001So Unless there's another guys ready ready. Good evening everybody. I'll give you a second. Don't make me call ASRS. We'll recalculate all y'all's points. All right. Good evening. Welcome to the May 8th governing board meeting for the Glendale Elementary School District. Like to call this meeting to order. Please let the minutes show that we have myself, Miss Wilson, and Miss Pimentel is currently here. Miss Bartell is out and Mr. Haramo is still on route. Um, Mr. Scott Jones, do we have a change to the agenda this evening? Good evening, President Martinez, members of the board. Yes, we do. I'd like to look at uh action item 6A, ASBA, political agenda priorities. I'd like to table that. Okay. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? Minus 6A. I'll move to approve the agenda. Second. Miss
002Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes I. Thank you. Please join me in a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance. Please rise. All right, moving on to special recognition. Uh, Miss Sagata Jones, what do we have in store for us first? Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, we have several recognitions this evening. We're going to begin with a student performance from Challengers Fox's Kiss Army Allstars. So, I'm going to ask that we all exit and go out to the courtyard to watch that. Once they perform, we'll come back in and continue our recognitions. Thank you. All right, good evening everyone. We're going to go ahead and start with our next celebrations. If I can have the people in the back please
003take a seat. Staff, thank you. Good evening again. Today we've come together not just to say goodbye, but to celebrate and honor a truly special group of individuals that we call the GESD retirees. Each of you has played a vital role in shaping the heart of this district. Whether you worked in the classroom or in the office in transportation, nutrition ser services, maintenance or any other part of the school system, your dedication, your hard work and your care have made a difference in the lives of our students, their families and your fellow colleagues. We could not be more proud of all of you. You've shown up day after day, year after year, often putting often putting yourself before putting others in front of you instead of yourselves. You've also sacrificed with your families and families,
004we thank you for sharing your family member with us for these years. Together with all the retirees, we have over 475 years of exp of experience here in GSD. So, a round of applause for [Applause] that. You've made not only your family sacrifices, but of time and energy. All of this service is for a greater mission, and that is helping children to learn, to grow, and to thrive every day. And for that, we are forever grateful for your contributions and your commitment to this incredible community. As you step into retirement, we hope this next chapter brings you a lot of joy, a lot of rest, a lot of fulfillment. Whether you're traveling or spending time with loved ones, or you're picking up a new hobby or simply enjoying a slower morning, you've earned every single
005moment of it. Please remember, no matter where you do, wherever you go, or whatever you do, you will always be considered a part of this incredible GSD family. and we are so honored that you have spent a great part of your career with us. Your contributions have helped build the foundation of who we truly are in GSD and your impact will continue to be felt years to come. Our doors and our hearts will always be open to each and every one of you. From all of us here, thank you. We're proud of you. We wish you the best in this exciting new chapter of your lives. Congratulations to all of our retirees. Thank you for your service. It is my honor and always humbled to serve as a superintendent of this incredible district and I
006wish from the bottom of my heart nothing but happiness for you. Please find your joy and enjoy the rest of your time you have with your families. And don't worry about GSD. We'll be okay because we know where you all live. And just in case, we're still hiring. So, if I could please, the governing board's going to stand and then I'm going to read names. We'd like the retirees to come up and we will honor you. And then uh we will also have time for pictures um in the back. Miss Aana, are you back there? There she is. She's back there. And she'll take a picture of you with the backdrop as well. Okay. You know what? I think I'm just going to stay up. No, I'm going to come down because you know I
007need to shake your hands and thank you personally as well. our first retiree we'd like to recognize. And we found out that this retiree um just decided this week he was going to retire and we couldn't be more happy for him. So we will get him his retiree um award before the end of the year. But it's Mr. Willie Brown, school bus driver, transportation for three years. [Applause] That's why I don't like me in person. I don't know what to do. You're fine. Congratulations. Thank you for your service. And you, Miss Adriiana, will take a picture of you in the back. And just retired today. Okay, next we have nine years of service, director of special education, Carol Lati. [Applause] Next we have for 11 years. My board's a little confused. You all got it
