001Miss Stler present. Mr. Nielsen >> here. >> Okay. Can we all stand for the pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, I'm going to ask for a moment of silence and also ask if you haven't um please silence your cell phones. Okay. All right. Um we are going to move on to board member statements and I'm just going to kind of go down the line. So Mr. Neielen. >> I think just the two opportunities I've had in the past ever since we've met here a couple months ago was to be at the family resource fair which we will hear a lot about here and my wife
002and I got to be chaperones and it was fun taking those kids around and listening to them. Some of them were really talkers and some of them you almost had to use a something to get some words out of them. So that was fun. And then I had the opportunity to go Australia Vista and Littleton back meet the teachers night. Lots of kids, lots of teachers, not a lot of places to park, but it was good to be there and be with them and see the kids. >> Thank you, Miss Stallard. >> So, I was fortunate enough to be able to go to Mercy House when I had never been there before. When they were doing the backpacks and the whole giveaway, it was just overwhelming. It was beyond amazing to see the kindness and
003the goodness of everyone's heart and all the stuff that was donated and the excitement on the kids' faces when they were like, "I get to have that, too." Um, and they're like, "Oh my gosh." And the haircuts, they were Oh, these kids were just so excited that it was just so moving. I I had to step away a couple of times because I I was just overwhelmed and in tears. And then I was fortunate enough I went to two meet the teacher nights. I went to Collier and it was a roundup. It was a western. It was so cool. It was so cute to watch all the kids. They were serving food. Everyone was walking around. There was like little gifts for people. Um the classrooms were just so amazing and so over the top.
004There was the bulletin boards. I I took so many pictures cuz I thought the quotes were just right on point. And then I went to Country Place. I had never been to Country Place before. I'm sure I had when I worked in the district, but not as just like, you know, a regular person. I just walked around, I'm sure, all night with my mouth open and at all of the artwork on the walls and the kids' handprints and how they come back and they can find their handprints and their thumb prints and their fingerprints and the kids were just so excited to walk around and show you everything that they had done and it was just a really great experience. Like I absolutely loved it. They're definitely on my list for more things. >> Remember
005Barnett? >> So, um I had an opportunity to attend um Lake and Prep meet the teacher night. It was a wonderful experience. Um it was so many things going on. Just really bustling in the community. Um and that being said, it gives me an opportunity to segue. I am so grateful. I want to give a shout out to um our district office and the women who do the registration. I had to register six children in a short period of time. And these women they I mean they were just they are a smooth smooth moving vehicle. They got everything done. So I don't think they get enough acknowledgement because they make it happen. Um and I mean literally the drop of a hat they make it happen. So I want to definitely give them acknowledgement and
006um I'm super excited for this school year. >> Thank you. Um I as well was able to attend the family resource fair um co-hosted with Mercy House and it was it brought tears to my eyes to see all the students able to get resources and families going around and getting everything that they need to be successful in the year. Um, I also was able to attend a new teacher breakfast put on by LEA and got to speak with some of our brand new teachers in the district. And then I went to meet the teacher at fine arts and I just love seeing all the different community groups we have there that are providing different types of arts recreation for our students. And lastly, I would like to just say as a parent, I am very
007much enjoying parent square more than Remind. It's a lot more convenient and I'm having greater interaction with my kids' parents and it's my kids students and responding and that was a great transition in my opinion. >> Um, member Stallard, >> I just have one more thing. The kickoff by far was one of the best that I have ever attended. The speaker, first of all, the skits were out of this world. The speaker was so moving. I was like, "Okay, guys, in the 15 years I was here, like we didn't have speakers like that. Like, he really pumped us up, I was pumped when I left." So, thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Moving on in our agenda, um, superintendence report. Dr. Lefit. >> Good evening, Madam President, members of the board. So this evening
