RRPS - School Board Meeting - March 9, 2026

0019 8 >> Good evening. The Reanch Public Schools Board of Education meeting for Monday, March 9th, 2026 is now called to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Board member Rebecca Murray will lead us to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> JC, will you take a roll call for us, please? >> President Galbre, >> present. >> Vice President Müller, >> present. >> Secretary Miller. >> Board member Murray, >> present. >> Board member Barry, >> present. >> You have a quorum. >> Thank you. Um, okay. Thank you so much, Jaci. We want to welcome everyone here. I know we have a couple of wrestling teams here, which are really excited to see. Um, I

002can see some great people from the community here as well. Um, also on our meeting tonight, we want to give a warm welcome to Dr. Dodd, who will soon, you can stand, you can say hi if you want to Dr. Don if you want to. He'll be in just a couple weeks. He'll be up here with us. And we are really grateful that he's here with us this evening. Um, we'd like to excuse um Dr. Elizabeth Miller. Um, as we get into the meeting, we'll talk more about that, but um, due to some health concerns, she um, needed to resign and she wishes she could be here with us. Um, but as we get through the agenda, we'll we'll have more on that. Um, and so we'll go ahead and start our evening tonight with

003some introductory comments by our superintendent of schools, Dr. Visu Cleveland. >> Okay. Good evening. I changed my glasses way. So here it is. So um okay, thank you all for being here and uh we we are delighted you were with us this evening. We had uh prior to this meeting we had a a board workshop and the topic of that workshop was integrated arts elementary schools and uh the presentation was given by Dr. Kurt Schmidt, our executive director of fine arts, and Jana Chenald, our elementary school improvement officer, as well as the principles and some of the staff at both San Diego Vista and uh Enchanted Hills Elementary. And the purpose was to help the board uh understand what integrated arts uh curriculum program looks like, what it is, and what it's not. And uh

004we were really uh very uh very pleased to have some students uh with us and a good number of parents earlier as the schools move next year into implementation. Uh this workshop provided information about um the program uh some of the professional development that's been done with staff and some of our partnerships and those partnerships are not new. We have a long-standing partnership with the National Dance Institute uh the Santa Fe Opera and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and uh we have had a tremendous amount of of of successes with the program but obviously there have been some challenges as you move into something that is new and then it talked a little bit about what future training would look like and what are some of the additional resources that will be needed as

005we move into full implementation. uh an intricral part of the program is uh acting right and it's a behavioral program that was developed by Shaun Lane and uh we we really continue to be excited about the potential of this program uh based on some of the data that we have received from a a similar Denver area school that we have visited and had an opportunity not only to talk with um staff there but also with uh parents and with uh students and members of their community. And here's just some uh photos of some of the of things that are being done in the program. It is not as stressed, it is not a curriculum. It is a way of delivering that curriculum. little bit different format uh with more uh activity, more student movement, um

006more opportunities for students to talk and participate and an emphasis on controlling um your behavior to enhance student learning. Uh next week is an important week for the district and across the state. Uh the New Mexico Association of School Business Officials and the public education department co-sponsored the spring budget workshop and it will take place next week 8 March 18th through the 20th. Uh this meeting will provide detailed information about the the two 2026 2027 operational budget. That's when we f get information about the unit value uh and uh um what that will look like for the state equalization guarantee for each school district in New Mexico. And we'll be having several of our staff members attend uh in order to cover all of the required sessions. And there are a lot of sessions. Some

007of them are very highly specialized. For example, there's generally a session uh on federal programs and federal funding. Uh there are programs on how if you're your first time to do a budget, uh what are the things you should look at? There's just a wide variety of of opportunities for professional learning. All right, we have some commendations this evening. The uh presentation will be made by Todd Rash, our executive director of athletics. Our Cleveland Storm has recently brought home two new state championships. The first is the CHS girls wrestling team coached by Mario Barago and the second is the CHS boys wrestling team coached by Evan Copelan. uh wrestling um for those of you who are interested in the sport and perhaps know uh students uh friends, family that participate, wrestling is extremely competitive sport

008in the state of New Mexico and uh to bring home two state championships is really um an incredible feat and so we congratulate both of the teams and uh they will be here this evening uh during commendations a little bit later. And there's pictures of the two of the two championship teams. And then we have some reports this evening. One of the reports is on Independence High School. Uh Renee Saledo, our secondary school improvement officer, will introduce the presentation. And then Jessica Sanchez, the principal of independence, will share some very timely and vital information with the board regarding independence. Uh some of the topics that will be presented this evening include the uniqueness of the school and it is a very special school and it serves a very special mission in our district. Uh school

009designations and why they are particularly challenging for every alternative school in New Mexico uh including independence. Some of the strategic efforts that are currently underway at the school site and then some of their successes and some of their results. We have uh you know a uh we'll talk a little bit about this evening uh Rio Rancho Public Schools advanced placement program and I've said on more than one occasion if you want a strong district you you really absolutely must have a a strong advanced placement program and we do have a good program like almost everybody we um struggled a little bit with advanced placement through the pandemic and then trying to get back um uh up and going again. Uh took some extra effort and initiative. They'll share some of the information about uh our

010advanced placement program, including some new opportunities for students next year. Uh the presenters for the uh presentation this evening will be Dr. Stephanie uh Belmore, our executive director for secondary CNI, Amanda Bader, uh district coordinator uh for uh advanced placement for the district, Betty Shepman, who coordinates those efforts at Rio Rancho High School, Stacy Selenus, a site coordinator for uh Cleveland, and uh and Julie Arnold who functions in that role as well as of course being the principal of the Rio Rancho Cyber uh Academy. and it will include an overview of our program including the courses that we are currently offering as advanced placement courses and they'll share with you three new uh courses and uh then we'll also share a little bit with you about some of the training opportunities and some of the

011things that staff have uh who sign up to teach teach advanced placement courses. As I said, during the pandemic, we did have some challenges and uh but we've had a lot of progress since 2021. And they will also share information about AP research uh on student success as well as the uh Rio Rancho public school honor role results for 2025 for AP, not to be confused with our honor role. We'll have an update on facilities. Patrick Martinez, our executive director of facilities will provide an update and uh his presentation will address the overview of their department uh project management uh the tremolo unity uh construct uh current projects and then uh they will talk with the board about he will talk with the board about some of the bond projects at Riot uh Independence uh

012Cleveland uh Rio Rancho High School and Lincoln Middle School. And then we have an invitation u to bid uh for the board to consider this evening. Uh Chris Tweet, a director of purchasing and our chief procurement officer for the district will be presenting um for the board's consideration an award of an invitation to bid on number 20 2614 for facilities for concrete and for u CMU block wall. This is a constructor contractor on demand. Um and so uh there were five responsive biders and the evaluation committee recommended an award to multiple contractors and based on several factors and uh Mr. tweet will we'll share that information with you and uh I've already had you know one call about uh some questions and I think you'll be able to answer those for you this evening and

013thank you for letting us know when you have questions and something you really want to know like to have by the board meeting if you'll get that to us we'll try very hard to incorporate it into the presentation we have um that that evening and then the last uh is our board position vacancy uh we have received a resignation letter from uh board member Dr. Beth Miller uh for health reasons and uh we really want to thank her for her service to the board and and wish her a a very strong recovery. Uh Dr. Miller has been um working unofficially with the district for many years and came onto the board a few years ago. She's been such an asset to the board uh bringing her experiences in higher education and her work on enhancing

014student literacy in the community. Uh she was very involved for many years in Rotary and several of the um literacy initiatives. She was an intricral part of those and has worked in some other organizations in the community to promote uh student literacy. Uh she was the one who opened the UNM campus in Rio Rancho. uh and then previously she held the uh the same posession position of executive director at UNM gallant. Uh we will miss her thoughtful collaboration with others and her insightful questions on agenda items. We'll just miss her personally and uh wish her well. Uh, President Gworth will lead the discussion on the process to be followed um for selecting a new board member and uh this process must adhere to uh some of the state guidelines that are in place for replacing

015u an indiv individual and there's a a board vacancy. Are there any questions, comments or concerns that you'd like to raise >> on the board? >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you Dr. Cleveland. appreciate it. Um, if you're wondering, we're all staring up at our screen up here, too. Our screens on our table aren't working. So, if you see us looking up, we're not just looking at the ceiling. So, um, thank you. Um, we'll go now to approve the prioritized agenda and proposed time allocations. >> Board member Barry, approve prioritized agenda and proposed time allocations. >> Board member Muller, second the motion. >> Got a motion, a second. All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. All right, we'll start with our commendations for tonight. We'd like to um invite

016Todd Rush to come on up to the podium and whoever he wants to have come up with him. Um and we're going to talk about our two wonderful Cleveland High School uh wrestling teams, both both the girls and the boys team and their state championship. So, we already have a scooter. It's a good thing that it's over. I hope that didn't come. >> Okay. On Well, good evening, President Gworth, Superintendent Cleveland, and members of the board. Tonight, we recognize two very special teams. It is my honor to recognize and congratulate the Cleveland High School boys and girls wrestling programs for their outstanding achievements at last month's NMAA state wrestling tournament where both teams captured the state championship. The Cleveland High School girls wrestling team under the leadership of head coach Macario Borego delivered a historic

017performance at the state tournament. The team set new records for the most finalists and the most individual state champions while also surpassing the program's previous state tournament scoring record by 21 points. This achievement reflects the hard work, determination, and commitment of the student athletes and coaching staff while continuing to raise the standard for girls wrestling across New Mexico. The Cleveland High School boys wrestling team, led by head coach Evan Copeland, also reached a remarkable milestone in securing the 5A state championship. The team set a 5A state record with 14 wrestlers, placing in the top four along with a record 11 finalists. An accumulated extraordinary state tournament record of 317 team points. Their performance showcased exceptional depth, skill, and teamwork throughout the competition. These accomplishments are a testament to the dedication of the student athletes, coaches,

018families, and the entire Cleveland High School community. Tonight, we proudly commend and congratulate the Cleveland High School boys and girls wrestling teams and their coaches for representing their school and the Rio Rancho Public Schools community with pride, perseverance, and excellence through these historic championship performances. What I'd like to do now is introduce both head coaches, the girls head coach, Mr. Macario Borego, and the boys head coach, Mr. Evan Copeland. >> Good evening. Uh, yeah, we've, uh, it's been great to have the opportunity to come back here and stand in front of, uh, the board for the last three years. Um, again, just as always want to say thank you to to Mr. Res. Ever since he stepped into the athletic director position for the district, uh, we've seen a a huge increase in support and,

019uh, just by by him, uh, Matt Martinez and our administration there at Cleveland High School, they've shown us a lot of support and, um, with that, we've been able to do some pretty great things throughout the season. We have the opportunity to travel and, um, provide a lot of opportunities to these student athletes. So, um, very grateful for the opportunity to work here and we look forward to, uh, more success in the future. So, thank you. >> Yeah, good evening. Um, thank you to the school board for uh, everything that they provided us, all of our administrators, Mr. Rash, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Aentranger. You know, we couldn't be in a better system for for support. You know, Cleveland wrestling is well known not only throughout the state, but uh we have the opportunity to travel

020and you we go all over the country and Cleveland wrestling has a very strong name uh no matter where we go. So people always ask, you know, you're from Ohio and we say, "No, we're we're from Rio Rancho, New Mexico." So we're very proud to um to represent Cleveland High School and Reancho public schools uh wherever we go. So thank you again. We're very proud of these young men and these young ladies and uh we'll continue to work hard and uh hopefully make everybody proud. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. You guys make us so proud. We're going to clap for you again and then we'll clap again. >> All right. I'm gonna You guys don't have to do this, but for sake of time, I can't have all of you talk, but

021maybe there's one girl and maybe there's one boy who might have words that they might want to say about a little bit about your guys' experience. But I mean, you weren't told this in advance. So, if all of you were like, "No way. We do not want to talk." All right. How about I'm going to start with the girls. Any one girl that wants to wants to say anything, you don't have to. >> There we go. >> I know. We just love to hear a little bit about your experience. Or you can just speak on behalf of the team. And you can even say something about your coaches, you know, if Yeah, if you want to. >> Well, I am a senior um and I've been wrestling for this program for five years since my

022eighth grade year. And I do love the coach so much. I love Mac. He's a good coach. Um, and I love that we get to travel cuz it gives us really like good opportunities and it makes us better by wrestling better people out of state. And um, the program's just great. I love it. We have great people, great coaches, and they just make us um, better people. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right, boys. I could see all your faces are like, I should have let the boys go first, huh? Go ahead. My name is Jonathan Schmidt. I'm a senior and I've been with this program for four years, not including back in 2017. And I feel personally this is a really hardworking and dedicated team. I feel even through the thicks and thins,