008together now? There you go. From the high at the kiss army. Okay. All right. Okay. Next we have le 11 11 years of service lead technician technology services Theodore Evans Jr. We call him Ted is the only person that let me dye his hair one year in the back. That's right. It was pink. I painted his pigtail pink. It was amazing, wasn't it? Yes, it was. Although I had to explain to my wife why it was pink. Oh, sorry about that. It was for a good cause. I don't remember what, but it was good. Breast cancer awareness. There we go. Next, we have 17 years of service, achievement adviser for curriculum instruction, Julie Dubak. [Applause] My book may be out of order. So, why don't we [Applause] Congratulations. Thank [Applause] you. Next we have 11
009years of service a teacher from challenger Sonia Mia. Thank you, Sonia. Thank you, Trevor. You're amazing. Thank you. [Applause] Next, we have wellness program specialist human resources, 13 years, Dvita Salter. [Applause] Oh my god. David, David, Dvidita, thank you for your service. We appreciate everything you've done for us. Next, we have Cleaner One from Glendel Landmark. 22 years. Tomas Gutierrez. [Applause] Thank you so much. Thank you very much. [Applause] Next, we have a school secretary from Sunset Vista, 22 years, Peggy [Applause] Ramirez. [Music] He's still my nephew. I practically raised some of your kids. But don't blame it on me because I've seen how some of your kids turned out. Congratulations. [Applause] Next we have 24 years of service, a school secretary from Challenger, Tammy [Applause] Warley. Congratulations. [Applause] Next we have 24 years of
010service teacher from Glenn F. Burton, Craig [Applause] Wonderlick. Congratulations. Thank you for your service. [Applause] Next, we have a teacher for 33 years, Discovery Eric Helen. [Applause] Congratulations, Eric. I appreciate your service. [Applause] And Eric wanted to make sure that we didn't know where he lived. So, he's moving to Australia, he said, for two years. We're still going to find you, Eric. Next we have our unit operations manager and maintenance for 35 years. So retiring and also 35 year service award for Virginia via we call her vie. [Applause] Thank you so much. Thank you for your service. Appreciate everything you've done. Thank [Applause] you. Now we have a teacher from Horizon, 42 years, Lisa Cruz. [Applause] Lisa, thank you so much for all your service. Congratulations. Well deserved. Pleasure. It's been a pleasure having you.
011[Applause] to our retirees. Again, thank you for your commitment and to your service here. We wish you the best and uh please, you're welcome to stay, but you probably want to go celebrate with your families and we understand that. Again, thank you for your service and have a wonderful time enjoying new adventures. Find your joy. Thank you. [Applause] What was that? 400 something 475. Did the pages get Yeah, it was it's a new one that we got and I was I was like no, it was I was like emergency chocolate. We're gonna have to do this alone. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Music] [Applause] Huh? Mhm. [Music] Okay. I think we're I think we're going to go ahead and get started. Again, we have some uh other recognitions we'd like to do. For those of you joining us
012for the first time, uh this part of the recognitions is called just because and each uh month we have a just because student and a just because employee. We randomly select the student and the employee and we want to say thank you just because and really thank you for choosing to be a part of GSD community. So we're going to begin with that. Um unfortunately our staff member could not be here. She had a prior commitment and that staff member this uh month was Vanessa Royston. She was a Sunset Vista teacher. Principal Aley will take her things back as you can see just because they get um a yard sign which we like for them to put in their yards and take pictures and put on Instagram. They get candy with our logo and they
013get um kindness crayons as well. And we are able to do this through our Gustau Foundation. That's our education foundation. Now we will do the student of the month and our student is a fourth grade student from Challenger and his name is Germa Voeva Pavia. [Applause] How are you? It's good to see you again. I told you there'll be more surprises. Who's got the prizes? family. GMO's family right here, GMO, we're going to take a picture. We're going to have your family come up. Okay, here's the deal, Garo. All right, GMO, here's what you're going to do. You're going to go home. You're going to put your pajamas on. You're going to go out in your front yard, put this in the yard, and I'm going to come by and take a picture. Sound good?
