001call each [Music] like oh my God I'm surprised it one two hey hey one one two one two one two one two one two do you see the do you see the do you hear me okay you should have a little bit of delay but am I on I am on one two one two do I sound loud do I do I sound loud no what [Music] what okay how about [Music] now can you hear me okay I'm talking normal I'm talking now talking now talking now talking normal talking normal talking normal that's good all right good evening and thank you for coming tonight can I have a call to order please roll call Dr Lopez here Mr H here Mr Carlson here M mcris here Mr Willard here thank you can I have uh
002have a motion to adopt the agenda and do the pledge of allegiance of silence please I move we adopt the agenda as presented I second all those in favor I I we please stand for the [Music] flag I pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with li and justice for all thank you next item is the ceremonial oath of office to the governing board member appointed September 2023 Dr streer so tonight we get to welcome Mr David Willard to our governing board uh Mr Willard is filling a seat that was vacated uh with the unfortunate passing of Mr post a few weeks back as most people are aware when a vacancy occurs on a governing board it is
003the county superintendent's office that is then responsible for posting the vacancy and then filling that vacancy so the community of Morana went through this process uh the position was posted through the county uh there were applicants for that position our County Superintendent his Deputy superintendent and our elections coordinator were the three individuals that interviewed uh all of the candidates and made the selection to appoint uh Mr Willard to our governing board so I am honored tonight to do the swearing in of Mr Willard so if you would please raise your right hand and I state your name hi David Willard do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support for the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State
004of Arizona and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully and impartially and impar discharge the duties discharge the duties of the office of the office of the governing board from Morana Unified School District Gover board Unified School District number six number six according to the best of my abilities so help me God [Applause] ab and at this point I'll ask the rest of the governing board to join us down here for the recognitions so you guys are going to stand right here so we're going
005to roll right into Rec recognitions and celebrations tonight uh we have two uh first we would like to recognize Daniel Chandler a registered nurse for receiving her National Certified school nurse credential through the national board for certification of School nurses so Danielle will you please join [Applause] me Danielle has worked as a school nurse for the past 13 years she joined musd in 2017 as an RN facilitator and now serves as the health services coordinator prior to joining musd Danielle was the district nurse for the linat school district in Los Angeles California Danielle has a strong passion for providing exceptional healthc care services to the musd community she is a strong advocate for our students and this achievement exemplifies her commitment to her profession as a school nurse the national board for certification of School
006nurses advances the quality of school health services and school nurse practice and it demonstrates the level of commitment and passion to providing the highest quality of care to all musd students achieving the national credential reflects competence professionalism and nursing excellence and it demonstrates a high level of Education clinical practice clinical practice experience and knowledge thank you Danielle for all you do for the students of musd we are incredibly proud of this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] accomplish for second recognition tonight the association of school business officials International awarded the district the certific certificate of excellence in financial reporting asbos international certificate of excellence recognizes districts that have met the program's high standards for financial reporting and transparency the school district has earned the certificate of excellence for its annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ending
0072022 the district has participated in the program for the past 16 years at this point I would like to bring up and recognize Mr Dan canoro and Kim [Applause] Baloo the mission of the of the certificate of excellence program is to promote and recognize excellence in financial reporting asbo international chief operations officer executive director seon McMahon says that the annual comprehensive financial report informs state stakeholders about the financial and economic state of the district making it an important communication tool for building trust and engaging with the school Community by participating in the certificate of excellence program school districts demonstrate their commitment to financial transparency applicants submit their annual comprehensive financial report for review by a team of Finance professionals who provide feedback to improve future documents if if the report meets the requirements of the
008program it may receive the certificate of excellence a District's participants in the participation in the program can facilitate Bond rating and continuing Bond disclosure processes the annual comprehensive financial report is of high quality Dan canoro Chief Financial Officer and the financial services staff led by Dan and Kim Baloo are commended for their efforts in this area congratulations [Applause] yes okay once again congratulations to everybody and welcome once again to the board and we're going to move on to item e board Communications I I just have one thing um Katherine and I got to um and Dr shter got to go to the asba law conference over the last weekend um honestly I think this is the best one they've ever done so far which is um actually pretty useful we learned some new things about