023they always come back. They always come back into the room and they always train hard. And I like to say thank you to the coaches because to be honest, I couldn't have done anything without the coaches. There will be no program without them. And I've known Coach Copeland for forever and he's been a real big influence in my life and I feel like I'm gonna be a better person in the future because of him. Just thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you guys for sharing that. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, do you want to pick? Yeah. One second. So, I just want to say thank you for coming in and you guys, it takes a lot of time and dedication and being really good with your bodies and all of those things to be able to

024be good at your sport. And so, I hope that you take that with you. How many of you guys are seniors? How many? I know. I know a couple of you. Gosh. Okay. So, we still got a good group. We still got a good group for next year, it looks like. Um, but keep those things, those things that you have learned, those things that your coaches have have taught you. Try to keep hold on to those things and be good to your bodies and um good to your minds as as you continue on. Um, but great great job. I'm going to give if the board has anything that they want to say, I'll just give them a quick moment if they would like to and then Dr. Cleveland can can close us. >> Nothing. Just

025fantastic job. >> Yeah. There you go. Congratulations. Yeah, >> congratulations. Go Storm. >> Go Storm. And then Dr. Cleveland, go ahead. >> It's an awesome job to bring home two state uh championships. And congratulations to all of you. Congratulations to the coaches for for all of the time and effort you put in. And I know we're tight on time. I'm going to share one really quick story. There's a businessman um he's deceased now, but uh you're probably familiar with the name. His name was Don Chomers. He owned the dealership. here, the Ford dealership. But in addition to that, he was president of the Albuquerque Chamber and the Rio Rancho Chamber and of the Board of Regents at UNM. And someone asked him one time what he was most proud of. And he said, "Uh, I

026was a championship wrestler. He wrestled for Oklahoma State University." And he said, "You know what? After you wrestle, everything else in life is easy." And I'm sure that's not true, but he was stressing the what it takes to be a championship wrestler. and you have all demonstrated that. So again, congratulations to all of you. We're so proud for you and thank you for coming. >> Thank you. >> All right. I always love having students in the boardroom. It's the best. So, okay. I will now go into our reports for the evening. We'll start with our first one which is on um Independence High School and Renee Saledo, our secondary school improvement officer will be presenting this. Oh, and Jessica Sanchez too, who I owe a huge apology for for not going to your graduation. So,

027sorry. I have I still nightmares nightmares. >> Madame President Gworth, Dr. Cleveland members of the board. Um I'd like to introduce Jessica Sanchez, principal of um Independence High School. She's here to just let you guys know a little bit more about Independence. We really appreciate the new board members that came by and toured the school so you know what it looks like. Um but Jessica is going to um introduce some of the things and I'll just kind of step in here here and there. So, Jessica, >> good evening. Um, I I too want to thank you all for for taking time out of your day to come visit a couple of weeks ago. It meant a lot to the kids. We He said, "We've never seen a board uh members here at the school before."

028I I don't recall that. And I said, "Cuz you guys are special. So, you made them feel some kind of way." So, I appreciate that. >> Um, I can't speak enough about the um Independence High School. I I feel like I tell people I'm I'm a little bit on overload in terms of bragging about this school because I just I love it so much. But um I want to talk to for those of you who aren't familiar with Independence High School, just a little overview of of what we are and what we do. Um we're an alternative setting uh designed to meet the needs of students who thrive in smaller and more personalized learning environments. Um students entering IHS are not on track to graduate uh for a variety of reasons. Um they are behind

029in credits. We typically get them uh junior senior year. Um and we welcome them and with open arms. Um our goal is that building doesn't echo with stress but with second chances. And I think we came up with that together and I said yes that that captures what we do. Um I I've talked about rebranding the school and I'd like to focus on not what brought them there but the strides that we're making and um I'm I'm really proud of that. Uh instead of a larger typical classes uh learning happens in small groups. Teachers uh know your story. We know every student that walks through that door. We welcome them every morning. Um and the teachers aren't just there as instructors. They're they're coaches. They're mentors. um they mean a lot to these kids and

030if you talk to them they'll tell you as much. Um so going into where we are in terms of school designations, I don't know if you want to speak to this a little and then I can talk about where we're at. >> Yeah. Um I mean so we're bringing this topic up a and you'll see why we have to explain why IHS is where it is as far as school designations go. So this slide basically just gives you a list of the designations. Spotlight is the highest level and the majority of our schools in the district are in this spotlight category. Um we go spotlight traditional and then if you need some support there's specific parameters around how they classify the the schools. Independence High School was in the comprehensive support and improvement CSI for

031three years. At the high school level, what they look at to put you at these different C in these different categories are your graduation rate. And that's that's what they look at. That's it. You have to have an average of 67% graduation over three years um to be able to get out of the categories. So they were in CSI, comprehensive support for three years. When they didn't reach that average of 67%, they moved to MRI, which is more rigorous interventions, and they've been in that category for three years. So because we've been in that category for three years, we're going to talk about um some of the things that that Jessica and her staff have been doing over these last three years. However, I think that it's important to mention and we've we talked about

032this with the visit. Um the students are coming into independence, they're not on track to graduate. So to have a graduation rate at the four year, you know, at four years above 67%. Is practically impossible. Now they have done some things that I thought were impossible. I didn't think that they would get to 60% and Jessica will will tell you they're higher than that. So, they are doing already what I thought was going to be extremely hard to do. I have no doubt that they'll be able to move out, but Jessica's going to talk a little bit about what they're doing and and where they're at. Um so going into for the last three years um we've spent a lot of time um it's any everything from grant writing um working directly with the ped

033um coming up with strate strategic plans and what what it is we're wanting to do. We've looked at um for example teacher and instructional staff. We partnered with coaching for excellence and that was the one of the grants that that we wrote um to help come in and work with teachers individually to raise that standard to to um so so so these kids are getting the best of the best. Um we find that a lot of these kids coming in here again brought them here for a reason. We do find a lot of that is um can revolve around mental health and um we have written another grant for uh student well-being. Um, so we have mental health services on our campus that are outside of the school counselor. They come there just for therapy

034services for the kids. That's been huge for some of these kids. Um, because they would not get that otherwise. Um, we're offering we're expanding our elective options. So, we we we're we're addressing that engagement. Um, sometimes it's the art class that brings the kid to school and while we have them there, we teach them a little math and English. Um, increased academic support. We do before and after school programs. We're doing Saturday schools. We're looking to implement more Saturday schools. So, we're there from 9 to 12. And believe it or not, it's it's it's well attended. You wouldn't think we get the kids there on a Saturday morning, but but but we do. Um and of course, we partnered with um uh the PED, New Mexico PED and the Priority Schools Partnership and and we

035work to make strides. They they help us. We I meet with them personally three times a year and probably speak with them and and we consult at least six times in total. Um and if you look at here go this morning um Dr. Dodd and I and the administration went over and and went through the school and Dr. Dodd talked to some students and one of the young ladies said, "I just wish we could have more Saturday school." So it really is is helpful for them. >> So what we know is we all we can go is we feel like like we're doing all the right things, right? But it's not until the data comes out that reaffirms that we're in going in the right direction. And if you look um we have gone oh

036I'll look down here because I can't see. Uh we're making great strides. Now we're behind a year. So we don't even have this the data for this year. We won't have that until next year. But we we went from 50% up to 58.5%. We then grew this we just got our scores at 63.7. I'm going to round that to 64. Um I I literally I think I called you or said something. I it brought tears to my eyes because we work so hard and we're so dedicated, but we really until we get the data, we don't know if what we're doing is making a difference. And this is proof that it's working. and and I believe that although I I don't agree with the formula and it is what it is, um we have to

037work within those parameters, I do believe we're going to get there. We just need more time. And so um so that's what we're if you go to the next one, you'll see our our fifth year graduation rate is 83%. Which is huge. Uh so so very proud of the the growth and the trajectory. We're going to a good place there. I I love that Jessica says, "If you would look at our fifth year graduation rate, we would be a spotlight school." And it's true. I want to focus on that kind of stuff. Um, next steps. Uh, uh, NPED will release significant restructure and redesign, restart, and closure applications in March for schools identified as MRI due to low graduation rates um to determine the the appropriate path forward for the 2627 school year. and um

038we're talking about what those next steps will look like. I will be attending the spring budget and and we'll get the application and I'll have a better idea of of what we need to do and and work from there. Um I will tell you that before we even get that, we are meeting uh constantly about in a proactive approach to to for the restructuring and coming up with some ideas um of what we can do. I want to get ahead of it. So that's kind of where we're at. So we stand for any questions. Um, first I just I have to say so over the years since since I've been on the I've been on the board for six years now. That's kind of crazy. But um you know I've had the opportunity to talk

039to different parents whose students have um have gone to Independence and over and over again just gratitude gratitude um for such a good program and for students and there's so many different aspects. You know, one student was she got into a horrible car accident and was not able to graduate, you know, in her normal comprehensive high school because of that. But she and she didn't think that it was even going to be possible for her to graduate and they were able to get her through and she was able to graduate. And then you have just other students who are just struggling and struggling, you know, with various different things. And um I would rather see a fifth year graduation rate at like 83% than some kid that we just kind of like pushed, you know,

040through. And so I um when you sit in those graduations, which you'll have the opportunity to do here um in a month or so, a couple months is is these your teachers care so much for these students. And it really is just this family um and just so um just everyone just just really just caring for these students and they feel that and that I think is why they're able to get through and and your administrative staff as well. So I just wanted to add that um to those things that that it is it's just I'm I'm so grateful for the program. I hope we I really want us to be able to just continue it the way that we're doing it. Um don't get in our way like we have good things that are

041coming. Um and so you're doing a great job there. Um Dr. Clover, is there anything you want to add and then I can go for additional questions from the board? >> Um a couple of things. Um if you go back to the graph, the uh in in those those years in the early early years, we were only I believe accepting seniors at that point in time. And so that's part of what explains some of those those scores then. But I want you to know we have students who show up at the doorstep. I am 17 years old. I have five credits. Will you take me? Well, it doesn't it's not hard to figure out if you are that age with five credits, you're probably not going to get through on that four-year cohort. One of

042the things that I don't understand and and not just, you know, several of us have raised, but particularly superintendents uh in our state who have worked at other states, many other states have five-year cohorts for all alternative schools. And New Mexico didn't submit their plan that way. And I don't know why I don't or what the rationale was, but on a five-year uh we would make it. And uh the the alternative is to when these students show up that are really behind would be to say no, we can't we can't take you because we won't finish and that's going to count against us. We don't do that. We take everybody who shows up and wants to to get a high school diploma. Excuse me. I have allergies terribly. um we we take them. And so

043um I think that should be the policy. I think that should be our practice to welcome any young person who shows up that really wants a high school diploma. By golly, we're going to try to help you do that. They have done an amazing job in independence and continue to work to move that or even looking at maybe the possibility of letting some students in a little bit earlier or they would have more time to get those those credits. But um you know the other option is just passing out credits and they don't do that. The the the the students who earn the credits there, they earn the credits, they get what they need to have out of those classes and it's better that they take five years. I remember I think you told me

044last year we had one that finished up at like 23 or something and had just had to work at it a little bit all along. Well, you know, that's not ideal, but it's sure better than not finishing that high school diploma. And so, I just want to really support what what's been said about the the commitment and and just the desire to see um the students go through and graduate. I had a letter that was sent to me by the register of independence from a former student and she she just wanted us to know what her life looked like today. I was so glad you shared that. She was um she had served in the United States military in the Navy. She was a nurse. She was working on her nurse practitioner certification, a mom

045of five. And she said, "I would have never made it had it not been for Independence." All these years later, she writes that letter back to the school. So I it it really does impact lives and opens the door for for students that if forced to go back to a traditional campus for whatever reason, they're probably not going to finish. And and so uh I just want to applaud the good the great job you do and the impact that you have on so many student lives. And the last comment is that if you go to graduations, one of the one that always is a bit of a, you know, a tearjerker, at least for me, is hearing some of the challenges that some of these these young people have faced in life already and overcoming

046those challenges and getting through and getting that diploma. So um we think independence is a important very important component in uh providing opportunities and and special pathways for students who have uh really need of that help and support and who step up and take advantage of it. So um thank you for your your presentation and and thank you for the hard work that you do uh on behalf of your students. >> Thank you. Do you have any questions, comments? >> Thank you. Appreciate it. And when you get the new one, we're going to take another tour. So, >> I'm so excited. Oh, Michael, >> I just want to say we were all delighted to come visit. It was awesome. And I think programs, they live or die if there's good leaders involved. And I think

047you're a good leader in that program. So, I think they they did a good job picking you and putting you in the right place. Um, you've probably told me you I've probably What is CSI? What does that hap what happens to us when we're on that CSI designation? I you mentioned briefly the restructuring that's that PED will >> so peed comes in and they'll look at our um dash plans everything that they're doing to try to get themselves out of that designation. So when you're in CSI for three years and if you're not successful then you move to MRI which is more rigorous interventions. So then Jessica meets with them every three months. A group come down. They look at all of their data. They look at what they're doing. They walk around. They see

048the teachers teaching. It's a very it's a three to four hour visit and they're just basically well what have you done here? What data do you have that shows us that that made a difference? What have you done? It's it's very indepth and it takes a lot of preparation. So she does that three time three or four times every quarter I guess. So four times a year. >> So then we were she did that for three years and we didn't get out. So now we have three choices. We either close the school, we restructure the school, which means we're going to take everyone, all of the staff out and completely start over >> for restart >> for or restructure. And that's what we're looking at. What can we change? What little tweaks can we make?

