001uh so thank you i'm going to call this meeting to order dr foley roll call please president kaler members of the board please let the records show that four members are present thank you very much and just so everybody realizes mrs anderson will be leaving sometime during the meeting because we also have our williams field senior award ceremony tonight so she is going to go represent us so if you see her leave that is why thank you for doing that for us we're going to have a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance 2.1 i move that we approve the agenda second any questions all those in favor aye aye motion carries for zero next up we are going to move into at this time this meeting will recess for the purpose of
002holding a public hearing on the revised expended expenditure budget for the 2021-2022 school year in accordance with ars 15-905.01 members of the audience are invited to make comments and ask questions during this public hearing mr good evening president kaler members of the board tonight we are presenting the revised 2021-2022 mno budget so this timeline should look familiar to you this is the timeline that we used in all our estimated budget implications for both the 22 revision and the 23 proposed and adopted budget so we find ourselves on bullet 3 there with the may 2022 so as required by statute we are by may 15th we are required to submit a revised 2022 budget to ade this is the closest board meeting i can get to taking my time and revising this budget to be accurate
003for this year and then get that submitted today with board approval next step will be our june in which we'll present our 23 budget adoption first will be our proposed budget and then we'll adopt the budget at the following meeting so as a reminder the 2020 budget highlights include no anticipated additional covered relief fund grant funding we did face at one point in time that 1.1 billion dollar in the aggregate expenditure limit cuts that was passed an exception for this year by the senate and that was house bill hdr 2039 and that was passed on february 21st so that was a huge relief um in terms of letting us use our entire budget capacity for this year also including this 22 budget revision was the increase in adm that was approximately 2.2 percent and you'll
004see that reflected later in the slide um and also in this slide we're reversing the plans to reduce the mno to capital transfer due in part to our 2021 bond proposal not being successful we do need to fund that middle school lease payment completely out of our mno budget and so that that is also revised within this budget so moving forward to our budget revision number so in 2122 back in june we adopted a budget of 106 million 760 771 dollars that budget again was adopted in june we used various estimates to get to that number that included a 16 million carrier carry forward from 2021 which brings us to today so during our budget conversations throughout january through march we were targeting and estimating a budget revision of approximately 110 million that number slightly
005come down in this actual revision that we processed today that is due in part to some carryover numbers being slightly lower than anticipated and um some of their adm numbers with our group b weights being different so which affects our overall weighted adm um which enhance in essence reduced our budget that difference is approximately half a percent of what i estimated so pretty close when you're talking 110 million dollars so that jbl difference is an increase the four budget forms that were presented to you tonight as an increase of 2.7 million um that increase is part one of that seven percent increase that you've tentatively approved in the march board meeting so as a reminder that that seven percent increase was proposed with our 2022 budget revision and our 23 budget adoption so this is
006part one this decrease i would not be worried because what we're seeing right now with the legislature and what's tracking we anticipate a higher 2023 budget proposal so we will bring those numbers um when that budget proposal for 23 comes through um but this slight decrease in our budget revision for 22 um should not alarm you in in the fence and the the essence that we won't have the budget capacity to fund that seven percent increase and like i mentioned so tonight we're presenting the budget revision again on june 8th we will bring our proposed budget we'll be proposing that budget for 23. we'll use those same estimates that we tentatively approved at the march board meeting and then by june 22nd we we hope the state has approved a state budget is looking iffy
007right now there's still there's a lot of money on the table in terms of excess cash and so when you have a lot of money on the table defining priorities is where they're at right now in terms of where they want to prioritize those funds k-12 is the biggest budget number in the in the state budget but our state has not historically prioritized k-12 education funding so we hope there are some um initiatives out there some house bills and senate bills that um do have a lot of support for k-12 education and providing some additional funding going into 2023 so those are what we'll base some of our estimates on and we'll bring those on june 8. so with that if there's any questions i'll be yes thank you it's good for all of us
008we get the asba updates on the legislators legislative uh information so we're watching lots of bills anybody from the audience don't all russia once thank you very much thank you i appreciate you and we've eaten and slept and drank and all kinds of things of this budget so i almost haven't memorized numbers no i'm kidding it's a lot of numbers i'm kidding it's a lot of numbers okay we are going to reconvene in open session and move on to our superintendents report president kaler members of the board tonight we want to celebrate and acknowledge some of the individuals in in the boardroom tonight who were amazing in making our car art fest what it was and we all i know enjoyed being part of this and both sherry and chris are going to introduce our
009committee who was here tonight so that we can acknowledge and thank them for all the work that they did this was quite a beautiful celebration of our fine rights festival and our students in our district so thank you dr foley president kaler members of the board our amazing committee and our community at this time i want to do a special shout out to williamsfield high school we changed our location due to scheduling conflicts and they bent over backwards miss heidi zellner drove around on her golf cart lickety-split what do you need let me help you that whole administrative team along with the plant foreman jack morrison couldn't have been more accommodating so if you were able to attend i think it's easy to say we had close to 2 000 people in attendance so it's
010a big celebration and at this time i want mr watson hazard to come up because he's going to help hand out certificates and chris and i are going to call committee members up so when we call you up here please stay up here don't run away because you're going to get a picture with our amazing school board all right let's start with katie atkins [Applause] and i can go on and on about everybody but come this way either way you want to go okay heather bogus [Applause] my chesmar [Applause] rachel koblentz [Applause] janelle coda [Applause] bob edgar [Applause] pam edgar [Applause] elizabeth habib [Applause] jenny huddle nicole johnson [Applause] teresa joseph [Applause] david lotzenheiser [Applause] jack morrison [Applause] thomas murphy [Applause] kim ohanian [Applause] chantel parene curtis care reuben sherry richards thank you alexis sanchez
011[Applause] andrea zebo [Applause] chris treat [Applause] rudy trujillo [Applause] mandy verville [Applause] angie walker [Applause] vanessa weaver jonathan williard [Applause] heidi zellner [Applause] bob zucker as you can tell there were a lot of people on this committee and people are like how do you have that many people on the committee it took all of us right every single person millions of hours thank you i celebrate all of you the talent and your work ethic every day so how do we want to do this picture and who's going to take the picture teresa mandy is oh mike chismar was that your phone i knew it thank you for being here tonight we appreciate you and all that you do um we will continue with the superintendent's report um i just truncated a few of the big
012events we have as you know we literally have multiple events every night over the next several weeks and we're doing our best to get to what we can get to but as you can see we have a few more very important celebrations and we're looking forward to our retirement celebration tomorrow while we celebrate some of those who have been with higley who are getting ready to enjoy their retirement so thank you for your support on all of the events and activities that we have had thank you dr foley uh next up we have board comments mrs wilson thank you um we've been busy the last i think two and a half weeks three weeks um i was able to go to gateway point they had a stay trip and wild adventure came and that was
013fabulous saucemen had a law enforcement day with mrs kaler we both attended which was fabulous they invited queen creek to queen creek police station it's still kind of different to say police over and had a lunch for them chaparral had leadership day we also had teacher of the year which i think we may have overlooked that how great and fabulous that was we had the arts fest of course higley high school senior awards we also had a drug talk that we were able to do here a superintendent's visit and last night hta had a night of excellence that was fabulous and honestly everything i've been to has just been remarkable from our school so thank you to all the admin and all the teachers who are staying late and getting up early to make these
