001good evening everyone it's six o'clock unfortunately at the present time we do not have a quorum we need three to conduct a meeting we have the two of us sitting here and no one online so we're going to wait a few minutes we expect one board member to join us shortly and then we can start the meeting all right we now have a quorum so welcome i call this meeting to order at 6 00 p.m with three of the five of us in attendance uh i entertain a motion to adopt the agenda i move to adopt the agenda okay second second by chad all in favor aye aye passes three to zero okay let's stand up and do the pledge please i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to
002the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice okay item 4-1 on our agenda we need someone to move to approve the minutes from the previous meeting i moved to approve the minutes from the previous meeting okay chad makes the motion second stephen makes his second all in favor hi hi i passes three to nothing okay superintendent report thank you mr delaney a couple different things we want to bring to your attention uh first uh you as you're aware we're working on our organizational development plan which is really an end goal of of uh having a strategic plan done by the end of this current uh school year i will let you know that we have had a a committee of staff members work on vision and mission and
003effectively are there they're done with a new vision admission it's a slight modification from what was there before we're making sure grammar and everything aligns uh with everything we need to do uh with the the final uh vision of mission before we release their work to get it was essentially utilizing our current priority map our current vision admission forward our portrait of a graduate they they reviewed all of that kind of information we also went out with the thought exchange to the entire staff asking them for their input on on vision admission and what they thought should be in a vision vision and mission and then this group of there was approximately 37 people invited from around the district across every school in every department not all 36 were able to make each of the
004two meetings we had two different meetings for a couple hours each to work on the final one so i'll bring that forward to you here in the near future but i just want to let you know we've also started to work on we have a portrait of a graduate and then feeding into that will be portrait of a learner portrait of a educator portrait of a school portrait of a disc portrait of a parent and so we worked with the parent superintendent uh council to start that process of what uh what would be the characteristic skills and knowledge parents could use or need in a in a 21st century school we then put out a thought exchange to all parents in the district where they could add their input and their thoughts based on that
005we will then theme the different thoughts and look at the the majority where the majority ruled the highest rated thoughts within skills characteristics and knowledge then we'll put it back out to parents uh for a final vote on what they think the top three skills top three characteristics and top three knowledge areas should be in that we're picking those three things because that'll then align with the portrait of a graduate so everything's going to be aligned together and so i just wanted to bring you up to speed on that uh we'll remind you that next month we have a busy month relative to evaluations uh your board evaluation is due um we'll if you remember back in june you requested that we go back to current policy and the exhibit we have in the current
006policy manual not use the asba's online form so you'll be getting an evaluation from me this week and then please have it done by december 1st there'll be a memo with it that explains all this we will summarize what everybody said and then it'll be an agenda item next week or excuse me next month you also have my evaluation if you remember you voted to go with a pilot program through sba on on my evaluation i've spoken with asba they will be providing you with a paper copy they are not going to do an online version i don't know there's an issue they got some ruling i don't know if it was from their legal department or what that suggested that maybe they weren't in a position to to do it as an online document
007at this point in time so we'll be working with asba to send a copy of it to your home address and then with the specific details we're waiting to hear how much time you have and when it has to come back and then that will also be on the agenda next month along with the performance pay review for first semester for myself so the one question i do have before we move on you don't have to answer right now but i just need from you uh the past couple years we've handled this or past three years we've handled this a little bit different each time but because you have these two evaluations and a performance pay review and portions of those are an executive session i think three years ago it was after the meeting
008and then last year was before the meeting makes no difference to me whether we go before or after the meeting but but i just need your feedback over the next couple days or next week just to let us know whether you want those meetings to be or whether you want the executive session to be held before the meeting starts or after in either case due the length of the meeting we will provide dinner for board members because we know it'll be an extra long extra long meeting so just let me know what we need to do for that next thing we have is we do have enrollment you will see enrollment as of last friday uh the pattern has really not changed that much from what i've showed you uh before the one notice if
009you look from month to month you'll see is maybe the difference is is dropping a little bit and that's uh probably indicative of two different factors number one the factor of a normal year takeout covert last year in a normal year you have slow attrition over the course of the year for any number of reasons but what happened to us last year is we had attrition at the beginning of the year and then we slowly had to trickle back in as people who may have left us uh at the beginning of the year when we had questions about online versus in person once we went back to in person they came back so you are seeing a slightly different pattern last year that's unique to covet but generally speaking you're seeing most of the uh
010the larger growth in the um in the preschool kindergarten first grade classes uh third grade is is big and then you are seeing the one difference please note when you look at like uh the high school and what their numbers are uh uh please remember that our uh alternative high school that's 54 kids uh that last year would have been part of combs high school now they're separated out so you got to combo those two together to see the total number of high school uh kids that are there and so it's it's again following the pattern that we followed the last couple of weeks i also want to highlight a couple things in the schools i know mr hill is here in the back but the clay target team finished their fall season with the