009some policies that we're going to start probably bringing soon um but besides that I thought was the best one yet so I just want toare that that I think it's actually getting better it that's good okay next item is item F remarks from the public I do have some here uh first one is Raina York hun you can time it but we should H sorry I couldn't print so I have to read um good evening president presid Lopez members of the governing board Dr streer senior staff and community members my name is Raina yor I am an eighth grade science teacher at Twin Peaks K8 and the president of the Morana Education Association um the recognized representative organization of certified Educators we would like to welcome you Mr Willard um to the governing board mea
010has had a long and positive collaborative relationship with the administration and board based on on a common goal of best serving our students and creating a work environment that supports Educators to meet that objective as you must know there is a crisis in education right now um and recruiting and retaining qualified Educators in the state of Arizona our mission is to work alongside Administration and the governing board to make Morana Unified School District the very best place to work as that also means it's the very best place for students to learn as educ ERS feel supported valued respected and provided with the time and resources they need our students and Community Thrive we look forward to your contributions to this gooal as our newest board member I hope that you have the opportunity to go
011into classrooms and see the amazing work that Morana educators are doing the impact we make on not only student achievement but as caring support in their lives again welcome to the um board and mea looks forward to a positive and collaborative relationship with you thank you Raina next is Megan manal thank you I'm gonna read it off my phone I'm that's okay um thank you Dr streer president Lopez board members senior staff and Community my name is Megan manille my husband and I have five children two of whom are still enrolled in musd earlier this week our 14-year-old child was assaulted in a classroom at Mountain View High School why you might ask my child was sprayed in the eyes nose mouth and per with perfume because they are gay and they are trans and
012they are different my child was thrown on the floor and punched in the face repeatedly because they are different my child was restrained in a full nelson while clawing at the other student to release them because they are different my child's face was slammed into the floor he was kned in the body back and tailbone because they are different to further clarify I will also note that this other student also previously threatened my child and commented on how easy it would be to kill my child and it's barely been six weeks of school yet in recent years homophobia has infiltrated our district after the incident my child received messages indicating that they deserved the attack most referencing my child's gender and sexuality some messages supported and cheered the other student on and in the video
013of the attack because yes there is a video students are standing by and laughing laughing I would like to take a moment here to thank the few students who did stand up for my child and provided information to the investigators and to the teachers and friends who have come here this evening to support my child they truly love and appreciate all of you but I'm here tonight to ask the board and specifically you Mr Willard that what you will do to improve the safety of our lgbtq students here in the Mirana District all students deserve it safe and supportive educational environment I appreciate the time to address you all tonight and I look forward to hearing from you at future board meetings with measurable and actionable steps that you will take to increase the safety
014of our lgbtq students thank you very much okay thank you um Dr streer will be following up with you and he will keep the board updated so thank you next we have Jonathan THL Thal thank you everybody this is my first time at something like this can you hear me okay I'm a little tall sorry guys uh this is my first time at something like this and I just got to say I don't think I've ever been moved as much as I have been the past few days with some news that I got um it is in relation uh to obviously the incident that we just heard about and I wanted to start off my segment today just by sharing a little story I actually graduated from Morana School District here in 2013 um product
015of the environment I stand before here today uh before I had the opportunity to graduate through this school system I actually came from Connecticut and I attended a high school and I distinctively remembering one year one week there were 13 altercations physically in one week that following weekend we all came in Monday to a new president a new superintendent many new board members and also new new Staffing in the environment itself there was one fight the rest of the school year my point of bringing that up in front of you guys today is like uh my peer just mentioned behind me there are actionables and things that we can take to take a stand for the safety of our individuals and our youth the problem that I have with everything that's going on in the
016world today is it seems that we're taking more measures to take care of natural disasters and like school shootings but we're not we're not taking care of the day-to-day SA of the kids that come here every single day from each other that's completely terrible I think the real issue here today guys is an accountability issue and unfortunately I can't go door too and ask every parent to hold their child accountable to a standard and teach them to be a good human being okay we can't do that so I'm standing here before you guys today begging and asking that you guys do your due diligence to be good human beings and you make the difference that we entrust you and we send our kids to your schools every single day thank you guys for your time
017thank [Applause] you Miss hearnen thank you for your time Dr streer president Lopez board members senior staff and Community um my name is Anna Sunshine hearen most people just call me sunny um that's I almost called you Sunny like Sun come on I answer to that usually I only get mishar in if I'm mad about something um but I actually here because a few weeks ago I got to attend blastoff which I don't know if if you all know what blastoff is but blastoff is a Saturday where um fifth grade students mostly I think a few sixth grade students were in there take over Miranda High School um volunteers from the high school come and then all of the music teachers from all around the district and they do is they teach for in the