014Okay, got it. Let's get a family picture. Yeah, for the others and then we'll take everybody picture [Music] and then with everybody And GMO, I want to say um Mr. Hortzman cannot be here today. He's traveling to Flagstaff. He's picking up his daughter from college, but and he made a video and he wanted me to share that with you. So, I'm going to let you see what he has to say to you. Okay? He's very Oh, you get one more thing. You get to have a prize from the treasure box. So, go on and choose whatever you would like. Did everybody get chocolate? You got chocolate. Thank you, Cind. Whatever you'd like, Garmo. [Applause] We're going to continue with our recognitions. And now I'm going to introduce Patrick Kaiser and he is a member of
015our Kowanas and he has our Kowanas student of the month and each month we recognize a student for their servant leadership. So Patrick, thank you. First of all, I want to for the retirees that are left from the Kuanas Club of Glendel, we want to congratulate all you guys if if there's any still left. Um my watch keeps warning me that I'm in a loud environment, so that's a good thing. Uh good evening. My name is Patrick Kaiser. I'm a member of the Kuanas Club of Glendale. Tonight, I am here to recognize the Kuanas Club of Glendale Superintendent Student of the Month for the month of May 2025. The reason this award is so special is that this student has been chosen by the Superintendent for their hard work, passion for helping others, and helping
016to make our community a better place. This month's winner is Elena Trip. Now, now you get to get embarrassed for a while. So, come right over here, Elena. Elena is an eighth grade student at Landmark School. Elena has consistently demonstrated exceptional qualities that make her an outstanding candidate for this recognition. She has also shown remarkable dedication to her studies, consistently achieving high marks in all subjects, especially math. She has tested into algebra as an eighth grader and is working towards earning a high school credit this year. In addition to her academic achieve achievements, Elena is a natural leader. She has chosen to be involved in our junior teacher program instead of going to electives each day. She spends time pulling small groups and working one-on-one with second grade students. Elena helps them to improve their
017reading and math skills. Moreover, Elena was nominated by her teachers to serve as a member of the superintendent student advisory committee. This year, she will represent Landmark as as the team works to make GESD and its community a better place through acts of service. For these reasons, Elena is as deserving winner of the Kuana student of the month. We know she will continue to shine and inspire others. Congratulations. We have a certificate for you for your hard work. And from the Kowanas Club of Glendale, we have a $50 Walmart gift card. Congratulations. And I think we need to get some pictures. Yes. And can Elena's family and friends come and landmark family and friends come? Elena is is a member of uh my student advisory and she comes and I'll see you next Tuesday. We'll
018be packing food boxes again. Patrick, you want to get Let's do school family then other family and then us. Come this way. There you go. There you go. One more. Hold your award. Congratulations. [Applause] Oh yes. And Elena. Elena. Oh, we have one. You get the treasure box, too. Thank you. Congratulations. We have one more award. In collaboration with the Glendale Elementary School District, the members of the Kowanas Club of Glendale have developed a new award that recognizes the school in the district that demonstrates unwavering dedication to servant leadership and provides significant service to the local, metro, regional, and global community. This award is called the commitment to servant leadership award. And each month a school in the district will be named the inspiring change school of the month. The May 2025 winner of this
019award is Landmark. [Applause] Congratulations. Congratulations. How about How about Landmark family come on up and we'll do Landmark has worked hard this Landmark has worked hard this year to not only increase their academic success but also work to increase their signature school offerings, school performances, and their interaction in the community. Some examples of this work include Landmark partnering with Honor Dance to provide not only opportunities for students to dance after school, but professional development for their dance teacher. Also, landmark students and their visual arts teacher partnered with historic downtown Glendale Merchants Association to provide artwork around the vacant lot at 58th Avenue in Myrtle during the winter season for those walking and shopping. Lastly, the visual arts teacher has supported and celebrated library access for all by winning an art contest with the city of
