001Good evening. I'd like to call this uh meeting to order. Global school board can cler please call. >> Of course. >> President Cordova >> here. >> Vice President Hamilton >> here. >> Secretary Martin. Member Osborne >> here. >> Member Waggle >> here. Okay, we do have a quum. Uh you would join me. Osborne lead us in the pledge. 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. >> I salute the flag of the state of New Mexico symbol of perfect friendship. >> Thank you, Miss Osborne. Okay. Now we'll move down and consider the approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Have a motion
002by Mr. Hamilton. >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Waggle. All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Motion carries. >> Okay. Now, let's uh consider the approval of the agenda. Tonight's agenda. >> I move to approve the agenda for tonight 3:24 2022. I have a motion by Miss Osborne. >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Hamilton. All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Motion carries. Okay. Uh consent agenda. Questions on the questions. Mr. President, >> I didn't have any questions. >> There are no questions. I'll entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as is. >> Okay. I have a motion by Mr. Waggle. >> I'll second. >> Second by Miss Osborne. All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Motion carries. All right, Miss Renee. Superintendent report. >> Thank you,
003Mr. President. First, I'd like to invite Miss Galaf for update from Canon. >> Good evening, board superintendent. Um, I don't have anything new. Just to reiterate everything I say all the time. Um, to making sure we're getting as many teachers signed up for May 30th. Um, we have STEM days that are April 29th and 30th and we're trying to get as many classes. Last year we had 1,250 kids for two days. So we're trying to get at least that number again so kids have opportunity to go through um I think we had 45 STEM stations last year. They'll be really good this year. Um and then I have two of the three field trips we had to reschedule. Already have them on the books and ready to go. And we are just trucking to support
004you to the end of the school year. Um and then in the summer we can start planning for next year. We're excited um about everything that you guys have going on and just being here and being a part of it. >> Oh, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. >> Okay. And I believe our student representative is out playing golf tonight, so I don't think she'll be here unless Miss Summers. Do we have anyone else? >> No. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Then we'll move into a couple of trip requests. And I think you can take these together, but I do want to acknowledge um both of the schools. We have our Gatis FCCLA. Do the Gatis group. Do you all want to stand up? And you're welcome to come up to the podium
005as well if you've got anything that you want to offer up to the board. And then we also have our Yaka FCLA. They're both requesting to attend the state leadership conference um at the end of this month, March 29th, returning on April 1st. And I I just want to say how great it is to see this representation. As you all know, we're really trying to grow our programs um that kids participate in the high school and so it takes this participation at our middle schools. So we're we're really glad to see all of you here. So if there's anything that you all wanted to offer or questions, u the details of their trips are here in their trip requests. >> What What will you guys be doing at your at your um event? um in
006the in the category that they can do at regionals. So we've got some students eating say yes to SPS food innovation focus on children interview um out of the 22 kids that we took to regionals all qualify for state. >> Oh wow that's awesome. >> Yeah. >> What is your favorite thing you like about being in this organization? The kids have to answer one from each group. >> One from each group. What's What's the best thing you like about being in FCCLA? >> I like public speaking. >> Thank you. >> That's good. >> I'd like to introduce Madison as well. She's one of one of two who are running for state officer. Um so at the middle school level that's a pretty big deal. Um and then she is competing in interior design. Um what
007are you guys competing in? >> Right on. Well, good, good. That's great to hear. And uh this is a consideration item. If there are any more >> questions, I'll entertain a motion. >> I'll make Go ahead. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Okay. Motion by Mr. Hamilton. >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Wiggle. All in favor? I >> oppose. >> All right. Well, good. Have fun. Have fun you guys. >> Yes. Have fun. >> Make us proud. That's all right. You guys are stepping out. We'll let you go ahead and exit. And my next item, I just wanted to give you some really high level um overview of some of the pertinent legislation from this session, especially because we're going into budget season and a couple of these have impact on budget.
