001is and then it's [Laughter] are we all a little punchy make the same face is okay so the counselor's paperwork is down there i put them next to steve as with the kids as well and chad is here hi deanna mike is fun okay i'm gonna call the meeting to order at six o'clock i need a motion to adopt the agenda i move to adopt the agenda as presented i will second that all in favor aye aye motion carries four to zero we are missing uh mr ray for he will be um joining us just a little bit later he's running late so go ahead and say the pledge indivisible with everything okay um we were unable to have to review the minutes from last meeting so we are going to go ahead and review
002them later and uh vote on them next meeting so i don't need an approval of that we'll move right into uh current events superintendent report thank you madam president uh a couple things we have first off uh many of us just returned from ncdc 22 was held in charlotte um there's several of us here tonight that are still on east coast time so just give us a little bit of slack it was an early morning to catch a plane we had 24 25 employees go and we had two employees that were finalists for uh awards on the national level again ncdc is part of the modern teacher network that we're in there's 124 school districts across the country that are part of this network lori bevacqua who's a preschool teacher over at ranch was a
003finalist for a change agent teacher of the year and rebecca smith was the fire she's down at cta was a finalist for personalized learning classroom for the intermediate level um and they represented us well at the same time we also had three different groups present and had some real good feedback and made some real strong connections with school districts from around the country doing the same thing we are ranch elementary school uh presented on creating campus-wide culture of student learning it was ms cruz mr johnny diane tabor laura bavaqua and joy befree ellsworth elementary also presented they presented creating a learner-centered culture for all and ms dunker ms bond presented there and then uh miss fullmer myself presented on using innovative marketing strategies to protect propel digital conversions hashtag forward so overall real good uh
004conference we talked to a district in minnesota and a district in uh new york that we're looking to see if we can make a connection with them and actually since we're all using zoom as it is actually starts to start to interact with those two school districts in terms of what we're doing with our hashtag forward program seeing if our kids connect with the kids in those districts and our teachers and and pd and instructional coaches connect with them so it's in initial stages but a real positive uh [Music] conference on the national level you do have the numbers i'm not going to go through the numbers just suffice to say we continue to see the same pattern we've seen pretty much all year long uh we're still up some kids most of those are
005a result of of coming back in person but the trends and data that have been there all year long are still there so i won't go through all of those we are starting uh continuing to see success um across the district uh recently dr goolsbee at the comb center for success high school and middle school went to the alternative national alternative education conference and as a result of that the school has been asked to join a cohort that is comprised of alternative schools from around the country and they're looking at adopting some evidence-based exemplary practices so i think for that school it gets a real good foundation i've talked with dr gould's being we're going to ensure that whatever the framework is within that cohort it'll still be centered on our hashtag forward and our
006strategic plan but it is a great way for us to get additional resources to help with our tillers our tournament alternative schools again those are brand new programs and so uh reaching out and talking to what and seeing what other people doing around the country is just another way to grow that program to be even more successful than it is as as we speak right now between the online and the two alternative programs we're seeing 200 plus kids uh in all three programs so it's been very successful at the high school um the drama department was very very successful in recent state festival results the one-act plague competition received excellence award tech challenges was top 10 and two different events the troop as a whole received a gold honor and mr smith was named a.s
007or arizona that's been teacher of the year in your packet i give you all the different individual kids that want awards we also had orchestra choir and band audition for regionals and six students qualify for the regional orchestra and band that on let's see february 18th and 19th so next week they will go ahead and audition at regionals and and depending on how they do they'll have an op opportunity to make allstate um with those those auditions so those kids are being successful we also had some of our kids in the digital media program down working with asu and and some of the different programs to see what it takes to be in the news media and one of our former graduates alex gould was there and was able to kind of showcase how he's
008doing at asu he's part of the concrete school of journalism mass communications he's earned training at the arizona republic and they had the press conference for the phoenix mercury and the ants when they announced the hiring of the new uh coach and he was there and he was at the sun's game and and was able to i think his picture was on the front page of the suns or of the arizona republic of the sun's game so it just shows you when you go across the district um we're seeing success on lots of lots of different levels um whether it's our staff like ncdc or these kids and we can we can we spend a little bit of time every board meeting just to talk about what we're doing and i think it's best summed
009up by a couple of the teachers that were at the ncdc 20 conferences is we're doing what other very successful school districts are doing across the country and so we should be proud of what we're what we're doing and what we're accomplishing so i just want to share those there are some upcoming dates uh just one reminder the next board meeting is the second that is on the uh is only three weeks away normally we do the second wednesday but because we're on spring break i know there's a few kids out here that are not worried thinking about spring break but when we get to spring break um we don't usually hold the board meeting that first week of spring break since wednesday before let's see now for employee recognition each month we go ahead
010and try to recognize employees and we have two different groups employees and kids and we have two different groups you want to recognize today and we will call up this first group and then i'll say a few things about it but this i gotta think the week this week is actually um school counselor uh national school counseling week and so we want to take just a few minutes to introduce people to our counselors not all could be here everybody's leading very busy lives so not everybody could be here but we will see who's here and we just want to way to say thank you to them so we have heidi durant at combs high school [Applause] and you guys can just wait we'll get a group picture at the end julia godin from comb center
011for success and cta i don't think she's here nope john grafing from ranch [Applause] latasha haggart from combs high school [Applause] jorian joint from ellsworth jolene peterson from the high school madison rankins from cms [Applause] christina ramsey from simultan rachel ribel from the high school michelle sheldon from cta and leslie weiberg from the middle school [Applause] just know that that during this this week every year is national school counselors week and the importance of the role they play for our students can't be understated especially as we talk about the pandemic and everything that's happened with kids uh there's been a big push on social emotional as kids have gone through the pandemic and and what they go through and this group uh along with their social workers have worked real hard to make sure we
012have social emotional education within our schools and that's just critical and and they and on top of that they just work with our kids in general to get them ready to meet the challenges of the 21st century uh it takes a lot of people to run a school district and these special people really have the big hearts that work with your kids every single day and they should be thankful to do so thank you very much for all you do for our kids then also during february is ct month so i'm going to ask mr scroggam to come up and explain a little bit about ct and the programs we have and i think he's going to highlight a couple programs madam president members of the board dr wyman thank you for the opportunity to
013be here tonight and to share a few things about our career and technical education programs at combs high school with me today we have some teachers we don't have all of them but we have some and i'd like to just recognize them we have one of our og's brian taylor brian has been with the district for a while he's been at the high school since it was built so we appreciate brian brian is our media and digital communications teacher along with math math is okay but your cte is really important and then we have the other end of the spectrum we hired some new teachers this year one we brought on at the beginning of the school year and that would be lexi robinson and lexi is our our agricultural science teacher and ffa advisor
014and um even newer than that is our new nursing services and cna instructor which another was another rare find but definitely well worth the effort and that is christa pacheco and i appreciate recognizing our counselors today as uh my title is coordinator of career and technical education and and honestly that's what i do i coordinate but i have incredible support from administrators and from teachers and from the counselors especially this year with one of the programs that we initiated at the high school so they deserve a lot of credit for the success that that we have in our programs so craig taught me how to use this and i'm going to do my best hey so february is national cte month so across the nation secondary and post-secondary schools are recognizing the value of career
015and technical education in our country for those who don't know what career and technical education is it used to be vocational ed but it has evolved over the last 15 to 20 years it's much more technical now and some programs that we have at the high school we have 13 in fact everything from nursing services to digital photography and a lot of things in between so we're offering programs for our students that they're interested in but more importantly an opportunity that for them to explore what's out there and maybe before they graduate from high school maybe choose a career pathway that leads to post-secondary or directly into the workforce so who are we um we're a lot of things in cte our students are involved um basically in in everything you can think of when
016it comes to exploring and developing skills that will take them beyond high school so in many cases here you see a group of students they are planning their program of work for what's called a student organization every cte program has a leadership organization and so these students are planning out their program of work which often involves community service it involves planning out fundraisers competitions and things like that and it's supposed to be student-run we have advisors great advisors but the students are the ones that take charge of it we have explorers i call this explorers because this is dr wyman mentioned this this is a group of brian taylor's students that went to the arizona interscholastic press associations sons media day they got a tour of um the footprint arena they got to sit in
017front of a um a panel of uh different individuals that work for the sun's organization and then they got to do a mock press conference with the president of the phoenix mercury about an hour before he went to a live press conference to announce the new head coach for the phoenix mercury it was a great experience so they got to explore and see really what was out there as far as job opportunities we are leaders this is our ffa group they recently competed in um it was a regional competition lexi of which many of them placed it very well but all of our cte programs have an opportunity to measure up against other students in the state and use their skills in a real world environment we're collaborators this is a group of not only
018students but you'll see teachers and administrators in here this was the queen creek chamber of commerce business education summit where we collaborated on how we can bring businesses and schools together to help our students develop those those necessary skills obviously we're learners and in cte we spend most of our time learning hands-on we use industry standard equipment and we follow industry standards in what we teach and so this is our new medical assisting program where students are learning how they would actually or what they would actually do if they were in the job place um we're risk takers we have an annual mock interview event every week or every every year and this is tough for a lot of our students because we bring industry professionals into our our library and they go through an