008um really wanted to communicate about my first true month here with students, staff, and the opportunity to get to know the community. Uh over the past month, it's been a a month full of first for me. Uh we had our first community fair which um Mary Bell will present later on which was in partnership with Mercy House. That was a great experience. also my first pre-ervice for returning teachers, new teachers here in the Littleton 10 school district as well as uh uh new teacher or uh new student night or families coming out and visiting at new teacher night and me getting the opportunity to visit themies. All of these opportunities led me to our kickoff which Mrs. Stalard uh mentioned for us where I had the opportunity to bring out our our uh campuses and
009they had the opportunity to highlight and energize uh the organization as well as our speaker. Um, each one of these first that was mentioned really moved us towards the day really that I remember for days to come was our first day of school and me getting around to every school in the district and seeing uh all of those smiling faces with all of our staff who was there to greet our kids and to make them feel comfortable. It was really um a joyous day for everyone. I saw the parents were excited and again it was a smooth running day for everyone. And it was uh for me, I've been in education for 30 years and it was the smoothest opening that I've ever seen. Uh the week itself was tremendous. And so what I wanted
010to do is try something a little bit different this time. Instead of having pictures up, Mr. Busby and I worked out a video and he was our editor. So we'll go ahead and jump into the video of our first week. [Music] Oh, the places you'll go. [Music] Congratulations. Today is your day. You're off to great places. You're off and away. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. You look up and down streets, look them over with care. And some you will say, "I don't choose to go there." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart
011to go down any not so good street. and you may not find any. You'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there. It's the wide open air. Out there, things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening, too. Oh, the places you'll go [Music] and you will succeed. Yes, you will indeed. 98 and 3/4% guarantee, kid. You'll move mountains. I'd like to thank Mr. Buspin. He he uh followed me around the whole week. So, he he had the joy and privilege of doing that. And and it was a great opportunity. I he knows I'm not really into that camera and limelight thing, so
012he's been working on me to get comfortable with it. So, thank you. That's it for my report. >> Thank you, Dr. Lefy. Okay, we do have a proclamation, Miss Stellar. >> Attendance awareness proclamation. Whereas good attendance is essential to student achievement and graduation. And we are committed to dedicating our resources and attention to reducing chronic absenteeism rates with a focus starting as early as preschool. Whereas improving attendance and reducing absences takes commitment, collaboration, and tailored approaches to particular challenges and strengths in each community. Whereas improving attendance and engagement takes schools, families, elected leaders, and other community partners working together to maintain regular and trusting communications and to identify and address barriers preventing students from being in school. Whereas we are all committed to creating a culture in which students understand the importance of showing up
013and engaging in school. Now therefore, be it resolved that as the governing board of Littleton Elementary School District, we proclaim that our schools will stand with the nation in recognizing September as attendance awareness month. We hereby commit to focusing on reducing chronic absenteeism to give all children an equitable opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive academically, emotionally, and socially. >> Thank you, Miss Stallard. Moving on to item number seven, program showcase. Dr. Lefit. >> Good evening, Madam Chair and the board. Um, so it was mentioned earlier about our resource fair that took place this summer. So what I'd like to do is have Miss Barroso come up so that she can present on that uh item. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, Littleton Board governing board, Dr. Lefit, and the Littleton community. My name
014is Marbel and I'm the parent liaison in community relations for the Littleton School District and I'm here to talk to you about the July 19th resource fair. How it began. So after learning that GCU event was cancelled in late February, Den and I explored options to organize a summer alternative by contacting various partners. I met Mercy and Christina from the Mercy House through former council woman Malone. I attended some of their events like their um social um ice cream ice cream social, their um homework club, and I heard wonderful things that they were doing for the community, including a back- to-school giveaway in the summer. I approached Christina after a meeting about partnering and what that would look like. Christina said she would pray about it and get back to me. So, fast forward, Christina
