001Someone leaned against the light switch. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. So many people in here. I guess may maybe you didn't know that the free popcorn was next week. No. Okay. Um, welcome to the uh April 10th meeting for the Glendale Elementary School District governing board. Uh, please uh is there any before we get started here, is there any changes to the agenda this evening? Good evening, President Martinez, members of the board. No, there are not. All right. If that is there a motion to adopt the agenda? I'll move to adopt the agenda. Second. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. Miss O'Hara, how do you vote? I. With that, the chair votes I. Thank you. Please join me in a
002moment of silence followed by the loudest pledge of allegiance of the year. Please rise. All right, we are going to jump right into our agenda with our special recognition, Miss Sagata Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, if we could step down, please. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here. Um I'm the proud superintendent of this incredible district and it's always my honor to serve this community. Um, we do once a month at the board meetings we celebrate an award we call just because through our Gust Foundation who helps us do that. And the Just Because award goes to one student and one staff member. And what we do, we take all the students and all the staff members and they're in uh in a data bank that we use and then we
003randomly select a student and a staff member just to say thank you for choosing GSD and being a part of this incredible learning community. So that's what we were going to celebrate tonight. We're going to begin with our just because student. Our just because student is from Horizon Elementary. Kimberly Dominguez is Where's Kimberly? Come up. Come on up. Kimberly's family, come up, please. And friends, Horizon family and friends, how are you? It's good to see you again. It's good to see you. Hi. How are you? All right, come on over this way. Kimberly, we've got some surprises. When we went to the school, we surprised the student and be on behalf of Gooster, our foundation, we're able to present them with a certificate, but we also are able to present them with a $50 gift
004card to Walmart. So, she's already received that. Okay. So, now you're going to get some other things. Okay. Board member board member Harmo is going to give you this sign right here. And it's a just because sign. It's a yard sign. You know what you're going to do with this? Well, let me tell you. Okay. What time do you go to bed? Seven. Oh, I'm going to be pushing it. Okay. So, here's what's going to happen. All right. Did you hear that board? We got to be out here by 7:00. She goes to bed at 7. Here's what we're going to do. You're going to go home with your family and you're going to put this in your yard. Okay? And you're going to run out there and smile and I'm going to run by
005and honk and take a picture. Sound okay? Are you going to have your pajamas on? Yeah, maybe pajamas. No Tony's, just be pajamas. Okay. All right. Is that a deal? All right. Okay, Kimberly, come over this way. We have some more surprises for you. We have this little box. And what we like to do, we get we get this big piece of chocolate. It has our logo on it. You get kindness crayons because we believe in everyone in GSC is kind. And when you color, it makes you feel relaxed. So, you can color. And then we have this beautiful mosaic taffy. That's candy. Okay. Fancy word for candy. And then we also have a just because little desk sign for you that you can take and put in your room. All right. And do you
006have any brothers or sisters here? No. Okay. Well, we have candy for you then. And where's your where'd your family go? Okay. I think mom might want some chocolate, so we need to grab her one. Okay. Sound good? All right. All right. Now, we're going to take a photo. And then after we take the photo, you get to choose something from the treasure basket. Sound good? All right. Here we go. All right. Congratulations, Kimberly. Thank you guys. Thank you so much. All right. 7 o'clock. Remember? All right. Oh, your treasure. Whatever you want. Whatever you'd like. Oh, all right. That's yours. Congratulations. Next for our staff member. Our staff member this month is Samantha Moyer and she is a teacher for our online geo school. [Applause] Sam, thank you. We appreciate everything you do for
007us on Anio and I'm She always is promoting the district. She has Allin for all kids shirt. That's one of our favorite shirts. Thank you so much for everything you do. My bedtime is 6:30. Your bedtime's 6:30. Good. Then it means even faster. Faster. And um and Zach is a product of Glendel Elementary School District, her son as well. So very cool. and her nie of course her niece teaches here as well. Yes. So we are all in for all kids and all in for GSC employees. Thank you so much the Moyer family. All right. So [Applause] you guys want chocolate? Of course. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Family photo and the GEO family. Dr. Peters or Dr. Peterson. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you, Sam. [Applause] Okay. Whoops. Sorry.
008Before we go up or we're probably just going to stay down here, but um the next award that we have is for our attendance. And each month we celebrate the school that um has the best student attendance. So it's really important that our kids are in school every day. Um just while I have the audience here, I'm just going to give my give my little attendance spill. Attendance. When your child is in school, that's how we receive funding for our um school district is through student attendance. So, it's very important that your kids are in school every day and we appreciate your your support. If they're sick, we want you to keep those germs at home, but when they feel better, come back. So, this month it goes to Discovery. [Applause] Thank you. Discovery has
009been our only winner. And could we stop? Could we stop one one moment? Do we have any Discovery students here? Where is it? Come on up. You get to be the Discovery family. Come on up. You get the trophy. You can hold that. You get to hold it and you get a picture and you're going on Instagram. Thank you. Here you go. Thank you, [Applause] Discovery. Okay, now the moment we've all been waiting for, and that's for our poetry contest. And at this time, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Jerry Peterson and Corbay. Good evening community, uh, families, governing board, Superintendent Sagata Jones, staff, students. Before we get started, I just want to let you know that we've been celebrating the po uh poetry uh winners. I was going to just make up
010a number more than one year, less than 50. So, we've been celebrating it for quite some time. Um, I wish I knew the exact number, but um, this the level of poetry these students have produced this year is quite fascinating and amazing. And so, let's just give them all a round of applause for their work this [Applause] year. I know it's never an easy judging task when we judge the winners. Um in front of you you'll see third place winners, second place winners, and first place winners. And that is per grade level for the whole district. And so it's truly an honor for let's say a second grader being even a third place winner because that's out of all thousand second graders we have in the district. So that's pretty cool. So um without further
011ado, I'm going to it's going to work like this. So if you want to take pictures, you'll know how it's going to happen. So when um Miss Moore ring here, she is our coordinator of literacy um and social studies and gifted and and and she um she will announce the name of the winner and their place. The students going to stand up, shake shake some hands, get the medal um and then um the first place winners will also read their poem as well. Afterwards, families, um please feel free to join Miss Mooring in the um courtyard area. We have some cookies and lemonade for you if you'd like. Um uh but we're really excited about this. So without further ado, here we go. Good evening. Welcome. So we're going to start with our kindergarteners. Our
012third place winner from Sunset Vista is Matteo Delipopaz. [Applause] [Music] Just don't shake. Sorry. Our second place winner, also from Sunset Vista, is Diana Cruz. [Applause] And our first place winner also from Sunset Vista is Jackson ID. [Applause] He has a stupid eye. Sorry. Sorry, Jackson. It's all my fault. All my fault. I messed you all up. I'm sorry. Come on. Let's read your help. Do you want me to hold it? Okay. And I'm going to stand right here by Red is for apples. Red is for apples. Orange is for juice. Orange is for juice. Yellow is for Yellow is for bananas. Green is for leaves. Green is for leaves. Blue is for the ocean. Blue is for the ocean. Purple is for jellyfish. Purple is for jellyfish. Pink is for oxalotti. Pink is for