018morning it was Orchestra over 118 Orchestra students in the afternoon it was band 140 band students and they teach these kids how to put their instrument together how to play something and I sat there in the band and it was for the band um uh concert at the end where each individual uh instrument got to come up and show off what they learned and this is my third time because this is my youngest daughter is is in third grade the other two are adults now and um I sat there listening to many many Renditions of hot cross buns and I thought about a lot of things and one of the big things I thought about is that Morana is special because we have music in our schools from kindergarten and I don't know of another
019school district in southern arizota that does for all their students in every school and I was thinking how sad it was is that we lost Dan Post because I think we most of us know that Dan Post was the champion of our music department in um MD so I wanted to make sure that all of you particularly you because you're new um know about our awesome amazing music department in Mirana and what how special it is and how many kids that is from all around the district I mean it's over 200 kids fifth grade kids got to do music their own in instrument um and the volunteer it was mostly Mirana high school kids that I saw that were volun high school students volunteering to teach these kids they were like rock stars to the
020little kids and when I was thinking about it I was thinking about how for some kids banned or orchestra it's the only reason they want to go to school it's the thing that they love most about school and I'm watching as the um crisis in in reading and uh literacy crisis kind of edges out all of those extras the music and the art and even science and social studies a little bit and there's less and less time for teachers to do those things and I want you all to be careful that we don't Edge out the things that make kids want to come to school because Mirana school district is special there are definitely some things that are wrong with it but I'm always trying to come up with Solutions and so I just wanted
021to remind you all about our awesome programs that make kids like to come to school thank you thank you okay thank you the next item is item G superintendent comments president Lopez governing board members members of our audience uh just wanted to once again welcome our families to the 2023 2024 school year uh it's been an incredibly busy start to Theo school year uh I'm extremely proud of the work that our students our staff and our parents uh have put forth uh we're off to to a great start a lot of good things happening around the district I do want to Echo uh some of the comments that uh Mr Hol made regarding the asba law conference uh this is always one of uh asb's better events I think that we would we would all
022agree on that uh it's a large Gathering of Schoolboard members District leaders and attorneys specializing in School law from across the State of Arizona and the focus of this conference is really on how to best serve our communities and gain a general understanding of the most current legal issues uh that are facing education I also uh want to uh thank Tammy flowers who allowed me to uh join her on her bus route a couple weeks back I had some great conversations with several of our Picture Rocks uh students uh I continue to be incredibly grate f for the relationships that our bus drivers build and maintain uh for our students every day they really make just a profound impact on our district I I think it's it's one more thing and I'll I'll Echo what
023Mrs hearnen said we have a lot of great things in the district music being a great example of that I think our transportation department is is also one of those I think everybody would agree with that just uh a lot of times these are the folks that uh for our kids might be the first adult they see in the morning might be the last adult they see in the evening these are the adults that get our kids to those extracurricular and co-curricular activities around the State of Arizona so just huge shout out to Tammy and her team in transportation and that concludes my report okay thank you drer we'll move to item H consent agenda can I have a motion I'd like to pull H6 the dance team from the cassen agenda please okay um
024want me to make a motion or do you want to make a motion on that I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda minus the H6 dance team I'll second that for discussion okay anybody want to add anything to [Music] it no we we V yeah and then we'll move new business all right all those in favor I I approved now unfished business I I won no don't we back so1 consent approve now you're now you need to address the poll okay the item that I pulled is because the dates are incorrect on the request they should be the 1st through the 7th so I'll make a motion that we approve the request with the change of dates of travel from the first through the seven can I have a second yeah before
025and then before we vote can we just verify yeah yeah I'm I'll second so we can ask yeah yeah um I'll second that and then can we verify this please sorry good evening Dr Sher members of the governing board and community members um yes the dates are supposed to be the 1st through the 7th that is correct okay does anybody have any questions no that was I just wanted the correction okay all those in favor I I thank you next item is item I that's unfinished business there is none so we'll move to item J maintenance and operation override and general obligation Bond update Mr canoro thank you um ar ar 15481 um section A Y and ARS 15491 dok um places an annual requirement for an update to be provided to the governing board
026for both the maintenance and operation override and bond projects and it has to happen sometime between September and October oh and the presentation system went down so you have the presentation in front of you um so I'll first tackle the maintenance and operation override in November of 2020 voters approved a 10 10% maintenance and oper o maintenance and operation override the purpose of that um mainly that what we're using it for is to fund full day kindergarten and then um the retention and recruitment of Staff um the duration of that was from 22 to 26 from 22 to 26 um at the full 10% um and then it begins to phase out in fiscal year 27 um over the next those next three years um So that obviously in that time period 2526 we better