049Peed even told um Jessica, what you're doing is working. Like restructure is where you should be. So, we're just looking at what kind of tweaks we can make to make just a little bit more of a difference. >> What I always wonder what is uh if we had catastrophic success in the It seems obvious to anyone who comes through that we're a different story here and it's worth fighting for. Does this if we had C would we get legislation passed that you know gave us a special designation? What would be the most ideal circumstance to make it? >> You would have to uh have the state redo its plan, its state plan because this plan goes to the federal government. >> Okay? >> It's a federal um and so they would need to do that.

050What's interesting in the visit there and I talked with um each school gets assigned a a a mentor or someone and I the lady that we had this year was from um Austin, Texas and she said the structure makes it almost impossible for you to to to get where you need to be. Even the state has been somewhat apologetic about that you you're making great progress. We wish that it wasn't quite so uh so rigid. And so long term I long term is to encourage the public ed department maybe through the legislature to have a plan that allows for a five-year cohort like many other states have. You're not giving up on kids. You're just giving them one extra year. And I I don't think that's unreasonable. And it but it's that it's the plan

051that the state submits to the federal government that would need to be modified and approved. Okay, >> that makes sense. >> One of the things that I think it was not this last visit but the visit before they suggested making the school um a school of choice but that's not what the school is. We we you know are bringing students in that are not on track to graduate and getting them where they need to be. So Jessica did allow some students to come in as choice like once we had everybody that we um needed to take the open seats she left for students of choice. >> So maybe that helps some too. Although we wouldn't know with these results, we'll know for in the future. >> Sorry Renee, no. >> In conversations with other superintendents

052that have alternative schools, we're all facing the same challenge. But we are not alone. It's just the the structure of it. I I don't know that they gave a lot of thought to those students coming in very late with short credits. Uh what that would mean in terms of either giving away credits or getting them the credits really done that you have to have some additional time to do it. So uh I think they've heard from a lot of districts, not just Rioancha, that we need a change in that state plan that would allow for some additional flexibility like other states have. How many alternative high schools are there in the state? >> Pardon? >> How many alternative high schools are there in the state? >> I do not know exactly, but it's a significant

053number. >> Oh, there's no Okay. >> Yeah, >> I know Albuquerque has one. I can't I don't know off the top of my head. They have two now. >> And New Futures are both alternative and I'm They may have more. >> Yeah, it depends if you're counting in those charters. >> Other Los Cruus has alternative schools. I know that Hops has one. They they're sprinkled across the state, >> especially in the larger districts, right? >> And all of those schools are on the same list. We are >> okay. >> We are one of the highest of the schools. I just want to put that >> because we're amazing. >> I'll get you that information. >> Be glad to. >> And Rebecca, you have any questions? >> I have a question. >> Okay. Any anything else

054from you both? We're good. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. We appreciate it. >> Okay. Our next um we have a presentation on advanced placement results. Um as Dr. Stephanie Moore is coming up, she's our executive director of curriculum instruction. I just want to congratulate you on receiving that. How long how long has it been since you received that that degree? >> October 31st. >> Okay. >> Um defended. Yeah, defended and conferred in November. >> Okay. Well, congratulations. So that is wonderful. So we'll go ahead and turn it to you. If you have others who are coming up to present, go ahead and introduce them. >> Um Julie is here from cyber. She does not have a voice. >> So here >> that's how I feel after track mates. I I understand. >>

055Um so Dr. Dr. Cleveland had asked when I came on board that we um do some work around reestablishing advanced placement in Rio Rancho public schools. Um Rio Rancho public schools for your context has always had a very strong and robust program. We've led the state in this work. Um but we've kind of seen a little bit of a dip with some change in personnel and staffing and things like that. So, um, it became part of our priority work and we had a request from school sites to also, um, have a little bit more point of contact at the district level. So, I'm going to start with a big overview of what AP is in case you are unfamiliar and we'll do that quickly and then we'll talk about where we are in Rancho. Um,

056these are the people that are um, who we contact with who has direct contact with College Board. Uh Amanda Bader helps support teachers from district office, but then each site has their own um coordinator that orders go in on Monday for exams. So they are frantically getting everything and you'll understand why in just a moment. Um so next we have our this is just the logo. We're going to really dig into what AP is. So how does AP work? Uh, in case you're unfamiliar, this is a college board designed curriculum. They offer APs available in 40 different courses. We offer 30 right now of those. Uh, across all spectrums of coursework. It's not just core. We have there are a number of elective level courses also. Um, all of that work is done for a

057May exam that we as a school and a district have no control over. It's a actually an international exam and everybody tests when the College Board tells them to test. It's the first two weeks of May and everybody has their time slot. Students receive their scores in July. They get anywhere from a one to a five. I am super mindful about they just earn a score. We don't pass or fail AP. You just earn a score. Whether or not it's qualifying depends on where you're going in the out for postsecary. Um, credit and placement is an opportunity here. New Mexico is really fortunate around College Board and AP. Our um, higher ed department as a state has all agreed in the mo in recent years around what each score will earn at every public college

058or university in the state of New Mexico. So, no matter where you go, there's a list. It lays out exactly and this is newer because for example, New Mexico Tech used to not take very many AP classes. Now they are all bound in the same world with that. So some key benefits is college preparedness. There's a whole um body of research around um the fact that students are who participate in advanced placement whether they ever score above a one they are more likely to finish college on time. They're more likely to go to college and more likely to finish college. They're having a college experience in high school through the advanced placement curriculum. um financial savings. And while people feel like this is less important in New Mexico right now, it is not right. We

059have kids right now who are finishing their undergraduate degrees a semester or two semesters early with no debt. And part of that is we pro New Mexico is also fortunate in our opportunity to learn scholarships, but also they removed a lot of the pre-work and were able to get directly into um upper level work because of their AP scores. Uh and we are working on testing. So the next three slides outlines for you all the AP courses that are currently this year being offered and where they're being offered in Rio Rancho. So there are a total of 30 of them. Our newest courses are AP seminar and AP research. These are capstone courses here. We um elect to use them as they can count as a English credit. But this is really APA research is

060the students are conducting their own research around a topic of choice. I've enjoyed this class. I've been um out to teach at Cleveland repeatedly this year about what is it like to teach research because they are conducting their own research coming to their own findings and they will present and defend their research in April here. So, it's a really it's it's considered part of the capstone. That course currently can be submitted to the honors colleges in New Mexico for honors credit that those projects at the end of it. So, that's exciting. We have a number of courses in the arts and um our two um English courses that are available. Um history and social sciences, uh world languages. We're really fortunate to offer a robust offering of world language AP courses. We offer AP Spanish

061lit and lang now in Rio Rancho. Um shameless plug, we need an Italian and Latin teacher right now or we're going to um lose those programs um unfortunately. We also offer um AP math courses and computer science courses and then our AP science courses. Um AP pre-calc is also a newer course for um the college board and pre-calc and seminar have been standout courses for Rio Rancho High School. In fact, we they were asked to attend as a panelist team at uh the Native American Advocacy Institute uh highlighting um the results of our indigenous students particular in particularly in pre-calc and seminar last year. So, as you can see, there are 30 courses here, lots of different offerings and outside of just your basic core. So, any kid can have access to AP. Okay. coming

062to a coming to AP to Enrio Rancho next year will be um AP African-American studies. This is also a newer course. It's been around probably four or five years, but we've not offered it until this coming fall. AP cyber cyber security and AP um business with personal finance. These are brand new courses. their pilot in pilot year this year, but um we are tentively scheduled to offer them at um our schools in the fall. Registration's wrapping up, so we're hopeful. Uh how do we prepare kids for AP? We are fortunate to offer um preap, ELA 1 and ELA 2 for 9th and 10th graders. Uh these courses have been around for about in their current form because we used to call a lot of things preap until the college board copyrighted it, trademarked it and

063said you can't just use it. Um so in its current form for about six or seven years. In the fall we will be adding preap algebra 1, preap geometry and preap algebra 2. We have been offering advanced algebra 1 geometry and algebra 2, but this has a little bit tighter bound around it and knows that that we're really gearing kids towards that AP experience because they also um use College Board for that work. In addition, our um middle schools are starting in a pilot model next year advanced courses for science and social studies. We currently offer advanced ELA and math courses at our middle schools. Um with that vertical articulation to especially those freshman and sophomore level courses. In 2023, uh the College Board launched what they are calling the AP honor role. This is

064it's data released on a cohort of students. So in your packet I gave you each of the AP honor roll um results from each of the three high schools that offer AP courses. There's no district level honor role. It's just um by site. And it is it's important to know it's not about having all fives. It's about having kids college ready. And there are four different levels of the honor role. And then there's with distinction that's added if your um cohort of AP students matches the demographics of your school site. We are we're pretty close in this area although we have not earned the honor role yet. You will see on the next slide that um there are three areas. It is college culture. That means 40% of your students have taken a college AP

065course during their time in high school. Uh college credit, 25% of your students um earned a three or higher while on on any one exam. And then college optimization means that a student had took five AP exams including one during their nth or tth grade year. So for the US, that's AP human geography as freshman, AP world history as sophomores, and then AP bio or AP Kim depending on which high school you're at. So those are your options for your freshman, sophomore, and now AP seminar. That one's brand new. Um 2% of your students have taken five or more during their high school. So on the next slide is our results. No school ticks every box yet, but we're close. Um, Cyber is meeting uh on a role in college culture and college credit and

066Rio and Cleveland are meeting in college optimization. I have this is the TW class of 2025's data. I have no doubt by the time class of 2026 or 2027 res re um releases um we will hit we will make the honor roll and I'll show you the trend as to why that in just a second. So last year college um also announced these new world new awards called big future. This is based on your PSAT scores and your GPA and whether or not you are a first generation college collegebound student or um in a what they consider a rural school and interesting Cleveland High School meets the criteria for rural school. So, we had 129 students that were sophomores or juniors last year that were awarded big future awards. Rio Rancho High School also had

067one student um honored as an ambassador and this is a young man who goes out and talks to his classmates about all the benefits of being AP. So, this is a self- selected. they have to self-nominate to be to make this list. We had 129 kiddos last year. So that was exciting. It's a brand new one, right? So in our work, we really wanted to focus on professional learning for our teachers because teaching AP is different, right? You you're in a whole different world and sometimes you're the only one in your building doing it. So we have um made a plan for advanced placement um summer institutes and sending teachers out to those summer institutes. So on for example on Friday I had five teachers come in. We filled out their OTT so that we

068can get them registered to go. We have couple going to New Jersey, a couple going um to a couple different places in Texas. But this is where they come together for a week and work with a college board facilitator to learn about their content and curriculum and how to best deploy it. Um, Rio Rancho High School is going to be the host site for New Mexico this year. New Mexico does two weeks of ABSY training and Rio Rancho High School is going to host this year. Um, they'll have 11 different offerings. It's the first two weeks of June and then we'll have 11 virtual offerings. Also, we are also seeing an increased number of our AP teachers that are serving as what they call readers for the exam. That means they go for seven days

069and I mean seven consecutive full work days and score AP writing. Most of them are doing it in person. Some of them are now doing it from home since co they do a mix of these, but we have more and more of our own AP teachers that are going to these um readings and scoring exams. I was a I was an AP teacher and I scored for AP human geography for about seven years. Best professional learning experience. >> Nothing better. You're with hundreds of other people that do the work you do and have the time to learn and grow together. It's um so I'm proud to say we have more and more teachers doing this. In July, we offered a full day professional learning um with a consultant from College Board. We had 60 of

070our 63 AP teachers attend that day and they learned about AP classroom and they had time to collaborate across the district with each other and around skills that are agnostic to course. So, those AP skills you're going to need whether you're in chemistry or studio art. Um, we are also holding a quarterly AP PLC here where we can bring teams together to work with each other. We bought everybody brand new um course exam um descriptions, the books, and the stuff for their walls in their classroom for their kids. And we have supported a number of our teachers to do peer classroom visits across the district when they can go see another colleague that um has been teaching the course longer or has something to share. So we've been providing subs for that. We're AP is

071an open enrollment. It's an agreement you make when you agree to offer advanced placement. Uh we sent out AP potential letters to every sophomore and junior in the district before registration. So ba based on their PSAT results, the College Board says, "Hey, we think you might be great at this course or you might be interested in this course." And every letter is customized to that student's PSAT results and we got those out to all of our students before the registration opened. We also have done a number of site visits and are there on 8th grade night to help encourage enrollment in that transition visiting middle schools to talk about what freshman year looks like including AP. It is also helpful that we offer so many different AP courses. This can be taxing on a schedule.

