001welcome board meeting today is tuesday june the 29th we have a regularly scheduled board meeting and a need for an executive session uh executive session pursuant to ars 38 431 .03 a and 1 to discuss the potential appointment of natalie tenney as director of nutrition services is there a motion moved thank you mrs humphries is there a second call second thank you mr carr any discussion seeing no discussion then we will vote all those in favor of moving to executive session please signify by saying i i those oppose the same motion carries five zero we will recess to executive session oh i at home okay once again we are reconvening this is june 29th tuesday regular board meeting we will go to item 2 opening items and 2.01 calling the meeting to order we'll go
002to a moment of silence 2.02 2.03 will go to a pledge of allegiance led by mrs wood if you just join me in a moment of silence please join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you mrs wood welcome those of you in the audience and those who are watching the meeting on live stream we're at item 2.04 ms wilson would you please call the roll mr reed carr here miss sheila eugetti here miss laurie wood here miss jill humphries here dr charles santa cruz here mr president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you mrs wilson item 2.05 is a
003call for a public hearing pursuant to ars 15 905 and we will convene a public hearing under item 3 once we hear a motion for the earring it's all moved thank you miss humphreys is there a second call a second thank you mr carr is there any discussion seeing no discussion we will vote on calling for a public hearing all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye all those pose the same hi motion carries five zero we're at item three which is the public hearing 3.01 for fy 2022 proposed budget presentation and dr mccord i'll defer to you thank you dr santa cruz governing board members tonight we present the fiscal year 2022 proposed budget now i'll turn it over to ms betts good evening dr santa cruz dr mccord governing board members
004the content of this presentation is very comparable to what was presented to you as the proposed budget however the tax rate information has been updated to reflect what we do believe will be very very close to our tax rates that will be approved in early august by the county so to begin we'll just make some introductory remarks show the proposed mno budget the proposed unrestricted capital budget give you some details of other fund budgets indicate the proposed budget risks and opportunities the greatest of course is that we do not yet have a state budget so if that indeed happens that it's not approved and there are some substantive changes we of course will bring back the budget to you as early as september to make the necessary revisions and then finally our estimated tax rates
005so this is the alignment to the strategic operating plan always as we anticipate spend we look at that spend in comparison to both the strategic plan as well as the commitments we made for the 20 2019 override so generally speaking the budget the budget does support all five priorities of the strategic plan as well as the override commitments made in november of 2019. so the 15 mmo override commitments this uh grid uh quantifies the dollars being spent for each of those three main commitments so you can see in 2021 and 2022 the class size reduction allocation will be the same at about two million dollars the social emotional support you can see a slight increase in those due to benefit and salary increases and then finally maintaining salary competitiveness going from 14.26 million to 18.66
006million for a total of 22.6 million that supports these emino override commitments you you recognize that the override is about 30 million and about 10 million was reflective of the additional um five percent going from 10 to 15 but you can see that we are well over that dollar amount associated with these override commitments made in november of 2019. so before we go any further are there any specific questions about that okay great thank you okay so oh yes uh-huh dr santa cruz if i can ask miss butts go right ahead so the total override the total 15 override is 30 million or so just over 30 million and so where does the other eight million go the other 80 million 22 is associated with the the commitments that were made in 2015 so some
007of those are also related to at least maintaining class sizes some of that was also related to maintaining salary competitiveness as well as the other component was to support extracurricular activities throughout gilbert public schools so i will quantify that for the board um in september when we present to you the bond and override report that's required annually thank you okay so student counts of course our student counts are the basis for how we are funded so you can see that in 2021 revised number three indicated our total student count or adm of 30 822 down from 32 700 in the 21 adopted which was projected a year ago for the 2021 school year since that time the proposed budget we are making an estimate that we would lose an additional 400 students so you can
008see that the total from revised number three is thirty thousand eight hundred and twenty two and we're projecting thirty thousand four hundred and twenty two these are the unweighted student counts so if you take a look at the details the 21 adm loss from the 21 adopted remember that was pretty much reflective of the actual student count from the 1920 school year so we lost 1930 student counts or adm and then we are anticipating another 400 student loss for a total of over 2 300 student loss from the 21 adopted i want to make it clear that this is adm it's not enrollment we have reported enrollment losses to you all along this is the actual student count reflective of the hundred day membership or on arizona online the number of hours actually recorded in
009their online work [Music] okay so the mno proposed budget capacity always struggling to where to point my clicker there we go so the base level amount is 4359.55 we are presuming that the house budget will be approved and that they provide an inflation of 1.22 so you can see the increase there and then last year classroom site fund made a contribution that now will be actually moved into the state's general fund so that the 2022 anticipated base level amount that's what bla stands for is four thousand four hundred and forty five dollars and fifty three cents in addition the governor's budget as well as the house budget includes district additional assistance fully funded and so at k8 the amount is 450.76 per adm again per student count not enrollee and then 912 they do have
010a little bit of an increase for textbooks so a total of 562.62 per student i just would like to make a comment about that that is the first time that district additional assistance is fully funded since 2009 correct i believe it was 2000 or 2010 i can't remember exactly but right around that time yes thank you the other additional parameters of proposed budget capacity the teacher experience index decreased slightly to one point just under 1.02 the average daily membership again has already shared the 400 student projected loss 200 at elementary and 200 at 9 12. budget balance carry forward is estimated at 23.8 million dollars again to provide as much flexibility as possible finance staff is in in the process now of maximizing that budget balance carry forward as much as possible scrutinizing spend determining
011if there are other funding sources that spend could be moved into so that we can continue to increase that budget balance carry forward classroom site fund is very notable it was increased by 308 dollars per weighted student count this is reflective of also 192 dollars per student of one time monies so classroom site fund underestimated the revenues for the 2021 school year so the 192 dollars per student would be considered one time sort of catching up with their understatement in the current year and then the group b weight increases these were new from the governor's budget reflective of the house budget so increases in our lowest weighted add-ons so that's dd is oh what is dd now i lost it developmental delay sorry developmental delay emotional disability mild impairment sld is a specific learning disability
012sli speech language impairment and ohi is other health impairment and then the other large weights going from 5.833 to 5.988 basically just so that's clear if i have a student that is mentally disabled or autistic or has a severe intellectual disability that one student would be worth 5.988 times the base level amount for funding for the school district reflective of the needs for them to be successful in gilbert public schools and then new is the .007 for gifted we do not have a quantification of the amount in our budget because we don't have the data collected in our student account records indicating how many gifted students we know how many enrollees we have we don't know how many student counts of gifted students we have so that will be a change that we will see
013in july to quantify those gifted students so oops i went backwards sorry so the comparison of the budget parameters again i'd like to point out the revenue control limit transportation we are keeping that the same as it has been in the past year uh the base level amount you can see has grown from four thousand three hundred and almost sixty dollars up to four thousand four hundred and forty five dollars and then you can see the total weighted count in revised number three was forty three thousand three hundred and six and now it's forty three thousand one hundred and thirty nine just a little bit less than the current year and the most notable of course is the classroom site fund where we anticipated four hundred and sixty five dollars per weighted student count and
