001all right welcome thank you all for being here tonight we welcome you here and thank you those who are joining us online or by recorded we would like to begin our meeting it's tuesday march 29 2022 and we will begin our regular board meeting i'd like to start with 2.0 opening items i've called the meeting to order and we will then have a moment of silence followed by a pledge of allegiance led by sheila eugetti if you'll all stand and join me for the moment of silence thank you all we now would like to have miss wilson please do a roll call dr charles santa cruz here mr bill parker miss sheila eugetti here miss laurie wood here miss jill humphries here madam president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you
002very much miss wilson we will now move to 3.0 approval of agenda 3.01 is there a motion so moved thank you is that dr santa cruz second welcome thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the agenda all those in favor please say aye aye those opposed nay it passes 5-0 now we'll move to 4.01 with dr mccord and the superintendent's recognition awards dr mccormick just have a moment yeah i i just would like to say when you call everybody down i'm not going to be able to go down i'm dealing with some medical issues so i need to stay up here and i just want to apologize because i want to congratulate everybody that is being honored tonight thank you miss you jetty if everybody join me in front of
003the dice sorry good evening everyone how are you how are you there you go good thank you for being here this is always the best part of the evening when we get to recognize some of our students and our staff and um for the great things that they've done first off and this is a long time coming but because we got out of the groove due to the pandemic and now we're back into it we want to recognize if i could have brock farrell head coach of highland high football come up they were the 6a state champions this year please give them a hand [Applause] stay here brock don't leave this listen you're like your offense really fast and quick let's go now did you bring anybody with you tonight or do you have anybody
004uh no just no look at that he didn't do this state championship on his own just so you guys know um talk about real quick your season i'm going to give you the microphone just a few words i know they probably didn't prep you on this so this is great this is why i get paid the big bucks right talk to the people uh just in short i'm proud of uh the senior class especially um you know the first state title we've been able to bring to highland in school history so mostly if you want to summarize it up i think we had if not the hardest it would have been top five schedule in the state and unfortunately we got ranked ninth at the end of the year so we were number one seed
005in 6a and proceeded to then show the rest of the state why we should have been in the open uh we we won our first playoff game by 40. we won our next two playoff games by multiple touchdowns uh and we're able to secure the state title 31-10 uh and it was a little bit sweet because we got to beat chaparral the team that beat us in the state title game last year and we got to do it in a big stadium instead of in a high school stadium so uh proud of our senior class proud of our highland hawks and we aren't going anywhere we'll be right back at it again again give highland high coach brock thank you [Applause] thank you so much thanks next if i could have mr sean lynch and
006larry lopez from mesquite high basketball [Applause] so mesquite high did something right gentlemen they brought home the championship for 4a and uh they did it in pretty dramatic fashion going down the road and i gotta tell you what i i've known mr lynch for a little while we definitely got to know each other when we were both in mesa and uh when i heard that he was interested in becoming the head coach at mesquite high i was thrilled and it wasn't because i knew that he had some skills as it comes as it pertains to coaching basketball it was the skill he had at working with the youth and making sure that he not only produced great basketball players but great young men and so to see them bring home the championship for someone like
007me means a lot more than just what a scoreboard says it means that we have some gentlemen here that represent their school their school district and humanity extremely well so uh would you like to say a few words about your team and bring them up yeah we'll tell you what let's bring some guys up first let's bring a cohen j gonzalez up with the trophy he's a junior [Applause] we have a tremendous student manager brian clark come on up bro he's a senior sophomore jaylen wohling senior cason bryant senior michael eckert junior lucas lamb and uh freshman tate lucas [Applause] so uh just to be quick uh this was the first boys basketball title at mesquite so we're very proud of that we were 27 and three we beat every 4a team that we played
008we went into the tournament the number sixth ranked seed we upset number three um in their gym we upset number two in a dramatic fashion with the buzzer beater that went viral on sportscenter number one sportscenter player of the day and then we beat the number one ranked team in the state championship so a great group of guys great group of coaches that we have and you know proud to be at mesquite thank you [Applause] can you have the gentleman get on their knees because they're all taller than us sure [Applause] is someone here is marissa hart here by any chance hi marissa how are you is your is ben here her hunter i mean i don't know where i got ben from sometimes i just make up names are you hunter hi hunter marissa
009come on up come on up guys [Applause] so marissa is the coach the advisor for mesquite high school speech and debate and uh that's a job and i don't i don't really know if people quite understand that but hunter here hunter finn finished first in the big question debate which qualifies him for nationals first in prose and runner-up in impromptu and this is what marissa has to say about hunter hunter is currently the state champion in the big question to questions debate which qualified him for national speech and debate tournament louisville kentucky in june and pro's interpretation he's also the state runner-up and impromptu speaking beyond speech and debate hunter is an outstanding person he's always willing to help others and is such a positive influence on everyone around him congratulations honey do you want
010to say a few words about him so speech and debate has a lot of different components and it's incredible to have um even though we have a small team we have a great team and it's incredible just to have as many kids who are as dedicated as they are especially hunter who has done excellent alternative or all season rather and i'm really proud of you for going to nationals congratulations again [Applause] time congratulations is kaylee peeling here hi how are you i'm good thank you is gabriel here gabriel neff come on up [Applause] good to see you so if you can't tell they represent gilbert high kaylee is a teacher there and she is the speech and debate coach um gabriel here is the state champion he's a junior who won first in original spoken
011word for poetry so what does that mean like i'm quite the poet if you don't know and uh so how does that work what is what did you have to do read a poem yes i'd love to talk about it um so uh original spoken word poetry involves the student making three original poems of his own and um they're about three minutes long and so in each preliminary round i'll perform one poem and then finals i'll perform all three back to back-to-back uh it's super super fun and um all the topics range from a bunch of different things but i usually just talk about my own personal experiences yeah you want to say anything i'm just so proud of the work that gabe has done not only as a spoken word poet but also as
012a leader of the speech and debate team at gilbert high school this year he has really stepped up and inspired a lot of freshmen and sophomores to take part in speech and debate find their voices take some risks and i'm really really proud of what our team has accomplished this year congratulations to both of you thank you very much [Applause] fix your title there we go [Applause] next if i could have judy ingle come up [Applause] judy is currently a teacher at highland park elementary and she's retiring this year congratulations that's jealousy right now uh but she won an award and we want to tell you guys quickly about it she won the school of social work professional achievement award this award recognizes an alumni of the school of social work who graduated five or
013more years ago and who has accomplished achievements of distinction in the social work profession to promote the general where fell welfare of all people she is a social worker and she you're currently working on your phd you're done doctor angle ladies and gentlemen how long did it take you to finish [Applause] five that's great that's half the amount of time it took me so way to go judy has been a long time gps employee but she's much more than that she cares about people i know her very well i know her family very well and this award is just in my opinion the cherry on top of what you've done with your life and so thank you so much for everything and congratulations again [Applause] okay not so fast madam president that concludes my recognitions
014for this evening thank you guys appreciate it [Applause] wonderful thank you for that and congratulations again to all those that were honored tonight now we move to 5.01 with superintendent's report with dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members again good evening and welcome to our meeting i'd like to recognize one of our students real quick who is on this superintendent student council haley prus please stand wave to everybody she's a student over at campo verde high school and we asked that those uh young men and women on this superintendent's student senate to maybe attend a meeting like this or a foundation meeting and you are definitely a shining star in that group of people so thank you for everything that you do dear i hope everyone had an enjoyable spring break it seemed
015so long ago we are well into the fourth quarter of the school year and the last day of school will be here before you know it uh we will be knee-deep in our state standardized testing this month and and i want to thank all of our teachers support staff principals for parent for preparing our students for these tests you've put forth a ton of effort and time to fill in the gaps and move students forward and that doesn't go unnoticed and it is grace greatly appreciated to our students get lots of rest eat well and please do your very best we know you'll give it your all this thursday evening we'll hold our annual employees of the year celebration we'll be honoring support staff teachers and administrators from around the district this event will start
016at 5 pm at the doubletree hotel in gilbert thank you to the gilbert education foundation for helping to make this happen and thank you to all of our generous business leaders who helped support this event we are looking forward to celebrating our employees april 4th through the 6th we'll have our annual elementary art show at norwood's furniture come down to norwoods from 5 30 to 8 30 and see all of the exceptional artwork our students have constructed over the year on display thank you to all of our art teachers for your hard work love of children and for your creativity it's greatly appreciated and lastly the gilbert education foundation will hold its bi-monthly business leaders breakfast on monday april 11th at 7 a.m in the governing board come out and connect with the community of
017business leaders and learn about exciting new things gps and gef are doing for our students mrs wood that concludes my report for this evening great thank you we now move to 6.0 request to speak to the governing board and i would ask that we play the the admonition please the board may make an open call to the public during a public meeting subject to reasonable time place and manner restrictions to allow individuals to address the public body on an issue within the jurisdiction of the public body at the conclusion of the open call to the public individual board members may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask the staff to review a matter or may ask a matter be to be put on a future agenda however members of
018the board shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during the open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action during the open call the board requests that speakers refrain from voicing complaints against school personnel or any person connected with the district as it may impact due process rights policy k-e-k-e-b and k-e-d are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including those involving individuals forms required for use of these policies can be obtained from the gilbert public schools website great we have 13 speakers tonight and i will call up i will call them up one at a time but i'll give a couple names at a time so you'll know who's next and we will have three minutes um on the time and we
019welcome your thoughts and and your respectful ideas tonight first we have kevin kevin turnage after him peyton herb and then melissa gilleris and please please pronounce your name correctly if i didn't and i apologize i want to know how to pronounce it correctly thank you yes mr target my name is kevin turnage i'm here tonight with many of the parents and students from gerber high school to discuss how the jrotc program positively impacts their lives and their children's lives it appears gps is deliberately hostile towards the united states military and that this administration has decided to phase jrotc out from the district the administration is currently in direct violation of the memorandum of agreement signed by dr mccord on december 12 2018 with united states air force and if we cannot can trust you to
