001Good evening everybody. I'd like to call this meeting of the Clovis School Board to order. Mrs. Wilkerson, can I have a roll call, please? >> Mr. Cordova, President Vice President Hamilton >> here. >> Secretary Martin >> here. >> Member Osborne >> here. >> Member Waggle >> here. We have a quorum. Would you guys please rise for the pledge and salute led by Mr. Weaggle. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> I salute the flag of the state of New Mexico, the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among united cultures. Please be seated. Okay, let's see. I think we have an amendment here. So, first up, I'd like to consider a motion
002to amend the agenda for tonight. >> Which item? Um, we are going to, um, amend the, uh, athletics update update on year-round athletics. We're going to move it from operational matters to um, superintendence report. We're going to put it under Mrs. Russ's. >> Is that correct? >> Yeah. Yes. Chair, I make a mo chair. I'm sorry. >> Mr. Mr. Chairman, I make a motion to to move the agenda. >> I'll second that. >> That's a motion by Mr. Martin and a second by Mr. Waggle. All in favor? >> I. >> All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. >> So, >> to approve >> I need to make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Amended agenda. >> Yeah. Now, we need to make a motion to approve the amended agenda. Yes. >> I make
003a motion to approve the amended agenda. Yes, >> a second. >> That's a motion by Mr. Martin and a second by Mrs. Osborne. All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Motion carries. >> Good to go. >> Okay. Now, I need a motion to consider approval of the minutes. >> I make a motion to approve uh our January minutes. >> I'll second. >> It's a motion by Mr. We a second by Mrs. Osbbor. All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed? >> Abstain. >> Motion carries. >> Okay. Consent agenda. Without any questions, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. Anybody have any questions? >> Move. Move to approve the agenda. >> Consent agenda. >> I'll second that. Okay, that's a motion by Mr. Martin and a second by Mr. Waggle. All in favor? >>
004I >> opposed. Motion carries. >> Superintendence report. Mrs. Russ. >> Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Jay, do we have Mr. Sherrod? Recognize him without his cap. >> Thank you, Mr. Vice President, members of the board, Superintendent Russ, Coach Rod's going to be uh talking to you guys. The reason for the amendment, just to make sure the public is aware, our playoff game tonight, or I should say our district game tonight starts at six o'clock and he's on the bench with the coach, so we need to get him finished and out the door. So, thank you for the amendment to the agenda. Uh we've got a lot going on. We've invested a lot in athletics. I think it's time to update you all on the progress and some of the baseline information that we've uh acrewed
005over the course of the school year with our kids uh in middle and high school. So, with that, I'll turn it over to Coach Sherrod. >> Okay. Okay. Um I just want to thank you guys for this opportunity, members of the board, superintendent, Mrs. for us. Like, I appreciate you guys for taking the time to hear out the things that we've implemented to our middle school athletic program this year along with our high school program as well. Um, the program is is we've implemented it. It's um it's counteracting some of the things that we feel like to that need to be addressed to fix some of the problems that we have right now with our middle school and high school athletics. Um, so we can go to the next slide. Um, so obviously it starts
006with the why. Um, the why is right now we've noticed that our athletes are coming underdeveloped. Um, we're we're not as strong. We're lacking some foundational knowledge at the high school and middle school levels. And I think that's um due to a lack of not having any youth programs for the years we've had. Um, we're offsetting that now obviously with our youth programs. Um, but the that's going to take that's going to take a little while before we can reap the benefits of that. So, there's some things that we're doing right now to kind of offset those things. Um, obviously we are like we're inheriting some athletes that like the numbers wise and you'll see as the slideshow goes on, but our numbers are below average across across the country um for we're below 11
007year old numbers at the eighth grade level. And I would say eighth grader is about 14 years old. So, the solution we implemented was a year- round athletic program. Because typically at the middle school level, we've had after they get out of their sport, we just kind of put them back in a in a regular PE class. There's no development going on in those sports. And as you know, um the athletes get better in the offseason. You don't get better during the season. in the season you're just kind of trying to sustain um and you're not really you're not really going to make that many improvements in the course of a year. So what we implemented is um we call it our bigger faster stronger program which those are the focuses on strength, speed and