013axelottles. See, he did better than me. Sorry. A beautiful rainbow. A beautiful rainbow. [Applause] All right, our first graders in third place from Challenger is Darlene Irisa. [Applause] And second place also from challenger is Annayia Commons. Congratulations. Thank you. And our first place winner from Desert Spirit is Anna Vadina. [Applause] Do you remember or do you want me to help you? Help. Music. Music and art and art. Soft soft harmony. Tune tune. Listen to Billy Isish song. Listening to Billy Isish song. Good job. [Applause] All right. And our second grade winners, our third place winner from Challenger is Martin Salazar. [Applause] And our our second place winner from Smith is Mia Cisaros. [Applause] And our first place winner, also from Smith, is Olivia Hawkins. [Applause] My friend and I are a lot. We like to
014plot. My friend and I are very kind. We have a great mind. My friend and I like to rhyme, but it takes time. My friend and I like to climb. We climb at recess time. My friend and I have been friends for three years. Mia, please don't disappear. She is such a treat. She is always so sweet. I don't have a clue of what I would do without you. Our third graders, our third place winner from Sunset Vista is Elliot Senior. [Applause] Our second place winner from Jack is Dave Aguilar. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] And our f first place winner is Sophia Rosolei. And I'm going to read her poem. Oh, sorry. She is from Sophia is from American. Her poem is named Allseason Haiku. Spring, animals are born. Flowers are blooming lovely. It is the
015spring month. Summer. It is hot outside. The sun is up high to see. It's the summer month. Fall. The leaves fall from trees. Trees are beautiful to see. They're perfect for fall. Winter. It's snowing outside. I want to go outside. It is beautiful. Our fourth graders in third place from American was Aldo Ortiz Ortiz. [Music] [Applause] Our second place winner also from American is Uzio Portillo. [Applause] And our first place winner from American is George Chakon. [Applause] I tend my garden same as my soul. Every morning I am bold just as the air and the snow. I hope that you will agree with me that Alaska, New Hampshire, and Miami are some of the greatest places in the world because they have snow. Snow is good for the environment because snow can help plants grow.
016It can make them moist and cover them from the sun. Even though the sun is food for the plants. And here are some facts about snow. Snow needs pollen and dust in the air to form. And it can never be too cold for snow to fall. And I hope you have a good day. And now our fifth graders. Our third place winner from Jack is Angelina Gatabai. [Applause] Our second place winner from Challenger is Olive [Applause] Slaughter. And our first place winner from Jack is Xavier Gonzalez. [Applause] The plane soared throughout the sky very high, breaking through the clouds above the sea, climbing into the plane, into the sky, zooming above the plains Fast as a bee. The blades of a helicopter cut air. As fast as a tiger, hard as steel walls. The helicopter
017huge as a bear. The helicopter heavy as steel balls. And faint like a hot air balloon up high. Passing the clouds reaching for stars high. The burning fin like a cup by. The balloon lifting like a bird flying. As the wings caught ablaze, the ring as flame blooming like a flower in spring. [Applause] And now for our sixth graders from Sunset Vista in third place was Alaza Regoza. [Applause] In second place from Discovery is Sophia Gonzalez. And in first place from Landmark is Trinity Mccathine. [Applause] read it with you. Okay, we'll read it together. Through the hollow wind street where cobblestones hush beneath my feet, a silver mist begins to creep. A secret cold so dark, so deep. The lanterns flicker them without as unseen voices whisper out. A name, my name too soft to
018trace. Yet chills still slitter down my face. A shadow sways where none should stand. A fleeting brush, a phantom hand. I turn, I call, but hear no sound. As echoes swirling all around, the clock strikes 12. A hollow chime, a frozen breath, a twist in time. The buildings lean, then the nights in spand as whispers cur like ghostly swans. The mystery treats the spell undone. Yet something lingers with the sun. A whisper still a fleeting trace. A ghost breath upon my face. [Applause] So, our seventh graders in third place from Burton is Avani Fischer. In second place from Sunset Vista is Jonah Lisa Curo. [Applause] And in first place from Landmark is Oay Osuno Jose Osuno Via Verde. And we have a little extra special with this one. Jose is going to read it to
019us first in Spanish and then in English. Want to hold it? this. Yes. [Music] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [Applause] I'm not very good. Do you want me to read it? Do you want me to read it with you? Okay. Love is not fleeting ember. Love is not fleeting ember. Whisper lost in air. Nor a whisper lost in air. It's a fire we'll always remember. It's a fire we'll always remember. And b beyond despair. And b beyond despair. It lingers past the hands of time. It lingered past the hands of time. Through every storm and sorrow. Through every storm and sorrow. A melody. A melody. A sacred rhyme. A sacred rhyme that sings of bright tomorrows. That sings of bright tomorrows. So I will love you endlessly. So I will love you endlessly. Beyond this life beyond
020this life we see. We see. For love is more than just a dream. For love is more than just a dream. It's you. It's you. It's me. It's me. It's eternity. It's eternity. [Applause] Do you have goosebumps? Beautiful. All right, eighth grade. In third place from Jack is Jennifer Melendez. [Applause] And in second place from Landmark is Charlie Riiano. And in first place from Discovery is Amaya Valdez. [Applause] You want to hold it? So scared. Do you want me to please? Dream in progress. I have to be successful. I will be successful. Why, you might ask? And I might give you the simple answer of I mean, who doesn't want to be rich? But buried deep down, buried under smiles and tears, is a little girl whose dreams were bigger than Hollywood, bigger than her
021hometown, bigger than any of you can see now. I have to be successful for her. I will be successful for her because that little girl that lies within me, that only comes out in the wee hours of the night, deserves so much more than this place could ever bring her. She deserves the life her parents promised her. She deserves to give her children the life she could have only ever dreamed of. And she deserves to see the dream she dreamed before she even knew what a dream was come [Applause] true. Thank you so much, Miss Ming. Um, and another round of applause for these amazing students. [Applause] the creativity that that took. I could totally hear the lilt of the poetry and like just how they they said their poems. Very powerful. Very powerful. Very
022well done. And congratulations to all of you. Um very well done. [Applause] Jackson told me he was going to yell yippy. So, I was going to give him that opportunity. So, again, parents and families and friends, thanks you for coming. Incredible talent. You want to do it? Give me one moment and I'll come back. You all can yell yippy. Thank you for coming out. Um, incredible talent of your students. And at the same time, I'd like to recognize our teaching staff as well who work every day with your students. An incredible job they do. [Applause] All right, on three. Are you all gonna yell yippy? One, two, three. Yippee. All right. As Dr. Peterson in Kroay said, uh, families will excuse the parents and there was cookies and refreshments outside. Feel free to go and
023then we'll take just a re like a three or four minute recess so we can get everybody where they need to be. Thank you again for coming out. We appreciate you and thank you for choosing GSD. Just by the way, number one school district voted number one school district in Glen Hill five years in a row because of you. Thank you so much. It's currently 6:05. We will recess until 610. Welcome back. We're good. Okay. Welcome back everybody. We are now back from recess, moving on with our meeting. Mata Jones, are there any calls to the public this evening? President Martinez, no, there are not. With that, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Are there any discussion on any of this partic? I'll move to approve the consent agenda. Second. All right. Miss Bartell's,