008The first of those is House Bill 47, which has to do with the ratio that districts provide. um for benefits for health insurance. So, this one takes effect July 1st of this year. And so, now um all educators will have 80% of their health insurance premium covered by the district. Prior to this legislation, it was for those uh employees who are earning $50,000 or less. And so, I asked Miss Neato to put together some data just so you would have an idea of that. Currently we have 188 of our employees who earn below that 50,000 threshold. Um so we expect the increase there just with the natural increase. Is that correct though? That's about a $400,000 increase. So we're looking at a nine almost 10% increase. Then in the 50 to 60k range, we have
009105 employees that take those benefits from the district. So that's about a quarter million increase. And then earners above the 60,000 who currently take the benefit is 276, which is about a 3/4 million increase. And so alto together if no one else, you know, if we don't increase how many employees who are taking that benefit, we're looking at about a $2 million increase in the in the budget. There is funding through House Bill Two. We're not confident that it's going to cover that entire increase um that we're now responsible for. And when we when I talk to you in a minute about what came through the legislation specific to educator salaries, just keep in mind what this increase is going to to cost the the district, but also to know that this isn't a new
010benefit for those earning below 50,000. So, it will be a new benefit or a reduction in what's it will increase their net take-home basically for those higher earners. And so that's just something to to keep in mind when we talk about what came through the the session with regard to educator increases. So um before I go any further into other legislation, are there questions that you want to pose? And I want to invite Miss Neo to respond. She attended the budget conference last week and may have a little bit more insight if you have questions about this specific bill. >> Anybody I was a little curious when you mentioned House Bill 2 will cover most of it, some of it. Are we still waiting to find out exactly what percentage of that's going to be
011or >> they've built into our SCG funding 70 about 73 million, but that's statewide. >> Yeah. >> So, I don't know. I haven't given the breakdown of our coverage. >> I see. Okay. >> And experience would tell us it won't be enough, >> right? I mean, I I anticipate more staff requesting the insurance and open enrollment in October. >> So that would hit in January. >> Yes. >> And we'll know our breakdown later this spring or from what we're getting. >> Yes. Yes. >> It's a mandate. So it doesn't matter, right? >> Exactly. We have to make it happen. And so as we begin making decisions, um, keeping in mind the non-passage of the tax earlier, we're we're looking right now at just across the board at least 2% decreases just in department budgets and
012site budgets and so forth. So that's how we're entering the budget planning that we'll be bringing to you next month. Um, and so we're going to be really interested to hear from you tonight about your wishes with regard to the um, increase. And I can go ahead and just jump to to that. So, House Bill 2 didn't include that's typically where we see the language on increase for educators, but there was a tax package that was created um, that is intended to provide a 1% increase for educators. And this year, the governor did not veto the average language. So that means that across all span of the salary schedule, we just have to be able to demonstrate that there was a 1% average increase. So that gives you an opportunity and a burden as a
013board to determine if there are pockets of employees that you would rather, you know, target with increases knowing that the higher earners are going to have more of an impact from this 8020 split with their net pay. we can run some different scenarios and bring those to you. But I really just wanted to put that in front of you and get your initial impressions so that Miss Neo has a little bit of direction as we start building those salary schedules. You know, there was a time where we were trying to increase level three teacher pay because of the impact that that has on the funding that that we receive and just attracting those more experienced teachers. And then we went through the era where we just needed someone to fill the the seat, but we
014do want to be competitive with those experienced teachers. So about what percent increase? I know it would be an average. So if I'm a a 20-year teacher making 70 plus and I get 80% of my benefits paid, how much of a bump is that for me? What percent of a bump is that for me? Just average. I mean I'm not like certainly more than 1% right. >> Yes. Yeah. Because if we look at what a teacher would have insurance come out now six about 500 for them a month >> each pay period >> a month total. >> And then and that just depends on their level. So they could increase almost 150 to 200. >> But if I am an employee that makes 42,000, I already you already pay 80% of my benefits and unless
015I get a 1% increase, I'm getting nothing. Plus, my insurance is probably going to go up anyway. >> So I'm going to be in the poll. I got it. >> I've been there before myself, too. So I I understand that pain. Yeah, we try to avoid that situation. >> Oh my, it's terrible. >> So on the other hand, when she strikes the average language, then we see the top end of our salary schedule mushrooming because it's the the impact of those higher numbers and so you know your salary schedule can get out of hand as well. So it's been a while since we've had the average language remain. Well, and it is a hard decision because you want all employees to feel valued, but >> it also is numbers. Thank you. >> Anybody else have
016any comments on questions on that? >> Once you have thoughts, send them our way. We'll be building draft schedules. Well, my personal point of view, if you're building schedules, is that those people who are not getting a bump from the insurance have to get the 1%. The people above that that are going to be getting a big bump from the insurance, maybe not. I mean, I can't even believe I'm saying that, but it's there's only this much, you know. So, that's that's me personally. I don't know. I'm my colleague still. >> Well, that's a hard decision because if where do you draw the line? And then again, we don't want people think they're not valued here. >> Absolutely. Yeah. >> You know, uh and >> it's it's it's >> because right now we're paying 65%
