001All right, we're going to go ahead and get started. like to welcome everybody. I uh just want to make a comment on my casual appearance tonight. I just came straight from my daughter's uh track meet. She runs track for South Valley and she prred in the 1600. She started out her first race of the season was well over 8 minutes and this time she got 728. So she's improved tremendously. So I'm very proud of her. Um but I'm kind of liking the casualness. So I was going to say in honor of your daughter we should all dress casual. Feel free. next the next work study. Go ahead. Go nuts. Not too nuts, though. Yeah. Okay. All right. We'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. Uh I would like to thank everybody that's here
002in attendance and anybody that's watching online. Uh we're going to start with a presentation of the fiscal year 2025 budget revision number three. Dr. McCord. Thank you, Mr. President, governing board members. I think we kind of gave you a heads up that this will be coming. And this is revision number three. Probably the last one, you believe? Is this from 2021 or what year is this from? I'm just kidding. Um, budget revision number three. We have Bonnie Betts and her crew. She I don't think you're talking much, correct? I think it's going to be Jackie and Lauren. I have threatened to not talk too much, especially regarding the ribbing I received at the last governing board. Yeah, I would not I we got your back. Don't worry. All right. So, I am very happy to
003hand it over to Miss Matin and and Miss Torska. And yes, this is our final budget revision and our final budget revision has to be completed prior to May 15th. So, you will not see another budget revision for the current year. With that, I am happy to hand it over to Miss Matin. Thank you, Miss Betts. All right. Uh FY2025 revised budget budget number three. You sure you don't want this? So, today we'll talk about the student counts um and average daily membership. We'll talk a little bit about the revised number three M budget and unrestricted capital. And then finally, um unrestricted capital spend. We'll provide some details on that. and Miss Torska will take it away from here. Perfect. Thank you so much. All right, so average daily membership comparison. Um all of the
004grids that you're going to see tonight are going to look um very similar and hopefully very familiar to you. Um so we've got first our ADM comparison. We wanted to take a look at the last revision for last year compared to our adopted budget for this year compared to this final revision just to kind of tell that story as Bonnie likes to say. Um and then finally a difference from adopted to revised. So this uh chart I guess will be the same uh throughout the presentation with just some different information. So ADM, we did um increase our in-person ADM from adopted to revised number three by 295 ADM, which is great. Um our projection was pretty spot-on. Um no other changes. As you'll recall, we do not have Arizona online full-time or part-time this year.
005when we adopted we estimated a loss of 1300. So we're um a little bit better than that. Yep. I think that's and then this is just a graphical representation of that data um from FY 2019 to current um revision that we're presenting to you tonight. Can I ask one question just about the Arizona online um that we don't have those this year. We have global academy. How are we accounting for those students then? Um those students are accounted for at their um home school. So uh whatever school they're zoned for. Sorry, just these little um tweaks. I forget sometimes. All good. Okay. Okay. So, let's talk about M budget capacity. So, this one there's a lot going on. So, we'll just kind of walk through um line by line. So, you'll notice that our weighted
006student count from adopted to revised number three increased by 615. If you'll recall when we did budget revision number one, we kind of talked about the difference between ADM and weighted student count. Most of that has to do with our group B add-ons um for special education services, free and reduced lunch, um gifted, all of that. So, that's why there is a difference between our pure ADM and then our weighted student count. Um that's to be expected. um revenue control limit. So, this is this is where we kind of get into the weeds. So, for revision number two, um you all approved a $11 million move from M into capital. So, that is included in this revenue control limit. Additionally, if you go down a couple of lines, you'll see um FRPPL and DAA onetime
007funding. Those are additional dollars that we are only getting one time this year. and we made the decision to take all of that $ 1.5 million and move it to capital. So the increase to capital, which Jackie will show you in a couple of slides, instead of 11 million is now 12.5 million. So that's what's going on with revenue control limit. Um DAA from capital, if you'll recall for adopted, we had a $2 million transfer from capital to M. We got rid of that with revision number one, and we have not added that back in. So that's where that stands. Um 15% override is based on prior year weighted ADM that was um recalculated and included with revision number one and has stayed consistent with 1, two, and three as well. Um budget balance carry
008forward based on the AFR um we adopted at a much more conservative budget balance carry forward. We ended up having more budget capacity that we were able to carry forward into FY25. um that onetime funding that I already talked about and then Prop 123, we estimated a little high um at adoption. So the 1.95 is um what we actually will be receiving for Prop 123 as well as uh tuition from um students who are not usually not Arizona kiddos. Usually they're international kiddos that pay us tuition. Um so that resulted in overall budget limit for M decrease of about 5 million 5.06 06 and that's kind of cumulative with all those moving pieces which I know is a lot. So whatever questions you might have um we're going to go over capital which I'm hoping
009kind of ties all of this together. Um but yeah, that's kind of where we stand. Questions? Is there a reason why the Prop 123 was a quarter of a million dollars less than we adopted? I believe at adoption we had to kind of make our best guess on what Prop 123 was going to be and it ended up being a little bit lower than what we calculated. Okay. So that wasn't so that wasn't our calculation. That was we didn't have a final from the legislature yet and so Okay. Got it. Thank you. Okay. So now move on to unrestricted capital budget capacity. So this uh grid is a little less busy than the M slide. Uh so district additional assistant formula um again a slight decrease from revised 3 to adopted the DAA to M
010as Lauren stated uh has gone away. So we're not doing that. M to capital also as stated we you approved the $1 million transfer plus the onetime 1.5 to make up the 12.5 one time state aid is a difference of 390,000 and the BBCF again we we estimate conservatively at adoption so that increase is 3.4 4 million in the revised three and interest earned in capital if you recall we can earn interest and spend interest in capital um so that increased also by 170,000 so that the overall increase in in in unrestricted capital is 18.07 07 million largely due to the transfer from M. Would you mind just as as briefly as possible explaining the budget balance carry forward? I know there's I I've gotten many times from the public, you know, oh, you guys
011have, you know, in excess of, you know, tens of millions of dollars, you know, why can't you use that instead of, you know, asking for overrides or um uh anything like that? But why why can't we just dip into that budget balance carry forward at our discretion and well what's it for and why can't we just use it for whatever we want. So we are dipping into it and we can use it for whatever we want. anything as long as it's capital um and then anything that's um but we can seamlessly move back and forth which is why we were able to move the 11 million and now 12.5 million from uh M back into capital. So you see that the revised number three shows a budget of 68.7 million. So, recall from last month
012we shared the monthly financial report with you and that we had um over $40 million I think that's encumbered and prepared to spend. But note that our annual allocation is only $18.5 million. So with the great needs of our facilities, it's really great that we have this budget balance carry forward and unrestricted capital so that we can meet our most urgent needs out in our facilities. And so [Music] why at at what point would we would we decide something is that it's necessary to dip into our budget balance carry forward on either fund or are you talking about unrestricted capital or unrestricted capital. So we are we are and we consider unrestricted capital largely uh four items that are one time. So therefore in our leadership team meetings we regularly go through the capital needs