008agility and explosiveness. Um and it's not just it's not just a seasonal thing. So it's a whole year round it's it's a 10-month program. So, when you get out of a sport, you're going into offseason, which is focusing on um two days of lifting and then two days of speed and agility. And then we also have a built-in plyometrics day, which is like um jumping and those kind of things, calisthetic, things like that. Um those are being we they're ran by our coaches, our middle school coaches. We also have some of our coordinators down there and our toaster Todd Morris is down there as well. Obviously being overseen by me and our athletic director Nick Williams. So I think that's the the best way to kind of fix some of our problems is we have
009to do more. Like we have to intentionally do more um for the lack of that we haven't had for the last couple years to come. And I think it's might have been over 10 years that we haven't had youth athletics in Clovis. Um, so that's I feel like that this is the the quickest adjustment we can make is just to do more and we have to have more buy in. And I think with our athletic department and the support of our CMS and on our administrators at central office like we are seeing we are seeing a lot of progress in that area and I think that'll kind of offset some of the lack of um foundational knowledge that we have right now and lack of strength and things like that. So a lot of people
010don't understand why the weight room matters. Um it's is on the eye test it's just bigger and stronger but it improves body maintenance and increases durability and injury prevention and it helps sustain a long high longer higher level of promise per performance through the course of a season because obviously u from the start to finish of a season your body starts to break down the weight room kind of offsets those things. It helps you more durable especially with us sharing multiple athletes across multiple sports. Um to the next slide. So obviously many athletes that we have they compete in multiple sports. Um so that training that we do is versatile to all the sports. Um it's not just one sport specific and in all the sports you need speed speed strength and like resilience and
011all those things help us because we are sharing multiple athletes. We are we don't just have one sport athletes in Clovis. So we just need to build our kids bodies up to be able to endure the long year that we have and be able to sustain throughout the seasons to compete at a higher level. Um so this is an example of our baseline that we have and how we're kind of measuring those growth. Um if you look it shows you boys seventh and eighth grade, yucka girls seventh and eighth grade along with Gatis boys, Gatis girls. So we right now just because we're not too focused on putting weight on the bar, we're more so focused on building up that strength because you put weight on the bar too early, their bodies will start breaking
012down. Um if you look at the numbers at the bottom of the screen, it shows their national it shows the national averages and that's for 11 year old. Um obviously at the seventh eighth grade level, those kids are 13 and 14 years old. We're way behind the threshold of the numbers that we're supposed to have. So, that's kind of that's how we identify the problems and how we can build those things up. Um, and it's it's going to take it's going to be a process, but I think identifying the problem and on the eye test, we can obviously make assumptions that we're not strong enough, we're not fast enough, but when we start measuring it, it clearly shows we're three years behind the national average of an 11 year old at a as we're 14
013years old. um an example of how we're kind of measuring growth and data at the high school level where they're putting weight on the bar. This is an example of um of our high school basketball team who they've made they've made a lot of growth and if you look at it that's just the first semester. a lot of these individual kids in increases are 20 pounds, five pounds. Like we're making substantial leaps and I think with the system that we have, if we continue to keep this going and build on top of this and continue to stack days on the foundational part, we'll continue to see these numbers increase just like this. So with with the offseason program, we've seen our mile times decrease tremendously from December to January by an average of at least
014one minute. Um, one of the students even had two minutes shaved off their time. Our our shuttle runs that we've been measuring have our average times are nearly a second second per grade of drop off. So they've been decreased by a second. um push-ups. They've gained at least an average of a push-up since December. So, obviously, it's showing that with what we're doing, it's showing improvements. Um and it's and we're fixing some of the problems that we have. And obviously, it's going to take us to continue to build on top of that um and continue to build our kids' bodies up um and those kind of things. So, what we're looking into right now, and we've been looking at a different a couple different softwares to track our growth and collect data at the high