017if I'm a $70,000 employee or more. >> 60%. So, >> it's a big move. >> It is >> way than one person. >> It's It's going to be one that's going to be really hard. And I think this is a decision, one of those decision that it doesn't matter. Uh there's going to be some people that are going to be okay and some aren't. >> So, what I'm hearing is try to keep as much balance in the net net gain. >> That's my I would think so as well. uh simply because uh I mean everybody should feel like they're valued, you know, and but again, we just got this much to give. >> It's so much easier, Heather, when we can just say 1% across the board, isn't it? >> Yes, it is. for us
018too. >> When the state puts us in this position, you know, and then because I'm old and I've been here a long time, I know they're not going to fund it fully. they're gonna say they are. But >> the other thing to keep in mind is that we've worked over recent years to create a ladder so that as people rise and move into administrative positions that stepping into a 12-month position that you that it makes it enough of a difference for them and so that there really is a career ladder within the organization as well. And so when you start targeting just one section of that ladder, then that throws off that the steps in that ladder as well. >> And that's taking us a long time to achieve. >> Yeah. And so all of
019that has to be considered as well. >> Ask a basic question just being the new guy at the table. So are we going to we'll get a couple different options of scenarios to look at before next meeting? >> We'll bring them next month. >> Okay. We we'll have a start, right? We'll >> have a start. >> We um are fortunate this year that we finally have a little bit later deadline for our budget submission. It gives us a little bit more breathing room. Um in recent years, we've been one of those that has needed to be submitting at some point in April. And so we've got a little bit more room so we can be a little more thoughtful >> with that. >> And then can we also see like the historically what we've done
020the last three or four years as well? >> I'm sure we could. Thank you. >> Okay. Okay. Then I just want to talk a little bit about Senate Bill 29. This has to do with math requirements for teaching license, but also some expectations beginning in the next year. So they they are increasing lensure requirements to six hours of mathematic mathematics methods for initial lensure beginning with July of 2028. you know, we've had a focus on literacy and now we've got this increased focus in math. Then beginning with the 2728 academic year, um, and I believe Carrie, you may know, you may need to correct me if I'm wrong or Kevin. Um, the screening assessment, we're expecting a new screening assessment for math for K3 to identify students with what's defined as a mathematical difficulty, mathematics
021difficulty. and it's essentially those who are not performing at grade level according to that screening. Um we already provide a literacy instructional plan. So this bill requires that that will have to occur with regard to math as well. Um based on the screening, we'll now be required to notify parents within 30 days of any students who are identified as having a mathematics difficulty. um and then uh subsequent for progress updates over the course of the year. And all of this is really fine and well and it's good practice and keeping parents informed and targeting instruction. Our concern just comes with teachers having the professional time that they need to manage that communication and those assessments and so forth. And um you know that that would be my personal hope is that we could get back
022to a point where we can integrate adequate professional time for teachers to answer to these kinds of requirements in real time as the the year unfolds. >> So it'll be a fall administration so that they get the intervention >> right and then that reporting out to to parents basically quarterly. we report to to parents on a frequent basis and um but this will be specific to their math performance. And then with regard to literacy instruction, there were just some updates to um through Senate Bill 37, a little bit of a shift in the definition for high literacy instructional materials uh requiring a strong focus on phonics and the mechanics of re reading that it's rooted in the science of reading. um teacher prep programs will be required um to provide that structured literacy training which
023will be good because when this initially came out our teachers were having to go through that while they were teaching we were providing stipens to them and so if they can come to us equipped with that knowledge and skill set we'll definitely be ahead. So, this also includes student screening, parent notification, progress updates similar to those that I just described for math. One thing that's new with this is that beginning in the 2728 year with this uh legislation, PED will be assigning certified literacy coaches who um will have to have a specific certification and they will assign those to schools um that are performing in the bottom cortile which again we all know that coaching for teachers is wonderful. Um, however, our pool for that is typically our more experienced uh, highly qualified teachers. So,
024we drain those experienced teachers to fill that role. And so, you know, that's the quandry with that. Great intentions, potentially strong outcomes, but we need more highly qualified teachers actually in the in the classroom. So, um, there's that. And then Miss Osborne's favorite was the creation of the Office of Special Education. And so this just cautifies the model that's already in place um with a deputy secretary that's appointed by the secretary of education. They did work in um through kind of negotiation with the superintendent and charter school directors association quarterly consultation. Hopefully that will be meaningful and it defined MLSS as support for students with dyslexia. Then I was just going to reference in house bill 2 the 8020 insurance split. there is an appropriation um and that the language for salaries was not included
025there where it typically is. So, and these bills were dropped into yourformational folder as well just for your >> I did notice in the pre the office of special ed that now they're going to want to have a little bit of say over MLSS which is so great. >> There are no further questions about that. That's my last item. >> Oh, thank you, M. Russ, Miss Nigeria, academic services. What do you got for us tonight? >> Paul, >> good evening. President Corva, members of the board, and superintendent Russ like to introduce Gloria Mendoza. Um she is going to speak with you this evening on a lot of the changes coming down from the state about graduation requirements and how um CMS is aligning to those. Good evening, President Cordova, members of the board, Superintendent Russ.