019interview and some of them it's the first time they've ever sat across the table from an adult and went through those interview interview questions and it's scary for them we've had students cry before but at the end of their interview they were smiling and it was one of the best experiences they've had and so we're very proud of our students when they step up and they and they take this this risk we are definitely advocates this what happened a couple years ago this was mrs belsey's nursing assistant students where we went before the house education committee with the help of dr wyman and we're able to share a little bit about one of our programs in front of legislatures and let them know the wonderful things that we do in cte we're competitors we dr
020wyman mentioned some of our students that competed in some events recently some were mr smith's but we have several of our ctsos that compete at the regional state and even the national level against other students we're looking forward to them attending this summer we're sensitive to the needs of our community we oftentimes have a health fair where our nursing assistant students step up and offer a booth for community members that want to come in and get their blood pressure taken or whatever it might be and we're we're a team you'll notice there is a familiar face in that group somewhere in there right we this is part of our um annual mock interviews and we bring in industry professionals from from throughout the community we have everything from uh our wonderful board member uh to
021uh a surgeon and everything in between and they come in and spend time with our students and provide them that that valuable feedback so there's a lot of things that we're doing for our students it's not the vocational ed of old this is uh what they call there's new collar jobs we learned a little bit about that at our conference in in charlotte 47 of the jobs across the country will require less than a four-year degree but more than a high school diploma so we need to fill those right and a lot of our cte students will be the ones that will feel those so what do we do this is our this is what we do in cte we assist students in developing technical professional and leadership skills to better prepare them for college
022and careers at the high school we've adopted this idea that we are going to add value to their high school experience we are not just an elective we are a program of study most students to complete a program have to complete two to three years in order to be considered a concentrator in a cte program but our goal when they graduate is to hopefully place them in one of the three e's either they're employed they're enrolled or they're enlisted we do that this is the the cte model this is common across the country we have our classroom instruction by our wonderful classroom teachers most of that instruction is hands-on again using industry standard equipment doing those things that they would do in the workplace we have work based learning so we have internships we have
023school-based enterprises and things like that that give them opportunity to be in a real world type of experience we have the leadership development which is part of our student organizations that i mentioned earlier we also support the core subjects so we try to integrate math reading and science into our content area to help those students apply those skills that's something that might be relevant to them and then of course the community involvement we try to be sensitive to what's out there and what we can do for the community be involved as much as we can what's happening so we we this year fully implemented what's called major clarity it's a college and career readiness program thank you counselors at the high school middle school for helping us do this this program we don't have time
024to spend on it but one day i'd like to do that for you all to let you know the wonderful benefits it has for preparing our students for their future this year we implemented that every second year student and some of our third year students will attempt to gain an industry certificate we added one in fact to our sports medicine program which is the emergency medical responder certificate so our third year students will test for that one as well so by the time they finish they'll have two certificates under their belt this year will be our first year of medical assisting graduates we started the program last year we have some that will finish this summer we created what are called regional advisory councils so our health services programs which is three of them in
025our media technologies programs which are for them trying to find advisory members if you've ever been on advisory council it's a challenge so we are aware of that so i recruited the a couple of ct directors from surrounding school districts we combined our resources and we created some regional advisory councils to help improve our programs we have three programs that will offer college credit in fact our medical assisting program when they finish the program they'll have 18 college credits under their belt when they graduate from high school which is amazing we of course have ctso competitors that have uh competed at the the regional level and are competing at the state level and we hope to have some national finalists as well we attended the elevate for tomorrow conference we had most the most attendees
026from the districts around us we had over 200 of our juniors attend this conference which was an opportunity for them again to gain some a better understanding of the workplace employability skills and then obviously we have our mock interviews march 3rd and 4th if there's any industry professionals out there that want to participate there's my plug i'd love to have you join us but what's most important we do all these wonderful things but we have an end product that's the whole idea and so i'm done babbling for now and i would like to turn the time over to some students and former students who are either in a program or have completed a program to share with all of you the impact that cte has had on them so first i'd like to invite up
027our agricultural science or our ffa officers and have them share a few things with us president members of the board and dr wyman hello my name is haley lynn struth i'm a junior at combs high school and i'm currently serving as a 2021-2022 homes ffa chapter president last week i was able to participate in a spring district competition for culture and this competition let me test my knowledge on the constructing of floral arrangements tool id and plant diseases and the basic plant knowledge of floral knowledge this was an amazing opportunity my team placed third and i placed top five qualifying for the az ffa state competition at the end of this month [Applause] hello my name is caden vandegrift and i'm serving as the 2021 2022 ffa combs and chapter vice president in the beginning
028of this semester or the first semester sorry i was able to take a trip over to cac for their welding demo day there i learned a lot about careers and career paths and i met some industry professionals and i got an idea of some things that i might want to go into and look forward to in the future [Applause] hello my name is emily payne i'm a junior at combs high school and currently serving as the 2021-2022 combs ffa secretary tonight i wanted to share my experience i've had through my ctso competition this past december i participated in the agricultural mechanics competition where i got to test my knowledge about topics such as plumbing welding tool id and teamwork my team placed first and i placed first as an individual as well i'm looking forward
029to competing at the arizona ffa stop state competition at the end of this month for a chance to represent arizona ffa and combs ffa at the next competition national next fall great job [Applause] hello my name is david stoddard and i'm a junior at combs high school this year i am serving as the combs ffa chapter sentinel it has been a huge year for combs ffa so far we have raised over three thousand dollars in our fundraising efforts and have hosted and attended community events back in october the chapter partnered with queen creek ffa on their town haunted house for the annual trunk or treat and in november we hosted our first chili cook-off for the community we are excited for the new opportunities in our community [Applause] hello my name is taylor latta and
030i am a sophomore at combs high school and i'm currently serving as the combs ffa uh chapter reporter this year the agricultural science classes have been cleaning and improving the land lab our outdoor classroom we have also had chickens and that we have been working with as well as our new upcoming upcoming garden bed project students are also working hard on their plans for next year's animal facilities for their county fair projects hands-on learning is a huge part of ag science classes and i am excited to see what else we will do thank you um up next is quentin kendall uh quentin is a member of our digital communications program hello i'm clinton kendall um i've been a junior at the heist or i'm a junior at the high school i've been in the journalism
031program since my freshman year and photography since last year and my time in that program has given me a pretty clear idea of the direction i want to take my future in both education and my career and i'm doing a lot of things right now that i'll be doing in the future in a career path and that has been very invaluable to me thank you really our goal is is uh we want to be able to ask our seniors when they graduate what they're going to do next and hopefully everyone will have an answer similar to clinton's where they've found their passion and they've decided what they want to do next right and our last voice is coming from a former student velvet wall velvet has an amazing resume as such a young lady and
032velvet i want you to share just a little bit of that resume with them okay hello my name is belle vitwall and i'm an alumna of comes high school there i took digital communications for all four years of high school i actually found my passion for journalism through the program and i decided to attend cronkite asu for to pursue journalism in the print industry um so in my journalism class i learned a lot of essential 21st century skills that have aided me throughout my college my college career and my actual career that i'm just starting out uh when i entered the journalism school at asu i was a step ahead of all my peers i knew how to build and manage a website i knew how to interview and write articles i knew simple coding
033and how to use a camera while some of my peers had never touched a camera before they'd never interviewed people before they had never even you know written an article or done journalism before so i had all these skills under my belt that i was able to use the skills i learned can be used across any field like critical thinking communications and adaptability the skills i was taught have helped me throughout my college career and even in my new job i'm currently i just accepted a position that i started this week as a marketing coordinator at a window company previously i interned with them last semester which was my last semester at asu i also interned with echo magazine um for a semester and i have worked in both cronkite news which is a professional
034program where we cover news in arizona i covered education and they put out a daily broadcast and i also have worked with augmented reality in a new media innovation lab and in that class i used coding which i had learned my freshman year of high school how to do simple coding so i've learned a lot of skills that are needed you know for the industry and it can the skills can be used anywhere cte allows students to gain hands-on experience that will help them get jobs right out of high school and will help them in their pursuit of higher education a lot of students do not have the opportunities that we have at their own schools and so i really appreciate the opportunity that i had to find my passion and to be able to
035pursue that and i'm very happy to tell you guys about what i've done and to give back thank you and then uh dr wyman mentioned alex gould alex is doing some amazing work for us and he wasn't able to be here tonight because of his busy schedule but he did send mr taylor an email and i'm going to have mr taylor read that real quickly for us okay good evening i apologize for the casual friday dress but my little pee brain left my clothes on the kitchen counter when i left for work this morning and i had to cover our soccer game this afternoon so i had no time to go home i apologize uh before i get to alex's present or note that he left for me uh the the two people that spoke
036on behalf of the digital communications program kind of sell themselves short a little bit uh velvet graduated in in three and a half years from cronkite and was on the dean's list every semester that she was there um quentin started my program as a shy little freshman uh he mentioned he's a junior now but he is a junior with a voice and a junior who constantly comes to me with innovative ideas on ways to improve the journalism program at our school and that is something that he has definitely blossomed into as he's grown throughout the three years that he's been a part of the program so don't sell yourself short kiddo uh they're they're doing great things uh so i'll get down to the reason why i'm standing here sorry like a typical uh millennial