011conference championship uh we're the first and are we still the only and the only um just our school in the state that has a clay target shooting team i left a a article that was published by a national organization it may not be much of a number of teams in obviously in the state of arizona but i believe if you told me correctly mr hill the number of kids participated painting like in the state of minnesota something like two thousand kids or something like that twenty thousand kids so we we there it is something that happens around the state uh gary hargis finished first in season overall average and season average for males hayden de carlo finished second and eli angel finished third and seven season average for males haley linastrom finished first and sever
012season average for females boys cross country is doing well they're going to state um or uh they went to state they did well in sectionals on on november 3rd and they're going to state and region benedict excel with the third place finish so proud of the boys and what they're doing this week is homecoming week i was able to have uh lunch with uh the administrators and mr leberty from the high school today with our senior senior walk students about 11 of them outstanding young men and women and that was an enjoyable time homecoming parade is 4 30 actually that says 4 but it's 4 30 on friday and then we have the game starting at 7. i know there's a bonfire last night and i know there's movies tonight so there's a number of
013different things going on with homecoming and so uh it's a it's an exciting time in the district i've noted a number of different upcoming events just so you have them uh they'll cover through to about uh winter break then the other thing we'd like to do is this is part of our employee recognition and so we want to take and and recognize a number of different groups tonight i will let you know that in many cases there's lots of things going on and not everybody can always make the the different activities that we have but where they are invited and we will give them certificates i'll have mr mcleod go up we'll do the national educational support professional days first and so what happens is annually during american educa american education week which is next
014week on wednesday of that week they observe what's called national education support professionals days to honor the contributions of support staff employees these support professionals provide invaluable services and our essential partners in children's education process the day honors a long list of professionals who keep schools running and they really do do a yeoman's job many cases behind the scenes that we don't always see so we're talking about administrative assistants secretaries classroom aides parapro's cafeteria workers maintenance workers bus drivers uh all crossing guards all those kind of individuals that support our teachers our school leadership and our students and so on that wednesday just a chance to say thank you and so today what we tried to do in order to make sure we honored across the entire district is we asked different um individuals from
015the different schools and departments representing all the different support staff in our district to come tonight just to really like we do every board meeting say thank you thank you for the job you do thank you for all the little things you do that make the school a better place to be the district a better place to do to be so i'd like to call these people up and we'll hand them an award get a picture so from the high school front office staff secretary minister state of assistant reese evans [Applause] uh from the alternative school custodian juanita bustillos [Applause] yeah we'll slide you guys uh into the middle so we can get a picture i know they probably don't want that but we will uh at uh cms a pair pro melissa chavez at
016cta working in the cafeteria michaela favor at ellsworth elementary and the front office staff again josie carpenter for harman elementary a crossing guard kelly edens and i and i don't know if kelly's here or not i don't mean to embarrass her but i'm going to take a second to stop to thank for a special reason this is the little things you don't see uh i was at harman a couple weeks ago due to a situation and we were looking at crossing guards and uh there was a situation there where all of a sudden some kids came running up and said a little girl hurt her foot a little girl her foot and so kelly went over to see what's going on she was in the park across the street from the school and next thing
017you know a couple boys are coming by with the stop signs and there's kelly and she loaded the girl on her back because the mother couldn't come pick up the girl and carried her to her house and dropped her off and then came back it was just a little something that quite frankly had i not been standing there anybody else been standing there nobody would have noticed but those are the little things that people go above and beyond to help out our kids and again it wasn't for any other reason then that was the right thing to do and so as we honor these people those are the little things that happen a thousand times a day and again not intended to embarrass kelly but to just note that that was something that that she
018did when she didn't have to do it and so this is why we're trying to thank people and honor people so i just want to let you know about that with kelly from simonton a pair pro jamie newman neiman uh we did try to get a bus driver but they're a little short-handed we didn't get a chance to get one from the maintenance technician frank alvarado in technology uh district office ethan stenhof he could not be here and then from the district offices and business services sofia garcia [Applause] okay now we'll slide you guys for a quick picture [Applause] i am not sure if we've had if we had anybody that could make it tonight we had a little transition in hr but i did at least want to let you know uh the third
019friday of november also uh during american educators week is substitute educators day and so again this is a day to thank all those professional educators perform uh that vital function of of taking care of the classroom uh we're we're seeing it more and more in public education today especially with everything that's going on just how important these people are to our district and the job that they perform uh on a very short notice waking up early in the morning not sure where they're gonna go and then they go cover class and provide an opportunity for our kids to continue to get an education every single day and so although we were not able to get any any to come i did want to at least take take a moment to say thank you uh to
020all those substitutes for what they do uh for our district so thank you then the last group we'd like to honor uh tomorrow obviously is uh veterans day uh and so um veterans day is celebrated every year on november 11th regardless of the day of the week that it falls on it was first recognized as armistice day in 1919. uh it marks the date that that when germany and the allies signed the 1918 agreement to cease uh world war one hostilis hostilities the fighting ceased on the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month president wilson uh proclaimed november 11th as the first commemoration of armistice day saying to us in america the reflections on armistice day will be filled with solemn pride and the heroism of those who died in a country