026Um, you should have a document in front of you. I'm going to give you an update to the graduation requirements and know that this impacts our current freshmen and the grades and behind them, our future um, students coming up to high school. And also some of the course alignment adjustments we made as well. Um and again this may impact this will impact our current freshman and the future um grades coming up. When you look at this document you can see on the left hand side this is our sophomore, junior and senior graduation requirements and they will still fulfill these qual these requirements there. Nothing will change for them in that category. As for the freshman and future grades, you can see there are some adjustments. And so I'm going to try to talk you through
027each of them side by side because there are not um some of the changes or some of these um um content areas don't have any changes. So if you look at English language arts, the first one, as you can see, all students 9 through 12 are required to take four credits of English. and make just just a note underneath each of these you're going to see something that says or advanced placement or an AP equivalent. So if we have English 1 2 3 4 in English three it could be AP lang or English 4 it could be AP lit and that would still fulfill those graduation requirements and you'll see that in the other core areas as well. For math this is where you're going to see some bigger changes for of course our sophomores,
028juniors and seniors. They're required to take algebra 1 to geometry and an additional math course. As for our current freshman and future students, they'll be required to take algebra 1 and geometry and statistics. After that, they have two additional math courses that they can choose. And I just want you to note that's highlighted down there. The public education department requires us to offer two math courses that they don't have to take for their graduation requirement, but we have to offer it. And those two are modern algebra 2 and data stats and um financial literacy. If you could, Brandon, would you mind go to the math progression? I just want to show this document to you. This is something that Lee works on and it's great because it gives us such a huge visual on what
029the kids can select in math. We have a lot of students who are accelerated in mathematics and it starts in middle school. And so with this progression, you can see going across all of the different opportunities they have and different types of math they can take that will still fulfill that graduation requirement. And so I just wanted you to have this in your hands because it's a great visual and it's something that you can use as a resource later on. Um if you don't mind going back to the original document again I just want to make sure that the advanced placement or equivalent will still qualify for the credits for these students who are accelerated and um are not taking um the modern algebra 2 or something else. So, as far as science, as you
030can see, there is no change to that. All students are required to have three science credits, and two of those three credits have to be a lab, a lab course. And then social studies. You'll also see here there's another um shift in some of the things that we've done in our current sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Um take US history at the ninth grade level, world history at the 10th grade level, US government econ at the junior level, and then New Mexico history at the senior level. Well, we made some adjustments. This is in working with our high school, our freshman academy, our high school um teachers and principles and our team and really trying to find a really solid way to align this curriculum a little bit better. And so this is what we came
031up with. Um as you can see there's a credit shift. There was 3.5 for our sophomores, juniors, and seniors, but our current freshman and future students have to have four credits of social studies. And so what um what our freshmen will be taking next year will be world geography and New Mexico studies. Um sophomores will continue with world history that's completely aligned to English 10. Um US history has been shifted to the junior level which is completely aligned to AP um US history which is an upper um level course for our upper classmen. And then our seniors will be taking government and economics. So that was the shift we had made in the course alignment there. As far as electives, you can see our sophomores, juniors, and seniors, they are required to have eight credits
032of electives. And our freshman and future students have 7.5 credits that they're required to take in electives. Note that PE is a requirement for everybody, no matter what. And they can receive their PE credit in a few ways. They can take PE, they can have marching band, um JR, JOTC will fulfill that credit as well as um any type of sport that they take. You can see too that health is required. It's a 0.5 credit. This was new this year. Our current eighth graders were required to take the 0.5 credit in health. So, we do have a very large amount of eighth graders who will go to high school next year who've already fulfilled this grad this graduation requirement. We're pretty excited about that. um some additional electives that are required. As you can see,
033for our sophomore, juniors, and seniors, it was just one CTE course was required, and then they had all the other other electives that they could take to fulfill the eight credit requirement. For our current freshman and our future um students going into high school, they're required two LEA menu options. And the LEA are what our district has required them to take. As you can see, it is a menu. So, they can do multiple things. So, they can have fine arts courses, language other than English. Those are some of our modern languages, Spanish, French. Um, advanced placement or dual credit courses that are not used as a core credit. Um, workflate based learning, which is something that we're working on towards the future. And any type of career technical education course. And if you look below
034that, the CTE completer course, those are when you have the three career and technical education courses that are in alignment. For example, um say you took business and then market marketing and then entrepreneurship. That would be your your completer course. And so, and then finally, the last one we have is digital citizenship. And that was a lot of information and I'm so sorry, but if you have any questions for me, I am happy to answer them. Are there any questions from the >> Well, just so really kids only have five choices because PE is a choice required and health is required. So really just five that they >> I mean if you look at it that way if we if our Yeah. They really they will complete it. >> They don't have to wait for