027um start thinking about running uh reauthorization of that the amount in 23 is one of the requirements I need to state that was 9137 Million um and this year it's budgeted to be 9.53 S um this year and moving on to the bond elections um we we I we've had two election proceeds um funds that were still um open um as of the last report this year I'm happy to announce that the the November 2015 bond that was for $125 million is 100 receip we've sold those Pro and got those proceeds and we've expended those proceeds um proceeds in full um so moving on to the recently passed a November of 2022 a 90 billion project or Bond project where the the status of that is um it we're really in the infancy we did
028not receive we received $35 million of the proceeds in like April I believe it was um we're anticipating a second sale of $35 million in April of 24 um and we're really like I said it's really just getting started the um Lion Share of these first um dollars that we received as we announced when we sold was was that new um K8 and gladen Farms the the um second um school facility there um we've have as you can see in the in the in the table we have done some campus improvements and Renovations um we did to we have taken the opportunity to do some of our security upgrades um that came in the form of we've most of that was um enhancing or or replacing our um intercom system at I believe four schools
029now maybe it's been three or four schools um and then you can see that we've encumbered and started to receive some of the buses that we that we've allotted out of that 35 million um I left I did have a slide with with all the categories um that are that we shall see as we proceed through these um Bond proceeds I wanted to point out an interesting um just kind of a Outlook of the tax rate and and show you that when we went to the um when you go to the voters you have to anticipate that first year and and kind of anticipate going forward the um secondary tax rate um implied and we we advertised it would be a140 and we actually did hit that market was a140 what we did say at
030that time was that we don't feel we couldn't legally say this but um we did not feel that it would be that big of an impact because we all Al thought that our override portion would go down and then our in in some of our um um primary tax rate would go down so you can see from this slide that actually we did not have that much of an increase in total tax rate um however that $140 did come we were able to we did have to set it up at a140 which was a 36 Cent increase from the previous year for the bonds um just to update you where we're going from here um we have scheduled our second Bond uh oversight committee meeting we had an initial meeting on March 15th of 2023
031um I believe there was about 10 to 15 people attended that um we advertised at our second meeting which is going to be on September 20th of 24 and at that meeting we're going to discuss the status of the projects that the that our community voted for um listen to feedback on upcoming projects and then also I wanted to share this tax rate implication because I think that's important so at this point um that concludes my presentation on the bond and override there is this is just a information item there is no action that needs to be taken okay I just wanted to touch on it because you guys didn't have the option to see the slides so that voter pamphlet that he was talking about included the campus improvements and renovation for existing sites
032new school and facility construction like he mentioned the technology and security upgrades and enhancement student transportation Vehicles so that was what was on the voter pamphlet that Dan was discussing cor so so I have a question yes so the um the upgrades at Thornydale did they did that come out of the 125 or did that come out of the 3.3 that we've Kim and I worked on on on um that we really wanted to clean up that 125 million and get it kind of behind us so I believe most of it came out of the 125 um I think there might have been a little bit that was out of this campus Improvement but most of it out of the 125 all right okay cool thank you all right any other questions next item is
033item two J2 discussion approval of financial services and Facilities recognization Mr yeah thank you um there's times when when we have some vacant positions in in departments and and we look for maybe ways to improve the Staffing and and see if we're better served so um by by re-evaluating how we're Staffing our department so we in in finance had we were staffed with three accounts payable clerks um what we found through the through these years was that we've changed our processes um so much that that our staff was actually getting done really early and we were and we were trying to find things for them to do one of our staff people um um ended up taking a position with 911 which was very really excited for her however it gave us that opportunity to
034look at what we were if if we could get away with just two so um we we've decided that yes two would be um a more appropriate Staffing level for for for um our accounts payable staff and accounts payable staff for those that don't know process the vouchers and all payments for vendors in our in our district um so we compared local school districts and what we did find out was is that a lot of times accounts payable clerk which was the position we had they had moved that on to like it was most of them were calling them accounts payable specialist so in in order to compensate um the those two individuals for taking up really the work of three um we we brought the the we're proposing bringing the rate up to what
035most of our surrounding school districts are paying the accounts payable Specialists um so that we really were going to save $3 31,1 166 by just doing that with um then we we had an opening come up with um in facilities so Eddie Romero and myself work together in in kind of talked about and I I don't um I can mention the name right now our en I'll just say the position Energy savings coordinator position um she decided after 10 years to move on to um closer to where she grew up and family um but that left us with a huge hole um in the facilities department so Eddie and I talked about the fact that we had an energy savings coordinator position that was sometimes um I think was couple hours a night you're spending
