001All righty. This is the Rio Rancho School Board meeting. Let us all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Attention, you want to take a roll call, please? President Galbreth. Vice President Morgan, present. Secretary Tyler, present. Board member Trip, board member Miller present. We have a quorum. Thank you. Welcome all to the Rio Rancho Public School Board of Education regular meeting on June 9th. At this time, we will have introductory comments by Superintendent Dr. Vue Cleman. Okay. Good evening and thank you all so much for being here this evening. We have some commendations this evening. Um Todd Rash, our executive director of athletics, will present
002two state championship teams for recognition uh this evening. Uh Rio Rancho girls track and field won the 2025 NMAA state championship um this this past spring. And also congratulations to the team and head coach Michael Gonzalez and assistant coaches for a very hard fought victory. The Rams team were uh absolutely amazing this year and uh this is the uh the championship of photo. We also had our second commendation. Cleveland High School boys track and field team is the 2025 state champions. I believe this is their and I messed up next so I hope this time I don't mess up again. Uh I believe this is their 12th state title and uh we congratulate the team. Uh, congratulations to Coach Henry and all of the assistant coaches and this program has just been awesome over over
003many years. And this is, of course, their photo. We have a a Real Rancher Education Foundation donation. Um, this this evening, the board is being asked to consider acceptance of a $10,000 donation from the Rio Rancho Education Foundation for use at the Riot Tech campus, which is scheduled to open in August. We thank the foundation for it much needed and generous donation to the new campus. Dr. Christopher Johnson, the principal. We introduce two foundation board members, Bill Stannage, who is the outgoing president of the foundation, and Jessica Miranda, president of the Rio Rancho Education Foundation. And again, we appreciate the the foundation thinking of us and the opening of this new school. We have a student nutrition report. uh Felix Grigo, our executive director of student nutrition, represent a program review to the board on
004the following some of their key accomplishments and recognitions. Uh congratulations on the USDA award and I'm sure he'll share a little bit about that. That's a very prestigious national recognition. uh student survey uh promotion program implementation, some financial and meal data, the projects and summer meals. As you know, we continue to serve meals through the summer. Uh and he'll tell you a little bit about that and then what their future goals and objectives and plans are um to um as we move into the next school year. We have an IDA application for 2025 2026. The board is being asked to consider approval of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or application for the next year. Jerry Reer, our executive director of special services, will be providing the board with information regarding the process, some of
005the requirements, and the content in the application. I want to really stress that these funds cannot be used to supplant state, local, or any other federal funds and cannot be used to reduce the district's maintenance of effort for the education of children with disabilities. And that just means that you can't um uh you have to fund at least the level that you did the prior year as you cannot go below that. You will lose the the maintenance of effort and that is not allowed under federal law. IDA does not I think a lot of times people think that IDA pays for special education. It does not. Uh it doesn't even come close to covering the gap that exists with special education costs. So that we we fund children with disabilities like we fund all children
006in the state all in in the district. IDA was supposed to help uh provide additional funding to help close the gap and the tremendous expenses that some of our children need to be able to to do well in school. Uh but it does not cover that and and that continues to be a challenge for all school districts in New Mexico and pretty much across the country. We have some invitation to bids this evening. The board will be asked to consider awarding the following invitation to bid contracts. Items will be presented by Michael Madrid who is our director of purchasing and our chief procurement officer. Uh one is related to paving and related work. One is fencing materials and repair and that's an ondemand uh contract which means as we need it. And then um bleacher
007and wall uh partition inspection and repair. And it's referring to walls like we have at the back of this room uh that are movable uh and they need to be inspected regularly and be sure that they are working and also that they continue to be safe for people in in the rooms. Bleachers, we've got a lot of challenges the years ahead with breachers. you know, our bleachers are really aging and uh we're going to have to do some work in order to keep them safe for uh students and and families and spectators. And then just a real quick summary of graduation by the numbers. We um had of course four graduations and really we had a fifth uh which was for 21 year olds and the search special ed program, but they were all special.