014events possible because without you guys we would not be doing this so thank you go ahead mrs anderson um i was on my way to um target to just background to get something at target and i was driving by williamsfield high school and saw a bunch of beautiful cars a couple of weekends ago and drooped and came back around and they were having a car show the band was having a car show there and it was great to see all different ages there showing off their cars young and old and i just wanted to give a shout out to the sponsors that made that possible they had awards for the people that went there and donated money and helped to support the ban i just wanted to make sure everybody got recognized for that mr
015kaler i missed one i'm so sorry um i also missed bridges i went i was able to go to williamsfield high school hosted bridges um willy wonka and it was a the cutest little play with the kids doing it so i'm sorry i forgot i wrote it i wrote all my things on their flyer and forgot them so i want to make sure that they're shout out as well yes there's been dance and shows and just every night of the week there's another event in higley that we could attend and um so we we do appreciate being invited not that we can always all attend um but please know that we we appreciate the extra efforts that go in this time of year to make all that happen not to mention preparation for finals and
016graduations and everything else so go ahead i just want to say i'm glad they're all happening and they're all back that's awesome so it's great even though our calendars are give me anxiety then it's still great that it's happening for sure all right we're going to move on to request to speak we value input from our constituents this time has been set aside for anyone from the audience who wishes to address the board please remember this is not an appropriate venue to evaluate discuss or criticize district personnel policy keb provides a process for complaints about personnel speakers should be aware that false statements about individuals may result in civil liability members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda therefore pursuant to ars 38-431-01h action taken as a
017result of public comment will be limited to directing the staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date please make sure you keep your remarks to three minutes we're going to start off with rob lander you thank you um good evening again higley schools governing board members amy kaler michelle anderson jill wilson and tiffany schultz good evening also dr don foley my name is rob landrieu i'm here once again with my wife uh and i'm choosing to speak my wife last time uh in regards to the importance of teamwork and how it's not just a useful concept but rather a necessity i go further to say that for success throughout life's journey for each and every person regardless of age we need
018to learn how to be a team player this begins being mentored repetitively by adults our young lives parents grandparents aunts uncles teachers and yes those adults that become part of our world through extracurriculars like sports and coaches that lead one's that's right team regrettably it's in reference to violations and policy they that i know the district is committed to investigating thoroughly even when it supports staff related like all coaching positions are i submit staff conduct gbeb that cites make the well-being of students the fundamental value of all decision making and action and maintain just courteous proper relationships with students parents staff members and others in addition staff conduct with students code gbebb as it states at all times teachers and other staff members will accord students the dignity and respect they deserve and avoid embarrassing
019any student unnecessarily lastly staff conduct of cooperation gveb-eb that reads higley employees are honest open and truthful admit mistakes and move forward err on the side of compassion strive to keep team members there's that word again informed with timely accurate and relevant information problem solved directly with those involved with concern whenever possible lead by example and encouragement listen value and respect team members input my wife and i are as active stakeholders in the community in williamsfield can with all respectable truth and integrity tell you these policies are not being upheld administration may say that that is the case with them but we assure you that it has not been the case with multiple players and families which has led to six school transfers we have submitted 14 pages of statements documenting events to three administrators
020that support that we are saying here tonight leslie and i are here again as invested supporters of the williams seal basketball program and are committed to achieving excellent excellence in every way to support every single youth involved is priority one we choose to mentor doing hard things for our children just they say they can be inspired to impact the world for others sake and not just their own thank you thank you very much we are going to move on to krista baccavi did i say that right kristen it's uh kristen mcafee okay christian mcavee thank you so first of all i want to thank you all for having me um so about me uh so i'm a new substitute and i'm super excited about that um so i'm coming to check you all out see
021how you all do it behind the scenes um and i'm also an author now i come from humble beginnings robbins which is what dwyane wade is from three-time nba champion it's very rough there right and growing up in school i was a slacker but i want to thank people like you all the superintendent the board right who were behind the scenes fighting for me but i didn't when i didn't even know you all existed right the teachers the principals um and i ended up going to asu because of my aunt who was from chicago but she moved a good year and she had a beautiful house up in the mountains right and uh and i just loved it i was like you know what when i get a chance i'm gonna go to school in
022arizona and i got the chance to do it and i became an author because while i was here in arizona i had a child who was eight and she changed my life and i was reading books to her right and i couldn't help but think like what does these books got to do with what i want to teach you right so tony morrison says uh if it's the if there's a book out there that you want to read that hasn't been written guess who has to write you right so um this led me i've been going to board meetings and i was at one board meeting in particular where the superintendent was like i don't have all the answers we need more community engagement we need more parents kids business on us right and i'm
023just like wow i feel like she talking to me right i got to do something about this so um so i wrote superintendents take the best selfies writing this whole school series write attention about superintendents right and i want to give it up to ms foley right dr foley because i haven't been too many board meetings and seen her not seen people not sitting with the board right the superintendent so i would say that's some humility there um but i believe i solved the 200 year problem that's how long education has been around about 201 years public education and matt maxwell he has a book called 21 irrefutable laws of leadership and in the book it talks about the law of the lead right the kids and everyone else would only rise to level of
024leadership as the leader right so we have to raise the law of the lead and that's why i believe my books are so important um because it's raising the law of the lid and teaching them the different levels of superintendents which i believe a lot of people don't know right above district right regional or county state national and i believe it's important because we want to empower them to know these levels to um help them become these levels so yeah so i'm excited and i'll share my books with you all and you know education is going to be fun with my help or without it but more importantly so thank you all thank you and our last speaker is demarius johnson demarius did i say it right demarius johnson how you guys doing thank you
025for having me so my son is demaryius johnson jr and we moved from texas and i bought a house here in gilbert thinking that williamsfield was the school for him he's a 6'5 200 pounds so he's a big kid and he wanted to play for williamsfield and i thought williamsville was the greatest program for him until i got there and things was different my wife can't be here because she's at work but i can't get deep into everything but i think he was robbed of opportunity and now he has to go to perry and we live literally right across the street and it's just a lack of coaching just the lack of everything communication just everything and he beats himself up every day because he wants to be at williamsfield but it's deeper than that
026and now he's at perry and i want him to be at williamsfield because i think he's a great kid straight a student and i just think he got robbed of his opportunity and i don't think that's fair for a 9th grader and i'm here for my wife i'm here for him and i mean i don't know what it where to go from here i don't know where to start i mean that's where he wants to be i bought a house in gilbert for that and now he has to drive eight miles or so because of the program there i mean it's corrupted i mean i'm being honest you know coming all the way from texas and trying to get him back there and now he has to sit out his 10th year for that so