020Glendale, showcase showcasing this theme. Landmark School is working towards even more partnerships and higher academic success, inspiring students, staff, and community to dive into this great work. The trophy is a traveling trophy that will be proudly displayed by the winning school for a month and then we'll move next month to the winning school and the following month. This will help build the solidarity of the GESD community and help recognize the hard work of developing our future leaders. Congratulations, We'll have Patrick come up and we'll take pictures. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you, Patrick. We appreciate it. And then our last celebration for this evening goes to our attendance. And you know that what we do every month is the school that has the um highest student achieve our or highest student achievement, highest student
021attendance rates. Um very proud of all the work that the schools are doing and this month it goes to Discovery. Come on Discovery [Applause] family. Discoveryy's been able to maintain this trophy all year. We are commend Angelique and tomorrow and all the staff for their work and making sure students show up every day. I know you have a focus on that. We couldn't be more proud of you. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our schools who their attendance rates are increasing and they're really going to get that trophy. They're chasing her. So, they're not giving it up. It can't go to Australia. Okay. But we're so proud of Discovery for doing that. So, let's take pictures. Should we slide down or we kind of not centered? Thank you. [Applause] All
022right, moving on in our agenda. Uh, Mr. Gutter Jones, are there any calls to the public this evening? President Martinez, no, there are not. All right, that is there a motion to adopt the consent agenda? I'll move to adopt the consent agenda. Second. Right. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimementel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on to our action item. As stated earlier, uh we are tableabling item 6A until our next meeting in two weeks. So, moving on to 6B, the uh 2025 expenditure budget revision three. Mr. Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, I will turn over to Mr. Mike Veran. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, uh, we're just going to walk you through the revision
023number three. There's not too much of a change from the last revision. So, everything for the most part, other than just a couple battery died doing all those celebrations this evening. That's right. I don't have any good jokes. I don't tell jokes. [Laughter] So, I just want you to Mr. President, members of the board, you can just see the ADM of health that's evolved. Again, really just a 10 ADM change from the last revision to the one that's before you. The next slide, please. And this is just going to show you how that general budget limit has evolved or the M budget. Next slide. Let's jump one more, Tom. And then one more time. This is if anything out of tonight's meeting, this is the piece that we really wanted to highlight. Um, you see
024those circled items on the right column. Just to give you a preview of what that's going to look like in that subsequent year, that 2 million and that $4.4 $4 million next year will have to move over to column A to support the M needs because of the decline in enrollment. And then Tom hit enter one more time for me please that budget balance carry forward which we have talked about in this subsequent year we believe it's going to be about $5 million. So between the five million and the sum of those two items, the hope is to keep us very close to where we are this year and then preparing for that continuous decline in ADM. So this page is going to be important as we move into next year because you're going to
025see some of these numbers go into that column A in order to maintain sustainability in the maintenance and operation fund. This is uh the capital budget's about 14.8 million. Just wanted to be sensitive to the board's uh concerns earlier in the year as a result of some of the things that were occurring throughout the state. This is the financial risk analysis that the auditor general's office provides. This is where we were this year. We do believe that you're going to see this section highlighted uh in this sub subsequent year. And just want to stress the importance of business cannot continue as usual. Things will have to change. Efficiencies will have to continue to be identified so that we can remain solvent. And in the immediate future, we are going to have applied economics provide you
026with a presentation of what the next 10 years look like as population changes occur. Uh but more specifically, what the next 10 years look like from an a an ADM perspective. Uh Mr. President, members of the board, I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. Any questions from the board? Thank you. Wait, did you have some? Yeah, a quick question. Um, with the shutting down of the um the Department of Education, is there a we're going to have to take a look at this budget again? Um, Mr. President, members of the board, you know, this administration is constantly monitoring what is happening at the federal level. Um, I believe over the last 11 or 12 years, what we've done here is just have a contingency plan and then we have a contingency plan