024how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? And the chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on to our action items, of which there are quite a few. We will start with the meet and confer recommendations. Missado Jones. Yes, President Martinez. Members of the board, at this time, I'll turn over to Miss Debbie Valades. Tennant Sagata Jones. I am happy to be here with Jessica Pek and Tara Bernabby who will be um presenting in just a moment our their debut meet and confer video for everybody. Uh, you know, we went through our meet and confer process uh this year and met with all our department groups, which we love that part of of doing it all, and sent out
025the recommendations. And uh we had 595 employees say that responded to the recommendations, the survey, it was just a a few questions, three questions. And again, this year we had a 98% of the employees that responded, of the almost 600 said yes, they're in favor of the recommendation. So, it was a great response on that one. And so, with that, I'm going to turn it over to the two of them and then we'll show the video in just a second. Oh, and do I have excuse me, one more, do any members of the meet and confer team that are here this evening, would you please also stand and be recognized? It's a lot of time and effort that's put into it. So, if we can give them a hand. Thank you. I'm gonna turn it
026over to these two. Hi, my name is Jessica Peek. I'm the president of the Glendale Education Association, and we comprise five members of the team. We have three certified members and two classified members that participate in the year-long process. and we are thankful for the opportunity to continuously improve the district through these recommendations that come from um all sectors of our district. My name is Tara Bernabby. I'm the proud principal at Harold W. Smith and this was my first year on the team. It was a pleasure to finally be able to be a part of something I've admired from a distance from for several years. Um, I was teased for watching with popcorn during COVID because I enjoyed the process so much and I really learned a lot just watching online and it was just
027awesome hearing for our employ from our employee groups and during the discussions what things have really come a really long way and are going extremely well um in our district in addition to those areas that you'll see are in progress or added to the agreement. So, with that, here's our video. Welcome to the 2025 2026 meet and confer recommendations for Glendale Elementary School District. I'm Jessica Beck, the president of the Glendale Education Association, and I'm Tara Bernabby, the principal at Harold W. Smith Elementary School. The members of the meet and confer team include Sarah Balder, Tara Bernabby, Shannon Gleeve, Stephanie Hoppelman, Norma Howigi and Amanda Marque Marowitz, Jessica Pek, Noami Ramos, Reggie Torres, Debbie Validz, and Elizabeth Leer. The two items being added to our agreements are introduce the meet and confer agreement and the
028hello ID tile at the beginning of the school year and review it when appropriate throughout the year. Explore the idea of a parental leave bank that would function like a sick leaf bank. Items that are already in progress include site leaders along with the director of operations and management will plan site curb appeal projects. The district will research available resources for adaptive PE. We will consider funding avenues and stakeholder input for the potential purchasing of handheld curriculum for the related arts. Educational Services will review the professional development calendar to ensure that all special education requirements are met. We will communicate both verbally and in writing when compensation changes are to occur. And related arts teachers will be involved in the creation of their electives roster. We'll provide systematic support to staff that are experiencing class
029sizes above the standard. The district will increase the explanation of and market the benefits package and compensation elements before contracts and work agreements are offered. Re-evaluate and increase sped compensation to attract and retain special education teachers. Communicate the importance of wellness to all employees. Continue to explore the option of a child care center for our employees. Increase promotion of sick leave buyback. continue to work with the consultant to look at salary decompression. We will work with employees to figure out a break before evening events. We will explore ways to partner with medical group to come out regularly to our systems of care center to do wellness exams. The district will provide training on synergy and create a committee of all stakeholders to review cell phone and technology procedures. And now employees, here's where we need
030your help. Please weigh in now by scanning the QR code to vote. Voting must be completed by Wednesday, April 9th, [Music] 2025. It just stays on the QR code a little longer so that people can scan the QR code. So that is those that was our meet and confer process this year. You can see lots of feedback we get from the department groups. we are able to look into resolve get them in pro in progress and you'll see there's a lot of that going on like I've shared before we have a solid meet and confer recommendation the the the program is it's solid we've had a group these last few years that have done an excellent job so our agreement is one that we just want to make sure we're following through on and that's
031why if we're sticking to it we're like we're really doing we think as a district a great job and the team does too and just the feedback we get from the groups. The one thing I want to share and I'm going to be going into the pay for performance. So, I'm just going to segue. I know you have to vote on this one, but I'm going to segue right now is the pay for performance committee. That is the design of the plan. That's our plan design for pay for performance, which I'll talk about in just a minute. The meet and conferred. Miss Valades. Yes. Are you just referencing that because that's an action item. the um we need to do the action item for meet and confer and then go pay for performance plan. Yes,
032you're just referencing. Yes. Yes. Well, that'll be next in a minute. Yes. Um Superintendent Sagata Jones, but part of our meet and confer agreement, the language you approved last year was this language that for the 2425 school year. Uh we were going to maintain the current performance plan. The language that was approved last year is future pay for performance amounts will increase or decrease proportionately based on state funding. That's a part of the current agreement. So, I just wanted to share that that agreement's already been approved. It's there. And so, every year it will increase or decrease proportionately. So, this for the 2526 um school year, it's actually going to increase um 6%. So, I just wanted to share that with you. Any questions? I have one. Um so, is this the first time you've
033used the QR code? We used it last year. Did you have the same I mean 98% that's amazing. Yes. That approved well 98% approved it. Last year we did use it. We had um almost uh 700 people that responded to the survey this year. 600. Wow. That's very good. We do have a few less employees this year. I'm just going to go with that the rational. Any other questions or comments from the board? President Martinez, if I may, I would like to thank um the meet and conferred team uh for the work that you do being out there. Jessica, thank you for your leadership and doing that. Tara, thank you. And this Balades, thank you and your team for it's a lot of hours that you do and you spend and I appreciate uh your
034commitment to making sure we come back with a solid plan. Thank you. Right. Is there a motion to approve the meet and confer recommendations? I'll move to approve the meet and confer recommendations. I'll second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? And the chair votes I. Moving on to our second action item, the pay for performance plan. Oh, you can't walk away now, Debbie. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, Debbie Valadz will now present that plan. Hello. Once again, uh the pay for performance plan. uh Superintendent Sagata Jones, board president and members of the board, the performance plan. I am going to really go through these slides quickly because again we have an amazing
035performance uh committee who came up with a solid plan. The they get feedback every year. They come back with any concerns. Everybody, you know, they talk to their staffs and have not really needed to make any changes. So the only thing we have really done is uh change the eligibility requirements. The plan itself has not changed. That this has stayed the same. The school data 25% the professional development 25%. The ways to get your hours have stayed the same. So the only changes have been in eligibility requirements. This year the committee had a great question because what happens is in the summer we have lot we already know lots of our new hires and some of the schools are doing some staff development that would be re very beneficial they are not and if their