027another waste a year that's it thank you and know that dr foley will and her team will follow up with these um speakers tonight thank you all right we have to move on uh i move that we approve consent agent item 7.1 to 7.17 second any questions or comments um i do have a quick comment just knowing when we look at make sure it's on here 7.9 gifts and donations that there's definitely been some improvement to our policy our process in our procedure when it comes to gifts and donations we are following those better and we have them in place and so you'll see more here the buffalo wild wings chase building team centennial ptos all of our ptos are following the process when they go to donate items to our schools and frank garola
028from gilbert now for the fine arts so we thank them for their generosity but also knowing that we too on our end are doing everything a little bit better a little more fine-tuned so i appreciate that any other questions or comments notice that i appreciate the donations yes very much they're very generous all those in favor aye aye motion carries 4-0 all right we are on to something very exciting and you everybody was given a qr code so have that handy and i'm going to pass it off to tyler moore for an update on our higley high school project yes good evening again president kaley remembers the board i'm very excited to present this presentation tonight it's an update of the higley high school project which is a culmination of numerous hours from input from
029stakeholder groups which you'll see throughout this presentation i believe you know this project is a representation of what our current administration is doing to be more collaborative and transparent with our taxpayer dollars in terms of having input and us being more transparent with how our money is being spent so mr mark and i just stopped you right there for just a second and i just want to echo again this process was done so well if anybody had anything to say whether it was agree to disagree no matter what it was we welcomed that not just one night not just two nights we had three we added one we had four nights of meetings to go over this with input from students as well as staff as well as the community so well done higley as
030far as bringing everybody together to make sure everybody had a voice in this process so thank you there's also numerous surveys so if you're sorry i was at three of the four and it was fabulously some more attended than others but it was a good time discussion um lots of good discussion lots of good ideas yeah well yeah there's also numerous surveys and throughout this presentation you'll see the level of input that went into the design of this project and will continue to be collaborative in the remaining design and build of this project so the next slide here there we go so our agenda we have uh we'll talk a little bit how this project was identified a little bit about our decision process i'll discuss the procurement process in which enabled us to gather
031the stakeholder input it was a different procurement process in which we procured a contractor in the process in which we're going through right now which allows for this initial preliminary input and feedback and back and forth to come up with a project that is both a culmination of something that's going to represent that site or sit on that site and be able to be used for a number of years going forward we'll talk about the master schedule i'll invite our architect up from dlr ms carmen wykoff to talk about the master schedule as well as the stakeholder input process which you kind of alluded to there was a four-part process to that we listened we presented options and what we thought we heard we then went back revised those options we came with options with
032cost and then we shared out those options so over the course of those four community meetings we we went through that process well also the qr code that you mentioned is also going to be in our presentation so if anybody online wants to follow along they can also scan in but we'll look at some of the schematic designs of the higley high school building edition and then we'll talk about about upcoming dates so first how did this project get identified a little a little background last fiscal year during the 2021 bond proposal the district adopted a new internal process for identifying and prioritizing major maintenance major projects the process looks at three main priorities which include safety and compliance school capacity needs and long-term capital planning priority one states that the district will prioritize all
033safety and compliance projects first this goes without saying but we absolutely should have our school on campus say for our students and staff and so any capital maintenance or a major or major project obviously our first priority with budget goes to those meeting that priority priority number two states that the district will prioritize school capacity needs after safety and compliance projects are met and completed so priority two is where the higley high school project fits in last fiscal year when conducting our internal site capacity studies and reviewing demographic reports it was clear higley high school was out of room and that trend was going to continue in the future the district was optimistically hoping to fund this project from the 2021 bond proposal however that unfortunately did not pass so therefore the district moved forward
034with utilizing the remaining 2013 bond to procure an architect um and then we're using um as attentively approved in the capital outlay plan our capital outlay budget to cover the building cost priority number three party number three states that the district will prioritize our long-term capital plan after both priority one and priority two were met so again i would like to say most of the most of the time our maintenance department's budget is allocated towards priority three but as you know emergencies new compliance standards and all those unknowns um have us constantly uh revising and re-prioritizing our major prior projects and maintenance budgets so we're constantly ebbing and flowing through this as as things come up um but we can't we this is our our guiding compass so to speak and how higly was funded
035or not funded but chosen to be the next project so a little bit about the procurement process first we have a current rfq from 2018 that is under a five-year window so that will be eligible for renewal in 23 next fiscal year for architectural services on that rfq there are three firms adm group dlr group and orcott winslow since we have that rfq we could have just selected a firm and chose to for this project but we actually went through another evaluation process we submitted out um to each of these firms a criteria of what we were looking to do we then evaluated each of those firms the architect committee consisted of interim associate superintendent cherry richards interim director of support services rich dobson purchasing manager wendy garriton and myself and through that's that evaluation
036process we recommend a dlr to the governing board on december 8th the governing board awarded dlr the contract amount that is up on the slide and that included all anticipated expenses related to architectural and engineering services for phase one and preliminary planning for the potential of phase two so we got narcotic on board so fast forward to the the construction um procuring a contractor so what is different from the williamsfield field house project in this process was the process we used to procure a contractor the request for qualification for construction manager at risk is a is a much different process so in summary the cmr process is a more collaborative teamwork oriented solution to a construction project it gets contractors out early which is chase has been on board early to the project to provide
037input and work through the design to ensure the building starts and goes according to plan once the gmp is approved that is one of the main differences in this project and we are already finding the benefit of that um as we proceed through this project um just to highlight there are ten firms so good um yes this is different but then it was having the the building team on the committee helping us to design and get the feedback instead of the other way around correct so that's the benefit of having it this way is that we had their input along the way they they just weren't given the end product and say here so they were part of those conversations and they were able to hear and listen to what the stakeholders had to say
038correct yeah and they're still involved in that process and whereas the williams field house project was a hard bid so there was no there was no they weren't involved in that process they were bidding off of what the architecture design so just to highlight um the interest level on this so 10 firms submitted for this proposal for this higley high school project the evaluation committee was a little different we it consisted of and it is required to be different by statute very consistent of executive director of secondary david lotzenheiser principal of higley high allen fields interim director rich of support services rich dobson purchasing manager wendy garrettson and by statute it needs to have an architect so a representative from dlr keith wong sat on the firm and then we also had a registered contractor
039and of course myself and that evaluation committee reviewed all the proposals and we shortlisted um 2-3 we then conducted 45-minute interviews for those three short-lifted firms and that same evaluation committee recommended chase building as the contractor for this project which you approve that pre-construction amount which then allows them to come out and be involved in that design process on february 9th and so we're still working through the guaranteed maximum price which is the culmination of all the design work and all the input and feedback we look to potentially bring that june 22nd with another information item to talk about budget and price for that new building so i'd like to invite miss carmen wyckoff from dlr architect to talk a little bit on how we develop the master schedule and where we are in the