021service and with gratitude for the victory in 1938 congress passed a law to mark november 11th as a legal holiday and in 1954 president eisenhower signed a law that changed the name to its current form while the holiday was celebrated on the fourth monday of october for much of the 70s president ford signed a bill that returned the observance to november 11th beginning in in 1978. today veterans day celebrates all those who have served honorably in the military whether in war peace whereas memorial day is more for the remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the services of the country we've asked veterans within our staff to come today so that we can least honor them and so i'd like to write read out some names and please have them come up as we
022honor our veterans jax struggle from harmon elementary air force michael holmberg from combs high school army carl hill from combs high school navy greg moyes from combs high school navy david nelson from combs high school army david nelson vincent jordan from combs high school air force and edwin boggs iii from transportation for marines um i know there are others in our district that served in the military and it is our chance to say thank you so once again thank you for your service and all you've done for us we really appreciate it and with that turn it over for the school recognition component so uh miss ridge yep come on down better okay members of the board dr wyman um there will never be enough time for me to have to be able to brag
023about combs middle school and all the great things that happen and we know that that's what you really like to do it's like your favorite thing to do it is my favorite thing to do and more so like tonight's the most inconvenient night for me to be presenting because i'm missing our first home wrestling match and a softball game so we need to work this out next year one of the things i moved to mrs ridge because she didn't want to go first [Laughter] okay i forgot about that so we have a lot of great things going on at combs middle school one of the things that i'm really proud of is our pbis program and i brought along mrs schindle decker our school social worker to kind of share some information about that because
024i try to keep this to a minimum and i will talk about combs middle school until you guys boo me off the stage so mrs schindler decker is going to talk about pbis did you want to talk first or show the video first is the video ready okay we're gonna show the video and then she's gonna follow up with some great information teachers recognize the student pbis is positive behavior intervention systems and support so we have school-wide expectations for students and when they follow those expectations and they're doing something good students our teachers recognize the students with points and they're able to accumulate those points and use them in our school store pbis my understanding is that it's a reward system you do something and then you get and then you save up points and
025from the points you get rewards from this cool store pbis is a point giving app and it gives points to people who are responsible and helpful in classrooms and lunch if you help others if you just are on task and doing great you can get pbis points or get rewards for it people helping other people with their classwork picking up trash and lunch and just being a good person like helping other people when they need help or asking if someone's lonely and need to talk like i did and basically like doing what the t basically like showing other students what if you knew what to do and they didn't i hold the door open if your class is like really loud and you're like raising your hand politely following the rules and um kind of
026just being a really kind person and i think i think this campus does really well like being kind and sharing throwing weird trash at lunch sharing with other people respecting people all students have an app on their phone if they downloaded it they're able to track how many points they have on that app and they come to the school store and buy things through pbis rewards so they come in on fridays look around in the store each each item is worth so many points and they cash those in for whatever they want they could buy yearbooks from last year backpacks notebooks colored pencils pretty much anything my favorite thing to get out of the store is stickers they have really cool stickers and they have like um these cool like some vintage stickers they have
027kind of stickers for everyone they have some vintage stickers some anime stickers and just cool things and i also like to get food yes there is a snack check but doing something kind and getting rewarded for it is much better than paying for a food my favorite item which i really want to get is the vr thingy so then i'm going to try motivating myself to help more people to get more points so i can get a vr thing so since we have implemented pbis on campus we've definitely seen a decrease in problem behaviors we're seeing more buy-in from the teachers we're seeing more buy-in from the students on what we want our school to look like i think it's really helped the campus a lot to like think outside of the box and to
028like think kind like being taking a second thought oh there's trash on my table you know what i want that bag of chips so i'm gonna pick it up i'm gonna put my ass point definitely help the kids out a lot so they have something to look forward to during school other than just classes and lunch and just being with friends i feel like it motivates people to like help others instead of like just being a bad person like maybe they'll be like oh well if i'm nice i'll get i can go get cheetos you know stuff like that and it creates friendly competition and i think that it's really good for this campus most of our students know what our expectation expectations are all of our teachers know what the expectations are and are
029able to reinforce what we want our students to act and do on our campus but with pbis points if you're kind and you do nice things you still get points and you still get rewarded for that it's just an add-on to an add-on i think it's really cool good evening my name is laurene schindelbecker i'm the school social worker over at combs middle school i could watch that video all day long it just brings joy so much to to me and to everybody at columbus middle school to see how engaged students are in our pbis program it really is just a foundational piece that we use to focus on social behavior so thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to share this program with you tonight our students did a beautiful job of
030sharing with you what pbis is essentially it is an opportunity for staff every staff to and students as well to share what the behavioral expectations are on campus so what would it look like for a student to enter into a classroom what does it look like for them to be in the library what is expected of them what should they be doing as well as what what they shouldn't be doing right and so then once students know those expectations our teachers and staff any staff members are giving points through our pbis app and so they're rewarding these points through a category and we focus on pause and each letter of pause stands for something we're looking for students to be protect productive accountable working together and successful and so anytime we see these things pro-social
