0019, >> Good evening. The Weir Public Schools Board of Education meeting for Monday, January 26, 2026 is now called to order. I would please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Seth Miller. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, [clears throat] with liberty and justice for all. >> JC, can you take a roll call for us, please? >> President Galbraith? >> Present. >> Vice President Miller? >> Present. >> Secretary Miller? >> Present. >> Board member Berry? >> Present. >> Board member Murray? >> Present. >> Board member Warner? >> Okay, thank you so much. Every time you go through those, JC, I just realize how hard all of our names are now to to go through.
002>> [laughter] >> But it's great. So, we'd like to welcome everyone out to tonight's meeting. It's been a nice and freezing cold day, but it's nice and warm in here, so we appreciate everyone who's come out. And we'll start tonight's meeting with some introductory comments by our Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Bisu Cleveland. >> Yeah, good evening and thank you all for being here. We have a short meeting list uh this evening. Uh but we do have several important things on the agenda. We have a a a report this evening from our Information Technology uh and Cybersecurity Department. This presentation will be made by Scott Leppelman, who is our Executive Director for Information Technology. Yeah, every single aspect of our school operations are impacted by IT and security breaches are very costly when they do occur.
003And so, ensuring access as well as security, is a challenging task, a balancing act, uh but it is incredibly important to every aspect of the things that we do every day. The department experiences many challenges and threats daily, and has taken many preventative and proactive steps to protect Rio Rancho public schools. We had an incident in our state not too long ago, uh where there was a a major breach of PowerSchool, which is the student information system most districts in the state have used, and um we escaped that, and we were the only district to escape it, and it was because of the good work, preparation, um that enabled us to survive. I I could share, and I won't go into any great detail, but it literally brought some districts to their knees, uh in
004terms of um access to vital information that they needed. So, we appreciate the IT department's commitment and their many efforts to keep student, staff, financial, assessment, and other important data secure. We have a request uh for a request for proposals, and uh it has to do with um um uh some an aspect of food service. We have a new employee, and and uh we will ask Heather Gabaldon to introduce him a little later in the meeting, um but Chris Sweet is uh our director of purchasing, as well as um our our chief procurement officer. Every school district is required to have a chief procurement officer, and um the uh requirements for that position and responsibilities are very clearly laid out in regulation and statute. He will be presenting information for your consideration for RFP number
005202612, and this is on behalf of the student nutrition department. And the purpose is to secure uh food service vendors for school stores and for co-curricular programs. One of the things that is uh really important for everyone to know is that um they have to meet all of the standards and requirements related to the nutrition standards act as well as the smart snacks in schools standards for all food sold in schools even those that are are sold outside the regular uh duty day. And uh the evaluation committee has recommended a multi-award to two vendors and uh both of those vendors are local and uh that's always um we always are very pleased to see that. And it's again it's um uh you can probably guess who they are. One is Chill Zone uh who is
006a a local uh business and a former employee actually of the school district. And the other is Chick-fil-A. This is uh uh thing that we do every year uh it is a an award that promotes um student achievement in in every district in the state. The New Mexico School Boards Association sponsors it. Thank you. Uh sponsors it. And um they um have have really made a a a really um a strong point of trying to find people whether they are students or whether they are uh community members, whether they're parents, or who made a difference in helping students succeed. And so as I said this is in conjunction with the school boards association. Um and um when you read it you think oh we're we're awarding an achievement to students and that's not what this
007is at all. This is an award and recognition to people who help students be successful uh in their academic programs and it can come from any walk of life but the one requirements that the school board has is they have to have had a district wide impact to be considered for the recognition. The board is not limited to one individual. However, the school board's association will only find one award and if we would like to give additional ones then the local board fronts the cost for that. Janice elementary school improvement officer will be presenting the administration's recommendation which is Tasha Young. The board brings at least one name forward for the board to consider but I want to stress that board members can nominate any individual they would also like to see considered and again
008they're not limited to one. The school board only sponsors one. And then following this meeting we will have an executive session. The board will consider moving into a closed executive session and the purpose will be to discuss the purchase, acquisition or disposal of property or water rights by a public body. >> [clears throat] >> The purpose of that meeting is to provide an opportunity for the superintendent to inform the board about potential property transactions and this is permitted under section 10 15 1 H 8 of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. Are there any questions or comments or concerns? Any questions from the board? Okay. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Cleary. I appreciate it. All right. We will now go to approve the prioritized agenda and proposed time allocations. Board member Miller, I move to
009approve the prioritized agenda and proposed time allocations. Do we have a second? >> Board member Berry second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. All right, thank you everyone. We're going to get all that down. It's going to be really smooth here eventually. [laughter] All right, um we'll now move into our commendations and so I had the opportunity to give the commendation for tonight and so we'd like to invite um Jessica Tyler if she'd come up. You get to be on this side of the >> [laughter] >> the board. I'm so glad that you were here. Um I wanted to check talk a moment about Jessica and I'd love for if Dr. Cleveland has anything to say here in just a moment as
010well. Um that she's welcome to do that and then of course we want to give you an opportunity um to speak to um but let me find my notes which are in my phone. >> [laughter] >> So um Many know Jessica Tyler. She has served in the community for for a long time. She's worked with uh the Bernalillo County Sheriff's uh office. She's worked with um Albuquerque Police Department as well as Farmington Police Department. And then when she finished all of that, she thought, "Maybe I should try teaching." And so she came to Rio Rancho Public Schools and taught just for it was 1 year, right, that you during the best time in all of history which was right in the middle of the pandemic. >> Yeah. >> [laughter] >> And she taught uh psychology
011if I'm remembering right. She actually ended up teaching my daughter and that was the first time I had met uh Jessica Tyler was on a virtual um IEP meeting with my daughter and she was the teacher that was there. Um little did I know that you were going to end up running for board at that time. Um since she's been on the board for the last 2 years, she has served as our board secretary. And I am so grateful for her. Whenever we had just anything policy that would come up, um legal things that would come up, I would always look to Jessica to just she has such a good eye for those things and I was just always would appreciate that. She could find the language. I was like, "It's good. It's fine." And
012then she would see something in there that needed to be changed or just you know, that it could have different meaning. And so I was so grateful for your time on the board. And [clears throat] I feel like I've kind of just developed a friend, too. And so I am so grateful that I've had the opportunity to get to know you. So Dr. Cleland, do you want to add anything? >> Thank you. >> I uh I've had the the privilege of knowing Jessica Tyner for a long time. Um we um sat on the bleachers in some of the coldest, windiest weather um during baseball season. Um and uh so I had a chance to know her for for a long period of time as a parent. And then uh certainly as an educator and and