035>> Yes, that is true. >> Right. Yes. >> Yeah. >> I mean we didn't do that thing. >> Yeah. With the shift in math and social studies, those seem to be the biggest ones. Do we need to uh hire additional teachers train separately? Are same teachers going to plug and play into different classes or? >> No, we should not have to. We should be able to balance them out with the teachers that we have. What'll happen is when the courses are submitted for request, then we can take those requests and balance the teachers by at this level, the teachers don't just necessarily teach a full grade level. they may have another class that's a higher level or they may have two grade levels. So, we can balance it out. Um, so we shouldn't see any
036shift or need more staffing for that. But that was a great question. >> Yes, that's it. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Okay, move over to uh Mr. Strickland, employee services. >> President Cordova, members of the board, I do have the employee services report in our open positions report. You have any questions or comments about those? We're still looking really good for for this time of the year. >> Were there any questions from the board? >> Mr. Mr. D's working, sir. Great. >> You bet. So, uh, with that, the next item we have is Mr. Borio is going to come up and talk about the 2627 calendar instructional calendar. >> President Cordova, Superintendent Russ, members of the board, thank you for allowing me to present to you tonight. Last month when we came,
037we brought to you the three drafts of the instructional calendar that we had sent out to CMS staff for their input. Um, in that month, we received their input. Um, draft C was the clear choice. Um, draft C was the calendar that had the later spring break that also incorporated the um, Easter holidays. Um, and then part of the feedback that we got um, during that survey was um, just some questions about how early our parent teacher conference day was in September. And so we we made an adjustment there as well. So, on this final revision that we're submitting to you um for consideration, you'll notice that the parent teacher conference day in September has now been moved back to this the 25th, um teachers felt like they need just a little bit more time
038to get to know their kids and establish a better baseline academically before holding those parent teacher conferences. And so, we're hoping that additional two weeks will give them some of that time to get that done. Um other than that, nothing else in that draft had changed. Um we still have a full week at Thanksgiving, two full weeks at Christmas. Um we will take the later spring break um which will incorporate again the the Easter holidays. So we'll give everyone that Monday the 29th off. Um we did take one additional day off in April um just to break up the long stretch from spring break to May um and go ahead and give us one more 4-day weekend uh week in there. Um all of our students will be done on May 20th. That gives all
039of our staff and faculty um one full day on the 21st to close out the school year, close up their classrooms. It also allows all of our CHS staff to prepare for graduation while they're still on on um contract. Um the only other thing um that I want to draw your attention to is just the fact that nothing in the legislation changed this year. The main requirement is that we don't go less hours than we went the year before. So this calendar has the exact same number of days as we had last year. 172 instructional days, 183 contract days for our teachers. Um, the other copy that you have in your packet tonight, the pretty purple one, is just the parent friendly version we um put on the website for parents and students. Um, it's
040essentially the same calendar just without the extra days that teachers need to be paying attention to. It's just the student calendar. So, with that, I stand for any questions. Any questions for the board? >> It's good to meet you. So, lots of strategic breaks. It also provides on the 21st if we had >> if we go back to where we have snow in the winter. >> Sorry, if we had to use that 21st as a makeup school day, we have that as well because staff are already on contract that day. >> Not that we want to do that, but we don't. >> Just in case. >> At least that's it. >> Looks good. if it is a consideration item. Okay. Uh entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve the calendar for the
041uh 2026 2027 school year. >> Have a motion by Mr. Hamilton. >> I'll second third by Mr. Al. All in favor? I oppose. Okay, so that passes. >> Thank you. That's a lot of work. Appreciate it. >> Thank you guys. My last item is just an update. Back in May of 2025, we received an email from Palms uh and Associates and they gave us some really interesting statistics. From 2016 to 2025, there were 138 reports of sexual abuse and misconduct in schools that resulted in $94 million in incurred cost. And so right after that, we got a a survey. I I brought this to you I um last year sometime I did it in June of 2025. I think I brought it to you in the July meeting, but it was a sexual ethical abuse
042and misconduct compliance questionnaire. And the goal of that was to be in 100% compliance. And so there was a series of questions that we had to answer and show the processes that we use. Um, and then they had a conversation with us and graded us on how we were doing. We did have a couple of application questions that we had to tweak a little bit. And we did have to add fingerprinting for volunteers and contractors. Before that, we were doing um a background check and a sexual um um misconduct check, sexual registry check, but it wasn't with fingerprints for volunteers and for contractors because it's really expensive. Um so we have since made a plan and we've got our volunteers all going through the fingerprint background check and our contractors are going through that as
043well. And so we did get 100% compliance on our report. Uh, one of some of the things that we did on our own were we made the director of Title 9 a full-time position and added an investigator. At one point I got to be the Title N direct coordinator along with my other job and it was quite a bit. Um, so far this year, Heather Woodard has had 631 calls and emails that she's dealt with. very much justifies the position. The vast majority of them are obviously studentto student incidents because middle school and high school that this kind of comes with the maturing um cycles that they're going through. Uh out of all those though there was only eight that met the criteria of title 9 sexual harassment and out of that one of only