014the jlbc actually indicated 733 dollars per weighted student count and again of that 733 192 of it is considered one-time money okay any questions before i go any further stan cruz if i may go ahead and scar miss bets on the transportation revenue control limit remind me if i remember the formula correct correctly it typically does not go down year to year which actually can reward the district as we become more efficient in our transportation we can still get the previous year's amount but if we're more efficient that frees up dollars to use elsewhere is that not correct that's correct and i'd highlight many of the efforts we've spent a lot of one-time money over the last couple of years the bonds approved by voters etc where we have replaced old buses we have with
015more efficient buses we have spent a large amount of time making our transportation routes more efficient to lower the cost you know a lot of those things are enabling us to be more efficient with this number therefore putting more dollars in the classroom so i i applaud your staff and my fellow board members for prioritizing that again trying to create an efficiency so that we can put more dollars in the classroom so i remember with the classroom site fund with the increase that the state gave us there was also the idea that that would now cover expenses that we already had or that they already had paid is that right am i remembering that correctly so the um the um maintenance of effort requirements still exists so we cannot supplant with the new money however
016we are now able to expand the use of classroom site fund to what we considered support staff personnel so these would be speech language pathologists psychologists social workers behavioral health counselors all of those would now be eligible for classroom site fund dollars okay that must be what i think thank you so this is the final comparison of the maintenance and operations budget capacity i'm going to look at the 21 revised number three and compare it to the fiscal year 2022 proposed note that in the projected we expected a budget decrease of over 11 million dollars but with the changes in the house budget as well as the increases in the budget balance carry forward directly related to the distance learning adjustment if you remember there was three million dollars saved because the distance learning adjustment
017decreased so from revised number three we had a current year budget of just under 264 million and we are proposing for you to adopt uh 260.9 million so the year over year budgetary loss and maintenance and operations is a total of 2.8 million dollars or a deficit of 2.8 million dollars so now how do we go about balancing the budget well as we've discussed we have spend increases so this summarizes all of the budgetary increases that the board has already approved the total increase need is 7.7 million dollars and then our budgetary savings if you recall with the employee benefit trust we included a request to offer a premium holiday this will not only assist our employees directly but also saves about one and a half million dollars to the maintenance and operations budget in
018addition um we've identified a decrease in district office personnel that has been realized of about a half a million dollars and then decrease of personnel due to fewer students out in our schools about four and a half million dollars so a total budgetary savings amount of six and a half million dollars so to put the grid all together miss bets i'm sorry to ask i keep that's okay okay i just wanted to highlight the decrease in district office personnel i think when we said there's a 2.8 million deficit that's directly related to our loss of students that's correct and as we lose students we've had to decrease we don't the staff all around but we we also need to address that as well as in the district admin support staff it's not just teachers but
019when we have less students those costs and those efficiencies have to carry over to every department so i'm appreciative that i would like to see more details about how we have addressed that as far as district office personnel and other staff throughout the district i i hate to see that i don't want to see that i want us to increase our students i want us to be prepared and focus on getting students back and meet their needs but but at the same time when they're not here we can't expect to spend that money agreed so maybe if you could i don't know what would be the best way that you could show us another time you you do monthly budget reports maybe you could show us some more specifics about these cuts and how we're
020trying to be efficient in every every level you bet thank you miss wood dr santa cruz if i make miss wood and i i think you make a very valuable point and i think uh perhaps an update using the same format that's in the comprehensive annual financial report which does have district level staff in there and as we look at that we see that the district staff has decreased over the last several years and significantly again showing an efficiency as we try to put more dollars in the classroom so in balancing the budget so we start with a total budget capacity decrease of 2.8 million dollars we are adding back the cost of the increases the non-discretionary increases associated with arizona state retirement medical insurance minimum wage special education then the pay increase two percent
021across the board pay increase awarded to all employees and then the premium holiday gives us money back the decrease in district office personnel as well as the decrease in personnel due to less students we still have a budget deficit of just under four million dollars so the question becomes how do we balance that budget and we have balanced it in the existing proposed budget for you to adopt this evening so as you know we have gone through the effort of making a change moving neely elementary to houston so there is a one million dollar ongoing savings associated with the closure of one school or the re um the repurposing of a school moving teachers more additional teachers eligible to move from maintenance and operations into fund 596 which is our jted fund and then increasing
022the classroom site fund contribution the ongoing due to the increase in the in the amounts of money we're receiving from the state and classroom site fund both ongoing and one time but we only needed just under four million ongoing is 4.3 million so with ongoing resources we have a 350 000 surplus now in our in our budget for uh projected for fiscal year 2022. okay so average teacher salary we always present this this will be on the front page of the summary so you can see calculation we're doing calculations now so the percentage increase in average teacher salary since fiscal year 2018 is about 22 percent so note that governor ducey indicated that he would like to have a 20 percent increase for all teachers by 2020 as you know that was a statewide average
023and each school and charter school has different a different base but we are presenting on our budget the 22 percent which does include the also approved by you as the governing board the three percent um one-time pay that's split into two separate pays in december and june of fiscal 2022 any questions on that okay no but that that is three percent of that that is only this year and so it's considered one time we are scrutinizing everything as much as we can to hopefully make that an ongoing pay increase okay so thank you now the proposed unrestricted capital budget so again focusing on the 2021 revised number three versus the proposed 2022 you can see that we had a budget capacity of 6. 16.7 million in the current fiscal year and we are proposing uh
02420.3 million in fiscal 2022 which is an increase of 3.6 million dollars i really need to point out to the row regarding budget balance carry forward so we had a 3 million budget balance carry forward in the current year from 2020 from 2020 into 2021 we projected 2 million dollars but due to the decision to delay the ela adoption the english language acquisition adoption that's has increased the budget balance carry forward to that 5.2 million dollars which results in that 3.6 million dollar increase in budget capacity so i just wanted to make sure that that was clear okay and then again these are the non-discretionary unrestricted capital expenditures that you have seen in the past we are still going through the prioritization process leaving 11.9 million dollars we have ongoing performing arts needs school marquis
025athletics and then general school capital needs we've already made the request we are scrutinizing the request right now to have the leadership team uh prioritize those requests and allocate out the capital as quickly as possible and then go ahead santa cruz and then can you bring back a report on how most decisions check out those decisions so other funds so just really quick you can see the quantification of classroom site fund the almost 40 million dollars that we are budgeting for classroom site fund not only is the use of the funds expanded but the three buckets are now collapsed so we only have a fund 10 instead of 11 12 and 13. that again gives us more flexibility again adding the inclusion of support personnel under function 2100 so that's related to the dollars in
026the cost of analysis that the auditor general does annually and then you can see the details of the 733 dollars which 192 dollars per student is one time instructional improvement 3.1 million dollars it does include carryover and it does include funding the instructional leadership coach fte at the elementary class school which i believe you guys approved a couple of board meetings ago and then title 1 we have a 2.8 million dollar budget capacity listed but it does not include carry forward of approximately 705 thousand dollars we are anticipating that the state of arizona will be successful in their waiver to request that all the title funds be able to be carried forward due to the situation with the pandemic throughout most of 2021 then the bond fund finally a budget of 59.8 million dollars which
