001because I That's who he was. That's the husband or the partner. That's not a good thing. No, it's not. I did think it was interesting that they didn't like really go after penalties and things like that turn in something. Well, I think they were just trying to I don't know. That doesn't mean I don't think that they're not. It was just like we don't know there was something he Like I was like, "Same, dude. Same You guys ready? Good evening everybody. Welcome to tonight's governing board meeting for the Glendale Elementary School District. It is March 27th. Please let the uh minutes reflect that we have myself, uh, Miss Bartell, and Miss Pimentel are here tonight. We are missing Mr. Haramo and Miss Wilson are not going to be here this evening. Uh, before we get
002started, Miss Sagata Jones, are there any changes to the agenda? Good evening, President Martinez. Members of the board, no, there are not. All right. With that, is there a motion to adopt the agenda? I'll move to adopt the agenda. Second. All right. Uh, Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? I and 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 our special recognitions. Miss Sagata Jones, who's our Just Because this year, this month. Okay, could we go ahead and step down and we'll do those recognitions. Good evening. For those of you that are joining us for the first time, um each month we do a just because award and we randomly select
003a student and a staff member and we just want to through our foundation Gusta say thank you for choosing GSD and being either a student or a staff member and we're very excited tonight to begin that with our first student and our students um just because this month is Noah. So, Noah, can you come [Applause] up? Good to see you again, Noah. Come on up here. Noah's from Smith's School. So, Noah, with your just Because, we're going to give you a Just Because plaque. You're going to get this container full of candy. Uh, this is our logo for the GSD logo for you. It's pure chocolate. Here's some taffy for you, our mosaic, because we're a mosaic of mines. And then also we always talk about being kind to one another. And so these are
004our kindness crayons for you. In addition to that, we have this yard sign for you. Okay. That says you are a recipient of just because. And so let me tell you how this works. Okay. What time you go to bed? 8. Okay. Well, about eight. I'm going to drive by your house and you run out and hold this and wave and smile at me. Okay. Got it. All right. Can we have Noah's family and uh Smith family come up and let's take some pictures. Family members. Yep. Oh, it's no way. I'm sorry. I was saying Noah and it's no. Sorry. Why didn't you tell me? You can just tell me. Hey lady, it's wrong. Sorry. Here's for your little brother. Well, I think that's just a precious little name and I'm happy you're here. All
005right, here we go. We do pictures. Great. Thank you. to sing with us. One more thing. Noi, we have one more present for you. You get this. This is our treasure box and you get to choose something from there. Whatever you would like. Go ahead. Look through. You can look through and see what you want. So we can see what's at the bottom, too. And this. And another egg. And Lego. And books. And more [Music] Legos. And more Transformers. And Pokemon. You want Pokemon? What do you want? Whatever you'd like. All right. Thank [Applause] you. Next, um, we have we do the same thing with our just because and we do it for our staff member. And this month, our staff member is Tom Clark. So Tom and Tom Tom is our director of it.
006Wow. Okay. Tom, do you go to bed before 8 or after 8? 11. All right. 11. All right. Okay. Be out there and I'll swing by and honk. Make sure you do that. All right. Now, hopefully my camera doesn't have any technology problems because I'll be texting you about it. And Tom, where's the IT family? Glattus, where's the IT family? Great. Thank you again. Um, we were able to do this on behalf of Gusto. In addition to that, uh, each recipient received a $50, excuse me, a $50 gift card from Walmart as well. Tom spent his on his grandchildren, I'm sure. So, or maybe he didn't. It's already gone, he said. All right. Thank you so much. Our next set of recognitions, we um are happy to have Kowanes here. and Kowanas does a student
007of the month and they also do um a school of the month. So, Roger, would you please come up and do that with us? Cindy Sagata Jones, GESD board members and staff. Thank you for inviting me here. My name is Roger Coulter. I'm the president of the Glendale Kiwanas Club. Tonight, I am here to recognize the Kiwanas Club. What? That's on the uh the Kuwanis cord Kiwanis club superintendent student of the month for March 2025. This award is special because the student has been chosen by the superintendent for her hard work, passion for helping others, and making our community a better place. It is with immense pride that we nominate seventh grader Susan Kennedy from William Jack School. Not here for now. I got to say a bunch of really nice good things about you.