044one of those was dismissed. So we take it very seriously. We look into all those um concerns. I'm proud of that. Um, in 2026, we did receive a letter saying that we qualified for the premium credit. I was very excited and so I started asking around about how much that was going to be, and it was a whopping $8,000 credit that will be deducted from our general liability uh premium. I was a little disappointed with the amount. I really thought it would be something bigger. Um, but you take what you can get. Um, our deductible, just for the reference on it, our deductible if there was an actual like sexual battery case is $400,000 per claim. Um, with a max amount out of pocket for the district for an annual year is $1,600,000. So, it's
045very costly if we have these kind of occurrences. And it really um is eye opening to me and justifying the steps that we go through with making sure that we're doing all the fingerprinting that we have a title n person that's fully dedicated to that. And a lot of what Heather does is preventative. And so going to schools and and helping kids learn a better way to act, making it very clear to employees what the consequences are, and then following up on that. Um, another little bit of information, $25,000 deductible from NIPIA. If they have to investigate a claim and it's determined to be meritless, so if if it comes out good and we were clean, we have a $25,000 deductible on that. If the if it's determined to have merit then and we can't
046settle for less than $25,000, we're responsible for the rest of that deductible for the entire deductible. So just want to kind of give you an overall picture of why we are doing what we're doing and some of the financial consequences. Miss for any questions on that. >> I attended a schoolboard training session about that and people were outraged because the deductible is based on kind of your size, right? So yes ma'am it's significant. >> It could be very significant but to me it's a call for us to be very proactive. >> Absolutely. and to make sure that we stay on top of that and we don't take it for granted. >> Yep, I agree. >> Another quick question. I think it's awesome that we're being so proactive against it and super important not only from
047a financial wellbeing uh being, you know, just as a community as well when you mentioned the changing the fingerprints and adding that in ballpark for volunteers. I mean, do we have a cost per volunteer that costs us or >> It's uh >> $49. >> $59. $59 a piece. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And so we are be we we were able to um do what it's we had some money that we were able to catch our volunteers up with the um with the expectation that coming in there we only cover a certain amount and then if there's more volunteers than that they're going to have to cover their own cost. We do have some title money also that we have set aside. So if it's a school that's economically um challenged there's some extra money that
048they could get extra volunteers with. Awesome. But it does cost quite a bit of money, but it's worth it. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Bet. >> All right. >> That's it. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Strickland. >> Operational Mattress, Mr. J, uh, President Cordova, members of the board, Superintendent Russ. I have with me Mr. Hill, our senior senior director of operations, and he's going to update on update each of you on the uh facilities plan that we put in place a couple years ago. I think it's critical as we go into the budget process that we examine and we make sure that you guys are positioned in a way that that we are looking at our facilities not only to ensure that we have the correct environment for our kids to
049learn in, but we're also being responsible at the expense of what it takes to maintain, heat, and cool those facilities. And so really excited about the message that Mr. Hill has for you the things that we've accomplished over the last few years as well as what's in front of us in the future. So turn that over to Mr. Hill. >> Thank you, Mr. Brady, President Cordova, members of the board, Superintendent Russ came to you in December with some updates and so these are things that have occurred since that time. So it's a little bit more extensive than what you see in front of you. the biggest piece uh for security upgrades. I haven't always given the full picture of what we've been doing, but gym doors across the district, as you know, many of our
050uh community members use our gyms uh practice of various sorts and it it becomes a little cumbersome for everyone to check out keys, keep track of those keys, and then when they don't come back to track them down. So, we've worked diligently about getting card access that like your hotel, you can turn it on and turn it off. So, it's Tuesday and Thursday or Friday and and Monday and uh and it is a cost to incur if those cards don't come back, but certainly much cheaper than a than a key blank. >> And so, that's been a big focus. The majority of gyms, if not all of the gyms that are used heavily by community members, that that has been accomplished. And going uh a little further with the card access, the ongoing installation for
051the front door and then a playground door or an exterior door, single point of egress uh into a building. So if we're in a lockdown situation, which we've not had thankfully for a while, an adult, someone with a key would have to go out there and manually lock that door. Otherwise, it's wide open. Caused some problems with that. First responders can't get in. We do have a set of keys, but we all know they're going to break the glass, shoot the hinges, do those kind of things. But this prevents us and gives us another layer. No one has to physically do anything with the door. But the card access system and our mass notification, whenever we hit our ray button, that is going to lock any door that's card access also helps us in security
052because at four o'clock each day, every door that's equipped with card access shuts down. someone forgets, custodian leaves early, summertime, uh whatnot, there's a a fail safe there as well as the playground should be a single point of of entry. So, those doors are locked. We we don't have bulletproof fences, right? So, if there's a situation, they need to run back inside. It's quicker to use our card than try to use our gross motor skills, fine motor skills to stick that key in there if there's a situation. probably want them running away from campus, but but that is the the idea behind it. Phase one uh for that. It's pretty expensive. About 520,000 we spent this year alone on card access as well as security film. Security film is not bulletproof, but it does give
