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MUSD Regular Board Meeting - September 1, 2022

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Source
YouTube / Marana Unified School District
Date
2022-09-02
Location
Pima County, AZ
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,844 words · about 11 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

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001they still use it foreign all right we can go live we're ready go ahead okay good evening welcome audience and students tonight met a new little student tonight so um can I have a call to the order and roll call please Dr Lopez here Mr Lewandowski you're Mr Carlson here Mr Hall here Mr poster move we adopt the agenda as presented second all those in favor can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in a moment of silence of America thank you thank you item D is recognitions we don't have any tonight so we will move to item e board uh Communications does anybody have anything to share open up okay we'll move to remarks from the public first one I have is Mia parch Kendall Olson and Jaden avenetti is it always this

002quiet in here I'm sorry a little bit okay so good evening everyone my name is Mia parch I'm the student body president at Marana High School before we talk about how the spirit conference went and how amazing it was I'm going to let the other student body officers introduce themselves hi I'm Kendall the student body vice president and I'm Jaden the student body treasurer I'm sorry I'm reading off something for those of you that don't know our school hosted this year's aasc Southern Arizona Spirit conference and not to brag it went pretty awesome we had an additional 850 people in our gym last Thursday August 25th to start off we wanted to thank all the clubs at Marana High School that made this even possible thank you to coach Alyssa at Marana and Miranda cheerleaders

003thank you to coach Maya and the Miranda dance team thank you Miss Evans and Company dance thank you Mr atteberry and Miranda band Mrs brandrif and the Honor Choir they all performed and shown how great Miranda is thank you to Mrs knickenbrocker and Miranda sewing and fiber and arts Club for helping with our shirts and finally Mr Fisher and Welding Pro Charlotte Montague for making our Awards everyone liked them our maintenance stuff was amazing in moving everything around to help us host all those people and wonderful nurse Miss Cassidy who came over to help a visiting student who would also love to thank our Administration thank you Mr Villanueva for helping us plan this event even before the school year began also thank you Mr goligowski for all of your efforts while you were still

004our principal and even after moving to District you still helped us perfect the conference by speaking and representing our district foreign for coming this year and hitting the ground running as you moved back to our school and for your beautiful speech and spirit you brought to the conference and thank you Miss Reedy for speaking of speaking during the spirit conference it was amazing to have a former student body president in the house we truly appreciate everyone who made this possible there was one more important name that we didn't mention yet Senora Ewing our student council advisor thank you so much Senor Ewing for making this event possible without you nothing none of this could have happened and thank you to Senor Ewing for always picking us up food while we prepare for Spirit conference we

005really couldn't have done it without food I mean you I mean you I'm sorry to end off we truly appreciate everyone that made this year Southern Arizona Spirit conference beautiful thank you for your time thank you [Applause] Lux is Megan Brown good evening governing board senior staff audience members my name is Megan I am here as the vice president of the teachers union Miss Reina York couldn't be with us tonight um we wanted to update you on the PBP and that's on the agenda tonight um out of last negotiation cycle members brought forward that we wanted to look at the current PBP plan and so members and PPP leaders met with senior staff over the summer and we revised this plan together we're really excited for you to see it we hope that you adopt

006it we are most excited that it's honoring the work that teachers already do and not creating further loopholes and and goals to achieve rather than streamlining it together so we're excited about that and we also wanted to invite you to tomorrow night's event at Mountain View High School we're hosting the battle of the boot um 491 literature slam if you will so um Dr Streeter is coming to present at the lecture hall at 4 30 and he's going to explain 491 in depth um answer any questions you may have and then after that we're going to go out into the parking lot and share Palm cards with voters as they come in so it would be awesome to see you and we will provide dinner we the pack will provide dinner I am not cooking

007and um we'd be really excited to have you so I appreciate you and your support thank you thank you next item is item G superintendent comments yes Madam president governing board members members of our audience uh it's been a great start to the school year uh since our last meeting uh I have had the opportunity to complete all of my fall campus and Department updates that's visiting each uh campus each of our departments provide an update to the district on enrollment which is strong and continues to grow in in musd so it'll provide some budget highlights including some of the additional dollars that we saw in this last state budget session we're hopeful that the state legislature will continue to fund that as promised uh also talk about some of the legislative changes that will

008be impacting our classrooms give an update to our staff on proposition 491 what that is what those projects would cover gave an update to our staff on our school safety uh both our past work and the work that's taking place over the summer as well as our future plans and then spend a lot of time educating staff on the aggregate expenditure it which will be the number one issue that this district will face and as a reminder for folks the Arizona Constitution establishes the aggregate expenditure limit which limits spending for school districts Statewide and this limit is based on fiscal year 1980 spending levels plus 10 percent there is an adjustment for inflation and enrollment why this is going to be an issue is last year school districts went over the aggregate constitutional limit that