008They were all different. Uh we were really appreciative of how they were supported in the community and how this community office has supported uh our graduation ceremonies. Rio Rancho Cyber had 22, Independence had 63, Rio Rancho High School had 520 and Cleveland had 601. So again, congratulations to all of our graduates, but a a real thanks to all of our staff who work so hard get our students across the finish line. Thanks to our parents who just stay the course and also keep supporting and encouraging students so that they graduate. We continue to have one of the higher uh graduation rates in New Mexico uh especially for larger districts and some small districts that have 100%. But uh for the majority of districts, we continue to have a really high number. We're hoping to move
009that number next year with the opening of CTE as that will provide one more avenue for students with different interests and different backgrounds. And what we do know is that most districts who open CTE programs do see a bump in their graduation rate. And so we're really hopeful over the next few years that will be true for our district as well. So next year we will add another another school to this list. And again, congratulations to all of our graduates. All of the ceremonies were wonderful and uh all the students speeches were wonderful and the crowd as I said were very enthusiastic and supportive and they were all just great uh to attend and appreciate the board members who came and gave some of their time as well to help with the distribution of the
010diplomas. We will have a special board meeting on June the 16th. The special meeting of the board will be held next Monday. It will be held in executive session as stipulated by the open meetings act and the purpose of that will be discussion of real estate and land acquisition. Uh there are currently no plans for any other agenda items at this time. You have any comments or questions? None at all. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Cleveland. Next on the agenda, approve the prioritize agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the prioritize agenda proposed time allocations. I'll second the motion. JC, take a roll call, please. Vice President Morgan, yes. Secretary Tyler, yes. Board member Miller, yes. Thank you. Next, we'll have our commendations and we'll start with um Rioancho. Thank you, sir. Mr. Todd
011Rush, I'll go ahead and say who you are. I mean, you're on your way down. Thank you. It's kind of a challenge in the summer after the spring sports as we finish up and then everybody, you know, goes wherever they're going, but thank you so much for being here with us this evening. We're really thankful that uh some some of the student athletes got to, you know, even stick around during early June so we we could recognize them and their coaches. Uh good evening, Board Vice President Morgan, Superintendent Cleveland, and members of the board. Tonight, I have the distinct pleasure of shining a spotlight on the Rio Rancho High School girls track and field team and their outstanding leader, head coach Michael Gonzalez, for capturing their second consecutive state championship title on May 17th. This
012thrilling victory not only secured another trophy for the school, it marked the 52nd state championship for Rio Rancher High School and an incredible 103rd for the district. The girls delivered a performance full of grit and determination, winning the state title in dramatic and unforgettable fashion. To witness this team make history with back-to-back championships was nothing short of inspiring. It is truly an honor to recognize this phenomenal program, and I'm thrilled to introduce Coach Gonzalez and the extraordinary student athletes of the Rio Rancho girls track and field team. Right. Thank you. Hello everyone. Um, so I have a wonderful group of girls here that I wanted to put a spotlight on. Um, first we have Sarah Martinez. Please raise your hand, Sarah. This is Sarah. Sarah's a great representative uh for our discus program. Uh I
013should say throwers program. She throws disc and shot. She excelled phenomenally in the disc. And she uh got a fifth place finish at state. And what was awesome about this is Sarah was seated fifth going into it. So she did her job. She did what she needed to do. And when you're at the state level, there's a lot of pressure. And so she she did it very well. Uh she also did very well in shot put and we're hoping to see um her even make further progression in the shot put as well. Um any thoughts about javelin? May maybe next year. Okay. So um Sarah not only like just does very well in throws but she brings a lot of life and joy um to our throws program. When you think of the throws program
014like Sarah is there really good teammate. So please give it up for Sarah. The next three, um, what's cool about, uh, the three of these girls is that they were in our 4x4. And what's exciting about the 4x4 and track and field is it's the last event of the meet. So, at that point, everybody knows where every school stands and how many points you need to finish. So, we knew going into it, if we were to have gotten fifth, we would have tied for first. but we didn't want to do that again. Uh that happened last year. We tied for first place. So we did very well with these group of girls and we got third place. Um so we ended up beating Elorado um ahead of them by like four points overall. Um so
015these girls had to deal with a lot of pressure at the very end cuz they knew it was up to the 4x4. And I didn't give the greatest speech. One of my assistant coaches, I got credit, Jenny Severs, she was feeling it. She was like, I'm going to talk to these girls. And I was like, I had to get out of the way. I'm like, go ahead, like, have a motivational speech. I added a few things at the end of the speech, but like you guys were I could just see it in your eyes. You were so ready to go. Um, so we have Sophia Smith here. Raise your hand Sophia. Yeah. So Sophia, I'd say, is definitely our top sprinter in the 100, the 200, the 400. So it's very exciting. Again, all these
