001e e e yeah he's not coming about minutes ago okay I'm sorry I have a mouthful of caramel popcorn right now I'm trying to get through it the the left door is open left side oh everybody is that him give me a second here y good evening everybody Welcome to the the March 13th meeting of the Glendale eluminary School District governing board meeting uh Miss seata Jones are there any changes to the agenda this evening good evening president Martinez members of the board yes sir is I'd like to remove item number two special recognition um just because we have have well it's CA just because but um because we um have parent teacher conferences and we wanted to have the families here with a bigger audience to celebrate them okay is there a motion to
002adopt the agenda minus section number two I'll move to adopt the agenda noting the change second all right Miss Bartel how do you vote hi Miss Wilson how do you vote hi Miss Fel how do you vote I and share votes I thank you please join me in a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance please rise all right uh moving on in our agenda is there a call to the public this evening I do not have any requests for call to public Mr Bergan would you help him complete the form we're going to go ahead and wait because obviously this gentleman braved the rain and the storms that we are having outside so uh I think we can extend a little bit of Grace to give him a chance to fill out
003the form in the meantime I went down to cettas before I came down here today so I have some lovely caramel corn and peanut brittle up here if anyone would like to try some from cettas it is absolutely delicious and offer you some of my chocolate covered jalapeno but I ate it and it was also delicious e okay Mr Mar Mr Martens we do have a call to public right I apologize I can't uh read the last name but Craig Griffin Griffin gri Griffith all right please come to the podium sir you need to read huh read oh sorry I do need a read statement the public is invited to address the board on any issue within its jurisdiction subject to readable time place and Manor restrictions governing board members are not permitted to discuss
004or take legal action on manners raised during C 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 the open call to the public one respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board B ask staff members to review the matter or C ask that the 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 otherwise directed by the board at the outset of the speakers remark the speaker should State his or her name Mr Griffith yes
005I have three minutes is that correct okay so I got to be quick my name is Craig Griffith I am a um citizen of the barrel District just for transparency I'm a republican I'm not a Democrat here to bash people okay um so with that said um in 2016 Hillary Clinton won by 2.1% Donald Trump just won by 1.5% you can Google that and he says he has a mandate and his mandate is to dismantle the Board of Education I've got five grandkids that I've been raising one goes to glendel and once's graduated during the Amy trout years the school failed my 19-year-old I had issues with Amy trout and I took him up with her and the vice principal and the district superintendent I've got two more kids in there now three kids okay
006all under the age of 10 two of them need help according to what I've been reading and what I've been hearing on the news the school board or the Department of Education that handles kids that need help is history if that's true I need need to know what the Glendale school board I would hope that you guys as a school board me I ran four plants in three states I had a contingency plan for everything machine broke down it cost me $5,000 an hour I had to make sure it was up and running I'd like to know how what Glendale Elementary School District board is going to do when that board of education comes to you and tries to cut things what is your contingency plan and how do you plan to address it we
007are right now Massachusetts is number one in the schools Jersey Jersey is number two Iowa's number four that's where I'm from Arizona's number 47 we're not even 50% we're not even 50% and they want to cut stuff from the school 39% of our of our College grads um um 39% can't read they can't read how does that happen okay now my question is and I'm not trying to take anything out on you guys but you guys are the ones that are going to when they come down they've announced what 12 $1,300 1300 cuts to the to the Department of Education already they're going to cut more if anybody in this room doesn't think they are then you probably shouldn't be here and my question is how are you going to address that what are you
008going to do and what are you going to do help my two grandkids one of them she can barely read she's in sixth grade and you're giving her help she's got an EAP and I got another grandson that's got an EAP okay so that's just my question is what you're going to do when the stuff comes rolling down which it's getting ready to like a freight train and like I said please I'm not trying to make any any uh say anybody here is doing anything wrong because you're not but what you will be tasked with with educating our children and I want to know how you're going to do that with no Department of Ed education that I've got I live at 8360 North 58th Avenue and I've got uh four kids in the system
009right now the fifth one that graduated the system failed him he he's he's unemployable and uh because he had he has issues and those issues were never addressed I was told they'd be addressed and they weren't and that's where my problem with Amy trout came in is because I know the school board but she flat out lied to me and I had it on tape that she lied to me and that's why I went to the the district superintendent whoever the guy is in this office over here with that child unfortunately it was too late for those kids I know my time is up 10 more seconds I want to know what you're going to do for the other three kids when the Department of Education gets slashed thank you for listening to me I
010appreciate I hope I didn't dump too much on you thank you sir um I will I think I could probably speak for everyone here that your your concerns are our concerns um there are things that we meet with we we we think about on a day-to-day basis as as as absolutely absolutely sir absolutely I do not deny that those are our jobs um and decisions will come once once those decisions to be made um I can't speak to any of those decisions at this point because it's not an action item at this point um but I can tell you that there are that we are cognizant of the changing landscape of what happens and uh as a district we will do everything that we can for our children am I allow to can't continue no
011I'm sorry we we kind of need to continue at that point it's part of the public discussion um you had I I'm sorry I I'm not I'm not allowed to legally engage that in sort of that sort of discussion because that will come up on a future board meeting at or some point within the agenda so it depends on when it comes up Sir okay we are going to move on in our agenda to the consent agenda are there any comments or uh uh comments or suggestions on the consent uh consent agenda items all right with that is there a motion to adopt or approve the consent agenda I'll move to approve the consent agenda second Miss Bartel how do you vote I miss Wilson how do you vote I miss pment tell how do