013that we receive from Mr. Dutchover prioritize those depending upon how much money we have left. We also uh we generally put about $5 million every year into a contingency fund which means we wouldn't allocate that out for that particular year because we can't plan for everything. So we needed to keep that um aside as well but our intent our intention with unrestricted capital is to continue spending it. So things like a weapons detectors, um, fencing, those types of things, when I show up one day and said, "Hey, I think we really need this right now." Right? That's where they would look to be able to be able to fund those things. And so, same thing goes with HVAC or some kind of something that on a schedule it looks like it's going to be okay,
014then all of a sudden it just breaks down. And those are kind of unplanned expenses. And so we have that available knowing that that's going to happen. We just don't know when or how much it'll be. So we want to be prepared for that. So unfortunately because of the environment with interest rates, we have been able to increase our budget balance carry forward because of interest earnings. So the last, let's see, we're expecting to have over another million dollars worth of interest earnings, which again gives us more flexibility in the future to be able to meet our ongoing uners capital needs. Thank you. This may sound like an amateur question, so I'm sorry, but um just lack of experience. When it comes to those unexpected costs, do we have a list out there that we
015could see of how much those generally cost and how much we need to have in savings for contingency? So the $5 million is an educated guess to hold along with the fact that uh even right now um Albert and I are going through asset planner and determining those the next 5 years worth of the most urgent needs, scrutinizing them very clearly, very carefully uh so that we can identify those um and then plan actually a budget over the next three years to get those most urgent items planned for and not have to go into contingency. So, um yeah, we're hoping the contingency of 5 million will be enough, but it is based upon Albert's and my experience and generally and then also making sure that we're budgeting for those most urgent needs at the beginning
016of every school year. So, you'll hear more when we propose the budget. um in the first first meeting in June. So there'll be list of items with how much they generally cost as far as you know things that have popped up in the you know we had our conversation. So I like I like to look at the past. So in the past like five years how often do we have these things pop up and how much do they generally cost? So we can know kind of You bet. In fact, uh we just had gone through the process of updating our asset planner with all of the projects that had been completed after 2023 with the actual costs of all those items, what we actually paid for it. And then our um our provider of that
017tool, they rolled it over and then they added another 3% inflationary on top of that to make sure that our costs are updated to reflect the current year. We will do that annually. Great. Thank you. Great. Any other questions there? Um it's a great segue to the next slide. So um as Miss Bets Betts mentioned, our allocation is 18.5 million. Currently we have 36.93 spent and encumbered in capital. So we wanted to share this detail with you. So 49% of spend is in building and land improvement. Um about 13.3 of that um total 18 million was at the schools. There was a portion um just under 5 million at the district office. Um that included HVAC replacements um 1.3 million for the fuel tank replacement um and transportation. um other miscellaneous expenses, asphalt, roofing, paint.
018Um and just a note, there are 350 FTE here at this district office complex. Uh we thought that was interesting to share. Um you know, people say, "Well, you should spend all the money at the school, but we do have 350 FTE just here, not counting the other district office areas." Uh so we wanted to show um to Dr. From Accords Point, we have the security 2% that includes the weapon detectors and the software. 1.7 million in auditorium for rigging and stage curtains. And then the district-wide technology is a very large slice of that pie that includes Chromebooks, laptops, um software, um things like uh the software that we use, the software that PD uses, etc. And that is it. Any questions on this pie? Um I I just have a question to clarify for
019constituents. Um when we pay for for textbooks and curriculum is that come out of unrestricted capital. It is. Yes. Okay. Mhm. So that's pretty important that I mean if we're going to have great education, we need updated materials for teachers to use. Thank you. And then finally, we have action item 6.01. 01. Uh, that requires your signature. So, please hang out for a moment. I I like how you end your presentations now with the reminder that there's an action item and you need signatures. That's really good. I like that. You know why? I would say it's subliminal, but it's really direct. I like it. It's in your face. I like direct. Any other questions? Okay. Best budget revision discussion ever. Ever. Good job, guys. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Thank you again. Uh we're going
020to move on to 2.02 technology services cyber security update. Dr. McCord. Thank you, Mr. President. Government board members. We're switching chairs now. We have John Costsano, uh chief technology officer, Scott Hosi, director of infrastructure and cyber security, and James Moore, supervisor of network administration. Uh John thought it'd be a good idea just to give us an update on where we're at uh today with our cyber security. So uh this is information for you all. Yeah. Thanks everybody. I'll connect real quick here when she's off. You guys just got back from a conference in the last month or so, right? Uh yeah, myself and and four other uh members of the of the department. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Yeah. It was uh great actually. Good thing we have tech services here. You think they're messing with you
021in the back? Yeah. All right. Excellent. Ready to go. Um, well, thank you for having us uh here this evening. Uh, we obviously appreciate the time. Uh it's been a little while since we've been in front of you, so um uh we appreciate that. Um tonight, Scott Hos is here. He's our director of infrastructure and cyber security for the district. And James Moore, he's our supervisor of network administration. Um James Moore is a Gilbert High graduate, state champion, chess player. I did that just to embarrass him, but uh he is a state champion actually. So uh no, I've uh these gentlemen are amazingly smart and also very kind and and great people. So, I'm I'm privileged to have them here with me tonight. Um, I wanted to take a just a minute. Um, every time
022I'm in front of you or out anywhere in public speaking, I always like to start with thanking the entire technology services department. We have about 54 people in the department and uh they're amazing people. Um, we we would not be uh as strong singly as we are uh as a team. Um, this is the second year we've put out a little survey to the entire staff of the school district. Uh, and I'm proud of them. So, I think this was uh worth sharing. Um, we put it out last week, so it's not closed yet, but we had about 600 responses. So, I grabbed this uh real quick yesterday, but um we asked two simple questions and then asked them to leave any comments that they'd like. So, obviously we like to be rated on our
023our technical uh support for them. Uh and this is the results. Uh one being, you know, horrible support and five being the best. And so, you know, this is from our GPS staff. We're very proud of this. uh we look at this and uh really take this in consideration on uh on how we can get better. Um I I really like this question better. This is more a customer service piece. You know, are we are we grumpy and unhelpful? Uh or are we happy and helpful? Even if we can't help you, we still got to smile and be happy. And so um these numbers are a testament to uh the amazing job that those those people do and I'm super proud of them. And uh the comments are also great, too. Obviously, not everybody's happy,