009was set in 1980 by about 1.2 billion dollars across the state and there's two main reasons that you're you're seeing us go over this limit one is we're starting to see the restoration of budget cuts from prior year so we have more dollars coming into the system and the second item has to do with proposition 301 which is the sales tax initiative previously that Revenue was Exempted from the aggregate expenditure limit but starting in fiscal year 22 when the state legislature reauthorized prop 301 that revenue is no longer Exempted from the aggregate expenditure limit so that now is pushing us over that that piece so we are hopeful that we will get uh some relief from the state legislature uh and and hopefully the state will allow us to spend the funds that have already

010been provided to the district so I'm sure I'll be keeping everybody updated as we go through the school year on this and the one last thing that I want to give a special shout out to our transportation department and specifically to Patricia cecina who allowed me to join her on her morning bus run back on August 26th we started out in avra Valley uh picked up many of our Roadrunner students and I was able to enjoy the ride into school with some of our best and brightest that we have so thank you to Patricia thank you to transportation and thank you to Roadrunner for allowing me to then spend the morning on the campus and this concludes my report are you the one that drove her into the ditch I do not drive the buses

011okay thank you next item is H consent agenda can I have a motion can I move the governing board to prove the consent agenda as presented second on the consent agenda I always like to give a shout out to people who donate funds to our school to our kids includes backpacks anything that is in need a Sarco donated twelve hundred dollars blue finch Bakery was a check for a thousand David and Connie Corbett trust check for 700 and Susan Holland a check for 500 so that's always appreciated okay all those in favor aye next item is eye and finished business there is none so we're going to move to item J you business Dr dumler yes thank you president Lopez vice president Lewandowski Dr Streeter board members and members of the audience as Megan mentioned

012this is the um the discussion and approval hopeful approval of the performance-based pay plan that was substantially revised over the summer through a committee that we formed in the spring with musd and mea leadership um the changes to the plan were informed by recent legislative changes as well as current research and best practices in school and District Improvement and research shows that substantial School Improvement requires a coordinated systemic and Collective effort rather than a series of individual events as you know our previous plan individual grade levels or departments set goals based on their own data but that resulted in many separate individual goals not necessarily all aligned towards the same purpose so this year's plan emphasizes the role of all teachers in musd engaging in professional learning and collaboration aligned with our three District areas

013of focus School climate and culture professional learning community recalibration and literacy practices in addition to the professional learning component there are also components for classroom level student achievement which is measured through the teacher evaluation system and also for school level student achievement as measured by the school letter grade ars-15977 requires that at least 70 percent of eligible teachers vote to approve the plan the plan was presented to our teachers via a screencastify that Ms York and I worked on together we then sent out the vote to approve or not approve to date 70-3 73 percent of our teachers have voted to approve three percent not to approve and the remaining teachers have not voted after maybe six reminders so it's attached for your review I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have okay

014I'm over the governing board approved the 2022-2023 performance-based pay plan as presented second is there any questions how about some comments So for anybody who's paid attention for 11 years this has been a p under my mattress and it's good now I mean the new one is good this is what should have been there 11 years ago when I got on the board that we could have you know moved ahead from from there over or from this over 11 years so you know I want to thank the committee thank Dr Streeter for for supporting the the revision to this revision isn't even the right word this thing has been re-engineered okay it Bears no resemblance to to what everybody struggled with for all these years and and um yeah I look forward to uh for

015many years to come for you know evaluating and approving the the performance-based pay based on the things in this plan so you know thank you to the committee thank you to the administration thanks for the teachers for you know supporting this and voting for it and and recognizing that that you know change needed to be made so this is awesome thank you I have a quick question Who is the PBB um appeals committee so if you look at the way that the appeals committee is established it's on the second to the last page so it's going to depend on where the appeals come from so if you look at it it will be an oversight committee it will consist of one District administrator to School site administrators and three teachers and the reason that it

016changes is that none of the people on the committee would be from the same school as the teacher who sends in the appeal so if there was a time that an appeals committee had to be formed then we would work with mea leadership to form that committee at that time thank you you're welcome I just want and absolutely what Tom said it's about time since it's been going on for years it is definitely solid so I hope that um we'll see some something at the end so it'll be good thank you you're welcome okay all those in favor aye next item is J2 and okay I would move the governing board removed agenda item discussion approval of superintendents 2022-2023 performance goals from the table aye aye um well that's I move the governing board approve

017the agreed upon performance goals for the 2022-2023 fiscal year school year second all those in favor aye next item is item K board member request for future agenda items do we have any no next one is future meetings and I don't think I have this on here on our next meeting is oh here it is our next regular meeting is October 6th and November 10th and December 8th we do have our other meetings that we do over at the technology every other week so that one starts earlier that's 5 PM so other than that item M the German second all those in favor all right thank you

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