031behaviors on campus any staff on campus can say thank you for and then we fill in the blank we're going to give you a point i just love this program as a social worker my focus really is on just well-being overall well-being of students and their safety and how they feel how do they feel when they enter campus are they feeling safe are they feeling appreciated are they feeling valued are they feeling as if they are students that are seen and heard and i believe just from my interactions with students in the pbis program that this program allows them to do that allows them to be seen allows them to be heard allows us to teach them what expected behavior is allows us to re-teach and re-teach again and through that build those very healthy
032relationships between staff and students and not only between staff and students but i see students holding each other accountable as well too hey you need to go pick that up i've seen students out at lunch lining up next to me and very dramatically putting their trash in the trash can waving around so that i can see and then that offers me an opportunity to say i appreciate you i see you i thank you for bringing what you bring to our campus um it's just such a good feeling to be appreciated just for be doing the right thing right for for being somebody who a person of character somebody who's making positive choices and it also allows us to we use this as um information too it's it's a data-driven evidence-based program so it allows us
033to when students are having a difficult time with behaviors to track those monitor those and put the appropriate systems and supports in place to help them with that to shape their behaviors so we love using this program over at our school you can see that the students love it we open the store every friday we alternate grades uh some of the things in the stores food and stickers and and use all those things but honestly i will leave you with this um it really it just builds such a community of positivity and a community for our staff and our students um to just notice each other and to respect each other and to reward each other for just being there showing up and doing their best every day and that's the kind of campus that
034we want to have so thank you very much for your time thank you for your time thank you for allowing us to share our program for you guys we can't wait till you can get up to the campus we're going to have some really awesome stuff when you when you come up to commerce middle school okay thank you thank you hey i got that vr thing thank you that's really nice so we did provide you with um some of the items that are in the pbis store who knew um for talkies and stickers kids would hold the door and work hard to be better middle school kids what ms schindledecker did not mention is we also give points to each other so laureen is a rock star she's really good at giving points now so
035you know these are like imaginary points she gave me a point the other day and when i check my email it notifies you and tells you that you have a point and that goes to feeling seen and being acknowledged because you would have thought she gave me 25 i literally was i got a pbis point somebody gave me a point and so um i saw her picking up trash and i was like i'm gonna give you a pbis point so that's something we do within staff too that it also motivates staff so i wanted to say that now moving on with the story miss schindledecker does not know by any stretch of the imagination that she's also here to be recognized as my person and so she had no clue and so um i have
036been very very very very lucky um with the people that i have on my team laureen i jokingly refer to her as my work wife because i can't imagine a day without her at work a day without her on my team i know you guys heard her speak she is as genuine as genuine comes she is the heartbeat of the campus she's the conscience of the campus and sometimes when i need to reset and refocus she's the center that brings me back to that and i believe in giving people flowers while they're alive and so i'm going to give you something and this is so ulring so this is a box it's a box of mindfulness and inside the box it's um like a hundred things to of mindful acts so every day you can
037pull one and then do one of these things at our campus and i'll give you a pbis point okay so here you go [Applause] this is way better okay so let me see who to go next i think i'll pick mr castrita because he um was nervous to be here and i'm he's probably over there like please don't even look at me miss rich but victor castrita is my middle school spanish teacher he teaches intro spanish he also teaches spanish one that students can take in eighth grade and get high school credit victor was the very first person that i hired when i became principal of combs middle school so this whole moment is sentimental to me i traveled up to nau it was my first hr trip dr duplis trusted me to go on
038and so it was snowing and victor came in and right away i knew i had to have him on my campus he was nervous he was shy he was young you're still young and we referred to him on campus and don't kill me victor as our baby bird and so to see victor go from where he was four years ago to now it was a no-brainer that he was going to be the teacher that i wanted to have here tonight and so that you know miss reinish who just retired from us last year she doesn't also like attention she came all the way down from chandler tonight i haven't seen her since last year to come and support victor in this night she was his mentor and so i called her up and told her
039that i had selected victor and could she come and surprise him she didn't think 10 seconds and so miss reinish is here and so this whole night is really special on more than one level so come on up victor i wasn't really sure what to get you so in my head i thought man you make spanish pop and so i thought well we'll get it popping victor [Applause] and just a little side note on victor he's done such a great job he brings food trucks to our campus with papoosas and what else victor what else have we had anyways he's had food trucks come we just celebrated dios dios de los muertos he just brings a lot of culture to our campus that otherwise kids wouldn't be exposed to and he also started a spanish
040club okay now i asked dorsey for a job description of what coaches do and i wanted to just kind of think about what it is that coaches do brady come on up brady's my next person mr mr thorpe is my academic coach and so when i thought about like what's his actual job description none of those things are the things why he's my person tonight brady's my person tonight because brady shows up to lunch duty every day and helps us with lunch duty brady's the first one when i have a sub or a new teacher that goes in and makes sure that they're good read and ready and set to go brady when a teacher is out goes in and covers and not to my face ever shows me attitude about it like brady has