024but we're able to take those comments and our our our supervisors and Scott and James, they all use those with their teams to to review those and and see how we can get better. So, again, publicly want to thank the entire uh technology department. Um, we're really here tonight uh to the meat and potatoes of this is talk about uh the role of cyber security uh in the school district uh and what that takes. That's a it's a daunting task quite honestly. um we couldn't do that with our entire team. Um the last time we did this was about five years ago. So there is a couple items on the consent agenda tonight that we'll talk about. So hopefully that fightes provides more clarity of what that is. Uh and we're welcome uh interrupt us
025at any time with with questions. We're just going to kind of tag team everything here tonight. But um we're going to go over a little bit of our cyber security, our current posture and efforts that we have in the school district. We'll talk about our Cisco security enterprise agreement which is on the consent agenda. Um, we're just finishing up our five-year and so we're entering to into a new one and we'll explain what that is. So, if you hear say EA, that's what EA stands for is enterprise agreement. So, we'll talk about that. We're going to talk a little bit about the Arizona Department of Homeland Security and some of the resources that we use from them. Um, they have amazing cyber readiness program there. Uh, and that's going to be beneficial to us as
026well. And then we'll talk a little bit about our student content filter, um, which we touched a little bit on and policy the other day. Um, and we'll let you know some additions that we're going to add to that for the next school year. So, um, so please, like I said, interrupt it at any time. Um, we do a lot already, right? Um, over five years ago, Ward Heinman, who's now, um, retired, um, he really led the charge with this along with Scott and the rest of the team, um, and we established a lot of, uh, of things for the district. Um, but I'm going to let Scott kind of jump in and talk about those. Sure. So, yeah. So, um, really around 2018, we really started taking a harder look at what we were
027doing from a security posture standpoint for the district. Um, before that, you know, you had your traditional old school antiirus and that was probably about it. It wasn't much. Um, but as the years have gone on, you see the news every day. uh hackers get smarter, faster, um more ways to to infiltrate your organization. Um so we knew we had to do something. Um so in 2020 we established our um incident response plan and disaster recovery plans um working with an outside company uh to establish that. Um, in 2021, we entered our first enterprise agreement u for security products with Cisco. Um, that gave us quite a few tools which we'll talk about here in a in a minute. Um, last year, last summer, we decided we wanted an outside entity to do a penetration
028test on our systems. Um, that was very beneficial. Um we found a few things that um we shored up and took advantage of. Um but overall we were very strong. The they were the uh pen tester was very impressed with our infrastructure. Um so we were excited about that. This summer we're going to take a little bit different approach. We're going to do a security assessment and uh not 100% sure what that all entails yet. Uh but the uh we're having our kickoff meeting next week um with the is it this week? This week? This week? Sorry. This Thursday. Uh with the company and they're going to go over everything that they're looking for and looking at. Um we train staff constantly um through email fishing attempts. Um some like them, some don't, but that's
029the name of the game. Um we have communication via newsletters um full administrator meetings. We um tackle certain topics. Um on the device and identity management front um you know we have Microsoft and Google that we utilize to keep our systems up to date. Um you know those pesky updates that you get during board meetings. Um virus anti viruses. um endpoint protection getting keeping our devices secure. Um and then we utilize identity management, rapid identity uh identity management for our identity solution. Um and with that uh we'll talk about Duo in a minute, but Duo also protects our identities um from being accessed. Yeah, we use you know Scott mentioned the fishing test, right? So, the hardest thing for us is to get in front of 5,000 staff members to do training, right? They're busy
030and they have a lot going on and it's not always at the top of of the list of of of a school, right? We completely understand that. Um, we use the fishing test to not as a gotcha, but if someone does click on a link in a fishing test, it takes them to a training. The trainings are very short. Um, it takes about 15 or 20 minutes to do them, and then I'm sure you do them in Mesa and love them. Um, but they're not gotchas from our standpoint, although some people do think they are. However, it's an industry standard. It's done and it's required to get cyber security insurance as well. So, we don't like to use that as the reasoning, but that is one of the reasons. But, um, I think it's beneficial
031for sure. Um, and that's uh, for those who have been honest with us, not liking them, but they have said that they have helped them. So, so we'll continue to to do those. Um, but that's a challenge for us is the training. The thing is what we try to emphasize, especially on the updates as well, is that if you're not doing these things at home on your home computer, no one's forcing those updates on your home computer, right? You can go on and on and on and you can be running Windows 95 still and no one's forcing you off those, but you're putting yourself at risk on for what's at your house and your information on your home computers as well. So we hope that spills over a little bit and people see that but
032we have to force those things there. We have no choice, right? So we do give some grace but at a certain point your computer will update whether you like it or not period. Um and that's the only way that we can ensure. So we have 30 plus thousand Chromebooks, 5,000 uh laptops and then all the desktop computers that are around the district just for staff alone. So every one of those is a potential entryway into our network. So that's that's why we do these things. questions on that before we move on. As the teacher, I'm going to say it. Um, there have been plenty of times that I've been on Mesa's um, system and there's been times I'll I'll click an email up and I meant the other one or whatever and it's just like
033I know it instantly and I go, "No, no, no, no." And I try to get it back and then I have to sit through this 20-minute training and I'm like, "That's not even the one I wanted to click." Is there any way we could give the teachers a little grace of just like one because I know Maize is very hard on it and it's fine if not. I get it. I'm just curious because I know it's something that like it gets talked about a lot in the water cooler conversation. So yeah, once you click, you've clicked. Yeah. And so there's no going back. Now I get from the same person every single year. Won't name their name. They're an administrator. Oh man, not me. Dog on it. I forward those to you and say, "Nice
034try." It's actually no one in the room. Everyone's got their head down back there. Um, but it's the same story every year. Oh, do I got, you know, but so yeah, we try to make light of it, right? Um, it's not bad to go through that every year, but I get I get time, right? It's just people's time for sure. Um, you know, you hear zero trust policy, right? Like that's where technology is today. there's zero trust, which is a hard thing for for me to say when I run it around saying, well, trust is the glue that holds your organization together. And then on the other hand, I'm saying we don't trust you, right? Because we can't really trust anybody because we've all clicked on stuff ourselves that was probably not real, right? So,
035so we try to do our best and explain so people understand. But yes, I I totally understand where you're coming from. Yeah. And I'll just I'll just add to that. I mean, I think our goal is is to for the end users to slow down. We know at the end of the day, they've got 25 emails they got to go through and they're clicking through. Um, just slow down and think about it as you're going through your emails. You know, it's just a simple uh practice, but it's efficient. So, I I do have a question about that. if they click on an email that is a fishing email and then they get that training. Um, is there do they have to do it right there in that 20 minutes or they can come back to