016ladies are freshman, so excite. It's going to be great having them for three more years. Oh wow. Um yeah. So um she held it down in the anchor in the 4x4 and it was just exciting because we were in fifth place with like 100 meters to go and then she just took off and it was just we were like celebrating trying not to celebrate too much cuz something could happen in the last 50 m but it was it was awesome. So Sophia's awesome. We have Addie here. Um Addie started us off in the blocks and that's really hard to do. Um, in the 4x4, everyone is so spread out that first leg. So, she held it down. Had a lot of pressure. Always you're always like kind of uh wondering how the gun starts going
017to go, but she did very well. And then both of these girls did other relays, too. But I just like to really highlight the 4x4 cuz it was so exciting at the end. And then we have Michaela here. Michaela was a little bit of a wild card. I knew she was um very fast, but she had like been injured and then she got sick. Um but we had to go with Michaela and she excelled. Um just beat expectations and like ran like a 62 second split where I wasn't sure, you know, and she just did very well. So proud of her. Um, so this is Michaela Karach, Addie Lee, Sophia Smith, and then Sarah Martinez. So, so proud of these girls. Thank you guys for coming. Um, and if you guys have any questions or
018anything, we're ready for you. Dr. What grade levels are you? Are any of you coming back next year? Yeah. All of you? She said all of them. Freshman. So, um I'm actually a sophomore and I will be back my junior and my senior year to begin. Okay. Okay. All right. That's good. Um I'm a freshman, well sophomore now, and I'll also be coming back. Wow. Lucky to have you for the next several years. Um I was a freshman, now a sophomore, and I also Oh, that's great. freshman year going to have a freshman. Congratulations to all of you. I'm so proud for you and uh what an incredible win. You guys, congratulations, coach. And congratulations, girls. Uh starting a legacy as well. So, keep up the great work and congratulations on your accomplishments. Yes. We're
019we're all very proud of you and appreciate your parents support, your friends, your coaches, people on staff. It's uh it takes a a group to make this happen and I'm sure you realize that this year to now you even have more information to go next year. So, keep at it. We're so proud. Thank you. Congratulations, guys. Really appreciate you representing that district. Do we want to take a picture with these guys? I want to take a picture. We also want to thank not only our coaches but also our parents who really should support these teams. So I'm sorry the parents are here this evening. I am not trying to be the center. [Music] Thanks again. Congratulations. All right, Todd, you're again. Yes, sir. Vice President Morgan, Superintendent Cleveland, members of the board this evening, I
020am also thrilled to recognize the Cleveland High School boys track and field team and their outstanding leader, head coach Kenny Henry, for capturing their ninth straight boys track and field state championship on May 17th. This remarkable victory not only adds to an incredible dynasty, but also marks the 52nd state championship in Cleveland High School history and 104th for the district. Coach Henry and his powerhouse program continue to dominate the competition year after year, setting the gold standard for excellence in New Mexico track and field. Please join me in welcoming Coach Henry and his exceptional team, the state champions. Right. Well, coach, every one of these days I get the number right, so I'll just keep working on it. You're just fine. Don't worry about it. The 12th. It is the 12th overall. It's the 12th
021overall. Okay. All right. Thank you, Mr. Rash. Appreciate it. Um yeah, we we were definitely very fortunate there at the end of May to be able to get another state championship and we had to have a number of our guys have great days for two days to be able to do that and uh three of them are here with me today that I want to introduce. First guy I want to introduce is Giovani Mikica, Gio as we call him. Um he is a javelin thrower for us and kind of the neat thing about Gio is he had been a baseball player prior. um was forced into a situation where he came to give track a try and immediately upon his first competition of the season through a mark that was the best throw in the
022state. Really, really remarkable. Um he was third place at state meet. Um and I know he was probably a little disappointed, but state meet is a different beast. And as only a sophomore this past year, he's got a lot more to to look forward to. So, we were definitely pumped with Joe's performance at the state meet. Um Patrick Miranda, he is a junior going to be a senior distance guy or mid distance I guess I should say. He competed um in the 4x800 meter relay for us. He competed in the medley relay on the first day. Um and the thing for me that's really fun to talk about somebody like Patrick is that this guy has just been nothing but a progression his whole time in our program. Um, you know, it it only makes
023me get excited for what's going to happen for him this next year because he just gets better and better and better and takes advantage of every opportunity he gets. But couple big races for him at the state meet for us. And then Lucas Espinosa, also a junior, going to be a senior distance man. Um, this guy ran also on our 4x800 meter relay. Came back like an hour later and we asked him to run the two-mile, which is pretty hard thing to do when you're tired. Um and then the next day came back and was third place overall in the in the 1600. Kind of put himself in a position to maybe be one of the top distance guys in the state this next year. So you know this is just three of 21 guys
024that we took to the state meet. Um you know and our big thing is we know for our team to have success we have to have people all over the place. Um sprinters and jumpers and throwers and distance guys. And so, uh, you know, luckily we keep being able to do that, but it's guys like this that, uh, you know, are willing to kind of do whatever we say we need them to do that our team is able to stand on top of the podium. So, we're definitely excited, happy for what these guys did, excited for the future, and really grateful to be here today. So, thank you all so much. Mr. Rush, I really appreciate you. Let's take care. Any comments from the guys? I don't know. These are good. Quiet guys. All right.