040process thank you tyler and hello madam president board members um super excited to be here so as you may know we did kick off our steering committee which is most of the folks in front of you and a few others in december with kind of a vision what's the the master plan big idea um as tyler mentioned we did sit on the seymar selection committee and i have to give props to my partners here in the crowd because they have been really involved we keep bouncing ideas off of them like this metal panel versus that metal panel which is cheaper which lasts longer and they just hit it back at us so it's a really collaborative process i think it gets you a far better value in the end because we have somebody we can
041ask questions of we did go through those four meetings that tyler mentioned one of them was heavily attended and you have uh some pretty smart cookies in your high school i think some might be running for governor soon um but they were they had really really great questions and now uh we're in front of you with the schematic design so in the architecture process schematic design is kind of where are the rooms where are the walls where are the windows now we've just gone through a little bit called design development which is working with your staff on what goes inside the rooms and then finally we go to construction documents which is getting ready for permit so we put our heads down and do all of our engineering and our calcs and more boring stuff
042but necessary um and that is chase will be out pending all these approvals out over the summer making things safe so that when students come back there's a secure perimeter and they can get started staying out of everybody's way so the stakeholder input as as we mentioned after that steering committee we did sort of organize it into listen options and then share out um the listen was fantastic we worked directly with a student group as well as the community group in the evening the options as well we did a student group a community group and that was the really well attended one where we got feedback to do a broader survey so i have never sent out a survey and gotten nearly a thousand results this is phenomenal it shows how excited people are with
043those and with chase as our partner with construction cost estimating they came back and put some round numbers especially to the phase two options that are now in your your board vote and having them on board especially during this time of crazy escalation was really really helpful um we got some voting and some feedback both physical like actual votes but a lot of intangible comments back and then we did our share out and after our share i haven't personally seen any um other comments other than a positive go forward so that's pretty exciting i do want to add too in the stakeholder input process i mean there were some several governing boards attended some of these community meetings and and really this helped vet out um several things that we overlooked right the fine arts
044was a big one we completely kind of overlooked that as a steering committee and that is the value that i knew from previous experience having these community meetings and having that stuff input provides because it brings everybody to the table that you may have overlooked and not not purposely but just overlooked in the process of this being such a big project so uh fine arts was one of those that came out um we helped talk about some initiatives for a potential phase two um to give knowing that that that site is growing we are gonna so are other those programs and so how do we accommodate not only their growing student population but our growing population for all our groups and all our clubs and so that is something that we added to that face
045to initiative and our potential future bond and there were several other things dr foley did you want to add yeah one of the things i think that was one of the powerful pieces that was at one of the community meetings that was also some of the work that they did with students was everyone has ideas and they had suggestions and thoughts and there are more ideas suggestions and thoughts than there is even a potential budget to address but when we empowered them with figures and numbers of what those costs were all of a sudden people then were also empowered to prioritize and consensus building was happening and it wasn't just give out your ideas and then then a district group or somebody comes back and says no this was empowering you with ideas to prioritize
046it with facts and figures for us to get a true sense of priorities so i have to complement this team for setting up setting up people to actually have a voice and be empowered and hearing it and listening it but also allowing us for prioritization which was huge huge because all of a sudden all of the wants and wishes became not as important and additional priorities came out so one of the things we're proud of is the involvement but also the quality of the involvement in the decision making dr foley i think it's important to mention here that we will have teachers who do not have classrooms next year at higley high that was one of my questions that i asked mr fields and he said that there will be teachers who have to have
047a cart and we'll be using a cart and going in so i think it's important for our community to know that um it's important to know that they'll be traveling yeah they will be traveling they will not have a home a home room that teacher will not have her or him or her will not have their own room and that's a big deal to build community for that teacher to have some stability so i think it's important for our community to know that that next year is still going to be a struggle for us because phase one will not be done and we will have teachers who will have to because we will have too many classes happening so yeah thank you miss wilson again it goes back to the decision process too and us
048identifying that early and unfortunately we have the funding source to make this phase one happen but um in the future that's why bonds and stuff are so important because the district is not funded um for a lot of these initiatives that require large capital dollars so now the fun part so we we do have a qr code i believe we hand it out to each governing remember um and i believe like i said online you should be able to scan this qr code and jump into an interactive view of the higley high school building we have three sides that are screen shots and ms carmen wifekoff can talk through some of the design and how this final design came about thank you tyler so this is a view if you're standing um just off of
049the left off of the page is the um the the amphitheater and the statue to the right is the gymnasium so the feedback we got from both your students and your community and your administration was pretty consistent make this building look like parker higley high but make it a little more modern and what you want higley high to be so you don't want it to stand out like a sore thumb but don't just match higley high and so we took some inspiration from pieces that we thought worked really well like the entryway to your cafeteria with the broad big canopy as you see there we've got a canopy to the south and the west of the main entry which also saves you on energy because you have that nice shade overhang and then the classroom
050building itself being a pretty simple box for economy but bringing in the slope that you see elsewhere on campus as well as the metal panel that you see elsewhere and then of course we've got a touch of color which if you looked at the phase two renderings that we did the idea is if the bond were to pass to kind of bring that touch of color throughout the campus so that would help tie in the new and the old energize it a little bit so i hope the qr code is working you always cross your fingers with technology can you talk a little bit about the the larger windows and the the voting and the feel for natural light that the students kind of aspired to have i i appreciate the um yeah the prompt
051there so actually dlr group is the only architect that i know of that has done primary research so anybody who got their doctorate in the room primary research with a peer reviewed and some of that research was into what engages students and engages teachers because that means less absenteeism and better graduation rates all good a lot of it's no brainers but it's really cool the studies actually show that up to 16 percent of a student's engagement can be helped or hindered by the space they're in which is stunning to and me way we can support teachers is amazing so one of those things is natural light view to outside and nature is a big one when you see the inside flexibility and the ability to individualize your learning space can really help your engagement and
052picture i mean when we were all working at home sitting on our kitchen chairs and fidgeting all day because we're uncomfortable i'm sure our work productivity went down a little bit students are very different so those are the sorts of things that we like to bring into our design such as the large windows newer windows also block a lot of sunlight and glare so i wouldn't worry about the heat from you know your super old windows that you're used to some places so this is upstairs the railing you see there is actually a little overlook to the downstairs collaborative area and in order to every step of the way our discussions were how do you get those breakout spaces that collaboration that all the good project-based learning and all the supervision you need in high