027accounts for all the available resources of all bonds sold not the available resources of authority but all the bonds sold to date which includes the sale that we closed on in august any other questions on any of those okay great one-time federal funds we will have continuing conversations about sr3 in particular but this is just information for you and the public so that you understand the quantification of these amounts by each of the funding sources these are the dollar amounts that you will see in the budget under the federal fund page in the actual proposed budget dr santa cruz go ahead miss betsy you made the comment that we'll talk more about this i know there's been a number of questions about some of the curriculum that's that's proposed that was proposed in a previous
028meeting if i can just make the statement for the public or the clarification for the public approving the budget is not approving that curriculum as ms betts indicated any curriculum purchased for that will still come back for specific review and specific authorization by the board so i i just know given some of the emails and comments uh where there's parts of the curriculum and people want to see more of the curriculum approving the budget is not approving that curriculum if we could just clarify that you bet and if i may add uh additionally you're you have a process or you're going to come up the process in place because part of the spend so we've already let me just go back a little bit we've already we've already spent the enrollment stabilization grant we've already
029spent our sr1 funds we've already spent the srt funds so now we have the sr3 but there's some um rules that have come through with it that we need to have community input and we've started that but we'll have more as we go forward so right correct we'll have a little superintendent council meetings the beginning of august i think it's right around well maybe mid august august 18th i think we're scheduling them for and that's where we'll go to representatives from every one of our schools at the support staff level certified level as well as parent level and we'll also pull in administrators to get their feedback and kind of like what we did with the chamber it's it's going to be around robin and we'll throw out some thoughts and ideas but we also
030want to hear how others feel we we need to allocate these funds and then after we get all that input we'll bring it back here and we'll put an application together but we'll make sure you're informed of the direction that we're going and the input that we receive from our stakeholders thank you so can i add to that i'm sorry sorry that's okay i didn't mean to do that and and if anybody wants unsolicited they can email me you the board uh anybody uh here at the district level with those thoughts and ideas well ahead of time i know that this has been publicized a little bit and so we welcome all of that information we're compiling that on a daily basis so because that you you presented some initial ideas at the last meeting
031right right for the esser spend so we haven't approved anything of that we're just starting the process of priorities priorities and then gathering information right and the reason that we wanted to start it is because there's sort of a soft deadline of wanting to have all of the applications for sr3 in around august 25th okay so thank you so again assumes the house budget is approved by the governor assumes a loss of 400 students could be more could be less you know we're hoping for positive uh actual occurrence of more students and also anticipates that the budget balance carry forward will be maximized in providing increasing flexibility for the 22 adopted budget so finally the estimated tax rates so the primary so the qtr is set at 3.5388 decreased by 0.1354 from 2021 13 and
032a half cents it was decreased so you can see that we levied 76 cents on the primary for fiscal 21 and that we are projecting this will go down to 3.69 for fiscal year 2022. the m o override was levied at 1.4 uh cents dollar dollar and four cent forty cents sorry a dollar forty cents for uh fiscal year twenty twenty one we expect that we'll go down to a dollar twenty six um due primarily to the loss in students and the loss in actual dollar amounts that we are expected to get and then finally the class b bonds we levied a dollar nine we are estimating a little bit of an increase in the bond levy in anticipation of a bond sale in february to make sure that we have the resources needed to
033complete all the projects scheduled for next summer in at the end of fiscal 2022. so finally the uh levy from 2021 to 2022 is expected to go down by uh almost 19 cents and then in comparison comparing that to the november 2019 election pamphlet we are lower than that projected by nearly 40 cents and that's per 100 of assessed value and dr sanchez yes go ahead mr i make these kind of comments every time we present this but just want to highlight again for the public the qtr as miss bet said is not a number that we said it's a number that's set by the legislature we seem to get a lot of feedback on hey you're raising the tax rate we don't in fact set the tax rate that's the qtr that's set by
034the by the legislature our budget is the levy that is set uh the amount that's passed on to property tax comes through the qtr the rest comes from the from the general fund and we highlight that the budget limit that we set is statutorily driven so we're following state statute and setting that amount so it's not an arbitrary amount that we set um we get blamed a lot when this rate goes up we hope that even though i just put the disclaimer and continue with the disclaimer that it's not us maybe for once they'll give us credit that it's going down even though it's not us similarly with with the formula the other part that we again don't set is rates go up and down proportionally to the overall tax base within our district boundaries
035and that is a set set by the county assessor so again our portion is to follow statutory formula and voter approved overrides and bonds uh but the actual rates and amounts are set by calculations based on your assessed value from the county assessor and and and legislative action so just try to educate the public with that but uh i know i know some here and some don't so thank you mr carr okay great bets and the last one is just a question to all of you do you have any questions any further questions board members questions comments miss wood thank you just one final question and i've brought this up before too but typically we had large budget balance carry forwards in several of the funds and in general and typically that's not our practice
036but can you explain why and how and what the strategy was and what our intention is going forward right so um so i think uh taking us back six months ago back in december when we were revising the current year budget drastically down very concerned about our significant drop in students but at that point in time the federal relief dollars came in so those are all one-time money in nature and we're able to spend those but what that does is it offloads maintenance and operations expense into a federal fund that automatically creates budget balance carry forward in addition in this very um very difficult time associated with how to project our number of students going into a new year and knowing that we are funded based upon current year students it's important that we try
037to utilize all of our resources appropriately to try to maximize those budget balance carry forward amounts into the new fiscal year giving us the greatest flexibility to be able to handle any possibility associated with a continued drop in students knowing that from for most of our staff it's our teaching staff and that we provide them contracts that we are largely obligated to to honor throughout the entire fiscal year so many of those costs are fixed so by trying to maximize the budget balance carry forward at least for this year gives us an opportunity to to be more flexible the other other thing that's important and ms humphreys you mentioned this about the fact that that three percent uh one-time pay that's paid over two times is one time in nature because we are using sr2
038i'm sorry sr3 that is one of the areas that you have approved for the spend of sr3 that is using one-time money for a one-time pay but we are anticipating additional revenues from proposition 208 as well as really scrutinizing our budget in the in the current year and next year to determine how much of that budget balance carry forward is really ongoing money you know it looks like it's one time because budget balance carry forward but it's very probable that a large portion of that could be ongoing giving us an opportunity to make sure that we fund that three percent pay increase into 2023. thank you very much got to stay on cruise if i can just go right ahead mr thank you and miss bets i i think you need to give yourself a
039little more credit than you are um when when you came on board you immediately addressed the concern that our budget valley balance carry forward was lower than it should be and because it was lower at times we were having to to request tax advance notes uh which actually cost the district interest and takes money out of the classroom you set targets and have over the last few years inched us towards a proper balance and we again we don't want an over overly large amount because that means we're not spending dollars on the current students but we do want the proper amount on an earlier slide when you showed that budget balance carry forward you actually included on there interest earned you know what a nice problem to have instead of paying interest and taking dollars