041just been it's all the things that he does as not being an academic coach is why i have him up here today and it was a no-brainer that he was my person that i wanted to pick that was outside of a teaching role because brady you really do matter at our campus i know sometimes you feel invisible because you don't have your own class but you are ours and we are lucky to have you so thank you [Applause] you guys are wondering what i got brady so because i pay attention and i know my people brady comes in every single day with quick trip and so i needed to secretly ask him like do you really go to quick trip or do you just pour your own drink and keep the cup and so he's
042like no i go every morning so that's why i asked you and so i got brady a gift card to quick trip so you can have a lot of trips on me [Applause] and that's all i have thanks [Applause] you can do it the student of the month my on sorry student of the month dr duplices mr president board members as i say every month thank you for this opportunity to be able to celebrate some of our wonderful students it is the best part of my day so could i have mercedes neb come up from combs high school [Applause] mercedes is one of the most outstanding students that i have ever met this is from mrs willett i've had mercedes as an esl student for the past three years mercedes has grown academically and personally
043she has excelled in english as well as her other studies her current gpa is a 3.4 she models citizenship and is a native of cameroon mercedes knows how special being an american is she's passed her citizenship test and models what a good person with character is her goal is to become a nurse she'll graduate with her certified nursing assistant certification i'm so proud of this student's accomplishments congratulations mercedes could i have stephen gill come up from combs center for success [Applause] stephen is one of a kind he shows up to school every single day with a smile on his face joy in his heart and excitement in his brain as he embarks on his day of learning he's the first person to say good morning to the staff and the last student to leave our
044classes every day so that he has a chance to say goodbye before he goes home he has never missed a day of asking his teachers if there's anything he can do to help us he's a wonderful student and we're proud to have him on our campus congratulations stephen gill yeah yay stephen could i have lillian fielding come up from combs middle school lillian shows citizenship in her ela class by always remaining on task and setting a good example for her peers she's respectful to everyone she's around by taking the time to truly listen lillian is always anticipating the next step in class because of her preparation and concentration congratulations lillian [Applause] could i have arianna pingree from combs traditional academy [Applause] it's my new friend she's a great example of citizenship she's kind to everyone
045she meets she's a student that i know i can trust when she says she's going to do something this is from mrs butler she comes to class as a new student when she came to class as a new student and made friends with those around her she did it very quickly helping them to feel wanted as well she's very responsible inside and out of the classroom she works very hard as a cta student congratulations [Applause] could i have riley rumple come up from harman [Applause] i love saying riley's name beautiful name riley's a good citizen and and must live and is a good citizen who must live in peace and harmony with her with her neighbors and fellow citizens along with following rules and expectations riley embraces these characteristics of citizenship within the school and
046community each and every day she's always kind and respectful to all she is respectful to other students property our classroom flexible seating and is the one to jump in and help to keep our school and classroom clean and organized congratulations riley [Applause] could i have lenny torres come up from ellsworth could i have zuri gay come up from ellsworth [Applause] this is zuri we tried to recognize zuri last month so we brought her back this month missouri is an example of what trustworthiness looks like and sounds like zuri can always be trusted to do the right thing and make good choices she never tells a lie and is always truthful missouri is courageous in doing the right thing even when it may not be the popular choice and prides herself on those choices she's loyal
047and a good friend she's a wonderful asset to our class that's from mrs lopez and the school community she's always a pleasure and adds a level of magnificent care to the environment around us congratulations zuri [Applause] could i have gracie reedy from symington come up is gracie another one of my favorites is with great pleasure that i'm nominating gracie this is from mrs england for the student of the month for november gracie is the perfect student when it comes to citizenship she participates in class with great enthusiasm gracie is always willing to share and she promotes harmony and inclusiveness inside and outside the classroom that amazing congratulations gracie [Applause] could i have a ryan mcmean come up from ranch so ranch elementary nominated orion as a student a month for citizenship time and time again
048he demonstrates this in our classroom this is mrs hodge as a natural role model for others he's always striving to make the class a better place and he's always the first one to help others in the classroom whether it's cleaning up or helping another student with a problem he is also a part of our student council and works as a team to better our school and make things more fun for his fellow classmates congratulations orion [Applause] thank you so at this time if parents would like to come up and take some pictures or anywhere in the room with their student of the month please feel free we'll just take a couple of minutes to allow that to happen and then you're welcome to stay or you're welcome to leave at that point thank you buddy
049[Music] okay here we go [Music] oh yeah thank you [Music] all right thank you guys so much thank you what was that i'm ready all right i think we've got the last few pictures being taken we'll just wait another few seconds all right thank you to all the students of the month uh next is any uh reports from any of the governing board members uh not this time no no okay next is item six public comments and i know we have one public comment and before i ask that person to come to the mic there is a page that i need to read and get into the record the board invites the viewpoints of citizens throughout the district and considers the responsible presentation of these viewpoints vital to the efficient operation of the district the
050board also recognizes responsibility for the proper governance of the schools and therefore the need to conduct its business in an orderly and efficient manner the board therefore establishes the following procedures to receive input from citizens of the district a any individual desiring to address the board shall complete a form request to address the board and give this form to the superintendent prior to the start of the board meeting b the board president shall be responsible for recognizing speakers maintaining proper order and adhering to a three-minute time limit questions requiring investigation shall be referred to the superintendent or district administration for a later report to the board questions or comments on matters that are currently under legal review will not receive a response letter c if considered necessary the president shall set a time limit on