053school so part of our design and the way it angles is to have no hidey holes no no weird crevices right but at the same time get that view out from the classroom so that you could send a kid out to do a retest or a reteach or a project without worrying and so what you see there is kind of the collaborative area a connection to downstairs the superintendent or the i'm sorry the principal is planning to put a staff member like a career counselor downstairs so outside of the classrooms there is an adult eyes and ears on the area even when class is going on any questions okay a few of us are super excited about this this is the upstairs lecture hall so this is the size of about a double classroom it
054has some good storage so that you can take away tables and tuck them away if you're using it in a very different capacity it also has an amazing connection to the football field that we're looking forward to so this could be a really cool after-school space as well as a full-blown educational space during the day and the feedback we got from teachers is a double room like this that is acoustically separated from you know the rest of the school is a great place to do a collaborative um let's say a project between math and science where you need to get two classrooms together or a club activity or student government all those sorts of things where one classroom is a little tight for everybody and moving it upstairs the balcony you see out there is
055actually an exit pathway so everything does double duty to stretch our budget but certainly it would provide kind of a nice overlook during sporting events any questions about anything so far dr foley was this this campus that had a teacher um volunteered to teach two classes in the same time was there a teacher yeah i thought it was higley high who had yeah she had to um we had a substitute issue in january and she decided to teach two classes at the same time and had to move into a big classroom and i think this classroom would be really ideal for something like that just for our community members who maybe don't realize that we have sometimes that happening so president kaler board member wilson one of the things we know from an instructional standpoint
056is that having multi-purpose space that can be used for multiple for multiple factors for multiple reasons as an essential component and when you're tight on space and don't have flexible space like this it limits options so this allows multiple flexible options for various scenarios and situations that might arise more proactive than reactive is the situation you're responding to but in most cases having the space to be utilized for instructional purposes in this capacity before during and after school will be a great asset for us at higley high school because there are very limited spaces with that potential at this time and dr foley this would look similar to williams field in some capacity this classroom with their one big classroom correct they have that one classroom that we built a few years ago 199. is
057that the lecture hall it would mirror 199. yes isn't it 199 i'm like i think it's called 199 but i can't really remember so this would be very similar to that correct and trying to mirror our campuses thank you so as we look to some of the upcoming dates for this project i believe i want to invite up our contractor with chase building or project manager excuse me mr patrick shepard yeah so president kaler members of the board appreciate the opportunity to represent chase building team tonight a couple of my colleagues are here in the audience and we certainly have a very robust team back that is absent that has helped us through this process tyler touched on a lot of the how carmen touched on the what i get to touch on the when
058of what's happening now with your new classroom edition so i know that those questions are probably out there like okay this is really cool this building's going to be awesome when are we going to see it so what we see here above us are the upcoming dates that we're targeting for this construction and as we wrap up pre-construction and ultimately get going out here on your campus so that june 22nd date is what we are targeting for the gmp-1 approval a process that we have been doing here over the past couple years as we've seen this construction industry be faced with challenges as it regards to procurement and also price escalations we have been recommending an early gmp which really captures a lot of those long lead material items and the other benefit to that
059is it also locks in those prices so it takes away the uncertainty and the volatility of what those materials could potentially bring within the upcoming months as this design continues to involve with the input that we've been talking about here this evening across the board with the community and the rest of our teammates so it's been very successful and we're we're working very diligently right now dlr has been great to work with their designs are always top notch and they're always very receptive to the input that we're able to provide as far as constructability availability of materials and everything else so the process has been great the community involvement's been amazing i've been a part of i think four community meetings now and it's just been it's been a lot of fun carmen mentioned there
060are some students out there that have very sharp and bright futures because they had great questions and it was fun to watch so that's looking uh so june 22nd is what we're targeting there that september date is what we are targeting for vertical uh actually let me rewind a little bit the other component of that gmp-1 for this summer is the potential for some of that make safe utility work as well so as we you know begin construction on that site we do have existing utilities that are in that area so one of the things that we would entertain doing is making sure that those are capped those are made safe it eliminates all the utility disruptions during the course of the school year that become very problem so we do like to propose taking
061care of those as well if possible so that really allows us to roll into that september date where the gmp-2 which would be the balance of work as that design is completed and we move into the final construction documents we would ultimately present that final gmp which will also be presented as a conceptual estimate detail as a part of that gmp one just to make sure that we all understand that we are aligned in alignment with that overall project budget so pending those approvals september 22nd would be our first event that we like to have which is that groundbreaking it's just the excitement it's really kicking that project off and then ultimately going vertical with that classroom building there is one date that we don't see up here that we are excited for the potential
062passing of a bond in november which could lead to some additional work that we would love to partner and complete concurrent with this classroom edition as we move through into that potential phase two again hopeful that happens but we will see how that goes and then finally we would target next summer for the completion of that project and ready to turn over for the fall of 2023 school year and that's where we stand today are there any questions perfect thank you and just to add gmp means guaranteed maximum price so um again through this procurement process we would um both uh our architect with carmen wyckoff and chase are working diligently to stay within our 10 million budget and you know once those gmps are approved they're hardly rarely talking about any change orders um
063because of this process we vet out all those potential issues so um i can tell you right now we are still within budget of that 10 million dollars so it is progressing nicely so very excited to get the groundbreaking underway and move forward with this project so mr moore a quick question this would include furniture as well the 10 million includes furniture that does yeah so that includes all soft costs we're looking at tentative building costs of seven million with a soft cost of um or 7.5 excuse me i think we've done some revisions and with soft costs coming in as well in there so that timely includes everything to make that building operational great i know mrs reece would probably want me to ask that if she were here or if she since she
064isn't here she would want me to ask that so i feel like i should uphold her mr moore i i want to articulate this very carefully um this 10 million is left over bond money that we were able to re-reallocate correct so this project is being funded partially from the 2013 bond allocation so we have approximately yeah um after we're still waiting on the final payment for the field house um but after that payment we would approximately have 2.5 million left so the remainder of that would be funded from our capital budget so that would exhaust all our bond funds all our bond funds yes exactly and so when we're looking forward to our next bond um monies find a way to be used at all times when it comes to school districts and bonds
065no matter what i find that there's a lot of miscommunication out there and it it's it's upsetting to me because people need to understand what a bond does for a school district and over time what it does i'm grateful that dr foley has done her due diligence in planning for the future of higley because we didn't plan for this for higley high we did not look past our noses that higley high might actually really have a burst of growth in this area and it has and i mean i've been in the district a long time and it was always that williamsfield had a higher enrollment rate than higley and now we're here and it is let's scramble let's make this happen and we we cannot do this again we cannot count on that there will