020honor your agreements with our own government how can we trust you to educate our children on ethics and morals ghs has decided that even though students want to enroll in jrotc not to allow it administration has directed counselors not to allow any students not currently in the jury ortc program to enroll this has been relayed to me personally by several parents from incoming students both freshmen and transfers justice sandra day o'connor said we pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values principles and educations that they need to make them good citizens the goal of jrotc has always been to create good citizens and teach leadership skills and it accomplishes that task however this administration is using backhanded tactics to cut our program the loss of the program will not only
021negatively impact our children but future children in the entire gilbert community our instructor puts in long hours and weekends without fair and equal compensation while being subjected to a truly hostile work environment so what unites all of us we want what's best for our children and our community however without any input it appears the administration has decided for the community for the students and for the parents to get rid of the jrotc program district-wide all we ask for is the educational equity that the arizona school board association defines and that is not something that you do for us or for the community but is something you should be doing alongside us families communities and students need to be a part of the process and as one young person put it succinctly nothing about us without
022us for those of you who are not connected with the jrotc program if we allow this board and the administration to eliminate a program they dislike specifically on ideological grounds they will not stop with jrotc will your children be sacrificed next thank you not for now wait for a minute you must wait till the end all right we now have peyton herb and then melissa gularis and then audrey mcfarland yes please all right good evening my name is cadets chief master sergeant peyton herb from afjc unit az941 and i'm here today to speak about gilbert high school's jrc program being pushed out and honestly shut down for those of you who don't know the junior reserve officer training corps was established by the national defense act of 1916 after 50 years of the program it
023was made accessible for females i'm currently a second year cadet of my core and i couldn't be prouder of it unlike in other aspects of life and high school in jrotc no matter your gender everyone is on an equal field through this program i am actively participating and competing in an aia approved award-winning activity i'm part of a six-person academic team that is contending in something called j-lab or knowledgeable that gives us the opportunity to go to washington dc and compete with other jrotc teams from across the nation also i've completed over 120 hours of community service collectively in my two years i challenge you to name one other sport or activity who can give its members all the same opportunities in one additionally many cadets myself included were invited by george mason university to
024participate in a national youth leadership forum for national security also in washington d.c my point is if this board in our school paid more attention to the experiences students are getting out of jrotc instead of numbers and monetary figures or whatever it is you all are prioritizing over good high school learning and experiences you would realize how fruitful our program is i'll be honest the only reason i joined jrrgc last year was because i was loath to sign up for any of the other elective choices however everything happens for a reason right it was the best decision i've made in my high school career easily the lessons you learn in this class go beyond anything algebra ceramics or psychology could teach you heck this goes beyond aerospace science the premise of the class you learn
025about friendship and the future and being a good student in person you learn about leadership and survival skills and teamwork it's important and i can't believe the school this board in our school is contemplating getting it shut down to conclude i would like to speak of vital character traits being instilled in us that are clearly lacking in today's society namely motivation motivation to do what is right for not just ourselves but for the generations after us motivation to leave behind fewer reasons to worry and more initiative to make the world a better place motivation is not something one develops not is it is something one is born with motivation is what brought me these other cadets and our parents here today motivation to save our cherish jrrtc all i'm trying to ask here is one
026simple thing stop trying to block afdc which is essentially a self-supporting unit not only does plenty of behind the scenes work for our school ghs and community but it's also developing bright young dedicated fit disciplined inspired motivated future leaders from flying from thriving thank you okay melissa gallieris audrey mcfarland and miracle turnage good evening board members hello my name is melissa and i have two kids in gilbert public schools one of them is a sophomore and second year cadet with jfrotc at gilbert high my son joined this program to learn about leadership make friends and to come together and help the community this program teaches these young adults to act with integrity honesty to be responsible to stand tall speak up for themselves show respect for others and be held accountable for their actions this
027program has helped my son in all these ways it has also set a path of who he wants to continue to be throughout life don't we need more people in our society who care for others have a love for america act with integrity help the community and become great leaders i don't understand why gilbert public schools want to remove this program that instills these values in our children do not do you not support this growth in our children or for our society why has it become your agenda to remove this program and take away this great opportunity from our kids my son personally dedicates all his extra time doing community service work with this program to help our community just a few things he has done this year alone he has helped at food banks
028and various sporting events held in the gilbert public schools in example he has helped at football games soccer games swim meets and even cleaning the stands after the games this program has also also has an aia sport built into it do you know how great our drill teams have been for years they have won so many trophies there are too many to count wouldn't the district or even the school be proud of this no trophies are displayed anywhere in the main building to show pride in this why are football basketball and band just to name a few displayed with pride and jfjrotc is not what kind of message does this show our children that you pick some teams over others based on what agenda you're following please reconsider removing this program my family and i
029are completely shocked at the fact that you would even consider taking this opportunity away from our children we moved to gilper 13 years ago because we wanted our children in a great school district we have only seen this district decline over the years do i really have to pull my kids out of gilbert public schools and rub in other districts like chandler that still support the program developing leaders for tomorrow and still values and has support for our military men and women again please reconsider and open registration for those who want to join we are being told that they are added to a secret list somewhere thank you audrey mcfarland miracle turnage and chris tony good evening i'm audrey mcfarland two years ago on a tour of gilbert high school my son inquired about rotc
030and i distinctly remember the counselor tour guide raving about the well-established program with its long history at gilbert high school he assured my son that he would love the program and he was absolutely right this program does not disappoint many people hold a misconception that junior rotc is simply an air force recruiting program but this is not true statistically about 20 percent of cadets will enter the military so why support an rotc program in our schools what is its purpose the mission of junior rotc is to develop citizens of character dedicated to serving their nation and community no matter what path in life they take after graduation what school wouldn't want a program with such an important mission these cadets are gilbert's future taxpayers teachers business owners leaders and community members don't we want to
031foster and support programs that develop citizenship character and a spirit of service if i were a school administrator this does not seem like a program i would let slip through my fingers and yet currently gilbert high school is not even allowing incoming freshmen to register for the program as if it were already gone in a survey of over 350 principals nationwide 99 percent were in agreement that the junior rotc program instilled values of service and personal responsibility and that students in the program had better school attendance were more likely to graduate earned higher grades were more active in their communities had fewer discipline problems and were a positive influence on others certainly the junior rotc program has a positive impact on the school culture and community what are we asking for improved compensation for our
032instructor which reflects equality with other aia instructors and coaches enhanced efforts to attract quality candidates for the currently vacant officer position a greater sense of pride in and recognition for an already successful program whose cadets are winning drill and color guard competitions completely organizing and running leadership development activities and larger scale events and earning scholarships this program is also providing a sense of purpose and belonging for our students in an economically racially and gender diverse environment we are asking that you please exert your influence on the gilbert high school administration to keep this program at gilbert high school and allow it to to flourish thank you [Applause] go ahead miracle good evening board members i'm cadet second lieutenant miracle turnage one of the many cadets who called a liar in the press last time we
033spoke here the issue addressed last time was a blatant twisting of legal loopholes to attempt to get rid of az941's drill team instead of addressing the issue and what our cadets stated we were told that dr mccord was taking frivolous notes even though he could very much see he was not the next day an article came out essentially calling me and my fellow cadets liars here we are a year later addressing nearly the same issue except this time it's not just our drill team it's the entirety of the jrotc program we are one of the last two programs standing in the district with students and attendance from both desert ridge and mesquite for a program that it teaches what exactly what the nation is in need of right now through our core values and mission
034statement it is sad to see people so adamant to get rid of it maybe it's the simple fact that the so-called leaders at ghs and the board simply have no integrity and can't manage to think of anyone other than themselves a solid 99 of the time but i digress for my my last two years in the program my character and who i am as a person has changed tremendously for the better i found confidence in myself learned how to be a leader and stand up for myself and don't you dare think just because my peers and i are students that we will let you get away with something so terribly wrong just because of your authority we aren't blind it is still so incredibly shocking to me that as a district you claim that the
035relationship between teachers and students is most high because that evidently must not be applied to all of us even though it should would football soccer swim and dive basketball cross country or track ever have to be here fighting for the bare minimum you aren't even giving our rotc instructor who is thanks to you having to do the job of two people a coach's stipend which she more than deserves you made working for this district so terrible toxic and mentally straining you pushed away our other instructor but then since it he had it was so hard for him to work with you and he left you said it had nothing to do with you but it had everything to do with you you're making it hard to endure for the students too dealing with your lack
036of understanding and refusal to understand our program it's pushed some cadets to drop because they cannot withstand it anymore then when we are on the brink of going down due to enrollment you can say it has nothing to do with you but it has everything to do with you you can try to take away our buildings uniforms equipment drill team in our program but you will never take away the spirit of az9 for one to those listening and watching i urge you to help us take a stand when they take one program they won't just stop with one and this time maybe address our concerns instead of calling us liars thank you for your time [Applause] thank you we have chris tony then anthony garrell and megan mccuchen good evening members aboard my name is
037chris toney and i am the proud parent of cadet staff sergeant jason toney there were two things my son wanted to do in high school soccer and jrotc imagine our surprise when we heard there was a movement to do away with the latter which this school year requires him to attend two high schools due to the previous successful elimination of jrotc at mesquite high school it seems that school boards nationwide always want to fund the sports while cutting funding for other programs like the arts and jrotc when ncaa data indicates that the probability of players going pro are so astronomically low since numbers seem to be of importance let's talk numbers football point zero nine percent will go pro baseball point five percent men's basketball point zero three percent women's basketball point zero two percent