015calls me. Um, she reached out and said, "Hey, we would like to meet with the communications team and Mercy House to see how we can uh move forward, discuss a location, and see what this would look like, how many families we wanted to help." Because the community um that Mercy House was already servicing was in cashion, we decided to go with Quinton. We both reached out uh Christina and I toes. We went we met with different organizations to work on donations and it was um it it's it was a long journey. Um but we reached out um we were calling um we were emailing we were letting family members know about this event so that they can also help us out and reach out to other um organizations and you know for the barbers we
016were looking for um just any any type of resource that we can bring to our families. Um we um the Littleton families um that we service were identified by our social workers. So Littleton um normally would send 100 to 120 students to GCU for backpacks and school supplies. And those families were normally identified by our social workers. And that is we reached out and said, "Hey, part of the event is we want to make sure that the families that would have normally gone to the event were a guarantee that they would be receiving what they needed to be successful for the new year." Um, next we focused on um, previously we were focused on s uh, school supplies, but we wanted to provide much more for families. Uh given that we were we had a
017bigger venue at Quinton, we wanted to make sure that we not only had um the uniforms and school supplies, but that we had haircuts, that we had dental services, medical service, um we had opportunities for early literacy that are happening here at our welcome center being provided to our families. And this year's support, as you guys can see, um we were able to service 771 students through the resource fair. We had 15 barbers donate um or give their time and give 75 haircuts. We had 20 vendors um who were able to provide resources and information to our families. And we had 55 volunteers. Um we had um volunteers from the Mercy House, volunteers here from the Littleton School District. We had teachers and these teachers not only donated their time, but some of them donated
018items, too. Same with staff here at Littleton. Not only was time donated, but they also donated um backpacks and supplies for our school event. And here is a glimpse into our event on July 19th. [Music] Oh. [Music] Oh. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Is there any questions? I just want to thank you for everything. Like it was it was just amazing. Like thank you for all that you guys have done. It was wonderful. It was a wonderful experience. >> Thank you. I mean, we wouldn't have been able to do it without the partnership and just the vision of how can we help. Um, they came with the vision. We came with the larger venue and so it was definitely collaborative. >> And I'd like to say thank you as well. I was able to participate
019the year before at Mercy House. Wonderful place. No air conditioning or little air conditioning. No parking places but a few parking places. This venue was absolutely wonderful. The ACs worked all the time. The people got to come inside. There was plenty of parking. It was just a wonderful, wonderful time. It was organized well enough and they weren't all over the place. They kind of knew where they needed to be and we helped them around. It was just marvelous. Thank you, Mercy House. Thank you, school, and for the work that everybody did to to participate there. >> Thank you. >> I just want to thank Miss Barroso for just the the organization of this entire event with in partnership with Mercy House. He did a phenomenal job, communications department, and all of the partners that we
020had. It was such a you you saw from the video and the the pictures, just such a tremendous event. So, thank you all. >> Thank you. Dr. Levy, entry plan. >> Good evening, Madame President, members of the board. So, um, upon being, uh, named as superintendent for Littleton Elementary School District, one thing that I believe was important was to begin to lay out a plan for how we would begin to identify strengths, weaknesses of the organization, see what things are going really well and how we can build on those. And so, part of that was for me to develop an entry plan. Uh originally when meeting with the board and I went through it, I kind of had one idea in mind that laid it out as a 90-day plan, but as we got into
021it, uh really looked at really what would make more sense. And so moved it rolled or morphed into a 120day plan. And uh so you can go to the next slide, please, Jim. And so as we went through this plan development, one thing that I really wanted to do is make sure that there was a true purpose for why the plan existed so as to establish trust, assess needs, and really truly set a foundation for long-term assessment. I mean, for success. For me, I really do truly believe that when you have a plan, a vision, a strategic plan for where you want to go, that you have better odds at accomplishing those. And so that was really the purpose for this work. And then also the key priorities for me everything is about the kids.