015school level. Um our current process is just um collecting data and putting it in a spreadsheet. But there's a there's a more proficient way to do that. Um so we are looking to work with a company named Rock Daisy and that is all man it'll be inputed on the app and those coaches will be able to track it and they'll be able to see the growth. they'll be able to manage each individual athlete in those specific needs that each individual athletes have because obviously every athlete isn't the same and some have need more growth in areas and others don't. So, it'll be catered to the individual and the individual sport. And I think just with with the things that we're doing, we're making leaps, but we just got to understand it's going to be a
016process. And I think we've identified the problems. Now, it's just continuing to get kids in there, continuing to build on top of that. And I think we'll be headed in the right direction. Um, and and and I'm not that much far from them, but athletes today are a lot different than even when I was in school. Um, we're not we've been inheriting them less physically prepared. Um, so like that's kind of why we're being very intentional with what we're doing. Um, being very specific with what we're doing to target these areas that should offset some of the problems that we're having. And if we catch them at the sixth grade, sixth grade level, by the time they get to the high school, we should be counteracting a lot of these problems and we should just
017be focused on actually coaching. Cuz we're at the high school level, we're doing a lot of teaching on things that we probably shouldn't be teaching because if they had those foundational knowledge and they had that youth program experience, we could be now we can be focused on winning and competing and and really iron sharpens iron kind of mentality. But right now, we're we're a little bit behind the threshold. And I think that like we'll be fine. I think we've identified the problems. I think we've made a lot of improvements with our coaching staff and the programs that we're that we're implementing. Um and I think we'll we'll see the success to come. So, I think um our responsibility right now is just developing complete athletes. It's not sport specific. We want kids to be able
018to compete in all aspects and be trained to, like I said, to to do all things. So, we're being proactive instead of reactive. We're building durable explosiveness and consistency and then compare them to compete at a high level. Obviously, if they and that should carry them on if they even want to compete at the next level in college. me myself with my experience playing at the college level like you have you you have to the weight room is 80% 80% of the thing and we're not going to ever be able to change how tall our kids are but we can always change how tough they are and how durable they are and I think that ties to the Clovis way with just being resilient and I think if we just keep building it up every
019generation will grow for years to come. just say it. >> So when we started with the youth program, uh just to reiterate what coach Shrod said, youth youth activities that involve uh roughly about 800 to a,000 kids per sport. You've seen the data on that. So we have kids out playing. We've worked on the middle school. We have two offseason periods, first and seventh period. Uh and so our girls and boys athletes on the front end and the back end of the day that are not in a sport are being developed. and then the investment in the weight room and then the strength and conditioning position that we have at the high school. In the long run, we're going to see a much uh higher quality athlete. Hopefully, a lot less injury prone and be
020able to survive multiple sports throughout the year. So, we just wanted to update you and give you an idea of where we are and what's going on with the investment that the district has put into athletics. And with that, we stand for any questions. >> Any questions? >> I have one question. So, if we went with like the rock daisy and so they look at that individual student data, would they also then be able to um provide some guidance for the coaches about here's a priority you need to work on? Because I was just thinking if I was a coach, I'd be like, "Oh my gosh, I got all these kids who need all these things." >> We've been really blessed with uh our strength and conditioning coach and the relationship that's developing with the
021strength and conditioning coach and portalis with Nate Chavis, Coach Chavis over there. Um Nate has been using Rock Daisy and that's who brought that program to us. Uh iPads are actually on the racks. Kids that are in a strength and conditioning program, those programs are tailored to them in their in their in the program that they're currently working in. So if it's a soccer player, it will deliver workouts. It will show deficiencies and it will give them uh catchup routines to be able to develop that deficiency. That is a part of those kind of programs. Awesome. Very cool. >> Any other questions? >> I don't appreciate you. >> I appreciate the support board. >> Thank y >> Mr. Hamilton Sarah has just had to step out. So, shall we move on to >> Yes, ma'am.