037they send me their information via text message so the compliments that are about me in this message i can share the transcript with you just so you guys know that i am not ad-libbing at all so hello everyone i'm sorry i couldn't be there in person today but i wanted to take a little bit of time to talk about how the tv and news production classes or simply just the rundown the name of our our television show helped to set me on the path that i am on today for those of you who don't know me i graduated from chs in may of 2019 and i spent my sophomore year through my senior year in the tv and news production programs today i'm an intern photojournalist at the arizona republic and the photo editor at
038the state press a student-run newspaper at arizona state i am a visual journalist for cronkite news and i'm working with velvet at the asu media enterprise the rundown and mr taylor taught me almost everything i know i everything i know now from photography to my my knowledge of the adobe suite of applications in my senior year i decided i wanted to certify certify myself in five different adobe programs premiere pro after effects indesign photoshop and illustrator mr taylor provided me with the chance to learn those programs over the summer between my junior and senior year he let me borrow a laptop with after effects on it so i could teach myself how the program worked over the summer by the time i graduated i had achieved the goal and i still use all of those
039programs today i also achieved something i never really thought i would especially not in my first ever national journalism competition and that was to win a superior award for broadcast news package at the journalism education association spring convention in 2018. that was only possible because of the teaching i received from mr taylor finally i wanted to talk a bit about how my interest in this career came to be i fell in love with the idea of being a journalist after producing two segments for the rundown both were feature stories on combs alumni velvet wall and austin villegas it was through this program that i finally found the thing that made me happy and and what i do now may look different to what i was doing on the rundown in the sense that i switched
040to still image photojournalism rather than broadcast video this program taught me all the skills i need to continue my education at the walter cronkite school of journalism i'm eternally grateful to both mr taylor and the combs cte program as a whole for everything they have done for me and giving the chance to find what i love thank you mr the coolest thing is if you've ever been to a phoenix suns game and you see the photographers down on the floor alex is one of those guys it's really really cool anyway the last thing is that our students are fortunate to have a staff that cares about them we adopted this realizing that if it's important to our students then it has to be important to us as teachers and so sometimes we have a lot
041on our plate as educators but if those little things like student organizations and competitions and community service and all those things are important to our to our students or for our students then we as educators realize they're important to us and we need to support our students in those things so again thank you again for for the time tonight [Applause] that's a that's the superintendent's report so we're on the next agenda so we're on uh school and staff recognition ms paschall with uh simonton elementary good evening madam president dr wyman and board members and our fabulous large audience tonight thanks for being here tonight you didn't know you're going to get to hear about catherine sue simmington elementary and some of the great things that we're doing with technology um i do have our fabulous
042teacher maybe claire who's going to join me up here along with some of our students from fourth and fifth grade so jace you want to come up piper madison alexis um we're going to share some um of what they've been doing the last second quarter our students in grades one through six have been working on coding and tonight we're going to share a video that highlights some of the things that they've been working on as well as they would like to personally share some of their personal projects involving coding so we will start with our video clip and then we will turn it over to our stallions to share technology vision is that we come to technology to learn computer skills that will help us be successful in school and prepare us for future careers
043we work hard and play hard work is to treat other people kindly part of the safety is to walk in the crossing keep all four legs on the ground and no food or drinks in the sponsor ability is to stay an appropriate website responsibility is to keep focus and stay on task voting is basically telling the computer what to do coding is a fun and entertaining program and make it do stuff and make it move around directions and make it speaker and what you tell the computer to do when you like to tell the characters to talk to move to and to say something coding is a type of blog that you can put together to make really cool games and you can make a big project coding is to make your ideas real my
044name is bennett and i made a story about two friends going on an adventure and finding a witch i'm new here okay i'll leave them here's the technology room what do we do here we put educational games on the computers here's the hallway it's a little bit in our class i used coding to create a game where a butterfly has to block the clouds and if you touch the clouds i i do coded games on code.org when i made my background i was excited to help others i like sharing my stories with my class and seeing everybody else's videos i use critical thing to make my sprite jump and scratch and it's really hard because i make it land in the perfect spot where it jumps use math and technology to figure out how long
045my sprites need to wait for my story on my jumping game um i i needed help moving my spot across the screen so i watched a couple of videos and was trying to trying all the boxes until i got it right then i finally got it right it was hard but then i kept on trying and then it got easier [Music] okay so jace is going to share about his story with coding we use this program called scratch to create our stories use these coding blocks to tell the computer when to move talk or wait my favorite part is when they chase each other around the world the hardest part was when making making the snake change directions i use wait blocks talk blocks switch backdrop to say blocks this is my story a snake
046please don't eat me boss gonna be so happy [Music] yes yes yes no don't get me ha ha okay i give up [Applause] all right we would like to have our friends from fifth grade come over and share i think they're gonna use the mic actually okay piper and madison and lexus are gonna share more in fifth grade we did something fun things like creating our own jumping game on scratch we did lessons on code.org and jumping game and coding with roblox this is our evo bot ruby when we start using ruby we have to calibrate her so that she is ready to adjust to the color and lighting in the room this will help her to recognize the code we put on our map to do this we hold down the button until it
047turns white and put her on a black circle the robot is now calibrating on our map we use several different patterns to tell ruby what to do for example this code is fast this coat is slow the robot will also change colors with the patterns of the code this code is tornado it will spin fast it will spin and then start spinning even faster this code is back walk it will turn back into it singing and come back give us a minute now this code is nitro boost this code is zigzag we have nitro boost again and then next we have spin now ruby is going to the oz car wash for ruby's final code she has a back walk and now we are at the finish line that's ruby's world thanks for going on
048an adventure with us [Applause] do you guys have any questions for us [Music] [Applause] as you could tell these kids loved coding and i was shocked at what they can do at such a young age they were so creative in their stories and their perseverance coding is hard and it's tricky and it takes a lot of problem solving skills and they stuck through and did amazing jobs on our board we have a saying that says you have more power in your fingertips than generations before and it is so true i'm excited to see what these kids will do with this basic foundation of coding that they're learning well let's give a little treat to our fabulous students who helped us tonight too thank you i don't think they were shy either i think they did
049a really nice job and then miss claire if you say we're going to celebrate you also so um we just i want to say thank you maylie has been and continues to be part of the combs community um in many ways and this year we've been blessed that she is a technology teacher at symington and harman and she has jumped in with both feet and worked very hard to make it very engaging and fun and something that the kids enjoy and build on and like we said building a strong foundation for future things like i hear about with cte so very excited to have maylie with us this year and um just appreciate the creativity and the kindness that she brings to our students [Applause] and then we would like to celebrate a couple more
050people that are here tonight um this lady is so flexible um probably wishes her phone was not on in the morning because i'm texting and saying so how do you feel about this today and miss jamie is who we would like to celebrate miss jamie um is second year with us is actually a certified teacher and works as a paraprofessional for us but has been a teacher many days this year as a substitute so she probably really does want to turn off the phone every morning and not get that but she is just so kind so giving so warm like i said flexible but always with a smile whatever's going on helping staff members helping students so we really appreciate miss jamie and everything she brings to simonton [Applause] well i'm worried about my favorite
051thing bags i got them and i'm supposed to be giving you the blue apples so i have a blue apple for each of you so i'm going to give you yours i'm gonna put it back in here and then i would like to have maybe come up and i will give you yours in your bag are just some of your favorite things to enjoy i forgot about these nice apples okay one more we would love to celebrate is our lovely miss emily so miss emily is our go-to person in the very front the very first person that you're gonna see when you walk into simonton [Applause] always with a smile on she is the queen of attendance and registration she is amazing she um can multitask like no one else and i've never seen her
052um i guess frazzled she's so calm i just figure out how to frazzle you i don't even know what it would be so um just calm giving caring always wanting to know what she can do to help our staff our families always looking at what is best for students when we're when we're doing anything across the campus so i really really appreciate having emily a very front person again that everybody sees and works with so polite and giving thank you [Applause] um i love love love symmington and feel very blessed to be there if i could fill this audience right now with our entire staff and bring each one up so we could celebrate them tonight that's what i would do they give and give and give we actually have several people in the audience
053that are from symington tonight too and everybody is so giving to each other and they make it a special place so very blessed to work alongside each of you and thank you for letting us share tonight and celebrate and for our fabulous students for bringing some of technology alive for everybody to see what we do when we go to technology class thank you thank you [Applause] so we have a student of the month madam president board members dr wyman and uh all members in the audience thank you for being here faculty and staff thank you and of course the leaders i'd like to have uh from combs center of success isis stellwagen come up oh come on over here right here next to me out there sorry didn't see you there the idea of fairness
054is an ever important in today's society for all citizens she is fair to all people she comes in contact with students staff community members she's always willing to place others before herself countless times i've seen her allow others to go ahead of her in line to pick up lunch on many occasions i've seen her ask for help for understanding the questions that she got wrong she doesn't do this to change the answers for a higher score but instead she does it so that she can learn the material and grow as a person congratulations isis for being a wonderful student [Applause] could i have amy hansen from the high school come up could i have michael turnage come up from combs middle school michael is an exceptional student who routinely pushes himself to succeed when it
055comes to classroom collaboration michael demonstrates an elite sense of fairness by always treating others the same with kindness and respect and patiently helping them to succeed michael is a loyal student committed to his campus community who is always willing to do the work he's responsible open-minded and always goes the extra mile to contribute in class congratulations michael we're all very proud of you and that of course is from miss guzman could i have sawyer nash come up from cta there you are [Applause] this is miss nash she's a great example of the character trait fairness she's willing to share in the classroom as well as recess she treats all of her classmates with respect respect and make sure that she listens to everyone's ideas sawyer plays by the rules at recess and treats everyone fairly