022Is it good for kids? But then from there staff connection, community engagement and operational excellence. And so the key things for this really it's truly what I call my listening and learning tour. I'll be going around trying to figure out um from individuals who are in the trenches and everyone who does the work daytoday, the parents who are involved, the community, what's going on in the community uh in the district. And really for me, data is everything. And so it's to help guide and support data datadriven decision making. And then again, for me, always taking that equity lens. And so it's really broken up into five phases. Now that first phase was the pre-entry. So before I actually my technical start date was July 1st. Uh however I had the opportunity to come in and
023spend a little bit of time with the governing board with the executive team with um community members some of the site leaders some other staff just randomly would interact with folks. So I had some opportunities just to begin to establish the relationship. really nothing nothing really structured in terms of these are the things I'm looking for but just tell me about you and as you get to know me the thing you'll learn is I just want to get to know about you because you bring you into everything you do and the more I understand and know you the more we can use that to help support where we grow as an organization. So within the first 30 days part of that listening and learning was setting introductory activities. So, some of that planning, a lot
024of it was um looking at data that existed, understanding community expectations and norms and and really beginning to start to schedule meetings with stakeholders to get those things put in place. The next uh 31 to 60 days was to begin establishing visibility through schools. So right now this is part of that that phase of the process gathering input um setting up the plan for our listening tour developing surveys and so I've met with communications department and we've begun going through that piece of it and then what'll begin to happen as you'll see in the next slide is we'll conduct those tours. So, we've sent out to principles. The plan initially is to be at uh four four district sites throughout the month of September and right now it's tenatively scheduled for I think it's every
025Wednesday in September and then we have a survey that was developed as well and so we'll work with that also just to spend time on campuses to engage in continuous feedback loops. So, for me, it's just going out, hanging out at lunchtime or any other time during the day, just visiting with folks. For me, I'll just pop up and show up around the district office. I'll just randomly show up places just just so people know I'm here and I'm really interested in what they're doing and how to engage with them and how to support them and doing their jobs better and more efficiently. And so, again, those listening sessions are key there. And then that fifth phase of this is really the execution. And it's the collection of all the data, taking all of it,
026identifying those key themes, what are we finding, and then coming up with those high impact short-term initiatives, but also starting the development of our long-term planning. Again, strategic planning is is critical in my mind, knowing what you're going to do in the next three, five, 10 years so that as an organization, you can strive and move towards that. And so the key metrics for this for me really is the engagement, getting the community engaged, uh making sure I'm involved in the community. Um there are a few other community events that I'll be at as well uh within the city of Aendelle and so on. And also again just leadership team cohesion and so uh at our admin retreat and actually in the coming days we have our next admin meeting. I'll be leading some of
027those professional developments in terms of leadership. What does it look like? Because I think the more I'm involved with developing that, it supports the staff in understanding what my vision is and what I'm looking for as I spend time around the campuses and around the district. And then that long-term visioning uh transitioning into that from entry to strategic action and really saying what does this look like for us moving forward? We know as a community there's a lot of growth, there's a lot of opportunity and now how do we take advantage of that of that to support our students moving forward? And so just really to recap, remember it was a five it was five phases within this and now the key phase is really for me to get out into the community to um
028just share my vision, share my thoughts, share my ideas to get feedback so we can bring that back. And then also just for me the thing that you'll always hear is working together, involving the community, being as one. We're all here for each other and that's really what I want to do moving forward. So, I think that's it. And any questions? >> Um, thank you, Dr. Lefyia. I know we've had a couple of meetings um since you've started your tenure here. Um, it's an amazing plan. I think it's a great opportunity to share with the community what you want to do in your first hundred uh days in the district. Um, I think that data and that feedback. I think we have we have a board um board retreat coming up in this month. um