022>> All right. I'd like to invite Michelle Smith up to the podium. She's going to introduce us to our top two amazing shake. And I just as she's coming up, she'll probably talk about this, but if you get a chance to go on our Facebook page and look at the debates that those kids had to participate in last week, it was mindblowing how amazing they they really were on the fly with an audience. >> And I just want to compliment you for your leadership this year. We really took it to the next level and we're super excited to meet these kids and hear what comes next. >> Thank you. So, thank you superintendent. Thank you board. Um, it's a pleasure to be here again and to give you an update on the amazing shake. As
023Miss Russ said, the students that participated this last Friday at CCC would have made you proud. They sure made me proud. They make they will make Clovis proud as they go on and grow. Um, the debates were hot topic debates and sometimes people shy away from those kind of conversations, but these kids jumped right in there and debated on stage in front of a live audience and it was amazing. So, I would like to introduce you to our top two and then I'll talk to you again in a second. Um, our top two, one will be by video and one will be Miss Sophia Sosa. So, Miss Sophia Sosa, I'm going to let her introduce herself and say a few words. >> Hi everyone, I'm Sophia Sosa. Hi everyone, I'm Sophia SSA and I just
024want to say it's been an honor going through this journey for the amazing shake and I want to say thank you to everyone who has pitched in for us going to different destinations like Rainree and CCC because I'm sorry because the last year I was in the Amazing Shake, we didn't have as much opportunities as we did now. And with the journey that I've been through with multiple other kids and with the debate and everything I've been through, it's such an honor to get to stand in front of everybody as I am now. And I want to say thank you to everyone who has pitched in for everything that we do and that we did. >> Sophia, will you tell them what grade you're in? >> I'm in fifth grade. Amazing. And now I'll introduce
025another uh top two which is Grayson Boyo on the screen. >> President Cordova, Superintendent Russ, members of the board. I'm sorry I cannot be with you here tonight because I am representing Gats on our first ever tracking of the year. I just wanted to take some time to thank you for supporting the amazing shake as well as our trip to event. This process has helped me grow as a young man and I cannot wait to represent Glo the Global Amazing Shake. Again, thank you for your support. >> Wow. So, our last step and uh me as the person who will be their spokesperson would um like to request that we are allowed to travel with these two amazing young people and one family member from each family um to take them to the final global
026shake which will happen at the end of March. And I think they're both more prepared than I ever dreamed they would be. I I got to go last year and um the students did great last year but we didn't know what we didn't know. And this year we know what we didn't know and uh the students show that they were ready. So um well I'll put that forward. >> Okay. I just want to say how proud we are of you guys. That's awesome. >> Very good. >> Yes. Okay. I'll entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion um to uh provide uh the trip allowance uh for them to attend the amazing shake. >> Second. >> That's a motion by Mr. Waggle and a second by Mr. Martin. All in favor? I >> opposed. >>
027Motion carries. >> We'll just go ahead and finish with our triple request. The next is a request from the Clovis FFA and it it doesn't fully meet the requirements of meeting your approval, but we're bringing it to you anyway. they are traveling out of state and I thought it would be great to hear um from this program. So, we'll invite you on up. >> Evening everyone. I just want to say thank you for allowing us to come before you and present this. Like Miss Russ said, it's not an overnight travel, but this is a contest that uh kind of mimics what we do over here in New Mexico. These are career development events. So, these are different contests that our FFA members compete in that build readiness for careers after high school. Uh, we were
028fortunate enough to go and compete at this contest last year. This is put on by uh West Texas A&M over in Canyon. We competed against about 40 or 50 other Texas teams and last year we were fortunate enough to win the entire contest. So we we >> little few Mexico came in there and whooped up on all the Texas guys. It was pretty pretty great. Pretty great. So uh we were just uh requesting that we were able to go back again this year and and go go compete again. >> Fantastic. >> Y'all have any questions for us? I mean I'm here to here to answer them. >> What are some of the things that you guys will compete in? So, uh, the WT contest will compete primarily in the, uh, land evaluation and homesite evaluation