036new hireer would like to come and attend they invite them so this year they added the language that if I've received a contract and I attend something in the summer at the school site I could actually use that as part of my professional development hours. So, that language got l um added. That's in the red. The other language was really just clarification language. We added the word work agreement. We just cleared up some language as far as um making sure you get your pay since it happens after um the last day of school. Those truly are the change the only changes to our eligibility that the team came up with. And uh here is everybody. Oops. Here is everybody that was on the performance committee. lots of returning people every year. So, it's always very
037exciting to get to work with them. Questions? Um, just one question on the um see if I can find it. Oh, where am I? Um, so under the uh 25% professional development, um, it says professional development examples teaching pediatric school course. Um, is there a restriction on college course? I mean, can you take anything? As long as it benefit, you can use say how it's going to benefit you in the classroom. But board member Wilson, then it's acceptable. No. Mr. Martinez, members of the board, if I may, um, Miss Valdez, thank you again for your leadership. Are there any of those committee members here in the audience, teachers or staff? If they are, please stand so we can recognize you and your work. Thank you. All right. Any other questions or comments from the board?
038Is there a motion to approve the paper for per pay for who wrote this? I'll move to approve the pay for performance plan for the 2526 school year as presented. I'll second. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimementel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmo, how do you vote? And the chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on in our object uh action items uh administrative performance play pay Miss Sagata Jones. Yes. Um members of the board um if you'll look at that item it reads it's the same. It is recommended the governing board approve the superintendent's recommendation to certified and classified administrative performance pay for 2526 school year as presented. Any questions or comments from the board? Okay. Is there a motion to approve the certified
039and classified administrator performance pay plan? So moved. Second. Second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimementel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harm, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on. Financial and compliance audit for fiscal year ended June 30, 2024. Miss Sagata Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board. I'll turn it over to Mr. Mike Barrian. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, I'm going to have Miss Gavl take the lead. Uh, as well as our auditor. I'll have her do the introductions and then I will chime in to touch on some of the questions that we had during the study session. All right. Good evening, uh, Mr. President, members of the board, Superintendent Sagata Jones. Um, tonight
040I have my co-presenter with me. This is Mr. Dan Johnson. He is a partner at our audit firm, CWDL. He's also um he was our lead auditor for the fiscal year 24 compliance audit. Um, before we get into the slides, I did want to take a moment to recognize um some of my staff. Sitali Ramirez Benvdas. She is our budget uh accounting supervisor and she's the audit liaison. So she's the one that is taking all she's meeting with all different departments and sites and gathering information so that our audit team just has one person to go to and they work through her. So she's done a phenomenal job. Uh Miss Tammy Delgado, she uh does purchasing for the district and she has a heavy lift with the procurement side. So, a lot of the questions
041on the compliance questionnaire belong to her. And then also the IT SMS um student management team, they've they have a lot of questions on the compliance questionnaire as well. And that's our ADM. So, they've done also a great job with um the audit. So, let's go ahead and get in. So, I wasn't going to read the slide, but this one I got to read. Uh during the 2021 legislative sess session, House Bill 2018 was passed that requires um governing boards to public publicly accept all audits and compliant questionnaires by roll call vote. Additionally, language was added to the statute requiring districts to provide electronic copies of the annual audit reports to both AD, Department of Ed, and the county superintendent's office. This is a brief timeline of the audit. um we have auditors on site
042um to go through our documents and look at verification of of our work. So they come in May for preliminary audit and then they return in November to do a final um October they're looking you know through all of our encumbrance period as we wrap up the year in October and then final reports are due in December. Um we don't just those are May and um November are when they do come on site and review but I'm talking with Dan you know throughout the year getting guidance on how to handle certain situations. We don't always know how to code every single thing. So I will reach out to him for guidance so that we know that we're on the right track and it doesn't later on um result in an audit finding. Good evening, uh,
043Superintendent Seato Jones, members of the board, thanks for having me out. Um, I'm just going to kind of run through some of the, uh, the highlights of the, uh, act for annual comprehensive financial report. That's your, uh, financial statements. It's about a 100 pages, give or take. Um, and some of the key areas of that, um, are on page one of the report. Um, you'll find our audit opinion. The district received what's called an unmodified opinion, which is the the clean opinion. um no material missed statements or anything were noted there. Um as you move um further into the financial statements you'll uh come to a section called management's discussion analysis and that's really more of a a narrative. It has a lot of current to prior information. Um there's a you know analysis this
044this type of revenue went up this one went down. Um gives a high level analysis of the district's operations. So, if you want to focus time on that ACT, there's a lot of uh boilerplate information that you can read in there if you have trouble sleeping, but that's kind of one of the key areas where I would focus your time. Um, moving further into those, you'll come to the governmentwide financial statements. That's your statement of net position and your statement of activities. That's presented on the full acrruel basis of accounting, which is more comparable to a private sector audit. Um so that has all the um capital assets recorded, all the bonds, pension liability, OPED liability. Um moving down to your fund level financial statements, that's more of the the current measurement focus. That's a
045little bit closer to your uh AFR accounting. So that's reported on what's called the modified acrruel basis. So there's none of those long-term assets or liabilities. It's just anything that's current and then within um one year of the date of the financial statements. Um the notes of the financial statements provide a lot more detail on a lot of those account balances. Um you know the district's various bonds, pension liability, capital assets. Um note one is a summary of the district's significant significant accounting policies. Um there's a lot of information of the notes. Um and then between the notes and the statistical section there's a couple budget to actual schedules. I would also take a look at those. It kind of gives that uh you know budgetary comparison you know where did the district you know
046come uh at the end of the year in terms of their what was budgeted versus the actual um after that is the statistical section. Um it's a about 20 pages of unodudited information. Um it's a lot of 10-year trends. So there's 10 years of financial data of uh you know the net position revenues um as well as demographic and uh um long-term debt data. So, that's kind of another helpful section where I'd spend a little bit more of your time to look for those long-term trends. Um, in addition to the ACT, we also um issue what's called the single audit report, and that's where we look at the district's uh federal awards. Um, there's kind of two reports that won in there. There's one with the uh report on internal control over the financial statements,