012you vote I and the chair votes I thank you moving on to our action items we have the employment of a coordinator for the Glendale Success Academy Miss seata Jones yes president Martinez members of the board is recommended the governing board approve the appointment of Diana dri and the coordin for the coordinator of GSA for the remainder of the 222 24 20 2425 school year and the 2526 school year salary benefits commen with the con coordinator schedule as presented and is Miss driver here welcome Miss driver I guess it shouldn't really be welcome because according to resume you've been around for quite a while is there a motion to approve the uh position it would be my honor to approve the recommendation of Deanna driver into this new position I'll second right Miss Bartels how
013do you vote I miss Wilson how do you vote vote hi Miss Pentel how do you vote hi and it's been a long time coming and it my privilege and honor to also vote I welcome congratulations thank you very much please feel free to take a Victory lap around the [Laughter] office moving on in our agenda the future meetings and events uh Mr Jones what's coming up yes president Martinez members of the board if we look at the next meeting we will have is March 27th we'll bring in classified employment renewals we'll also have recommendations for the principle of Discovery at that time and then you'll see in April is pretty packed we'll bring back meet and confer they completed yesterday and so we'll bring back those recommendations as well as all the certified and
014admin um perform performance um per performance plans and financial compliance audit report will be done at that time as well all right thank you any questions or comments on the future agenda items all right with that moving on to our summary of current events Miss Jones what has been going on in the past couple of weeks yes Miss president Martinez member of the board i' like to First recognize um the artwork in the back from Desert Garden as well as GSA so thank you GSA staff is here thank you for that incredible work that's back there we appreciate each of you and work that you do so thank you um Basketball Championships it was great to see Sunset Vista girls were the champions this year and desert Spirit boys were the champion so that was
015uh the girls game was very exciting to the to the down to the buzzer it was a very exciting game also wanted to just um you see in the B uh board update that Shannon Glee has been in DC and she's been advocating for school nutrition um as we see at the federal level Cuts being made she is a they um they're fighting for you know and advocating for our students here in Arizona Across the Nation so very proud of the work that Shannon has done it was read Across America so uh thank you for coming out to schools and reading uh all those that participated in that it was great to be in classrooms we had music in our school so uh thank you to Dr Peterson and carva and John Moritz and all
016the music and classroom teachers that helped um kick off that event was great it was fun it was a good event probably one of the best ones we've seen in a long time it was a variety of events um that they use venues that they use was great and then of course tonight it's parent teacher conferences so that's why we have no one in the audience all of our staff and parents and families are attending parent teacher conferences at this time and with that it concludes my report all right thank you we'll go ahead and start on the board ABD down at the end Miss Bartells what do you have for us well I think I attended everything that Miss Jones just deluded to um but I'd also like to do a shout out I
017believe it was the city of Glendale that had I think about 40 volunteers with prepping food boxes this week from the um St Mary's Food box distribution that was a well-oiled Machinery we were out the door by 9:29 a.m. so um thank you to them for all their help on that um we were able to serve we had over 400 boxes that went up on Wednesday wow that is both good to hear and sad to hear at I know that that it's the blessing and the curse it's I'm I'm grateful as a district that we've got the volunteers and the capacity to do that for our community but it is is also disheartening knowing that there's that much need in the community right right thank you Miss bell Miss Wilson I turn that on um
018I want to make a big shout out to um our GES trust um this this robust plan is just phenomenal um it I I'm just so proud of it and I want to thank uh thank you Mike and and and your team um all also the wellness department is fabulous but um it you know the we've just have so much to offer and this is the 12th year in a row that we have not had any increase in the premiums so we've absorbed um all of it so that our staff doesn't have to have to pay any extra and I think that's just uh something to celebrate um also the music in our schools was fabulous there was just a such a variety um and it was the kids just had such a good time
019um and I can't stress enough how important um music is in our schools and to the kids they they just build confidence and and you could just tell they had a great time um with that also um just I hope everyone has a great spring break I hope you do some relaxing and uh Happy St Patrick's Day and uh just uh uh weather the weather that's all I can say yeah all right thank you miss fentel those basketball games were exciting and and you're right down to the buzzer they were great I was jumping up and down and all all of us that were there were jumping up and down with the parents so that was awesome but we got a cheerleading preview that day and those competitions are going to be tight because those
020kids have improved immensely since last year so the cheerleading is coming up and the next couple weeks on a Saturday um thanks to Shannon Glee for being in DC to talk about real issues that face our kids and nutrition in our schools and uh enjoy spring break be safe uh during spring break and tonight on your way home all right uh I don't have much to add other than the fact that I I was at the Basketball Championships uh Brenda and Monica were both there with me and we were cheering it on and definitely normally you don't get to hear this a whole lot or you don't get to say this a whole lot but the women the women's game the ladies game were so much more exciting than the men's game it was it
021was a amazing it was amazing from from from the the beginning to the end it was amazing the the boys had a very passionate game there's a lot of lot of lot of Personality a lot of flares out there so it was it was still great to watch but it was still a great game um but women you brought it and and I nothing but great things to say about you so great job um it's it's been a very rainy week uh I hope everyone enjoys their spring break I hope everyone's enjoying their parent teacher conferences I hope you go well that goes well for everyone today and tomorrow uh other than that I hope you all have a safe trip home because it's going to be a nice rainy evening and uh enjoy next
022week as much as you can and get out and do something for your family all right with that is our motion to adjourn I'll move to a journ second all those in favor I I and chair votes I thank thank you very much