051the length of the comment period in order to ensure that each individual has an opportunity to address the board the president may also set a time limit for individual speakers letter d personal attacks upon board members staff personnel or other persons in attendance or absent by individuals who address the board are discouraged policies ke keb kec and ked are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including those involving individuals upon conclusion of open call to the public individual members of the board may respond to any criticism made by an individual who has addressed the board the board is aware that there are many issues in our country that are polarized and are highly emotional for many people the board also recognizes that many of these issues can create a great deal of disagreement
052the expectation of the governing board and district is that everyone treats one another with respect that the speaker presents their points of view in a civil manner this is an opportunity to provide civil discourse on a very polarizing issue and you are reminded that you are expected to adhere to the expectations or the call of the public portion of the agenda may be halted so given all of that we have one person that would like to make a public comment and i asked sarah mckinney to please come up to the mic and i will be timing for three minutes um hi my name is sarah mckinney i came here tonight i've actually emailed all of the board members regarding this issue it is regarding the forced quarantining of healthy children i am a teacher in
053florence unified i know stephen ray also works for queen creek not one district in this entire community is forcing healthy children to stay home from school because they sit next to somebody or in class in other districts letters do go out close contact and parents like myself i'm a teacher as well i've actually spoke to you guys last year asking that we could be in person but with masks so i'm a very safe person my son has missed 14 days of school he has never failed a class in his entire life he has not been able to catch up because missing 14 days for a student on the spectrum it's very hard to get caught up our district does not provide full direct instruction when children are forced to be home i have spoke with
054numerous members of this community i spoke with a high school student that lives on my street she has been forced to miss 35 days of school she has not been sick um we have a family friend there at combs high school as well they are failing for classes they were quarantined for 28 days total so far since the school started now they have covet so now they're out when they are sick they missed all that instruction when they could have been in person they could have been given the option i am asking this board to please please please look at your policy no other schools are doing this in pinal county i have done my research i have spoke with pinal county health department i was advised that you are following the direction of pinal
055county health department canal health canal county health department the guidance that was from last year that was from november 2020. this is november 2021. the parents of this community want better i have wanted to pull my kids every day when this stuff has gone on but because of mr christrida tonight that was acknowledged he's the reason my son stayed at home's middle school when i wanted to pull him when i was given a close contact my son the second time he was given a close contact he sat on the bus for eight minutes eight minutes and he was not sick he's had kova before we are very cautious the families deserve to get an education and i you guys can do your research and you can look at the numbers i'm not saying that covet
056is not real but you need to give families an option you know when you're forcing kids miss 35 days of school or 28 days of school and they're healthy that's that it's just not logical and i think that i i'm upset because i've emailed this and emailed i'm sorry to cut you off but three minutes is up so thank you for addressing that so can it be brought to be discussed down the road we can't comment on that but thank you you're going to lose all your kids those numbers they're going to keep going down so maybe you should look at those numbers no appreciate no appreciate what you're saying thank you thank you thank you very much made great points thank you ms mckinney okay next on the agenda is item seven the consent
057agenda and there are many parts to it so does anyone have any questions or comments about any parts of the consent agenda no no no no all right then i'd like to entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented i move to approve the consent agenda as presented second chad seconds thank you all in favor say aye aye aye it passes three to zero okay next next is item 8.1 discussion and consideration of approval of the j.o combs unified school district's parent teacher and or booster organizations for the current school year good evening members of the board dr wyman the remaining members of the audience action item 8.1 is for your reviewing consideration of the district's parent teacher and or booster club organizations for the 2021-2022 school year the governing board's record uh
058recognition of these parent support groups enables the district's insurance policy through the arizona school risk retention trust to include these in our coverage in consideration of coven the pto and the booster training continued through the video presentations that were made for the district and the completed applications for all of the locations have been uploaded for your review are there any questions no thank you all right then uh for item eight one uh someone could make a motion please yeah i moved to approve the j combs unified school district parent teacher and booster organizations for the 2021 2020 school year as presented second second second okay we have a motion in a second all in favor please say aye aye aye opposed no three to zero it passes item 8.2 discussion and consideration of approval of
059changes to policy ihaq career transition to work education the second reading so this is the same policy uh second reading we brought to you uh uh last month uh really it's just a request to reduce the number of hours for internships uh over the course of time school districts are finding out that the 120 hours is is prohibitive both for our kids in terms of missing time in school as well as for businesses trying to go ahead and provide an internship that long so many school districts in the area have moved down to 60 hours so i'd recommend approval as presented and if there's any questions i know mr scrogham's here and he can answer any any more additional questions if you have any it's always fun to make him say something but he's on