047as well as a second report for the report on internal control over federal awards. Um, we had no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies this year. That's consistent with last year. Um, you know, Miss Carveo and our team do a fantastic job. Um, this year we, uh, the programs are tested on a rotation basis. Um, for this year we tested the special education cluster as well as your education stabilization fund, also known as ESSER. Um, that got us about 58% coverage. Um the district qualifies as a low-risk audit. So we're only required to get 20% but just due to the size of ESSER and the way the rotation worked, we got well above the required 20%. And uh the the last report we issue is everyone's favorite. This is the uh the USFR compliance questionnaire. It's
048about I think we're up to 36 pages now. It seems to get just a little bit longer each year. And this is really that it's a yes no checklist that's put out by the uh auditor general's office. And it's a very comprehensive review of the district's operations. Um you can see at the bottom of the slide there, you know, we look at, you know, did the district submit its budgets on time? We can look at cash handling, inventory, capital assets, um revenues, expenditures, uh you know, we make sure that the district's in compliance with its uh pay for performance plan, um payroll travel, procurement, uh student attendance, the the list goes on and on. It's a very very comprehensive examination. And so next we'll look at how we scored on that compliance questionnaire. So of
049that 36 pages um there are 171 questions yes or no. And for 2024 we had four findings. Um so overall 98% this was an improvement from last year. We had 10 uh findings last year and this year four. Um so as you can see some of the big areas that are um reviewed are cash and revenue procurement with 26 questions and then student attendance. They've got 23 and 13. We're going to look at um a neighboring district, we'll call them a surrounding district and how they did on their compliance questionnaire. um just as a comparison on um kind of where we stack up. Dan, would you kind of go into a little bit when you see four findings or four nos, right? And so when we talk about questions, Mr. President, members of the board,
050think about they're literally compliance questions. Did the district comply with X, Y, and Z? of the 171 questions, we had four that we did not meet um the expectation. But Dan, can you talk about when you go from four to 28 as an auditor, can you just describe kind of what your thoughts are specifically in areas of categories because there's some deficiencies um that may be weighed heavily or heavier than the others? So, can you just briefly talk about that? Yeah. Uh for sure. Um to touch on your first point, not every finding is weighted equally. Um if we can go back to your slide. Um the four findings that the district got. Um and the these are yes no questions. Um one of the ones in cash and revenues that is a finding that
051uh full disclosure you can go to any district and find is uh did the district make their cash deposits in a timely manner. And it's and it's seven days. It doesn't matter if it's a weekend holiday, spring break, seven days flat. And this includes a lot of money that comes in from the sites. So you can see where that in the the seven days the timer starts as soon as the district receives the money. So you know say there's a school site that you know they collect money for student activities and don't you know remit that in a timely manner by the time you know it gets to the business office you know it's already too late. Um so that's a super common finding. Um same thing with property control. Um I believe the one
052we had there was one asset that we couldn't locate. You know the district has thousands and thousands of assets and uh student attendance reporting. I don't remember off the top of my head what it was, but it's very very minor. So four on its own is very very good. Um I say anything under 10 is an A. I know educators like letter grades. Um but yeah, for four these four findings are weighted very differently than four procurement findings, for example. You know, if you get four serious procurement findings, you know, you're likely going to get a visit from the auditor general or other state agencies. And then when you go up to 28, um 28's a lot. Um my record is 60. Um but uh yeah yeah 20 28's a lot. And then if you
053look at this you know you they had six procurement findings that that's those are serious findings. That's very different than six attendance findings um that they also had. Um you know these findings can I know I don't have to detail this but you know uh expenditures findings that can be anything from an after the fact PO to missing invoices. So a lot of these are more more severe and um Guess did I answer your question this way again? It does. Thank you. And I think the point really is and I want to kind of relate it to the study session back in February as a board. How can you trust that with trust what the administration saying? I think asking questions from an independent auditing firm that does a comprehensive audit of thousands of documents
054on an annual basis. I think it's an opportunity for the board to ask those questions to provide you what I would say is additional assurance uh in what we are communicating to you what we uh present to you uh because I do believe um that this is an opportunity to continue to build on that trust and transparency that I believe we've had for the last 10 12 years. Um so audit deadlines all um reports are required. The audit is due by March 31st. So we were well within our time frames and then um submitting our comprehensive annual financial report. Um we do submit those for award consideration and let me see and we did receive um from ASBO International they recognized certificate of excellence in our financial reporting and also GFOA the government um government
055finance officers association. And so in conclusion, um all of our financial documents are audited, looked at um and submitted um also for to the credit um agencies for creditworthiness. So when if and when we do sell bonds they will look at um you know our financial reporting and the auditors didn't find any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses and we did um improve from 10 to four audit findings any questions you know one of the things that I noticed because I actually looked at think at that 100 plus page one and I'm like it kept going and going and going But I appreciated the fact that there was the page because I was looking to see okay where did we oops and you know it it gave a qu you know here's the question here was
056the outcome and it it explained exactly what it was and it was like oh oh these are easy fixes. So and we do um meet with admin secretaries, school secretaries and we go over those top three um topics in every meeting. student attendance, um, cash revenue and procurement. Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, I just want to add before or when the auditors come on site, we have typically a premeating or Valerie will do that. Definitely we have an exit interview and that exit interview I believe at least when uh since superintendent Guy Jones has been superintendent uh we bring the auditors to talk to um the executive team based on those findings so that we can bring a higher level of transparency and ensure that everyone in on the management team knows and
057is hear directly from the auditors and potentially just ask questions because there is a thorough conversation about what did occurred, what could have been done differently. And so there's definitely a I believe a good communication between us and the auditors and our goal is always to try to reduce those findings whenever possible. And thank you for the good communication between your teams and us and uh making it transparent and clear and uh not so difficult to read and understand. Go ahead. Just uh one one final thought I wanted to add. You know, a special thanks to you know, Valerie Sali and all their uh the teams and various departments they work with. Um I believe Mr. Bergen said, you know, we we look at thousands of audits or uh thousands of audits, no thousands of
058documents each audit and uh you know, they they go to all these departments and you know, bug them, get them to pull everything and you know, the the various departments have to take time out of their day because the audit is an addition to their their daily workload. noted, you know, we really appreciate as auditors, you know, when we receive timely audit documentation, complete, you know, everybody's a pleasure to work with at the district and one of one of my easiest clients, I guess, is I guess what I'm trying to say. So, I just wanted to say that. Thank you. I just like to say that I thought it was interesting as I was going through that 100 some odd page document. This is an awful lot to read for it to tell me that