036Eddie um scheduling HVAC systems for after school programs um weekend events and and all those little things where a room rooms being needed um and so we were like wouldn't it be better just to have like a clerk type position that would keep track of energy um save energy savings keeping that in the Forefront but also being that Hands-On person that's in works with the facility use um for out outside use in our own use and scheduling AC for them that would that position um and then what the other half of what Jenny Downey was doing was working tremendously with um seeking funds from the Arizona school facilities board or whatever they're called right now um even they don't know so they're I'm not making fun of them um and um so we talked about
037that that's that's something that Jenny was doing and would be a huge help for the facilities department and in essence the whole District um because there are tons of projects that we can seek um to be paid for and compensated through the school facilities board we're currently in the middle of um of what $10 million $10 million weatherization project at Mountain View um that would do Roofing um I heard today floor drying out floor um and also painting and then working on the I call it curbing but whatever the top of bricks whatever that whatever that is um and then we're also looking at um it was what was the second $4 million was at wastewater treatment plant at Mirana High School which which we're in the middle of we'll we'll we'll be able to
038handle that and and kind of go forward but having a position that would literally that's their sole purpose is to seek those funds and I mean we're confident that by having a person solely set dedicated to those type of activities it will more than reap its own salary in in in in reward um I I was shocked and this wasn't magic the numbers were I put the numbers down of what what these with the um AP clerks going to AP specialist and getting a little bit of a bump and raise the clerk um new clerk position and facilities for energy and then the this new um we're calling them an um a project facilities project manager when I combined all those numbers it's a $240 savings to the school district and I think we're way
039better staffed to meet the needs of of our school district so um that's my presentation and I I have I will if this is approved we will post positions and work with a and I have worked with HR to set these appropriately in the structure of you know how much people make in our school district thank you Dan can I have a motion I move that the governing board approve the positions of accounting and payable specialist energy and Facilities Clerk and Facilities um project manager he second is there any questions I have a couple so the the two projects you mentioned the uh Mountain View winterization and the Wastewater Plant um so that's 14 million is that coming out of um District funds or is that school facility board straight out of student school facilities
040board I think Mar and and I'm not first I'm but um ranah High we will have to find some additional funds because not all they're going to say the water treat or the wastewater treatment plant serves the whole district and we have some what they call excluded spaces um that we added for instance some of those Square footages so I think that's 75% 25 yeah well okay okay and then um okay that's it thank you I just have a quick question um on our document it has a payable rate for the energy facility's clerk at1 1836 an hour um what what is the rate going to be going um for the account payable um specialist account payable specialist it's going to 1915 from 1759 thank you that's what I wanted thank you um and then
041is there a manager salary in here that's proposed I just don't see one I did not I did not include it in the memo but I can tell you it yeah I just was curious where it will be posted um we placed it we looked at the structure currently in in facilities and placed it between the two existing supervisors and it um oh right there um 62,6 181 perfect um yep that's all I have all right all those in favor I I thank you Dan next item is item j3 Dr streer president Lopez governing board members members of the audience in 2012 the Morana school's 2340 Foundation an Arizona nonprofit tax exempt Corporation was formed to provide additional resources and supplement education and enrichment programs to the students and staff of the mirand Unified School
042District the 2340 Foundation board of directors is comprised of one class one director that's the MD superintendent three to five class two directors who are appointed by the governing board of musd and three to five class three directors who are elected by the class one and class two directors of the corporation there'll be a test on that at the end of this I take the bylaws of the 2340 Foundation state that not less than two class two directors shall be a member of the governing board of musd Mr Tom Carlson is currently serving as a class two director with the passing of Mr damp po post the additional position must be filled by a current member of the musd governing board it is therefore my recommendation that Dr Marbel Lopez be appointed to the 2340
043Foundation board of directors at this time we're also requesting just the the reappointments of each of the other directors in that class one class two range and those are listed in your uh packet as well can I have a motion I move at the governing board appoint Dr maroy Lopez musd governing board a member as a Class 2 director to the Mir Morana schools 2340 Foundation board of directors to fill the 2324 unexpired term of Mr Dan Post I furthermore I further move that the that Dr Jan Truitt Dan canoro and Brenda Drury be reappointed for a term of three years I have a second I second is there any questions I have a question do I need to to be in that list or am I you're in the midd term okay gotcha okay
044all those in favor I thank you uh next item is item K is there any board member requests for future agenda items seeing there is none we'll move to item L item L is for future meetings our next meeting will be held October 5th um that is our regular board meeting can I have a motion to adjourn I move the governing board adjourn I second all those in favor I thank you for coming nous where's my