040out of the classroom we're earning interest which allows us to put those dollars into the classroom so i compliment you and your team for managing the budget balance carry forward in a proper amount that actually is benefiting our students so thank you for doing that thank you mr car and if i could add with that statement any of the strategies that you employed and advise the board upon at least it's my impression that uh nothing that we did in that regard compromised the learning or the instruction of the student so we hit a balance and uh i think we were happy with the balance that we had mrs humphries oh i i did want to add thank you i i think that this you know this has been a complicated year and certainly school finance
041is a very complicated issue and so i think um i appreciate the clearness of the presentation i also really appreciate our voters in 2015 and 2019 coming through and supporting our bonds and override because that makes a huge difference for us and we are very blessed to be able to do more for our students because of those funds given to us by the voters board members any other questions any other comments seeing that there are none then we'll move to item 3.02 which is a request to speak regarding fy 2022 proposed budget the information that was just presented there is i don't have any requests to speak at this point with that being said then we will move to item and adjourning this public hearing is there a motion i move that we adjourn the
042public hearing on the budget thank you mrs humphries is there a second a second thank you mrs wood any discussion seeing that there is no discussion we will vote on adjourning this portion of the public hearing and moving back reconvening our regularly scheduled board meeting all those in favor of the motion please signify by saying aye hi hi all those opposed same motion carries five 5-0 public hearing is closed we move to item 4 reconvene the regular board meeting item 4.01 is a motion to reconvene i moved to reconvene the regular board meeting thank you mr carr is there a second second thank you mrs humphries any discussion saying none we will vote on the motion all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye all those opposed the same motion carries five
043zero item five is approval of the agenda 5.01 is approving the agenda for tonight please is there a motion i move to approve tonight's agenda thank you mr carr is there a second a second thank you miss wood any discussion seeing none we will vote on approving tonight's agenda which is item 5.01 all those in favor signify by saying aye hi i always pose the same motion carries 5-0 with item 6 superintendents report 6.01 dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members before i start with the report i'd like to recognize an employees of ours who passed away a couple weeks ago a teacher from desert ridge high school mr joel reichert he unexpectedly passed away and he leaves behind his wife as well as two children who are students of gilbert public
044schools so please keep the riker family in your thoughts welcome to everyone for being here tonight and online i hope everybody is having an enjoyable and enjoying a a restful summer here in gps our operations department is busy completing projects at several of our schools and departments and our custodians are deep cleaning getting ready for the return of the students and staff many of our teachers are taking advantage of professional development opportunities and our principals assistant principals deans are planning for the upcoming school year and summer school is in full swing and the students are sharpening their skills getting ready for the beginning of august all in all it's been a very productive and successful summer last week the district collaboration team met and interviewed 16 applicants for the soon-to-be vacant governing board position the
045district collaboration team consisted of myself the governing board president the governing board clerk a parent a principal a teacher and a member of the support staff we had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know 16 people who were willing to serve their school district and community thank you to all those that applied it is truly appreciated after the interviews we had to make the difficult decision to select names to recommend to the county superintendent originally we were going to send three names but because the applicant pool was so strong we felt four names would be better with the permission from the county superintendent's office we sent four names and those names are colette evans cody jacobs trina jodas and blake robeson we want to thank everyone that applied and spent time with us during
046the interview process we are very fortunate to have such outstanding individuals in our community the next step will be for the county superintendent to interview candidates that applied to gps as well as directly to the county superintendent's office i believe they may be interviewing some candidates this week and i'm sure they'll make their decision within the next few weeks again thank you to everyone that took the time to apply speaking of a vacant governing board position tonight is mr reed carr's last meeting as a governing board member mr carr on behalf of myself and the entire gps community i can't thank you enough for the time dedication and devotion you've given to the gps community for the past five years you remain steadfast in your responsibilities as a board member made compromise when you felt
047it was necessary and you showed people your heart more than anything again thank you mr carr for taking this journey with us i appreciate you and sincerely will miss you please give him a hand [Applause] before we move on i'd like to defer to miss eugetti she had a request to speak on behalf of mr carr miss you jetty thank you dr santa cruz can you hear me okay yes i would like to thank mr carr for his service to our gps board reed your knowledge of school finance has amazed me as very few people understand this very complicated part of a school district you have been so thorough in making sure that our district has been transparent to the public you have always been thoughtful in every decision you have made i have appreciated
048our differences as much as what we agree on as you have made me think about my decisions thank you for all that you have done and i and gps will miss you a whole bunch you truly care and that matters more than anything else in this world in my humble opinion are you was that the end there miss you jenny that was it okay i wasn't sure uh board members i will leave it open i think you got sidetracked go ahead direct when i said humble opinion i think you got sidetracked when i said humble opinion never get sidetracked on that you are indeed a font of humility board members um i would like to make some comments i i appreciate that you know board service is very challenging it takes a lot of time
049and effort and i think you know up here sometimes it's really hard to to work out our differences i know sometimes it's looked pretty uh messy but that that's what being elected to office and trying to work with others is sometimes about and um you know i think i think mr carr has had a deep desire to serve and um i wish him well in what he's going to do going forward um you know there is there's a balance and um board service pretty much has to come first in our lives and sometimes that's not sustainable for a hugely long time some people manage to do it but anyone that can give for amount an amount of time it's very appreciated so thank you mr carr for your service thank you ms humphries miss wood
050i'll just keep it short and say thank you very much i've enjoyed i've enjoyed and appreciated your time and respect and appreciate your thoughts and the way that you've shared them and the way that you have again brought um i think opportunities for all of us to look at things in specific ways and to come to the best decisions for our students and staff so thank you mr carr for my part i concur with all that has been said and i wish you will thank you for your service and thank you for your friendship dr record anything else for your report no sir that concludes my report for this evening very good mr carr is there anything that you would like to say if it's all right i'll wait till the end maybe make some
051comments at the board report section we'll do that okay thank you we will move to item seven request to speak to the governing board i do not have any requests at this time so we'll then move to item eight which is item 8.01 the monthly budget report so we get to see some numbers again dr mccord dr santa cruz if if the first presentation wasn't enough we'll hone it down to monthly so miss bets you're up again um good evening again uh this is a very short report but i just want to remind you we're talking about the end of may the current fiscal year uh not the new year so going back a year basically so this is our district operating fund grid you can see that under fund 01 you can see the
052available balance is the 23.9 million dollars roughly which is what we have budgeted for in the proposed budget to be uh approved hopefully approved by you later this evening also note the unrestricted capital outlay which again it shows the 5.2 million dollars what we we definitely expect to see in budget balance carry forward so that's all i have on this operating fund grid i just wanted to point out we had a meeting with natalie tenney earlier this evening and she indicated that we have been providing a great deal of meals and due to the federal reimbursement you can see that our revenues have continued to climb so our estimated revenues are now over 12 million when prior to that we were estimating a little bit over 10 million dollars so our nutrition services fund is