029would love for that plan and that data to be to be shared with the board and kind of see how we can collaborate to help you out whether it's new policies, new things that you want to present to us um and working with our staff on it. So, good work. >> Thank you, Dr. Ley. Um moving on to item number eight, cons uh call to the public. And we do have some call to the public. So, I am just going to read this. I'm sorry. I'm going to read up here. Um, according to the Arizona Open Meeting Law, any matter brought before the board by members of the audience may not be acted upon at this meeting. The governing board appreciates constituent participation and ask that attendees comply complete the form to address the board,
030which is available near the entrance. Please submit the completed form to the governing board secretary seated next to the superintendent prior to the start of the meeting. In order to allow time for everyone to participate, comments should be limited to three minutes. No disparagement, name calling, personal attacks upon board members, staff, personnel, or other persons in attendance or absent will be permitted by individuals who address the board. In addition, questions or comments on matters that are currently under legal review will not be accepted. Citizens are directed to other governing board policies for dep disposition of legitimate complaints, including those involving personnel. First, we have Miss De I'm sorry if I mispronounced that. Um, coming up to speak as a teacher. Good evening. My name is Jesse Dvidi. I wanted to express my gratitude for my
031time in Littleton and briefly detail my current departure. I am truly grateful for the people I've met in the Littleton School District. From the janitors to administrators, colleagues to trainers, and now the board. Madame President, Dr. Lefit, I would like to pay respect and thank you. The people I've had an honor to work with have been diverse, courageous, empathetic, and sincere. It's rare to be in the presence of so many talented and caring people. It begins with great leaders to draw forth such talents. Thank you. Unfortunately, even with such a great team principal, administrators and colleagues, I had to call my time short due to unforeseeable circumstances. My husband got a full-time job in Tempe, so we put our house in Tucson for sale. We found a house Midway in Awatuki to purchase. My parents,
032our primary child care for our two children, also put their house in Tucson for sale to move up with us. However, with neither house selling, my husband and I asked to rent the property instead, but they could not. So, we picked the closest rental we could find. However, the commute was longer than expected and without shortcuts, it often took more than an hour with many with mainly freeway driving. I was struggling to make it to work or home on time. When my son got hurt and could not walk, I drove one and a half hours to get home into the urgent care for an X-ray. Without my parents here, living farther because of housing availability, still paying our mortgage, paying rent, filling the gas tank twice as much as expected with higher gas prices here.
033It became unsustainable. More importantly than even my own hesitations came my concerns for my students. To protect my future students in a title one school from losing a role model a few weeks or even months in, I had to leave my position and it broke my heart. I left my classroom with over $100 worth of posters and borders and whatnot to encourage the next teacher. Thank you for your time tonight. I wish more than anything that my house had sold and I could teach again with my colleagues. But sometimes God has other plans. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. Um number public request number two, Ms. McKelip regarding construction at Collier Drug Dogs and ICE. Good evening, Dr. Leit, excuse me, and governing board members. As you may be aware, my name is Hillilary McKillip,
034and I come to you as a parent and community member. As I mentioned last time I was here, I am concerned about the lack of communication and respect shown to parents in this community. First, there's been poor communication regarding the solar panel construction at Collier. Parents were given three days notice of the construction. We were asked to sign kids up for the bus, walk our kids, or park in the neighborhood across the street and walk. To assume that every caregiver is capable of walking students is ableist. Do we have caregivers in the community who cannot do that? I don't know. But that's the thing. You guys probably don't know either because no one asked. and blocking off disabled parking surely is an ADA violation. Also, the schools not being a good neighbor to tell people
035to park in the neighborhood across the street. That neighborhood only has two ways in and out of it. And for the next four months, one of those entrances will now be completely jammed twice a day because of the school's suggestion. Also, I saw a kid almost get hit by a car that was trying to park in the neighborhood. How hard would it have been during meet the teacher night to share information and collect logistical feedback? But again, district administration made decisions without input from the community. It's the same issue I have with the drug dogs. The decision to use them directly impacts our kids. And yet families were neither asked for feedback nor did we receive notification after searches. And what have you done with the protected spaces training information that I sent to you