056if she sees someone who's not treating others fairly she'll talk to them and make sure that they follow the rules of the game like everyone else we're honored to nominate sawyer for the character trait of fairness and of course that's from your school congratulations [Applause] could i have lacy francois come up from ellsworth i thought i saw lacey earlier could i have ariana ramirez come up from harmon [Applause] there she is ariana is caring and kind towards her fellow classmates teachers and staff at harman she's respectful when speaking to others and is always polite the other children look up to her and she emulates these traits ariana is responsible and trustworthy she is mindful of what is what is right to do and has been witnessed and by helping her peers and making good choices
057ariana is always willing to help she has a positive attitude she works hard and is a great example to those around her congratulations ariana could i have isaac lopez come up from ranch [Applause] how are you nice to meet you isaac came to mind immediately for this nomination isaac is respectful works hard as a role model for his peers he's willing to help when needed and volunteers to help his peers always isaac demonstrates the traits of the pillar of character every day by listening to others while keeping an open mind not taking advantage of other people and telling the truth isaac is a pleasure to have in class and ranch is grateful for his contribute contributions congratulations isaac [Applause] could i have mason lucas come up from symington hi mason how are you this is
058mason mason is a perfect example of respect and we're rewarding him this from last month he's always listening and paying attention to his teachers when an assignment is given he is the first to get busy working he works diligently to finish all of his work and follows the directions to a t he raises his hand and asks for assistance when needed and when work is hard to complete he keeps at it he is a great example to his classmates and is always willing to help out mason is polite and kind to everyone around him he is truly respectful and a kind human congratulations mason [Applause] i believe that's it for this evening time to take some pictures yeah you guys can get up and take pictures of them and do what you need to do
059whatever you want good congratulations [Music] was outside all right okay i just great yes i did my job thanks okay okay we're gonna go ahead and um proceed do we have any citizens comments no we do not okay so it brings us to the consent agenda does anybody have any questions comments concern on the consent agenda chad lisa you have any questions on the consent agenda uh no madam president no not at this time okay so then i'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda i move that the governing board approved the consent agenda as presented all in favor aye aye aye okay motion carries five to zero so we're going to go to our one huge action item and it's discussion and consideration of approval of fee schedules for the 22-23 year madam
060president members of the board and the tens of people who are watching this at home tonight they're very excited we're very excited yes and i just flew in from charlotte so my arms are tired [Laughter] you have three fee sheets in front of you tonight one of them is the normal fees that we bring to you at the high school what i'd like to say is that over the last several years we've really tried to go through and adjust the fees that we're charging our students and to really focus on the needs of what we have so you have the high school course fee schedule you should also have a second fee schedule that focuses on technology and then community education will be bringing a fee schedule to you tonight that will include some increases
061in their fees so i can answer questions on the first couple and then i'll let ms carly answer the questions on uh anything related to community yet um just i noticed in the information we had we talked about the thief for the computers and how a parent can opt in around so i understand all of that yes is there anything uh different any fees that have changed from previous years to what we'll be approving tonight no the only fees that changed is as we added a new course for ag4 we added the fees that go along with that other than that all of the fees remain the same for the course fees and then dr wyman can speak to the uh the the computer fees now the computer fees and and with community ed we
062increase the fees um about ten percent just to they're still below the neighboring costs but but it helps to run the program so those did go up but the rest is as mr cox said he did not okay looks good thank you for your time any questions any other questions no no no questions perfect okay do we need to so i've moved did you say that we needed to do something with community ed too or no no okay we increase the fees and if there's if there's questions ms carley's here to answer but otherwise not but i will remind you on the recommended action please read the motion exactly as it is because there's understated statute um uh authorization for principles and it has to be read in this manner got that bob dr wyman
063oh yep sorry i just i noticed that part that said that uh giving uh giving some authority to the the principles to make that decision is that is that has that not been the case previously or is that just part of no it's it's always been the case and this is the same motion that you read every year i just point it out because sometimes we'll make a motion that's not that just kind of summarizes what the talk is this is just one that we specifically have to read as it's written because the state statute requires it so but it's the same one we've used for years perfect thank you all right i'll take a motion okay i moved to approve the 2022-23 fee schedules and authorize the principles to waive the assessment of all
064or part of the fee assessed if it creates an economic hardship second all in favor aye aye motion carries five to zero now we get our informational yes the first item we have on if you remember back in september we went ahead and proved applied economics to do a demographic and enrollment analysis for the district and so we've asked mr rambert come here and give us a report on what they found so we'll turn the time over to him and there's a presentation that will be part of the his discussion good evening uh president hargis members of the board dr wyman um and distinguished guests very distinguished very very very distinguished looking group over there but anyways uh we're uh we're we're here tonight to share with you the results of of the of the
065update of the study really we certainly have uh been here before um so we'll just get right to it tell you what we figured what we found out this time study scope just for people may have not seen it is it's been pretty much the same but obviously we're looking at enrollment trends and punishing enrollment data every way that we can looking at grade level distributions geographic distributions right down to the neighborhood level and then um in this day and age we're also tracking enrollment at all of our alternative providers basically charter schools uh in the area even though we don't have a direct way to correlate how many of them are your students we can infer and so we do a lot of we you know we do a lot of that um demographic
066characteristics of the existing population unlike you know when in the period between 2000 and 2010 and between 2010 and 2020 there was enough of a population that you now actually have an aging of some of the people who moved in during the last boom so we're all we are looking at household type and characteristics and the age age hold ages of the householders don graves with our office is our residential development guy expert and he and he tracks um active projects as well as things are coming down the pike in terms of you know final development plans and platts and and all those kinds of things and then further out talking to the developers you know about their idea of their timing for their projects which we don't take verbatim but we do definitely open
067that door and then finally we do two models a macroeconomic top down how does your district fit into the southeast valley how does it fit into arizona and you know the bigger economic picture and then a bottom-up model sub-district model where we use these geographic areas so we're actually modeling the households and the population and the school age population and the enrollment in all of these red boxes and here they just happen to be colored according to the current attendance areas but these the idea with the grids we call them is that they don't change over time like the attendance areas might change you might move this there to that school and these don't so that we can actually get you know over a good period of time a handle on how enrollment is trending
068not only at the district level but really down about the quarter section or so level which you know breaks up gives us enough detail to understand what's going on so first of all we'll start back at the top with you know kind of the big kind of the big picture and i've got enough notes on this page i'm going to have to turn the page for a change but you know enrollment grew by about 4 000 students between 2010 and and 2011 and as i noted there has only increased by about a hundred since then and the interesting thing about these two periods is if i break it down into the 2000 through 2010 period there was about 9 000 new housing units built in the district during that period of time and that generated
069about 6 500 school-aged persons that means all persons 5 to 17 living in the district whether they went to one of your schools or any school that's just population impact with 6 500. the enrollment impact was 4 000. so we've all we you know some of the kids obviously even back then were going to providers outside the district whether they were charters or other districts um certainly that was still going on um but there was a pretty you know at least um a relationship between the number of houses that were being added and and our enrollment and what's happened since then is there's been six thousand more housing units added there's been about only about 3 000 no school-aged persons net created because we have the population in in age and in the early part
070of the 2010s when housing uh vacancy rates were high a lot of those were reoccupied by older people who were they were investment properties a lot from canada a lot from elsewhere so we picked up this sort of older age group out of those houses that were built during the boom so we've only got about a 0.5 you know even just of school-age population coming out of there so um charter schools gain 4 500 during this period now obviously those couldn't have been all from this district we knew they weren't because the school-age population didn't increase that much but the fact of the matter is that they essentially consumed every single bit of that 3 000 increase in school-age population since 2010. and that's basically exactly why your enrollment is basically unchanged almost for the
071last 10 or 11 years um the next cut we take added is looking at it by grade cohort court i'm sorry so the average enrollment per grade in each one of these four groups and of course yours is a little bit skewed in the beginning because there was no high school you know so we obviously see that 912 line jump onto the graph but it always looks this way in fast growing areas you know the first part of the decade here in 2000s where it's led by young families young kids and so you see the k2 and 3-5 cohorts become the largest on a per-grade level basis and basically since 2010-2011 not only has the rate of growth in those cohorts slowed in terms of the population the charter schools have come along and so
072basically those enrollments really haven't changed it's almost exactly flat high school enrollment has continued to go up steadily for us i would say that since 2015 the charters have added 900 high school seats which is brand new before 2015 there were no charter high schools active in this area so they've also been impacted now although the number is still going up and then you can see our little bumps or our dips last year the covet related you know impacts and the good news you have there is that most of your kids came back there were places where people found alternative providers and just didn't come back chandler unified school district lost 1860 kids that year and this year's enrollment was back up so they're still down 1800 from 2019 so at least you have that
073bounce coming back up you know onto the curve getting back to the sort of the sub-district stuff this one just takes your students this is your k-12 enrollment so your actual students that are coming out of each one of those boxes i was talking about in the beginning out of the grids and they're you know they're color coded by you know the range of students that you're getting out of there just so you can kind of get a handle on you know where the high and lower density enrollment concentrations are and again this is enrollment not school age population so you see some places where you know the school where there's a charter school in the middle of a development you don't really see that many kids coming out of there and that's basically your
074that's basically your answer since we've been working here for a while we there's two of these in the in the report that cover a longer range but this is just looking at the enrollment change sub district for the last five years where we know you know the net result is zero increase and so we can see some places red which is where enrollment is increasing during that period a little number tells you how many enrollment increased during that period but then a lot of places uh interestingly in the central and even the eastern parts of the district where we saw some pretty significant enrollment declines and some of that is the aging of the population but by and large it's people making making choice over over time demographics i talked about were shifting on us