072I understand that. But because we have it, we lots of different kids get access to advanced placement. So now we're getting into the um where we are right now and this number is out of date. So I had to submit this a week ago and it is up. So the exam total order right now as of this morning is 264 exams across the district. That is up from last year we ordered 1367 exams. So we're up almost 700 exams this year. That means we have more kids enrolled. We have um 3,000 I I want to say student 3,000 enrollments in advanced placement. So we might have a kid that's enrolled in three or four classes. He would count three or four time and of that 465 of them are preap kids. So that is up

073tremendously from um where we were even last year and last year was up. So I'm going to show you that data too. our um individual uh site by site how many exams we're ordering. Uh Rio Rancho High Schools is the number who's changed. Um so they're up to 1168 right now. We've been working very closely with Betty to this is a logistics thing. She has five exams at over a hundred. So where we put them all and how we administer that. Um CNI is working to help support her. Um Cleveland's also going offline in their major testing room or larger testing area just in time for um the AP exams. So we've helped them find a plan around that. Also 863 exams at Cleveland and 33 exams from Rio Rancho Cyber Academy. This is what

074I um that I'm most proud of around advanced placement and having been the advanced placement teacher and having read these are really exciting things. So this is our data uh for the last five years. You always have that rub when you increase enrollment what's going to happen to your scores like and and if you believe all kids should test what's going to happen to your scores. So I would have like an 85% take rate when I taught AP. My to freshmen, my scores weren't the best, but my kids, it's what we worked for every day. As you will, as you can see here in this data, not only are we increasing the number of students involved in AP and the number of exams that are t being taken, we're also increasing the number of students

075who are earning a three or higher. In fact, last year we had more students earn a five than we had students earn a one. The work that these teachers and this community does around advanced placement is remarkable and needs to be commended and we're trying really hard to continue the momentum. Um, I'm excited to see what registrations look like and what our AP honor roll results look like next year when they come out in light of the concentrated effort that has been put in. Um, Julie, Stacy, and Betty um, all have gotten on board, have supported, they're rallying like this is important and how can we better support you over the last two years. So, I just see things getting better. Um, Julie probably has the largest number of increase. She's increasing her c her

076course offerings significantly next year at Cyber. So, and with that, I stand for questions. >> Thank you. Um, Dr. Kovven, do you want to add anything before we go to questions? Um it it has taken a lot of work and and I think the data suggests there's been ma major improvements and so really congratulations to you and to the the the building coordinators and um for putting in all that extra time and effort. It really is a wonderful program and it really is a program that challenges students who want to be challenged and those who do want to get a head start on their college education and earn credits. And so they said so we took a dip and and two you go back and look you know 2020 was the pandemic and uh but

077we did lose some people who had that long history working with advanced placement and others have now stepped up and taken the lead with it. So um we've still got a ways to go but those are really proud numbers. You put them up against numbers nationally and it looks really good. So again, thank you for your hard work on that and obviously those efforts are are are really paying off for students and it's just exciting to see the number who are actually taking advanced placement courses. So >> yeah, thank you. >> All right, thank you. We'll go over to Seth. Some questions. >> Well, just thank you for what you're doing. I know my kids won my son tried AP. My daughter excelled at them. So that's good. >> Say my tried. >> That's good.

078Rebecca, >> I don't have any questions, but thank you so much. My son has done AP over the last few years, and he's doing well. Let's put that way. >> Michael, >> I have a couple quick questions. Um, first, I think AP courses are the best preparation for college. Usually, they're harder than college classes. That's the great secret. Don't tell anybody that. Um, what is the is the big limiting factor on course offerings? Just having the right teacher that can or willing or wants to teach? I mean, some of it is having teachers that can teach it. Also, if you don't have enough sections, it offering a singleton of something in a schedule gets very difficult too in order to master schedule so that kids can get to everything they need to, >> right? So,

079just it's scheduling. Okay. >> What what's the cost to take the exam? >> Right. At $100. >> $100. >> What a bargain. Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> We do have scholarships. We do we do scholarships and we do um >> free introduced and um Suzanne has been able to help support with our Native American um students taking the exam and it's a way in which we also um measure bilingual the our bilingual seal bilingual and biliteracy cell that Suzanne spoke about at our last board meeting. So, we have a very successful take rate in um our AP language courses. >> Okay. Um yeah, I'm so grateful for that scholarship because last year, I think was it maybe it was two years ago, I had three of my kids taking AP um tests and it

080was a $100 seems not bad, but when you have multiple, it's a lot. And so, it is a lot. Um I would I would say that when my kids started taking them, I was not a believer in AP. I really wasn't. I didn't take them when I I took advanced classes but I didn't take AP classes because they are hard but my kids have all excelled in them and now I really am a believer in it and they have I think my son this is me being really nice um giving some kudos to my son but he has 41 credits at the college that um that he's going to so that's huge um and those were you have to get fours and fives for that and so I really want to thank all those who

081have put so much effort into this program um our teachers and and all those things and I think sometimes it's hard you know because it is more college focused and so I think sometimes our our parents are like wait they're not teaching every and they teach a lot but because it's more college like like there is learning you have to do outside of the class and so it's hard to get used to those things but I've seen great things I do have a question on the scholarship fund though how where is that coming from and are there people who are a like can people put money into that fund as well. I just I don't know how it actually works. >> So, we've not we did we did have one person express interest about starting

082like a a scholarship fund. Moving forward, the scholarship fund will be um calculated in the ZBB. Um we've operationalized um AP in the budgets. So, we have a revenue stream, right? So every time an exam is taken, the kids pay for the vast majority of students pay for it and there's a portion of that that comes back to the schools to the district to help um fund things like supplies or scholarships or professional learning which is how we have typically paid for that or had scholarship money. when there have been years that have been lean um in that fund. Um I know that we have asked the administration to see what they had in their site budgets to help support. They've always been great about it. >> Yeah. >> Wonderful. >> I I am not

083aware and hopefully it didn't happen. If it did, then I feel terrible about it. But um I don't think we have had many instances of students who found it to be a financial challenge that we didn't take care of it for them and encouraged them to take advantage of that um because we certainly did not ever want that to be a reason student could not take the exam. >> Um the state also has a program too that helps subsidize um some of the testing if we that we access also. >> Okay. Okay. That is good. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay. And our last report um is our update on our facilities projects. Um Patrick Martinez, our executive director of facilities will present. >> All right. Thank you, President Gworth,

084uh members of the board, Dr. Cleveland. I'm here to uh give you an update on facilities projects. Um so a quick overview. Oops, sorry. Quick overview. Uh so I'm going to go over uh just briefly uh kind of the department. Just a quick department overview. Uh this is really for the new board members just to get an idea of of facilities. Um I'm going to go quickly through our project management, the structure, how we how we do projects. Um I'll briefly touch on uh Trimble Unity Construct, which is a project management software that we utilize. Um I'll go through current projects. Um and then last I'll give uh uh updates on a few bond projects. So going into the department, I just wanted to quickly uh go through uh the responsibilities of facilities. Um one

085of the major ones obviously is building maintenance, grounds maintenance. Uh another leg is custodial services. Uh we also handle warehouse services which is shipping, receiving the mail. Um and then we have a newer uh leg to facilities which is energy management which hopefully um soon we can come back to you and give you some updates on on some of the strides we're making there. And then uh obviously what we're here to talk about today are capital projects uh which is a big part of it. And then lastly, we handle all of the background checks for uh contractors specifically for construction contractors, vendors that we utilize. Uh we handle that. And so the next slide is just a it's just the org chart. Um we don't necessarily have to go through that. Uh the next thing

086I'd like to talk about is the is our project management uh structure and and the workload. So facilities is is comprised of we have two capital project managers, one maintenance project manager and one and then uh the one grounds director. They're they're both kind of project managers. They run small uh grounds projects. Um and we categorize projects now by a large what's called a large capital project which is going to be greater than 100,000 and then uh m a maintenance project what we're considering a maintenance project which would be less than 100,000. And so you can see there in the graph, it's kind of just looking at what the current workload is right now. So each each project manager has close to 20 uh projects. Um our maintenance project manager has 13 and grounds has

087four. Now these are projects that what I'm what I'm looking at here are projects that are over 25,000. And I'll I'll kind of talk to you about why we categorize that as well um in the next slide. Uh which talks about Trimble Unity Construct. So if you guys if uh if you recall um well I guess uh President Greth would recall this but the new board members we we did an RFP a while back for a project management software and we selected which what was called ebuilder at the time um APS utilizes this software as well as the state uh PSFA utilized this for project management and so we we utilize this uh which it's changed the name to trimble unity construct as our project management software and and what it does is it ensures

088efficiency um project for project specific projects and oversight uh for projects over 25,000 anything under you know it doesn't involve as much uh oversight and and we don't we don't necessarily put it in the software um currently anyway so our current use we use it mostly internal uh the project managers are required to update their processes it's also a document storage so all project documents uh live in this software and we can run reports on project uh load workload we can run a budget reports and kind of see a project health. And then what we're currently working on building up is external access. So one of the nice things that we have is we have unlimited licenses for this and we can bring in our vendors so that we can actually run processes with our

089outside vendors, our architects and our uh general contractors. And that really helps with project health as well. we see um when you have pay applications, invoices, um any sort of RFI that are run through the system, we can kind of see where they're held up and that just helps move projects along. And then one of the other things we want to look at uh we're currently working right now is executive level level dashboards too to really show high level uh project health. Um and so right now what I'll do is I'll go into some of the current projects that we're working on. uh facilities has a multiple of projects from various funding sources which include bond, capital outlay, SB9, state match and operational. We currently have 23 active bond projects uh 12 active capital outlay

090projects and 19 projects that vary uh between SP9 state match operational and sometimes we utilize multiple funding to handle some of these projects. Next slide. So, this is a a list of our our current bond projects. Um, and so these are all projects that are we're actively working on right now. And uh you'll notice that there are a few in red. And what I've uh noted with those is those are our PSFA projects. Uh if you recall, a lot of the bond projects that we um that we went out for were contingent on PSFA funding. And so those ones are currently in PSFA. We have uh four of them right now that are PSFA, what we're calling PSFA contingent. So, we're working through some of the paperwork still, some of the approval processes to get

091those going. Uh, you'll notice that in in these bond projects that for Rio Rancho High School and Cleveland High School, there's quite a few projects uh minus the Rio Rancho High School building upgrades, which I'll go into um a little bit later, are are some of the smaller athletic projects. And so, we've kind of bumped those up because we can get those done a lot quicker. As you know, uh, some of these larger projects just take a little bit longer with design and then construction. Uh, we can utilize the bond funds in a in a more in a shorter time span and get those done quicker while we're gearing up for some of these larger projects. And then we have a list of capital outlay projects. These are the projects that have been warded over

092the past two years. Um, all of them are current and uh all of them are on track to uh be completed before their reversion date. We did have one last year, Enchanted Hills Elementary, that we had to reauthorize, um, but it was done shortly after the reauthorization. So, um, we're on track with those projects, uh, which, you know, those projects are really great for us because we can't get everything done through our bond and SP9. And so, when we ask for some of those capital outlay requests, they're really important projects that we're able to to get done. The next one, uh, is is just our other capital projects and maintenance projects. You'll notice also prek is on there. we've had to utilize multiple funding sources to complete that and we we went through that um

093in the in the work session. So, I won't go too much into that. But a lot of these projects again are just things that we're not able to get done uh through our bond. They're not as large. So, we're able to utilize some of these other funding sources to complete, but a lot of them are just as important. You know, highlighting Ernie Stapleton and Maggie Cordova, both of them are on the bond to get HVAC upgrades, but their kitchens are currently um at their lifespan. And so we're utilizing some of these funds to just get the kitchens taken care of. That way those are functioning um in anticipation for full HVAC upgrades. And then I will go through the bond projects. Um and so we've highlighted a few bond projects to discuss. Uh Riot uh

094the P PV Labs specifically um Independence High School, Cleveland High School classroom edition and security upgrades. uh Rancho High School which is a very large systems upgrade with some additions and then Lincoln Middle School which is a classroom creation. So first we have Riotech PV Lab. So when we when we did the design for uh Riot we didn't include the PV the solar program which is still being developed. So, we're currently in design to uh retrofit an exterior area to have uh basically temp like uh roofs that the students can uh simulate putting solar panels on. And there's a there's there's several different types of roof, tile roof, shing tile uh Spanish tile, shingle, metal roof, and flat roof. Um and all of these will have inverters on site so that they can actually plug

095in and see if the solar panels are working. Um and then there'll be an associative classroom to uh to work on this. So this is currently in design. Uh we should have that design uh completed in the next few months with construction uh completed in spring of 27. Uh the overall the overall budget for this is 550,000. The next project uh definitely an important one especially after um the presentations you guys have heard is the Independence High School new campus. Um, so this one is currently under construction. I'm sure if you guys have driven down Northern, you've seen the construction, the construction fences, and it's moving along. We recently finalized our guaranteed maximum price of 33.8 million. Uh, and this was this was a really uh slow process to try to get in budget, but

096the great part about is we were able to capture all of the scope that we were intending, which includes an auditorium and a gym, which was really one of the things we were trying to save. So this project was done under what's called Seymar which is a construction manager at risk. And so what that means is we do a little bit of design usually up to the schematic design development phase and then we hire a contractor and then what we do is is is they they basically marry each other and they're dedicated to bringing this project in at a very specific price. So each step of the way, we're reviewing costs, we're reviewing materials, we're reviewing everything that is going to make up the final uh budget for this the construction budget for this project.

