education month dr. Phylis Thank You mr. president members of the board and all the members of cabinet who are here present or virtually like to introduce this next item our CTE recognition month and the not so better half of the gree savers is here to present this on the G & G show right so thank you dr. Kelso good evening mr. president members of the board dr. Calais and mr. Hicks and guests happy Career and Technical Education
006month the month of February yeah yeah all right I'm excited to celebrate desserts extraordinary CTE programs with you tonight I've placed a CT fire notepad and an I heart candy bar at your seat - just to say thank you for all your support of desserts Career and Technical Education programs one of the handouts that I have up there looks like a tree this tells a big part of our story but but here are some additional information for us to celebrate CTE we'll be adding two new programs next year's stagecraft formerly known as tech theater and a certified nursing assistant program CNA with this new CNA program comes new partnerships with Banner Health and Sun health we're really excited about the opportunities for our students up to now we've earned too high or that we've earned
007our students have earned 271 industry certification or 271 students have earned 383 industry certifications with more to come this spring dye search graduation rate for our CTE concentrators is at ninety seven point seven three percent the state average is ninety two point seven percent governor Ducey signed the state of Arizona proclamation in support of CTE next Tuesday Mara Hall of the city of surprise will be signing a proclamation and we're really excited about next Thursday not that were not excited about Mara Hall but we're really excited that mayor Hermosillo with the city of El Mirage will be signing her first CTE proclamation for our partnership with El Mirage we're especially proud of our partnership with the city of surprise who donated a firetruck earlier this year to our finance fire science program and we'll be
008donating a patrol car to our long public safety program next Tuesday we look forward to continuing to build the partnership with our city of El Mirage with that again thank you governing board dr. Kellis mr. Hixon cabinet for your continued support awesome job on us thanks so much appreciate everything you're doing for us on that all right let's move on to d1 audience with individuals no audience with individuals all right thank you let's go ahead and go to be one student updates mr. president members of the board our student isn't feeling well this evening and so we will not have us do nothing all right well hope they get away from the crud all right we'll go ahead and go to e to superintendent updates dr. Gillis Thank You mr. president members of the board
009and members of cabinet just a couple of items I like to bring to your attention one you have it in front of you this little flier about the Vista which is our spring lineup of shows we have mortar burn the great magician magician he was rated the best magician in Las Vegas and we're happy to have him the hit man the Count Basie Orchestra and the Drifters are all coming in the next few weeks so we encourage anybody who would like some very high level entertainment to buy tickets and to come to the Vista which is just right across the parking lot I also wanted to share with the board you have received this handout which is an outline of job responsibilities for cabinet and there have been some changes in there and if you
010have questions later on please feel free to give me an email there's a lot of extraordinary things happening in the Dicer with the arts academics and athletics and we're very encouraged by by each one of those areas lots of hard work and I just want to extend again thanks to the CTE program under the direction of mr. Griese Hebert there are extraordinary programs available to our students to provide them with an extraordinary experience that's all I have to report thank you for that all right we'll go down ahead and move to III which is governing board updates I do have a couple mr. president still gonna get used to no need mr. pres no need to whisper I'm not trying to whisper this is my sexy voice i attended the Toll Brothers ribbon-cutting dr. Kellis
011was there also and for Sterling Grove and it was an awesome awesome ceremony but I have to give big kudos to shadow ridges marching band that came in with a purpose and they left with the purpose it was awesome a lot of people there just loved to hear the marching band and the the sternness and the way that they were marching it was fantastic so kudos to mr. Forrest and the and the kids I attended the certified staff meeting teachers getting together also didn't it the school connect summit this is the second year that I'd attended and it was it's where the community can get together with businesses and the school district mr. Williams went last year and he was at our table and it's how to connect the businesses and the schools and so
012they can help each other with different resources and be an outlet for our students but it was it was well well attended more people than last year mr. Williams last week we celebrated national counselor's week thank you to all of our counselors they go above and beyond what they do and so kudos to them I know each of them works extremely hard attended the district spelling bee and some of those words I even had to lean over to dr. wife rich and say is that how you spell it oh yes and so kudos to them and I just want to echo mr. Griese Haber's CTE is the place you want to be and so congratulations for CTE February thank you anything else yeah echo misfire sink boat well done on the CTE and I'm excited