029contest. Those are basically what the students do is they go out to a plot of land and they've got different soil textures and some other factors that they uh, evaluate. And from there they will build a recommendation on this plot of land is either suitable for row crops, how suitable it is, is it more of a range land for cattle grazing, anything like that. That's the land evaluation contest. The homeside evaluation contest kind of looks at that more in the lines of do I want to build my house here? Is it going to be good for uh septic systems? Is the foundation going to shift over time? So, it's building, like I said, those lifelong skills after high school is what they geared up for. >> That's really awesome. >> Yeah, that's really true. >>
030No, I don't have any questions. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> I move to approve the travel. >> I'll second. >> That is a motion by Mr. Martin and a second by Mr. Waggle. All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed? Motion carries. Can we have one more trip before you? And this one does require an exception to the policy because typically we don't take overnight trips at the elementary level. >> But I think when you hear from this group, you you may feel like an exception should be granted. >> I think they're really going to represent us well. >> Um, good evening. I appreciate uh Vice President Hamilton, the board, Superintendent Russ, for letting us talk to you. So, I have four students here that are fourth and fifth grade from Barry Steam Academy. Um,
031and their teacher, um, Miss Cordova, and we decided, I gave her the challenge that, you know, I said, there's robotics competitions in the state of New Mexico. Um, why don't we see what we can do? And she said, well, you know, a lot of them are only for middle schools. And I was like, okay. But, she said, but they will accept fifth grade and fourth grade. I said, so let's do it. So, she uh found the the locust the local one that we could go to. Um it was a day trip. So their parents were kind enough to let us take their children up there. They uh built the robot. They again, same thing that Miss Smith had said, we didn't know what we didn't know. Um and we went up and uh they met
032a lot of people, did really well, competed mostly against middle school teams, and then they qualified for state. >> So we are super excited about that. But there was nothing in board policy about them being able to go. And the way that they do the robotic state competition is there's a meet and greet uh the Friday before. They have to have the robot checked um because it has to qualify. They have referees and they said the referees were very intense. Um and that they were like, "No, don't touch it." And they like they it's a very complex and important uh rules to follow. And so, um, we were asking the board permission and they also asked if they could also give a little sample of what they're going to have to do, um, at the
033robotics competition. So, they brought their robot, um, and then one of the things that they would have to do at the competition, if you do not mind them showing you a little example of what they're going to do. >> We would love that. >> Okay. So, I will let all four of them, this is Camden, um, Elizabeth, Serenity, and Ila, do you guys want to help the table over there? And um so there's actually lots of different categories and they have to work together and they have to work with other teams. Have I know you probably have seen like robot wars and things like that. It's a little different than that. Um they actually have to have their robot do particular things. They have to be able to drive it. They have to be able
034to code it and it has to do um certain tasks. So Camden I think is going to Do you have to stack Camden? Is that correct? >> Uh yes. >> Okay. And so the pins that they have in the robot, they have to actually stack individually. We're going to have them already stack because it kind of takes a minute for them to be able to stack that. But then they get points for everyone that they stack. And then this is a standoff that stands in the middle. And if they stack that on top of there, they get extra points on that. And how they actually compete is they compete with another school. They have to work together as a team and whatever points they get total that both teams get. Then the next round they
035compete with somebody else. So if the points go up, then of course you go higher on and then if the points go down, you go lower on. So yes, I'm very proud of them. They beat like four other middle school teams to actually make it into the top 10. And then we got place out of that, but then we ended up getting so That one's fast, too, isn't it? >> And the the run the area that they have is actually very it's big, but they actually have to stay within a certain area. >> Um they have to keep hands off the robot, but we didn't want to have to set up the whole arena. They actually have an arena that they that they have as well. Um and then you can see she also has