008All right, you ready? Susan is a diligent seventh grade student who consistently values academic achievement and kindness towards others. She is always willing to help someone in need and is a classroom leader through her service and examples. Her studious nature and admirable work ethic have helped her make tremendous academic gains. Not only did she have perfect attendance during the 23 24 school year. That's pretty good, huh? That's great. But she is also already working towards high school credit as a seventh grader in our district's algebra 1 program. A reflection of the growth she has made as a diligent scholar. It is a pleasure to have student in the classroom and she helps strengthen the learning environment with her presence alone. That's pretty good. Susan's enthusiasm and commitment to the student council is truly inspiring as
009she often happily as she is often happily volunteering for jobs at school events. She was our secretary as a seventh grade seventh sixth grader and is currently our vice president. It is clear she cares deeply about William C. Jack school and all of the students. As part of her Jack Garden Club, she helps to beautify our campus via our sunshine garden. She's a wonderful example of what it means to be a Jack Dolphin. She has a bright future ahead. Congratulations, Susan. [Applause] Okay, you're going to go away with a whole bunch of gifts tonight. All right, this is a certificate student of the month for Susan. And uh you get that. Okay, you also get a $50 gift certificate to Walmart. You can spend on anything you want. And I have something special for you.
010It is a goose egg with a garden um motif to it. A lady in my community makes these. That is a real goose egg and it's got flowers all around it. So hopefully you'll keep up gardening for the rest of your time. This is a little container she makes. But at the bottom is a message about what this egg represents. So, you get that, too. All right. Congratulations. You're not done. You got to get your picture taken. All of us. Can we have Susan come up and family come up as well? Yep. Jack family come up as well. Congratulations, Thank you. And then Susan. Susan, we also you get to choose from the treasure box as well. You're welcome. [Applause] We give him chocolate. Oh, you get chocolate, too. See, I told you you were
011going to get a lot of stuff, huh? There you go. There you go. Thank you so much. Okay, now we have Roger, you want to do our Kowanas school of the month? Okay. The Glendale Elementary School District and Kuanas Club of Glendale have developed the commitment to servant leadership award. Each month, a school in the district will be named for this award. The Kowanas Inspiring Change Award for the month of March is Glenn F. Burton School. Brian, that's you. There we go. Wonder who's gonna get this here. Hold on. I got a few things to say about the school, too. So, yeah. The staff, students, and families of Burton School have worked hard to not only increase their academic success, but have worked to increase their partnerships. Two sustainable partnerships that have made a positive
012impact are with the Arizona Science Center and Apollo High School. Burton School has had a strong partnership with the Arizona Science Center for more than five years, bringing in high quality staff and student experiences around their steam signature program. Also with Apollo High School, students have become an integral part of the Burton school culture, supporting students in their academics and seeing what successful students do in their high school years, expecting the future Apollo High School students. You make a difference in the lives of students. Congratulations, Glen Burton School. This this is a traveling traveling uh trophy, so you only get to keep it for a month. One month. And Roger, anybody else? Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations, Burton. [Applause] And now we have the trophy. Congratulations to GSC school with the highest monthly student attendance
013for the month of February. And that school is [Applause] Discovery. So the discovery award goes to the Discovery School. Congratulations, Discovery. We appreciate that. Great. Congratulations, [Applause] Discovery. So, thank you to Discovery students and parents and staff for great attendance. And with that, we'll come back up. All right. Thank you. Congratulations to our winners for this month. Um, it I was happy to be the one that got to go shopping for all the stuff in the little toy box. And the little kids are easy to shop for and the teen and pre-teen boys are easy to shop for. And I struggle with what do you get with an older seventh and eighth grade girl? I said, "What do you get for teen girls?" So, what do teen girls like? And I asked Liz and she