038men's soccer point zero eight percent in fact once all sports are combined only one in sixteen thousand high school athletes will attain a professional career in sports a minuscule point zero zero zero zero six two five percent chance thus the bulk of funding goes to programs that have a very low potential for a career conversely according to u s news and world reports about 20 percent of all jrotc participants will go on to join the military which would indicate statistically that 14.4 of the current cadets at gilbert high will be going pro which is a far higher number than any other athletic program the cadet guide for ghs outlines the goals and expectations set forth in the program and specifically mentions character citizenship service accountability honor leadership and excellence in all they do their honor
039code states i will not lie cheat or steal nor tolerate anyone among us who do these are the values principles and ethics that this board has worked so hard to take out of gilbert schools i will submit that gilbert high football does have the mission to develop championship student athletes of character on and off the field however this very program yielded a student who was charged with rape as an adult last fall and has not produced a state championship since 1985. it seems the football program has not held up its end of the bargain and yes i know that a jrotc instructor was charged similarly at highland high in 2014 but i'm not here to save the program at highland high bear in mind that the nfl nba mlb nhl mls etc aren't sharing the
040cost of coaching with the district but the military does share the cost for jrotc instructors it should be abundantly clear why this program is not a disposable commodity to the district it fosters a sense of family amongst the cadets and service to the community whose representatives are willing to discard those bonds and the values that jrotc teaches i leave you with that thought with this thought what does that say about those representatives thank you for your time [Applause] thank you anthony garrell megan mccutchen and denise hanks hi my name is anthony catrell and i'm an az941 drill commander i'm here tonight to speak with you all on behalf of saving this hrcc program at gilbert high school even though i'm a senior this year i'd like to give you a breakdown on when this program
041has done for me within the past four years first off this program has taught me my leadership i have been the drill commander for the past school year being able to be in command of this portion has taught me how to excel outside of school within sports work and social life with the skill set i have been able to exceed with my workforce and unbelievable rate also take charge within my sports and still have the same respect on and off the field second is discipline knowing all this program has a huge amount of disciplinary actions by following not only the aia guidelines but also the air force guidelines as well this program has taught me to not only to excel in school with these guidelines but also have the gain respect of those around me
042finally this program within these last four years has guided me to the next chapter outside of high school now we all know this program does not encourage you to join the military branch after high school but i only proudly to say uh that with this program i have dedicated these last four years to i'll be joining the marines once i graduate to serve my country now i can only speak for everyone in this core but i can proudly say that i have technical sergeant shanny to thank for all her hard work dedication respect and encouragement for my decisions to join the military uh if it wasn't for technical sergeant shanny i have no idea where i would be today let alone where my future will be going after high school so for that i want
043to say thank you technical sergeant shanny for always being in me believing in me and pushing me to be the best i can be so therefore modern president the board members please do not eliminate this program through our school there are many students like me out there in the world community that needs this supportive program to help them get on the right path as it did for me thank you megan mccutchen denise hanks and nathan cineo good evening my name is megan mccutcheon and i'm a proud parent of an az941 cadet as you just heard i would like to speak with you on behalf of the positive outcomes this program at gilbert high school has done not only for my son but also for my family first of all this program has shaped my son
044into the man he's becoming he's always been a great person but this program has helped him realize what his purpose is in life after high school as of last year which is the end of his junior year he was still up in the air on where his path was going to lead him this current school year he has decided to become a future leader within our military by joining the marines without this program's leadership skill set disciplinary actions who knows where he would have ended up after high school these past four years have made a huge impact on his life not only in and outside of school but work like he has mentioned and at home our cadet has two little brothers six and two that look up to him by marching spinning their toys
045up in the air and giving commands as he does to the armed team our son enjoys watching his younger siblings do this because he hopes one day that they will join the az-941 program and get the greatest outcome of their futures like he has also this program teaches the students on what it means to to have and to be in an extended family when one student is struggling they're all struggling when one student's having a bad day they're all having a bad day these students learn that this huge family that they have is not only supportive with them within their peers themselves but also from the families and the parents as well like their motto states integrity first service before self and excellence in all we do we as parents also speak so highly of
046this program as it what it has done or is doing for our students this program shapes them give them gives them the life skills that they will need to excel in their bright futures we as parents including myself especially can only say or do so much to help our students excel but there's always that one teacher that one instructor or in this case that one technical sergeant or tech sergeant to push them in the right direction with that being said i would like to personally thank technical sergeant amy shanti for being that person my son can count on to help him excel with his future look up to and give thanks to for his bright upcoming future within the marines so therefore board members by possibly eliminating this program the district would not only be
047eliminating survival skill sets on these students impacted in the program now but also within the incoming future cadets of az941 thank you thank you denise hanks nathan senio and kevin douglas good evening my name is denise hanks and i don't have a speech prepared like the rest of our family um you know i can only go off of my son as a first year cadet he's a freshman at gilbert i live in pinal county and we purposely drive to gilbert because it's an amazing school district i was just as upset and concerned when i heard that az-941 was going to be shut down my son has always wanted to do was learn military and i mean he loves history and he wanted to join our that was the first thing he said is rotc and
048i heard that gilbert had the best rotc program that's one of the reasons why we drive so far and i'm married to a military vet that all he does is teach our son the best of what the military is and i understand that it doesn't it promotes military but it doesn't it promotes diversity as well i mean it promotes everything that our students need and i'm i'm not the best public speaker i'm just a concerned mom and i want my son to go four years he wants to go four years he wants to go to an rotc college he would i can't remember the name of it but but he does he also my son is a type one diabetic the medical that has happened with him being in rotc over just this this year
049i mean his a1c over the summer was a nine and now it's down to a seven he works hard and he works hard in school just so he can be a part of it please don't take it away these cadets are the most amazing as kids that you could ever be around they're respectful they're loving they are a family these boys come over and we have barbecues and we all hang out together that's what we want to teach our children just listen to them listen to us we do know what's best for our children and there are good parents that work hard for our children and i'm one of them and so are they just help us out please thank you nathan senio kevin douglas and priscilla ledesma good evening board my name is nathan
050cenio and i'm a proud air force uni reserve officer training corps alumni from 2011 to 2015. now i think i can speak for a lot of us that we say what's the first thing that comes to mind when we think of air force junior reserve officer training corps that award to me is service it's service to our community service to our school and to some including myself proud six-year air force veteran service to our nation from the hundreds of hours that my jrotc unit did during my school's football games from our drill competitions from our model rocketry to our pt competitions and even to our local parades i know that the thousands of hours that the gilbert afjrotc cadets do and have volunteered for for the community have made the school and the community a
051better place than it was before which is the main reason why jrotc is within our communities to promote citizenship and grow more characters it is not to directly promote military service but it does infuse those values those proud values i should say even after all these years almost a decade later i still remember my instructors names and the impact they made on me to the school and also the local community jrotc for me and my friends was a place of tranquility during my high school trepidation days well i didn't know what i wanted to do before i joined high school i think a lot of us here today see a lot of kids going through those times in their life where they don't know what they want to do with their life they wake up
052they put on whatever clothes they want to wear they go to school they put c's get degrees they do whatever they can and then they leave and go home and then do whatever they want us jrotc cadets are built differently and have a different mindset of service we don't care where you come from we don't care what your background is but we do care about this we care about why you're here and what service you want to bring to your community and how much better of a person you want to be when you go home at the end of the day what impact do you leave on your community and all the values and everything that you incorporate your last name your loved ones your school your nation everything that you stand for is represented
053when you serve your community now for me personally i have a quick statement for me jrotc actually got me my first high school job as a high school usher now it was a very competitive uh job after all who doesn't love free movies and popcorn and going out with your buddies on the weekend out of 31 people i received that job and i actually remember the quote that my general manager gave me he said because you have jrotc i can rely on kids like you i know that you have learned leadership dedication and will put in the effort day in and day out you're a breath of fresh air and i wish i had more people like you at this movie theater that same mentality is what others in this local community see and taking
054away this program will be a great disservice to this local community and to our nation of those that want to serve thank you very much for your time and please enjoy the rest of your night thank you thank you kevin douglas priscilla ledesma and gibson galores as parents we all resp we all preach honor respect integrity to our kids this program does nothing but teach that i know the military taught me that my parents taught me that i didn't have to go to rotc growing up because i had military family and by teaching the honor respect integrity that i have and into my son he shows it every single day amongst his peers rotc or not amongst his other siblings amongst his family everybody he meets he just shows that honor integrity discipline respect and
055that is what i see gilbert with your show of the football the basketball and all that tonight that's what you guys look like you guys strive for this program does nothing but teach that does nothing but hone that and preach that to these kids which all of us parents teach to our kids ourselves by teaching these respects and values in kids not only are we creating leaders just as parents but the schools also preaching leaders people who take over your guys's positions when you guys retire presidents all of that that's all i got to say i don't speak a lot sorry thank you thank you good evening i am priscilla ledesma so i'm here just simply to support the program so i came here and was immediately welcomed by passionate cadets and passionate parents and
056there's reason for that we have full jobs and we still came here because we wanted to support the program and i know how good of a school district gilbert is because i went through gilbert high school myself i was a junior rotc cadet myself a while ago i was here at the same time that dr santa cruz is here so good to see you again i was here for his retirement time there were 17 years of ledesmas that went through so i do have a little bit of a bias a little bit of a personal connection to gilbert high school specifically through my time in junior rotc and through my time in uh in high school alone i was varsity cheer captain i was varsity track captain i was an nhs i was an orchestra