036an iPad because there is coding that's involved and they do switch out. Um and we do have we were hoping to take two robots as well. So, they've been working on this one. They actually upgraded their robot a little bit to be able to do a couple other things as well. So, he's been practicing. They've actually all been practicing on trying to do the stacking. >> Uhhuh. >> Um and so, as you can see, it's very tumultuous. >> Yeah. >> I would have drove the robot off the table. >> Yeah. Once we were like, we're like, "Oh, we hope we we shouldn't have brought the bumper." >> Yeah. >> But they they're they worked really really hard. This is a new uh thing that we've actually come up with at Barry Steam Academy. wanted to
037to have a robotics team. Um, you know, they have um the different types of things um like uh you have esports um and and different things that can do that, but we wanted them to build something and then actually be a part of stuff. And we looked around the state to see what we could be involved in. Um as a secondary former teacher, I'm always looking at like what can the kids start and what can we root them in to maybe help them grow and get excited about something in middle school and high school. And so um she was going to be an engineer and I said you know I have this great idea for you and I was like you could do this and she was like really and I said absolutely and so
038we're actually even thinking about trying to maybe host something that could be um local and do a regional competition here because the closest ones we found were Albuquerque >> and Santa Fe >> and then there was one in Texas that's really far away. So, we were like, why don't we try to be maybe more of a hub of those types of things because we we have we have the ability to do it. We just need to to maybe get our minds around it and think about it a little bit differently. So, we're very proud of them. Um, of course, we do stand for any questions that you have, but we're also asking for permission to be able to uh take the students in about >> a couple of days to to state. add also that
039because they are elementary, we've asked that parents go as a chaperon. >> Correct. >> Yes, parents are going as a as a chaperone um and they each they we each have a room for them. We also offered for food, transportation, etc. Um the parents are all here tonight as well. They're very very proud. Um and they were excited too. They all went to the last one as well and it was just it's just a different experience. Um and I didn't realize that the they worked together with other groups. I kind of thought it was again I thought it was like a robot war. Um, and it was but it's a totally different type of experience and that they there's different categories that we didn't even realize like they have to be able to journal. Um,
040they have to be able to answer questions from the judges. And so a lot of the stuff we've done with Ron Clark has helped because now they actually can interact and like answer the judges, speak to the judges, and use all those same things but in a different capacity. It's not just for the Amazing Shake. It's for other things as well. So >> that's good. >> Yeah. So thank you. And I I do stand for any questions and they do too. They will be more than happy to answer anything for you. >> You guys have any questions? >> Have you guys named the robot? >> What's the scene name? >> Cool. >> I gott I got it. >> Very cool. Good luck to you guys. >> Yes. Good luck. We're super proud of you guys.
041>> We appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, this is great. So I would move to approve the Berry Steam Academy Robotic Robotics trip to Albert. >> Second. >> That's a motion by Mrs. Osborne and a second by Mr. Martin. All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. >> Okay. Next, we want to celebrate some more kids if we can bring Coach Lema on up and let's hear about the successes with our wrestling team. Yeah, I know. >> Hello. I'm uh Elizabeth Leiddesma. I'm one of the coaches for the wrestling team and I have with me, >> Coach Mike, >> coach Rudy Lema. >> And so this year we made some history. Um we were able to qualify 18 wrestlers at state this year. Last year we qualified nine. And so we just wanted to
042share some numbers. Um our girls side we qualified let's see Jerelli Navaret Zoolady Mendoza Natalie Mahia Sen Ward Guadalupe Guzman and Jaylen San Miguel. So if you ladies could come up. So, in order to qualify for state, you have to qualify for regionals. And so, you have to be at a specific weight class for 50% of the varsity season. So, once they got to regionals, um they let me look. I'm sorry. Uh Jerelli placed third place at regionals. Um Zu Lady was six, Natalie was second, CA was fourth, Guadalupe is not here. she was sixth and Jaylen was seventh. And so, um, thanks. >> So, at our regionals, we had 37 teams and they placed seventh. And so, that is the highest that we've ever placed. >> They went on to state this past weekend.