036a few months back? Just last week in the East Valley, ICE detained two people outside of a school in front of children during the drop off times. Whatever plan the school district had in January is no longer good enough. and you have the audacity to make a a declaration regarding attendance and yet have not taken advantage of a free training or inform the community on how you plan to keep their kids safe. If you want to increase student attendance, you need to take responsibility and get all staff trained in protected spaces. I volunteer with Borderlands Initiative Project and have offered before and I'm offering again to help set up that training. It's time to get on the right side of history. ESA vouchers are siphoning money from public education to pay for homeschoolers, vacations, specialty
037classes, and expensive equipment. Schools are closing. But our community is here for you, and we entrust our kids to you. It's time to treat us as the partners that we are and show us the dignity and respect that we deserve. Thank you. Um, moving on to our next call to the public, it is Angelica Valdez speaking as a parent from Australia Vista regarding Arizona heat advisory outdoor and lunchtime and short days. Hi, I just found out about this meeting this morning. I'm sorry. So, I just got a couple things together. I've been in the community from since 2009. My daughter's attended here and it seems like the district it's just getting worse. Um, we're in a heat advisory right now and I've been driving around different districts during lunch hours and crickets outside with the
038exception of Littleton. We have our kids outdoors an extreme heat warning. the fourth day of school. It was only the fourth day of school. It was a long day and um two kids were outside at 2:45 in the afternoon and I think it was 10 degrees. I don't have exactly my phone in front of me to tell you, but I recorded when they were outdoors. They're doing PE outdoors and this extreme heat warning. Um I live, like I said, there's a 10 milei radius. Other schools around here, they don't have their kids. I don't know what your guys's ranges are as far as saying we can have them outdoors, the humidity. I don't know. There's a certain index you guys go by, but I don't know what the difference with our children as opposed to
039children down 10 miles. Um how they are their safety person is telling them they're not allowed to be outside from 12 to 2. Absolutely not. So um those are just my concerns. And also, um, firefighters are letting the public know, don't go hiking from 8:00 to 5:00. I don't understand why kids couldn't be outside. I used to hike at 5:00 in the morning. It's too hot for me to hike. I no longer go hiking because it's too hot for me as an adult. 84 degrees outside is too hot. I know I'm I'm going up. The children are still just playing outdoor. They wanted to be in shade. We don't have enough shade. We don't have enough shade. And the shade that we do have is black. It's really hard for the kids. Other schools have
040tan color. Other schools have other light colors. We should not have black outdoor. It's reflecting a lot. We need light colors. We need to look into that, too. Um, also, I've just recently found out actually I take out my son during lunch hours because I no longer want him to go inside. 10 minutes to meet modify lunch is not worth it to go back inside in a frozen classrooms. They have to have uh sweaters. They're cold. So, now they're getting sick. on the second week of school. They're missing school. Now attendance, he's been going to this school since kindergarten. I told the principal, go ahead and look at his uh record. Every time he goes to school here in the second day, second week, he's sick because this because they allowed him to go outside.
041Modified modified is not worth it for 10 minutes to be back inside. Their bodies are too small to adjust. Just right here, it says, "Outdoor REASS and physical education are very important, but during per periods of extreme heat, risks that outweigh the benefits. Prolonged sun exposure, high humidity, rising temperatures can quickly lead to dangerous situations." Here it also says, "At this age, many kids are still learning how to listen to their bodies and may not speak up when they feel overheated or unwell." So, we need to um do something about the heat. And also um he goes to lunch at 11:15 second grade on half days or short days they're going to lunch at 11:45. They're waiting 45 minutes now to go to lunch. >> Okay. >> And now they get dismissed 30 minutes before.
042>> Ma'am, your time is up. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um thank you everyone who spoke up and I would like to direct Dr. Lify and the admin team to kind of give us an update on our current policies with heat advisory um the borderlands uh ice initiative and then um if there's anything we can do about the construction of solar at Cullier. Anyone else from the board? >> Yeah, I just want to know um thank you for that President Senic. Um any comments, any things that were made of concerns? I would just ask that be followed up by the administration. A detailed report gets sent to the board um regarding their claims. >> Thank you. All right. Moving on to item number nine, consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda?