075a little bit too but you know the numbers are fantastic i mean from a population of 2 700 and 2 000 to 29 000 in in 2010 um so compound annual growth rate of 26.5 you can see that during that period even the overall growth the under five five to thirteen uh components particularly were above the uh average rate of population growth a lot of young kids coming in and in fact the population you know that i really high school is important but the five the preschoolers and the elementaries are what's driving their enrollment numbers and so those that's that portion of the population i'm most interested in so during that 2000s period when the boom was happening that portion of the population under under 14 rose to be almost a third of the total
076population of the district so it's a fantastic concentration back down to 25.6 now which actually is still pretty high it's still a family area there's still a lot of kids out there there's many districts where that number um is much much much lower as you can see in the second five years or in the second decade i'm sorry the overall growth rate falls to 4.6 per year compound annually is still a very very strong growth rate but look at the distribution of the growth by population cohort whether the under 5 and 5 to 13 are less than half of the overall growth rate and by far the biggest you know the growing cohorts are 45 and up 45 and 65 and up and it gets driven by the population by household uh by the age
077of householder and so that's 25 to 34 and 35 to 44 year old groups are essentially the families who have kids or bring kids with them and so you can see that that in that same period in the 2000s how that became almost 60 of all households of 55 of all households were in that childbearing you know age cohort and that's fallen to 54 which is still about 10 percent higher than the next highest district in the southeast valley so it's still an astronomically large number it's just less than it less than it was before one of the things that we've got driving us um everywhere in in in just something to be aware of really is what's happened with birth rates in the state of arizona and and nationally although in arizona it's much
078more extreme this is kind of a complicated chart but i'm going to be following the red line which is the birth rate for the state of arizona which during the great recession fell by 19 and since there wasn't any population growth during that period or not much the natural number of births per year fell by 17 during that period of time and then we had this recovery period in the economy from about 2010 through about 2014 where that birth rate went flat and every time previously in american history when we've had a dip in the birth rate because of a recession then on the other side of it guess what you have a little bit of an increase so we saw it go flat we thought it might increase and exactly the opposite has happened
079we've got a sixth straight year of continuing lower birth rates we've got a little population growth that's offsetting the number of births but we're still looking at the you know the pot of students coming forward statewide isn't getting bigger and in fact the arizona state demographer is not projecting a increase in the population under 18 in the state of arizona through 2030. so you might get some you will get some out here because you're building houses you're building houses for younger people but overall the population of the state school-age population of the state isn't is it really isn't getting any bigger so that's you know kind of driving everyone's enrollment numbers um as we talked about the the impact of charter schools in the district the we divide them into two groups the one the
080four that are you know directly inside the boundaries and then there's three more which are within a mile or even less of the boundaries and so they add up to 5 800 there's been a 4 600 student increase uh in those since 2010 i noticed i noted that you know kind of the bump up in the uh in the in the high school component we know these aren't all your kids especially since we're you know including some from outside but i just want to give us an idea of you know what we're up against in terms of the kind of growth uh that that that they have experienced uh so don's going to talk to us about something a little more cheery which is residential development well as rick had mentioned you know there's been
081about 6 000 housing units permitted in the last 10 years and you see on the chart uh that in the early years there wasn't a lot of growth we're still coming out of the recession and so now a lot happening and then it starts picking up again about 2015. and the last few years has been really pretty steady which is uh interesting it hasn't gone didn't keep shooting up and hasn't dropped it's been pretty steady which because if you've had different projects going at the same time at different rates and that helps balance things out you'll see at the end of the chart there's a drop the blue bar is the family housing and the green bars on top are age restricted you see the uh the family housing dropped quite a bit in this
082last year and this is something we've seen basically all over valley and what is happening is the housing market right now is so strong builders are actually building out projects faster than new lots can be created to go on so you have subdivisions built out and then they have to wait a while for lots to be finished for the next subdivision and we're seeing this all over the valley the builders are just burning through these a lot so fast that you know they don't have any replacement the permits in the last year have been basically concentrated in the south those ones in the middle on the west side of the district is an ovation that's age restricted but other than that mostly what we have going on is archer meadows over in the southeastern corner
083of the district about 300 of the 600 permits that were on that last chart about 300 of them were there at archer meadows that project's been building you know very fast and then you know and cantata has been they're still building and then we have some more there in the uh south southwestern corner of the district but mostly it's confined in the south for for the last year but this is about to change the housing potential we have about 23 000 units in potential and this number is going to shift and change especially in that far right bar mostly because some of that is including state land which may not actually go residential we don't know how that's all going to play out but as you look at the bars there's almost nothing in active
084projects now there's not very much going on right now in active projects and as you look farther you'll see you know you're having a real bump like in the next five years there's a lot of housing about to be added these bars are color coded with blue the light blue is lower density single family the darker blue is a little a little bit higher density single family and as you're looking at this and you can see where it's being split in pretty you know pretty good portions and both of those and this is a good thing it shows you're having a little bit more diversity in the housing market and the reason we look at this is because there's a there's a correlation between the type of houses and the age structure of the households
085now for our purposes we actually have this split up into about 10 categories instead of three but that's what we're getting at is there's a different age structure and the orange bars at the top is multi-family which has not been a factor in the district before but we are starting to see this the uh there's about 500 here in this next year that's coming on these are single-family rentals they're both under construction right now at least the the groundwork is being laid out on combs road on the north side there's a bungalows project and a hancock project and those you know may well have some kids but they're going to have a different a little bit different structure than in you in your normal single family but the thing on this chart you'll see you
086know as we get in these middle years you're having a big bump of new housing units being planned the multi-families apartments well yes mulder families apartments although these rental projects they have now technically they're single-family because they're not attached but we treat them as multi-family because that's how they behave people are going to come in and rent those for a year and then you'll move out and somebody else will come in and rent for a year and sometimes they're even referred to as horizontal apartments oh i see okay so yeah it's a little confusing because it's single family but they're treated like apartments and that's how we look at them and those would be the two the two developments on either side of ala right now is what yes those are both single family rentals
087yes so those are both uh the you know the one store and they're either single family or duplexes sometimes so one of them's not in our district though then right no no they're both in our district because they're there meridian is a cut line right there by the olive mill so everything decided meridian so so they're between ala and the fire station the old fire station then on the other side now as we look ahead when i mentioned about the next year to five years we're going to have a lot of a lot more activity going on and this is what we're looking at this map is color coded where red means an active project it's like if you look out at archer meadows a lot of that is in red because that's an active
088project although it's going to be active for just the next few months and the dark orange means that it's imminent within the next year or so so we have combs ranch and where farms where we have part of this it's they're grading it now they'll be building houses sometime later this year the lighter orange refers to the stuff they'll be coming on in the next you know two or three years so again later phases at combs ranch and where farms where they're in the planning process and woodside homes up at north creek they're up in the northern part upon the northwestern part of the district and we've got they've also done some of the initial grading and it'll be probably late in the year before they actually start building houses but we've got a lot
089of stuff coming on in the next couple of years and some of these these projects are fairly good size and they're going to be building over several years and that's going to be filling up a lot of the space in the next few years that that land that's surrounding north creek it's up on the north side of queen creek road that is has a potential of about 1800 houses and they're currently planning that so they don't have a developer yet but it's in the planning stage so that'll be coming on too which will push the growth out for another several years since it won't start for a while it'll go on for quite a few years now thanks john the state land parcel that uh don was talking about this sort of still in question
090and may you know cut off that last you know several thousand units of supply beyond ten years is the state property uh town of queen creek calls a special area three now the 4100 acres and they are indicating at this point that there will be very little if if any residential so that's actually changed since we did our research on this earlier last fall so there's you know it's a lot of land we'll see you know i mean i think it's good to hold land for industrial development but at the same time 4100 acres of is a lot of land so we'll have to see how that plays out going on down the road just for the board's knowledge of that that land north of germain 1600 of the first 2 000 acres has already
091been deemed what town of queen creek calls urban employment and therefore no homes whatsoever the remaining portion is still up for debate so that's basically meridian to neff north of germain up to the county are our boundaries which is about pecos is what we're talking about there so that has changed significantly right and even whoops oh shoot i turned it off you can see between kenworthy and schneff where we have some yellow on that map and that's the part that really is is has been the latest change we already knew industrial you know west of west of kenworthy but uh that has been a change and what's not on here because it's not part of it but the other changes is uh the 24 was at one point going to dip down into our into
092our district right about the line of where down in the yellow that has now been changed and the 24 is going to go straight across on the on the current path that they it has to hook up to the north south freeway so it will not be dropping down into our district at all so we we talked about 2 300 or 20 about 23 000 units in potential some of that may not be in potential but we're looking at a absorption or construction of around 11 400 of those housing units over the next 10 years none of this is dependent on that supply so you know it's sort of neither here nor there at the moment at least in terms of these projections but as don was saying and by the way when it says