013then as a board member. And uh there's so many things you could say about uh the abilities that she brought to the board. But um one of the things that I I would want to emphasize is all of her conversations were always focused on the best interests of students. And uh had a a really good ability um to analyze issues and look at them from all different sides and and come up with some really uh good possibilities on how we might do things the right way. And so um always committed to continuous improvement, always uh committed to trying to make things better for her board colleagues, but also for staff and and certainly always for students. And so it's just a pleasure to have her to come back and have an opportunity to express that
014appreciation for her many years of service to the district, but particularly her her years of service on the board. So again, thank you and uh we we appreciate all of those many efforts. >> Yes, you're welcome. >> And then Beth Miller worked with you as well. So I'm going to give her a chance and then I'm going to turn over to you, but I'm going to start making [clears throat] my way down to you, okay? >> Good to see you, Jessica. I just wanted to express my appreciation to you as a new board member a couple of years ago. I asked you a lot of questions and you were very gracious to spend time answering my questions and I appreciated your honesty and miss you here. Seth is fine, but I miss you. >> [laughter]
015>> Thank you for coming back tonight. >> I don't really want to say anything, but I will share this. The only reason I'm here is my husband told me I had to. And because I did look at the agenda because we had had some conversations about when it was going to occur. I ran into Miss Jaycee this weekend at a restaurant. She said, "You're going to be there Monday, right?" And I was like, "Why did I have to see her?" And I wouldn't have known about it. But I do appreciate the the thanks and the recognition. But yeah, my husband's like, "You have to be there." And then I saw it with the on the agenda, so I couldn't allow nobody to be present for for your accommodation. So, my time on the board was
016a pleasure. I learned a lot, really enjoyed it and I'm happy to pass the baton to to Rebecca from my district and to give you a new seatmate. Beth, so thank you. >> [applause] >> It's your turn. >> I got to put on real clothes You got to do it. Work from home clothes. Thank you. Yeah, that's good. >> Maybe I should just take the rest of the meeting from the floor instead. >> [laughter] >> Um so our other two members were not able to be here tonight, but I did want to just briefly talk about them and get also give Dr. Cleveland and um Beth if she would like to a moment to to speak about them. Um our next one that I would like to talk about is um is Jeffrey Morgan, who
017I have served with for all of the 6 years that I've been on the board. Jeff came in, they had a board member who couldn't stand cuz she moved, I believe, and um and he came on the board during that time, and then had to go through the re-election process um despite kind of coming on mid-term. Um what I remember with Jeff is there was no one running against him, but he still felt it was so important for people to know him. And so as I was kind of out in the community, I would see all these individuals, and and Jeff is really strong in his church. And um they were all around trying to make sure that everyone could get to know him. And he has just been such an asset um to our
018board. He um he's a he's a great manager in in the business world, and so he brought that expertise to us. Um he was so passionate that sometimes I felt like if I needed like the preacher, right, to to really like give some just heartfelt words, that came from uh from Jeffrey um Morgan. And so I just so much have appreciated having him, and I feel like he kind of brought the cool factor to the board. And sometimes if I switched out when we were doing diplomas, and it was Jeff who was giving them, I like the next kid was kind of like uh >> [laughter] >> So um he's just he is a wonderful person, and um really active in the community. And his um just like Jessica, his kids have some at least
019some of them have attended at Cleveland um and were active there. So so grateful for his service. Um let me go to Beth and then we'll come back to Dr. Cleveland. Let's go ahead. >> Oh, okay. Thank you. Um >> [clears throat] >> Jeff did have a a different perspective on things often, but it was very good, very well thought out. Um he had a lot of good experience that he could share and um his [snorts] goal was always for the best for the students and he time after time I know when students are recognized here, he just said, "You know, your achievement is so important to us and it's good to see that you're building confidence." So, I appreciated him very much. Thank you. >> Thank you. Dr. Cleveland. >> Well, he he um
020Jeffrey Morgan was a a real asset to the board and he did see things differently sometimes and I he didn't talk a lot, but I noticed that when he said things, everybody listened. And he had something really worth contributing to the conversation. And I remember one time we were in a really challenging meeting and and he spoke and I thought he sounds like God is speaking. You know, he had that strong deep voice and and and he got everybody's attention pretty fast, actually. But always you know, another person always committed to uh to to trying to make things better very much. He you know, talked a lot in his business about continuous improvement and always looking to just be a little bit better than you were the day before and he certainly carried that same
021philosophy to to the the school board, but it was a pleasure to have on the board and he just had an absolutely wicked sense of humor sometimes. And if you heard him, you you you wish you hadn't heard him because you were trying to swallow the the the laughter at the at the board table, but um always very very dedicated to to the district and so we do thank him for his service. >> Thank you. We'll give him an applause FROM AFAR. >> [applause] >> UH AND I HAVE HIS, SO HE'LL COME IN FOR THAT. UM, and then our last board member and that I get the opportunity to speak about is, um, Mr. Gary Tripp. And Gary, he brings over 40 years of, um, education experience. Um, he's been a teacher, he's been a
022principal, he's been an athletic director, he worked for the NMAA, um, he, goodness, he, and he's still working with schools. Right now, he's currently the re, uh, on the board of regents for Highland University and is just really enjoying that role. Um, he is just is about bringing money into those classrooms and supporting teachers and that's always been so, so important to him. And I always love to say, which I don't know if he always appreciated, but he was my principal when I was in high school. And so for me, honestly, it was really a sweet experience to be able to be on the board and just think of how our community works and, um, what, what a neat thing that someone who had been my principal at one point, now we're both working for
023students together. Um, but he loves our community, he loves all of New Mexico. Something that's al- almost annoying, but also really a wonderful thing about him is that whenever I was out with him at school board conferences, he knows everybody. He [laughter] knows everyone. And so everyone would come over and they would want to talk to Gary Tripp. And if he didn't know them, he worked really hard to get to know individuals and really make those connections um, that would help our, um, our district. He wanted to work on, on all sides of the aisle and and be there for everyone. It was all about students. And so really, really appreciate, um, board member Gary Tripp. While he served with us, he was a board member here, but he represented us, um, with New Mexico
024School Board Association. Um, he also worked on the resolutions committee, which sometimes that's why he would try to tell us to bring them down a little bit because they had a lot of resolutions that would come in. Um, but he's done a great, great work for our, um, school district over the years. So, that's really >> Yes, I had known Gary before, but I wasn't quite uh I didn't quite know all of his background. So, um as I worked with him, he really was just like an encyclopedia, if you will, of information about the public school systems and and and the PED in this state. So, I learned a lot from Gary. I learned a lot from all of the for- former board members and appreciate them all very much. >> Thank you, Dr. Griego.