014goes, "Teene boys." Like, that just won't do. So, I hope she found something that she liked. She chose a book. Good. All right. Moving on in our agenda. We do have a call to the public this afternoon or this evening. Um, give me a second to read this. The public is invited to address the board on any issue within its jurisdiction subject to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions. Governing board members are not permitted to discuss or take legal action on matters raised during open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action. However, the law permits board members to do the following at the conclusion of open call to the public. Respond to a respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board. B, ask staff
015to review a m matter or C ask that a matter be put on a future agenda. Those wishing to address the board should complete a call to the public form and submit it to the board secretary prior to the start of the meeting. Each speaker will be provided three minutes to address the board unless provided other direction by the board. At the outset of the speaker's remark, the speaker should state his or her name. So, at this point, the board recognizes Mr. Craig Griffith. That's a long walk with everybody watching. Forgot my phone. I got three minutes. Correct. Three minutes. Um anyway, thank you board for uh seeing me. Uh my name is Craig Griffith. Uh, two weeks ago, I woke up to went to a couple doctors, went home, took a nap, went to
016the Ironwood Cancer Center, spent two and a half hours getting an iron infusion. And then I, while I was sitting there, I read that up above us in the federal level, they had disbanded the, excuse me, my voice cracked. They had disbanded board of education. So, I seen where the next board meeting was and I came and um, I was the only one here. So I was talking like we were just in a room in my living room. So what I want to say is I want to thank all of you for what you do. Educating our children is the most important task anybody can be can have. Um and so all I want to say is I um had five five kids that have um gone through the Glendale Elementary School District. 40. Two
017of them have already been there. Three of them are still in there. And all I want to do is say that Miss Connley and her staff and all the crew there, and I'm sure all the crew from the different schools, they don't do this because they want to get rich. They do this because of the kids. And all I want to say, excuse me, is I support the board. I support the school. And if there's anything that you need from the public, I'm retired. I've been I'm 66. I retired at 58. I do nothing all day long. So, if you need anything or you need somebody to volunteer for something or anything like that, please do not hesitate to give me a call. And thank you all for what you do. I do appreciate it.
018And excuse my cracking of my voice. I can't talk very long at all. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, sir. We appreciate your comments. Moving on in our agenda to the consent agenda items. Um, are there any comments or uh discussion on consent agenda items? Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. Miss Bartell, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimentel, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on to reports and information items. revised regulations and exhibits. Miss Sagata Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, we have several um of these that we need to go through. So if you look at aa- that's an exhibit that's been removed AC-R you can see the verbiage has um changed just changing
019from procedures to process to investigation um aligning to policy and statute and that's it on those you get to the regulation and it's really just an address change or update and then you get to the sexual harassment ACA-R and you see some verbiage changed again from procedure to process on those And then we have the ch well we see then the changes from the sexual harassment as well. So questions on any of those no. Okay. Moving on to our action items then at this point. Uh action item 6A, employment of principal. Yes, Mr. Gter Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, is recommended the governing board approve the appointment of Miss Marisol Molina as principal of Discovery School for the 2526 school year salary benefits commens with the other principles as presented. And Miss
020Molina, welcome. You ready for the big leagues? All right, we we're training them well. They're not clapping before we vote on it. So, it's We're getting better. Is there a motion to approve uh the Go ahead. I would be honored to move that we approve Miss Marisol Molina as the next Discovery School principal. That is an emphatic second. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. Miss Fmentel, how do you vote? I. And the chair also votes I. Congratulations. [Applause] I love doing the good stuff. Now we're going to move to the boring stuff. Moving on to policy revisions. First reading, Miss Sagata Jones. Yes, President Martinez, members of the board, we have several to go through. Um, the first one is a district mission and and belief statement. You can see uh what the recommendations