057i did all everything you could possibly do so i didn't need another program to for more social mental health but a lot of students truthfully do and i continuously chose junior rotc for three years because i know how much it benefited me during it i was fortunate enough to have tremendous support of the parents as you see here during my time in rotc as well and i'm hard-pressed to think that there are a lot of programs who do provide that same amount of support some of the main things that i learned in rotc or excuse me in junior rotc was different kind of communication skills definitely that value of service you've heard that over and over again here that leadership and that camaraderie is like no other again i went through so many sports i
058went through college been active duty military and this was something that i truly can look back on as one of the highlights of truly my life one of the other things that i that i saw that you can't really truthfully teach was i saw the value of a relationship so my instructor and his wife had such a strong relationship they just celebrated their 50th anniversary and no they didn't talk about that and that wasn't they advertised but they invited me to their actual ceremony not too long ago that's how close that we got to be with them and so many people like i was fortunate enough to grow up in an incredibly stable home in an incredibly stable environment but realistically a lot of students don't get that and a lot of students in gilbert
059alone and so junior rotc can become that stable environment for a lot of the cadets and what i loved about watching my instructor was i saw that that positive relationship between them but also you got to see that those who are not in a relationship are successful they're not still successful they are successful with the person or without a person i really enjoy that aspect of rotc that you don't get to just see so at the risk of sounding overly confident i think that i am one of the many success stories i did junior rotc myself for three years i went through college rotc and i came back just to support this program in my year group alone we had three academy graduates we had six individuals who went through junior rotc and who got
060to go to senior rotc all six of us were able to receive scholarships because junior rotc is able to provide direct scholarships to college so um i absolutely 100 percent would not be where i am if it was not for gilbert high school junior rotc thank you very much thank you and then gibson galore's [Music] good afternoon board members i'm cadet senior mass sergeant gibson galliard from az941 i'm here to talk about the afj rotc at gilbert high school and what it means to me i joined this program last year because i thought it would be a good way to to learn leadership i joined this program last year because i thought it would be a good way to learn leadership how to act with integrity and make new friends i've continued with this program
061for all the friends and opportunities i get i was sad to hear that gilbert public schools are shutting down this program and i want to do something about it this program has grown to be a family for me and to see it go down and be horrible you get so many things out of this program like leadership skills and life skills this program isn't just a class it's turned more into a family i'm making friendships to last a lifetime easy nine for one also has amazing scholarship opportunities and would be sad to see people not get it because the program is shutting down lots of my friends want to join due to all the benefits you gained from this program afghan rotc is providing me with the skills i need to become a better person
062i now act with integrity and i feel i show more respect and hold myself more accountable for my actions please reconsider shutting down this program thank you [Applause] thank you that is that concludes our speakers our open call yes go ahead mr parker i'd like to can you hear me yep thank you all for coming out tonight it's very rare that uh that you get this much support uh for any program particularly parents and students and i wanna thank you for for doing that i would also like to address a few things i'm a retired marine corps officer and i spent my last 18 years as a senior jrtc instructor so if anybody understands the program i think i do and i understand the benefit of program i've seen what it does for kids and
063how it turns them around i was one of those kids because i took jrtc in high school air force actually my dad's retired was a retired army officer my daughter went in the air force so we're definitely a military family uh a couple of things here and i would be thrilled to meet with any of you guys anytime anyplace just let me know the district uh and i i don't know what exactly what's going on here but i i do know a few things dr mccord i can assure you is not opposed to jrotc i don't know a senior board member a single board member here as opposed to jrotc uh some of the things that need to happen though to keep the program alive need enrollment 10 or 100 kids in the program need
064to have instructors and right now there's a real difficult time nationwide getting instructors but i am with you and i don't think anyone here wants to see the program go down uh there's about a 10 20 year waiting list to get a program nationwide it's a very popular program so uh like i said i'll be glad to talk to anyone anywhere so thank you and thank you for coming tonight thank you mr parker dr mccord thank you mr parker governing board members uh rotc gilbert high couple things and and just to reiterate what mr parker said nobody's trying to get rid of a program whether you believe that or not but you're hearing it right here from me directly secondly there will be an rotc program at gilbert high next year save one thing if
065we don't have instructors then obviously that makes it difficult to have a program uh i hope that shanti wants to stay and if she does we'll welcome her staying with open arms but no one here on this diocese has had a conversation about shutting down rotc programs if there's going if there's an issue with registration marcy taylor will address that tomorrow but also know that when kids are signing up for electives no matter what it is they're always asking for backups like mr parker said you have to have at least 100 students in your program and now i know during the pandemic they have backed off that a little bit they haven't been hammering us with those types of things we've lost programs in the past because of that and nothing else i was an
066assistant principal at gilbert high back in 1999 to 2001 with dr santa cruz love the program i have not one negative thing to say about it and i never will i i liken it to those leaders on our campus that are getting some excellent instruction and outside of the core academics and so i i don't know again where some of your information is coming from i'm sorry that you're getting misinformation or you're perceiving it that way which if you are i could understand that trust me but you're hearing it right here tonight that we are not trying to shut down gilbert high rotc at any length and we'll have a conversation tomorrow with mr winter just to make sure that those that have registered are locked into that position and again if we have instructors
067or we have an instructor and the rotc will let us go forward with the setup that we have or if we find an officer to be able to come around because we haven't stopped looking like mr parker said there's a lot of opportunities for these instructors to teach anywhere throughout the country and they do and if there's a compensation issue in terms of stipends we'll actually address that as well but again nobody's trying to push out a program and it would just do great things for gilbert high school if it remains so again you're hearing it straight from me if you hear it from somewhere else something different then i'm sorry but you're being misinformed so thank you guys for uh more than anything standing up for your program standing here for what you believe
068in and thank you for that yes i i would also like to add that to the programs that have been shut down in the district in the past have been shut down by the military services not the district so um generally those were enrollment issues but to my knowledge the district has never actually shut a program down but when the uh when the school didn't meet their uh the service requirement they mandated it being shut down my kids went to mesquite they were in jrotc there and that's what happened thank you thank you for coming tonight and for those comments we will now move on to 7.0 reports and 7.01 the monthly budget report dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members we have our monthly budget report presented by our assistant superintendent ms
069bonnie betts [Music] thank you dr dr mccord ms wood governing board members this is our regularly presented monthly financial report so i'll just get right into it normally we share the operating funds federal funds state funds other funds and we are going to spend a little bit of time on the bond funds today so this is our main group of funds our operating funds really wanted to bring your attention to the yellow bar which is our maintenance operations fund this will come up later this evening as we talk about the compensation increases and the preliminary budget but note that the year to date expended in cumbered is 239 million and note that the available balance is 48.7 that changes every single month we have a lot of spend that's not encumbered so we don't really
070know exactly how it's going to turn out but at this point in time we are assuming at least an additional 7 million dollars of spend on top of that 239 million that 48 million dollars of available balance has gone down by 1.3 million dollars or conversely our spend has increased by 1.3 million dollars month over month i'd also like to bring your attention to the row right below it the fun 10 which is not highlighted i apologize for that but i wanted to note i wanted you to note the available balance on the third as the 13.6 million dollars under classroom site fund that will become clear as to why that's important as we get into the preliminary budget later and then finally the other two highlighted funds show a negative available balance those were
071just errors that were occurred that occurred when we revised our budget number two and those will be corrected in revised number three so before i go any further are there any questions on any of that on our operating funds great so this is just um showing what i've just shared with you these are our federal funds again i wanted to point out the a-r-p-i-d-e-a this is a new fund that came as part of the rescue plan giving additional resources for idea preschool and regular idea so we are working with the special education department right now on how to spend those additional funds a note sr3 and the educational plus up grant the educational plus up grant is part of our compensation proposal this evening so keep that in mind you can see that there's no
072encumbrance nor spend there yet and then please note the sr3 the fact that that to date we have year-to-date expended encumbered about 10.6 million dollars that does include both payments of the three percent uh one-time stipend so the first payment did occur in december and the second payment is scheduled to go out in june so moving on to the state funds instructional improvement we wanted to share here the year-to-date expended encumbrant of 1.4 million dollars as we're deliberating and deciding on how we're going to balance the budget for next year we thought it was prudent to show the fact that every year we take 900 000 to a million dollars of maintenance and operations expense and charge it to instructional improvement for class size reduction so these are primarily our instructional assistants throughout the school
073district so we do that annually freeing up a million dollars of ongoing resources in mno the other point is on the results-based funding those payments have been made to date to those 10 schools that were eligible okay so other fun details just quickly i wanted to present to you the fact that we are recording the employee benefit trust activity now on our monthly financials due to the fact that we are now accounting for our employee benefit trust revenue and spend within our general ledger so this is just a snapshot to give you an idea of where we are to date remember that when you look at an available balance of 19.3 million dollars there's lots of details in there which msugetti probably can tell you all about um but that would be the just know
074that that's rolling and it's not annual and so you will see that that available available balance will change monthly okay so finally the bond fund details wanted to show this is this is bond fund 631 this is the 2015 authority just to be clear so note that we still have a remaining balance of 4.8 million dollars it was part of the design to allow that money to go through the end of 2023 so the encumbrance and the spend to date is primarily in technology services associated with the refresh of the cabling throughout gilbert public schools okay and then finally the bond fund 630 again a reminder this is the 2019 authority as you all know we did close in february on the most recent bond sale of 50 million dollars you can see in the