043And, uh, Jerelli Neett placed third place at state. and Natalie Mahia who is a freshman. Jerelli is a senior and Natalie she's a freshman and she plays six. >> So they did really good. Um at state we were able to get 46 points, nine pins, 11 wins. So that was a big change from the year before. We had placed 34th out of 49 and we had only gotten five wins. And Jerelli was our first ever wrestler to place at state, boys and girls. >> Awesome. >> And for the varsity team, we've had over 293 wins as matches. They've had over 242 takedowns and 183 pins. >> So, the girls did amazing. Yes, sir. >> And I'll let you guys uh listen for the boy stats. >> All right. So, uh want to give you a
044little background. So, we're in our fifth year and so wanted to kind of talk about how the program has grown. So, approximately the first year we had close to 40 kids. It's grown 20 25% every year. This year we had 115 come out and uh we still towards the end of the season we're still having about 70 that we're still sticking with at the last couple weeks. So just to understand the growth of this sport of how how it is really just blowing up. >> Booming. >> Yes. So uh with our boys we had 12 qualify for state. Most of them are here. So I'm just going to have them come up and then I'll talk about them. So all the boys come on. So, majority of the boys that are up here, um, everybody
045placed in roughly the top five, um, at least the top seven though at regionals. And, uh, same thing as coach Leiddesmo was saying for them to qualify and go to state. So we had uh 12 qualify for state uh this year where uh previous years we've we only had six total. So with the girls that was a total of 18 that got to go to state this year. So that shows uh the huge growth of this the support that we've been receiving has been phenomenal. Thank you. And uh with that, with the kids being able to as to practice more, to be able to have off seasons, to be able to do that, you can tell that these guys last year had an off season and then we were really able to hit the ground
046running this year and it's shown on the map this year. >> Uh going forward, they they touched on it earlier, strength and conditioning is going to be huge. That's one of the things our kids are lacking is uh when when we get to bigger competition, you can tell those kids for the most part out muscle us besides, you know, John Royal here. Um but uh so that's that's one of the things that we're lacking is just the strength and conditioning. And I think most of these most of these guys that are standing up here now realize they they need to put a little more time into that, you know, the injury prevention and whatnot. One of the things uh coach didn't touch on uh we did have some injuries. So uh like Natalie, we had
047to medically withdraw her. So she had two losses in state that we just could not let her compete anymore. So uh feel very confident that she would have been top three in state if we didn't have to pull her out of the matches. So um and then that happened with one of our other kids. He uh he hurt his knee during uh warm-ups and so we had to pull him out of his his match as well with the boys. So uh let's see. So qualifiers went through 12 uh we ended up 16 out of 27 and uh points we scored 27 points. The previous year we scored 12. Uh the year before that 11. The year before that two. So every year we've gotten better. Uh first year we qualified two kids. Second year we
048qualified four. Uh third year was three. Uh last year we qualified six. And then told you how this year with the boys qualified 12. So it's >> getting better. >> Things though as as you realize we're in a military town. So like we're going to it's we're going to be rebuilding but we have some young guys that are coming up. We're losing some of these guys. They're PCSing other places. We have a couple graduating. So, we're approximately going to be losing four to five starters on both boys and girls side and you know that's roughly 50 to 60% of your points throughout the year. But we have some great young talent coming up too. So, it should not be too bad there. Uh we're missing Yeah, we're missing some of the boys. So, everybody here,
049Landon placed the highest that a boy has at regionals and uh he got he he got second, but like I said, everybody up here was in the top seven to qualify and a bunch of third place finishers up here, a couple fourth place. And I miss anything else? Oh, all right. So, Oh, yeah. That's the font's too small. That's too small. >> Yeah. >> Oh, okay. Uh, so the boys team total this year, we had 359 wins, 399 takedowns, 214 pins. And most of these tournaments, like we had numerous top three finishes, both boys and girls, and we had usually the most uh pins and the fastest number of pins. So even if we weren't, you know, we weren't number one, we were we're competing. We're we're there. >> Anything else? >> No, we just
050want to say thank you. This year was the first year we were able to travel and actually compete uh against some really tough people and it really helped us. You you don't know what you don't know, right? And so once you start wrestling against these bigger and stronger people, you pick up techniques, we study, we watch film, and we get better. So we appreciate being able to go. Um I know it was a lot because we are we were told we were the team that travels the most. So thank you so much for supporting us >> and we stand for questions. >> Specifically, uh Mr. Brady, thank you. with without your support, we wouldn't have grown and you were an advocate for us for >> trust. >> So, but yeah, the just it really did