066be something in our future so i'm just thankful for this team that we were able to do this now just being so fiscally responsible that we were able to have these funds available to take care of higley's needs today but i'm also thankful as we move forward that we articulate why this next bond is so crucial to higley because there's so many more needs that are coming our way and we cannot wait to the last minute so um thank you and i hope i articulated that the way i meant that to sound but it's important and i know you guys have done some very hard work i thank you for all of our partners this didn't come like oh we just picked somebody these are processes and procedures of procurement that we follow to the
067t and i know that because i've sat in multiple meetings with dr foley about the very thing so i'm grateful for this entire process and how it's gone and i'm very excited my children graduate this year from higley so it would be a very sad day happy for them but sad that they won't see the fruition of this building but i'm so thankful for the future and what can happen with the with the needs of higley high school so thank you thank you anything else okay she said to do all right thank you we're going to move on to 8.2 in the strategic plan update president members of the board we are excited to show uh show some a video here about the process that we have engaged in as you know we have been
068talking about this for over a year we have had two study sessions and where we've deeply gone about where are we and what are we doing and how are we going to get there you have been reading along this year our progress and journey as we summarize the work we've been learning and doing we are so proud of the work we've accomplished as a team to update thank you our strategic plan um we have involved students just like you heard earlier tonight when we talked about empowering student voices in construction conversations and discussions we did a true research methodology sound design in which we replicated work that allowed us to bring students and their voices to life what we've done is we put together a video that is actually a modification of what we shared
069with you at the retreat so that you can actually see some of the footage as well not only from what we did with students but also what we did with adult stakeholders in addition to all the work that was done with surveys and we'd like to show that just so that everyone has a chance to see the extent of the work that was done every month this entire year to get us to a conversation that we'll have later tonight and the action items where we are asking you to approve the documents in which we've already begun to outline and and define the work that we will do as a team together as you know in education and and and president keller you you eloquently stated it if you are not six months ahead you're already
070a year behind in the world of curriculum and in just when you're thinking about long-term planning for facilities if you aren't thinking five years into the future you're already you're already behind so all of this work that you lay the groundwork for is the foundation you build from and we're excited i i would be remiss if i did not think uh the pr team particularly uh curtis kerbin who is a talented storyteller in video and one of the things he was capturing data from us from multiple levels but he also captured footage that allowed us to better tell this story because we could try and summarize in words for you the work we did with individuals but seeing it in the footage really truly captures the extent and so i'll ask curtis to share the
071video and we'll go from there [Music] hi i'm dr dawn foley i'm the superintendent of the haley unified school district hello i'm sheri richards i'm the interim associate superintendent hi i'm dr chris treat i'm the assistant director of professional development and we are excited to share with you the process that we have been on this year as we update our strategic plan for the hingley unified school district this past year we did a lot of work with the process of updating our strategic plan from having important dialogue with our governing board to determining a grounded theory methodology we work closely with our admin team to define and outline our district core values to identify how we were going to capture various stakeholder feedback from a representative sample across the district to us our priority was
072making sure that our student voices were heard when we updated our strategic plan so the fun begins with working with our stakeholder groups and we started with our most important group we started with our student stakeholders beginning in december we began bringing in our elementary student group and this started on a day where we had a whole group in our room with us in the governing board for a day of dialogue and an interaction and a student started off by saying dr foley i took school districts are nothing without their students and it's a good thing you asked us here today because we can tell you what needs to be done the power of those little voices that we work to capture over the course of the next several months has been probably the most
073meaningful part of this journey so let us tell you a little bit about what we did to hear from our student voices one of the things that we pride ourselves on in the haley district is we are a pre-k-12 district so obviously these voices could not not be captured and one of the joys that we had that day was when we went to visit with these students we had a preschool student who had also her her two-year-old sibling and so after she sang to us and and shared her voice in perspective with us she also outlined for us the things that would be essential for us to ensure her two-year-old sister would know and be able to do by the time she came to preschool this may have been one of the highlights of the
074whole year is going to the preschool and hearing from these students what they love about school dr foley participated in discussions that included rock paper scissors what are your favorite things and also can i hear your voice one of our students actually began to sing to her they had great input for us and we thoroughly enjoyed hearing from them this is where it all starts in our preschools and it goes all the way up through our secondary one of the strategies that we use with our students was thinking maps this is an instructional strategy that we've used district-wide and our students are very familiar with this our principals were really instrumental in helping us we wanted representation from every program group across the district and they helped ensure that we had those students in the
075room and the students are familiar with this thinking map approach where we frame an idea for them these strategic anchors and provide the opportunity for them to share information with us the each student is empowered with a pen a red pen and a blue pen and when they would rotate around the room they were given the opportunity to share experiences or thoughts that they had about this and they color coded it the blue showed us opportunity for this was a positive experience that they had or something that they wanted to highlight or keep that they wanted us to know they had experienced the red was something they felt we needed to do differently or an example of something that needed to change and when you watched this room happen you saw everybody engaged everyone had
076a pin and they were working and they were writing we also saw validation of thoughts and ideas when someone read something someone else had written and if they agreed they accentuated it started for us to know that they agreed with this this way their thoughts and ideas were being generated and not and not limited to only the voice who was speaking at the time and you can see very clearly our students were not shy about sharing with us their thoughts and opinions we also found though that after this silent discussion it allowed us to get all ideas down we then evolved this into a whole group discussion where we had the opportunity to engage our students with thought-provoking questions around our our portrait of a graduate what have we done to prepare you where are
077you wanting to go what do you feel about these words in these terms what do they mean to you and obviously we were able to capture some very meaningful dialogue and conversations at that time so we've gone from silent discussion to whole group discussion we then engaged students in inter interviews where we would pull them out and have conversations with them when they were engaged in interviews they were also engaged in a flipgrid activity where they were using devices to engage with each other and share more information from their perspective about the strategic plan while bonding with their with their peer groups from across the district who came to provide this information we were now able to capture data from them verbally written through video so that we had an opportunity in individual small group
078and whole group settings to capture everyone's thoughts and voices around the themes of our strategic plan from their perspective and experiences as a student and so here we see the process of students using the thinking map to define the particular goal in context based off of their own experiences read meaning things that they felt needed improvement or changing and comments that they wrote in blue were positive experiences that they had surrounding that particular goal as you can see kids were thoroughly engaged in this opportunity to provide feedback we saw amazing things from the elementary students and our secondary students as they work through this process as we know there is nothing more powerful than hearing from the mouths of babes and so for this at this point we want to share with you a couple