075column that is highlighted that we have assigned that 50 million dollars to each of the categories that were part of the bond pamphlet in 2019 i wanted to show at the bottom the total against authority is 82 million remember it was an authority of 100 million so we still have 18 million dollars to spend and then you can see tonight as well on the consensus agenda there are many bond projects out there indicating that we are planning to get those encumbered and we have a lot of projects and activities planned for this summer and that's all i have if there are any specific questions board members thank you miss butts we appreciate that you bet all right we will now move to 8.0 the consent agenda items and i wanted to add um that on
0768.10 when we consider the consent agenda tonight 8.10 replacing and upgrading roofing system at south ferry junior south valley junior high we needed to add some information it is awarded to sun valley construction utilizing mojave cooperative contract 18r pro-0418 so if we could include that in a motion um may i ask for 8.01 the approval of consent agenda items is there a motion so moved as amended thank you thank you miss humphries second thank you mr yeti it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items as amended all those in favor please vote by saying aye those opposed by nay it is past 5-0 thank you we now move to 9.0 action items and we'll begin with 9.01 the appointment of jody smith as the principal of greenfield junior high for the
0772022-2023 school year i'm good i move that we appoint jody smith as the principal of greenfield junior high school for the 22-23 school year thank you mr yeti it's been moved is there second by second thank you mrs humphries it's been moved and seconded that we appoint jody smith as the principal of greenfield junior high school for the 2022-2023 school year i will ask for a vote all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye those opposed by nay it passes and we'd like to congratulate jody smith as our principal of greenfield junior high [Applause] come on up congratulations thank you board president board members superintendent mccord thank you so much it's such an honor to be joining gilbert public schools and specifically greenfield junior high i've had the opportunity to talk to some
078people in the district and in the community and consistently i hear how great and even special greenfield junior high is and i know that's a true testament to their staff and leadership and partnership with parents so i'm so excited to meet the staff and start our journey together i did want to take a moment to thank my family my husband and grandson are with us and especially my parents that are visiting from oregon so thank you yeah family raise your hand there you go congratulations to you as well so again i look forward to this journey in working with and for you and hope to see you on our greenfield junior high campus thank you we'd like to take a couple minutes recess and offer our congratulations to mrs smith so you did a good
079job i didn't say anything inappropriate so yes right now okay so i can tell you my funny story right so all right board members and those joining us thank you for indulging us in that we would like to get back to our 9.02 entity profile change with arizona department of education and school facilities board gilbert high dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members um we're asking for your approval for any pro entity profile change as we've done in the past for certain schools changes in addition to basic school information entity profile posted on the arizona department of education ade must be approved by the governing board currently gilbert high is a 9 through 12 campus with the addition of an accelerated middle school there will be some 7th and 8th grade students who
080will attend and receive instruction at the school within at the school and within the school for this reason there is a need to modify gilbert high school to be a 712 campus and i have a resolution that i'd like to read if please give me a moment it says um resolution requesting approval from the arizona state facilities board oversight board for reduction of square footage uh pursuant to ars 15-3 41g to reconfigure the gilbert high school 9 through 12 square footage to include 7th and 8th grade spaces whereas students will gain access to the instructional expertise of high school slash college level faculty they will be immersed in an honors and accelerated curriculum with access to all resources of a comprehensive high school while in a supportive cohort cohort of other 7th and 8th grade
081students this edition will also allow students to engage in coursework and staff that will prepare them for honors advanced placement and international baccalaureate opportunities at the campus number two it is anticipated that gilbert high school middle years program will increase enrollment allowing fully utilization of gilbert high school educational facility now therefore be a result that the governing board of gilbert public schools respectfully requests the arizona state facility school facilities board to approve the reallocation of a proportionate share of the educational square footage to 7th and 8th grade students at 1101 east elliott road gilbert arizona effective at the end of the current school year in accordance with ars 15-3 41g dr mccord if i'm sorry excuse me if i could if i could add this resolution is specific to the arizona school facilities board so
082this is a two-part agenda item it's recent statute changes that require whenever we're reconfiguring an existing bricks and mortar school that we have to request permission from school facilities board because we're actually reallocating instructional space by grade level so this is in addition to the entity change and the recommendation to the department of ed so it's really a two-parter i just wanted to make sure that that was clear thank you board members may have a motion i move that we approve the um profile change with the arizona department of education and school facilities board for gilbert high school thank you miss humphries is there a second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded is there discussion i i do have a couple of comments i this idea has been put forward um
083before and i have to say i i had to have some conversations to understand the desire um and i think this is a move forward that will be good for gilbert high school and for the students who choose to attend i i think it's a really great opportunity for those who want something a little different than our traditional junior high schools any anything else see none i will ask for the vote all those in favor of approving the entity profile change with arizona department of education and school facilities board at gilbert high school please vote by saying aye aye was opposed by nay all right it's approved 5-0 thank you 9.03 compensation increase for certified employees non-administ non-administrative dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members ms betts will give a little presentation related
084to this item and the items that follow as it pertains to budget um good evening again so um mr mackintosh and i are going to tag team this one this evening i'll go through the preliminary budget as it's related to the funding of the compensation increases that he will be recommending to you so first as we shared in the retreat about a month ago now i think we have the 2023 adopted budget timeline really wanted to make sure that all of you were aware that the budget still is very much aligned to the strategic operating plan sharing student counts and enrollment information with you as you know our budget capacity is based upon our average daily membership or student count and then finally de-balancing the 2023 budget giving you year-over-year budget capacity comparisons giving you
085the recommended budgetary increases budgetary savings and then how we plan to balance the budget for fiscal 2023. so first this is just our timeline please know that there's information we still don't have at this point we do have the governor's proposed budget but we do not have legislative action yet we hope to get that at the end of may uh we a little bit anticipate that we will be proposing possibly again without legislative approval and then we're still waiting to date on the classroom site fun dollar amount per student which we should be getting in the next day or two i believe it is normally transmitted to us by jlbc the joint legislative budget committee by the end of march so again april the april and may time frame is extremely important so the 2023
086budget alignment to the strategic plan again just as i indicated this this budget plan is fully aligned to the strategic operating plan as well as to the override commitments made in november of 2019. specifically increases in compensation this will include the mini compensation study that otm completed comparing our starting salaries with some of our professional staff along with moving some of our other resources into the base for teachers along with making the three percent pay increase i'm going and then adding two percent to that increasing instructional coach fte directly related to student success expansion of instructional choice we had talked earlier in the year about the acceleration campuses the international baccalaureate as well as the the approval you just made for the entity change at gilbert high allowing 7th and 8th grade to begin in
087an accelerated middle school at gilbert high and then finally as is true last year or the current year we've made a commitment to allocate out the unrestricted capital based upon a zero zero-based budgeting process which means prior to allocation all of our schools and departments are indicating how they expect to spend it and then we will monitor the spend and if they need to make a change they're absolutely willing able to do that it just needs to go through an additional approval process so fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2023 student accounts we've done this span because this is the span of cobit and you can see how the pandemic has impacted our student counts here in gilbert so note in 2020 our final was 33 000 just under 33 124. that particular year if
088you recall represented an actual increase that we hadn't seen in a few years we increased over 100 enrollees and student counts in that year but in 2021 the final you can see um was you know almost over 2 000 less this is student count now not enrollment and then we fortunately did receive about a thousand a little bit more than a thousand of those students back in the current year reflective of revised number two and then our projection as we have been doing the last four years is assuming a 400 student loss just to make sure that we're accounting for a potential decline in enrollment uh mrs batts can you just for the community define the difference between student count and enrollment you bet so average daily membership adm is equal to our student counts
089but the average daily membership and student counts are reflective of the proportionate amount of time that each child receives in instruction in a day the best example is kindergarten students so kindergarten students are one enrollee but they're only worth 0.5 student counts or 0.5 adm okay thank you you bet so maybe just clarify that it's not that they're there in school for the day but according to the state that's the funding is for 0.5 that's why that's correct average daily membership is a funding count yes that's correct thank you so the 2023 mno budget capacity projection so again this is the governor's budget base level amount increased by inflation of 2 percent i think you all know that inflation is has been identified as more closer to 7 percent the base level amount though by
090statute is to shall be the higher of inflation or two percent um so you can see that the new base level amount which is the dollar amount that we use multiplied by our students to get our budget capacity oh we'll go up to thirty four 4 and forty four cents or about eighty nine dollars per student component uh classroom site fund you can see fiscal year 2022 amount per student was 733 dollars per student 198 dollars per student was considered one time so in somewhere in the neighborhood of 533 dollars per student is considered considered ongoing that's what i shared is we're expecting to hear that in the next day or two everything that we've been that we've heard to date indicates that our sales tax revenues are up we do expect that the dollar
091amount will go up a little bit from that 533 and there is some talk that the glbc may award additional one-time money in classroom site fund as well so again this is a summary going into our budget capacity projections so pk12 adm average daily membership reduced by 400 students again arizona online full time and part time is set equal to what we know to be today in fiscal year 2022 and then the total add-on weighted counts are based upon 2022 revised number two so base level amount again increased teacher experience index decreased to 1.0145 from 1.0196 this resulted in a loss of 1.03 million in funding now that was due to the retirement of more experienced teachers that's correct it's not something that the state took away from us that's correct teachers who retired and
092hired new teachers without as much experience that's correct okay thank you and then the transportation revenue control limit right now is set equal to fiscal year 2022 we have just completed the current year's 100th day report we do anticipate that there could be an increase in the transportation revenue control limit year over year we've seen a lot more miles traveled because we are out of the the pandemic right now and we are in full we are fully operating as a school district which includes our transportation routes so here's the emino budget capacity calculation so you can see the on the top you have the unweighted adm with the arizona online the total weighted count you can see that looking at revised number two in 2022 in comparison to 2023 projected the unweighted adm you can
093see the 400 student decrease but note that when you look at the total weighted count it's actually a little bit more than that 400. based upon our assumptions so we we made the assumption that 300 students would come from elementary and 100 would come from high school high school have a higher weight and so that impacts that calculation so you can see that our revenue control limit which is our base budget capacity calculation is up from 212.8 million to 213.6 million so about a million dollar increase there and then you can see from the 15 override we have a 31 million dollar budget capacity in the current year and we are calculating that it will go up about a million 1.3 million going into next year remember again that the mno override is based upon
094the prior year student counts so the 31 million is reflective of that low year in 2021 where we had fewer students than we did the year prior we got over a thousand students back in reflecting the higher emino override amount projected for 2023 before i go any further are there any questions on that okay great the biggest thing i wanted to point out today is the budget balance carry forward so note that in revised number two we shared that our budget balance carry forward which is calculated and it is truly 42.1 million the 35 million dollar projection for fiscal year 2023 is truly a projection so note i shared with you the available fund balance today which is 48 million not 30 35 million so this number is going to fluctuate between now and the
095rest of the school year so bottom line is if you look at the bottom the budget increase or decrease note that 2022 revised number two in comparison to the fiscal year 2023 projected indicates a loss of five million dollars in budget capacity okay where's my [Music] oops there it is sorry my animations weren't working so note that we're anticipating nearly a million dollars more and then another million dollars in emino override and yet because of the drop of seven million dollars in the budget balance carry forward it's showing a decline of five million dollars so based upon this in speaking with finance staff we wanted to remove the impact of the budget balance carry forward so on the next slide we stripped it out so now we're looking at pure budget capacity year over year
096in comparison to the prior year so you can see that that we we had 245.6 million in 2022 and we are projecting 247.8 there's that 2.3 million dollars that i shared with you okay it's actually an increase so now though as you saw budget balance carry forward had a big impact on our budget capacity in the current year so we wanted to strip it down further and let's go with how much are we expected to spend next year that we're already spending in the current year and let's compare that to our budget capacity expectation for next year so looking at the next slide maybe it's not working because of that there we go so anyway so that 240 247 million point nine million roughly is our basis for this next comparison or budget balancing strategy
097so again this is just the reminder and my peers are going to kill me because i'm going to go backwards but no to that um so the projected budget capacity is 247.8 and remember that i took away the budget balance carry forward this is just a reminder of what i shared with you earlier note our year-to-date expended encumbered is 240 million our available balance is 48 million but i shared with you that we're expecting to spend maybe seven to eight million dollars more so at this point in time our available balance could be as high as 40 million however in the retreat we projected 35 million so we're going to continue with that 35 million and we believe that that's very conservative we believe it will be more so here is our projected fiscal year
0982023 budget capacity without the budget balance carry forward bbcf is the budget balance carry forward so 247.8 expected final fiscal year 22 spend maintained so we spent it in the current year we're expecting to spend that same amount in the new year is 247 million so in comparing those two we have eight hundred thousand dollars of available budget capacity to fund the paying the all the increases that we're recommending to you tonight in addition i shared with you 35 to 40 million dollars worth of budget balance carry forward based upon all of the things that we've done over the last couple of years we believe that five at least five million of that we could consider ongoing remember you just talked about ms humphries about the fact that the tei went down so that's an
099indicator that our years of experience on our teacher side has declined which also indicates that more of our years of experienced teachers have retired and so we're replacing them with with newer teachers so you could anticipate that some of that five million dollars is turnover savings which would be um continual turnover savings a teacher that costs 75 000 last year could cost 50 000 this year realizing a 25 000 savings for each individual teacher so that's our assumption about the five million dollars but we've gone through it a couple of times and we believe that's conservative it's probably more than that so the bottom the bottom line is the total new money not really new money but the total money available to meet any ongoing increases is 5.8 million dollars so before i go on
100are there any other if you have any questions or concerns about any of this at this point it's kind of complicated so i want to make sure to give you guys some time okay great so let's talk about our budgetary savings we've already shared with you and you've already approved the premium holiday again we're expecting to have that premium holiday in october during the fall break so that will credit back to ml about 750 there's an arizona state retirement rate reduction a small one should save us about sixty thousand dollars interesting that the tei has that large impact of reducing our funding by over a million but the arizona state retirement decrease is just a tiny little help of sixty thousand dollars and then of course you all know that we've always anticipated a 400
101student loss year-over-year so that we if the loss occurs we um we would expect that we would have 20 fte less which would give us 1.5 million dollars of savings and that 20 fte is easily absorbed in our normal attrition thank you for i was just gonna i know you reminded me when you talked to me today thank you for that so our total budgetary savings is 2.31 million so now we have non-discretionary budgetary increases so in our minds these are increases that we do not have any choice we have to account for these so the medical insurance premium increase we you did approve a one percent premium increase so that is expected to cost our m o budget three hundred thousand dollars in addition and i believe that you approve these tonight as well
102the other insurance increases those in a group only increased about a hundred and twenty thousand dollars year-over-year general inflationary increases i shared with you that the base level amount was increased by two percent but true inflation was closer to seven percent so we took all of the supplies utilities fuel and we increased those by seven percent and that's how we uh calculated the one million dollars and then finally special education increases are always ongoing and so we are budgeting two million dollars for special education increases so a total of 3.42 million dollars in non-discretionary budgetary increases so discretionary budgetary increases these are recommendations from from the leadership team regarding new new resources to be funded next year programmatic increases this includes instructional coaches behavior coaches they were added mid-year in the current year so there's
103about a half of a year of cost that will will need to be included for next year fte for acceleration campuses and all of these increases are directly related to the strategic operating plan salary starting salary increases again we shared that we did a mini that otm completed a mini compensation study where they made recommendations to the leadership team regarding starting salaries for slps psychs otpts and nurses and all of these also considered equity adjustments so that we are not due to due to the starting salaries being higher we are not going to allow the leapfrogging of new new individuals coming in and leap frogging those that have been here for uh one or two or one or more years we expect that to be a total cost of about 250 000 and then hourly
104increase by by 10 cents per hour buying back two sick days this was through the ibbt recommendation and we expect that to be about a 500 000 cost so total discretionary budgetary increases of 3.75 and that's just page one so page two are the additional so pay increase at three percent ongoing certified and exempt please know that we did spend that three percent on a stipend in the current year but that funding source was sr3 as i shared before so now we are absorbing that three percent increase into our maintenance and operations fund and any other funds that actually pay our teachers so that total cost to include the payroll benefits is estimated to be 5.7 million that 2 percent pay increase we've calculated that for all hourly staff after the 10 cents per hour
105was added to their base rates so giving them the benefit the 2 on top of the 10 cents that is projected to be 1.3 million a two percent pay increase certified exempt professional on top of the three percent above and after the 200 or 250 dollars for sick leave buyback for exempt and professional we're doing the same thing for exempt and professional that we did with hourly and we did all those things with certified staff a year ago we put 200 on the base of all certified staff for the current year to buy back their two sick days so now we're equalizing out the sick leave accrual across all employee groups here in gilbert and then finally expansion of the pay for performance to professional employees we believe that eight hundred thousand dollars is overstated
106it's probably uh in calculating it it's probably closer to two hundred thousand dollars i wanted to leave it here because um because it was already here but that's overstated i also wanted to share that the expansion of pay for performance will be a hundred percent paid out of classroom site funds so it is not an impact on the m o budget okay so 11.8 million dollars total uh yes ms wood yes i if you're finished with this i wanted to go back to in your discretionary this slide before yes i just wanted wanted if you could speak to um specifically the first line with the programmatic increases to include instructional coaches behavior coaches and the acceleration campuses fte again how are those a priority and how will those impact our student learning the learning loss
107that's happened through kovid some of those things that we need to address so that's a little bit out of my realm so i'm gonna punch to dr mccord thank you miss wood um so as you know and as has been stated here this is something we've had in our strategic plan for the last three years in terms of the addition of instructional coaches as the role the principal their job is to be the instructional leader on their campus and as each year rolls on that becomes more and more challenging and they need they need support themselves and this is something that i've contemplated years ago um and because their job is so taxing there is discipline there's other things that they have to do and then again being that instructional leader on their campus having
108an instructional coach on each campus and we already have part-time instructional coaches now at the elementary level primarily is to give them the ability to work hand in hand with that teacher leader on their campus who will be able to go into classrooms and coach them in the past that are reading coaches and we've changed those to instructional coaches over the last few years because we believe good instruction is important as important as the content that they're teaching and so having that instructional coach working in tandem with that principal who's their instructional leader there's a shared understanding of the standards and curriculum there'll be embedded professional development regarding implementation of high-yield strategies that focus on learning goals and daily learning targets to improve student proficiency and growth classroom observations and immediate and support instructional coaches
109are not administrators i want to make that clear to everybody their their feedback is truly for help and support it's not evaluated and facilitating collaborating dialogue and learning that builds of course the teacher efficacy and coordinate learning walks directly tied to instructional framework that has been provided this year and the facilitation of professional learning communities to identify strengths and replicate those strengths as well as opportunities to grow and for improvement again the job is to make sure you can go in and help coach whether it's a brand new teacher whether it's a veteran teacher anybody who needs help with instruction but the expectation always is making sure that those that are new to education there is someone there for them to go to on the ready to be able to give them that helping hand
110and so instead of having one individual on a campus as an administrator you will have two and in the past and what we've done is we've had mentors that have been there for teachers and and that's been great but it hasn't been in any kind of official capacity this makes that a little more well greatly more direct in terms of the resources that are available to them because in the end all of that help and support will be directly related to the success of those students and so for us being able to provide this for all of our schools and in having conversations with our principals as well this is something we believe will benefit our students in the long run can i just ask one other question about this particular budget item the full-time
111equal equivalent for acceleration campuses what are the additional needs there because we're we're in the process of figuring that out we're going to budget for that and i don't know exactly how many we've budgeted for could be up to seven or eight teachers but we could need as little as two or three so we just have to see in in terms of how many people have uh wanted to be in that program and then we will uh look at the numbers then and if we have to add additional staff we will okay so this would be if there are enough enrollment in that acceleration class that it creates an additional class if there is yes okay i wouldn't say enough you're wrong because that might imply that it won't make and we don't necessarily want
112that to happen but if depending on the number of students that um are in that accelerated program will determine it's just like a regular class if we're at capacity uh and we believe that's beneficial to everyone to split that then we will and that's how that'll be handled okay that's that's what i needed to understand thank you you bet thanks so um in addition that three million dollar amount there is the what we consider the worst case scenario so um jackie matin and i are going through available other funding sources such as results-based funding that the statute does allow for results-based funding dollars to be used for expansion of successful programs so we are looking to see if there is an opportunity to place some of these fte into results-based funding or instructional improvement or
113cceip related to ap and then we will have all that ferreted out for you on the proposed budget conversation okay so um now just doing the math so the ongoing available budget so going back this is from slide 14 remember that that's the 800 000 of additional budget capacity for the 2023 year 2023 year in comparison to what we're expecting to spend again in 2023 and then in addition the 5 million dollars of budget balance carry forward that we are we are projecting is ongoing the projected ongoing savings from slide 15 so that's a plus of 2.3 million dollars then you have the total non-discretionary increases from slide 16 of 3.4 million dollars and then total discretionary increases from 17 and 18 or 15.6 so doing the math that leaves us with a budget deficit
114of 10.9 million dollars so of course the question is okay so what are we going to do to bridge that gap so budget balance carry forward the ongoing we've already considered again the one time that we've thrown out there is 30 million we've shared 35 million so 5 million we consider ongoing so 30 million dollars is one time again that's extraordinarily conservative we we already believe that that will be higher than 30 million dollars a reallocation of emino expense to other funds let me just give you an example jted does have capacity to move some teachers that are presently funded out of m o into jted realizing ongoing repeatable savings over time out of emino there are other examples of that i shared with you the instructional improvement fund which we showed the encumbrance on
115the instructional improvement side knowing that we are going to move some class size reduction expense out of mno into instructional improvement we have not accounted for the savings on mno so right away i've come up with nearly two million dollars of that three million dollars in those two examples we'll be easily able to um to achieve the three million dollars in uh moving ongoing expense out of mno to ongoing resources and other funds and then the largest contribution is from classroom site fund so and then in addition one time is pay for performance for the new professional staff eligible so that's that eight hundred thousand dollars that i had on the prior slide uh showing that a hundred percent of that increase in cost will be borne by classroom site fund the classroom cycling contribution
116of six million dollars so staff finance staff jackie mattinen myself ashley miranda pat donahue have gone through the classroom site fund monies and the carryover and have analyzed it in probably four or five different ways and we're always coming up with the same conclusion which indicates that the six million dollars is available and that six million dollars will will be used to fund um the pay increases primarily so we have a total of nine million dollars of ongoing and then one time of 30.8 we know the 800 000 or so is already spent so 30 million dollars of one time so total additional resource need as you saw from the prior slide was 10.9 million 9.8 million dollars is available so that that leaves 1.1 million dollars to to be funded by one-time budget balance
117carry forward funds we're looking at 30 to 35 million dollars of budget balance carry forward funds which we are certain that if we had to continue using 1.1 million dollars every year it could last us 20 years so we feel that this budget proposal is sustainable minimally for the next two or three years here in gilbert public schools so at this point i'm going to hand it over to my peer mr macintosh to go through the compensation increase details thank you good evening madam president governing board members dr mccourt the next six slides are related to compensation each of them are looked slightly different because we've divided them out by employee groups and i'll hit the highlights and then if you have any questions as to what's on the slides i'll be happy and prepared
118to answer any of them come on come on oh there we go sorry okay first one is the certified non-administrator this includes teachers counselors librarians instructional coaches we have taken the fourteen hundred and ninety five dollars of the former professional learning communities and added that to the employees base um and then we are adding the increases of the three percent and that would be a their new adjusted salary in addition to that we would then add the two percent as the new pay increase for the 2023 school year teachers this employee group would also still be eligible for the 750 pay for performance um that we would send out and have ratified here in april to all of the now eligible employees that would be able to have the 750 pay for performance this is
119professional staff these are psychologists social workers behavior health counselors slps ots pt's rotc they will also be receiving the three percent and the share stipend added to their base and then the new additional two percent as the pay increase for next year in addition we are going to buy back two of the six days two of the sick days at two hundred dollars total this is in line with the ibbt recommend recommendation that last year we did with certified teachers that also ms betts spoke to we are trying to get all of our employees in in alignment with each other and by lowering these this will be applicable to all the slides but by buying back these days it puts us more in line with the accrual rates of our surrounding areas while adding an
120additional amount of money to the base salaries that can continue to grow with any percentage increases so this is our exempt support staff um they'll be eligible for any equity adjustments we are buying two and a half days at 250 for them pursuant to our ibbt recommendation and again this group is eligible for the three percent and the two percent pay increase for 2023. administrators this is all of our 10 11 and 12 month administrators whether they're certified or non-certified and they are each getting the three percent and the two percent pay increases for 20 22 23. this is our hourly and at will employees we will be buying back their two sick days at 10 cents an hour that equates to approximately 208 dollars and 80 cents for the year um or or whichever
121is greater the buyback rate of 65.50 for the eight hour day at two for 131 dollars they are also eligible for a two percent um increase remembering that this year each of our hourly support network employees received a dollar fifty that's ongoing into next year's wages and that increase equated between a four and a twelve point six percent increase this year depending upon where they were at in the pay scale and what grade they were on in addition um that was in exchange for that three percent piece for next year and this last one we're excited to hopefully be approved this evening a retention and recruitment stipend for our all employee groups at a flat rate of fifteen hundred dollars utilizing the funds as listed there and this will be for all employees who have
122signed their contract by the site of their by the start of their precision's contract work year we are hopeful that we will be paying this out in um two different payments at 750 each one in the fall one in the spring and they have to complete their entire work year in order to receive this stipend even though we're paying it out if somebody were to be not complete their contract so to speak then business services and otm would work together in order to recoup that cost that's it for me i'll pass it back over to bonnie and lester or miss bass unless there's any questions for me all of everything that he presented is basically uh 9.03 through 9.08 correct okay um so for fiscal year 2023 the understood capital budget um just wanted to
123update you on that of course the governor's budget did confirm that that the unrestricted capital of the district additional assistance is fully funded so these are the dollar amounts per prior year adm again this is prior year adm so we are updating this to reflect the adm growth in 2022 so looking at the budget capacity comparison so we do anticipate um a little bit like there's a half a million dollar increase due to our growth in students and the same thing with the textbook allocation a little bit more money the budget balance carry forward we we do anticipate having about the same amount of the budget balance carry forward but you can see that our total budget limit from the streets of capital is a little bit more than a million dollars over what we
124had in the current year please remember as well that we should be closing soon on the neely property which will provide us an additional 6.5 to 6.7 million dollars after closing costs are taken out um to be used for unrestricted capital purposes for next year or the year after so there there will be um quite a few unrestricted capital resources available to gilbert public schools next year ms bets i do have one question about district additional assistance and which was fully restored to the levels we had in 2009 is that correct there's no inflation on that that's correct which is different than the chartered charter school additional assistance they do receive inflationary increases each year yes all right thank you so risks and opportunities so there's always risks and there's always opportunities in any projection
125so risks we could have a greater loss of students in the current year than than realized to date we are monitoring that closely we do expect that adm will decrease not substantially though maybe 20 to 25 students through the end of 2022 um so the budget balance carry forward and eminent override amounts could be less that we were planning on going for the 2023 school year uh use of one-time funds even though we believe that we've gotten that down to just a million dollars and um but there's there's still adequate one-time monies available but as always every time you use one-time moneys it does impact your future flexibility the legislature decreases decreases the funding level we don't believe that will happen it could always happen but generally speaking since i have been here in gilbert
126public schools the governor's budget has been the worst case scenario so i feel fairly positive that the legislature will not impose a decrease in funding and then classroom site fund revenue decreases again jlbc should be providing that to us soon it could go down we do not anticipate that though sales tax revenues are up the economy is up here in the state of arizona we do believe that that we will receive more money in classroom site than we received in the prior year so proposal opportunities the legislature could increase that base level amount by three or four percent instead of the two percent that the governor is proposing of course we already talked about the budget balance carry forward we do anticipate will increase over what we've projected and as we have seen last year
127and in 2020 we have seen increases in students going and coming back into gilroy public schools and that could happen in 2023 as well so all those things we're monitoring closely i have one question about the inflation amount because it was under my understanding that that is under i think it's prop one two three and that it's inflation up to two percent i assume the legislature and the governor can give more if they wish but that's correct it's in the classroom site fund it's in classroom site fund okay all right thank you and that's it if you have any questions sean and i are here to answer any of them you might have dr santa cruz president wood thank you miss betts once again would just like to recognize and compliment dr mccord you and
128your team the notice that you sent us last week helped to really clarify and prepare us for this presentation and it was quite in line with what you've presented tonight and it does give us a pretty good road map as to how you derived at the various the various fund sources for this budget so i want to commend you and appreciate you for that opportunity to digest prior to this presentation my other question is related to that retention and recruitment i think it's important for us to say that that is a gross amount is that right that's correct so that so fifteen hundred dollars um and then we would um pay for the payroll benefits on top of that yes that's correct accordingly yes because i i think sometimes we we fail to say that