025>> There is uh I've known Gary a real Gary Tripp a long time. Um he um we those of us who know him well say he knows half of the state and the other half he's related to. >> Yeah, that's true. >> And so, he he is the one that can work a room and knows just always knows somebody who um who who is there. Uh Gary came to uh work for us from the Moriarty Edgewood district. And um he came the second year of Rio Rancho High School. And he um became the the second principal of that building and I I uh remember that when he resigned and was getting ready to move, um and and wasn't really nice to the new principal, who turned out to be a fabulous principal, too. But the
026kids all booed him. And I I uh you know, because they did not want Gary Tripp to leave and they they really enjoyed him as a principal and I said to Gary one time, I said, "You know, kids shouldn't like you as much as they do." Uh but they truly uh found him to be a an inspirational leader. When came in, we had some real challenges and I was worried about keeping that staff. And once uh it was announced that Gary Tripp was the principal, that all stopped. Yeah, everybody was just kind of breathed a a sigh of relief. And so, um he was a principal there for for several years and um because Gary was so well-liked, he was bringing people with him um from Moriarty Edgewood and um one day I was on
027the capital, and the first lady, Alice King, grabbed me by the arm, and she said, "Sue, I want to talk to you." And so, I know her forever, know the family forever. And she said, "Don't you take one more person out of Moriarty Edgewood school district, and you tell Gary Tripp that as well." And I said, "Well, you know, we're not recruiting them." And she said, "Sue." And I said, "Yes, ma'am. Um I I understood." But, um he brought a lot of really wonderful people to this district with him, and that list is long. He went on then to be the executive director of the NMAA, which was his dream job, the job he always wanted, and and did a great job there. Um it was nice to see him come back and and be
028a board member as well. And I always think of Gary as a challenger for the underdog, uh always wanting to be sure that um all students got a fair deal and a fair opportunity, and he was really committed uh to to making that happen. And so, um Gary has contributed in so many ways to education in our state, and I'm not at all surprised he's now on the Board of Regents for New Mexico Highlands University. But, um he certainly has a a rich legacy in this district, and I thank him for his service as well. >> All right. Well, thank you. We'll give him a go. >> [applause] >> And you know, we do a lot for board members, but and we've had just a really great board over the last few years, and um
029I just really want to commend our district staff for that, um for how great a relationship we'd we've had with them. Um we have wonderful, wonderful people who work in this district, and I wish I could talk about every single one of them, um because they're wonderful. Um we have others who are, you know, retiring out. We have um Michael Chavez leaving us soon, and we have just There's so many that um that we appreciate, um who have just done so much for us. So, um, so with that, we'll we'll end we'll end there and go into our reports. But, um, if wherever Gary and Jeffrey are, we are holding these ransom until you come in come and pick them up for us uh, from us. So, we'll go into our reports. Our first report
030is, um, on information technology and cybersecurity. We have Scott Leppelman, our executive director of information technology, who will be presenting. >> Hello, President Galbreath, Dr. Cleveland, members of the board. Um, thanks for having me up today. Um, I'm going to give you guys a brief overview of the IT department, and then I'll get into cybersecurity, especially for those new board members up here. Um, just give you a brief introduction. We've got, um, we've got a pretty good team. Um, a bunch of really hard-working individuals. Uh, we've broken up our team into four parts, really. We've got our our technician team, our service desk, our systems team, and our network team. Um, all of them are responsible for a very specific set of duties. Um, the service desk has come in recently, and, uh, about the
031last three or four years. Tyler leads that, and it's been game-changing for our district. Um, and we're working on kind of morphing that into a security operations center. So, that's what we've been doing for the last couple of years is building this hybrid approach to where we can respond very quickly quickly to security incidents, while also, um, maintaining support, uh, for our district. So, uh, we're putting a lot of work on these guys over here, but um, but Tyler's been great, and we're getting those guys, uh, trained up. So, uh, we've got a cybersecurity analyst, his name is Christian Haquez. He was actually a former Rio Rancho Public School student. So, we like uh, recruiting those if we can, uh, and they're always really great. Um, so, with that, I'm going to go ahead and
032move into the cybersecurity part of our presentation. So, um, just give a brief overview of the different threats we see. Uh, some of you are I'm sure are familiar with these, but uh, about 90% of hacks or any sort of vulnerability breaches come through phishing attacks. Um, that 90% can include social engineering, ransomware, malware. Um, a lot of them are designed just to trick a user into providing information, whether it's password, whether it's information, bank account information. Uh, we've had some successful ones where uh, users have actually sent gift cards to their principal because somebody impersonating a principal sent an email to them saying, "Hey, I need Amazon gift cards for this urgent project we're working on. Please email the links to uh, this phone number." And we've actually had staff fall for that. So,
033we were working uh, very diligently to get everybody trained up, but we also have DDoS attacks. Uh, we've actually had um, several uh, DDoS attacks in the past. Uh, the last one we had was about 6-7 years ago, and it was actually instigated by a student. Uh, and it was around testing time, as you can imagine. And this kid actually paid for a botnet. And [clears throat] this botnet, thousands of devices, uh, just swarmed our firewall. And basically the goal is just to bring systems down. So, it's a distributed denial of service. The goal is purely to be disruptive. Um, sometimes it's to weaken firewalls and just try to slip into the back door while the firewall is vulnerable. Um, but we actually had that happen 6 or 7 years ago. It was quite an
034ordeal. Um, since then we've gotten some additional funding. We've put in some hardware appliances to reduce the likelihood of those things, and we've seen upticks of that, uh, but we've been able to prevent them. So, the problem is is as AI comes and uh, all these different botnets continue to grow, it becomes harder and harder to put to fight against these types of attacks. And then you see zero-day vulnerabilities and zero-day attacks every day that are that are new that no systems have seen. Um, and so, I'll get in next to kind of what we're doing. Um, the threat landscape is interesting, actually. Um, since 2024, education is now the number one targeted uh threat uh industry uh globally. So, we're getting hit more than any other industry in the world right now. I I
035think part of that has to do with the fact that um, education uh districts are usually underfunded um, for security. Uh, we don't have enough money from the state. Uh, it's hard to get high-paying security people into the education field. Um, they're very high-paying jobs, and so, school districts are particularly vulnerable. We also have really lucrative data, um, like uh student information, social security numbers, addresses. We deliberately do not store student social security numbers for that reason. Um, and I think that's been a really smart decision on behalf of the district because if we do have a uh a a breach, at the very least we've mitigated what data is out there. Um, so, just in 2025, we saw significant increase in attacks, significant increase in ransomware. Um, most districts have seen some sort of