060a roll tonight isn't he any questions um no okay someone would make a motion please all right i moved to approve the change of policy ihaq has presented second second chat seconds all in favor aye aye stephen pass is three to zero item 8.3 discussion and consideration of approval of blackboard as the new website provider for the j.o combs unified school district dr wyman yes just real quickly last spring we looked at uh our contract with ed leo is up in its final year i was going into its final year last year and so we took a look at it and said uh there were some things that within the uh within the website that we felt we needed upgrade so we did an rfp to go ahead and get some vendors to take a
061look at uh possibly changing we had three vendors that sent it out to i think five and had three that responded we had a committee that met uh with each of the vendors the vendors made a presentation of what they had to present we finalized it down to two vendors and asked for best and final but in our conversations with those two vendors it became apparent that that our ability to make a shift to a new website transition all the data and all the information we had on the old website to a new website between april and july was unrealistic so we went ahead and pulled back as we reviewed it again in october of this year um and our discussion took place uh we felt that going back out for another rfp would get
062us exactly the same place we were before blackboard had been our number one choice um in the spring so we were looking to use the one gpa contract 2111 pv uh for the purchase of blackboard as our new website the website would not take place until july will start in july 1 of next year the reason we're doing it right now is then we can start the migration of all the information we're already starting to take a look at our websites working with the sites to make sure that everything that's on there is current is it something that we want to move over is it something we don't want to move over and then throughout the spring we'll have a process to actually make the full transition and then give or take uh it'll go
063live yeah july 1 but but we'll probably be working with a prototype of what it's going to look like throughout the late spring and early summer so i would recommend that we move forward uh with blackboard for uh for this product the pricing is essentially the same as what it was last year when we did the original rfp so i would move approval as presented questions about this proposal no no okay then i entertain a motion i move to approve blackboard as a provider of web for the website of the district beginning july 1st 2021 under one gpa contract for one year pretty simple second second stephen seconds all in favor please say aye aye no three to zero um item 8.4 new cost course approvals for the cte agroscience four curriculum you took too
064long getting up here sorry mr board president members of the board we bring to you tonight just one course offering we've worked with the both the high school teachers and with mr scrogham and cte and and we are only requesting one additional course that would be ct agriscience 4. you were given a copy of the course description this just gives us some opportunity for growth as we've got a very new exciting teacher in there and we're starting to see growth in the program and this would be a great opportunity for our kids to continue on and become completers in this program so if you have any specific questions i want to refer to john but uh this is where we're at and again we've just brought the one course forward this year so this would
065be uh for the next academic year correct do we have any idea how many students might want to enroll in that yeah that's okay um here it may take a while to build a class being good makes sense thank you any other questions no i think it's great okay a motion please i move to approve the combs high school new course offerings for 21.22 second second so you see my seconds all in favor please say aye hi hi new passes three to nothing item 9.1 on the agenda the school district aggregate expenditure limit issue okay this is an issue that's uh come up here just recently uh you may or may have not heard of it we're just bringing it for information more than anything else in arizona you have a process called the aggregate
066spending limit or also aggregate expenditure limit ael and it's part of the state budget and it was established back in the late 70s early 80s when they created the funding formula that we have in arizona a couple things to be reminders of the in that funding formula special ed was just in its infancy especially was actually something that came about in this country in the late 60s so you had about a decade worth of special ed so did not have that did not have ell any number of different factors and so they set an aggregate limit however unlike towns and cities and towns and counties which have the same thing if you are up against the aggregate limit in the city you can go ahead and put on the ballot and by a boat of
067the public in your town or city you can go ahead and increase the limit by 10 percent for school districts they they put all school districts together and so it it has occurred before they had the raise limited i believe was about 86 and i think they had to do it in the 90s or maybe early 2000s uh feeling was we're not going to get to the limit again so everybody was comfortable well with the inclusion of the daa money that they finally paid us back with the inclusion of the 20 by 20 with the decrease last year of 50 000 kids on the pandemic out of the system and it's based on number of kids and enrollment factors we're up against the limit by law ade has to provide every school district what the
068estimated cut would be legislature has to raise the limit through a resolution by march 1st on the two-thirds vote and if it's not raised by march 1st then school districts must cut the percentage that's provided by april 1st um this number in november could change between now and then but it's going to be roughly in that ballpark and it's about a 70 percent cut conversations at the state level are such that there's been promises made by leadership both in the house and the senate that they would address this issue and they would address it as quickly as possible i have had i've been in a couple meetings with legislators i will tell you with 11 new legislators there i was meeting with one that's brand new and there don't understand what this is nor do
069they understand the significance of what will it mean i do think gonna bring it to your attention for a couple different reasons um our cut just so you're aware is is 5.3 mil i'm not sure what uh some of the other districts are but that's significant if you're cutting 16 17 percent of your budget in the last quarter when you're committed to salaries already it would be it would just have devastating impacts across the entire state um problematically is is there's probably going to be a one-year fix but there's not necessarily going to be a permanent fix because there's issues related to prop 208 invest in ed and some concerns with that so i bring this to your attention uh more than anything else just so you're aware of it if you hear about it