053people a layer of of protection to get to another place to to have a little bit of time if there's a violent act in the office. So that was also phase one office and vestibules in every school. So a little over a half million dollars on that this school year. Marshall fire alarm intercom still working through that. We did a little bit of a walkthrough today. Punch list got some deficiencies identified. That's been a that school is a very very large footprint and there's a lot of of strobes and and and sirens in there. Lincoln Jackson, the portion that we re-roofed there. That final walkthrough was today. Completed that punch list as well as punch list at Marshall. Sandia gym floor at the bottom that was started during spring break. The demo is complete on
054on the floor and the new flooring is going in. We're pretty excited about that. Uh LVT, which is stood up in our other facilities very very well. Cleaning is much easier. longevity of it uh is much higher than traditional school flooring BCT. We've also been working diligently on our utilization of resources. That's what's going to be called in your facility master plan. So that's uh the heavy lift there has been a student sport and learning center, former 9th grade center. Our architectural and engineering plans are complete on that. That's uh been handed over to a GC to get some pricing. uh if we move forward, we we decide that the pricing is good, everything that we want, uh that demolition over there to uh complete the renovation for student support group could start within the
055next two to four weeks. We also before spring break with our on call architect to discuss Rainree. That meeting included uh staff from food service as well as operations. Our initial plan for that facility is the training facility portion and then one culinary kitchen. There's that's a firstphase approach. We have about 5 million uh we had about 5 million for renovations for the auditorium remaining about 3.2 which will be dedicated for student support and learning center in Rainree. So we know based on our conversations especially with food service it's a very needed facility but those new freezers and coolers alone is a significant lift there. So that's going to have to be a phased approach. The kitchen space is important for that summer food program that's coming around this year. But then as we transition,
056which we've talked about, but the other piece of that is we begin the discussions about the remodel and rebuild of Clovis High School. We we've we know that CTE and fine arts is a huge lift for our district. In fine arts, I dug into that a little bit with high school counselor. about almost 45% of our students are involved in some type of fine arts, which is a great problem to have, but when you have to replace or misplace, displace 45% of your students when you're under construction, it's a little bit of a problem. So, we're working through that. And they're not all in the same class period, but as we all know, uh, by the semi that the band uses whenever they go places that you're not just going to stick that in a
057closet somewhere. So, that's important. um the training facility related to the fine arts, how it's related to CTE because that will give students, ProStart students, culinary students a place to go during that renovation. So their displacement, there will have to be some busing or some transportation, but they won't be without a kitchen. So that helps us with some space savings. We are in the final stretch for our proposal for the high school. We'll talk positively because we do believe we're going to be awarded, but we still have to go to PSOC uh that is going to be May 7th in Santa Fe to present. They give us eight minutes to present 12 slides to ask for $100 million. So, we've had these preliminary uh meetings with them, Mrs. for us. Uh some of us from
058operations, different district leadership, we've had some preliminary meetings um which we feel very good about, but 12 slides in 8 minutes and they have been pretty stringent about they're going to cut you off on time. So, we've been trying to get that information uh to them. But that that presentation is due March 31st. I want to say thank you to Sarah Brooks. She's been phenomenal in helping Mr. Brady and I get that together. So make sure shout out to her. And then the last piece uh before questions anticipation of that CHS funding been taking the inventory of the portables and trying to think ahead about the culinary and about the fine arts CTE CTE alone just uh the welding shop agriculture that that's a big space that they need to do their work. And so
059thinking ahead about how we uh are are going to house those people and what that looks like. We still have some some work to do in the phasing as the architect comes online. What classes, what areas are best? We should renovate this part first. We should rebuild this part for safety and flow of the campus. So, there's still some conversation about that, but would be remiss to say I'm not concerned about the 250 band students that are in band hall first period and where they're going to go, but we're working on it. And I'll stand for any questions. Any questions from the board? >> Did you give us a time frame >> on when we were going to start? >> Missed the time start. >> Start if they if they approve it. >> The high
060school. I'm sorry. >> One more time. Did we miss the deadline? >> No. No. When or when would we start? Theoretically, if they >> planning I I my anticipation is we could start planning in the fall. >> Fall. Okay. But that that I believe that to be a year and a half process >> okay >> for just the planning >> just the planning >> lots of >> and there's there's just >> there's a lot of needs that a custodian is just one place so we use a lot of blue machine scrubbers that helps on the efficiency of cleaning our facilities it's better than hand mopping in a lot of ways but no one anticipated this big blue machine it's kind of like a custodial Zamboni um you just there's a lot of space and there's
061a lot of conversation and we know as we talked about earlier there's there's this much money. >> Yeah, >> there's going to be some give and take for some things but we hope to >> submitted the letter to to BSFA for demolition of cameo. We're out of cycle right now so we have to wait for that. So that's going to be $4 million. that's 100% um funded by PSFA, PSOC, but that's another step in order to meet the facility master plan and be good stewards of public money. So, that'll be upcoming. I think we can start planning in the fall to stuff. >> And when we know if we get that money, >> we will know in June. >> June. >> May 7th. May 7th is the meeting. We'll be notified in June. Thank you.