043>> I'll make a motion that we approve the consent agenda presented. >> Mr. Nielsen, is there a second? I second. >> Miss Stalard. >> All in favor of approving consent agenda say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Consent agenda passes. All right. Moving on to item number 10, chief operations officer recommendation. Dr. Lefit. >> Good evening, Madame President, members of the board. On this item, I would like to approve the recommendation of Mrs. Courtney Pena for our chief operations officer. Miss Pena comes to us with a wealth of experience over 20 years of experience in school finance. Currently serving as vice president of Arizona Association of School Business Officials. Uh previously she's worked as director of educational programs uh Arizona Association of School Business Officials and also presenter for ASBO and statewide conferences and
044has served as a former vice president for Mojave. Uh Courtney again comes with a wealth of experience that I think will be very beneficial for us as we move forward in the future. >> Any questions? Yep. >> Yeah. Isn't that It's the action first, >> right? We have to action first. >> I move that the governing board approve Miss Courtney Pena for the position of chief operations officer. >> Miss Dallard. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Mr. Cineros. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Congratulations, Miss Pena. Would you like to say a few words? >> Dr. Lefi, um I am truly honored uh and humbled to return to the Littleton family uh and accept the position um as the chief operations officer. I'm really looking forward to
045bringing my experience, my dedication, and passion for public education. Uh I plan to support the district's vision um and direction, ensuring that we continue to serve our students, staff, and community with excellence. Um I'm truly grateful for this opportunity and eager to get started on the next chapter for Littleton's story. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Okay, moving on to item number 11. This is the point in the meeting where we discuss the ASBA political agenda and representatives that we would like to elect to attend. So, the first item is the political agenda, which I don't have. Oh, never mind. I can read. Um, if we want to pull that up and look at it. Was there any comments, concerns, questions about the agenda? If not, there we can just accept the agenda. I
046know it's quite lengthy so I know that we have some newer um members on the board. So, this is the agenda that goes before all of the representatives from different boards across the state. We will vote each item on here if we approve it. Um, and then this document's given to ASBA's lobbying team and they know that like when a new bill comes, this is they use this to determine how ASBA feels on this and they also can use this to kind of lobby for other bills that they feel like are needed. >> So, this isn't the one where we nominate someone to go. Um that is the next agenda item where this is first we're passing this saying as a board we agree with this or if there is something here that you're like
047no we disagree with this this is kind of where we say it so that whoever our representative is kind of knows excuse me I know that we looked at this and kind of gave our top five things to ADA and then ADA sent this on to the legislative committee of ASBA. There will, I'm sure just from prior experience, there will be other districts that try to introduce things on the floor of the delegate assembly or they might come and have amendments already written for this. Okay. I will move that the governing board approve the draft of the 2026 political agenda of Arizona School Board Association. Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Miss Stallard. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Okay. Okay. So, the second half of this
048is nominating um our delegates to attend the delegate assembly and county business meetings. Um and so we could just go in here and insert the name of the people. Just so everyone's aware, the delegate assembly is September 6th and the county meeting is October 2nd and then the annual business meeting is December 17th. I am more than willing to attend. I've done it many years, but if someone else would like the joy of attending, I will freely allow them to grow in their learning. I nominate Amy to attend. Is there a second? >> You bet. I'll second that. >> Okay. All in favor of uh myself being the board's delegate to the ASBA delegate assembly and to represent the views of the board. >> I >> Do we need to read the thing? Is it?