027and then have a contingency plan. We're going to continue to do that and identify where areas of any ongoing financial stress may occur and then proceed uh appropriately. And so we're continuously monitoring that. I know that um the administration has been involved in some webinars of that sort and just kind of keeping our pulse uh so that we have a good understanding of how things might change. Currently what we see with the federal agreement and as far as the entitlement grants so far districts have received anywhere between 80 to 60% of their uh entitlement grants and with anticipation of the rest coming to what extent we haven't seen that yet. Um, with that at the state level, state superintendent Horn can reserve the right to withhold 3% of a title one, which he has, and
028then he will re also reserve 1.5% of everyone's title one budget, and he is um working on a competitive grant in which districts can apply for. Um, so that's where we currently are right now with entitlements. Please remember that. um regardless what's happening at the federal level um with title entitlement grants those are based off our student um enrollment. So as that decreases those funds also decrease but we continue to monitor to monitor and stay um on top of what's happening at the federal level and I thank you thank you all for your constant watch over this. I'm really glad we have you guys on board and taking care of us. We're pleased to serve this community. Thank you. Anything else? All right. With that, is there a motion to approve the revision three for
029the 25 expenditure budget? I'll move to approve the 2425 expenditure budget. Revision number three is presented. Second. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on to our last action, item 6C, employment of coordinator for special services. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, it's recommended that the governing board approve the employment of Miss Tracy Reagan as the coordinator for special services for the 2526 school year salary and benefits equivalent with the coordinator schedule as presented. Any questions from the board? Is Miss Reagan here? Yes, she is. Please rise. With that, is there a motion to approve the employment of the coordinator for special services? I move to approve. We'll move to approve Tracy Reagan uh
030for um uh educational services and uh congrat Yeah, I won't say that yet. Second. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. The chair votes I. Congratulations. You may now do the traditional victory lap around the boardroom. All right, moving on to item seven, future meetings and events. Uh, Miss Sagata Jones, what's coming up in our near future? Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, we will have a meeting um start on May 22nd. Um, we'll bring back action item 6A and then that is a 4 PM meeting. Um, we start the summer hours on that particular one, which also I believe is the last day of school. Um then following that in on June 12th um we have several things that
031we will bring to you. Principal and teacher evaluation ratings, workers compensation, claims, services, authorizations, all those evaluation of handbooks, 70 board travel, superintendent travel, whatever we have for June to get us through. Um with that we will also begin um conversations and have the presentation of the demographic study and then we will come with a proposed 10-year plan at that time is our is our um intent for that meeting. All right. Any questions or comments on the future meetings? Okay. We'll move on to the summary of current events. Miss Jones, what's happened recently? Oh yes, President Martinez, members of the board, I have a quite a list because so many things have happened and I'm gonna hope I don't forget anything. But first of all, the student artwork is from Burton Horizon. It's incredible. So,
032thank you for those schools and staff and students for that. Um, I also want to announce that um pleased to share that GSD is a finalist for the Phoenix Business Journal's 2025 healthiest employer award presented by Sig Sigma Healthcare. And this recognition of reflects our commitment to employee wellness and it wouldn't be possible without the incredible work of HR wellness and benefits team. So, thank you to staff for that. Also, we have um Smith and Desert Spirit are recipients of $2,500 literacy grants. Um so um read to the final four award presentation at Smith and Desert Spirit each earned $2,500 literacy grants and surprise recess from Playworks for placing in the final four of read to the finals reading competition. Congratulations to those students and staff. I also want to recognize Jack um for Arbor