036an incident. Uh, fortunately for us, we see stuff daily, but we've not had um, a serious incident. Um, and so, I'll get into also um, the cost. Um, the average cost I was looking this up, I was actually surprised by this as well. Um, the average cost even in K-12 is around $3.8 million for a security incident, for a major one, like ransomware. Um, we've seen APS have ransomware attacks. We've seen multiple school districts brought down. Las Cruces had a major one years ago. Uh, usually this means days to weeks of an outage. Um, it impacts your relationship with parents, with students, because people lose trust. Uh, usually we're having to pay for credit monitoring services when when incidents like this happen for students for years. Um and it it creates massive burden on staff
037trying to recover data, trying to do forensics, paying for outside companies to come in and and help you determine what happened, to be preventative, restore backups. So, it's a very very significant operational cost and I think one of the reasons why Mike Baker is basically tasked it as my number one priority to to protect the district, protect our data. Um because if we do have an incident like this, it'll be disruptive to student learning. It'll be disruptive to our ability to operate. Um so, I'll go ahead and move on to the next one. So, um this is just kind of our goals for protecting the network. Um we want a safe and reliable network for our students. We want to protect their data. We want to protect staff data. And this is how we are
038doing it. So, here's the I'd say I'd say about six pillars that we that we have to protect us and I call it we call it like a layered defense. So, with every possible attack vector, you want multiple systems in place to potentially prevent that attack from being successful. So, we have network firewalls that operate out on the perimeter to the internet. They operate internally to prevent data from getting, you know, from student devices into sensitive data, for example. We have endpoint security which is a more of a behavioral type of antivirus which looks for, you know, odd behaviors on devices to prevent uh the executions of malicious activity. Uh we also have a very robust disaster recovery um a 3-2-1 type of policy where we put three different copies of all of our backups
039in the three different locations, three different types of medium, um so that if something is compromised, it doesn't spread out through the rest of the backups. They kind of stay isolated and we also air gap our backups, which means they don't have access to the network. They don't have access to the internet um, during the time they're sitting um, still, basically. Uh, we have web safety policies in place, which brings our firewall, uh, is involved in that, but also we have uh, application called Securely that sits on our Chromebooks, which protects our students at home and here at the uh, at the district when they're using internet on their Chromebooks. Uh, we have a very robust internet security application called Abnormal, which basically uses AI to analyze every single email that comes through to determine
040if there's something odd about that email, then needs to flag it and prevent it from getting into the user's inbox. Um, that system can also help us pull emails out of users' inboxes, um, and it's also the system that we use to do our security awareness, which um, basically right now what we're doing is we're sending out monthly simulated phishing emails and if our staff clicks on one of those emails, um, they'll get training. Um, and sometimes people aren't very happy about those emails that come through, but uh, it's, I think, is significant because since 90% of those threats come in through email, um, our our staff are really our number one uh, threat response, right? So, if our staff don't click on the email, if they don't download that malicious software, then we don't
041have a problem um, in most cases, right? So, that's really something what we're trying to ramp up and target and you'll probably see me here in a couple of months, uh, looking to put in a new email policy out that actually mandates that training. Um, because I think it's probably the most important thing we can do in addition to all the other um, threat responses we have. So, we're on the next one. Um, so, we try to do a a of proactive, um, processes uh, from vulnerability scanning. We do that daily. We're doing monthly audits of those scans with all of our teams to determine which team needs to do what to remediate any vulnerabilities we see on the network. Um, we do yearly penetration testing. So, we bring in a third party. They come
042in. They basically try to hack our network from outside the network, from inside the network. They tell us what's vulnerable, where our problems are, what needs to be patched, what needs to be fixed. We go through, we remediate it, we do it again the next year. Um, we've improved our software vetting practice cuz software is another really, really large threat vector where, um, you see a lot of malware. And so, we don't we don't install or allow the installation of any software that I work without it being vetted and deployed centrally from, uh, the IT department. Um, and and that's been a very, very positive policy cuz we've seen a lot of malware in the past, you know, years and years and years ago before we started these practices come from that just kind of
043shady software that people download. Um, and then the fishing simulation training which I touched on. This is actually an example of simulation sent in the last 90 days. Um, so you can see we've we sent out a lot. That's to all staff, right, multiple times. Um, and then and then we've we've also varied those. They get staggered. Um, and so the 31% number is actually just the people that clicked on the email to look at it. That's not necessarily the bad part. The 7% is the bad part. And that number is actually quite a bit lower. When we've done, um, simulations years and years ago, the number was 30, 40, 50%. So, we have made an impact, I think, over the years teaching our staff to look for emails, kind of be paranoid when they
044see emails, uh, really teach them to look for impersonation emails because those are, um, those are the most likely ones to be successful, right? We've seen impersonation emails come from Dr. Cleveland, from board members, principals, teachers, just about every every job title. Um and then the number we're really trying to bump up here is when people do click on those links, we want them to do the training. Uh that's only about 3 to 5 minutes of training. They they look at it, they read it, they answer a few questions, then they're done. So, we're trying to bump that number up. Um but I do think that this is probably the the area where we need to focus the most over the next few years is really training our staff on what to look for so
045we can be vigilant. Um so, this is what we're automatically remediating um at least on the email side. This doesn't include viruses, what's coming into our firewall. Um I just wanted to show email because this is very significant. In 90 days, we've remediated or blocked 2,700 malicious emails uh from ransomware to malware, the list goes on. Uh 1,300 of those were impersonation attacks. So, pretending to be a Rio Rancho employee uh or somebody associated with Rio Rancho. Um move on to the next. And then these are basically the ones that get through. It's depending on the month, 5% or so. Um and then the security operations center needs to remediate it. So, in some cases people report these and then they'll get remediated on their own or we'll remediate it or we'll see a breached
046account that'll be remediated. Many times those are automatically remediated when we see the breached accounts. Um but so these guys are left with you know, about 5% left over to where we're having to manually make some changes and remediate those things. Obviously, we want that number to be as low as possible. So, we're putting in as many systems and and policies in place to do that. And we can tweak things. Sometimes we over tweak it, make it too strict. Sometimes we tweak it back and we make it too loose. Um so, it's a constant game of trying to figure out, well, how do we put in as much security as possible without negatively impacting our staff's ability to do their jobs. And that that's probably the hardest balance to take because um you know, allowing