036it later and do the training? Do we leave it open for the whole school? And usually it's an attachment in the email. Correct. Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes. Yeah. That they're clicking on. Okay. But to answer your question, no, they don't have to do it right in there. They have the entire, you know. Yeah. Okay. Just because sometimes you don't have 20 minutes to write it that Of course. Of course. Yeah, we would never do that. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. Uh people have used my well my name, not my email address to ask for gift cards and Yeah. Yeah. So, if anybody out there, send them down this way, not not to that guy. Yeah. We want you to call. We want people to ask email. You know, that's fine. That is worth our time and it
037means they're listening. Right. So this time of year across school districts, probably the the country, that's a notorious one is we need gift cards for the end of the year parties, right? And it'll have the principal's name on it. And they're just not real, right? They're just not real. So um we're not going to talk about MCAST tonight. That's a program we have that scans all of our email and all of our all of our links as well. When you click on something, it scans that. Um all staff members do have a portal to go into in Mcast. So if something is held, they can go in there and actually say, "No, this is safe." Um, so that's very helpful. We're testing a piece of that product right now that will actually put a banner
038kind of like Google within the email and you can mark it safe right then and there because the system learns, right? So yes, it can still be tricked, right? But it starts learning as well. So all those little things that we want them to be quick and convenient um that helps Mcast learn to keep us safer, then that's what we're doing. So, but it's an ongoing battle. Yeah. Um, I'm going to Is James going to talk about uh, yeah, our Cisco security agreement and kind of explain a little bit of that to you? Yeah, just to continue on John's point a little bit. Fishing is roughly 90% of how hackers start their campaign against an organization. It's prominent and education is the second most targeted industry in the world for fishing attempts. So, clearly we
039are the high target. We are the high target and uh it's kind of an inevitability, right? We have so many people. Someone at some point is going to click something. Is this recording? Yeah. Okay. Just making sure it's my first time. Sorry. Um but that's kind of where we then step in, right? Anytime you watch a movie like a heist movie, something with Tom Cruz probably, right? Walking through the front door getting into the building is just the first step. the, you know, the bad guys, the fortress, whatever, they always have their other security measures in place to slow them down or stop them. And that's kind of where their security EA with Cisco's coming in on this. So, we've had this for four years now. Um, so we're about four years into it, and
040we have a whole suite of products we've gotten from them. Um, part of this renewal is us moving some products over to this Department of Homeland Security through the state and their programs. And John's going to talk about that in a little bit. But the components we're looking for in our security renewal or what we've listed on this sheet here. And this is what we manage dayto-day. We have thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands if not millions of events in these products every day that tell us where people are going across the internet and within our own organization. That starts with our firewall. Everyone's kind of familiar with the term, right? We always think of Windows firewall. This sits on our network edge. It sits on our border. Every bit of traffic that leaves our
041network or comes in is protected by this. It also protects us looking across our network as well. So if a bad agent has compromised a user and they're trying to access our resources, get to our servers where we keep our most sensitive information information, sorry, that's there to stop those connections from being established and keep them away from all our sensitive resources. Um, identity services engine is next. Uh, that primarily authenticates users to our Wi-Fi network, but we do use it as a security tool. Some people think, okay, you just get on the Wi-Fi, how is that security? Uh we do a lot with ICE to identify who someone is and where they should be on the network. Staff members like John Scott and myself, we need access to manage our district resources. We need
042that sensitive access. Your average teacher, your average student, they don't need those things. And ICE is how we move people to the right parts of the network so that they don't have access to those sensitive systems. Um, umbrella DNS advantage is essentially our web filter that's exists for all devices, not just our Chromebooks across the network. That one's really important because everything sends traffic to the internet ultimately, right? And so we have to have visibility down to the smallest device. And that might include something like HVAC controllers for our air conditioning systems, our fire panels that run our fire safety. All if it has a wire, if it has a Wi-Fi connection, umbrella is going to see where it's trying to do and where it should go. Kids with their cell phones are really, really
043tricky, right? Stu, even teachers sometimes can try to outsmart us a little bit with their cell phones on what they want to get online and do. We want to keep all our users safe with whatever device they're connecting with. And umbrella makes sure that every device is web filtered so they're not getting to inappropriate websites so they're not getting to malicious websites and fishing websites. Um Cisco secure client. This is an agent that we run on all of our computers. This primarily handles our VPN connection and our umbrella roaming agent which is part of our filtering. So even when you take your device home, we are still filtering that. Or if you're at a conference, you're out of state, you're at your Starbucks, whatever the case is, we want to keep filtering because if someone
044can take their product or one of our laptops off site and it becomes compromised, they bring it back, they continue to work, you know, the hackers are in. So that keeps us protected offsite as well. XDR advantage is the new piece that's going to be new for this renewal. This is the big one. Um, and James, real quick before you so explain a little bit with because we're going to talk about GoG Guardian that's also a content filter. So, can you just make quick difference of Yeah, I mean GoG Guardian is primarily used from the student aspect. It's loaded onto all of our Chromebooks and we are going to be talking about that in a couple slides. Um, we've been using GoG Guardian since 2016 was it? I think we established 2016 I believe. Yeah.
045Um, it first saw the challenge of students taking Chromebook devices home and us needing to continue filter them so kids weren't getting to anything inappropriate or unsafe. Uh, it's continued to serve us really well over the years, but it is a Chromebook focused product and more so a student oriented product for classroom management, uh, student well-being and student web filtering. It doesn't really serve the same cyber security needs like umbrella does for us. It can't monitor things like those HVAC uh air conditioner controllers that I was just talking about. So that's where umbrella helps us fill that gap. And it also acts as a backup behind uh GoG Guardian. Yeah. I mean double the protection is better than one. Right. So quick question. That was actually my my question. So thanks for answering that on
046GoG Guardian. Is that that wouldn't be nec is it necessary because they take him home if they took him home? if they sorry if they left them at school, Umbrella would cover that. But you need it because you take it home. Um Umbrella does cover devices regardless of where they go with the roaming agent I just talked about called Cisco Secure Client. Um GoG Guardian can filter on-site and off-site as well, but it definitely tailor more towards the student aspect. Um while both can offer just, you know, simple web categorization, right, if it's an appropriate like or social media, right? We don't want kids going to Facebook. Both products can do that. The difference is that Umbrella will number one take a look at everything that's going around in the background of a web page.