053in really good shape the other funds just wanted to point out the joint technical education fund there is a significant available balance again we talked about on the proposed budget that we have the room to be able to move uh approved staff out of maintenance and operations and move them into this jted fund so um it's just another reminder that we have the resources available to do that and then i thought you might find this interesting so these are school student based funds so i wanted to remind you that the auxiliary operations funds are all the funds associated with fees that students pay athletic fees school supply fees classroom supply fees those types of things and so in addition we have extracurricular tax credit textbook fund as well as gifts and donations so i asked
054staff to put this into context by school and entity by grade level and so we did that so as you would expect most of the available balance is at the high schools that's where most of the athletics occur and athletics were fortunately very robust during the 2021 school year you can see the junior high has a little bit less than the elementary but i wanted to point out the other so remember that as part of our auxiliary funds we also have schools requesting field trips and athletic trips so those are charged through transportation and those revenues that come from the schools go into a transportation auxiliary fund and most of this 1.8 million dollars is associated with that and in the past we have mostly moved maintenance and operations expense out of mno for fuel
055and into this auxiliary fund the other one is the device the device protection plan that was initiated when we went to the one-to-one initiative and so that money goes directly to offsetting the cost of repairs of chromebooks and and other um instructional technology materials so i just wanted to share those details with all of you dr santa cruz can i answer so so this is more than we typically see is that what you're saying no this is comparable to what we've typically seen we just we just split it out into the grade levels for you to have so you have an understanding of where most of the money is lying basically and then have we spent this then no these are available balancing these are available so this is typically what's available it's available after
056the revenues and expenditures have been identified to date again we're still three months out from this school year we still have expenses to pay through august 31st um so these balances will go down but it does give flexibility to our schools for the start of next year to be able to get their spend out there for various things that they would need to start school okay so the schools can use these funds to they'll have allocations of these funds for things that they need i'm just trying to understand what do we where do we where will we see these dollars spent so let's look at the high school as an example so a large portion of this is probably athletic from the athletic fees and so that gives the schools an opportunity to to prepare
057for football to buy football materials etc those kinds of things some of this is tax credits so some of this is tax credit so some of this is perhaps if you're like me putting that tax credit money in so that senior year when they have the more expensive um choir tour you put in tax credit for that's a few years to offset that expense for our family so a lot of this is not available for us to spend because it's not available for us to spend at all yeah except for in the other fund right okay it goes towards the students and their needs so i'm not showing you more than normal i'm just showing you how it's split out by grade level awesome i just was i just was asking those questions i'm not
058concerned about i just was trying to get more details so okay i understand now if it's athletic fees and it goes toward the coaches and the supplies and all that stuff and if it's tax credits it's what it's been designated for by those families so okay thank you you bet okay and uh so the bond funds this is the summary of our bond funds i just wanted to point out the encumbrance of 21 million dollars that's reflective of all the work we're doing right now to get all of our schools ready for the new school year okay come on there we go um i'm sharing the debt service fund with you these are the same information shown in two separate ways i wanted to bring it to your attention that we've been presenting the debt
059service fund as a budget controlled fund it's actually not it's actually more of a cash fund and so we're showing both presentations to you to improve understanding you can see the transfer in is associated with the fact that any cost of issuance not spent needs to be put into the debt service fund not be spent as bond proceeds so you can see that we've done that and then i just wanted to show that that our beginning balance plus our revenue so a total available resource of 25.9 million we expect to spend in in july as well as in january the total would be 25.6 million with a projected cash balance of 330 000 at this point so that projected cash balance will go into the tax levy calculation and will be applied against the new
060levy for next year so that that cash balance will go towards decreasing the tax rate slightly for the bond debt service fund okay and that's all board members any additional questions or commentary nope thank you again miss betts for that very thorough presentation we move to item nine is the consent agenda and we are looking at item 9.01 for a motion regarding the consent agenda i moved to approve the consent agenda thank you mr carr is there a second second thank you mrs humphries it's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda as presented is there any discussion dr santa cruz i was just going to defer to you miss eugetti but let us vote first and then i will call on you is that okay that's fine okay all right with the caveat
061that we will defer to miss eugetti after the vote all those in favor of approval of the consent agenda as presented please signify by saying aye aye aye all those opposed same motion carries five zero mr jetty the floor is yours thank you dr santa cruz i just wanted to say that uh the person who is going to be the new principal assistant principal at mesquite high school was one of my gilbert l kiddos liz labeck she was a leader in fourth grade and fifth grade in sixth grade and i could not be more proud of her and that's all thank you mr jenny she's also coming from mountain view all right so we wanted to to recognize that life is a continuous circle and it comes back around at us one way or another
062item 10 our action items item 10.01 dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members it is my pleasure to bring to you tonight for approval of natalie tinney as the next director of nutrition services for the 22 school year thank you dr mccord for item 10.01 is there a motion yes i'd like to move that we appoint natalie tanning as the director of nutrition services for the 2021 2022 school year thank you mr humphries is there a second i'll second thank you mr wood is there any discussion seeing none and we will vote on item 10.01 appointment of natalie tenney as director of nutrition services for the 2021-2022 school year all those in favor please signify by saying i i all those oppose the same motion carries five zero congratulations miss tenney would
063you like to say a few words sure dr mccord dr santa cruz members of the board i am so excited for this opportunity and i commit to doing a great job and continuing to uphold our excellent nutrition services department and reaching out to really be a part of the community and family here at gilbert public schools and i'm excited to get to work thank you thank you [Applause] and while we welcome mrs tenney to her new position we would be remiss if we didn't speak to the 28 years of service i believe of mrs deb mccarron mrs mccarron has grown the food services program in gilbert public schools over those 28 years and has refined every aspect of the program and been an innovator i think among food services directors in the state and is
064often sought for consultation from others around so we are appreciative of her service we will miss her we wish her well in her retirement and we thank her for her commitment to gilbert public schools dr mccord i i just echo everything that you just said and when i visited with debbie today i said you know could you always ask that person okay well what are you gonna do she she cut me off she goes don't worry about me i got trips planned i'm going here i'm going there i'm going to be busy and what i love that she said is and if you guys need anything from me i'm more than willing to come back and help in any way i can so thank you to debbie for everything you've done for us thank you
065we'll debbie to item 10.02 fy 2022 proposed budget for adoption anything by way of introduction dr mccord or ms betts would you like miss betts to go through the presentation again i think we've memorized it okay no sir thank you sir item 10.02 is in front of you is there a motion i move we adopt the fy 20 proposed budget is there a second a second thank you mr wood thank you ms humphries any discussion i would like to make a comment i i think that one of the things that um we've been stellar on is making our budget very transparent showing what our decisions are and and being fiscally responsible and i appreciate all the work that the finance department has done on that but also um the board has done on that and