047a certain amount of acceptable risk drives any security person absolutely crazy. They lose their minds. So, uh but it's a reality that we kind of have when we're obviously in a school environment. Um move on to the next one. So, this is my last slide. I just wanted to kind of cover this. Dr. Cleveland touched on this actually. Um there was a major major uh breach of PowerSchool back in 2024. Um it freaked everybody out. Um it was actually a 19-year-old kid basically that did this hack. And this kid was able to get the credentials of some security tools or actually support tools that PowerSchool used to support their customers. Uh so, PowerSchool would use these tools. They would log into uh customer's cloud appliance or customer's on-site appliance, and then they could just help
048the customer with whatever issues they were having. Well, this hacker was able to get their hands on one of those tools and the credentials for those tools, and then they logged into almost everybody's cloud and on-premise PowerSchool environment. They extracted all that data, student information, social securities, addresses of staff and students. And then they held all those districts at ransom. Said, "You need to give me this much money, and basically I'll prove to you that all the data's wiped and it won't be leaked on the dark web." And so, obviously the second we found out that happened, what we did is we did forensics on our server. Uh we did forensics to our firewall, and we actually determined that there was an attempt using those support tools to get to our server. Um the reason
049it was unsuccessful is because we practice something called zero-trust security, which is basically the standard now, but it's a really really hard to implement. Um because zero trust means we don't trust anything. Everything starts off blocked, and then you allow what you know you need. And over time, you can build that up to have a very very um particular and efficient uh security policy, but it's very hard to implement initially. Um now, we are I'd say we're about 95% on that to where we allow certain categories out to the internet, right? We can't just whitelist individual websites, but generally speaking, applications, software, websites, we do not allow it unless we know it's something that has to be used by district staff to do their jobs. Um because of that, we weren't allowing those support tools
050those uh to access our server until we needed support from PowerSchool. We also were not allowing access to um outside countries, countries outside of the United States, for example, um which is where they tried to pull that data out to Ukraine. So, those two policies um they actually tried to route it through Ukraine. It was actually just a VPN, but those two policies right there prevented us uh from being compromised. And so, there were very few school districts that have that host their own PowerSchool or have a cloud PowerSchool environment that were able to avoid um that incident. So, uh I'd say it was a good good on our team, um on our engineers, on everybody that builds out our network, thinking things through that was able to prevent that. Um and so, we were
051very happy to prevent that attack. Um And with that, if you guys have any questions, I'm happy to answer. >> Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Cleveland, did you want to add anything before we go to questions? You're good? Okay. I have to say that I went and reported an email. >> [laughter] >> As you were talking, I was like, "Oh, that's that weird email today. I should report that really quick." So, >> And report those, and if it's if it's fake, it'll tell you. >> Okay. >> email later if it's a simulated email. If it isn't, I think it tells you as well, doesn't it? I think it tells you if it's a real phishing email as well. >> I So my question, I guess, is is do I even do that
052right? Because I know how to do it at work. We use Microsoft, so using Google, but I reported it as spam. Is that like the right way to do it? Is there another Okay, that's good to know. Okay, that's what I wanted. That's what I should have done. Yeah. Okay. That's it Well, and I'm sitting here, so I shouldn't have been doing it anyway, >> [laughter] >> but I was like, "Oh, I'm going to report that." So Okay, so we can when we go into it, we report it as phishing and and so Okay. Thank you. Um so we'll go to questions from the board. We'll start with uh Michael Berry. >> I'll only just say I I was gotten by your simulated attack, so Well, no, it wasn't today. It was uh what I
053It was like the first day I got it. And I was expecting to sign documents, and it asked me to sign documents, and so I pushed the thing, and I felt like such a chump. So uh >> because it actually will look at that. It'll look at what emails that have been coming through, and it'll it'll try to trick you. >> Yeah, I was totally expecting to get to sign, and I didn't have a baseline. Anyway, I felt like my job, I should know better with this, so I felt like such a chump. Um I guess my my question is uh first off, I'll just say um I know that IT departments are thankless job, and you when no one when nothing bad is happening, people are happy and know it or you're only attention
054when bad things are happening, so uh I know that's a ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure. And my brief experience with talking to Tyler getting set up, it seems like you guys are doing a lot of the best practices, so applaud you there. Uh what is the What are we I feel like students are like the number one vulnerability here. What is the what It seems uh what what are we doing with students? Do they get trainings or emails or like how do they >> That's a really, really good question. Thank you, actually. Um so we've put in uh better password policies for students. Um the biggest challenge we have with students is and we experience this at the beginning of the year actually is as we increase our password policies, as we
055try to implement things like multi-factor authentication, which is what we really want to do for students, it's extremely challenging and disruptive to get these kids started in the school year. >> Yeah. >> Um, and so we have some some outline goals that we're going to have to work with CNI and a lot of people around the district to figure out, well, how do we better protect student accounts? And then also, how do we make student accounts not matter? And what I mean by that is if a student account gets compromised, >> Nothing on there that's important. Yeah. >> and so we've done a lot of that because it's harder for us to put things like multi-factor. Students can't have phones in the classroom, so we can't do multi-factor with a phone. It has to be
056with like a CAPTCHA >> Or a YubiKey or >> We talked about that. It's extremely expensive and they lose them. Um, they lose their badges all the time, so that that's a challenge. But yes, I would love the ability to use YubiKeys. Uh, it's really smart and that's something we're looking at for staff as well. Um, but it does come with a list of challenges. And so it really is going to come down to coordinating with CNI, other departments, figuring out how we can implement this for students. Uh, it looks like we do have some tools. Um, we use ClassLink right now where we can implement multi-factor for students, but it would be something it won't be like true multi-factor. It'll be like a a PIN that they know or a picture that they know
057in addition to their password. >> Yeah. >> Um, with elementary we actually technically have implemented passkeys, um, which are basically little QR codes. So each kid has a QR code, basically has a thousand character password on it, and they just scan the QR code. So it's something you have to have. So actually it's more secure there at the elementary level. Um, but we can't really implement that right now district-wide. Also, for students that take their devices home, it becomes challenging. >> Sure. >> So the the answer to the question is yes, we we do that. We spend a lot of time working on um, um improving password complexity and we spend a lot of time on uh reducing the impact of a student's account is compromised. Uh those accounts are very um they don't have
058access to a whole lot. Um we also uh do auto account mediation very very uh well. So, we remediate accounts that look like they're compromised and we've had several compromised accounts this year that are basically remediated sometimes within seconds or minutes. Um so, uh there is improvement to be done there, absolutely. >> Fantastic. Thank you. >> Thanks. Uh Rebecca Murray. Thank you for all your hard work. Um I did fall victim to one of those emails as well. I did do the training. So, I'm No, and so now I'm paranoid every time I open an email um or not open an email. My thing is so the training with staff, you said it's very low, like 2%, right? Why do you feel that? Is it they don't have the time to do those little email
059trainings or >> I think it's two things. Um one, sometimes staff don't really know what they're clicking on. Um and we've honestly been a little uh purposefully have not communicated exactly what's happening because we want people to click on the emails, honestly, if they're going to click on them. Um so, that's part of it. The second piece is we're also trying to implement a a monthly uh video that really it's unique. Uh that's like 3 minutes or so. Uh we're waiting on that feature with the tools that we have to be able to do that. Um we used to do it with our older tools. We're waiting for our newer tools to to have that feature set. And with that training, we're going to be a lot more vocal about, "Okay, do the training." We're
060wanting to make it mandatory. That's the goal. Trying to build that into policy. But uh once I make it mandatory and we really communicate that mandatory nature of it, I think we'll get better participation in the training piece. >> Okay, thanks. Beth Miller. >> Thank you for all you're doing. >> [clears throat] >> I I also received one of those messages, but I contacted Jacey and I said, "This looks a little suspicious to me." And she said, "Go over here, click over here, and get rid of it." So, thank you, Jacey. Yes, she's very helpful. So, anytime I ask for help from the department, I've received it and I appreciate that very much. Congratulations for all you're doing. I know this is very difficult to do. >> Thank you. >> And Seth Morgan. >> I
061also received one. >> [laughter] >> But, I haven't done anything with it cuz I couldn't find the fish button on my phone. And And I knew it was fish cuz it said it came from Sal, but the signature on it was Salvatore and I'm like, he never signs his name Salvatore. So, this is not legit. So, they are using the names of the people we know and then one analyst for all the devices you have, holy cow, that's crazy. Um but, if you need help, uh let me know. I can put you guys in touch with the NMASIC, the New Mexico All Source Intelligence Center, which is the fusion center for the state. They're always I send Sal physical security stuff all the time from the NMASIC, but they have a sub cyber division. And
062I also know Andy Buschcom with CISA. And they would do a lot of free training and free They'll come in and do uh networking and so, there's some good resources for free resources available to you guys. Just let me know and I can put you in touch with those guys and they'll be more than happy to help out. >> Yeah, I appreciate it. >> Sure. >> All right. And Dr. Cleven, do you want to add anything? >> I would say a couple of things. You know, I as I mentioned earlier in my comments, it's that that push and pull between access that people want and want quickly in the classroom, and having to balance that with keeping the whole system safe. And And so, it is it is a hard act to to to to
063accomplish, and they they work really hard to to do both of those things. I um um you know, there are so many things that impact uh IT and and we had an event this weekend, which was just like a a weekend maybe a week or two before that and get a call from Scott and says somebody has sliced the the the the fiber again. And I will tell you when that happens, it's a really funny thing in a sense, but the school personnel are like The Walking Dead. They they hardly know what to do and because everything that we do is so wrapped into our attendance and our phones and our you know, everything. And so how do we you know, how do we move forward? Not wanting to cancel school because kids need to
064be in school and it's often very hard for families to arrange child care at the last minute. And some of our children really count on that meal. Um and so you're looking at how can we how can we keep the school open? And then so Scott moved really quickly. They got hotspots out to the school. Uh found a way uh to work around that so that we could continue to have school, but we have had I don't know how many how many of those incidents as we have a contractor in the area that's putting in new lines and and they cut the the the lines and and we are faced with a challenge of making it work in schools and um thankfully in this day and time almost everybody in school has a phone. And
065so you are not out there um completely on your own, but they also moved out there to get hotspots so that there was emergency communication and uh everything I heard it went okay today and they were able to make it work. We had the very same situation with Mountain View maybe a week or two ago and same you know, I'm old enough to remember when we actually could teach a lesson without technology. And and so it's still possible to do and our teachers stepped up and they did a really good job in in having good instruction in the schools even though uh they didn't have access to to the technology that day. So, commend the principal um and the staff, but also particularly the IT folks who who made it possible for us to to
066go ahead and have a day of school uh when we face these kinds of emergencies, but they are frustrating when people cut the lines because it just impacts so many aspects of our uh operation. And then they have to go back the next day and figure how to get that attendance in and and to clean up everything afterwards, but they responded quickly and efficiently and um and really appreciate uh that that effort. >> I do want to talk on that just really quick, actually. Um and I'm glad to come back for a presentation about what we've done with our data centers and fiber redundancy and everything. Um what we've had happen in the city has been extremely frustrating because we've had uh contractors everywhere cutting multiple piece of fiber. Well, we did a $2 million
067special construction project. We put tons of fiber into the ground. I'm I mean a lot of fiber. We got subrings all around the city. And as a result, we've had multiple fiber cuts, probably 10 plus fiber cuts over the last year with no impact. Recently, they're doing even more work. Well, they cut one of our main uh backup lines, basically. And in a very bad spot, and they've been struggling to get that repaired. And during that time, these other contractors have gone around and cut other spots while that backup line is down. As a result, bringing down individual schools. Um now, previously, this would have brought down chunks of schools, seven, eight, or nine, possibly entire sections. Um so, we've we have significantly reduced the impact with the amount of fiber we've put in the
068ground, but even with that, we've still encountered such a rapid succession of cuts in different areas around the city that's creating problems. So, I've been trying to work around with our contractor to get the people that are doing this reported, try to put a halt to some of it, see if we can be preventative while getting our backup line prepared, which we should have repaired really soon. It was a major major cut in a really bad spot. So, I just want to touch on that briefly and then it's all you, Adam. >> All right. Thank you. Any other questions, Rooney? Thanks, Scott. I appreciate you coming in. Thank you. I will say as I've watched Stranger Things with my kids this last time, I said, "Yeah, that's the way we used to do it." Like
069they would show the different technologies in the classroom. [laughter] I'm like, "That's how we used to learn right there." Um >> It's just interesting to see the disbelief. And we won't have our printers, and we won't have our phones, and then how do we take attendance, and how do we get, you know. >> Yeah. >> But, uh there were some really solid workarounds and and >> But, we're hoping that they could get everything installed and we with having this as a weekly occurrence. >> Yeah. Very frustrating. >> It is frustrating. Well, thank you again. So, we do not have any public comment for the evening. No one signed up in person, so you can sign up either in person in the board room, or you can go to the public comment form if you would
070like to give public comment. And we'll now go to the consent. If we can get a motion on the consent agenda. >> Board member Miller, I move to approve the consent agenda. >> I second, Rebecca Murray. >> Thank you. So, we have a motion and a second, and all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Okay, we'll now go to the business portion of our meeting for tonight. Our first will be to consider the award of RFP number 2026-021-SND food services vendor for school stores and co-curriculum programs. Um Chris Tweet, our director of purchasing, will be presenting this, but Heather Gabeldon is going to introduce him to us first. >> Good evening, Board President Galbreath, Superintendent Cleveland, and members of the board. Um, my name is Heather Gabeldon, and I am the
071interim executive director of finance. And tonight, I would >> Just wait a moment. >> [laughter] >> Mostly because I can't hear you on the the feed then. Heather, we just wanted you to have to stay up here longer with us, so. >> All right, start over? >> I think you're okay to >> Can I okay? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay, good evening. [clears throat] Um, tonight I would like to introduce you to Chris Tweet. He is our, um, purchasing director. He came on board with us about a month ago, and has really hit the ground running. He replaced Michael Madrid, who left in November, and he joins us with a comes to us with a wealth of information about public school district purchasing. Um, he spent 10 plus years at Roswell Independent Schools, 7 plus
072years at the New Mexico Public Education Department in the Capital Outlay Bureau, and most recently was at the Central Region Educational Cooperative. So, we are very fortunate to have Chris join our team, and we really look forward to to continuing the great work that happens in the purchasing department at finance. And with that, I'll turn it over to Chris. >> Thank you. Um, Board President Galbreath, uh, Superintendent Cleveland, members of the board, it's it's, uh, thank you for having me here. It's it's nice to be here. Um, the intent of this request for proposal is to support uh, Rio Rancho High Schools and Sue Cleveland High School school stores and co-curricular programs to provide uh, food and snack solutions to their students uh, which do comply with federal and Mexico Public Education Department and school
073district standards uh, and requirements. Um, many thanks to Felix Griego, the district's um, executive director of school of student nutrition uh, for his expertise and guidance in making sure that the appropriate language did make it to the request for proposal. Uh, as Superintendent Cleveland mentioned, we did have two vendors who responded. And the evaluation committee, after reviewing the proposals, um, moved to bring forward to you all a recommendation uh, to approve them. Uh, so with that, I stand for any questions. >> Okay, thank you. I love that Chill Zones on here. My kids have loved Chill Zones for many, many years. So, um, Seth, any questions? Okay, Beth, any questions? Any questions, Rebecca or Michael? >> Real quick, is there a reason why we only got two? Is that standard? Is that Was it expected
074behavior to get two proposals? >> So, um, really the intent for this it it was kind of an unscheduled um, we didn't really have a list of vendors specifically that we knew we wanted to reach out to. Um, we just knew that at this point in time that we really did want to focus on those two. Um, having said that, it was open to anyone who reviewed the proposal. Um, and with with the schools, if they have any needs to want to increase the number of vendors uh, to put towards these programs, we can issue another request for proposal at any time. >> Copy. Okay, thank you. >> Felix, did you want to add anything to that? No, you're good. Okay. Okay, you're maybe yes, no. Well, and I'm guessing too, because it has to
075be in this compliance with certain things. You probably there's just not everyone can can comply with that. >> Yeah, all the rules and regulations, so. >> Yeah. >> Um, that's why you will will see a grill chicken patty instead of a frozen uh breaded one. And uh >> But, it's uh we we try very hard to be in compliance with those regulations cuz we know it's kids' health. And And so, we try to be as healthy as we can be. >> Yeah, for sure. >> And And just quick, man. So, uh most of our bids um um we do have far more bids on things and two two is very unusual. I think this was just a little bit of a different kind of of market. Yeah. >> Um so, with that, we can go
076for a motion if there's no more questions or discussion. >> I'm asking. >> I'm going ahead. >> I don't know the exact language. I'm like Board Member Berry motions to approve the >> And then you do the whole RFP. >> Oh, um the award for the RFP number 206 2026012SND. >> And you can keep Yeah. >> Oh, and the vendors of BKN B LLC DBA Chick-fil-A Anson Southern and Shiloh Zone LLC. >> Okay. Okay. So, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Board Member Miller, I second the motion. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Thank you so much. It's nice to nice to meet you. We look forward to getting to know you better. All right. Our next is to consider
077the approval of the 2026 NMSBA Student Achievement Awards and Janet our elementary school improvement officer will present. With Renee Saucedo. >> Thought I would bring my twin Renee Saucedo with me. >> I know you guys look beautiful today. [laughter] >> No, we did not plan this. And we forgot we were presenting. So, um good evening, Madam President and members of the board and Dr. Cleveland. And welcome to our new board members. We're excited to have you. We are here to make a nomination on behalf of school administration administration for the New Mexico School Board Association Student in Excellence Achievement Award. And we are recommending Tasha Young. Tasha Young has been a teacher in our district and instructional coach in another district. She was a Title 1 coordinator, an assistant principal, and now she works in
078the wonderful RADA department, research, assessment, data, and accountability as the director of educational data. There are several things that Tasha does to help our schools, but I will tell you that complying with the New Mexico DASH school improvement process has been a lot. And Tasha has been incredible in assisting us with the schools in making that extremely clear. And I'll I'll show you something I'll show you an example in a minute. So, the New Mexico DASH plan stands for data, accountability, sustainability, and high achievement and impacts grades 3 through 8. So, every year each school has to do two 90-day plans. They do one initial 90-day plan with 30-day reviews and then a second 90-day plan. It's a pretty intensive process and there's a lot of language around it and it can be kind of
079confusing. So, they have um different components that each school has to complete and it it really takes somebody masterful to understand all of that and dig down. And she's done an incredible job doing every training possible and taking that language and really making it simple for schools so they can write their goals. This year, for the first time ever, all of our elementary schools are aligned in their goals in work in collaboration with the CNI department as well. So, every school is working on the exact same goals for reading and math using proficiency skills. And really that generated our first district DASH that we have. And she's been a huge part of that process. >> And with secondary, she's really she's really working to align secondary, which sometimes can be difficult if you know secondary,
080and um she has gotten into every school. She meets with them. She um Independence High School is in an MRI status, which is a more rigorous intervention, and I can explain that to you at a at another time, but it really involves a lot of work with the NM dash, PED, lots of data, and Tasha has really come in and helped them kind of pull everything together with all of those meetings that happen. So, she's been she is just key as far as getting data and getting those dash plans for every school K-12. Like, she works with everyone, and everyone is very invite like they invite her in and are really appreciative of her work. >> Just for a little background, third through eighth grade, they have to have an ELA and a math goal,
081and then they can have another goal if they want. High school is totally on graduation rate. So, they are different plans, too. And for somebody to be able to get in all the way K-12 is is pretty incredible. Um this first 90-day cycle, we got feedback from the PED for probably the first time. I think they hired more people, and we all got feedback. [laughter] Every one of our plans had maybe one comment, but they were all very well received. But, we had one school that had 100%, and that was Cleveland High School. So, it was pretty impressive to see the work she's been able to do. You may ask why she doesn't work with pre-K, and that's because they're under the early childhood, and um they have their own their own >> [clears throat]
082>> school improvement plan they have to do. It's a little different. Um like I said, she works with planning. She plans curriculum instruction as well with our curriculum and instruction department. She's part of supporting our site-based coaches, site leadership, whatever you want her to do that involves data, she will be there. She I've seen her in meetings with grade levels and she has this way of asking questions that kind of just push back on people who might be pushing back, but she does it in such a professional way and everybody respects her. She assists with assessment literacy and implementation of assessments. So right now we're going through Amira in elementary and she's visited school sites with the rep from Amira to kind of answer some of the questions and concerns that we've had. She's very
083inquisitive and willing to encourage staff to challenge their thinking. We did reach out uh we had a short turnaround to reach from building principals about some of the reasons why they would like to see her uh receive this award and so I'll let Renee we'll just kind of take turns reading. >> Tasha actively and consistently pursues our team when it comes to NM Dash work, ensuring we never feel unsupported. She is not afraid to step directly into the work and literally coming into the room with us to provide hands-on support in whatever way is needed. She takes something that is typically high stress and reduces that stress for me by 100% through her presence, expertise, and commitment to helping schools succeed. >> Another administrator said Tasha has been an integral part of our Dash team
084over the last 2 years. She has really helped to make an ambiguous plan concrete, digestible, and achievable. She is completely invested in our school pride, its goals, and successes. Her kind approach and fun nature makes it easy for our team to get engaged and excited about Dash in a way that makes the plan livable and doable. >> Every administrative team across the district is so different, but they all feel the same about her. So So, able to go into all of those different situations and just kind of mold into what that school needs. And this one's kind of long, so I will just um take one paragraph from it. One of Tasha's most notable contribution was the creation of an interactive template that systematically houses anecdotal data and required information for the 90-day dash plan
085throughout the year. This template is both user-friendly and robust. It streamlines data entry for teachers, organizes evidence of practice for administrators, and produces consistent documentation for submission to the state platform. Because of her design, teams are able to collaborate more efficiently, reduce duplication of effort, and maintain a clear audit trail of progress and interventions. The template has been extremely useful in ensuring that all aspects of the 90-day plan are completed thoroughly and with fidelity. So, I think we have an example and this is actually a vision test more so than it is um so you can see. And this looks really complicated, but you can see in the yellow when you're able to see it on your computer and zoom in. She literally has questions for them to think about as they answer every part
086of their dash plan review as they go through it. So, she's helped some teachers write and then now in some teams she's just observing. She's been pretty incredible. So, um that is our recommendation for possibly one of the candidates to receive your award and we stand if you have any questions. >> Okay, thank you. Thanks for all of that. It was fun getting to know her a little bit better through all those things. Um Dr. Clavin, did you want to add anything? >> I I would just um support what's been said. She makes a difference and she makes that difference district-wide. Uh we have so much data, but the the the the important thing is can you take that data and use that data to drive instructional improvement in the classroom and school. And she
087makes that a reality in our schools. It helps support our staff. Um the whole routed department uh does a phenomenal job with that. We're very lucky it have uh that department. And uh but Tasha has certainly gone uh beyond the call of duty particularly particularly this year. And so I strongly support their recommendation. >> If I may add Dr. Cleveland to your point, that's one thing that we've noticed. She's taken all of that data and really made it simple for the schools. Like created presentations for them so they can just drill down and have conversations instead of trying to figure out how to understand it. I think that's the most important thing and you'll see in some of our winter data at least in elementary for sure. We have some incredible results and I would
088say that she's been a huge huge part in that success. >> We have some great secondary results, too. >> Um I love that. Any questions from the board on on this one? Um I move to approve Tasha Young as our 2026 NMSBA Student Achievement um award that comes from the Rio Rancho School District. >> I second, Rebecca Marie. >> And all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. >> Um and on this one before we move from it, if there's anyone else that we would like to nominate this time we're we are able to do that. Typically, we do one. Sometimes we've done more in the past, so okay. Okay. So we're good with that. Um And so our next item um I'm just
089going to give a little help with before as we go into it. So we're going to consider moving into an executive session. I'm going to read this out through here and I think it would be appropriate just because everyone's still learning all of our our ways. Um you could just say so moved if I read out the whole thing and then you can and then someone can second it. And whenever we go into an executive session, um we always do a roll call vote for it. So just to help everyone to to know what we're doing. Um so on this one um Uh so for this item, it's consider moving to a closed executive session to discuss the purchase, acquisition, or disposal of real property or water rights by the public body specifically for the
090superintendent to inform the board about potential property transactions as permitted under Section 10-15-1H8 of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. >> Board member Miller, I so move. >> Okay. Board member Miller, do we have a second? >> Second, Board member Berry. >> Seconded by Board member Berry. And then JC, can you take a roll call for us? >> Vice President Miller? >> Yes. >> Secretary Miller? >> Yes. >> Board member Murray? >> Yes. >> Board member Berry? >> Yes. >> President Galbreath? >> Yes. >> Which carries 5-0. >> Okay, wonderful. And we will not be reconvening in this meeting tonight. So, thank you everyone for being here with us.