097And so with that process uh which we found to be extremely helpful in in a climate that has, you know, construction prices are rising, it's been really helpful to have the contractor early in the process to really help finesse some of those prices. Um, and so like I said, this project is it's scheduled to open August of 2027. And um, there's a little rendering there to see what the the the new building will will look like and then a floor plan. Um, and as you can see and and you guys visited Independence High School, you know, one of the things that they're having to deal with is just the current uh design of the building really doesn't uh help what they're trying to do there. And so the new design, the hope is that it'll

098really help facilitate, you know, the the work that they're putting in. The next project is the Cleveland High School classroom addition and security upgrades. Um, so this project, the the overall scope for this is to add four additional classrooms, uh, a standalone one standalone security pavilion between the gym and the cafeteria. And then some upgrades to the current entrance. Uh, and and both of these are anticipation to uh, utilize the evolve system. We do have the evolve system at Cleveland um but currently in in less than ideal vestibules. And so these would be creating um designated areas for those systems to be in on on both sides of the campus. And then uh with that we'll do some security fencing uh upgrades to to really just secure the perimeter. Um, we're currently in the design

099phase with with the design completion uh August of 26 and then uh construction to start uh late fall and then the completion for fall of 27. Um the project budget is 8 million for this. And so with that budget again we were able to get four classrooms. Um the design is phased so it can be added on to later on uh as funding allows. And we we uh you can see in the the site plan diagram that uh we went through a few renditions of where where's the best place to put this classroom addition. Um we we did a lot of studies to see what what you know made the most sense. We worked with the school to see what would what would work best with circulation security. Um and in the current location right

100now there's what used to be a grass sort of small field. Uh it's mostly dirt now. Uh we we felt that that was the best place uh for several reasons. drainage uh the dust issue um and then it's a nice uh kind of a enclosure for that campus. So um we're currently uh looking we're on schedule for this project as well. The next project this is a this is a very large project high school. So this is a full systems upgrade and what that includes is HVAC upgrades, a roof replacement, fire alarm upgrade, LED upgrade. It also includes a fine arts edition uh which would include a a production space. Now, we're working through kind of what that will look like, but the idea is that they don't currently have a scene production space. They're

101doing it in the wings, which isn't really safe. So, that the idea is that we'll be able to uh create a designated space for them. Um and then with that, similar to Cleveland, we'll be working on some security perimeter upgrades, uh enclosing this campus, and then some, uh lastly, some drainage. uh Rancho High School is essentially built in a bowl and so we've had a lot of drainage issues over the years which we'll be um doing our best to mitigate some of the major areas for that. So as mentioned before this one's currently we're working with PSFA. Uh unfortunately there is a lot of paperwork and a lot of stuff that goes into uh getting funding from PSFA. There's studies that have to be done prior to funding. So um we're working through that. We

102should be signing the contract for the design for this fairly soon. Um and uh and we'll be getting started design. Now, one of the challenges with this project is uh there's not a lot of swing space. And so we're going to one of the biggest challenges we're going to have is really how do we take down sections of the school for an HBAC upgrade um while maintaining students and maintain uh you know the academics. So, one of the things we're looking at is is adding in the classroom edition, which is also pending a study. Um, and I haven't really talked about that because it's not officially approved through PSFA, but the goal is to add that in and hopefully get that project underway as well. That way, we could potentially utilize some swing space there.

103And the last project is Lincoln Middle School. So, Lincoln Middle School currently has three gyms, which is great. They have what was their original um main gym. They have an ox gym and then they have their detached uh gym gymnasium building that was was added. And so uh right now they also have three portables. They had four. We were able to remove one of them, but three portables that have reached their lifespan. So the goal of this project is to utilize some of those larger spaces, renovate to create uh classrooms. Um, again, this was a PSFA project and one of the things we were tasked with is is doing a basically a a schoolwide uh utilization study and programming study to see what type of classrooms we need to build there and and it was

104determined that they they're lacking science and then some of the fine arts uh spaces aren't adequate. So, we working through in multiple locations through the building to create classrooms in some of these larger areas. Um we in addition we'll also be doing a partial roof replacement uh which will be finishing out the school for a roof replacement. Uh so the the study is complete. It has been approved through PSFA and so now we we're working on hiring an architect to begin the design for this renovation. Um we don't currently have a timeline for that. as soon as we do uh as soon as we have the design team on board, we'll be able to uh really find finalize a timeline for this. >> Um with that, I stand for questions. >> Okay, thank you. First

105off, um Dr. Cleveland, do you want to add anything to that? >> Thank you for a very thorough, very good report. You see, there's an awful lot on the plate in uh in in this department. One of the challenges that we're beginning to face now and it's just hard. It's really hard sometimes to mentally wrap your head around a Rio Rancho High will be 30 years old next year. And so there are a lot of things that obviously need to be done in a building that is 30 years old. And so the the commitment of 45 million is a lot, but there's a lot to be done there. Uh it's also kind of shocking to me. I had uh principal laugher correct me today. Um, Cleveland is about 17 years old, but Lincoln is one

106of our oldest buildings. Lincoln uh predates the the district by many years. And uh I was sharing with Dr. Dodd, there were at one time 1650 kids in Lincoln if you can only imagine. Um it was it was just amazing that we have more portables than that that we survived that but we did. But we have uh our buildings my point is they're aging. a lot of them are aging and so going to have to really give a lot of consideration to how we maintain those buildings, how we keep them up and uh and one of the things we've learned over time is short-term maintenance is better than uh long-term not taking care of things that you pay several times over uh because you didn't attend to those. And so this is a nice balance

107of new things and taking care of what we have and and building um building for the future um with the independence campus. It's so exciting to see that underway. We hope at one point maybe we will be able to put a daycare on that site as well uh for an early childhood program and we have been in conversations with Secretary Gresenski about that possibility also working through CTE and uh and maybe even you know through through Riotex. So a lot of good things. So thank you for a very thorough u a very very u expansive report. >> Okay. Thank you. And we'll start with Michael on this one. Any questions? Uh thank you Patrick very very informative. I I have a just a quick question and maybe it's a little aside so I hope you

108forgive me if it's a little outside. So with um when I one of the things I heard most throughout when I was you know becoming a board member is uh both you know security at the schools but then security security within the schools once maybe they're safe once they get on the campus. What are some things you're doing that first off with these new buildings? when Lincoln was designed, they probably didn't weren't considering how to make it a secure building. Maybe if you could speak briefly about that, but then also um you know, I've heard reports about people who are concerned about their kids using bathrooms in high schools or things like that about, you know, because of behavior that's happening in the bathroom. I know there may be engineering solutions there that maybe can

109help remedy that. It's a little bit of a curveball. I hope you forgive my side question, but if you could speak to a little bit of those. >> Mike Baker's coming up too to help you out. I was gonna say I I think that I think >> I didn't mean to bring up the boss. >> Okay. I think uh those are really good questions. Uh security and now I'll do the part the the the less detailed part. Salmani, you know that his department has done a really good job of creating standards. Um and the nice part with creating those standards, we've been able to implement those with any of our new builds. So one of the major things that we've uh implemented, we've done it, we've retrofitted all of our schools with forced entry. Um,

110but we were able to some of the new facilities, we're able to really think through what that looks like, this forced entry and design it so that it's, you know, it works the the best it can. As you said, some of the older schools, we've had to work with whatever the space that we're given and we've had to do some renovations. But, you know, being able to design that into these new schools has been really helpful. On top of that, when we're thinking uh exterior, again, security has done a great job with standardizing fencing and walls and and really making sure that we're we're being equitable throughout the district. And so, as we're doing some of these new projects, we're able to just take those standards and implement into uh into the new facilities. And

111then lastly, access control. Uh every new facility is equipped with access control, but not just on the exterior, but also on the interior. each classroom has access access control which helps with lockdown situations um and things of that nature. I don't Mike if you want to add anything to the security side. >> Yeah, just if I may, excuse me uh President Galorth, Dr. Cleveland, members of the school board. So when we look at security essentially we can look at it in two different parts. one is physical security and so we work uh we work very closely obviously with S talking about physical security uh Patrick spoke about a number of the physical security things that we do one probably um the more exciting thing is the evolve system and so the we call it the

112evolve system that's just the name of the manufacturer of the system but it is a weapons um concealed weapons detection system. And so probably the most important thing that we can do is to ensure that a weapon is not coming onto school grounds. And so with that comes all those other security pieces. Cameras, for example, we we install and expand our our cameras uh throughout the school. And a lot of people say, well, cameras are a reactive versus a proactive. Not necessarily because we have these large um monitor stations where we have one security that is actually monitoring many different areas of the campus and can actually see things develop before they actually develop. For example, if the students are engaged in in a fight, for example, there's these signals that they'll throw out before

113the fight. the security guard will see it on the camera. We'll call other security officers to that location to stop the fight before it begins. That's just one small example. So, there's many different security u measures and now what we're trying to do is go back into the school environment and retrofit what we have. Patrick talked about um access control and forced entry. So, in the past, security was really kind of a non thing um in until in recent years with all these active shooter situations and other violent crimes that occur on campuses. And so, one of the things that we did was to secure the perimeter of the school. So, somebody just couldn't walk in the school. We've had that in the past where people would just walk into the into the school. So

114now the entire perimeter is locked down with access control. Um forced entry means that somebody has to essentially be buzzed into the school once the school starts. They have to go through administration. They have to check in before they go into the school. So um in the future S will come up and give a long presentation on the different uh security measures but there we have a layered system. Not one system does everything. There's many layers to our system um that that essentially make everything um safe. And so with that >> thank you. I I would just add it never leaves our mind safety and security ever. It just doesn't ever leave our mind because we know uh the world that we live in today and why that has to have a lot of attention.