093new units that's actually lagged a year so when it says 2122 that means there was 721 new houses permitted during the year 2020-21 so we lag it a year to get them constructed and get them occupied so that's when we figured they actually hit inventory and actually not all of them get occupied only 628 but anyways this is about um you know about the regular represents an increase of about 10 600 households so occupied housing units and then what i do is we structure based on the type of housing dawns you know tell talking to me about um the that those age cohorts so those house of the householders just like i showed you with the census and then i'm able to translate households into school-age population and so here we're just going to show
094that historical relationship between households school-age population is all persons living in the district 5-17 whether they go to your school or any school and so there you can see the that kind of like kind of the per household rate on that and then we compare that to your enrollment and then we calculate the net difference and then the last column is just the ratio between the two and the chart on the bottom is just a graphic uh illustration of all of that um on this graph the uh blue bar is total school-age population the red bar is what we would expect to come to our district that is what you actually got this is what we actually got this is all historical information got it okay so it's showing that we're getting a reduced percentage
095of students coming to us over the course of time right because the school age population has continued to increase during this decade not nearly as fast as it did in the last decade but it has continued to increase but your enrollment has not but my observation about all of this is that there is a saturation point and i know it's not going to go to zero we're not going to extend this 1.8 percent annual decline you know out to out to zero i do not believe that it's ever going to happen and dr wyman had some interesting observations that might help us out going forward on that one too and it's very real and i'll show you some scenarios we did with that in mind is that um the places where charter schools can come
096into the district and obtain an affordable site are you know very very much being depleted the district has gotten out in front and controlled the new school sites as much as possible so hopefully we're going to get a much better capture rate out of that news this new housing that's coming forward than we did over the last 10 years can i guarantee that absolutely not you know and that's where it's frustrating for us because we're pretty good at the whole demographic housing part it's this whole competition you know parent choice part that becomes you know very very very difficult and because it's really difficult we actually set up three different scenarios so obviously we're just showing history just to keep it in mind but the first sets of columns are that enrollment population ratio so
097what let's say um it did it declines by i calculated the most it probably will decline is we could be about another seven percent so it would fall from 43.6 to about 36 um the middle column is well what if it what if it just stays where it's at and then the increase would i took the seven percent on the other side and i think that actually gives us a really valid range so based on the number of new houses that are coming which is substantial compared to even the last decade i see it you know the potential for a minimum increase of around 1500 students but if you actually do you know are able to actually raise the rate as a result of having better control over the supply of schools you know that
098number could be 3 800 and i'm sorry that i can't be more precise but you can look at the last 10 years and and understand why you know i'm not willing to put a number you know onto it so what we did was took i think this is the um let's this is the stable scenario then that i went ahead and ran through our sub-district model at the grid level this is this here is aggregating those grids up by attendance area so you can see what the actual numbers have been in the attendance areas and also details out of district because that's an area and then you can see how those have changed historically and then what we're seeing in the projections and essentially in the next you know five years if if this plays
099out simonton elementary will get a a huge boost and the other three will get a you know get get will get a nice kick and then in the second five years the focus turns over to the ranch elementary attendance area and no one believes we'll actually put a thousand forty kids in the ranch that's just how big the attendance area is going to get and so that's what these projections would would play out now what we do is we're really modeling this where kids live where houses are that's attendance area stuff but what happens is of course not every kid goes to their school so we this chart tells us that relationship so if you read this across at ellsworth elementary they have 370 kids that live in their attendance area they get eight from
100harmon 14 from ranch 85 from simonton 66 from outside the district for a total attendance of 543. there's 457 kids reading the column down who live in that attendance area so they're at net 86 positive i can't remember did this include pre-k or is this a cape this is only k-12 i can't expand it if you'd like but so so just note in these numbers because the reason i say that if you look at our numbers if you look at all the schools with the exception of cta if we talk about elementaries just take it as a raw number that the size of the school built right the capacity of the school that's built is approximately 850 might be 866 it might be 844 but it's right at 98.50 range so if you're looking to
101see how much capacity a particular school has again you also we we have pre-k programs in ellsworth we have pre-k program at simonton at ranch so that that factors in the numbers just a little bit and if you look at our numbers on what i give you at the beginning of each board meeting with the report that does include pre-k number kids so if you look at that and you say how come they're showing this number for ellsworth is an example when you show when i show you guys the number that's 600 plus that's again part of it is the the pre-k stuff thank you for clarifying that um i appreciate that the only other thing i watch on this chart and sometimes is that how many kids go to their school so overall district-wide
102at least at the elementary level 78.5 percent of kids go to their designated school and so the other ones are showing what the individual attendant what the individual schools are doing and so we have one simonton that's distinctly lower serves a lower share of its student population it doesn't necessarily mean anything it could just be the location of a program or what have you but especially in large districts where you're trying to look across 20 elementary schools and figure out who's doing what sometimes that'll that'll be a little bit of a hint as is the chart down below which you know of of the kids in the school how many come from their attendance area how many come from elsewhere in the district and how many come from outside the district and so it is
103good to see that you know the homes traditional academy has been very good uh at bringing in kids from outside the district and that's something that we can definitely uh use to help bolster the enrollment numbers so we use the attendance area projections that relationship you just saw and then we converted into what that means for the school and again this would only be k-12 so it's it's pretty much the same numbers it gets translated and mapped out a little bit but the overall growth pattern um really doesn't change it looks pretty much like the attendance area numbers but out towards the end um you know three of the four schools would definitely be over capacity uh with the numbers that uh dr wyman was just was just giving you and i'm not sure about
104the uh the middle school and high school uh numbers if you look at the 3132 your high school's built for about 2100 middle school about 1100 i mean i'm giving a take a little bit so you'll see that those numbers would then be just at capacity but that's 10 years out and that's assuming that this cap your rate or the that ratio stays stable if it goes up then we'll be hurt in there but if it doesn't it won't that's what makes this so much fun um still increases in school-age populations since 2010 i mean not as dramatic as they were in the decade before but they've you know been completely offset by the growth of charter school enrollment we do see everything's indicating a run-up in the housing market to somewhere between a thousand
105and fifteen hundred units per year which we can probably sustain for five or six years before we actually start begin to run out of places you know that are billed at least the most economical land will be gobbled up by then the impact of the housing impending boom i'm calling it in your district because i guess it really uh maybe not be a boom but it certainly is an advance we don't know what that's going to really mean to you because of that competition that we keep talking about but i think dr wyman's point is very well taken that if they can't get sites for schools then your capture rate's going to go up um so we're saying the total enrollment has had to add at least you know 1500 um using that conservative assumption
106which means that our you know ep ratio or service rate continues to fall and it's possible that because of that you could actually end up growing much faster um but um hopefully they will get a chance to see that coming and we'll be able to react to that so i think that's our presentation i appreciate your attention i'll take any questions okay i have a question not related to your data but maybe you can provide some insight over the last couple of years there have been a lot of a lot of stories about the share of the colorado river water and about water and for a while building permits were on hold because of the lack of water resources now we see all this boom coming how is how are we going to support all
107these new homes with the lack of water that we currently have i'm not sure how many places actually put a moratorium on building permits most of the bigger municipalities in arizona are very well positioned in terms of their water supply you get south into pinal county in the stanfield area and you've got you know other kinds of issues with you know subsidence and things like that but overall 66 of the water in arizona gets used in agriculture bottom line and it's not going to be 66 20 years from now so we're going to find waters for roof water runs uphill to money that's what i've been told so you know if there's demand for for industrial space and for homes we're probably going to get the water are we going to be a lot more
108cautious yes we are but you know our water demand right now is less than it was 20 years ago as a state because of our conservative you know our conservation measures now we may have done the easy stuff first you know but the fact of the matter is we've actually been able to forestall our increase in use of water unfortunately our climate is not cooperating [Laughter] you have any questions uh lisa or chad no i do not no i don't either okay okay thank you thank you very much i appreciate the opportunity so 9.2 aggregated expenditure limit limit presentation okay just wanted to bring you up to up with some information on the aggregate expenditure limit you're hearing a lot about that um so we could drop that presentation some of this is uh stuff
109that people know so we'll kind of move our way through it but uh and it is off of reports that are excuse me presentations that have again elsewhere i'll give you some of the more detailed stuff at the end there's a few updates of some things that have occurred this week um but uh someone i can belabor a lot of this but we're gonna next uh next couple slides and get uh let's see where we're at next one nope wrong wrong presentation someone prior to that okay just some of the basics so everybody's on the same page um the ael is constitutional so it's it's something that's driven the constitution and it it drives everything uh really where it comes from um it's really coming back in the 80s and basically out of prop 13
110in california and making sure that cities and towns school districts community colleges didn't run taxes up through the roof and so they built on this concept and so it's really just limitations on arizona governmental jurisdictions back in the 80s uh late 70s early 80s um and the way it works more than anything else it limits school district expenditures of local revenues that'll be real critical local revenues but and it's it's built on growth and so it takes fy 7980 as the as the base and adjusted annually for cost of living and for uh student population increases and there's a mechanism to increase the total amount if if the dollars get too much now the big difference for school districts is that in cities and towns each city or town and community college is able to
111do it by themselves so if the town of queen creek was over they could go ahead and take a vote of the public of their electorate in the town of queen creek to ask themselves to go ahead and up the limit on what they could spend in the town of queen creek for school districts decision made nobody really knows well i'm sure somebody knows why but i haven't heard it they aggregated all of the school districts together in the state of arizona and so that's what's creating the problem go ahead next slide let's say i think a big key point that just gives you a little bit more information uh but the key point is this does not apply to charters there were no charters in 7980 so this is a situation that's for school