021are. We have simply put in the mission of the district is to foster an environment of academic excellence through innovative learning and build tomorrow socially responsible learners. That's the change there. We go to AA school district legal status. It's just a simple statement. The district's legal boundaries can be found in the transcript that the county school superintendent annual file superintendent annually files with the board of supervisors and county accessors and then um compare ABA and that one is community involvement in education and they've taken out a a lot of the language that some of it is redundant but it just is um ask asking that we encourage an active active involvement in district activities. So that's a change on that. ABAA parental involvement. The district supports the active involvement of parents and guardians as partners
022in their students educational activities and makes it more broad if you ask me on that one. And then we're at AC, non-discrimination, equal opportunity. The next couple of um policies are regarding uh equal opportunity as well as the sexual harassment all falling under title nine. It's just taking out a disability, but also any other biases prohibited by law. The board is committed for a policy of non-discrimination in relation to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, or any other basis prohibited on by law. So then ACA sexual harassment, just some wording that has been changed. No, nothing else. Remember from title nine we had all the new changes to title nine then it changed and then we didn't have the new changes to title nine either. So that's what you're seeing it flip-flopping back
023and forth. And then title nine sex discrimination. I know I addressed some questions that were asked about the term of sex discrimination uh and harassment and those are the terms that are used by title n. Um so that's why you see those um changes there on um presented. And then the last one is um being removed which is educational philosophy school district mission because we stated that back up in a then you have GBK staff grievances they've um in such instances uh the affected individual may request that the governing board review the situation what's being removed in cases of alleged sex discrimination. This grievance procedure should provide supportive measures to complainants and respondents affected by the lead sex discrimination conduct and not require adequate notice. Must provide an equal opportunity to present and access evidence
024and provide reasonable opportunity for response for each party. And um this then is going back to the changes made uh through um our title nine as well and grievances and concerns. And then JII student concerns, complaints and grievances same statement is taken out and it's just are any other basis considered by law and these are again minor changes from what we currently have in policy. Any questions or comments from the board? All right. Is there a motion to approve the first reading? Okay. I'll move that we approve the first reading of the policies listed below. Second. All right. Miss Bartell's, how do you vote? I. Miss Pimementel, how do you vote? I. And the chair votes I. Thank you. Moving on to future meetings and events. Miss Sigato Jones, what's coming up? Yes. President Martinez,
025members of the board, we have at the next um board meeting, April 10th, will be meet and confer recommendations. Um board meeting schedule the administrator pay for performance plan still on target Miss Valadez and then financial and compliance audit report Mr. Beran and then s um certified pay for performance plan. Are we moving that miss valid or will be ready to go? It's ready to go. Okay. Any questions? Um, I just want to make it so everybody knows I may or may not be here for that meeting, but for a very good reason. So, right. Thank you, Graham. Baby, you can only not be here for a good reason. You can't pick a bad reason to not show up. That's the first. At least don't tell us. Lie. That's the grandbaby's coming. She's due six
026days later, so I'm like, I'm ready. You're such a grandma sometimes. All right, we'll move on to the summary of current events. Miss Sagata Jones, what's been going on lately? Yes, President Martinez, members of the board. Um, I hope everyone had an enjoyable spring break and we're all back and it's great to see everybody. The student artwork in the back is GSA and by South by size South. I just want to recognize that and the work that they do. Um, we do have Reed to the final four and that is Desert Smeirit, Desert Smeirit, Desert Spirit and Smith. Desert Smeirit and Smith are to the final four. So, u, we do appreciate the work of the staff and the students and the families. So, we look forward to those celebrations. Um, you can clap for