066it's i think it's really important that our constituents know how their tax funds are being spent that's one of the great parts of public schools you know where your money's going thank you mrs humphries anything else seeing none then we will vote on item ten point zero three zero two zero two excuse me all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye all those opposed the same all motion carries five zero ten point zero three is advertisement for public hearing on fy 2022 instructional time model introductory remarks dr mccord yes sir thank you dr santa cruz governing board members with your approval this will allow the district to advertise the fiscal year 2022 instructional time model public hearings for the july 27 2021 and the second public hearing scheduled for august 10 2021. at
067both hearings the administration will make a presentation of the governing board in public the advertisement will appear on the arizona department of education website again those will be held on july 27 as well as august 10th so your approval is just allowing us to take that next step thank you dr mccord with that rationale is there a motion for item 10.03 i move that we approve 10.03 advertisement for public hearing on the fy 2022 instructional time model thank you mrs wood is there a second i'll second thank you mr carr any discussion thank you dr santa cruz just to clarify we discussed this briefly i believe at the last meeting or the meeting before but this is due to us change in the state statute and offering different models or opportunities to account for instruction
068and so per the state statute in order to change these models in any way we have to have these two hearings and you guys will give the details of how we're going to do this at those next two at those hearings before we approve anything and we'll have that hopefully we'll have more guidance by then from the state to give us that is correct uh our goal is to make sure that when we present something to you it's as accurate as possible and again a lot of these things are approved um you know late in the in the school year and so being able to scramble finish the current school year propose a budget for the next school year and then look at something like this which it can be complicated and so we want
069to make sure that our foot is stepping in the right direction and that we don't approve something that ends up being uh fiscally irresponsible in the long run so when we we have all that information we'll be bringing it forward thank you so dr mccord just a specific uh change um again uh there's no place to post it on the department of ed's website so we are posting it on that would have been good information yeah thank you yeah and there is probably an error in the posting i apologize for that so it will be posted on the gilbert public schools website perfect thank you for the clarification event yeah and once again the clarification is the advertising for the public hearing and that is what the vote will approve is the advertising so all
070those in favor please signify by saying i all those oppose the same motion carries five zero item 10.04 is increase in bus driver base pay by one dollar per hour for new hires with cdl commercial drivers licenses uh dr mccord any rationale i'll just start off and then i'll kick it over to miss betts in a second um currently it is extremely difficult to find bus drivers and i think as one of the folks from our cabinet says it's been difficult for several years to be able to do that it's a very competitive market and our goal is to always make sure that we find the very best people to transport our students to and from school and as that market continues to be competitive we have to be a little more innovative in different
071ways to attract those folks that are willing to do that to our school district this weekend on saturday over mesquite high school our transportation department put together a job fair where individuals who were interested in being a bus driver had the opportunity to come over to the school and actually drive a bus around the parking lot and get a feel for what that may be like and i had actually had the opportunity to do that miss betts had the opportunity none of us hit any cones so that was a good thing but we ended up getting some folks with some applications being put in and hopefully we've secured some drivers but we're a long ways away from what we need for to be fully staffed and so miss bets will you talk a little bit
072more about the the dollar amount sure so the the specific issue is that we have historically the last three years been short between 25 and 30 drivers and largely due to the pandemic we are down and so we're trying to do everything we can to attract and we're having some severe competition from our neighboring school districts as well so we believe that with an additional amount if you have a cdl it actually will be budgetary savings for a couple of years for those individuals because we avoid the cost of training them which depending upon the individual could cost between three and five thousand dollars so we think this is a good move in addition i wanted to share that one of the things i learned i was able to drive my bus with one of
073the trainers and so i immediately got the wheel and i'm turning hand over hand right to turn the wheel she says no bonnie you can't do that you got to push and pull so she's like you have to push and pull push and pull don't go hand over hand so i learned something about driving a bus so hopefully i won't ever have to learn to use it thank you for letting me share i think what's advantageous as well is that if they come in with the cdl we can actually put them on the road right away and so there isn't that time that we have to keep them out for training so it's an advantage thank you you've heard the rationale item 10.04 is there a motion i move that we increase bus driver base
074pay by a dollar an hour for new hires with a cdl commercial driver's license thank you miss humphries is there a second call a second thank you mr carr it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion i i just want to mention that this seems to me to be a perennial problem it's probably at least the fourth or fifth time that we've had to address the fact that we need higher driver pay in order to attract drivers for our schools and we we don't want just anybody we want people who are going to be careful and cautious drivers and and do a good job with our kids so um you know i i realize we do this it seems like every other year but it's really important that we have good drivers and and
075they're very much essential to our operation thank you ms humphries miss wood yes thank you dr santa cruz a couple questions miss butts where would this increase in pay come from does that come from mno or transportation limit so it's um so the transportation revenue control limit is part of the maintenance and operations budget so it's definitely maintenance and operations and um and we always have turnover savings as those retire and making a lot more money and we hire individuals at a lower rate of pay even with this in addition the savings of not having to go through the training we'll fund that and finally if we can find the candidates we did incur a great deal of overtime in the current year because of the lack of of drivers so much of the overtime
076savings will go to fund these increases okay thank you so much and then secondly do you think that um a dollar an hour is enough to be competitive as you look at have you looked at the other districts or how have you come to that one dollar an hour um we have an and in discussions with the leadership team and transportation the the addition of the dollar an hour if you have a cdl does allow us to put out a job posting that is competitive in the market today so it puts us in the mid-range of sixteen dollars sixteen thirty forty dollars uh sixteen dollars and forty cents thirty or forty cents um which is right about the mid-range of the starting salary in our local market here in the east valley and then based
077upon conversations with with both the director trace as well as the assistant director megan they felt that the dollar an hour for a cdl was an appropriate bump in the pay thank you any additional comments questions saying none we will vote on item 10.04 all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye all those pose the same motion carries 5-0 item 10.05 is an increase in hourly worker wages by up to two dollars per hour for hard to fill hourly positions dr mccord any rationale thank you dr santa cruz governing board members this is along the same vein as we were having discussions about bringing this the previous item to you this conversation came up because it's not just bus drivers that we have a difficult time filling positions for and again it's not
078this year it's not last year it's not the last five years it's it's every year and so we want to make sure that we have the best uh support staff that we can find for our students and our district and uh sometimes rates aren't as competitive as they need to be and we have to be able to give credit as much as possible to those coming in with some experience and so especially if they're hard to fill positions so for example if you have a paraprofessional in a self-contained spice class you're they're difficult to find and we need to have adults with our students in specially devised classrooms like that one and so offering up the ability to increase pay for someone coming on on the base is extremely important to us and so those