047This is some of the more technical aspects of what it does, but uh hackers might compromise a web page and start putting their own malicious payloads in in the background, right? Something that was one day safe, next day has been compromised. Umbrella has tools to detect that that GoG Guardian does not. And on the reverse side of that, GoG Guardian has feature sets in it that are tailored towards students. One example being we can choose which YouTube categories kids are allowed to access on their Chromebooks. So if we want to block the comedy category on YouTube videos, we're able to do so. And that's something that Umbrella is unable to do. And there's many other beneficial tools of GoG Guardian that John will dive into in a couple slides. Yeah, we'll both talk a little
048bit about uh moving on to the XDR advantage. Um, and see John's got to move the slide on for this. Um, this stands for extended detection and response. I don't know. I mean, I guess there's an X in there, but really it's EDR, right? Um, this is a security tool, but it in itself doesn't necessarily add an extra layer of protection. It in itself creates visibility across our tools. I mentioned that we have hundreds of thousands of events across our tools every day and discerning between those and adding up any correlation is a very difficult task. I mean imagine you had two Excel sheets with hundreds of thousands of lines all seemingly random and you had to figure out which of those were related. It's an impossible task for any real human to do, right?
049So we do respond to threats, the important ones, the high severity ones, and we do begin investigations for those every day. But it requires us to look at one tool that kicked off that high severity and then map it to data that other tools have gathered. And we have to do that cross referencing essentially through that massive data set. The purpose of XDR is it pulls all this data together through all these tools and puts it in one place and automatically when one of these tools kicks off an incident, it is going to reach out to those other tools for us and say, "I have this device. He one of our tools said something's happening over here. I want to know everything that that device or that user did and tell me about it so
050I have all the relevant information in one spot." And the result is going to be more visibility than we had before and ensuring that we're not missing things in our investigation and that we're getting a holistic picture. We're also able to build automation in with this. Right? One big threat is ultimately as a school district, we are not literally but a 9to-ive shop, right? We have a sort of start of our day and the end of our day. We all go to home, go to sleep and that's true in our cyber security front as well. While our tools do offer some protections, the automation can take this a step further. So when a device might become compromised and a tool starts to alarm, this tool will be able to kick into gear and make the
051other tools aware that something is happening and perform actions to mitigate our risk from a hacker moving laterally while we're all sleeping so that we're not waking up in the morning and finding out the worst has happened and that we've been compromised and our systems have been locked out. They're able to do things like isolate an endpoint. So if a staff laptop or a computer or a server has been compromised, the tools could work together and segment that device immediately off the network so the hackers lose their access and the virus can't spread. There's numerous other actions that these tool can perform for us as well. But all together, it's going to take a lot of our comp already. It's going to take a lot of things we already do. It's going to automate them
052and it's going to protect us in those after hours that we currently can't guard against. Yeah, this is an incredibly powerful tool. Um, you know, quite honestly, before you would have to either hire a company to do something like this or or have like a a central um point where all the district's traffic would go through and then they would monitor something like this. Um, but those are extremely expensive. um and as much as many organizations have tried for uh to pull together to do something like the state level which there's some stuff being worked on but it just hasn't materialized because of the cost right so um so this is a tool that we're very excited to to to be able to add and that is also part of what's in the consent agenda
053tonight but um it's really isolating those things anytime you read about a hack uh into a network the people have already been there for months and months and months right and moving around and taking what they want you usually don't find out about it until it's kind of late and they have everything. So hopefully with adding this tool along with the others and continuing along with the EA agreement, we're doing everything we can, right? It's a moving moving target as always. So any questions about those pieces? We can talk a little bit about the the renewal details uh on the cost front. So you just said the continuing of the EA agreement. So is this I'm looking down here at the renewal details. Is this $2.5 million over the next 5 years, is that in
054addition to what we've already what we're already spending on GoG Guardian and and Umbrella? No. So, all of those pieces we talked about are wrapped up into one. So, that's the total cost over five years. We'll pay that annually and that's what the 511,000 is, which is just a little bit more of what we've been paying over the last four years. four-ish years. So, for the past four-ish years, we've just been paying for well our So, over the past four years, we've just been paying for I don't want to say just, but of these things listed on here and that we're talking about Umbrella and GOG Guardian. And now we're now we're talking about Umbrella GoG Guardian and EDR XDR working together to to basically perform the best cyber security thing and it's so two
055two separate things right so put GoG Guardian aside that's its own standalone sits by itself right these five things that we've talked about tonight in the last EA agreement we had five pieces we're going to talk about two that we've moved out in uh Department of Homeland Security and that those are free right now, but we'll explain that. Um we added XDR into this. So that those five things, we restructured it. We restructured it moving forward because we were able to move those two things out, move this in, and then stay about the same cost. And where where is all this data held? Is it held at Cisco facilities? Is it held on site? Do you want to just talk to that? I mean, if we're if we're if we're looking at millions, possibly millions
056of, you know, links and websites and everything that anybody can access on any device connected to the network, where's all that stuff being stored? So, it is a mix. Um, some of these tools are cloud-based, some of them are on premise. Um, our firewall, for example, is a physical appliance located in our data center. Um, same goes for ICE as well. Uh, all its logs are stored locally within servers we run in our data center. Uh, the rest of the tools though that we've mentioned, they are cloud-based solutions. So, they do report up to the cloud. Uh, I believe data retention for XDR is that one year worth of data that they store up there. It is secure. It's not a publicly available repository where anyone can access what it accumulates, right? Um, it is
057limited to just the people within our organization. we delegate that access to for each of these systems. So how how secure is the stuff that we store on site? I mean is it just a I don't want to give anybody any idea. Well, so now that everything is cloud-based and hosted, most of our predominantly, I don't want to say 90%, but it's right there. Probably all of our data is hosted on servers in someone else's data center, right? So, wherever Tyler Technologies hosts their data, wherever Infinite Campus hosts their data, that's on their servers. As far as in our data center, it's gone from a very large footprint down to a handful of servers. So there's not a lot of data on our local servers anymore in our data center, which we like, right? That
058heavy lift on that part is all on that. Now you pay for it. It's software as a service, but that's just where where we're at. And I I will also add to what John was saying there about what we do have on in our data center. Uh Scott and I have done a lot of work in the last couple years to perform what we call network segmentation. Um there's different concepts around that. John mentioned a little bit earlier the idea of zero trust. Uh we try to build all our connections and all our software and all our devices with that model in mind that if we are putting a new device or a new user on the network, what do they need access to? And we give them that but not a scent more, right?