079things our students have to say i like how the teachers interact with the students and how they create different activities that aren't just like fun but also are creative as well i've grown up in higley unified school district i've been here since kindergarten and i really love the atmosphere it brings i know compared to my friends who are in other districts they don't have some of the opportunities that we have and so i think the community the teachers the staff the students all have just been so amazing my 12 years in the district i think this is a really good opportunity for students to come and share their opinions and thoughts so thank you husd is a great place to be man honestly i can't really think of a better district right now so after
080we had collected all of this rich data in the form of feedback from our students our employees and our representative parents and community members we took the information that we had learned thus far back to our admin team and together we explored what were the essential elements of a successful mission and a vision to help us update our current mission and vision to align with the information we had captured we then brought in a focus group of individuals to once again look at the work that we have done thus far but to capture more conversation around the work of our portrait of a graduate and engage in discussions about what are the desired skills abilities and attributes that we want for our students in the higley district we then took all of this feedback and
081updated our drafts we then shared these drafts with our governing board at a retreat in april to once again garner feedback and to share the journey that the of the process that we've been on this entire year we now have updated our documents and we have our higley core values our district's updated strategic plan for the 2022 to the 2027 school year that reflects our updated mission vision core values we also have updated our strategic anchors and the goals and indicators of the essential work that we will do collectively over the next several years to help us ensure that we meet our district's portrait of a graduate that now has identified a who a what and a how we are excited about the work we have done and are looking forward to implementing this important
082work together over the next several years [Laughter] we are proud of this work we had an opportunity to share this with university professors we had an opportunity to share this at the state level as part of an aasa national superintendent project in which part of our video was selected as a highlight because it truly does show an ideal research-based design in process as well as empowering student voices so this is something we're proud of and we're excited about the work we're going to do dr foley oh sorry president kayla if you want to know dr foley i just want to thank you i was unable to make it to the saturday retreat due to a family emergency and you were able to meet with me separately and go over everything so i just want to
083thank you and your team who were able to meet with me last week and just go over this so i had all my questions answered and i can see how much work the whole higgly district down to our youngest learners have done to make this successful so thank you yes i think that our retreat was so instrumental in kind of breaking this down piece by piece for us if if anybody would like to say higley doesn't reach out and ask and include those valuable stakeholders i would absolutely disagree with them 100 percent this was a collaborative um i don't even know what you call it massive effort massive effort um most a lot of school districts not all a lot of school districts hire this out we did it within our district we did this
084to make it higley's strategic plan and i know that we even talked about at a retreat how this is not just going to be a document that sits on a desk this is going to be a document that is going to be passed on to our administrators and through our administrators down to our staff we want everybody to have because they've had a buy into it it will be far easier now to implement because everybody's had a voice so good works very good work very hard work a lot of time and all this through a pandemic let's just put that out there because this has been really trying times and then to put a strategic plan together on top of it it was very well done president kaler said a lot of the things i
085was going to say about no about ownership which was the main theme of everything i heard is everybody being involved one of the things um the questions that i asked that was important is that this isn't just a piece of paper and it's something that we make sure we're doing and um uh dr pulley and dr treat said i asked if we would following up with our stakeholders with our students to make sure we're doing what we're saying and they both said yes that that was something that we'll continue to do so we're not just putting this on a piece of paper coming up with ideas but following up later to make sure it's happening and the kids and teachers and the community feel like we're really um doing our strategy the strategic plan so
086that was great to me president cabler board member schultz one of the other things that we talked quite a bit at our retreat was how we are also looking at taking our our board strategic initiatives and evolving them into actual action steps from our strategic plan and what i'm excited to share with you is that in june we have been meeting as a team to we came to you at the retreat with focus areas in each one of our strategic anchors as well as how we wanted to define the work around our portrait of a graduate we are excited to share at the june 8th meeting i would go into a deep dive of our goals that we had progress made this year as well as the ones that we've identified for next year and
087the work that we are excited to do and to begin to launch for next year we have taken a huge bite but we are excited about the work and progress we're going to do so that throughout the year you will also see evidence and progress toward the work of accomplishing our strategic plan because they're going to be part of your strategic initiatives and goals with myself and the district one of the things we talked about is that we're not a traditional business but you can't move forward and you can't continue to grow unless we're all on the same page and so it feels like it should always have been that way that the governing board initiative should be strategically aligned with the strategic plan so i'm very happy to see that that's happening because it's
088the only way we can move forward looks great thank you and congratulations on that video i know that it was very it's recognized nationally which is a big deal for little higley hat it helps when you have a talented pr team and a beautiful videographer editor and cute kids it's a skill it's nice to have those skills and and precious kids precious they were definitely okay thank you dr foley we are going to move on to 8.3 and this is just a little update that dr foley wanted us to see today president kaler members of the board tonight one of the things you're going to be that we have up for an action item is as you know we've been working really hard on our policies as well and updating information that comes to us
089from asba but also making sure that any policies we have are aligned with appropriate definitions practices and policies that we have in place we actually had a very detailed work study at our last meeting on the first two policies as you see here as well as two additional policies that were a part of the policy work we've been doing in updating both the student discipline and child reporting child abuse protection would be making sure our policy is now reflective of the asba's policy recommendation and updates which come various times as legislation is updated and those policies are revised so again this is moving forward with more of our work on updating our processes and procedures and again this goes back to following closely what's happening at our state level can affect what happens at our
090level and unless we have all of our ducks in a row and making sure that our policies are in place um yeah it's super important that's that's the that's the job of this board is to make sure that our policies are up-to-date and um a big part of our job is to make sure our policies are up to date so appreciate the time that went into our work study just a few weeks ago and [Music] yeah it was a lot of information that you shared with us so we appreciate that all right moving on we're going to go on to 9.1 i move that the governing board approves the 2022-2027 higley unified school district strategic plan second all those or any questions concerns comments i think we've that's what i love about our our whole
091process now to dr foley that we have been implementing and following is that we have already by the time things come to our action we have already reviewed them we have talked about them in a work study we have seen them multiple times this is not brand new information make a vote we have had this information for weeks and weeks to chew on and we're able to contact you if we have questions about things so thank you for that and so with that all those in favor aye motion carries 3-0 but i know without a doubt that if mrs anderson and mrs reese were here they also would give their full 100 support okay next one i move this is going to be 9.2 i move that the governing board approves the policy revisions as
092presented second again we have chewed on this for a few weeks now if there was any questions or concerns although i just want to see yeah go um there's some talk about uh curriculum and what's happening and this and what's cool teach but this was open to the public for a month right over a month to come what what oh sorry she's moving ahead sorry that's okay been there all those in favor aye aye aye motion carries 3-0 now we're going to move on to the purchase it is recommended that the governing board approves the expenditure of one million seven hundred ninety eight thousand six hundred and twenty three dollars and twenty four cents for the purchase of the science adoption curriculum as presented second now can i can i make money now let me