049No. Okay, >> I think we're good for that. >> Okay, >> do you need us to read it all all three parts? >> Madame President, you wish to make a motion for each one of the delegates. That's fine. I'll just capture that in a minute. >> All right. Um, I nominate myself to be the representative for the 2025 county meeting and representative of the 2025 annual business meeting. Is there a second? >> I'll second, >> Marcus. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All right, we are approved. Is there anyone who would like to be the alternate just in case I can't make one of those meetings? I've got a commitment on the sixth already. So, Okay. It doesn't look like we will have an alternate, which is fine. >> Thank you. >> I'll
050cover your glass. >> You'll cover my glass. Okay. >> All right. You don't know. Maybe I'll take you up on that. All right. Number item number 12. First reading of policy C school administration. Dr. Leit. >> Good evening, Madame President, members of the board. So, as mentioned over the past few governing board meetings, ASBA has been going through a process of revising several of their policies by either condensing or eliminating sections. And so, right now, we're on the C portion of that. And so, the first one I will read out is, and if you have any questions, just feel free to stop. Or if you if you've read through it and don't need me to read them all, feel free to say don't read them all. I'm fine with that. No. Okay, I guess we'll
051read. So, um, policy CA, the revisions to that are it's to provide clarity and AR ARS 15341 was added as a legal reference at the bottom of that one. So, just more for clarity in that document. The next one, policy CB. It's policy CB was updated to align with statutory language May versus shall in ARS 15503. Next policy is CBA and the changes to that one are just subheadings were added to the language and due to the extensive nature of the changes being made to the policy applying the usual method of markup and edits. So those were in there. So the you'll see some strikethroughs through that on that policy, but really was more of subheadings to language reorganized for clarity and also qualifications and the delegations portion and the second paragraph was moved under
052subheadings duties. Additional minor edits were included for clarity. Next policy is uh CBCA and information from policy CCB was moved to policy CBCA under H and the final sentence of the policy. Therefore, CCB was removed from the model manual. In addition, E through G were added as additional areas of delegated authority and legal references ARS 15806 and 15341 were added. School closures portions. Also, newly created regulation CBC contains language formerly in regulation CCBR. Regulation CCBR was removed from the model manual. No change was made to the original regulation language. The next item is policy CCB and regulation CCBR. Policy CCB was moved to policy CBCA under H and the final sentence of the policy. Therefore, policy CB CCB was removed from the modeled model model manual language in regulation CCBR was moved to newly created
053regulation CBC. Therefore, CCBR was removed from the model manual. No change was made to the original regulation language title change only. and policy CBI and exhibit CBIEA. For that, um to ensure clarity and ease of review, we are instead presenting the revised policy in two parts. The current policy is shown with strike through formatting to indicate its removal and a new is presented in full. We made modifications to CBIA as the that portion is the superintendence uh evaluation. There were about 30 or 40 different indicators listed in there. Some were redundant or repetitive and so those were consolidated and um reduced in order to uh have ease of flow and continuity. And I believe that was the last one. No, there's another one. Yep, there are more. Here we go. CBIA. Yep. All right. Policy
054CFD and regulation CFDR, school-based management. The statutory requirement for school councils was added to the first sentence following ARS 15351 as well as the exception for small districts. that didn't apply to us, so that was removed. Uh, subheadings were also added and language was removed for clarity and both the general policy CFD and its accompanying regulation CFDR. And next we have >> Yes. >> Do we have So I'm assuming a school council would be like a PTA. >> Yes, correct. >> Okay. >> And those are statutory by nature. So we have to make sure we comply with that. K I M CFDE. Did I skip one? Okay. CFDE school-based. Oh, I just did that one. >> Okay, here we go. Let's go to the next one. Policy CHD. The legal reference was removed from policy
055CHD as the statute does not specifically reference policy language. Next. Policy CK, the phrase curricula, physical plant, and other requirements of the district was added to policy CK to align with Arizona Revised Statute 15343. Next policy CM, school district annual report and introductory sentence subheadings and information regarding the financial annual report were added to policy CM for clarity. In addition, the section regarding guaranteed energy cost savings was removed as a district may include the required information in their annual report by utilizing the report provided by the qualified provider. And that was the last one. Any questions? >> Thank you, Dr. Leit. Okay, we're moving on to item number 13, future agenda items. I would just like to remind everyone that under Arizona open meeting law, this portion of the agenda is not is limited to
056briefly suggesting topics for future agenda. Discussion, debate, or direction to staff of matters not listed in the agenda is not permissible. We stay within these legal boundaries to ensure transparency and compliance with a Arizona statutes ARS 38431.02H. Is there any future agenda items? >> I don't know if it's an agenda item. I just had a question back in June when we had some people that came and spoke before the board. Um, do we find out like what was the result or outcome of their questions? Okay. >> Um consideration of that and we'll reach out and have >> I'm just trying to limit our discussion of the topic. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Right. Any other future agenda items? Okay. Is there a motion for adjournment? >> I motion we adjourn. >> Miss Dallard. Is there a
057second? >> I'll second. >> Mr. Seneros. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? We are adjourned at 658. Do we have plenty to sign? So don't think you