059We need to protect all our assets because we simply never know when a user might be compromised from something like fishing. And even if they are compromised through a method like fishing or a brute force hacking, um we have other methods in place. John will talk about them in a moment such as Cisco Duo. Uh we protect most of our major systems with that if not all our major systems. And uh that is our multiffactor solution where even if a hacker does have someone's credentials and they're trying to access one of our internal data sets or external data sets hosted in the cloud uh they're going to be met with a secondary form of authentication that is very resilient to any sort of compromise. Do you know about what the add-on cost of XR advantage
060is? Uh the line item cost. No. Um I do know our last we were paying just right under 400,000 annually prior to this. 500. Just under 500. Sorry. Just under 500. Thank you, Scott. Just under 500. So I mean I can get that line item cost for you for sure. But roughly went up about 17,000. Um but that's what dropped. So I mean this is more than 17. That's dropping that's dropping two items and bringing on these. And is this um sorry you did you did a great job explaining I'm going to ask to explain a little bit more. Is this are these things that we were managing internally or or is what XDR is going to do things that we weren't doing but need to now or it's needed to do but we weren't
061doing? Yeah. So, James kind of touched on that um a little bit, but it it was a a large resource um to to manage all this with the separate pieces being separated. So, you had to hop into one system, look for the trouble computer, hop in the next system, look at the trouble computer, hop in the next system, look at the trouble computer. So, it took a lot of time finding all these things. XDR is going to simplify that tremendously and and bring that time to solution down. Um and that's our goal here and plus the added security of after hours and and things like that talking across those pieces to do that isolation if something happens on device. Thank you. You're welcome. Questions on that before we move on. All right. Um, so the
062Arizona Department of Homeland Security. So, of course, not too long after we entered into our our our agreement a little over four years ago, uh, with our EA, um, the Department of Homeland Security, um, came out with their cyber readiness program, and that's funded by some federal and and local grants, and they provide resources to local, as you can see, and tribal government entities in Arizona. Quite an amazing program, quite honestly. Um, a lot of school districts and government, they don't have the money for these pieces, right? And that leaves them more susceptible. Um, they offered five different programs um for free um to school districts and these other government entities. And so we were already rolling in our agreement, right? So to just throw it all out and start wasn't and some of the
063pieces just weren't going to work for us. um they've changed some of the pieces since then. Like they're multiffactor, like everyone who went to it had a ton of trouble, right? So, we look very very closely at these pieces to see what we can now take advantage of moving forward. Um there's no guarantee that program will last forever. I'm sure someday there won't be money there and then districts will have to pay for that, right? Um but until that happens, then we this is a great time for us to take advantage of that and use a couple of those pieces. So, um, so we're going to we're going to do that. Um, one piece of it Cisco duo. It's multifactor. Um, I'll let Scott talk this and I'll it doesn't matter. We can both. So,
064yeah. So, uh, I believe last year the state switched to Duo maybe two years now. But, um, anyways, uh, we've been a duo shop for our highle personnel um, here at the district office tech services. is anybody that has high level access, we Cisco duo them. Um, meaning, you know, you it's you have an app on your phone. Um, you put in your credentials, it'll do a secondary multiffactor authentication, um, ping your cell phone with, you know, either a one-time passcode or the app with the checkbox um, to allow you through. um with the state. What's nice is we can have the licensing for the entire staff um for free. So um that's a very big positive. Um CrowdStrike uh is the endpoint protection system that the state offers. Um, and I remember back in
0652021, we trialled Cisco Secure Endpoint and CrowdStrike at the same time, and it made more sense at the time to go with the the Cisco product to include in that Cisco uh EA. Um but now being able to restructure everything and it's time to utilize the free resources from the state homeland security. Wasn't the crowd strike in the news within the last year or so? Yeah. Yes. Yes, it was. They were and and a little unfairly um because Yeah. They they weren't Go ahead. So that was a uh situation where Microsoft allowed through that update um which ended up backfiring on Crowdstrike more than anybody else. Um so they got the bad publicity. Um be assured I don't think they'd ever do that again. So it was it was interesting, right? Um but yeah, they're
066still the leader in this in this field. Um just so you know when we at policy meeting we were talking about the policy for multiffactor again this is uh Duo was a product we'd use we already multiffactor all staff members and we actually also multiffactor our students from the fifth grade through 12th grade um so we use a product through our identity management system right now um but we just feel that do is far better a better of a product and more secure and that's why uh as well we're trying to put that policy in place uh there for that um and we do also plan to uh multifactor down to the fourth grade. So that's gone amazingly well and when we present that out in the in the world, people just can't understand how
067we made that happen. Um but it's gone well and I think it's been good as well for our students. So with the multiffactor, how often does that in regard to our students, how often do they have to authenticate or have do this perform this multiffactor authentication? Is that the right word? Yep. Am I saying that right? And are they doing the multiffactor authentication on the same device or are they doing it I mean students that whenever I do it if I do something on my computer I always get a something on my phone that says you know hey what are these two numbers and is this does this match up or whatever. So how does it work with the students? You want to explain that? Sure. Uh so that is once again through the rapid
068identity system. So that is taking place on the same device they're already using traditionally a Chromebook right. Um when they enter in their password it's going to take them to that next step which is what they call pictograph. Uh the students are given three different sets of image at a time kind of like an oldfashioned capture almost but they choose one picture out of each of these three sets. So each time they log in they get nine pictures. They choose the one that they've pre-selected. They get the second set of nine and they repeat till they're done done all three. At that point, they're then granted access. They only do that upon logging to the Chromebook for the first time that day. So, at least once a day. The only other time would be is
069if they're using a lab computer or something like that. Okay. All right. So, on these other available resources, so we're using we're using two of them, right? Are there other ones that could potentially replace the Cisco ones and they're just not adequate or are there reasons why we're not using the other Sure. Yeah, I'll I'll speak to one of them like the fishing that we do. Um they have a product as well that they offer. Um we've looked at that. I've talked to other tech directors and folks and they're not happy with it. They've gone back to no before from that. So that's one of the reasons we've stayed away from that one. Um, we've tested I can you talk to any of the others? So, go ahead. Go ahead. Uh, if you don't mind
070backing up. Yeah. Um, so they do have various uh the first one being what John just laid out the fishing training and awareness. Um, the advanced endpoint protection that is the crowd strike we are moving to. Um, converged endpoint management. Uh that was a s system similar to a product we already have now um SECM which we get do we get that for free from Microsoft essentially with our Microsoft licensing it's part of our licensing with Microsoft I'm less familiar with how that's structured in there you guys probably speak better to that but it is essentially almost a duplication to what we do there um that's more useful for smaller districts that may not have the ability to stand up servers for those what we call SECM um multiffactor authentication we will be using through
071the state. And the last one's called web application firewall. That is different than your traditional firewall. Our traditional firewall that we do have can do web uh web application as well. So we already do have some redundancy there with that. Um but we also don't host any uh web applications anymore as a district internally either. So we simply don't have a need for that type of product anymore. I think the last web page we had retired two years ago now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And as the state keeps adding stuff because they they continually are talking and and uh we'll take a look at what they're offering and see where we can take advantage of that. Great. Then can I ask one more question on the five-year? Sure. So I know Cisco is kind of the
072company for this, right? Is this something that we get different bids for or is there really not comparable companies? Yeah, so we go d we don't go direct to Cisco. They don't sell direct. So, we go through a high-tech networks um and they've helped us for years with all kinds of stuff as well as helping build out her network. So, we go through them and then we use we work with procurement and so for this one's that on the one GPA contract. So, we make sure that it's a contract that the district works with. Okay. Yeah. I had a question um for the I know for Cisco we have the 5-year term. Uh is there is there a term for with the department of um homeland security or is it kind of um like an