033Day. Jack students and teachers teamed up with the city of Glendel to plant new trees nearby the O'Neal park and highlighting that as the trees grow. So will our students sense of pride, responsibility and connection to the community and as you know we are very proud to be servant leaders here and look at servant leadership for our students. So thank you to William C. Jack. Uh also next we have Free Rain Coffee and Walmart serving those who serve. So, um, it is teacher appreciation week. So, again, thank you to our amazing teachers out there. If we have teachers in the audience, please stand. We appreciate your work and your service. Um, with that, GSD has two winners um, for the serving those who serve. Um, and this comes from a supply from re from Free
034Rain Coffee, $250 W Walmart gift cards from the organization. And we're happy um to be able to have um those awards included and we'll be doing a big promo of that. I think Adriiana has that out already. So excited about that. Um also we have Discovery at Heroes Park playground ribbon cutting next week. Discovery students have been invited by the city of Glendel to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony at the newly um enhanced Heroes Park regional park. So, we're excited about that. And they'll participate in some STEM activities and play on the new playground. So, that's exciting for Discovery. It is teacher appreciation week. Thank you for all you do. We couldn't do this without you. You're incredible. You stand in front of students every single day and your dedication and commitment. we greatly appreciate
035and we know how hard it is and how it is that you take time from your families to give to this community. So, thank you. Um, please know that we truly do appreciate everything that you do every day. Also, it was National Principal's Day. So, our principles, could you please stand and be recognized? Thank you to our Thank you to leadership. We know how difficult those jobs are and thank you for what you do and your commitment to this organization. It's also yesterday was school lunch. Friday was school lunch heroes day and do we have any school lunch heroes out there? Shannon, are you back? Stand up. Shannon, we recognize [Applause] you. We really did appreciate the non-school lunch mac and cheese bites tonight. Thank you very much. Also, we had um this week's school
036nurses day. Do we have any of our school nurses here? Well, we do recognize them and the health tech for everything that they do. Incredible. Uh I also want to announce that the cheer competition was a great success last Saturday and thank you to all of you that were there. Um Smith was our winner. So, congratulations to Smith. American was the runner up. So, congratulations to American. And the best mascot was the bulldog [Music] challenger. We also had our celebration of excellence. So, just very excited about all those who received those awards. Very proud of them. Then last night, we had our mosaic marbles. And we so happy for all of our mosaic marbles. If you were a recipient of the celebration of excellence and the celebration of mosaic marbles, please stand up. If you're
037a recipient, that would be you, Miss Katie O. Tracy. Tracy was our marvel and Katie was the administrator of the year. So, we couldn't be more proud. I'd also um we're almost at the end of the the year, so thank you again. We'll get through it. It's been great. You've done incredible work and I can't wait to see the data. I know it's going to be just fantastic as it always is and we appreciate that. I do want to take a moment to um recognize the mothers in the room. Please stand. Happy Mother's Day to each of you. I hope you have a relaxing day and I hope you can rock in grace with your children and enjoy it. Also, I'd like to um take a moment to recognize uh it is board member Hector
038Haramino's birthday. He has his birthday cupcake and it looks like he's ready to go. So, it's his it's his late dinner, his birthday cupcake. So, happy birthday to you. Thank you. And would you do you have a special announcement for us? I believe you do. Uh oh. Yes. Um um there will be no Father's Day gift for you. Wait, I just had a whole baby. Uh on April 22nd, my son was born. He was 7 lb 13 o. He was a strong and healthy boy. Passed all his tests. He's currently in the car outside waiting for me. Um, I don't maybe I could bring him in, but I got to run to dinner with him and I'm pretty sure he's going to get hungry. So, thank you so much for the birthday wish. I can
039only assume he's not waiting by himself in the car out in the parking lot. Don't be that parent. That concludes my report. Thank you. A lot of stuff going on. All right, we will start down on the end. Miss Wilson, do you have any uh anything you'd like to share? Well, Superintendent Sata Jones, you really need to leave something for the rest of us to to say. So, understood. So, I'll just reiterate. Uh congratulations and thanks to all of you that have an appreciation day. Um because there was quite a few. Um yeah, the Mosaic Marvel Awards again last night was just terrific and um thanks to all of you that got your awards. It was a beautiful uh evening yesterday and and so we had it outside and um but I think those days