112districts only not for charter schools um and you can see that you can as i said increase it cities have increased at 77 different times since 79 80. community colleges counties three times and once by a community college school districts have not been able to do it now it has been raised i believe it's two or three times but it is a vote of the of the legislature that has to do that so go ahead next one again we went through that 86 was the first time voters approved adding 10 percent to the limit this is uh critical when you take a look at this when it talks about local revenues you're sitting here federal funds state grants and other funds adjacent ways cash funds instructional improvement funds are excluded and this would be critical
113if you look at solutions is when you go to do your cuts it's not as simple as you cut all the way across the board if you have to cut because there's there's money that's excluded if you look at the legislature excuse me ade they will go ahead and give you a number they'll tell you all of your money that you make anywhere in in your budget and then they back out these excluded funds and so yeah there's some still some confusion on some of the pieces that can be excluded but also local voter approved so the bond money or if you have an override is also excluded the carryover balances in m on capital are excluded but that's a that's one that there's still questions out because they've always raised this there's a number
114of questions out there if they do not raise it is what does it really mean because your your carryover balances are buried into the middle of your budget how you just automatically exclude them becomes problematic i could go ahead and say well great i'll take all my carryover and i'll go ahead and code all my employees to my carryover and i'll turn around and create carryover in another part of the budget am i legally allowed to do that how would they know if i did or didn't do it so there's a number of different issues out there that are problematic at best if they do not solve the problem you'll probably see a ton of litigation and or legal questions flying in march as everybody tries to figure out what's going on because again they
115have generally done it very quickly and it hasn't been an issue but this year it may be different and next year this is not a one-year problem this is a multi-year problem next slide okay let's see uh this just gives you a little summation because this constitutional legislature just can't automatically change it [Music] okay only the vote of the public can change it they have the limit they have the ability to increase it okay with the annual legislative override but they can't change constitutionally what the language is on this particular situation if you don't um include uh revising the budget revision causes practical difficulty and that's where you got 25 percent even less actually it's 25 percent of the year but you have to really understand that april may our portion of the year where
116everybody's in june is really a dead month so to speak when there's no kids so you so your budgetary expenses in june are limited in comparison to april and may so everybody's talking about 16 25 percent of the year but those numbers are are exponentially tougher because you're really only talking about what do you do for three of the months not all not either two three three of the months not for the months if you want to look at april 1st is your deadline to the months not three of the months so it's a little bit more complicated than that and it is a pro rata reduction meaning for both school districts everybody's got to share the burden okay next clyde so this just gives you an overview of where they came off the money
117please note i'll talk about later but there's probably going to be a new number that's going to be connected on this just to finalize it so this is not the final number but they're projecting a 1.15 billion dollar shortfall which is 16.09 percent that must be prorated for our districts it's a little over 5 million dollars to give perspective next slide i'm not going to go through this but if you're looking if you want to look at i know bob you like the numbers um this just gives you an idea of what 2021 actual was what 2022 estimated is and what 2023 estimate is so we're seeing this year but then we're looking at next year too where you have an estimated shortfall uh very similar now you'll see these numbers are off a little
118bit comparison to what i just said before which is 1.15 that's just more what they did in october of 21 when they actually ran the numbers in november you saw that 1.243 go down to the 1.15 over that course as different numbers came into the budget so those numbers may flex a little bit even if they don't solve this problem but not substantially they're going to be in the same area next slide so again the language talks about based on uh constitutive definition all monies revenues funds property and receipt of any kind whatsoever received by and for the account of and so then they've gone ahead and identified those funds that can be excluded we've talked about those but it becomes critical depending on what you talk about even the classroom site fund it's not
119as simple as just the classroom site fund the classroom site fund in 2000 when it was passed was excluded but what happened in 19 when the legislature greeted the the law on classroom site funds and know and took it out of the voter initiative and put it into the budget those funds are no longer excluded and so it there's some classroom site funds excluded but the majority aren't so all of this gets very complicated based on all and and each district is different i can tell you we have funds down here that i didn't have in payson basin has funds force fees that nobody down here has so it's not as simple as as just making cuts here and there because each district is unique to any number of factors do you have medicaid do
120you not have medicaid funding some districts do some districts don't so it's it's it's going to put competition uh of districts against each other as they try to solve problems uh to solve this problem if it's not solved now why are we here next slide please really it's the three things last year you were in the red if we went back a couple slides and that was because of the loss of students due to the covid and that took the number down so that you did not exceed the aggregate limit last year those kids are coming back so that becomes part of the problem then you also have any number of the 20 for 20 by the governor uh they finally solved the lawsuit for daa all that dumped more money into the system and
121so you're seeing everybody taking credit at the legislature for all the extra money they gave us well first of all it's not extra money it's the money they owed us but the negative to all the money that they owed us is now put us over the aggregate expenditure limit so it's kind of a double-edged sword of of of what occurred uh going forward and so and then the 3-0 money we 301 money we talked about too next slide what are the biggest problems uh again if you take a look at it um if you go back to 70 90 you remember special education did not come into the country until really the late sixties so that the night the types of um uh coding that we put for kids and coding is the wrong word
122um but we didn't have all those kids you didn't have autistic kids labeled like you do today back in so you're seeing a lot more labels on kids that you didn't have especially was 10 years in so it's an infancy there so that looks radically different obviously our schools look different how you build a school what you build a school what's it look like the technology the cost of technology all of those kind of things are different uh you didn't have ell funding in those days k3 reading uh so there's just where the way we're operating schools today contin compared to 7980 obviously is our is totally different but we're still on a 7980 uh formula the formula is not bad they just need to update it with approval of a lot of different changes
123so 208 the biggest problem with 208 i'm not going to go into all of it the big issue is 208 cannot cannot be excluded from the constitutional definition of local revenue the initial judge is ruling through the supreme court will tell you that more than likely they will rule that and and and the supreme court said if 208 numbers are put in and they ext they take the dollars above the aggregate expenditure limit it is not constitutional that is more than likely what's the ruling going to be from the law they kicked it back down to the local level judge won't get into the politics of it um everybody was asking for a decision by him on january 21 he called everybody in on monday meaning the both sets the in the argument everybody had
124already done the evidentiary stuff so they're why is he why are they being called in well it came out very quickly he told everybody on monday i got a pretty heavy docket i got a lot of things on my plate i have 60 days to rule that gives me the march 10th i'll rule when i rule in essence she's playing chicken with the legislature and the legislature is not thrilled with that and they're very skittish to go ahead and pass the ael override before march 1st because they believe if they do it will set a precedent for the judge to then say you can go ahead and fix this in future years by doing the same thing even with the issue of prop 208 so you have a political game of chicken taking place on
125top of that if you do want to pass it a lot of the legislature are going to say sure and i'll give you a great example it was passed out of uh senate ed this uh this week vouchers the voucher expansion is significant let's just say it gets killed somewhere along the line we're getting ready to march first i'll tell you what i'll give you my vote on ael if you go ahead and put vouchers back in you need two-thirds vote of both the house and two-thirds vote of the senate governor it's not his fight and so he ain't fighting he'll deal with it once they go ahead and pass so this has become very very political in nature and that politics and the 208 piece is what's going to create some problems as to
126whether they decide to solve this thing before the first now there's a ton of people that think they will um i can just tell you i'm not sure next slide please i'm not sure what's on the next slide the timeline just so you're aware the real big one is march 1st if they do not solve it by march 1st we will actually get a new number on march 5th march 5th is a saturday so we'll probably get it on friday the fourth that new number will be built off of your um 100 day counts which is why you get a new number our number may go up from 5.3 to 5.4 million or something like that i don't know the exact number uh and then you have to have your cuts by april 1st that
127means there will be a special board meeting because you have to do a revised budget you have to do a uh notice of that budget and you guys would have to come back and say yes we approve this new budget it is problematic and it is confusing because of the excluded pieces so if you have title dollars or you have special ed dollars they're not affected by this you wouldn't technically if if someone's decisions and if there's people online i'm not suggesting this in any way shape or form but if someone's decision was to furlough people or let people go you wouldn't have to technically do it with title dollars or was bad because you're still going to get the funding what you were approved for the funding by the state or by the federal
128government is still coming your way it's mno now that has a problem so if you have people that are paid out mno that becomes problematic so it's not as simple as just taking wholesale uh quick solutions to everything it starts to get very complex if you look at esther's dollars you have a on um american rescue plan or wrestlers three you have a maintenance of effort issue and if you remember those dollars were very specifically given to states and and they were told they cannot cut school districts and replace the cut dollars with these new dollars in essence is that not what we're kind of doing so there's a whole lot of things that are going on no matter what solution you look at it becomes very very complex very very fast and so people
129just trying to look at the solutions we're working on 10 12 different solutions but every day there's something new um that comes that comes up so just note the solutions and even if we come up with something this year that's just a short-term solution you still have the issue next year and probably in future years and so what are we doing with this and it and and it's the politics of it get very difficult because if we all solve the problem then we just feed in the narrative that see we knew you had the money anyway well we don't have to worry about giving to you and i will tell you on the floor of the house and the senate that point has been spoken on on a regular basis that school districts have the
130money they should have been preparing for this and therefore it's really not a problem and so you got a problem there if you do if you don't solve your problem like some people want to do those kids very theoretically could go over to a charter would you send your kid to a charter this year and then ask them to go back to our district next year if you know that the district's going to face the exact same problem next year so the long-term solution is they have to fix this they have to fix it beyond just one time easier said than done given the dynamics of the politics we're in right now and so at this point just be aware that we are looking at solutions i was part of a uh panel a couple