073annual basis or Yes, it's annual. It's ongoing until it's not right. Okay. Right. Sure. All right. Any other questions there before we move on to jump into goardian now. Did you have any questions? No, I don't. Your mic is on. Oh, sorry. I Um, yeah, James talked a little bit about GoGardian earlier. We've obviously talked a little bit about it uh in policy. Um, you know, GoGardian's been a a good product for us. Um, we're continually looking at at other products. So, and I want to make I want to really emphasize that on everything that we talked about tonight. Um, I know we're talking about five-year agreements, but we're constantly looking, right, and evaluating. That's just something that we don't we're comfortable with doing that. I mean, these guys might not agree with me on
074that one, but um we've looked at uh three other um content filters recently as well because we do pay annually for GoG Guardian. Um so, currently we're using GoGuardian admin and beacon. Um I'm I'm going to let James talk some more a little bit about this and I'll talk about teacher and then we can move on. Yeah. Um I mean I've kind of been the GoGardian guy for quite a while now. Um, I mean, Scott first set it up, but I've done most of the day-to-day with this for the last nineish years that we've had it. Um, it has been very strong in terms of our ability to manage uh, student Chromebooks. Uh, make no mistake, kids are very, very, very smart. I used to pride myself on being a tricky Gilbert High School student,
075telling all my friends how to get around the web filter. Um and so yeah and and I came in and Schwar a lot of those up which has driven innovation certainly I think we could say um um but they they are very strong company in in uh the web filtering space for student Chromebooks. Um they have a number of features that we still find as we evaluate other companies we don't see that they are matching all of GoG Guardian's features at par yet. Um some have caught up in some areas but then they lack in others. So they've been really good to us in our ability to manage. I mentioned a little bit earlier some things we can do is we can filter down to YouTube categories of types of videos, right? We can block
076individual videos, individual YouTube channels. uh we can do all that kind of close control. Um in addition, we have they have what's called the Beacon product. Uh they introduced Beacon. We've had Beacon for a few years now. Five years. Yeah. Close to that. Yeah. They changed they it used to be called Smart Alerts and they rebranded it to Beacon. But yeah, we've had that for roughly pre- pandemic. So I want to say six or seven years now. Uh this is a system designed to notify and intervene when a student is showing some sort of mental health risk. That might be self harm, suicide, or potentially being at risk of harming another student or somebody else, right? Just doesn't have to be another student, just somebody. Um GoG Guardian is able to intelligently pick up that
077data and notify our administrators. they receive an email and a text message when one of those alerts kick off and they intervene to provide support for those students who are having those crisises. So every single school um they decide how they want to do that and who they want on that uh that call list if you will or that text list, right? So they manage that locally. We obviously couldn't do that for all of our schools. Um they're on top of it, right? It's it's 247, right? So administration isn't a nineto-ive job. um they get those on the weekends as well and they um rotate that however they'd like to at their campus. Um but it's it's truly it's literally saved some lives, right? So um it it's pretty incredible. Um it's not perfect like
078anything. So, you know, everyone has to under understand that, but um that's a big component of it and that piece is very embedded uh in our administration across the school district. So um yeah, it's it's it's uh it's truly saved lives. Are you talking about NGPS in particular or just the product in general? No, I'm talking about NGPS. Yeah. Yeah. Um, another component which we Sorry, can I go? Sorry. On beacon. Are they monitoring emails? Are they monitoring um how how how are they monitoring to address those issues? Go Guardian, not to be silly, but they were doing AI before it was cool. um they called it machine learning was well that was the hot name of it in the 2010s. Um but that is the method that they used. They trained their models to
079detect, you know, types of written speak, written words in emails, in Google Docs, but also websites, right? I mean, if a kid is visiting the 911 hotline website, that might be a reason why it triggers, but it'll take a look at chat messages that kids might be performing, all sorts of content that they do online to make those decisions about when to alert. Um it does have the ability to man to uh detect through student emails as a whole. Uh that means if a kid is writing an email that is uh say on their cell phone but is a district account that would be detected because that's tied in with Google and that's our Google email. We are not looking into anything private of course. Okay. And so the administrator do they receive an email?
080How how are they notified? uh they receive an email and a text message. Um there are multiple types of categories um for the system. Uh and they rank it based on severity. Um I believe in self harm there's about five of them and in harm to others I want to say there's four. Um and so the more severe the alert uh they'll categorize that higher. Uh we send an email and a text message for each of those categories. uh administrators receive a text message and an email multiple times. I believe they get that repeated five times uh once an hour until the alert's addressed. So if they don't pick up the first time, it will they will they will remind them. Okay. Thank you. We are uh just now we have the ability to actually
081pull all of that data uh out of GoG Guardian and so uh Ryan Nelson and his uh amazing data team are going to take that and create some vis visualizations say that word for us and we're going to look at that and then we're going to share that with the appropriate uh uh people um to just look at that data because it gives a little bit of a snapshot right so um Goggardian teacher is a component that we haven't paid for um So years ago, um, we used a different product and it had that ability for teachers to basically, um, shut down or monitor, if you will, the devices in the classrooms, only allowing the the students to go to certain websites, uh, and some different features it had. Um, we were paying for that
082from the district level. It was very, very expensive. Um, when we ran data on that, it was really not being used as well. Um, so we made a cabinet level decision to um, not provide that. But if a school wanted to provide that component, then they had to pay for that piece of it. Um, it does other things. I think everyone here was at policy meeting, but you heard very clearly from from our principles in there that, you know, a lot of it's classroom management, right? Um, for sure. Um, but if we can add this component at a minimal cost to us, then maybe we should look at it again. I know we talk cell phones and that new bill that's out there. Um, so you know, devices connected to the network, you know, Chromebooks
083fall into that to that bill. So, um, but GoG Guardian has been expensive, right? And that was at $5 a student that the schools were having to pay. So, we only have about 11ish schools right now that have actually paid for that um based on that. That was their decision out of their school budget. Um, we've done some talking with GoG Guardian um, recently um, and let them know, you know, they really need to look at their pricing structure. Um, for the next school year, they're going to put that component into our pricing, however, um, basically at no cost. So, next school year, uh, every teacher will have that ability to monitor those devices in the classroom. Um there's a lot of discussion that still needs to go uh or needs to be had around
084that. Um we can phase that in which we probably will so we can train on it and manage that. Um but it really is a philosophical thing, right? Um if it's just they just lock out the devices, I don't know that's really exactly what we want because really it's still classroom management, right? Um, but there are other tools with that component that they could could be very valuable, uh, to the teacher in the classroom. And so, um, we're going to approach the training kind of around that, not just a here's your block tool so kids can get on your Chromebooks. So, that's how we're going to approach that. Um, but we're excited that they are actually including that. It'll take the burden off the schools as well if they just decided they want to pay
085for that. So, um, so it's a one-year trial, correct? No, not a trial. They're adding that to the actual our agreement. Yeah. For 5 years for this one's for three. Okay. So, yeah. So, that price there, that's a total for 3 years. The 1799 is annual payment. So, we'll pay it annually. And then did they give you a cost for after that? No, they're not going to go out that far. Absolutely not. Well, that's my concern is we get the teachers in there for 3 years, they decide, okay, we really like this, and then they hit us with a big number to continue it, and now we've got a bunch of angry teachers when we turn around and say, hey, wait a second, it's not in our budget. So, that's just my concern. Yeah. No,
086I I understand that. Um, I understand that. I mean, I don't want to say it's part of the game, right? But with software, we just we can't tell. Um, and to lock it in for longer than that, I don't know that we would. the security stuff's a little different. I don't know that we'd want to lock this in for more than that because there may be another product that improves or new that might be better to go to. But yeah, I I totally understand what you're coming from with that. When we when we roll it out, can we just make sure that teachers know that this is like a hard three years and then we have to re-evaluate it when it comes time? Cuz I just know from a teacher standpoint, a lot of times
087we get stuff and they're like, "It's yours now." And then you find out it's it's not and then that just tends to create that air of gh that's not Yes. Thank you. not great. Sure. And and I think a a part of that message is is that here's what we can control and here's what we can't control. Same thing when states have requirements for certifications. all of a sudden everybody's scrambling to get the literacy endorsement and then it just takes one legislature, you know, session to actually cancel out the $1.5 million we spent to train everybody. And so I totally understand that, but we try to message it in the sense that this is what we have for the next x amount of years. We we don't want it to change, but that's a possibility.