129and uh people leave with a misconception that uh that's a net amount and that's that's the gross amount of of funding and the net will be calculated after all of the employee benefits have been calculated out so yes dr santa cruz it's also important to note that that 1500 stipend is um for a full-time eight hour or more employee so if you're a four-hour employee behalf so it's equated to their fte that they work for yes thank you for clarifying that mr mcintosh that's important as well so uh you've been quite clear as far as i'm concerned and i appreciate uh all the effort that you and your team put in to make sure that we have a clear understanding of where we're move what we're moving towards as we look to approval of this
130final budget thank you you bet thank you other board members hi mrs well first i i appreciate all the hard work that um the financial team has done and the cabinet and mr and dr mccord um when i look back on my board service and um where we actually and and i appreciate the voters because looking back on my board service when we didn't have an override or bonds and went down to state funding only it's really incredible to me that we've been able to put ourselves in such a good financial situation um these past couple years you know those were very very hard times and we had to make some very difficult decisions and i really appreciate that we're able to invest with instructional coaches and programs into our students and so i really
131appreciate the voters supporting us with those bond and override votes and for the hard work that's been put into this because i do remember when we were working to get even four million dollars for a budget balance carry forward and this is way different so thank you so much for that hard work and then mrs wood if i could add yes please um so in as you recall in our conversation yesterday you pointed out a couple of things and i just wanted to make sure that i'm clarifying it to the to the viewer so on this slide in particular mrs wood encouraged me to be more specific on this slide um just like mr mcintosh was on the actual language associated with each of the increases so please note that all of the all the
132words in red were added for tonight's presentation and i will have this updated presentation to ms wilson this evening to be posted as a slight revision so those were the only um changes that occurred between yesterday and today thank you i guess i had one question when we say that we have 30 million dollars conservatively in bounce budget care forward i just wonder it's hard to leave that money on the table for me which i i don't want to i know it's one-time money at some level and so i just hope and wonder have you explored you know in-depth the use of that are we is that as much as you feel comfortable dipping into that and why compared to maybe looking at some other opportunities this year just one-time things so we haven't as
133a leadership team had a lot of time to discuss the possible uses of that one-time money but i was worried that we would have to use more of it for the ongoing pay increases over time but also one one thing that we we did decide yesterday to increase the stipend amount from 1000 to 1500 so that additional 500 dollars will eat away another two and a half million dollars out of that budget balance carry forward but um since it's one time um i think that we we as your leadership team can talk about what would be the best way to spend some of that down looking forward to figure out you know it's always easier to do that once we know what our student accounts are going to be in the new year so and
134then as you know we have you have adopted the carryover budget the allowing the carryover of mno discretionary budgets for our schools and in addition a target of a four percent carryover so if we do that the four percent was about 12 million so 30 million minus 12 leaves us about 18 million so we can talk about other ways of other appropriate ways to spend that additional 18 million dollars after considering getting through the next two or three years but yes we can have those conversations thank you any other questions for miss bets or mr mcintosh okay then um we need a motion and a second and then we can have any other discussion that we'd like to so let's begin with um i would ask for a motion for 9.03 compensation increase for certified
135employees for non-admin i moved to for the compensation increase 9.03 you move to approve that yeah thank you mrs humphries is there a second second was that dr santa cruz thank you dr santa cruz it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion do we need to clarify what that was again or do you feel like we've gone through it okay it's listed great all right it's been moved and seconded that we approve the compensation increase for certified employees and non-administrators as we've presented all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed by nay it passes 5-0 thank you now we'll move to the 9.04 compensation increase for professional staff uh may i have a motion so moved thank you dr santa cruz is there a second second thank you mr jetty
136it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion cnn i'll call for the vote all those in favor of approving the compensation increase for professional staff please vote by saying aye aye all those opposed by nay excellent that approved that's approved 5-0 now we'll move to 9.05 a compensation increase for exempt support employees may i have a motion so moved thank you mr jetty is our second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion see none i will call for the vote all those in favor of the compensation increase for exempt support employees please vote by saying aye aye all those opposed by nay it passes 5-0 and then 9.06 compensation increase for administrators so moved thank you miss humphries it's been moved is our second second thank you
137miss eugetti it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion i do want to make a comment i i think that um we have managed to provide some very nice increases for our employees and i i really appreciate the hard work that's been done on that i think all of us are very grateful that we've been able to make our salaries across the board more competitive for everyone thank you miss humphries anything else seeing no other comments i will call for the vote on the to approve the compensation increase for administrators all those in favor please vote by saying aye all those opposed with nay passes 5-0 and 9.07 compensation increase for hourly support and at will employees is there a motion so moved thank you mrs humphries is there a second thank you mr
138parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve compensation increase for our hourly support in atwell employees is there any discussion seeing none i will call for the vote to approve the compensation of increase for hourly support and at will employees all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye all those opposed by nay that passes 5-0 and finally 9.08 the one-time retention and recruitment stipend is there a motion so moved thank you dr santa cruz is there a second second thank you mr jetty is there any discussion i guess i just wanted to add as well like has been said tonight i'm really excited and grateful that we can pay our staff and teachers and our admin competitive wages that's one of the most important things we can do with the funding that
139we have and and show our appreciation for their for their hard work and loyalty and all that they've done these past couple years especially and i also am glad that we can look at putting some of these other things in place that are consistent with our strategic operating plan and directly addressing the needs from learning loss and other um other challenges that we've had the last couple years that our students have had and i hope that that's what these budget additions will put in place so i'm really excited about this retention and recruitment stipend as well with that being said is there any other discussion okay um all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed by nay great thank you that passes 5-0 miss wood just so you know we'll send
140out communication tomorrow that outlines everything that you just approved related to compensation tonight great and then when can we expect uh contracts to go oh [Music] real real soon mr mcintosh i think within the next week yeah teachers will be within the next week and then we'll cycle through the next groups okay all right but you'll send this communication out tomorrow great thank you thank you very much all right now let's move to 9.09 policy development first read a policy die audits slash financial monitoring dr mccord thank you madam president governor board members um this the next three policies i think there's three um will be or have been uh through a first read with our policy committee as all of our policies are everything you see tonight i believe or most everything you see
141tonight is based on actions done by the legislature even in the last session and we get updates and again we bring those updates to the policy committee and so these are just additions or something to the effect of of not corrections but um changes to the current policies that we have okay this policy sorry well this policy is audits financial and it's it's policy die and again there's addition additional language and kind of direction for what we we need to do and yeah pretty straightforward thank you dr mccord may i have a motion i move that we adopt first read of policy die audits and financial monitoring thank you mrs humphries is there a second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded is there any additional discussion seeing none i will ask
142for a vote on the first street of policy die audits and financial monitoring all those in favor of approving please vote by saying aye aye any opposed by nay passes five zero thank you 9.01 9.10 policy development first rate of policy dj purchasing and purchasing ethics policy dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members again this policy is a revision based on legislation and says the governing board may provide food and beverages at school district events including official school functions and trainings as allowed by the arizona constitution policies of department of ed thank you dr mccord may i have a motion madam president i move first read approval first read policy dj purchasing ethics policy thank you dr santa cruz is there a second second thank you mr eugetti it's been moved and seconded
143is there any discussion seeing none i will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the first read of policy dj purchasing and purchasing ethics policy please vote by saying aye any opposed by nay it passes 5-0 the first read and then we'll move to 9.11 policy development first read a policy e-e-a-e-a bus driver requirements training and responsibilities dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members the addition to this is probably more clarification to sharpen up the language it says bus driver applicants must be able to obtain a commercial driver's license issued by the department of transportation the student certificate obtained from the department of public safety within 90 days of higher and at the end it says the district will assume the cost of required physical examinations and the drivers may
144assume the cost of obtaining valid commercial driver's license as required by law thank you dr mccord may i have a motion so moved thank you mrs humphries is there a second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the first read of policy eea bus driver requirements training and responsibilities all those in favor please vote by saying i i any opposed with nay that has passed as well 5-0 all of those were our first read so we'll take them back to the policy meeting and bring them back for a second read and approval at the next board meeting great thank you we now move on to 10.01 items for future agenda does anybody have anything to add tonight or they could let miss wilson know or myself or dr mccord thank
145you we will now go through the board committee reports um 11.01 gilbert education foundation we had a board meeting recently and went through the end of the year we have a scholarship dinner coming up and we're really excited about the teacher recognition this thursday night and again like you mentioned grateful to our sponsors who are providing funding for that to be a nice night this thursday night that's my report 11.02 mrs humphrey city of mesa and legislative representative just a couple things to report on several of us participated in the the state of the town address that mayor peterson put on at the higley center for performing arts also i just wanted to relay since this was an issue brought up in public comments that the arizona school board association board of directors voted to
146remove the asba from the national school board association and so they are now no longer affiliated with the national school board association at this time thank you miss humphries dr santa cruz 11.03 town of gilbert we were invited to attend and many of us did i was unable to attend the state of the town presentation last thursday those of you who were there i'm sure had an informative afternoon other than that i have nothing else thank you 11.04 finance and audit committee mr bill parker thank you 11.05 insurance trust representative mrs eugetti just want to report that we're still solid and open enrollment will be coming up in april for our employees thank you very much thank you for each of you for those reports uh let's move to 12.01 future meeting dates dr mccord
147thank you madam president governing board members we have a board work study and brief board business meeting on april 5th a board policy committee meeting on april 12th and another board business meeting on april 26th great thank you we now move to 13.01 adjournment is there a motion i'll move for german thank you mr parker is there a second second thank you miss humphries it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor of adjourning please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with a name we are adjourned thank you