025Okay. Great. Okay. Next year. Okay. Okay. My name is Patrick Miranda and I'm thankful to be here with these folks. All right. Thank you. Congratulations. Thanks again again. Congratulations to all of you for an incredible win and for for an incredible program over many years. Alrighty. Thanks again, guys. Appreciate that. Next we'll move to our reports Rancho Educational Education Foundation. Bill Stannage and Miranda and and Jessica Miranda. Um, members of the board, it's an honor to be here today to support something that truly matters, education and the future it builds. On behalf of the Rio Ranchu Education Foundation, I am proud to present $10,000 donation to Rio Tech. This gift is more than a check is an investment in minds in in with the support of the community. We solve tomorrow's challenges and lead with
026purpose. So, uh, Vice President Morgan and Dr. Cleveland, members of board, my name is Dr. Johnson, principal at Rote Tech. Uh, tonight we have just Miranda who is the president for the rear rancho education foundation as well as Bill Stage uh, and Alar and Alawi Ala who are members of the Rio Education Foundation. Um, so they have reached out, they are donating $10,000 to Riot Tech to support our students. Um, and with that donation, uh, we're going to be able to expand hands-on applications, uh, create promotional materials for our students to share about their story with Riotech as they progress through this next year. uh the support will directly impact the students and help continue building the the school uh preparing learners for real world success. So on behalf of the students, the staff and
027families um we'd like to thank the education foundation for believing in what we are building and how we're going to continue to to grow Rio Rancho and Riot Tech. So with that, I also have some certificates uh on behalf of Riot. Uh certificate of recognition. This certificate is presented to Jessica Miranda in recognition of your outstanding support, collaboration, and unwavering partnership to the student, staff, and faculty of Riot Tech. All right. Congratulations. Again, thank you so much. And presented to Mr. Bill Stanton. Thank you. or members are not here tonight, but we'll make sure that they they get homes. All right. Thank you, Dr. Wait, wait before you leave. We want to thank you, Dr. Cle. Well, we do. We want to thank you and u we're so excited about the opening of this facility
028and it's it's been um long and coming and it's been a real struggle to get it to the point where it is now. I mean, a lot of time and effort. Every little bit has helped. And so, we so appreciate you stepping forward and helping with some additional things that we will need at that facility. We think it's going to be great for the community. It's going to be great for our students. It's going to be great for adult learners in the community as well. And the partnership maximizes our financial um contributions for both Rio Rancho Public Schools and CNN. So, it's a it's a unique partnership. So, thank you for being part of that and and thank you for your support uh of our our students and our programs. Other board members, I want
029to say thank you again to echo their points. We couldn't do it without community support and so it means uh the world that you guys are willing to help support the CTE program and we are very grateful. So, thank you. Just to add my appreciation to you. um these these programs are expensive to operate and so this help that you're giving the students directly is just really appreciated. We thank you very much. Again, thank you guys. Really appreciate your support. Thank you. I think we already got the picture. Did we get a photo already? Okay. Okay. All right. Photo day, huh? You're all beautiful. [Music] One more. One, two, three. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next with reports, Phoenix Grego, uh, student nutrition report. Did I pronounce that right? You got it, sir. Oh,
030thank you, man. Thank you. Um, uh, good good evening, uh, Dr. Cleveland, uh, Vice President Morgan, uh, board members, um, thank you for having me, uh, here today share a little bit about, uh, student nutrition, um, and the good work that Southwest Food Excellence and our department have been doing. So, um, I'm going to share some highlights that kind of what we've been, um, up to over the course of the last year. Um, next. So, uh, I'm going to cover, um, some key accomplishments that we done over the course of the last year. Um, some student survey information, some promotions, and some new implementations that we we working on. Uh, some financial and meal data, some project, summer meals, and then, uh, just a little bit of future goals and objectives that we have um,