062>> When you mentioned the cameo uh demolition, you mentioned another cycle. Is that an annual cycle or just >> It it changes yearly just about there was several years ago uh that it was open all year round, which was fantastic for us, but the people that had to work on at PSFA couldn't keep up. So, I was actually part of a committee. Hey, what if we go to to two times per year? Concerned about two times per year, but let's try it. Understand? and they've stuck with that. So for a district the two times per year you you can't get moving as fast. >> Gotcha. Wait at least another six months fair. >> At best. >> Just blows my mind. This is a comment just blows my mind that they only allow you so much
063time to propose your needs for a district our size. Well, I mean any district but you know a district our size >> In a high school. Um because there's so much to it. Absolutely. >> Uh in construction, I mean there's so much. >> I think it's important that understand also PSFA did another step that I have not seen them do in my life in the district. They actually sent a group down to tour the facility that we're proposing for the bond project. Okay. So, preemptively they have an understanding of what our need is and where we're going to focus. And so going to the committee to really put the rubber down on the road. That's what this pro next step is is here we are formally asking you for the money. And so they do
064have some background information. >> Well, that's it. >> It's not cold turkey for sure. I appreciate you bringing that. >> They're not. And what's nice is the feedback we've gotten initially is that the district is poised in a very positive position to go forward and get that $100 million with the funding. They're very impressed with where we are in the process, our readiness to get going and our commitment as a district and the facility plan that he's presenting to you is a big piece of the why we're in such a good position to be able to go get that money. So I want to go back to two years ago when we came with the facility plan and went with the outside agency and all those moving pieces that we went through on restructure, realignment,
065closing of school, redistricting, all of that has paid off for us to come down with that planning going forward for the high school. It's >> one of the questions if you don't if it doesn't align to your FMP, that's one of the disqualifiers. >> You know, around the state there's not been a lot of new high schools built or remodeled. It's expensive. Uh our on call architect is also the architect for Carlsbad and they're they're paying 100% of theirs. 200 started at 220. They're up to 250 million. >> It's just it's it's like gas. It's expensive. >> That's it. Thank you, Mr. Hill. >> Thank you. >> Uh do we have any yellow cards or cards? cards. >> Okay. So, we'll move down to announcements. >> Hey, April 3rd, we'll have our spring holiday. All
066of our campuses and district offices will be closed and we'll reconvene here. I'm not sure this is correct, Gina. April 22nd. I believe it's the 28 the 4th Tuesday. on April. >> That should be the 28th. That That is correct. >> Yes. >> So, April 28th. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> 28. 28. Everybody got it? >> Yes. Okay. >> Is that all you have? >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. Now, uh I will ask for a motion to recess into executive session. Excuse me. I move to recess into executive session pursuant to 101587 to discuss pending litigation involving a civil action. >> Okay. I have a motion by Miss Osborne. >> Second. >> A second by Mr. Wagel. Uh will please call roll. >> Yes. >> President Cordova. >> Yes. >> Vice President Hamilton. >> Yes.
067>> Secretary Martin. >> Member Osborne. >> Yes. Andrew Wiggle. >> Yes. >> Okay. And now we'll move into executive session. Okay. Um, at this time I would entertain a motion to reconvene from executive session. >> I'll make a motion to uh reconvene from executive session uh pursuant to 1015-H7 um where no actions were taken. >> I have a motion by Mr. Waggle. >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Hamilton. We have a roll call, please. >> Yes, sir. >> President Corba? >> Yes. >> Vice President Hamilton? >> Yes. >> Secretary Martin. >> Member Author? >> Yes. Member Wever? >> Yes. >> Okay. And then motion is carried. Now I will entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by motion by Mr. Hamilton, a second by Miss
068Osborne. All in favor? I >> oppose. This meeting is journed.