079be classified as hard to fill positions something similar that we do for certified staff and the funding for this would come from uh turnover savings as well as vacancy savings that we've uh we incur every single year so hopefully this will be able to attract uh more individuals and keep them here for longer periods of time thank you dr mccord you have heard the rationale is there a motion for item 10.05 so moved thank you mrs humphries is there a second oh second thank you mrs wood it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion um i i miss bets and i had a discussion about we just did a salary schedule last year could you just talk about um how this might impact the salary schedule and the more general look that we're going
080to do on that um so addition to these two requests these will not impact the gradation scheme that takes us from grade level 101 all the way up to grade level 135 or something like that so it keeps the structure of the of our compensation grid consistent but at the same time we also discuss the importance of going back to that and making modifications and quantifying the cost of making us more competitive across the entire range of positions throughout gilbert public schools so we will be doing that over the next couple of months okay thank you miss wood thanks dr sanchez just to add on to that if we could really look at that and make sure that we're not negatively impacting our employees who've been here and who have who have served you know
081for a year or years and somehow don't have a benefit because they've been here that would be a concern that i hope we will address so we made a commitment as we go through this this process again of making us competitive across the board that at the same time we do the same analysis regarding equity adjustments so we will quantify not only bringing the starting salaries up to a more competitive level but also addressing individuals that are already here within those ranges and bringing them up with equity adjustments to bring them more within the range that they should be in because of their time here at gilbert public schools so it is both a process by which we will address the starting pay as well as the retention of those that are here with us
082today thank you any additional comments or questions saying none then item 10.05 is before you all those in favor please signify by saying i i i i all those pose the same motion carries 5-0 item 10.06 policy development first read policy bedh public participation at board meetings dr mccord any rationale thank you dr santa cruz governing board member policy bedh public participation at board meetings this is something that we've discussed over time in policy committee meetings and our current policy enables the president to limit time based on number but that wasn't specific and we felt it was important that we became more specific just so wouldn't confuse the public in any way shape or form and so the addition uh to letter c in policy b e d is as follows as general rule speakers
083will be limited up to three minutes to make their comments depending on the number of speakers unless otherwise specified by the board president the following limits will apply 1-15 speakers is 3 minutes 16 to 30 speakers is 2 minutes and anything over 30 31 plus speakers is one minute and that is the proposed change this has gone through policy committee as i stated earlier and we are presenting it to you for first read this evening thank you dr mccord you've heard the rationale is there a motion for item 10.06 i move that we adopt policy bedh first read for public partition of public participation at board meetings thank you mrs humphries is there a second all second thank you mr carr it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion dr sanchez i was not
084the last policy meeting although this has been discussed at more than one policy meeting um just want to clarify you know the the intent here is not to limit the overall public input we welcome public input in fact we've expanded the ways that people can provide us public input both in addition to the comments here there's an official forum by which they can submit comments for a board meeting as well as the the email it's it's a putting in place a practical measure when we have a large number of speakers i know that uh going back to the entire time that i've been on the board when miss eugenie was president when i searched president when dr santa cruz has been president we've asked people hey if you have a common theme can you try
085and and consolidate your remarks and and you know we've tried various approaches on those nights that we have a number of responses um so this is done with some reluctance because of the appearance of time constraints but also done in a practical manner by to to allow the board to move forward with its business and just want to make sure that the public is aware it's not our desire to limit the input it's our desire to make the meetings relatively efficient thank you mr carr any other commentary discussion i i just think it's um it is important to put it into the policy it's already at the discretion of the board president but we have had evenings where we have had you know a number of people who want to come in and we want
086to allow as many as possible but there's also just a limit on what we as the board physically can be here and how many hours we can um enjoy that comment so making it short and sweet so everyone gets a chance to say what they want to say i think is a good compromise to help us get to those challenging decisions that we sometimes have to make thank you mrs humphries anything additional seeing none then we will vote on item 10.06 all those in favor of the motion please signify by saying aye hi hi all those oppose the same motion carries 5-0 item 10.07 policy development first read policy gccg professional staff voluntary transfer of accrued sick leave dr mccord any rationale dr santa cruz governing board members we bring you tonight uh policy gccg
087professional staff voluntary transfer crude sick time uh july 28th of 2020 we added some language to our current policy and that was uh due to co but it said for the 2020 2021 school year if an employee has exhausted ffcra due to coven 19 and the employee contracts coven 19 for a second time they may request up to two weeks or 10 days 80 hours for a full-time employee or for a part-time employee the number of hours equal to the average number of hours that the employee works over a typical two-week period of paid sick leave from the medical leave bank membership of the medical leave bank for the covet 19 related requests is waived for the 20-20-21 school year based on the direction that we've been going in terms of covid vaccinations being out
088there especially in the east valley we don't believe that this is necessary for our policy any longer but just know that we have the former language if for some reason we have to go back to it we will but we we want to think positively and head in that direction thank you dr mccord you've heard the rationale is there a motion i'll move to approve the first rate of policy gccg professional staff voluntary transfer of accrued sick leave thank you mr car is there a second a second thank you mrs wood any discussion seeing none then we will vote on item 10.07 all those in favor of the motion please signify by saying i i i all those oppose the same motion carries five zero item 10.08 development first read policy jfabc admission of transfer
089students dr mccord any rationale thank you dr santa cruz governing board members we bring before you for first read policy jfabc admission of transfer students again this is something that we have put through the policy committee we a couple times since i've been here and i'll turn it over to dr newman to be able to give any details related to this good evening president santa cruz governing board members and dr mccord as dr mccord had stated we have seen this several times as we looked at the last policy committee we've looked and examined and really realized that it would probably be in our best interest to go specifically back to the recommendation of asba which is what we've done several years prior to that so there are just some minor changes to the policy and
090some of those are we wanted to be sure that we put in a an exception clause in there and that exception clause will allow the superintendent or designee to make exceptions if needed for particular circumstances or instances and other than that um i'm going to actually ask mr carr to talk to some specifics if you don't mind of what you might want to do as well i i think as a matter of order we need to make a motion first and then i so so perhaps i can just make a a motion to pass it and then i may ask for a substitute motion with some changes if it's desire the board so i will move to adopt the first read or to approve the first read of policy jfabc admission of transfer students thank
091you mr carr is there a second i'll second thank you miss wood discussion mr carr defer to you dr santa cruz just again we've discussed this in policy meeting i did not have a chance to see the final version if you will until until today as i missed the meeting earlier this month i would like to propose just a few minor changes uh there's actually no changing in wording but you have before you a copy of the changes you'll notice that there's a paragraph highlighted in yellow that is word for word the same i've simply moved it uh to its location in this version it was the second to last paragraph just before exceptions in asba i felt like it flowed better and then you'll notice a couple of headers that i've added that are
092in blueprint that just allow for clarification of the sections again the intent was not to change but the but to make clear the section so as we move through credit for graduation requirements then kind of the next section talks about how we evaluate those credits between core and elective credit then the rights of the student to to challenge that through examination uh and then finally just putting a header above the exceptions so no no wording changes to what the committee proposed just a change in order and some headers so i i thank you mr carl then would you want to offer a substitute motion for your original motion i would like to offer the substitute motion to approve jfabc with the reordering as outlined what you have in front of you is there a second