031going into next school year. Um, so some of the key accomplishments that that we've kind of done over the course of the last year is uh we expended all our kids equipment uh graph funds. So we got approximately 620,000 um last year and what that um grant has really done is allowed us to invest um in our kitchens. And so we've we've replaced quite a bit of equipment um and had some big projects that we've we've worked on. Um, another key accomplishment, um, as you know, and and thank you board for approving the SF contract, um, that we did get, um, done. Um, it was a lot of work, and so we're happy with Southwest Food Excellence, um, and the work they've been doing for our district. Uh, we rewarded the Healthy Meals incentive by
032USDA for scratch innovative cooking, which is a is a really big deal. Um, and, uh, Dr. Cleveland did um, allude to that. Um and and basically what you the way the the application works is you got to be um nominated by the state and so public education did nominate our district. Um and so uh it was kind of a lot of work and some of the items that we have you see on the on the slide here is our fresh pole with red chili um and the biscuit as well as um we have our salads. And so the the good thing about our Caesar salad and the salads that we've been serving throughout the district um it's locally sourced and so silver leaf out of Corales um we get sh basically shipments every week um
033to make those healthy meals for our students. And last but not least we have the carita tacos which are right in the right hand side and those are possibly one of the top favorites as far as uh what our students like in our high schools. Um, one of the things that we pushed SFD to hire two new assistant managers, um, catering staff, a chef, and a marketing manager. Um, and so all those positions were very, uh, critical to the success that we've had over the course of the year. Um, we have increased breakfast and lunch participation significantly and I'll share some data with regards to that. Um and then as you can see is we have some articles and news stories um bas basically that talk about the good work that we're doing in our
034department. Um and there's a couple of links if you're interested. Um there was a story that came out on the New Mexican um and they interviewed some staff at San Die. So that was a pretty pretty good story that they talked about the work that we do. And then last but not least, uh we did have a couple stories that came out last week um with regards to our summer summer meals and our efforts that we're doing to ensure that all our students are getting those health and nutritious meals over the course of the summer. And last but not least, we did reertify Reach Public Schools in the community eligibility provision. And that's pretty critical for the simple fact that we're able to leverage um additional federal funds Um and next slide you can see
035that we have some student survey um and some data. Um we did do a survey over the course of the last month and as of right now our our students rate us at about a 3.6 out of out of five. Um and then as far as our courtous staff and our staff e efforts are 4.8%. Um, and one of the areas that our students are looking at, um, that that they do like is grabbing breakfastes. Um, and a couple key items that they did like is they like the wings and the nachos. So, um, the wings are really good if you ever get the opportunity to go over to Cleveland or Rancho High School. Those are probably my favorite. Uh, and then some of the areas that they want is they want more drink options,
036more fresh fruit. We have salad bars at all of our our schools and so we try and get them a little bit more fruit. Um the little guys really like this strawberry uh bar typically when it's in season. Um and next slide please. Um some student engagement. One of the areas that I really thought it was important is to try and get Southwest food excellence and do a lot more promotions and make it kind of more welcoming for our students to be on our cafeterias. And so, um, we had a coloring competition in the elementary schools, which was really cool. Um, and we did give out, um, some coloring sets or or crayon sets that were really nice. You can kind of see the top left picture there. Um, and then on the bottom. But
037um I think our our students are really enjoying our food. And then on our food truck there, we're starting to utilize the food truck a lot more. Um on that picture there, we did have a barbecue where we brought the food truck out and we we offered meals at Independence High School. Uh some of the areas um what's coming up next. Um in the RFP that SFD put, there was a couple items that they wanted to explore in our district. These are some areas that I thought is is pretty important. We definitely want to try and bring our our food um as as far as in curriculum. And so what we're trying to do is we're going to get tower gardens for for our schools that that do want them. Um there's a Dr. Young.