059there's really nothing there. So, so thank you for that. I like I kept reading and it tells me, you know, it starts off with the summary like this will tell if management did this and this and this this and then the very last sentence is always we didn't find that sort of issue at Glendale Elementary School District. I'm like you couldn't have prefaced us with that. You could have led with that. It would have made the reading so much easier. Um the only other thing that I would add is looking at the slides and and looking at the um your on slides seven and 12 when you're looking at the grid that shows the uh compliance questionnaire answers. Um, my only suggestion is, um, put the label on that slide that this is GESD and
060then the next one is not GESD because when I go back and I look at this 10 months from now and I see this slide without context, um, it it worries me a little bit. Um, just just slap something on title on there. It's there. For some reason, it's cutting off the top portion. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, allegedly that'll that'll come up in a PDF audit later. Are there any other questions or comments from the board? All right. Then I'll move to approve the financial audit and the compliance questionnaires for the fiscal year that ended June 30th of 2024 is presented. I'll second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? Hi. Miss Pimementel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes
061I. Thank you. All right. The finance fund continues. Moving on to the 25 expenditure budget revision number two. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, Mr. Barrian. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, uh, we're just going to review the, uh, most current revision for your approval or consideration. I'm happy to go into this a lot deeper if you'd like. Um, want to be sensitive to what the board did ask in February and and the political environment that is occurring throughout the state. And so, our goal is to provide you with the information as you believe is sufficient. And so please stop me as we go through this presentation. What we wanted to do is just provide you with less charts uh and just really focus on this year alone. And you're going to see
062the ADM from when it was presented to you back in the summer and how that number has evolved to today's budget. So you can just kind of see how that's decreased. 8323. Slight decrease, slight decrease, decrease, decrease, and then we're kind of back to that 8,000 figure, which is which is great. We want to also kind of provide you um those numbers side by side. So, when we talk about the M budget, sometimes you'll refer you'll hear me refer to that as the general budget limit. And you can just see how that's evolved in the third column. If you um third column, third row, you're going to see the which the override, which is specifically the M override. As the revenue control limit increases, that override amount will fluctuate. The other piece that increased is
063that last line, what we call fural, which I don't know that I like the acronym, but it's the supplemental funding one time 5.84. So between those two amounts is how that bottom line increased by roughly a million dollars. This concept applies to capital as well. You'll just see how that's increased throughout the various revisions. I know this document's hard to see. We're going to give you another slide that's going to kind of hone in on what the point hopefully that I can try to make tonight. the adopted budget. If you look at column B, and I understand that they're small figures, there are two figures on top. When you jump to the revision, you can see that that number goes to zero. And that was because in order to keep the M whole when we
064when the enrollment decreased at the time that we revised previously, we had to move monies from capital into M to ensure that continuity of services in the maintenance and operation, which is where salary and benefits are incurred remain whole. That revision number two, with that increase of ADM that we did not necessarily anticipate, we put some money back into capital. This is a little bit of a better slide, the 2.2 million on top, and the 4.4 is what you have in addition to the capital override or the DA DAA override. What I do want to point out and I think this is a good document next year with the anticipated decline in enrollment the two what is today 2.2 and 4.4 will have to be budgeted in M in order to maintain some level of
065continuity. In other words, you're going to move money into M. You're going to reduce your capital which means that there's less capital funding in that subsequent year. So, I just want you to kind of think ahead and think about what this might look like next year. That concept applies with capital as well. So, we wanted to give you those side byside page eight so that you can see how that has evolved over the last several months. This budget would be a 14.8 million capital revision, which is an increase. I don't believe that you're going to see a 14 million plus capital budget in subsequent years. I think best case you're probably looking at eight maybe nine. I don't believe it's going to be higher than that in subsequent years. And with every year that amount
066should should decrease. Financial risk. At the study session in February, we talked about financial risk. These are the categories that the auditor general reviews. This is what how they've categorized Glendel. We've kind of tried to anticipate what that following year will be. I want you to um look at that category that says financial position. Look at that definition. I do believe you're going to see that increase. And that's when the money's coming in is greater than the expenses. I'm sorry. The money coming in is less than the ex expenses that you have. Did I say that correctly? Less money coming in. You know, typically for my final thoughts, I give you bullet points. That approach was not taken uh this time around. I typically don't like read uh to read uh word for word, but
067I'm going to do that here today. Glendale's financial outlook for 26 will be impacted by a decrease in the budget balance carry forward from 25 and a and a slightly larger than expected enrollment decline of 3.9 compared to the previous 1.9 forecast. While these factors present challenges, the administration is carefully reviewing the preliminary demographic study and over the next several weeks we'll present that information to you, the board. To address these challenges, we will continue to focus on efficiencies, closely monitor expenditures, and implement a targeted marketing plan to retain attract students and staff. A strategic and disciplined financial plan must be imple implemented to ensure GSD remains solvent. We do believe that those financial challenges will be ongoing and as uh that information becomes available, we're in a preliminary phase with the demographic study, we
068will provide you as we always have done uh when we've commissioned that report is to have the firm here present and give you the opportunity to ask questions uh so that you have the information to make decisions. Mr. President, members of the board, I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Any questions or comments from the board? Well done, sir. Thank you. With that, is there a motion to approve the revision 2 budget for FY25? So moved. Second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Hario, how do you vote? I chair votes eye. Thank you. All right, moving on to action item F, policy revision, second reading. Mr. Sagda Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board. Um,
069these are the second reads. We did not have any um concerns or feedback from the first read. So, let me go through those if you have questions. A district mission and belief statement. AA school district legal status. ABA community involvement in education, AVAA parental involvement, AC non-discrimination, equal opportunity, ACA sexual harassment, ACA title nine sex discrimination, AD educational philosophy school district mission removed, GBK staff grievances, NJI student concerns, complaints, and grievances. All right. Any other questions regarding these second reading items? Is there a motion to approve the policy readings? I'll move to approve second reading. Second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pinmanel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on to item