093oh second and this is just the first read again it will go back to the first read will come back and uh we'll any discussion and then we'll vote on the amendment and we will be clear so is there any discussion so i i just i guess i have a question so there's really no change it's just the editing process i i felt like by reordering it it actually became clear for the parents and for those outside to understand what we were trying to communicate putting putting the credits and then putting the core credit that yellow paragraph at the end kind of put it out of order uh from a parental perspective so that was the intent was to make it clear for for parents to understand it all right thank you any additional discussion
094dr santa cruz i just i want to come back to this one this policy was i think the first motion that i made to address uh we've addressed it at least four times in the last four and a half years and made modifications uh i i i have to say i'm very pleased with the outcome and i think it's it's where it should be uh in my in my personal opinion so i'm glad to get this policy where it is and uh we've all given taken over time uh and learned it including me this is not exactly what i would have proposed four years ago but i think it's it's where it should be uh so i'm pleased that it may also be the last uh the last policy that that we discussed as it
095was the first one that i propose we discuss well let's hope the next person doesn't make it their first policy that's what happens as in all cases i'm certain it won't be the last time all right with that if there is no further discussion we will vote on item 10.08 all those in favor of the motion please signify by saying i i close opposed side motion carries 5 0 item 11 is request for future agenda items and 11.01 once again if you don't have anything for this evening please get a hold of mrs wilson and present your item to her so that we may review it dr santa cruz for next month's meeting i have 32 items to add to the just kidding don't push it mr carr all right item 12 is board committee
096reports uh 12.01 is the gilbert education foundation mrs humphries uh yes we will be gilbert education foundation will be having their board retreat um towards the end of july which means that we will be working very very hard it's just a nice word for we're getting together to work hard nobody wants to say we're getting together to work hard also i just wanted to report on a couple of visits that i have made i attended the summer educational technology institute i went in person both days and just was really impressed with the classes and the teachers who were there to learn and um the keynote speakers that we had were very very good and i just feel like there was a lot of good positive things and i really appreciated those teachers who were there
097and i know there were many who were taking the online portion as well to you know that's they come and attend and they get credit for attending but it's not compensated time so i just want to appreciate them for their work there and um just had a lot of interesting conversations and learned a lot about what we're doing in our district and i i really appreciated the the way that we're moving forward i think we have a really good team in place and then i was able to make some summer school visits to our elementary schools both title one our summer boot camp and then our regular elementary school summer school and just really impressed with what the kids are learning i talked to one high school science teacher who was teaching science for elementary
098students and teaching them about animals and their habitats and and how much she enjoyed that they're doing steam and i got to see some kids explode a little rocket off of an m m container with some alka-seltzer and water i mean just it's really amazing what we are doing in our schools and the kids are having a lot of fun learning and enjoying that time in the classroom plus because of these universal meals they can come in pick up their breakfast and then eat their breakfast in the classroom while they're learning and then take their lunch home with them so i think it's been a really wonderful opportunity i'm really grateful that we had federal dollars to help us do some of these summer school programs and um i'm just really impressed where we're going
099so thank you thank you mrs humphries item 12.02 city of mesa liaison miss woods i don't have anything to report this month thank you miss wood item 12.03 uh very briefly it's been quite active down at the legislature for the last fashion 150 days 165 at least 150 days and just for your information i believe asba is doing a wrap up on july the 14th thereabouts it's a webinar so if you are interested something that might be of value item 12.04 12.05 i'll defer to mr carr on those two items and then anything else he would like to add i do not have anything report from the town of gilbert regarding the finance audit committee some time ago we made the decision to add a second member of the public to that audit committee but
100we've never had any interested parties express a willingness or desire to put on that as of july 1st i do know somebody who might be willing to fill that role as a member of the public so if it if it's the will of the rest of the board or or the board as it moves forward i propose that i would love to stay involved with the schools and in that quarterly meeting representing the public instead of the board um i'll leave that for a future uh agenda item if you if you so choose um a month ago when i announced my resignation i expressed my my gratitude and to to many uh there's no way that i can fully express my gratitude to all at least not by name but i thank my fellow board
101members and dr mccord for your kind words earlier this evening um you know it's it's an interesting dynamic if you look uh seven years ago i was running a campaign to to be on this diocese in hindsight the election came around and i think i placed fifth out of five people on the uh on the ballot two years after that i i again ran and placed third out of four people on the ballot so i have the proud position of saying i have lost to all four of my fellow board members but i would point out the trend goes from five to three the next natural number if there were to be one would be a number i would like but let me clarify i have no intention of running for another elected position but
102i would like to thank the parents in our community i'd like to thank our staff and our faculty one of the great privileges of serving on the board is being out in the community and getting to know people that you don't otherwise know we have an incredible community i am thankful to the administrators the vice principals the principals all of the people in this building sometimes in education we we we see people maligned uh it's never enough i just convey to the public i have never doubted well while there may be disagreement at times within the board or even bored with with some of the proposals i have never doubted the intentions of our superintendent and his staff and the people who serve in this in this district they truly care about your children they
103truly care about our community they live here they love our community many of them grew up here and even those who may not have grown up here they chose to live here they chose to work here and i think that says a lot about them i have i ran my campaign both times i ran on a concept of bridge building and civility i hope that in spite of the few times when i have perhaps failed i hope that overall people will look back at my time and say that i added to the civility of our community that i was willing to talk with everybody i was willing to listen i was willing to adjust my ideas when appropriate if i failed to do that i apologize because that is my sincere desire i do want
104to do what's right but i want to do it in the right way i am a firm an ongoing believer in our neighborhood schools i think one of while while i have always supported the idea of school choice i have strongly felt that my job on this board is to make gilbert public schools that choice i believe that when we come together instead of simply saying oh i have a difference in going on our own ways and selecting to go a different way when we come together we come to greater understanding we build civility and we build community and i hope that that i hope that if anything that is my legacy but in the end i hope that you feel my dear my my love and my full gratitude for each person in this
105community thank you [Music] [Applause] thank you mr carr we're at item 12.06 miss eugetti i'm just really glad i don't have anything to report tonight after that okay all right we'll move to item 13 13.01 meeting dates dr mccord thank you dr santa cruz governing board members our next meeting will be july 27th tuesday it's a board business meeting typically we have one meeting in july to give you an opportunity to go spend some time with your family and staff as well so that will be our next meeting date and we're ready to come back and be better than we've ever been so we're looking forward to it thank you dr mccord we'll move to item 14.01 which is adjournment is there a motion i move to adjourn thank you mrs humphries is there a
106second i'll second thank you mrs wood discussion seeing none we will vote on adjournment all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye all those pose the same nay motion carries four one [Laughter] we are adjourned