038It's it's a curriculum that that's for um preK and kindergarten students, which is pretty neat. Um the one that I'm really interested is the robing chef cart. So it's like kids that cook. So, now that we have an installed foundation, these are some areas that we're going to looking at. And then last but not least, I think SFU is pretty excited about, but they're going to be purchasing a tortilla machine so we can make fresh tortillas in our kitchens. Um, next slide. Uh, there's a couple a couple of comparisons up on the screen as far as how we're performing financially um and kind of what our meal data looks like. But over the course of the the last year, we have significantly grown. Um last year we served about 683,000 breakfast. This year at 150,000
039um breakfast. And then the the area that we're really excelling is um our lunches. So as you can see, we serve about 1.5 million and this year we're pretty close to 1.8. Um and then our lunch average daily participation and and breakfast participation. in the one area that I I in my last annual report I went in of course breakfast and so as you can see um it's increased over 10% over the course of the last year and then our lunch average daily percentage is 63.86 86. Um, in the state of New Mexico, it lingers about 62%. So, we're a little bit over that. And then the big one is our total reimbursements. Um, last year we were right about 9 million. This year we're going to be very close to about 11 million. Um,
040and then SF expenditures, um, as you can see, is about 9 million. And so, we're we're bringing in revenue about $1.7 million. and what and basically what we're doing with that money is investing it back into the program to um work on our kitchens and try and get more equipment. Um next breakfast daily results. Um one of the goals and objectives that we did have was to try and serve um five 5,000 meals uh breakfastes a day. Um and we did hit that with as you can see up on the screen in the month of March we were about 5 five 5,500 ballpark um and then the next area is your lunch data um and you can see the growth is significant uh significantly uh grown so um this year our goal was 10 uh
04110,000 meals our lunches a day and so we we did hit that mark as Um, next area, um, kitchen projects and summer operations. We are, uh, replacing the flooring at Vista Grande as well as, um, Colleenas, um, with new epoxy and then we're, uh, painting, uh, the kitchen. So, I've been working closely with Patrick and our facilities team to try and get those projects implemented. It's been uh, a pretty good relationship that that we've uh, established over the course of the year. And then uh we did get Eagle Ridge Middle School Capital Outlay of 140,000 um where we're looking to try and um replace that for in next summer. Um we're going to increase or we're going to um work on the snack bar upgrade. Um one of the areas that we're going to be
042uh replacing is our steam wells as well as our dishwashers and rear. So the the water is pretty harsh here. So we need to start working on those areas. And then last but not least, summer meals. Um, we'll be serving summer meals from June 2nd to July 25th at nine parks and five different school sites. And then last but not least, future goals and objectives. Uh, we're going to modify our menus based on students wants and needs, incorporate curriculum and food and nutrition in classrooms. Look at additional uh premium products to serve on our menus. Increase meal quality. Continue to replace and perform equipment and preventive maintenance. And then uh increase middle school participation and overall breakfast participation. And then last but not least is reduce food waste. Um and I start with questions. That
043concludes start with you. Um I just want to say a couple of things. Hey, thank you. um you know as I looked through the report every single indicator was up and so that's an incredible accomplishment and know how much time and effort goes into improving the program and um we came in there was a lot of work to be done and so I just want to um um tell you how much we appreciate that as I said every indicator is up um we we've really seen just an increase in student satisfaction participation all of those those things And whenever I'm in school around the time of lunch, I go in and I I I say, "How do you like your food?" And and um and and generally the response is they like it. The food
044is good. And um and and so we um we've come a long way. They've still got a lot of plans to do some other things and and to continue to grow the program, but thank you for all of the time and effort and your staff for all the time and effort. Um we've seen just some some really solid results. So that's great. Thank you, Dr. Cleveland. We and we appreciate the support from the board and Dr. Cleveland very helpful. Jessica, thank you for the report and great job. Keep up the good work, K Beth. Yes, thank you. I appreciate your dedication to quality and improvement in the program and it certainly shows. Thank you. I want to say thanks and uh I want to give a second thanks because I don't have to uh go
045out and buy lunch for my wife anymore. She speaks about how good the food is every day. I used to have to go out and buy little lunches for her, but man, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. It's better when it's personal, right? Yeah. Yes. I She comes home and tell me all she Oh, lunch was great today. So, you got to try it sometime. Well, I I will I will, but I I just want to say thank a double thanks to you. Okay. Thanks from the board and then thanks for me personally. All right. Thank you. appreciate that. Thank you so much. All right, next uh public comment. Uh we don't have any live uh public comments. We did get one uh via email from a Jamie Bermudez and the concern was
046the graduation day. You know, why we set the graduation on the days that we set it on. No, I don't know. I mean, we we'll be glad to get back with her. Yeah. Uh we we'll be glad, but it was set by the state uh in the sense of we had to have a certain number of hours and uh and and no longer are seniors going to be allowed to leave earlier than they have in the past. And if they leave earlier, then we would lose that revenue. And it's it's a significant amount of revenue. So, uh, that was a state decision and, uh, we are in compliance. We'll be in complying with that. We also had thought we might be having, um, to not use the Mar Rancho Event Center, but we're working with