070G, the board meeting calendar. Miss Jones, looks like we laid it out for next year. Yes, President um Martinez, members of the board, this is for the 2526 school year. Any questions or comments? All right. Is there a motion to approve the board meeting calendar for the FY26 year? I move to approve the uh governing board meeting calendar for the 2526 school year. Second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. Chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on to the employment um item H, employment of coordinator for school district communications, Miss Sagata Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board is recommended the governing board approve the employment of Miss Michelle Nunes as a coordinator
071for school district communications for the 2526 school year salary and benefits with the coordinator schedule as presented. Is Miss Nunees here? Miss Nunes is listening to us. I believe she is out of state. Okay. I I can say looking at her resume, I looked at it and said, "Yeah, that that's a marketing major right there. The only thing missing is the little uh animations that might go along with it." Any questions or comments? With that, is there a motion to approve? I'll move to approve the employment of Miss Michelle Nunees as the coordinator for school district communications for the 2526 school year. Second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimementel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes
072I welcome to GDS, please. Great. Since you're listening at home, Miss Nunees, feel free to take a lap around the house. Moving on to item H. Uh, employment of an assistant principal for Harold W. Smith School, Missagata Jones. Yes, Mr. Martinez. Members of the board is recommended the governing board approve the appointment of Mr. Chris Kaine as assistant principal of Harold W. Smith school salary and benefits commencement with other system principles as presented. And is Mr. Kane here with us today? Are there any questions or comments? All right. With that, is there a motion? I'll move to approve uh Mr. Chris Kaine as the assistant principal of Harold W. Smith's for the next school year. Second. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Fmentel, how do you
073vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. The chair votes I. Congratulations, sir. Moving on to item J. Employment assistant principal for William C. Jack School. Miss Sagata Jones. Yes, M. President Martinez, members of the board, it's recommended the governing board approve the appointment of Miss Keegan Coleman as assistant principal of William C. Jack school salary and benefits commenor with other assistant principles as presented. And I know she's here because everyone's looking in a general same general direction. [Applause] Any questions or comments? I have a comment. Uh Mr. Clark is not over there doing it. He asked Mr. Mr. Bergen if he could play dad tonight or be dad tonight so he's with his daughter. A is that why he's sitting in the audience tonight? Yes, it is. Either that or he's resigned. Gave
074him a night off. All right. Uh is uh is there a motion to approve? I'll move to approve uh the employment of Miss Keegan Coleman as assistant principal for William C.J. Second. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? I Mr. Hadio, how do you vote? And the chair votes eye. Congratulations. We just hiring all kinds of people tonight. All right, moving on to item K. Employment director uh special education program and educational services. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, it's recommended the governing board approve the appointment of Miss Albert Cordova as director of special education programs and education service for the 2526 school year salary and benefits commanded. Do I even have to say it? Miss Cordova, any questions or comments?
075I'm going to go forward to make a motion that we approve the employment of Miss Alba Cordova as director of special education program and educational services for the 2025 2026 school year. And I'll second that. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Hadmio, how do you vote? I And the chair votes I. Congratulations. [Applause] Moving on to item L, employment of director of special education operations in early childhood. Miss Sagata Jones. Yes. As recommended the governing board approve the employment of Dr. John Hec as director of special education operations in early childhood for the 2526 school year salary and benefits commence the director schedule as presented. And is Mr. Heck here? Yes, he is. Any questions or comments? With that,
076is there a motion to approve? I'll move to approve Dr. John Hec as the director of special education for operations and early childhood. Second. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes I. Congratulations. Congratulations to all of you. You may now all take a lap around the room in victory while we move on with our meeting. All right, moving on to uh item seven, future meetings and events. Miss Sagata Jones, what do we have coming up in our calendar? Uh yes, for April special meeting is there um depending on what that is, that could be telephonic. Um but also we need to consider it. Um as Mr. Bergen said, we will
077be meeting with the demographer I believe next week and then we will need to schedule a study session to discuss the demographic study and present to you um how we will um move forward with that with that data. So, I'd like to leave that 24th there if we're able to turn that around after we meet with the demographer or we would have to look at one of the meetings in May. Okay. Any questions regarding the agenda come up? Looking forward to seeing the demographic study and see where things are moving. Moving on to item eight, summary of current events. Miss Sigetta Jones. Yes, Mr. President, members of the board, just want to recognize again GSA and Biceai South for their incredible work on the back that's displayed. Thank you. Um, we do have two schools
078that made it to the final four and they're the top two. It's a Desert Spirit in Smith. We haven't heard anything yet, but we're awaiting that information. Also want to recognize we were able to travel to Atlanta to the NSBA conference and um, Shannon Glee presented. She did her thing doing what she does, fighting for free and reduced lunch and free meals again for the students in Glendel but also across this state and across this country. Thank you Shannon for your work and your leadership and then again presented Dr. Jerry Peterson and Carvaya and also Adriana Alvarado Parsons presented on our marketing um what we do in the district and Mr. Martinez also participated in that. Thank you. It was an incredible presentation that you did. Uh we also received we were the most popular
079group there because we had our all-in for all kids. You know, we're always going to market the district and uh we got stopped everywhere. Monica, how many times? 300 maybe. It was like 530 times. In the first half hour. Yeah. Random people were here. Random people. Yeah. Shouting from the rooftops. Literally. Everybody clapped. They did because we wrote on my shirt, clap if you like this shirt on the back. So, no, we were the hit as we always will be. We're number one. But uh with that, again, thank you for the presentations. It's always wonderful to be recognized nationally. Um I also want to say thank you to the wellness fair and everybody um that put the wellness fair on. It was it was great. A lot of vendors there, a lot of staff there,
080and it's we have such wonderful benefits in this district. And so, thank you for the wellness fair. Um, I also attended the band concert. It was amazing. It was great the band concert. So, thank you band teachers and our students. Art show. We were there last night. A lot of incredible artwork is there. So, thank you teachers and staff. Um, last night was the first year we did with our preschool presented their art and did art and it was wonderful to see that. Um, so that was great. The poetry, the students were amazing and uh the teachers thank you for the work you do. And then again the meet and confer the committee. Thank you for your work. And then I'd also like to uh recognize that it is um the uh the week for
081our assistant principles. So could they please stand? Thank you for your leadership. Um that concludes my report. All right. Thank you. We'll go ahead and start down there on the end. Miss Bartellis, what do you have to share with us? Well, the first is there's no grandbaby yet. Um, but uh I got to say, you know, it's always amazing to see just how creative and talented that our students are. And I know that's with the guidance and support of the staff as well as the families. But, you know, especially the art show yesterday, it's just it's a little demeaning to me because I'm like going, I cannot create any of what those kids have put out there. But I just want to thank everybody for all the work that they put into all those events.