013for those programs and what we have to come by I hear there was a few extra needle sticks on some important people but but that's just because he's a little stubborn and he needed a little extra help appreciate you on that let's go ahead and move on we'll move on to f1 all right motion approved consent agenda items as presented motion made by G and Leonard seconded by mr. Pritchard and motion carries thank you just go ahead and move on down to g1 recommendation for over going to h1 all right h1 policy governance board monitoring of adopted policy section 9 and this is let's see here section 9.0 and through 9.2 for dr. Kellis Thank You mr. president members of the board and members of cabinet this policy is presented to the board for information
014only as our regular review of work policies administration is not recommending any changes at this point okay any questions on that I just want to know what cabinet thought yeah that's quite on this issue oh sure do you have any slides appreciate that I won all right we're gonna go to a one that's gonna be the revision of the school calendar for the 2019 2020 2020 2021 and 21 22 school years dr. Kelly Thank You mr. president members of the Board of members of cabinet this evening the administration brings to the board the proposal to revise the school calendars for the next three years including the current year the purpose for this is to be able to accommodate eighth grade promotion ceremonies in the past far past promotion ceremonies were held at every school at
015nine o'clock in the morning at the school site last year we made a change to help students fill the more comfortable with the transition to high school and also to a the large crowds that would come often there a standing-room-only in in the school cafeterias at these promotion ceremonies and we moved the promotional ceremonies to the high school auditoriums for the high school that each elementary student would be attending in other words the school the feeder high schools we got some great reviews I'm great feedback that it was much more comfortable for our guests and that it did indeed allow for a nice transition because the students got to see the high school where they would be attending and also we had a high school administrator give a welcome to the students at those ceremonies
016in looking at the schedule we can't put them all in the high school at the same time so the schedule was stacked starting I believe that at 7 p.m. and then going backwards through the early evening and afternoon until each school could be accommodated at the high schools what happened was that one of the pieces of feedback we got was that some were not able to attend the promotion ceremonies like siblings or other staff members the teachers and because they had to stay with the students at the school while this promotion Cerie ceremony was happening at another location at the high school auditoriums so the request was made to make these this promotion day a half-day which would allow siblings of students who are promoting and staff members who who could join the the students
017who were promoting to be able to attend and not leave the school or to miss out so for this reason we are asking that may 19th be changed from a full day to a half day just as a note there will still be one or two schools that they still are meeting like 11 o'clock is when their promotion ceremony is just because there are so many schools that feed into that particular high school but they're on a rotation so this year they would be at 11 but the next year they would be to go and attend the ceremony because it would be later in the early afternoon and they wouldn't be held back because of the school schedule so it's the just also another quick note on the calendar for 2020 2021 which is next
018year there was one other minor revision that is the length of each quarter there was a miscalculation in the number of days so the fourth quarter for k-8 schools previously was well it was May 20th was when the quarter would end and that showed to be erroneously not enough days and so we recalculated that and now it is as accurate so this reflects that change other than that it's just the half-day all the other calendar dates are the same any questions no and I had that same question because I was training to count the days and I'm going wait a minute that doesn't add up right but I'm good now thank you anything else all right I'd entertain a motion I moved the governing board approve the revisions to the 2019 2020 2020 20 21
01921 excuse me 20 21 20 22 oh my gosh school years as presented no you know I didn't make the motion motion made by Tracy storey sink Bell seconded by John Densmore vote that's rough it's a mouthful but it passes thank you alright we'll go ahead and move on to action item I to recommendation to approved the theater technician position of the community education department dr. Phyllis Thank You mr. president members of the board and members of cabinet this evening the administration brings to the board a proposal to approve a position for what is to be titled the theater technician manager so just to give a little bit of explanation of what this position would be responsible for whenever you have a professional venue you have to have somebody who's in charge of all of
020the lights sound all the equipment any cabling networking the Wi-Fi the IT the lists if there are risers if there are riggings any o any and all of the equipment related to the operation of a show this position has not been needed before because the Vista has not been active as a community venue for local shows for students or for rentals the district has hired services from a third-party provider and/or we have hired staff like to acknowledge mr. Steve Pierce for example who is an assistant principal value Vesta he has done a lot of those evening events so as now this wonderful facility is waking up and we anticipate over 300 days during the year at least where this facility will be running and operating for a variety of reasons and it's an it's necessary
021to bring this position forward for approval this position is not being paid out of Imanol funds it is being paid out of community education funds so there would be no impact on them I know budget you happy to answer any questions about it I'm excited about the opportunity to bring this this forward and appreciate you all the work you've done on bringing the Vista forward and getting us these events I think it's going to have a huge impact on the community and our relationship with them so any questions no I was gonna say the same thing I'm totally jealous at this position this is an awesome position for anybody that is wanting to take that next level of theater management so that mean this is this is a great one to go into I want
022to thank you dr. Kellis for our conversation earlier just answering my initial question of the fact that this is not just going to be somebody covering events that are brought to the Vista because since it is full-time I'm thinking well what is this person gonna do all the other days when we don't have an event but mr. Pierce I mean as much as I love seeing him run around and work really hard all these night meetings are events and things for the schools this would give him extra time for his administrative duties and allow it seems like a whole other like job really you know all night long so but it would be helping our our schools and our school events not just the events brought to the Vista so thank you for explaining that
023and I definitely see mr. president miss Pritchard just to piggyback on that we want our students and anybody who uses that facility to have the very best of service so whether it's a dance concert for our students or for a community dance or any any event this will be a professional who knows the equipment well there will be some professional shows that they will bring their own tech but as experience has shown whenever something goes wrong they expect to have somebody who knows the house and can do some troubleshooting on a moment's notice to your point about our conversation earlier one of the questions you asked is would this person be working full-time or just when there are shows and as I mentioned it would be full-time there are times when the shows will go
024late into the night and this person would work early in the morning late through the night and early into the morning so there will be some flexibility with the hours and the days based on the the demand but it is nonetheless a full-time position and budget neutral and budget nature yes anything else you meant you mentioned it's gonna be a very busy position you know with the 300 days I'm just wondering do we have a back-up plan for that person whip there I mean that's a lot of work if they get overworked or if they need a vacation or something like that what's still helped out on occasion or mr. president has Dan's more just like when we have irreplaceable teachers in the classroom we would have to get a substitute okay anything else mr.
025Pierce isn't applying for this position is he he might be a principal all right I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the theater technician position for the community education department is presented second motion made by Jay Leonard seconded by mr. Pritchard Garden vote motion passes thank you it's gotten move on to action item I three recommendation for approval of the theater management intern position and can position the community education department dr. Kellis Thank You mr. president members of the board and members of cabinet this evening administration brings to the board the position of a theater management intern this is intended to be for our high school seniors who have a desire to pursue a career in theater operations and it is not intended that it be one single person throughout the entire year
026through a year after year rather that multiple students can rotate through this position the reason why it is a paid position and not just a volunteer we know that a lot of students work in the in the theater for the spring musical for example there's a whole tech team that assists with the productions but this person would be working actually working side-by-side with the theater tech manager and learning the the professional side of the theater operations this is a great opportunity for an internship and I believe as I understand would qualify for CTE credits administration asks for approval this permission this position thank you any discussion I'll entertain a motion I move the governing up I moved the governing board approved the theater management intern position for the community education department as presented all second
027motion made by Tracy's for your sink Bell and seconded by Jalen Hurd vote mr. president while the board is voting I would also just like to provide some additional information that the in the coming days weeks or months we will be also requesting a theater manager and this is the person who would ultimately be in charge of the entire facility working with the public booking the shows addressing any safety concerns basically the one in charge of the whole building right now that job is being handled very well by mr. Williams and as it grows and becomes a a fully functional facility that person would be needed but not right now we'll wait a little bit longer excellent thank you and that motion passes as well thank you go ahead and move on to agenda item
028j1 request for future agenda items we have any other okay move on to k1 and that's going to be the executive session so we'll go ahead and go into executive session I'll call for executive session up I'll take them all motion to establish an executive session to be held immediately during this recess of the regular meeting second motion made by J Leonard seconded by Oh Tracy so I think they'll vote and we are in recess thank you you