047city and think now that that's probably a possibility. We will be able to use it, and we really hope so. Uh, because you never know about the weather and um, so, but we'll get back with her. it it was not a a decision that was uh uh that we had a lot of choice in uh this this year. Okay. Thank you. And we do encourage uh public comments. The board accepts and review written public comments and anyone wishing to submit a comment can the link is found on the uh main Rio Rancho public school board page. So again, thank you so much and and we'll get back to Jamie. Okay. Uh, next on the agenda is the consent agenda. Need a motion. And I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I second the
048motion. All right. Uh, Jason, you want to take role, please? Vice President Morgan. Yes. Secretary Tyler. Yes. Yes. Motion carries two. Thank you. And then we move on to business. Our first business is idea application for Mr. Joe Reader. Thank you, sir. Good to see you. Thank you, Vice President Morgan, Dr. Cleveland, members of the board. And um what I bring before you is our IDA application this evening. That's Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Special Education. We use a little too many acronyms, so I thought I'd throw some out there. Please um ask me what they mean. So we we have about 3,500 students with disabilities in the district and um we we get funded both at the state level which is the both the bar funding and and we get IDA funding which
049is um so in 1975 when Congress vowed to pay up to 40% of um students with disabilities um school funding We are currently around 12% federal that that they actually pay for and the state is required to pay the rest amount. So what what what I like to do is and Maggie Cordov used to also say this, you have the cake and you have the icing on the cake. The idea funds are the icing on the cake. Plus there's many rules that that come with that. And um so really it's to pay for those excess costs. We can never take all these federal funds and use it to supplement or um push out the state funds. And um you know from last year to this year it the funding has gone down about $500,000 and
050we we will receive um approximately um 4.2 2 million and then we're going to carry over 500,000 so for a total of 4.7 million. And then there there's also like another little sliver of funds for preschool and we will have um 64,000 in that fund. And then there's carryover from several years in the past. For some reason they didn't do the carryover for about three to four years. So these are um accumulated really that I just um you guys have any other questions that I just want to seek approval. Okay. All right. Any comments? Dr. Cle any comments? No. Board any except just to thank everybody Jerry for the work. uh is a huge application. It takes a lot of time and effort to put together. There's so many variables, so many different uh parts.
051Sorry, I was looking at my phone. It said there's a lightning striking near our building. So, I said, "Okay, but I I did uh you know, again, thank you for for the work. I I want to really stress that special ed budget continues to be a real challenge in every respect. Uh there's just a lot of needs. our students. We already have more students than we got in the past, but many of our students were coming with with uh greater needs than in the past as well and trying to make that all work out. Uh but this is an important part of uh the total financial package and uh we do appreciate the time and effort that has gone into uh into the application. No comments, but I'll make a motion to approve the IDA
052application. May second the motion. Thank you jury. JC roll call please. Po mind. Vice President Morgan. Yes. Secretary Tyler. Yes. Or Miller. Yes. Motion carries three. All right. Thank you. Thank Thank you, Jerry. Appreciate that. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Come on, man. Yeah. Come on. That's good, man. That's good. That's good. All right. Next we will have uh Dr. Chris John. Okay. The uh approval of the 10,000 donation from the Rio Rancho Education Foundation. Good evening. Back up here. Looking for the board that I'll make a motion to approve the $10,000 donation from the Rare Rancho Education Foundation. last second the motion. All right, JC, you can take roll call, please. Vice President Morgan, yes. Secretary Tyler, yes. Miller, yes. Motion carries zero. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Well, my guess is you, Mr. Madrid,
053you you up here, right? Uh, Vice President Morgan, Superintendent Dr. Cleveland, and members of the board. I feel a little pressure from my colleagues to get this done by 6:30. So, like should I take that over? I'm going to say yeah. Okay. Dr. Cleveland mentioned they're all invitation of bids. The requirement for ITBs is lowest responsive bidder. Two of the procurements are going to be very similar. going to have the appearance of being very similar as far as the procurement style. And the third one's a little bit different. The first one that we're going to be discussing is the matuminous paving. It's award of ITB 2025-020- FAC. It's a multiple award request uh to be issued to Outdoor Construction Incorporated, Rayar Construction, Start Paving Company, Sunland Asphalt uh Construction LLC, and TLC Incorporated. uh the
054specification that we used to develop uh the pricing matrix around was the state highway and transportation standard construction for um road and bridge construction and then we also took a look at the city of Rancho standard specification for that same type of category work. Uh the scope of work is identified as a unit cost on the pricing matrix and it actually has the descriptions and some estimates. If you look at the matrix went ahead and highlighted who was low on each of the different categories and you can see that there isn't one consensus that was low on everything. So that's part of the rationale to recommend the uh the multiple award because we're not sure what category work we're going to require in the next three years. Um there's a little bit of description as