070uh you're probably gonna see quite a bit about it over the next three or four or five months as people try to lobby to make sure this gets addressed but even more so than that if it's not solved on an ongoing on a long-term basis then this in essence becomes very similar to the debt ceiling limit that happens at the federal government where we have a discussion every single year about whether we're going to fix this problem or not fix this problem and i think that's the bigger concern if we're looking to put more money into public education as has been anticipated then all of a sudden you're bumped up against this limit uh annually and therefore it's going to continue to be a problem so i just want to make aware of you the
071the attachment just provides the report that the every school district received from uh school finance at ade so that you can see uh if there's specific questions about that ms cook myself i'm more than happy to answer them but again this is just informational so you're aware of it we will obviously talk more about it as we get into february january and february after the session starts and see what's going on uh if we get it resolved for this year then there'll still be a push to get a more permanent fix but the problem is a permanent fix means there has to be a change to the constitution because this is a portion of the constitution so there are a few issues out there with it so again i'll be more than happy to answer
072any questions but just trying to bring it to you for knowledge more than anything else and then we'll address it in the future i do have a question on how the aggregate spending limit is calculated is it calculated on a statewide basis or each individual school district and then it's rolled up to a state number they get us they get a state number based on on what the projections are for all the school districts they exclude certain things so as an example bonds and overrides are excluded out of the dollar amounts and so once they've excluded everything they then take a look and say and and the projected amount earlier was 1.24 billion i think the final amount that they looked at at the state level was 1.15 billion they then based on that will
073then um come up with the number uh pro er against every single district in the in the state uh so if you if you have any number of situations especially like bonds and overrides you're not going to be impacted to the same degree as if you don't have those bonds and overrides so although it's uh on average 16.9 70 percent cut it does impact each and every school district differently depending on the uniqueness of um of where they sit with some of the things that are excluded or not excluded i don't know i can look up any school district in the state but i don't know the exact percentage amount uh but it's going to be that's why i use that 17 to 20 percent depending on the district you're in for us the projected
074amount is i think it was 16.9 percent so so in in general turns then every single school district public school district in the state is impacted there aren't any of that every every single traditional traditional public school district charters were not around in 1980 correct and so charter's not impacted by this at all so if we get if they were not to solve this problem on march 1st every traditional public school in arizona would have to cut like i say 70 off their budget the charter schools would have to cut zero thank you steve and chad other questions i know not about that no okay um thank you dr wyman item 10.1 request for future agenda items anybody oh question yes um so in regards to what um ms mckinnon uh asked us or talked
075to us about tonight is that something that has to be dealt with by the board or is that something that can be addressed outside of board meetings because it's more like a procedural thing not necessarily a policy thing yes and no it is a it is uh um it is part of our mitigation plan the american rescue plan requires the board to prove the mitigation plan so if we were to change the mitigation plan then we'd have to bring the mitigation plan to you to make that change i won't go into details given how you asked the question and and the way this was presented but information presented tonight was not totally accurate well i i can't understand that that's what are we gonna be able to talk about that a little bit more or
076when when would that discussion take place that'll be up to the board uh i can talk to you individually to see my only cautionary tale is is again as a reminder um very similar to the situations that we have had last year at the beginning of the year uh it is a polarizing situation and so there's not a good answer to this relative to how different people think and so the the question especially i'll just say it right here uh with this if if next december the december's board meeting is the same makeup of today's then it's a three-member vote that's doing it it's not a five-member vote uh and so you have to keep that in mind too that that this discussion is not going to be necessarily a total board action uh from
077my discussions with ms hargis she will not be back until january um uh we'll see with mrs carr i believe she may be back but i don't know if it's a four-member board then you have to be cautious of uh a lot of discussion to result in the two-two vote um so there's some pieces that that have to be there uh mr delano myself have talked about it um i have not bothered mrs hargis with a new situation but if if the board is directing me to do that then we'll have conversations over the next month to determine uh what's the best course of action well i think it'd be reasonable to discuss it and and to look at and i'd be happy to hear the other information that you have and um because if
078there's something that can make sense and be reasonable then i don't see why we can't look at that so are you suggesting you'd like to see it as an agenda item on the next board meeting um is that would that be the best place it seemed to me that this is more at first i thought it was more of a procedural thing not a policy thing but again if if you want to change the because in the mitigation plan it happened to say that we were going to follow right the county health department's recommendations right so because that's what we are indeed and for clarity we are following the county health departments right and she acknowledged that no no no we are following the current county health department requirements not previous county health requirements no
079i believe you i believe you i'm uh yeah so i just i where would we talk about this because if this is an issue that can be addressed sooner than january then maybe so there's a couple if we want to make a change to our policy to our mitigation plan it needs to be on the board agenda as an action item so that way it's out there so the public can see it and if and if they want to come in and make public comment they can't if we want to have it just as discussion item where we take no action and we just talk it through that's another option as well or we can choose to do nothing and all that can be decided before the next it doesn't have to be decided tonight
080does not have to be decided tonight we can talk to dr wyman over the next couple of weeks and hash that out yeah i'd like to that's right right it's good okay um anything else for requests for future agenda items no no no all right then i would like to move that we adjourn the meeting at 7 13. second second okay stephen seconds all in favor aye aye we're adjourned thank you everybody