040are gone and the hot weather it's coming. Um and we have that to look forward to. Um, congratulations to all the cheerleaders and um, again the we are winding up the end of the year. So, I'm going to say this now because I might forget it next time, but congratulations to all our eighth graders who are going to be promoted and good luck in high school. Um, and happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. All right. Thank you, Miss Fmentel. So, I'm going to say ditto and everything that was already covered. Congratulations to all those that won an award. Um, we have attended a lot in the last couple weeks and one thing that wasn't I don't think mentioned was Dia de los Nos and every year we look forward I got one
041she said to leave stuff and stuff. I'll tell you these these celebrations are amazing and we never want to miss it and they always exceed any expectation we have and the kids are doing everything and and teachers and staff thank you so much for all the hard work you put into it because the families truly truly enjoy those events. Uh there was also the Winnie the Pooh musical which I the the excitement I'm I'm taking the rest of them mic. Sorry. The excitement with those kids and the families and and I went to the one that was outside. It was a beautiful perfect night and I think we should do more of those outside too. That was great. Um the cheerleading competition. Wow. uh just in one year what these uh students have done have
042just really raised the bar. teacher appreciation week. I just want to take a minute and say as a student, and we were all students, we always remember something special a teacher has said to us or done for us. As a parent, you remember something special that someone did for your own child. And and I got to speak at length to somebody that was here tonight that was a a teacher to both of my sons. And it was really great to have that conversation today and last week as well. Uh there were two teachers that I had not seen in a long time. And it was great to reconnect and uh show pictures to my sons. And and every one of you makes a difference. And you may not realize what that difference is in the
043moment, but it's something that our children will carry with them forever. And and I can think of some right off the top of my head for myself and my kids. So, thank you teachers for everything you do to impact the life of everybody in our community. All right. Well, my biggest update is that next time I'm doing my update first. Leave nothing for me. Um, so the big things that really stuck out to me, the cheer competition afterwards, I remember talking with with Miss Sagata Jones. like this is this is our best athletic event at this district right now was the cheer competition. The ladies out there, all the kids killed it. Thank you to all the the the cheer help and the coaches and the and the uh the high school cheerleaders that came
044out and helped run the event with us. Um thanks to all the the the staff and everyone that put in all the effort to get those kids up to speed and they looked amazing out there. They were absolutely high school ready, ready to take if they if this is something they want to do, they were ready to take that to the next level because it looked amazing. And having like a thousand people sing YMCA right at the beginning will fire you up like nobody's business. So that was a lot of fun. Um, so thanks again for everybody for that. Uh, thank you to the Kiss Army. Third graders apparently. Um, me being old, I'm like, "Ooh, what song are they going to sing?" And I'm like, "Okay, they can sing that song. That's an okay
045song for third graders to sing." So, I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you for everybody had a hand in that. It's great seeing the kids out there. I know it's it's it's a lot of effort to put yourself out like that like that, especially with the doing all the the moves and the dance and the singing along with it. So, that was great. Um, but I also like to I know there's a lot of uh teacher appreciation, nurses appreciation, all that stuff. Um, I also like to to thank um a lot of the folks in the district office that I got to see a lot of this week. I saw a lot of our HR people over at uh the HR Aspa conference on Monday. I saw a lot of our finance people over at
046the ASBO conference on our ASBO meeting on Wednesday. And of course, I see all of you here tonight. And I get to see all of that come together and make this district what it is. So, uh, thank you all very much. And with that, is there a motion to adjurnn? I'll move to adjourn. Second. All those in favor?