093make some comments okay go ahead mrs wilson uh i actually had a chance to come in and look at the curriculum i think i may have been one of the only people to come in and mr treated am i correct still i checked last week but i was laughing you are correct okay um i did get i'm sure others have been able to check it out uh teachers did come in before me but as a parent i was a parent who got to check it out i was excited to see that we didn't go with just one and had to stay in that box of just one book for the whole k-12 curriculum and i really did enjoy that the teachers got to pick what they wanted since they got to look at it since
094they have to look at it every day and as a parent i get to look at it like hopefully very little so i just want to thank the teachers who did come in and look and who did the surveys and who scan the little qr codes and i want to thank you mr dr treat for setting up the room and making it look fantastic so thank you go ahead mrs schultz sorry i took your thunder i think i saw your name on there twice you came back the first day it wasn't quite ready for me so i came back the second day i came in one day and it wasn't quite ready they didn't know that you were just taking the school yeah i looked at like all of it i looked at all the
095different ones and the second time i looked at just the one they picked so i know that's funny because like when i came in the first day it wasn't quite ready and i was like um i think i need to come back so we talk about transparency and being open and everything with curriculum and in higley we left it open for a month over a month right as far as um being able to have the public come in and look at all the curriculum and teachers were on board with it so there's no um surprises on what's being taught and jill was the only one that came but oh sorry mrs wilson was the only one that came but um it was open it was available and you can come and see what is being
096taught and how it was decided and asked questions and everything and so um while other districts across the country might have an issue with that we don't have an issue with that in higley and i appreciate that very much president cable board member schultz thank you for that we absolutely followed the 60-day process that was open and one of the things that was nice is that because we did this so long and involved so many people even as you heard at our last at our last meeting when you had the committee com present to you about the entire committee um there were even suggestions that um every school put into their newsletter about the fact that this was happening so that in case they hadn't seen the documents or information um over the 60 days
097that there was still plenty of time to come and see and all of our teachers have been well aware and are involved and so that's one of the things we're proud of so you saw again the processes and procedures that align to state statutes that are connected with the policies that we've just even updated tonight are alive and well and happening in higley and so we're proud of the work here um and you'll notice that from from what you're proving tonight the only one that isn't there is the conceptual physics which will come back after that committee goes through again to be able to be sure that what they want is what they're purchasing so a lot of work went into it by this entire team and our our group to make sure that we
098not only did this but we did this really well so we're excited i'm sorry i know i kept saying 30 days but 60 days i need more coffee so board member schultz it's actually been open for longer than 60 days we chose to keep it um from the last board meeting open until now too so because of spring break right we kept it open because of spring break to adopt okay right but i'm just saying we've had it out there and this goes back to um again i feel there's just miscommunication out there and any chance i get from here on out we need to be correcting and letting people know this again was a by the t process nothing was hidden along the way every teacher in higley unified was involved in this process
099and invited to this process parents were invited to this process in our district so and again one of the jobs as a school board is to adopt the curriculum and it's up to the district and the teachers to present the state standards in the classroom it is not our job as a school board to dictate what is taught in the classroom we we help approve this curriculum so that our state standards are what are taught in our classrooms so i'm excited for this it's been a long time needed and we are grateful president taylor if i can add two to get into the party you can add whatever you need mr mark this this actually came in under budget we set a budget last fiscal year of 2.5 million um you'll see you're approving an
100expenditure amount of 1.7 so um even with the addition of conceptual physics we are still going to be way below well under budget way below budget yes and we appreciate always a below budget estimate president keller i remember the question was asked when we adopted our last science curriculum and i went to a school last week and i happened to be in their library and they were collecting the old books to send to the warehouse and i opened the book and got and i can't remember what the date was it was either 2012 or 20 2008 it was a very long time do you remember did you look that somebody else looked okay i'm like it's prior to 2012. okay so maybe it was oh eight it might have even been sooner than that because
101i laughed because we had i believe mrs reese had asked what year we adopted it and so just a little information it had been a very long time so this is a very well needed update so all those in favor aye aye motion carries 3-0 and again i know we have the support of our missing board members on this as well as they were very much informed on what was coming our way next up is 9.4 i move that the governing board approves amendment number one to the inter-governmental agreement between maricopa county community college district and higley unified school district as presented exactly and you can kind of read above here what this is uh about is to make sure that our on deli online delivery of dual enrollment courses this opens up doors for
102more ability in our virtual academy for us to offer dual enrollment which i know was it was coming our virtual academy is just one years old and so we are still growing and you know nurturing that and this is just another step in offering some of those opportunities to our online learners any other questions concerns all those in favor aye aye motion carries 3-0 i move that the governing board i should be saying this 9.5 it is recommended that the governing board approves the revised fy 2022 budget as presented second if there's a question no there should not be any more questions we have we have uh as dr foley would say we have massaged this many many many times over the last um president taylor do you know all the numbers uh do you
103have a memorandum but no we may not all those in favor aye aye motion carries 3-0 i i should say i appreciate that we go over it yes we have gone over it enough times that we have been able to be fully educated in all finance and we appreciate you mr moore yes we don't joke it's not a joke it's serious business and we appreciate you okay our favorite i move that the governing board reviews the 20 the current 2022 political agenda and reaffirmed the top five priorities to the asba legislative community by monday may 23rd 2022. okay let's make a motion to change well we're going to if we could pull those up um my oh can we do the other one please i'm sorry thank you curtis i don't is it in there
104oh i think he had it up it just i think it was the previous one wasn't it was it this one yes yes okay oh this one yes so we for mrs reed who's looking at me like what are you doing mrs kaler we would like to remove i move that yes we're gonna remove covid as number one and then um move all those up and we're going to add that we fully fund kindergarten all day i'm sorry all day kindergarten why can't second do we need yeah do we need a second second i don't think so we just give you the top five that we would like to submit and then she submits them and we just vote yay or nay on those five okay any questions or concerns we are going to submit
105require public accountability for taxpayer dollars spent on education revise the school board school board finance formula rethink and redefine the role and purpose of state standardized testing and meaningful assessments and we're going to preserve recommend preserve and strengthen local control and also fully fund all-day kindergarten yeah i will when we vote all those in favor aye aye motion carries 3-0 and i know that mrs anderson before she left had given her approval on that as well all right thank you darlene for your patience with me as i we do these every year and we do fumble over these all right future agenda items um the summer will be a little bit more quiet as far as meetings go i hope that our staff and administrators all do take some much deserved time off as well
106as our teachers so we have a meeting in june and then we've still got our strategic plan focus areas coming up professional development update our higley wellness initiatives and our higley virtual academy update anything else the board would like to have an update on or a presentation there's still other things coming within these so it's not it's not just this all right very good thank you so much and with that i move that we adjourn second all those in favor aye aye motion carries 3-0 i just want to say congratulations to all the graduating seniors of the class of 2022. we will be there yes you