115If you if you could go back uh Claudia just back to the independence new building uh you'll see that in the center area is an area for students to congregate. The whole purpose of putting it inside the building like that instead of outside as it's normally most was to add that extra layer of pro protection and supervision. And so from design to additional auxiliary things like evolve or uh cameras or other things. It's it's just something that's always there because it is a pressing thing uh for every single parent today. You know they how can you not help but worry about uh the world that we live in sometime? But this was one example of of thinking ahead on how we could build a more safe um courtyard uh environment as compared to what we

116have perhaps at some other places. >> And and probably, you know, we we talked we're talking about physical security, but by far the most important component of our security system is our security guards. And we have armed and unarmed security guards. And um so they are out in all of our campuses monitoring what's going on, assessing threats and on and on talking to the the students um before something happens. That's that's the key is is let's keep our ears open, our eyes open, listen to the students because the students will typically tell us what's going on. And uh so we we want to prevent something from happening. >> Yeah. And we'll have a more comprehensive security update here in the pretty near future too. Michael, did you have anything else on that? >> Well, I

117wanted to answer you you had a question regarding restrooms as well. And so one of the things that we were able to do prior to Riotch is we did a study that was um it was originally slated to go at Rio Rancho High School, but the concept of an open restroom and President Goff remembers, you know, the multiple meetings, community meetings around that, but we were able to come up with a design uh that was both safe and and provided privacy. And so we were able to implement that at Riotech. Um and that's going to kind of become our new standard. And so Independence has the same design for restrooms and uh Cleveland High School is also we're all exploring that in the classroom edition there as well. Um and the nice thing about that

118is the state is and and the construction uh industry division who we that's who we get permitted through their interpretation of what a universal restroom or an open restroom is is is constantly evolving which is is better for us. you know, we had to make some concessions with Riot Tech on how we designed it and um it's just getting better so that we can actually be able to do this more uh and and the the users will feel a little bit better about them. So um yeah, that was one of the standards that we've implemented. >> Thanks. We wish we could just implement it everywhere, but it is extremely extremely expensive. Extremely expensive. Uh Rebecca. Okay. and Seth. >> Oh, thank you. Thank you. >> All right. You ready? Okay. I have Okay. I actually

119have a suggestion. Okay. And I feel like it's a very good suggestion. Okay. So, I'm hoping when So, on Okay. Two days ago, I received and this person doesn't even have kids in the schools anymore, but she sent me a whole bunch of pictures of one of the tracks and is like, "This is an embarrassment and this is not safe." And um and so I just want to once again I saw we're we're in the works on that. I heard there's some planning going on, but there are community members who are concerned. So here's my suggestion though. We have at Rio Rancho those terrorist, you know, and so as we pull out turf and as we're put putting in turf, I thought maybe you guys already thought about this, but why don't we take some

120of those strips because there's always strips and leftovers and put them in that terrace spot to make it maybe a more comfortable track. That's that's just a thought, but >> we've had discussions about and it could not totally work cuz it's so sandy over there. It might just make more of a mess. But u that track is just so uncomfortable. So, um it would be great to make it better. But I just thought, yeah, it was on Sunday. I I got some pictures someone texted over to me and I was like, uh oh, what's this about? And and concerns about about those tracks. So, thank you for working on those. Just so you know, we did just uh I think they're scheduled to go this week um to go make repairs. And so that was

121the hard part. We were kind of in that middle ground of we need to make repairs. We need to invest some money in the repairs, but we know we're going to rip it out and replace it with a brand new track. And but yes, we are definitely handling a lot of those issues. >> That's good. That's good. And I heard it's going to be a pretty big process of trying to actually make them usable for a long time. So Okay. Well, thank you for that. Anything else from the board on on any of these things? Okay. Thank you, Patrick. Appreciate it. All right. Our next is our public comment. Um, and we there was nothing online, right? I didn't I just want to make sure I didn't miss anything that was online. Okay. Um, and

122I know one of our public comment for sure had to go. Um, and that was Lucy York. Um, but she did leave her public comment and it's on your um, it's on up here. So, you can see that. Um, I will just since I do that for the online public comment, just a quick summary of it. It's just in concerns of um, disciplinary action that was taken at Cleveland High School. Um, our second I just want to make sure they're here is going to be Ken Todd. Are you here? Okay. I thought that was probably I thought that was you. Okay. Um, and so before you get up, I just want to go through a couple of things, especially since we have new board members. Um, so whenever we do public comment, unless this is

123an item that's actually on our agenda, we can't talk about it. And so this is where you get all the fun YouTubes where the board just looks, you know, they can't say anything. But that is that's just the way it is legally. So if um so as um Mr. Todd comes up, he'll be able to give his comments. will have three minutes to give those comments and then we'll probably just say thank you to you. Um and it's really fun awkward interaction between the between the board and our in our public comment. But with that, we do appreciate receiving public comments that do come in. And so Jaci, are you ready to to do a timer? So she'll have a timer that goes off for you and then when that's over, if you just go

124ahead and step back down. So it'll start when you when you start. So our public comment by Ken Todd. just lost my good. Thank you for letting me speak this evening. Uh Dr. Cleveland, incoming uh Dr. Dodd and new board members and Amanda, our president. Matter of fact, she went to school with my son. >> It's your son, Jeremy. >> Jeremy. I've been with the district since 1997 98 as a volunteer as a for as a bond committee person helping pass bonds especially for athletics and I've worked for the district in a stipen for years. I've retired like 10 times. Um I think this is the best district in the state. Uh, I've done just about everything in the district for athletics that I possibly can. Um, reason I'm here is last year they did

125some upgrades with the baseball stadium and they painted the stadium and did some stuff with the painting and they took some boards down and the community and the businesses, the district and uh, a lot of volunteers built that baseball stadium back in the day. Well, there were two boards that were taking that taken down at the time that showed all the businesses donated to these to the building of the field and these boards have not been put back up. I talked to uh Todd Ris. I left Sal Gonzalez out of it because his s being sick. Uh talked to Mr. Rocka and there was a work order put in last April to get these two boards back up that supported the baseball program and some of the softball program when they were built. And these

126boards to this date have not been put back up. Something simple to put these boards up to show the support the community did back in the day back in 99 and 2000 has not been done to this date. Um, I support every sports program, both Rio Rancho and Cleveland, and I've supported district and all kinds of bonds to get them passed to for improvements of the district. And I've never I've given my heart to this district on everything possible. I've been on the crop bond committees to have helped that and mainly athletics. And to do two simple boards being hung back up at that building has yet to been done. And all I'm asking the board is to consider talking with facilities and getting these two boards back up. They've been on the ground for

127a year now and they're hopefully they're not damaged. Some of the companies that helped donate back in that day to get it done besides the district. Um Don Chamers for one. People have asked where where are the boards? Why haven't they been put it back up? And that's all I ask is these boards get back put up. And with a work order being put in over a year ago, it's still not done. And thank you again for listening to me and I'm hoping something can be done. I appreciate your time. >> Thanks. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. All right. And I believe that's all of our public comment for tonight. And we'll now go to approve the consent agenda. >> Board member Murray. Motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Board may be very

128second. >> Have a motion and a second. And all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. Motion carries. All right. Our next now we're in our business portion of our meeting for tonight. We'll start um with the consider the award of the ITB number 2026-014- FAC concrete and CMU block wall contractor on demand. Chris Tweet, our director of purchasing and chief procurement officer will present. >> President Galbreth, superintendent Cleveland, members of the board, thank you for having me this evening. Um I as as I think you all know, I'm pretty new to the district. I've been here for almost three months now. Um, I just wanted to say that I I think it's fantastic um that the facilities department is so proactive with these types of ondemand contracts. Um, we're going to hear

129one tonight um about concrete and concrete block wall, but also they've there's been a done a bunch done in the past for a uh HVAC, for plumbing, for electrical, and I just think it's fantastic that the district is so proactive uh in having these vendors under contract before these projects do come to light. Um, with that, uh, Superintendent Cleveland did a a great summary of the project earlier, and I just want to refresh, uh, the board, uh, that we did have five, uh, vendors who submitted, uh, bids, and the committee is recommending that all five are awarded uh, for the project. And with that, I stand for questions. >> Okay. Dr. Cleveland, do you have anything to add on this one? >> Um, yeah. uh would you uh uh explain a little bit the differences

130in the the the numbers that have come in because I've had that question from a board member and why those numbers are different and why we're awarding to all five. >> Sure. Sure. And I can't specifically explain why each um bidder submitted the bid that they did, but as uh Superintendent Cleveland is is mentioning, we did have five bids and we had two that were kind of on the low end of the spectrum and we had two that were on the higher end of the spectrum and we had one that was kind of in the middle. And it's really hard to say exactly why the bids did come in as they as they did. But I I want you to know that if you do support uh the recommendation of award, our facilities department does

131whenever they have projects to award, they do reach out to multiple vendors and of course they include the ones that are showing the lowest cost now uh to make sure that we are getting um as good idea as possible of what the market cost for that work is at that time. Um it is just extremely helpful um to have access to as many vendors who are qualified um on hand so that when the need does arise if there's an emergency need and and we have a bunch of other contractors working on other projects that we do have vendors um a sufficient number of vendors that can handle the needs of the district. That >> Thank you. Sure. >> Okay. Any questions from the board on this? Okay. So, as we go to a motion on

132this one, we need to name out all of them. So, there's five. So, we need to name out each company for that individual who is brave and decides to go to motion on this one. Okay. Go ahead. >> So, board member Muller, I motion that we approve the award of ITB number 2026-014- FAC for concrete and CMU block wall contractors on demand. Based on the evaluation committee's recommendation to award that contract to Perimeter Iron Works, Vincent Block LLC, Wiser Electric LLC, LLR Construction LLC, Nova Construction LLC, and Construction Dummies. >> That's perfect. Second >> board member very second. >> Have a motion to second. And all in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Thank you. Okay, this sort of gets to our hard things. Um, so on our next items, um, I think for

133our next item, we'll go ahead and go for a motion and then I just want to give an opportunity just to speak to it for for a moment. Um, but our next item is to consider accepting the resignation of board secretary Elizabeth Miller. And do I have a motion for that? >> Motion to consider the acceptance of Motion. Board member Secretary Miller. >> Board member Murray. Second. >> Motion. Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Um it's kind of interesting to to have to take, you know, action on on something like that. And but I do want to speak just for a moment um about um Dr. Beth Miller. I want to thank Dr. Cleveland for her words. Um, I know you've known Beth for a very long time and

134>> 20 years. >> About 20 years. Um, and I was really grateful when when Beth chose to um to run for the board and I was running for my second term and she was running for her first term and um, I know that some people in the community approached her and asked her if she would if she would run and she was so willing to to do that. Um, she's been involved in education for so long and I know she in some ways she was a little nervous to do it too. it wasn't something that she had done before. Um, but she has been such a great um she has been such a great board member and um just so supportive of everyone. we lost her when we were up in Santa Fe, she was

135just really an important person to have with us as we were working through some things um because she knows so many different individuals in the in the state at the state level that um that consider her a friend and um her word that was all they needed really to to move ahead with some things. And um it just speaks to her character and who she and who she was. um she was kind to everyone and um as we're also in this time and and I think this was the hardest thing for her as she had to put this resignation in is that she really wanted to show that support for Dr. Dodd and so it was hard for her um to not be able to show to show that support. Um but she did um

136numerous times say that she she does have that support and she wishes or she has that support for him and she wishes that she could be here to help with that transition. Um and so I um and Dr. Dr. Cleveland, once again, she spoke to all of the wonderful achievements that she has. Um, but truly, she's just been such a great board member. I'm I'm hoping that we're going to get her plaque to her. Do we have a plaque that is on order so that we can perfect so that we can get that to her? Um, but uh we love her in Rio Rancho and we wish her the absolute best. Um, Dr. Cleveland, is there anything else that you want to add? I know that you spoke a lot to her about her earlier,

137but is there anything else that you'd like to say before we >> I think it's been said, but that she's been contributing to education in this community for many years. And um she came to us from UNM Gallup and opened the UNM um westside campus in Rio Rancho. She was the campus director there. Um but be you know all of her years here in Rio Rancho she'd been very active with Rotary and some other service organizations and her focus during that time was literacy for children. And so she helped uh through Rotary several opportunities to provide tutoring and additional materials and uh other other things for for some of our schools for children who were struggling with learning to read. And so that's always been a passion for her and I thought it was interesting

138being college level that she had such a fervor for helping children learn to read. But uh she's also been involved in the um um the re Santaal regional medical center on a board there. uh she's just been an intricgral part of our district but also of the greater community and so uh we do wish her well and hope that she will have a a a good recovery and uh we'll know that we will really miss her on the board in uh in Rio Rancho. So I just want to thank her for her many many u um contributions to our our our children in the community. >> Yeah. Thank you. Um so in just a moment we'll talk more about that. Um we do have so that resignation went into effect today. It we she dated

139it March 9th for today. So um now we have 45 days. Is that correct Lauren Hatch? And we'll talk more about that here in just a moment um to to put a new board member in. Um but to going going into our next one with um with Beth's resignation, we now need a new um board secretary. Um and we felt that that was pretty important for us to get into place. Um even though we are missing one of our members and so with this um I don't want this to be like I said like last time when we did this like it can be so awkward as we go through all these things. So we have two already filled but this is something that we can discuss and you are welcome to nominate yourself. don't

140feel like you have to wait for someone and I'm sure both of you are, you know, happy to fill that spot, but we can have a conversation about it or you can just nominate yourself and we can go into or we can nominate if we would like to as well. So, I'm going to open it up for discussion and um and we can and for nominations as well. So, do you it looks like you might have something to say. Do you want to do >> I'll say I would nominate Rebecca Murray to be the secretary. Okay, >> that's fine with me. >> You good with that? Okay. Okay. So, we have a nomination for uh for Rebecca Murray to be that position. And we don't have to go for seconds. We just go for a

141vote on this. Is there any other nominations of our we have our huge board of Okay. So, if we have no other nominations, um we'll just go for a vote on this. And then um you want to just JC, I'll hand that over to you. >> Vice President Muller, >> yes. >> Board member Murray, >> yes. >> Board member Barry, >> yes. >> President Galbreth, >> yes. >> Motion carries 4. >> Okay. Wonderful. Well, thank you. Now I have stuff for you to sign. So for after this meeting, so thank you for accepting um accepting that and we appreciate it. Um, okay. All right. So, going to our next item. So, this is we're going to be considering the approval of a vacancy announcement. And so, I'd like Lauren Hatch if he doesn't mind to