027that. That's a good thing. Yeah. We've been doing site visits. Um glad to see everything's, you know, see teachers I'm seeing teachers u doing remarkable things in the classroom and great uh collaboration in their CTTs as we're getting ready for ASA. Um we had our stack students the other day. If you um looked at Instagram, we had them do a little cheer to encourage and motivate our students for uh the ASA assessment. So, I know that teachers, you know, have prepared the students always to the best and they're going to, you know, they'll perform the best that they know and everything will be fine. So, I know it can be quite stressful uh out there, but you know, you've done a very good job with your students and um it's time for them to perform
028and they will and we'll be very excited to see their results and celebrate all the growth that they have made. So, thank you to staff for that. We did prior to break did the American promising practice celebration through solution tree. We had that uh scheduled in American. So American staff again thank you. It was a wonderful celebration and recognition for them at the national and state level. This Saturday we have the prom closet happening at the system of care. That's always a great thing where uh young teens can come and choose um a prom outfit. So we're excited about that. be able to host that through the uh Rotary. April 1st, uh we will be um at the capitol. It's the a day of the capitol for schools and our horizon uh folklorico will be
029present or performing there and uh that's always a great event for our students to have an opportunity to visit the state capital that same day. Later on in that day, we'll have a kindergarten roundup. So that's scheduled. We're excited about meeting our new families. And then be prior to the next board meeting, we still will have on April 2nd the district band concert and then the wellness fair will be on the 9th. So we're excited about that. The art show is also on the night and then um the governing board and myself will be traveling to an SBA annual conference. Uh and there we are excited because Dr. Dr. Peterson and um Adriana Parsons will be presenting along with Mr. Martinez and ourselves. So, we're excited about market uh presenting our marketing plan uh at
030the national level. And with that, um that concludes my report. All right. Thank you. Well, starting down on the end, uh Miss Vartell, do you have any updates for us? Um, well, it, you know, it's always a challenge to get volunteers during the a break during the school year, but we did have market on the move right at the end of the break. So, thank you to the staff that came out and the the volunteers from the Apollo Key Club. Um, just welcome back everybody and I know it gets to be a busy time, but there's just so much energy with the students and the families and the staff. So, it is very truly appreciated. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Fmentto. Uh, yes. Welcome back from spring break. Um, it's never long enough, isn't it?
031And then you get summer and it's hot. So, if we could switch that, that'd be great at some point. Congratulations, Miss Molina. I have every confidence in you and I know you're going to be wonderful. And, um, I'm when I read your name, I was just excited. So happy for you. Congratulations. And, um, I didn't know about the first. I don't know that I can make it. I love to see everyone's face when they see our students performing. But um go ballet folklorico and I can't wait to see all the art in the back. It's great stuff. All right. Thank first of all congratulations to our new principal. Uh I'm sure you they will love you over there uh just like they love you where you are now. So I'm sure there'll be some tears
032and some happiness. and then um maybe you'll have the honor of coming up here and picking up these perfect attendance trophy yourself one day. Um other than that, it's been it's been a great spring. There's just a couple months left in the school year. Then we'll be promoting some eighth graders. So, I'm looking just just as countdown of days for this time. So, uh everybody, this is the time. We just had our break. Let's finish strong. Let's get through this. And uh everything's going to be good. And I'm looking forward to seeing what NSBA has for us next week. There's been a lot of upheaval in the uh education and whole business of education that's been going on lately. So, it'll be interesting to see uh how other districts and other governing boards are dealing
033with that and and what good ideas they have. And even though I think I'm on the program as a presenter and and Miss Sagata Jones says I'm presenter, I'm not. I'm just there. I'm not just the hype man um for for uh Jerry and Audriana. So I just sit in the back of the room and every once in a while they point at me and says, "Mike, what do you have to say?" And then I say something and then they move on without me. So um I it works best that way. I I will give credit where credit is due. I will bow down before those who are better than I am at doing what they do. And these two are definitely uh meet that uh specification. So thank you. I look forward to that.
034And uh is there a motion to adjurnn? Move to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor? I have a great evening everybody.