055to what the scope looks like. I'll let you guys read through that. Uh the response to the solicitation, there was seven bids uh provided to the district. One vendor was deemed nonresponsive. That was United Paving. All the biders have relevant experience with the district. I think all of them were successful on last solicitations contract. They've done work with the district. They understand our protocols and how we develop scopes of work. And uh recommendation is to the vendors that are referenced that uh we privileged to discuss. And with that, I'll stand for questions. I don't have a question, but can you do me a favor? Can you pronounce the name of that? Did it how you pronounce that? Between the Tuminous. Okay. For us. Well, I mean, you know, you look smart all the time. I
056I was doing it for the sake of either Jessica or Beth because they're going to have to announce that. And I just wanted to make sure they pronounce it right. That's That's all. No pressure, right? Not at all. I thought you were just trying to drag this out. No, no, no, no. For your sake. Just trying to help you out. That's all. That's it. Please. Uh, this is board member Tyler. I'll make a motion to award the ITB number 2025-020- FAC, Patuminous Paving and Related Work to Multiple Awards to Outdoor Construction Incorporated, Rhyac Construction, Stopgaming Company Summer and Asphalt and Construction LLC, and TLC Company Incorporated. Second the motion. Take a roll call. Vice President Morgan. Yes. Secretary Tyler. Yes. Board member Miller. Yes. Yeah. Go ahead. For President I mean Vice President Morgan. That's
057all right. That's all right. Superintendent Dr. Cleveland. Members of the board. The next solicitation that we're soliciting an award for is ITB number 2025-025- FAC. Is for fencing and material and related products on demand. The recommendation is also a multiple award to be issued to AFC which is Albuquerque Fence Company. American Fence Company also doing business as excuse me American Fence Company Apache Construction doing business as Valley Fence LCI Construction LLC and Tri West Fence. I mean these I think these are all the fence companies in Albuquerque. Uh once again if you go back to the pricing matrix that's attached you see that there's not a apparent low bid on any of the uh items on a consistent basis because of that we use the rationale to go to multiple award and award it to
058all the vendors uh based on their ability to provide us a little price on certain categories. So it's in our best interest to go that route. Um this is an indefinite quantity solicitation. establishes unit costs for different uh categories of fencing work that we're going to need within the next 3 years. Uh the district received five bids in reference to the solicitation. Uh we did have one vendor, United Paving, that uh did not have the proper license classification, so they were sent a notice of being nonresponsive. Um, all the vendors that are listed are primarily the same vendors we had on the last solicitation three years ago and they have extensive experience not only with our district but K12 and other entities throughout the state of New Mexico. And with that, I'll stand for questions.
059Any questions and comments? Dr. Cleveland, anyone? All right. This is board member Tyler. I will make a motion to award uh ITB number 2025-025- FAC fencing materials and repair on demand to multiple awards to AFC LLC doing business as Albuquerque Fence Company, American Fence, Apache Construction doing business as Valley Fence Company, LCI Construction LLC, and Tri West Fence LLC. He's looking a roll call, please. Vice President Morgan. Yes. Secretary Tyler, yes. Board member Miller, yes. Motion carries three zero. Thank you. Very good. Vice President Morgan, Superintendent, Dr. Cleveland. Oh, I just I mean, you're on the road. You're doing real good, man. You're doing real good. Go ahead. It's part of my evaluation. So, make sure this gets done. Let's see. So the next solicitation, the last request that you have before you is award
060of ITB 2025-024- FAC is for bleacher and wall partition inspections and repair. Uh this one's a little bit different because we only have two responses. The two vendors that responded that we're recommending award are AK Sales and Consulting and Norcon of New Mexico. Uh the reason we're going with the two vendors, uh we'll probably have a primary with AK sales because they gave us the best pricing, but we want to make sure that we have a backup and Norcon would be that backup just because of the amount of time it takes to do the inspections at the different locations. You can see on the pricing matrix that's attached, there's quite a bit of work to be done out there to do the inspections. Uh there's a potential backlog on some of the supply chain issues.
061So, we feel it's in our best interest to initiate the multiple award request uh to the board. Um both of these vendors were successful the last time we solicited it and uh they have extensive experience working K12 in the state of New Mexico. I think even though AK Seals is out of Roswell, we do have confidence that they're able to mobilize and meet our timelines that we're going to require from them. And with that, I'll stand for questions. Any comments? Dr. Clement approve the board. No question. So I'll make a motion to award ITB number 2025-024- FAC the bleach and wall partition inspections and repair multiple awards to AK sales and consulting and Norcon of New Mexico. JC roll call please. Vice President Morgan. Yes. Secretary Tyler. Yes. Board member Miller. Yes. Motion carries three.
062All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Madre. Appreciate that. All right. Last but not least, advanced planning. June 16th, as Dr. Clevelandman mentioned, we have an executive session. Uh June 23rd, audit committee meeting. Uh June 23rd, regular board meeting. July 4th, Independence Day. Uh July 10th through 12th, New Mexico School Board Association Leadership Retreat. Uh that's the time to be location to be determined. Uh July 14th regular board meeting and uh July 28th audit committee meeting. July 28th regular board meeting. Our meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Sorry I got that notification from the county that you know. Yeah. And it said we were having