142come up. Um, and we can talk. Um, and I'm sure Linda might have some thoughts in here too. It's up to you. Um, if you want to come right up. Am I missing anything? >> Yeah. >> Oh, so if you go into Oh, is your computer still >> No, I So, they just put into the business. Um, this is a draft. Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself. We're going to back up for just a second. I'm going to hand it over to Lauren. So, he's going to talk about um yeah, we can fix some of those things. Okay, so um we're Lauren's going to give us some of the options and some of the history of what we've done in the past. So, since I've even been on the board, we've had two uh actually

143it's just one, but then one right as I was coming on um of individuals who who have So, this isn't something, you know, crazy that that has never happened before, but I'm going to give Lauren some time to talk a little bit about some of the options that we can do. >> Thank you, Madame President, members of the board, Dr. Cleveland, and Dr. Dodd. Um this is an event that hasn't happened a lot of times in the history of Reancho public schools, but it has happened three times that I know of. This will be the fourth one. Dr. Cleveland can correct me on the history if I've got that wrong. >> Um, I was a witness actually uh firsthand witness to replacing two of them and it's been done various different ways. My understanding is

144the first time that the board uh replaced a vacancy, the board just in a noticed meeting nominated somebody and the board voted and that person was appointed to the board. I believe it was a former school board member at that time. Um the second time um a a member resigned that she actually moved into a different district and so she would be unqualified to serve. Um the board did a vacancy announcement along the lines of what we're proposing today just because this would take the most procedure if you wanted to go this way. Uh we've kind of set it up to be able to do that. um they they took uh applications so to speak and they interviewed everybody in an open meeting and then the board appointed somebody in an open meeting. And then

145the third way, um, it was in the middle of an election, somebody resigned, uh, because the election was pending, um, the board waited until, uh, there was a winner and then that winner was appointed to fill the remainder of the term, which they were going to, uh, take over at the at the beginning of January anyways. So, those are the three methods. Um, in policy 212 and in the law, it doesn't tell the board how they have to do it. It it it says it has to be done in a public meeting, in an open meeting, and it has to be a qualified elector, somebody who lives in the district. A qualified elector is essentially somebody who is legally uh registered to vote in that district. How the board goes about it uh that's up

146to them. The way we've kind of set it up uh is that it would looking towards the approach of doing a vacancy announcement and accepting applications. The board doesn't have to do it that way. >> If you do choose to do it that way, we wanted to be prepared to have the most time available to be able to get that out there and announced and uh have an opportunity for people to to to make their applications for you guys to consider. There is a hard deadline of 45 days. If the board does not appoint somebody within 45 days, they lose that opportunity and it goes to the secretary of the public education department. So, it's really important to to keep track of the timing on it. Did I cover what you want? >> Yeah, I

147think that covers that covers >> that the 45 days is April 23rd, right? >> I that's how we counted it. Correct. There's a lot of things happening between now. >> I know. >> And the secretary has been notified as we're required. uh we have let uh secretary video know that there is a vacancy. >> So questions just on that so far um do you have any more questions on it or questions over here things that so all of this has to be done um in an open meeting every every part of this as we go forward. So if we conduct interviews those interviews will be in a public meeting um nothing is going to be executive session or anything like that. Um, so just that's just something to kind of keep in mind as we

148as we talk about that >> open meeting in the madam president in the open meetings act it it does allow the board to close meetings for certain purposes but the thing that's closest to this is talking about an individual employee but this is not an employee. This is a public officer and so there is not an opportunity to close the meeting to discuss that. It needs to be done uh interviews if you do them needs to be in a public meeting. deliberations need to be in a public meeting and action needs to be taken in a public meeting. >> So before we go into discussion, anything else Lauren from you that you feel like we should talk about? Um or Windom, anything else? And then Dr. Cleveland, do you want to add anything and then

149we can just >> We've done it. Yeah. >> Uh there were two different approaches the board took at that time. Uh the first one um the board made a decision to ask a former board member who had the experience and that's what they were looking for. They simply went out and and asked that individual uh because they wanted someone who understood how board the board operated the district and so forth. The second time that it occurred uh the board made a different decision and that was to to post it and to interview candidates. And so they've used two different approaches and both times we uh you know we we were able to find successful candidate. So uh that's really the option board can appoint u the board can post an interview. >> Okay. Okay. So

150with that we can go to discussions. um any I I feel that um I don't think any of us have one person necessarily in mind that we can discuss but maybe you do if you feel like you already have someone and you feel like there's someone we could appoint. Um so for that reason we actually have our next item is to consider interviews because I I think that's kind of just what we're looking like um if if I'm correct. Yeah. Um, so if everyone could actually I don't know if if you have your computers if you if you can go into your business folder. Um, and it's up there, but it's a little easier to see um, in your folder. You can take a look at the the draft of the letter that we put

151together. Okay, Seth, what were you saying in there? So, you were looking at that last paragraph on here. >> I just >> or not. >> No offense to JC because we love her to death, but >> I don't think she drafted this. The last line of that says that you could contact JC Oliver, the board secretary, and I don't think she wants to have that title. >> I know that is confusing. I guess she is in a way are if it does, but it is kind of a funny. I don't know the right way to >> I'm not sure this is the latest version actually. It's the latest draft version. >> Okay. >> I just thought because we just voted to like Rebecca, right? It's a little confary. Yeah. >> Uh, >> you live in

152district 4. JC >> JC is the secretary for the board, I guess. >> Yeah, >> we could clarify that. >> Okay. Yeah, if we could clarify that, that would be good. So, maybe take a look at it. Um, there's some things in here that I think it's important for us to look at. So, this is what's eligible, right? Is to be you have to be a registered voter. Um, you have to be at least 18 years of age. Um, obviously to be a registered voter, right? and you have to physically reside within district four, um, if that makes sense. So, it's within that district and that district is pretty small, but there's just a lot of homes really that are in that space. Um, which is why it's small geographically. Um, I think the only

153school that actually is physically in that district is Lincoln Middle School. Um, so how do you guys feel about what is in this letter and do you see anything else that we might need to fix in there? Um, as we look through, >> I see two things. I, you know, I'm not trying to usurp the board's comments, but two things. One, >> uh, we had talked, um, about what they should provide. And, um, this draft has a letter of interest and a copy of their voter registration information. The board could ask for more than that. um they could ask for a resume or something else if that's what they wanted to do. The other thing that that I think is in a newer version of this draft and I apologize that this is not the

154current one um is that the deadline um we we the staff would propose that it be at at noon on March 27th um just because of the timing that would need to be in place in order to interview them um to meet the deadline. Um, if we had them by noon on the 27th, which is the the day before spring break begins, we might be able to sort through that stuff and start uh making plans to schedule interviews. Um, the week that the board comes, the the week that the school board the week that the schools are back from spring break. >> Yeah, it's important to understand. So that is the the hard thing with this is that the district office along with all our schools we we're closing we closed for spring break and

155so we have to be able to get all those materials in and that way too um JC can upload them for us so that we can look that and then we'll have a week to kind of look at any of those materials that are are given. So but it does put us in and I'm making it even harder and that's what and we'll talk about that next as we go into interviews is that I have to go out of town for a work trip in the middle of this as well. So, I just thought I would make it harder for everyone to as we as we move ahead with this. Um, anything else questions, comments, things in the in the thing that >> I think it makes a lot of sense to have a note

156of like relevant experience and, you know, expertise that would be would be like >> I think we should have a resume or like your back like a letter of interest is like I want to serve on the board and here's a copy of my voter card. >> Yeah, I agree. Yeah, >> I know we were having that conversation. I can't remember exactly what we were talking about on we Lauren and I were going back and forth on this letter of interest in the >> I think I think what actually the the most recent draft was and again I apologize I think it said a letter of interest and maybe qualifications or why why you think you would be the best person to be appointed. Um, obviously it could say more than that. Whatever the board

157decides, we could insert that. If this is the direction you want to go, >> I don't think it has to be a rigorous resume, but something like outline of relevant experience or something like that. >> And that was required last time. And in addition, uh, the board did come up with a criteria of some of the things that it was looking for in Canada. >> I don't know if we can find that, but I think we can or I think we can remember it. So, uh, but they use that primarily through the actual just the interview process of, uh, some things that they were looking for and kind of a checklist, um, that help them with their discussions later. So, do we want to put resumes? We really need to pass this with that 45day

158thing. So, we need to get that this done today. So, do we want do you want to put resume? Do you want that actual specific word to have a resume in there with that? I would just say details of relevant experience or something. >> Details of re relevant experience >> or whatever precise language. I think resume just seems a little >> stringent. >> Okay. But I would take suggestions if you had. >> So maybe add so leave leave one a letter of interest, two uh details about relevant experience, >> right? Something >> and then three um your voter registration because they need to be a registered voter in district 4. >> Yeah. Just Well, yeah. Relevant experience or why you want to serve because I'm not going to lie to you. If you went through

159my resume for emergency management, you probably wouldn't pick me for a school board. >> Yeah. Hopefully that would be captured in the letter of interest somehow, but maybe you could change the language of letter of interest of like >> if we're just looking because in my background, unless you go like to the last page where it lists all of my volunteer or community experience, my resume is not going to tell you how involved I am in the community to why I think I should serve on the board and why why you should vote for me. Right. Initially, >> Seth, do you feel like with what you're saying that the the the vocabulary here of letter of interest like fulfills that or do you think it needs to be? >> I think so. Like a letter

160of interest and then like what what makes you think you're qualified for the board or like why do you want to serve? Something like that where you're kind of asking them like why are you doing this? Like not like we don't get paid. We could put that in there. It's not >> it's an unpaid position. >> So maybe you could phrase it. qualifications do you bring to the board? >> Yeah. >> You know, and give them some ideas of >> Yeah. Some skills or attributes. What what can you what are you bringing to the board? >> Yeah. >> I would suggest if if the board wants to move in this direction that um that perhaps I've taken notes. >> Do we need to approve the letter tonight or can we just approve for you guys

161to move forward with it? And then >> I I would suggest that you approve it with the president to give the final approval for any tweaks because we'll try to we'll try to capture the notes. >> It's all on you. >> Yeah, that I mean I'm fine with that. I think if we can capture the the notes, are you guys okay with that? Because we really do need to move ahead. So it'd be nice to get our vibe and wait, but we are 45 days. So if we feel like we >> whatever you think's fastest if we want to just say right now those >> is everyone let me ask first. Everyone is comfortable with going for interviews, right? and comfortable with sending out this letter. Okay. And the letter overall is good. Now, we're

162just trying to capture that that middle piece. >> Yeah. I would say I make a motion we move forward with the letter, change it to noon on the 27th, and then the final say is approved by the president. >> I do have one quick question. Is there what's the reasoning behind mailed or handd delivered? This can't be there's no can't email it. >> We could add that too. >> Is there a reason why we don't want electronically done? Um, I think we just used this off of one that we've done before. So, um, where is that in here? >> So, next to last line, right? I had if you're where to drop it off or >> application material must be mailed or hand delivered to >> Can we have that electronic too? >> Okay. >>

163If that's okay with I think initially they didn't because then your emails out for everybody to send stuff to. >> Well, they would send they would still just send it. We'd put it to >> We would add an email address. >> Yeah. So it wouldn't necessarily come to me. >> That's okay with Amanda. >> We could even come up with a >> generic one. >> We can do a generic one and then it would come in. >> So at noon and and maybe say the materials must be mailed or handd delivered to arrive no later than noon on March 27th. >> Yeah. >> Then we can add any >> because they go to the post office Friday morning. >> So I currently have a motion. Um, does anyone want to second that motion? I I

164think we're in good shape. >> Board member Murray second. >> Motion a second. And then all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. So, we can continue. Anything else that you see in there that um I think we're in pretty good shape, I think, with those changes and then we can we can talk a little bit more about it. >> We'll get that finalized out tomorrow at the latest. >> Okay. Yeah. Um we we had Windham up here just in case you wanted to talk about methods of advertising. >> Yeah, let's do take a second with that. Um and just just discuss it really quick and what we're looking at for that. >> Good evening, Madam President, Dr. Cleveland, members of the board. Um there are several ways that we can go

165about kind of casting the the net for this. Um if if I can interject myself here, um I would cast as wide a net as possible. There are uh possible ways to sort of geoence just district 4 and advertise to people just in district 4, but with the time limit that we have with this, I don't I don't necessarily think that's a a wise decision, for lack of a better term. So, um, what I'm thinking for at least this letter is just sending it out to the community at large, specifying specifically what district 4 is, the boundaries in it, and then inviting anybody in that district to um to apply. Um, we also have a press release that we can send out to um local media partners and and get the word out that way.