131of weeks ago and then i'm on another one tomorrow uh really more than anything else it's just with superintendents and it's really just to talk ideas i don't know that anybody's coming up with a solution the weird part that you're gonna have with all this let's say they choose not to solve it is at the same time that we're doing all this stuff with this year's budget that is negative and bad you still have to build next year's budget this is not new money this is not a new tax this has been authorized by the legislature it's really just trying to give us an opportunity to spend that and so at this point the question is [Music] how much do you rally the troops different districts are handling that different i would just say it's
132very critical trying to be politically correct here it's very critical that you understand who is representing your district and how much political capital you're going to use to try and change the mind if in some cases they can't be changed you will have certain individuals when we talk about our our two-thirds majority they're going to vote no on the the override of this aggregate limit no matter what happens that's fundamentally where they stand and they're not coming off that and so you keep in mind that when you when you start to rally the troops if you're in a democratic area rally the troops the democrats are probably going to vote yes anyway so whatever comes or you're rallying the troops you're speaking to the choir so you really have to look at what your makeup
133of your legislators are to see what position you want to put people in and and how can you get um how can you effect change or not affect change with this particular situation there's probably two or three very large constitutional questions that some people are running up the flagpole with attorneys but because this is uncharted territory there's no guaranteed answer to some of those questions i'm not going to go into them because people are still trying to figure out what they are but i can tell you that i'm aware of at least two possibly three that are being uh put out as possible solutions um but the lawyers are going to have to take a look at them to try to understand what was or what was or wasn't placed in constant constitution than what
134it does or doesn't say or placed in the statute so that's a quick overview it is getting dicey you're down to probably about 12 days left before when i say 12 days left before march 1st legislature does not meet on fridays nor do they meet on saturdays or sundays so you're really got four days now obviously if this thing's big enough they may come in on a friday or weekend but if you just take the number of days that are left on monday through thursday you have in the neighborhood of 10 days left or 12 days left i don't have the number right top my head but there's not a ton of days left more than happy to answer questions if you have any uh i do have a question um if the legislature does
135not vote by march the first and a school district chooses not to revise their budget what is the penalty that's prescribed um well the first thing you have to do the there's a question about what is the penalty and there's been some recent uh things that took place in the paper there's another component to this whole piece is will the county school superintendent level on julie if i get out of my wheelhouse please speak up but they may not give you warrants to go and exceed the money that you don't have there's been several comments about just spend it you can fix it next year but that implies that the school superintendent in the county is going to actually allow you to exceed that that's just come up in the last two or three days
136so i don't think all the county schools superintendents have decided what they're doing i am aware of some that did come out as a result of that and say we will not let you expend it we will not give you warrants to go above and beyond because i'm on my authority as a school superintendent meaning a county school superintendent i all good conscience cannot do that so so even that's the problem with this is someone comes up with an idea then all of a sudden these guys are split maybe the county school suits are split and so now you got this county doing this and that county doing that so everything that comes up seems to just get in the circular discussion and and because it's never been done nobody knows what the answer is
137so if i could just paraphrase what i think i heard your answer if a school district should vote to not change their budget and continue to try to spend as they have the county school superintendent could say we're not going to give you the funds we're not going to issue you warrants to allow you to spend the money so and that like i say is just happening right now and so i don't know that anybody knows where people are on that what is the penalty for school board members if they decide they don't want to follow this dictum from my reading of the law i have not seen that there's a specific penalty that gets down to either the administration level or the school board level i have not there's numerous different laws and i
138haven't read all of them but but we're i've been taking a look at several of them i have not seen anything on that but i'll take a look and see they're gonna make you pay come out of my retirement there you go okay any other questions i don't lisa chad do you have anything no i just need to digest all this information right yeah i just thank you dr wyman that was very informative that helps me understand a lot better what's been going on okay next report is the paper this will be our student achievement report so we'll go through this one fairly quickly um i know i know i know i'm looking at the clock it's past your bedtime well let me tell you what for those of us that were north carolina it's
139a long way past our bedtime next slide please next one okay we just want to give you a couple different comments because one thing we have seen with paper uh are some of the comments from kids and and what they're saying about the product uh it's been received very positively uh as a as a homework uh process both before christmas and and after christmas so i'm not gonna read them for you but you can see there's a combination of kids from a variety of different areas next slide please um this will give you a perspective and i'll tell you what this means learning moments is intersections with uh between a student and a tutor that plus 8.49 gives you what the numbers been since january 1st so you're seeing uh the number of sessions individually
140when they they meet uh you're looking at um i've mis-titled that i apologize the second one is not sessions but i i mistitled it i'd have to go back look it up uh the active students those the number of students that have actually been involved in this and i can i will break that number down a little bit more for you can so you can see the number of times those kids come back but so overall you're really talking about you went november 29th to december 22nd and then this was as of 128 so you basically had uh just short of a month coming back um is what the is what the numbers are so uh in conversation with paper we meet with them uh quarterly to see the numbers they're very pleased what the
141numbers are in comparison what other districts have done for our kids and what they're going next slide uh your top subjects this has changed a little bit prior to christmas and after christmas uh the basic arithmetic and essay writing has flipped uh before christmas essay writing would have been your top subject in basic arithmetic second it is now flipped uh just based on the number of uh assignments next slide this just gives you two different uh markers about the number of sessions where the schools are at some have attacked it more quickly than others uh but again it's very new and and into the into the system so i think is a overall statement where we're doing very good but you'll see in some cases the high school has more essays but the middle school
142has more sessions of tutoring um and so it just varies uh different teachers have uh really embraced more so than others and so you tend to see that in in some of the some of the uh numbers that are up there but overall we we would anticipate these numbers continue to grow over the next couple months and over the rest of the semester but we're pleased with what we're seeing at this point because again it's it's been a very short period of time that we've had it in place next slide so this is those 562 kids the one activity so 355 or 62.8 percent of those kids came back for a second activity so you return coming back so a teacher may have done an assignment to go ahead and get the kids to learn
143about it well then do they ever come back and they're saying yeah we see 62 of those kids come back for a second assignment and then you see another 242 that it came back for a third and 174 that came back for a fourth so you are it's not a case of hey we just practice it in class and everybody forgets about it you get a situation where kids are coming back and using it uh repeatedly next slide uh you can also see we are seeing some after hour sessions uh so four o'clock to eight o'clock so it's not also just things that are taking place during the school day it's also taking place uh outside of the school and i got another slide on this one but take a look at that longest session
144yeah no because kids in one case with a kid they were working with a kid on an assignment uh the the student was at the middle school need to change classes the tutor stayed on while the kid went to the new class and then came back and continued to work with the kid and so the the the you can look at every one of them i didn't put them up here but whenever we get whenever we get so that four hours and 30 minutes they have a k they have a number assigned to that and so all you have to do is go find that number and you can actually read through the entire transcript of what was said and so all of these sessions have their own ids we we had a teacher at
145the high school a veteran teacher uh in english that went ahead and had her kids do an assignment and then reviewed every one of those transcripts to see what she thought and she said with and i think it was 40 kids because she's not a full-time teacher of the 40 kids that that did assignments she felt the communication between the tutor and the kids 38 out of the 40 was top-notch and there was only two that she thought maybe the the tutor might have kind of let him a little bit or something like that and so overall you're seeing they'll stay with the kid as long as they need to stay with the kid if you go to the next slide i believe it's the next slide um let's see i thought i had another
146slide that told a number of cases one more slide please no maybe it's not they they told the number of cases i've asked for it i thought i put it up there but uh maybe i didn't just on how many how many situations were over one hour and so it's it's significant in terms of of the number of cases that they'll stay working for now one one issue with paper just so everybody's just kind of like spell check you got to be a good bad speller you got to understand the content well enough to know what to ask so sometimes the kids are a little uh res uh resistant to ask questions because quite honestly they don't know the content well enough so there are some some issues but the the what we felt very
147good about is the responsiveness of the program they have contacted us if they believe there's an issue with the kid it could be as simple as the kids being a not head and maybe doing things they shouldn't but they've also reported to us several cases where they felt based on what was in the writings or what was being said that there might have been a concern of possible self-harm or the language was there and they call us immediately to let us know about those situations so we can take a look at it so overall that safety issue has been critical for us and and they would rather err on the side of caution and raise some issues that maybe uh and once you look into it is really not that big a deal but they
148said that's fine we would rather we would rather be cautious and bring it to your attention than you guys do what you need to do with it but there's been a couple at least a couple if not three that that there was some uh follow for further follow-up next slide okay so any questions but that just want to give you guys a rough update we do have a meeting coming out of spring break with them to see what the numbers look like and then we have another meeting with them coming out of the end we wanted to wait until i think it's the tuesday after uh memorial day just so we would have the full numbers for the semester but on the whole we're pleased and i don't know if there's anybody out uh i'm
149laura was here she had to leave um she's she's had a lot of it but um we can answer any questions if you have any i'm just happy to see it's being used to this capacity thank you okay so um we're back we're down to a request for future agenda items does anybody have anything they want to uh put on the next agenda that would include our minutes from this from last week so we would have three meetings worth of minutes the last regular meeting the special meeting and tonight's meeting on the next agenda i'll send them to you sure lots of reading fun stuff anything no okay it's gonna be a short meeting next week next time now the next meeting's march 2nd so it just depends on what happens on march 1st okay
150i'm going to make a motion to a gen to adjourn at uh 8 10. i'll second all in favor aye aye aye motion carries a five to zero thanks guys thank you okay