088So yeah. Yeah. Well, hope hopefully also it's it's not a burden on teachers, right? I mean, hopefully it's something that they can have for years, but even if they have it for just three years, that it's a tool that they'd have for three years to help them. Um, I think they'll be happy. Yeah. And and it sounds like we got it for free, not because they just came out and gave it to us, but through some negotiation, right? So, in 3 years, we can renegotiate that again. There's a lot of these companies out there, they have to be competitive, right? Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. when and when and how does that training happen for teachers? So, we'll so the um so our TAI team, our technology integration educators that Sean Abia manages that team. Um
089so her team, they're all assigned to a school. So they have to meet with their principles end of year, beginning a year as part of their process. So that's on their list to discuss at the uh here in probably a week or so when they all meet with them, start discussing that. then they'll meet again to be meeting of the year and then we'll kind of cater to the school on that. Any other questions? That's all we have. I know that was a lot. Sorry, our slide number was low. Our talk time was apologize. I've got I've got a question. So, these there's some amazing tools that we get to use uh teachers and students get to use during the school day. Are any of these tools available to or or benefits of these tools
090available to parents at home? For example, are there any software tools that can be loaded onto a phone that goes a a phone or a home computer that parents can use because they have a student at GPS. They get the they get this benefit that they can have this this security feature on their home computer on their kids' phone for free outside of school. Sure. So, um phone and home computers, I mean, we that's really nothing, not that we don't want to touch, but there's nothing that presents itself to us that we could pass on, right? Like Microsoft, if you're a student, you could use the license free. Goian does have a parent feature. Um, James is probably rolling his eyes at me because this is me. But, um, so we've looked at it for
091the last couple years. Um, at first I just wasn't comfortable with it rolling that out to parents. Um, but I think it's at the point now to where it's on my list of goals that we need to do that next school year. We're going to have to pilot it. So, what that does is on the Chromebook, we would set the parameters of the hours of the day. So, just 7 to three, right? We control the content filter policies. After that, then the parent could actually control what happens on that device. So, we've piloted a little bit. Scott and a couple of our internal people have piloted it on Yeah. on Scott's on Scott's kiddos. Um, you can lock it down pretty tight, right? So, that would control that device. So, is that the home computer
092phone? No. But students use these Chromebooks all hours of the day, right? So, I think that would be a huge plus. I don't want to call it a win, but plus for our parents to be able to control at least that device. Um, so that's the goal next year is to roll that out. Managing that. It's just those little things, right? Two households, both guard, one locks, one doesn't. What? And then we get pulled into the middle of it. Now, it's not a reason to run from it, but that's re reality. I don't know how we're going to manage that other than it's going to have to go back to the school which then is another thing on top, right? So, we have to talk about those pieces and figure that out. But absolutely, I
093want to get that out next year. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions from the board? All right. Thank you very much. Well done, gentlemen. Thank you for the hard work. It's very important. All right. Uh, that will bring us to adjournment of our work study and we'll move right into our brief board business meeting. Does anybody need to take a break or anything before we move on? Okay. Then I'll call the brief board business meeting to order and ask Miss Wilson to do roll call. Mr. Chad Thompson here. Miss Shaina Murray here. Dr. Blake Robersonson here. Miss Jill Humphre here. Mr. Jesse Rainard here. Mr. President, all board members are present. You have a quorum. Thank you, Miss Wilson. Uh, agenda item number five. Uh, consent agenda. Is there a motion to
094approve the consent agenda as outlined on our agenda this evening? So moved. Thank you, Miss Humphre. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Dr. Robersonson. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda as outlined on our agenda tonight, please do so by saying I. I. Any opposed? And that passes. Thank you. And 6.01, which has been brought to our attention. Um, I think we should just skip that. What do you think? Well, I really I really got to go. Yeah. Uh so please stick around uh after the board meeting so we can make sure that that's signed or else I think we'll get in trouble. Yeah. Uh and that's it for tonight. Um we'll go ahead and adjourn our brief. We we have to vote on 61. We have We have to vote. Yeah,
095we have to. I thought we were just told we had to. All right. Let's see how this goes. All right. Uh, is there a motion uh to approve the fiscal year 2025 budget revision number three? So moved. Thank you, Mr. Briner. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Humphre. Uh, is there any discussion? Well, I just think um I really appreciate what a great job and how transparent we are because of our fine uh budget people that are keeping us on track. So, thank you. All right. Thank you. Anything else? All right. And we'll call for a vote. All those in favor of approving the fiscal year 2025 budget revision number three, say I. I. I. Any opposed? Thank you very much. And now we will move on to our adjournment. Um is there
096a motion to uh adjourn our meeting this evening? So moved. Thank you, Dr. Robson. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Murray. All those in favor of unless there's some discussion about adjournment that it's not a discussible item, actually. Well, actually, I would like to uh All those in favor of adjournment say I. I. Any opposed? Thank you very much. Yes.