082Thank you. All right. Thank you, Miss Wilson. Yeah. Well, our superintendent didn't really leave a whole lot for us to to reiterate. So, I'll just have to say ditto on everything she said, but um yeah, the uh art show yesterday, I was I just wanted to comment on one thing and that I would see just something spectacular and I would look and it would see first grade and I just, you know, I'm amazed at at at the talent in the lower grades. They're upper grades as well. Um but thanks to all of you who helped to put that on and art teachers, you do an amazing job. and uh to the parents who support um the kids even in you with the poetry. Um you know we have to give uh a lot of kudos
083to the families um that support the kids and um you know I know they make them sit down and think about it and it's you know just a great thing for the uh kids to express themselves that way. So um outside of that um just have a great evening. All right. Thank you Miss Fmentel. So, ditto on the poets. Uh, boy, that is talent with being able to put their emotions, their feelings into such beautiful words and and thank you teachers for helping foster that creativity. Uh, not only just with the poets, but with the arts. I think the the art show is my favorite of the year and and I I want more awards that I can give out because it's so difficult to choose but our kids are truly talented. um meet and
084confer. Congratulations in in watching this is my ninth year watching that and uh it is quite the process and hats off to everybody that's part of that and congratulations to everybody who is new to our district or moving around in our district. Um congratulations well earned welld deserved and we're lucky to have you. Thank you Mr. Hario. Um, just to save time, quadruple ditto on everything. Um, my baby is due any time now. So, if you see me or Brenda run out, it's because our side of the family is having the baby. So, well, we're going to have we're going to make my comments extra long just to make sure that you're here when the baby is delivered. didn't I'm just messing with you. Just messing with um it's been an exciting couple of weeks.
085Um the first the the community band and I I told everybody that would listen to me that had I known that they were going to play Jurassic Park, I would have worn my inflatable T-Rex costume to the band concert and just walked across the floor. Um but it was it was so good. It was so amazing. Um it was just blew my expectations away. So everyone everyone involved did such a great job. um had a a a good nice a great time over at NSBA this past week. Uh it's a very strong conference. They have a lot of of really valuable sessions. And we were all kind of like all over the place. So we saw a lot of things that were relevant to us uh and really hit home. Those are items that we
086can take away and immediately put back to use in wherever we happen to do. Uh, which reminds me, you you see those click clickbait stories where they say, you know, the scientists don't want you to know this top secret or or nutritionists don't want you to know this, you know, this secret to weight loss. They've obviously never talked to any one of those people because people who are experts in those areas will absolutely just love to bend your ear and talk your head off uh to listen to everything they have to say. So, I got to watch um Jerry and Adriana and I got to we got to sit in on Shannon and seeing them up there and just talk about something that they are passionate about and that they are experts at um really
087puts a nice shine on our district, knowing that, you know, we have these people in house and and able to to help guide our district to that next level. So, thank thank all of you for volunteering to present. Um, it's great seeing us up there and kind of representing. And it's interesting. I I just found out we were one of the things we were talking about in in Shannon's presentation is talking about the tariffs coming up. And I didn't know that we don't we don't have bananas in the US. We import every single banana we have. So, if there is a a large tariff on Mexico or any place else, um, say goodbye to bananas. It's banana flavored everything from here on out. No actual bananas. So, we'll forget what bananas taste like. So, um
088it was great seeing the art show last night. Um I we all the board members got two ribbons to hand out. Uh we walked through the entire exhibit first to hand out the ribbons and then went went and handed out the ribbons afterward. That was a lot of fun. It was great seeing everybody out there and seeing all the parents enjoy. And last but not least, six weeks left of school, guys. It's only six weeks left. I mean, how many of you have like a countdown on your phone of how many days you have left till you finally check out? No, no, no. You just want to continue all on. Okay. All right. That is it for my closing sessions. And if you want to hold on for just a moment here. At this time,
089the governing board will consider voting to recess the regular meeting in order to convene to executive session for the following purpose. in accordance with ARS 38-43103A3 for the purpose of discussion or consultation for legal advice with the attorney or attorneys of the public body regarding federal guidance on title six the federal education rights and privacy act protection of pupil rights acts and required attestations from the Arizona department of education and United States department of education is there a motion to I'll move to um recess the regular meeting to convene in executive session for the reasons stated. Second. Second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? I. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? I. Mr. Harmia, how do you vote? I chair votes. Thank you. Could we please have our
090newly appointed people come forward and then um the rest of you uh you are excused. I forget every time. Do we need to vote? Yeah, because we vote. Yes, we all right. Welcome back. Is there a motion to reconvene to regular session? I'll move to reconvene regular session. There a second. Second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? Hi. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? Hi. Mr. Harmio, how do you vote? I and chair votes I. We're now back in regular session. Moving on to our action item 11A. Uh any comments or Miss I'm sorry, Mr. Gat Jones. What am I reading? I don't know. Uh just Yeah. Okay. We need to make a motion. Any comments or or u comments or questions regarding 11A? Yes. Um, this piece
091of paper that we have to sign is essentially holding our kids hostage and forcing us to take actions that go against everything we stand for. you know, not only as a district, but as a people that have worked hard to include people in our spaces that have historically been attacked and marginalized and criminalized based on the how they look and the color of their skin. So, for me, this is a gross attack by the federal government. They are literally holding our children hostage with millions of dollars in funding, telling us that if we do not sign this and abide by their will, they will take away millions of dollars in funding, which will cost educators their jobs and remove food from the bellies of our kids. For me, this is disgusting a disgusting overreach of
092the federal government. And for that reason, I I cannot support this. Right. Any other comments? Right. Is there a motion to approve the signing of the what is this called? You're going to give the authorized superintendent. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Um, I will authorize I make a motion to authorize the superintendent to sign the related documents. There's a second. I'll second. All right. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. Miss Wilson, how do you vote? Because it's for our kids, I'm going to say I. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? In agreement with Miss Wilson, I vote I because our children deserve so much more. I vote I. Mr. Hadio, how do you vote? I I do not blame my colleagues or any other districts for voting I because again, if we vote no on this,
093kids lose out. And we are put in such a horrible position. And for that reason, I'm going to vote nay. The chair will also reluctant reluctantly vote I. Um it's just one of those things that we have to swallow our pride and do what's in the best interest of the district because that is why we're here. With that, the motion carries. Moving on. German. Is there a motion to adjurnn? Move to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor?