001American. There's two here. [Music] Good afternoon everyone. was necessary this year because we had to revise our budget after the adopted budget was presented and adopted the fact that due to the fact that the forms were changed because legislature had finally ended session and and passed the state budget. After the preliminary forms had been uh used by the district and since it were preliminary forms, we were required to use new forms and that had to be done before the end middle of September. So the reason for the public hearing is allow the public to be aware of that. The budget did change and I'll go to that amount just a second. Uh the budget due to uh legislature passing new numbers for funding formula for education increased by 1.4 million over the adopted budget. So
002the new budget will be a total of 54,621 and so public is aware and they may comment if they so wish. Uh and that's all I have unless there are questions. >> This is a public hearing. Any questions from the public? If not, we're going to go ahead and move on to the public hearing on the number two Spanish curriculum. Um yes for dual language guesting academy we have brought savas we have we had it for 60 days in our lobby uh this is a time to where the public can comment if they had the opportunity to come to look at uh the curriculum savas >> anybody from the public would like to comment anything on the dual language Academy >> the curriculum >> and Spanish curriculum. Any anybody? Not we're going to go ahead
003and close the public hearing. Let's move on to the regular minutes. Please stand up for the pledge of allegiance. stand 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. I would like to ask the moment I signed for an accident today. >> Thank you everybody. May be seated. Let's move on to the approval of the current meeting agenda as presented. I hear a motion. >> So move. Moved by a second. >> Second by any questions on the agenda any modification, changes or corrections? >> If not none, all those in favor sign by saying I >> I oppose say n. The eyes have it. Let's move on to the u approval of the governing board minutes of
004August 12, 2025. Do I hear a motion? >> So move. >> Move by do a second. >> Second. taken by Lilana. Any questions? Any comments? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I >> I oppose by saying. Let's go to district superintendent report. >> Yes. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here today. I'd like to start off by highlighting a couple of our schools. Um I'd like to call Mrs. Emla Moreno, our preschool director, please. Good afternoon everyone. >> I'm very happy to share that our school has been selected to host the South uh County Yuma family and childcare photo. This special event will take place next Wednesday, September 17. We're going to start bits in the cafeteria and middle school and from there we're going to be dividing groups. We are
005excited to welcome community members and regional leaders to our preschool. This event will give the wonderful opportunity for them to experience firsthands all the great things happening in our preschool. and to see how our student plays h an important role in our in our preschool and an amazing role how preschool support children growth and early development. It's a great opportunity to shine. They will have the opportunity to walk into our classrooms and see what our teachers and the community and all the effort that we all do together to see all the students shine and to see the important for students to attend preschool. So it's very important for you and for the community to attend to this event so you understand a little bit more the importance of preschool. This is going to be again
006next Wednesday at 900 a.m. and I had some invitations over here. So you are Cordelia invited and hope to see you there. Thank you. >> Thank you. I have a quick comment that um since you're presentation, congratulations on on the showcase and the fact that the district is going to host our preschool. Um then I think that it's important to mention that our preschool is funded by through through grants due to the performance of it, not from from district's monies. And that's something that sometimes the community needs to be reminded of that it's because of of you and your staff's staff's good work that we we have our we're able to provide preschool to our community. Um wish we could do more students. But uh since it's grant based um we do what we what
007we have with the monies we have. But that's important to to remind people of that. But thank you and great job. Thank you and thank you for mentioning that and and and I really appreciate you're doing the comment and yes we run through grant and as we know uh we were very lucky for the past five years to get lots of money that help us to have many many equipment uh extra hands for preschool. So we were very lucky to apply and to got this grant. So thank you very much for your support too because in one way or another you are part of of the success of the preschool. Thank you. Thank you. >> Uh the people who resigned were for different uh um reasons and um we're going to be doing interviews. a
008couple of them. Uh, one started on Monday and the other one started last week, but we're going to be doing uh new interviews for a position that we just opened that one of our instructional relates uh retired. She's been here for more than 30 years and she decided to not continue working uh at at at anymore. So she decided to stay home. So that's the position the wishes open and we're going to be contacted in our welcome. >> Any other questions? >> I'd like to call Mr. Rees, please from Southwest Junior High. Good afternoon uh board members and community. Uh we're happy to introduce to you that our we initiated our first um junior explorers um intro into law and public safety both at Southwest Junior High and St. Louis Middle School. Um this class
009is an opportunity for our students to explore law and public safety uh careers, but also you know the other agencies or other branches that work with law and public safety le as of fire departments uh EMTs um other agencies that work together with law and public safety and also the professionalism that brings law and public safety into our community but also the service. So, we're going to be teaching our kids how to give back to our community and how we can support our communities and um so that we can enforce that. Uh our students are going to be also both in San Louis Middle School and Southwest Junior High will also be building a uh color guard, a junior color guard for both schools. Uh also with the support now that we have our um
010resource resource officers together with officer Gonzalez Southwest working with our teacher with Miss Mano at Southwest and Officer Pacheco at San Middle School working with their uh law public safety class. And I have here Miss Monso our teacher and she'd like a few words to the board. >> Hello everyone. My name is Barbara Manso. I am the line public safety teacher at Southwest Junior High. First, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to bring the Junior Explorers program to Southwest. Your support has made it possible for us to offer students with hands-on learning opportunities in law enforcement while also teaching them leadership, teamwork, and responsibility. I am proud to share that we have over 40 applications from students to join the club. They are very eager to learn and represent our school. I
011am excited to introduce students to our own color guard. They these students will represent the district with pride, discipline, and respect. >> Thank you. And currently at Southwest, I we have to report that we have 156 going through Miss Mon's class as law public intro to blonde public safety. Um and it's we're really excited to have this program. >> So she's going to be in charge of the program >> for Southwest. Yes, she is. She'll be >> I thought you were a student. >> No, >> I really did when I when you first walked in. >> She was she was Southwest student. She was part of our district. Yes. student and now she's one of our teachers. >> Yes. And >> well, congratulations. You look so young at that. You were an eighth grader. >>
012Yes. And the reason selective is Misso selected for the public safety because she has a vast experience through high school program uh with law and public safety. So in >> she will be our future a future law enforcement in our community. >> Wow. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And also Mrs. This is Vanita Gonzalez, please. >> Good evening everybody. Um, it is exciting to announce over the last several years, Mrs. Esparta has been encouraging us to apply for different proposal, different opportunities um, to present at conferences. Mrs. Nunes, assistant principal at Southwest, and I had the opportunity to present at our very first one this summer uh when we presented at the Teachers Institute for Leading Change uh in Phoenix to different district level administrators um as school level administrators and teachers
013across the state of Arizona. For this coming school year, we also have now submitted a proposal for the Arizona Tissel um conference. There was going to be a mini conference held here in Yuma, but unfortunately due to the lack of interest from Yuma County and outside, um they've canled it. So at this point, our proposal is uh being evaluated for potentially the uh Tissole National Conference. So this is uh for teachers of students of English language development. Uh we also have submitted now two proposals for the Alys uh conference that will be held in November. uh one about student ownership. Uh really h owning in on how our teachers are really supporting our students in developing that accountability and that interest for their own learning where they can monitor their progress um and really engage
014in the learning that's taking place. And another one on how here in the district we engage our English language learners, right? making sure that all of our students have access to the tools that are going to help them experience success uh based on how we as teachers are providing that accessibility and the resources in the classrooms. The last proposal um that is being submitted is for the Arizona School Board Association where um the if if selected it'll be Mrs. Mrs. Bara, Miss Galvan, and myself um who will be kind of um sharing information on how the leadership system works within the district, how the use of understanding data helps us identify the needs that we have across the schools with our students, different teachers to help us make informed decisions and develop professional development and
015support uh for our teachers and master teachers um in order to experience success across the district. I think our schools have a lot of success stories that we can share um through the district perspective and that's part of what we're hoping to be able to bring to the conference if these proposals are accepted. >> Thank you. And we will let you know as soon as we get selected because I'm very positive that we submitted a great proposal. >> Thank you. If I may a quick um Miss Manso, I know you're barely starting with with the with the program, but it will be an honor. Um in December, it'll be my presidency of the Arizona Schools Association will be coming to an end. So, but it'll be an honor for us to have the Gassin School
016District call guard to present the colors at the beginning of the conference. I think it'd be great. So, I don't want to put any pressure on you, but >> thank you for the invitation, Mr. President de Laoya, I want to say a few words. Uh Tad La is our president for ASBA, Arizona School Board Association. And this weekend we had the law conference and uh on Saturday we had the delegate assembly. That's when they were voting to change to for policy and also for the lobbyist to lobby political agenda to lobby in in the capital and he did a great job. U we used to get out of there about three or four o'clock in the afternoon and this time we was before noon. So everybody was happy because he ran at it really smooth
017and I'm part of it also on the chairman credential uh committee on the chairman and it's we deal with delegates people who are from each district who have a vote on any changes that we do on the bylaws and thank you you did a great job. I was really was really uh happy. I mean surprised that he did one of the best times. I've done that for so many years and this is the first time that we get that we get out already. You really had it everything under control. Thank you. You did a great job. >> Thank you. >> And then the sessions, Mr. President, all relevant um had to do with the the safety uh education advocacy. So all the two-day agenda also dealing with confer it was a very different conference. >>
018Thank you, Miss Bara, for that. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we have anybody else in the district superintendent report? >> Uh, no, that's it for the superintendent. >> That's it. Oh, okay. Thank you. We're going to go ahead and move on to call to the public. Any person wishing to speak concerning it not agenda may present the information at this time. All presentations are limited to a maximum of three minutes. Okay. Spinosa. Elementary. Persona [Music] present. Okay, Norma. foreman. Manuel. >> Good afternoon, honorable board. Excuse me. Good afternoon, honorable board, teachers and parents present. My name is Manuel Roas and I'm here to introduce myself as a candidate for the next school board election. I look forward working to everybody, teachers, current board, and all those parents to try to strive to make a better
019school for everybody. Thank you much and have a great day. >> Thank you, Mr. A milliach. Secret.ch. PTOP. fortoech. Paris teachers organization. Organization [Music] Markch. North Avenue. Microphone. before. Gracias. Okay, we're gonna go ahead and continue. We're done with the cultural. We're going to go ahead and move on to consent agenda. I need a motion to accept consent agenda number four through number seven. >> So move by here a second. >> Second by Lana. Any questions in any of the items? If not, there was a motion a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppose by saying nay. The eyes have it. Let's move on to uh item number eight, information expenditure report summary. Mr. Bernard. >> Yes. Good evening members of governing board and members of the public. You >>
020hear me? >> There you >> There we are. Um this is a budget versus actual as of 98 of 95 of 2025 and this is for the prior fiscal year we just ended since we are now through the incumbrance period and our numbers are pretty much final for prior year we had a budget in M of 38 million892 uh we ex expended 36 million249 9 and we've got a budget balance of 3,644 which is almost well it's 9.4% of that budget which is a healthy number. We want to keep it around 10% each year for carryover. Uh the next fund is fund 610 which is our capital outlay fund and we had a budget there of 14,69,000. We expended 33 3,ion125 and we've got a budget balance of 10 million 883 at this time. Uh
021the next set of numbers is for this fiscal year and so far we've expended in M 4,243,000 and we've encumbered meaning we've got purchase orders and payroll contracts in the amount of 29,392,000. So we have a total encumbered budget of 33,635,000 and the budget which the board will approved tonight with uh good uh with luck. Let's put it that way. They we will have a budget of 40 about 41 million there. So we'll have a budget balance of around seven and a half million right now in that fund. In the next fund, uh, capital outlay. So far today, we've expended $422,000. We've encumbered 714 and we will have a budget uh of about 13.5 million. So, we'll have a budget balance of about 90% in that fund at this point. And that's all I have
022for information on year-to- date expenditures in the two fiscal years. >> Thank you, Mr. Burnhard. Anybody has any questions? Are we still looking good on financial part of it? Mr. >> Burnard, >> we are >> good. Let's move on to action ite budget number one for fiscal year 2025 236. Mr. Governor. >> Okay. Um, as I stated in the public hearing, the expenditure budget is going to be revised uh before September 15th for changes in the estimated expenditures and funding available for fiscal year 2526. This September budget revision number one will be a total of 54,621866. The adopted budget was 53,157591. So the increase is 1,464275. Uh of that the maintenance and operations portion increase is 456,000. Uh the capital outlay increase is 1 million8,000 which the sum of is 1,ion464. The administrative recommendation is
023to approve the revised expenditure budget number one for fiscal 2526 as presented. >> There is a recommendation to accept and approve the budget. Reise. Do I hear a motion? So move >> by do second >> second by any questions anybody from the board have any questions on the revised finish budget number one. Not all those in favor signify by saying I >> I oppose by saying a seven have it. Let's move on to action number 10 approval disposal of capital items through public auction. Mr. Bernard. >> Yeah. the the we're asking for approval to dispose of capital items by cons by conducting a public auction online for the surplus of the capital items. Uh any items that do not sell will then be donated if feasible or otherwise disposed of. Uh and there is a
024spreadsheet with a listing of all those items attached. The administrative recommendation is to approve the online auction as the first method meth method through public surplus.com. If no bids are received, items will be donated when appropriate and if donation is not feasible, items will be disposed of in accordance with district policy. There is a recommendation to approve disposal of the capital items to the public action. Do I hear a motion? >> So move by. Do I hear a second? >> Second by Lucky. Any questions? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I >> I oppose a nice li have it. >> Let's move on to action number 12. Approval of district superintendent to review and approval school fundraisers for fiscal year 2025 2026. Mr. I think we're missing one. >> Did I skip?
025Okay. Sorry. Let's go back to 11. The approval removal of assets from inventory. >> Yes, we have since 2022, the system has been programmed to pick up anything that would qualify as how do I explain that? These aren't really capital assets because they became part of another asset. Therefore, it changed. It didn't do anything except repair what was already damaged. And for the system picked them up as though they were going to be depreciated and had their own life, which they do not. So most of them were considered supplies and they were never capitalized in the first place. They just became part of other assets. So, we wanted to take them off the capital items list because they are no they're really not capital items. And the recommendation that the auditors made was that we
026should remove those from the list. And so that's what we're asking the board to go ahead and approve. The administrative recommendation is to approve removal of the district assets from inventory records as they do not meet capitalization criteria. as presented. >> Okay. There's a recommendation to approve the the removal of the district assets from the inventory records. >> Do I hear a motion? >> So move by. Do you hear a second? >> Second by Jenna. All those in favor by saying I >> I oppose eight. I have it. Let's move to action number 12. Approval of the district to review and approve all schools fundraisers for fiscal year 2025. Do I hear mot schools are required to submit their fundraiser list to the superintendent for review and approval attached? Please find the list of fundraisers.
027The administrative recommendation is to approve the district super the district superintendent to review and approve all school fundraisers for fiscal year 2526 as presented. >> There is a recommendation to approve the district superintendent to review and approve all school fundraisers for fiscal year 202526 presented. Do I hear a motion? >> Moved by Lucky. Do I hear a second? >> Second by Lana. Any questions? >> Um what if there's a fundraiser that is not on the list. >> We bring it back to the board. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Not all in favor by saying I >> I move on to action number 13 approval for Mrs. Bethany Locks to be the district representative for the Yuma Education Foundation. Sparsa >> Mrs. will be representing Gas Elementary School District number 32 at
028the Yuma Education Foundation for teacher of the year. The administrative recommendation is to approve Mrs. Bethany LS as the representative for the Yuma Educational Foundation for Gaston School District for fiscal year 2526 as presented. >> There is a recommendation by the administration to hear a motion >> uh made by do I hear a second? >> Second. Second by Tado. Any questions? If none in favor signify by saying I I oppose by saying nay. I have it. Let's go to action number 14. Arizona schoolboard association policy service advisory number 866 through 875. Second and last final reading. Ma >> the Arizona schoolboard association provides the services for updating our district policies. The attached advisories have been brought to you for the board for second and final reading. Policy Advisory CBI allows the board to choose exhibit
029CBI-EA or CBI-EB as evaluation for the superintendent. The administration is recommending to select CBI-EB as the evaluation tool. The administrative recommendation is to approve the Arizona School Board Association Policy Services Advisories number 86 866-875 for second and final reading and approve CVI-E as a superintendent evaluation to as presented. >> There is a recommendation by administration to approve the Arizona School Board Association policy service advisor. Do I hear a motion? >> So move by. Do I hear a second? Second by Indiana. Any questions? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I >> I oppos action number 15. Arizona schoolboard association policy service advisor number 909 through 914. Second and final reading. Miss Para, >> the Arizona School Board Association provides the services for updating our district policies. The attached advisories have been brought to
030the board for second um reading. Policy advisory number 910 policy GCQF allows the board to choose an option um attach page 13 of 35. Option A, the policy that all hearings be conducted by a hearing officer. or option B, vote at its original meeting that all hearings be conducted by a hearing office. The administration is recommending option A. The administrative recommendation is to approve Arizona school board association policy service services advisories number 9009-914 for second and final reading choosing option A on advisory 910 as presented. There is a recommendation by administration. Do I hear a motion? >> So moved. Moved >> by Tel. Do I hear a second? >> Second by Lana. Any questions? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppos. Let's go to item number 16. Approve extracurricular
031activities typical year 2025 2026 by status. >> Yes. Uh so you can find attached the list of the uh recommended district extracurricular activity stipens for 2526 fiscal year um by school and the administrative recommendation is to approve the 2526 fiscal year extracurricular activity stipens as presented. >> There is a recommendation by administration to approve the the 2025 2026 fiscal year extracurricular activities types as presented. Do I hear a motion? >> So move by hear >> second by Lanna. Any questions? If not, all those in favor signify by saying >> I oppose by saying a seven. >> Let's go to action number 17. Approve of new job description salary schedule and reclassification. Miss V. >> Yes. Um, so I know that Mrs. uh Lena Galvan has presented a lot of the information of the reun reunification
032planning. So because of the reun reunification planning process has become a mandatory component for all Arizona public emergency operation plans. The procedures do require significant planning and coordination with district staff departments and community agencies. Mrs. Brenda Silva has been instrumental in assisting with the planning and implementation of these efforts. in addition to her current um job responsibilities. After reviewing comparable positions within Yuma County, the administration recommends the attached job description and salary schedule to support the reclassification of Mrs. Brenda Silva. Uh the proposed position will follow a 12-month calendar schedule at as we compare to the Yuma County comparable positions. The highlighted sections in the attached job description reflect the additional uh responsibilities. The administrator recommendation is to reassign Brenda Silva from administrative assistant to lead administrative and se safety specialist using the attached job
033description and salary schedule with a 12-month calendar as presented. >> There's a recommendation by administration. Do I hear a motion? >> So move by. Do I hear a second? >> Second by lucky. Any questions? >> Yes. Excuse me. Sorry. >> And what grade is this person today? >> Uh uh the position that she currently is in, I don't remember the letter. I can look it up, but she's hourly. Um in step like 14, uh she would be moving to a salary position um because it would be a 12 month and then she would oversee some some positions under the direction of Mrs. Lena Galvan. >> Okay. Thank you. responsib comment miss she has she has been um performing those job duties and I I believe that that's the reason why we um looked at this
034decision for her because she has been um completing those job duties since last year and being a liazison between the city um and the district. So she has been doing an amazing job and I we we are sure that she will continue. >> Okay, there was a motion a second I >> I have it. Let's go to action number 18 personnel. Yes. So, we have um new hires and uh we have a total of 17 positions with number three being sort of like a new position. So, instead of refilling the position of speech assistant, we make that position a speech and language pathology assistant. Um the administrator recommendation is to approve the personnel action as presented pending proper certification and clearance. >> There is a recommendation by administration. Do I hear a motion? I abandon
035>> youain. >> Oh, well, we're not number 15. Okay. Abstaining from voting on number 15. Okay. But do I do I hear a motion to approve? We're not in the voting yet. A motion to approve it. >> So moved. >> Okay. There's a there moved by I hear a second. Lucky second. Okay. No. Um why don't we why don't we go roll on the voting system just but well you going to vote. You're going to vote. You're going to stay from voting on item 15. So, well, I guess we'll vote from uh I mean, we'll take a a vote from uh one through 17 or um Liliana Royal would will not be voting on item 15. Okay, there was a motion, a second. All those in favor by saying I >> I on number 15,
036you're going to stay in the number 15, right? Okay, so motion passes. Let's move on to resignations. >> We have a total of uh nine classified hourly position resignations and the letters are attached. The administrative recommendation is to approve the resignations as presented. >> There is a recommendation by the administration to approve the resignation as presented. Do I hear a motion? >> So move by here a second. >> Second by any questions in any of the items there one through eight. Now those in favor say I. I >> I oppos seven move on >> uh retirement. >> We have one uh retirement. Um she will be returning with uh ESI. The administrative recommendation is to approve the retirement as presented. >> There is a recommendation to approve the retirement presented. Do a motion. >> So
037move by a second. Second by any questions not all in favor by saying I >> I have Congratulations Mrs. How many years with the district >> 25 years in the district. Wow. You're doing a great job and you're still going to stay with us, right? >> Okay. Thank you. Let's move on to um transfer and salary changes. >> Yes. So we have uh some transfers and sal salary changes a total of 16 if I'm not mistaken. The administrative recommendation is to approve the transfers and salary changes as presented. >> There is a recommendation to approve the transfer salaries changes as presented. I hear a motion. >> So move by here second. >> Second by Lanna. Any questions? >> If none in favor signify by saying I >> I s and leave of absence. We have
038one uh an emergency teacher who's requesting a leave of uh of absence. The letter is attached. The administrator recommendation is to approve the year leave of absence as presented. >> There is a recommendation by administration to approve that year leave of absence is presented. Do I hear a motion? >> So move by here. Second. >> Second by Liliana. Any questions? If not, those in favor by saying I >> I oppose saying lights have it. Well, now I need a motion to join the meeting. >> So move at here a second. >> Second by Liliana. All those in favor signify by saying I >> I have seven. Thank you everyone for being here. It was a really short uh meeting. Thank you everyone and thank you whoever is out there watching our our meeting. Thank you.
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