166Um, and of course, social media, website, all of the all of the normal um avenues. Uh, but of course we're open to any any sort of suggestion. >> Yeah. And we can send that link to the map, right? That's like shows that Google map that specifically shows where it's at. So I'm I'm I'm assuming that we're going to email it, blast it out, so it's going out in a press release. We're going to stick it up on our website. It's going to be up on social media as well. Um, anything that I'm not think it'll be >> we could explore paid advertising if that's something that you'd like to. Um, again, I'm not sure if that's >> I I feel like all those avenues I think would be sufficient. Um, and then plus I'm sure

167that there's there's already been media coverage as well. So, people are going to look at our page, I'm sure, to to look at those things. Um, questions as far as media or just >> can you do the like the school alerts to Lincoln Middle School and the feeder schools to it to let those parents know? >> Oh, yes. >> And they have family or friends. Maybe they'll have >> be a way to to more um >> I know like Qua Maggie and Joe Harris and Martin Luther Reancho they're not in that district but they feed forward. >> Yeah. So the the thinking behind casting kind of a wider net is that Lincoln is the only school in that. So >> I think both like do what you're doing but then kind of target the because

168there might be parents or family or friends of parents that has expressed interest before and they just don't know that it's coming. >> Sure. Yeah. Absolutely. And as we get the applications, do we have to wait until the 27th or after spring break before we can start looking at them? Or as we get them, can you send them to us to look at? I know we can't discuss it because then you have a rolling quorum, but >> yeah, >> I I don't think there would be any reason why we couldn't uh create a folder >> because then when we do meet, we'd be more infor like we're look we're not looking at it for the first time. We're more informed on whoever the candidates are. >> Yeah, I think we could do that. Just like

169you said though that to make sure that we're complying with open media section uh >> no discussions. >> Yeah, we can't talk. Yeah, because more than two of us it's a rolling quorum and >> Yeah. So, we'll have to wait until we're in the boardroom. But yeah, I Yeah, as those come in, I'm sure we can get a Google folder. Yeah. Anything else for any side of >> real quick? In the process of this, suppose we get 15 applicants. Is there a way in our way we describe how we're going to go forward on this meeting these meeting meeting or meetings that we can, you know, winnow down so we're not having to interview 20? Can we just, you know, pull out five, discuss five, and then interview something? I don't know the numbers exactly.

170I'm just thinking out loud. >> Yeah. And it just for >> Yeah, >> that's why I was mentioning have a set of criteria that you're looking for. And that's exactly what was done last time is they took all of the uh all of the ones that came in which ones came closest to the criteria that they had set terms of what they were looking for for a member of the board and then I believe they did interview five. I can't remember for sure. >> I think it was five that I remember seeing historically and I don't know how many actually put in. I kind of assumed that it was just the five but um >> I think they uh interviewed all the people who applied >> showed up. So there was five. I don't I

171mean how many run unopposed you know it's >> No, I expect that it will be >> though it's different because people don't have to run. So there are going to be people who are like >> lower this is this is nice. I don't you know and so it's a little bit of a different um thing but if we feel like we need to put more criteria if you feel you know then we can do that. We can definitely do that. So is there anything else that you would add to that? And we could even hold a special meeting just to say we want to just discuss who we are going to interview. So we could do and it wouldn't even be I don't think it take be a very long meeting but we could sit

172down after we've had those materials and just say hey we want to just sit down and discuss if we can bring this down to five people. >> I like that. >> So because you're right I I Yes. As much as I I love Dr. Dodd having tons of interviews is uh you know we just did that for superintendent and it's >> we get five then we have five. It's not a big deal. But if we get more than that, then it's like, >> yeah, >> can be ownorous. >> Okay. Well, and maybe you don't really down to a specific number >> until you see because what if you had, >> you know, uh, six that you thought were really wonderful, >> you really wanted to talk. So, I don't know if you would really want

173to set an arbitrary number. >> No. Yeah, exactly. >> Maybe wait until you see how many you have and how close they are. >> Okay. Well, on that note, so I think we can go into our next our next portion then because it encapsulates all of this to consider establishing a date for candidate interviews. So now if you would open up your calendars that you have your own personal calendars, we're going to have to this going to take a second um possibly. So we are looking at Let me open up my calendar. Um >> will would the interviews be during the day or >> um >> regular board meeting in the evening? I I think we were looking at like a four o'clock sort of thing just because every you know a lot of us

174do work and it's not always easy and and we're looking at possibly two days possibly a third day if we um need it. So what I'm looking at just I'm going to go over to this week. So I'm traveling uh for work the 13th through the 16th. So, we're looking at that week right after we get back um from um from spring break. We thought the Monday because everyone's just getting back in that we probably shouldn't hold it on a Monday just um just to give the district staff some um some space to to get all the things back together that they need. So, we'd be looking at the 7th, 8th, and 9th somewhere in there. Um, if we do early on the Wednesday, that would be okay. My my son's 18th birthday, so I'm

175also trying to be sensitive to him, but he's probably going to be helping out at Trackmate that day. So, I just realized so um and he he loves me for 18 years, so he's I'm sure we'll be very flexible if we need to use that day. But we could even look at those. It's just a lot of days. What we could look at is like on the seventh is that we t we decide I'm trying to think of the right way to do this is we would decide who we want to interview on the 7th. Um >> if you want to whittle it >> if we want to whittle it down but the hard thing is we're not going to know until >> so we could put it on the calendar. The seventh would be

176our whittle date. If we don't have to do any whiddling then the eth would be the meeting to do it or the nth. >> Yeah. What if Okay. What if on the 27th we had a short meeting? >> Do that. >> It's a Friday, which is horrible to do to all people. >> It's the LA It's the Friday before spring break. >> It's the Friday before spring break. >> I will not be here. I'll be up in Denver. So, >> yeah. So, that's not do it. I'm sorry. >> No, that's okay. I'm just trying to think of a I'm just trying to think of a way to >> Well, you you could you could meet on the 6th or 7th >> and then um but you'll you'll also have to provide Sorry, Madam President. Um

177some time for people to be scheduled for interviews. >> So that's the challenge. This is a very tight time frame. >> It is. Also, I think if we pick three days or two days, like the 7th and the 9th, cuz we don't want to mess up Junior's birthday. >> Well, like I said, I think he'll be he'll he'll live. I don't >> know if his name's Junior or not, but no. >> Does he live in District 4? >> He's going to be 18. >> Register and go down. >> Is that nepotism? I think you would pick the seventh as a widow date and then the 9th would be the day that we're going to do interviews or discussion to appoint >> and then that way that would be part of your release is that that

178the application all of your paperwork interest skills attributes whatever you're turning in has to be by noon on the 27th and the board will bring it to a manageable number on the 7th if needed. If not, either way, that that April the 9th will be the day that you need to be available to interview. And if you're if we have your name on a list and you're not here, then you're off the list. We're not going to appoint you without talking to you would be my >> Yeah. Why don't we Why don't we just take Can we just black out for us those three days? I know even he'll be fine. >> But if we just have So I think the seventh I think you're right. I'm just worried if we end up with six

179interviews doing them all in one day, we're going to lose. >> Yeah. >> So, >> I'm hoping all three of those if we want to just block them off. >> 17th to 9th. >> So, I guess my question is is can you guys be here at 4 or do we need to move it later because it's a little bit, you know, that's a little bit tricky with with jobs. >> If we do three days in a row, 4:30 would be a little bit easier. >> 4:30. >> Yeah, I agree. It's four every day. That means traffic. So, >> okay. Is 4:30 going to work? >> Yeah. >> 4:30 though because I I don't want you guys We all have full-time jobs here. So, if we need to >> Yeah, I think 4:30 would be easier

180than four every If we ended up doing all three days, it'd be a lot easier to do 4:30 all three days. >> So, we could do that 4:30. I I'm assum I think that that meeting on the 7th will be in my mind it's not going to be a very long meeting. I don't think, but it might take us a I don't know. It might >> I think it would be short. >> Yeah, >> relatively short. And it might might be unnecessary. >> Yeah. >> And then we'll we'll notice meetings on the 8th and 9th for to interview prospective. >> And that be part of the marketing that we say these are going to be the days that interviews happening. >> You should probably fit that in. >> Yeah, that would be good. That one

181on the 9th I do want to prepare you for is that one on the 9th will probably So the seventh is going to be pretty short. The 9th is going to be pretty long possibly because that will be our time too to deliberate about what we want to do. So after we do our interviews, we'll still be in a public meeting, but we'll have that opportunity to then talk and we'll probably we'll want to make that decision on the 9th um just to fit in our in our timing and >> interviews are done. Yeah. Deliberate and appoint. >> Yeah. Worst comes to worse, we I mean we do have some wiggle room in there. So, um I we have until the 23rd, so we could do another meeting, but that would be the best um

182thing if is if we could do that on the 9th, if that makes sense. But it does give us some space if we if we need to take some more time. >> So, would their first board meeting be that Monday the 13th or the 27th? If we got them in and they would be the 27th would be their first. Oh, I guess no. They could come on in on the 13th. >> As soon as they're appointed and sworn in, >> they're on the board. >> Yeah. So, if >> you would have to tenatively have >> Oh, we swear. >> Judge Cooker, McDonald, somebody young. >> I'm trying to give Seth all of the hard stuff to do while I'm gone on that meeting. >> Oh, that's Yeah, I'm in. >> You're gonna be >> I'm

183running that meeting. What? Yeah, you will be the man >> on that meeting and it will be our our new superintendent's first like >> let's make it a party man. >> I was like I talked to my boss and I was like you know if we could really have like this meeting on this day so I could just give it all to the board to do that would be great. No, I am sorry. So, I would just if we end up doing that, then like tentatively reach out to the judge or whomever on standby that they're going to need to come swear somebody in and we'll make it. >> That would be good, too. Okay. So, we are looking at So, the date for interviews, we're really looking at the 8th and the 9th for

184the actual interviews, correct? >> Yeah. >> And we'll have um the seventh. So, so as far as our motion for we're looking at those days, right, the 8th and the 9th. So, any other comments, questions? Or we can just >> We need a motion to pick the dates. >> We do because it says to consider establishing a date. Now, >> I will motion for the 7th, 8th, and 9th. The 7th to do whiddling of No, that what's the legal term? uh reviewing applications, >> the reviewing of applications and then interviews and selection to happen on during the 8th and 9th selection on the 9th. >> Board member Barry second you want. >> Okay. So I have a motion and a second. Um and >> did I say April? >> Um on April >> of April.

185Okay. Um all in favor I Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Okay, what are we missing? Anything that we're missing on this? Anything else that we need to discuss with this? Um, I think we're in good shape then. Okay, so we'll move ahead. Um, Dr. Cleveland, anything last on this with with everything. Thank you. Um, thank you everyone. Um, I just want I thank you to the district staff as these things come up. you know, it's it's a little it's we just have to do it in this meeting, but they have to do all the behind the scenes work. And so, thank you so much for being able to do that. So, okay, advanced planning. Um, we have an audit committee meeting coming up as well as a special board meeting on the 16th. Um, we

186have a special work session on the 23rd and and a regular board meeting that day as well. I want you to know as we go forward, we don't always have all of these extra meetings. We are just we're trying to get everyone kind of caught up on a lot of the reports and those things as you're coming on to um onto the board. Um we also have the um that region meeting uh in grants which I believe we're all registered for. Any questions on anything that's upcoming? >> I think March 19th we have training too. >> We do. >> It's the o open meetings act train for new board members. >> Oh >> the law state law on mast head. Okay. So, on March 19, does everyone know about this? Okay. >> Yeah. It's from

187like 9:00 to 2. It's an all day. Okay. And it's just for new board members. >> That's what I think that's what the email said. It was new for >> this isn't with our other to go over the OMA and Eper requirements. So, if you have never been on a board before, you understand why we have all these crazy rules in New Mexico. Madam President, um the board has a policy that says uh certain people have to take inspection of public records act training. >> Can't remember if it's 60 days or 90 days uh of when they are appointed or hired. >> And so the new the new board members will need to complete that. Okay. >> If that's possible. >> If they can't do it that time, we'll we'll push to do it at

188the next I won't be there >> possible time. >> Okay. >> So >> unless they do it from Mexico. >> Okay. And typically they do do it virtually. This time they're saying they're not doing it virtually. It has to be in person. Okay. >> So, sorry for the inconvenience. >> So, we'll have to work with you and find another date so that we can comply with that. >> I also have to attend that as well. >> Okay. Okay. So, if you have any other questions, just let everyone know. Um, and anything else? All right. Our meeting's adjourned for tonight. Thank you, everyone. Oh, I have a whole bunch of stuff to say.