051like we went from previous years of our kids only having 25 matches and when you get to state like the the kid that won um from uh Cleveland, he went 50 and0 this year. So, and our kids were going into state at 20 matches. So imagine, you know, how far behind the kids have been for years when they're going in with 20 matches and they're competing against kids that had 40, 45, 50 matches going into state. So profoundly helped us. >> Awesome. >> Oh, we did sweep Artisia. There was a meet, a local meet, >> but it had bigger schools there. And we we've never placed first and and swept the girls and the boys. So Thank you guys. Appreciate you guys. >> Good job. >> Do you want to give a rundown? >> We'll
052let Mr. Brady give a quick update on SLAM. We had some great success. I don't know what our breakdown is. >> Thank you again. Um, off the cuff, our girls placed second at state this year. I want to go ahead and reemphasize for the uh swim teams. We don't have a a diving team. For us to finish in the top three uh is pretty miraculous when you consider we don't have divers in the sport. So, uh, we did have one young lady who won backstroke for the entire state. And so, very accomplished on as well as being district champs this year. So, very proud of what our young ladies have uh, accomplished. And then our young men, our team, we had qualifiers very much like what you saw with wrestling, but as a team, I
053think we finished uh, in the middle of the pack. I can't give you that exact exact number, but the swim program is very competitive. I'd like to say that coach Ford and Coach Deayo do an excellent job and he still has a $100 bill tacked up in the locker room for anybody that wants to go out and try and compete with the kids in that workout that they do. If you can keep up with them, he'll give you $100. And I've yet to say I would try that, but that as you can see, I'm not swimming anyway. >> Anyway, I stand for any questions. Is there a special pool to do diving in or that's >> Well, it just requires the deep end and uh >> we don't have that in this area. >> No,
054they took the diving boards out of the uh aquatic center that we have several years ago and so um I do believe the only diving boards that were available were at the natatoralis and I believe they've removed those as well and so uh you go to hobbs, you go to Carl'sbad, some of these newer facilities have gone ahead and done that but the liability insurance on those huge is quite substantial. Yeah. >> Any questions? Any more questions? >> Thank you for the update. >> Yes. >> Not bad for off the cuff. >> Miss Williams. >> We'll tell you happy birthday. >> Happy birthday. >> Stepping out, but I swear it was extremely important. Um, focus on this. Um, so we've come up with our dates now. So, we're really excited. Our STEM days are going
055to be 29 and 30 April. So, I sent the email out to superintendents this week just to go ahead and have um classes start signing up. They only have to attend one day. It's going to be the same thing both days. Um last year we got,250 kids through in four different school districts. So, we're hoping to have the same if not more. Um great opportunity. We're also taking um signups from businesses and other places in the community. So last year, I think we had 45 stations for STEM. So we're hoping we'll get a little bit more. And then we're going to take our STEM day and we're just going to photocopy and add it to our air show, which is June 6th. Um, and I know they've asked a few things of the schools if
056they want some things coming out of some airplanes. So let me know on that one. Um, and then Tudos, uh, we have been rattling our brains trying to come up with a date. We everything is ready. We just want to execute the program. Um, so I was approved to May 30th. I know is after school year ends. Um, we're hoping teachers will sign up and maybe they'll not take their vacations until after. Um, so we're hoping we have about a hundred slots for educators out of all nine different um, districts to go. So just get the word out. Share, share, share. Um, if there's something that you even if the air show if the district wants to jump in and do something for the air show piece, let me know. I can always add a
057station. I mean, Barry Steam Academy Robotics would be really neat to add as well. Um, but we're here to support you guys however we can, unless you have any questions for me. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> We do have a representative from the high school here to give you an update as well. >> Good evening, board members. My name is Baka and I am the senior representative for Columbus High School student council. To start from February 12th to February 14th, 10 of the student council students, including myself, attended city council state in Los Lunes. Due to this being our 76th annual NASC state conference, our overall theme was groovy7s. The first day was our registration and check-in day along with turning in our state projects. So, we also did some chants and
058roll calls. A roll call is a form of a chant, no longer than 30 seconds, and it includes hand movement signs and some form of tune. We did it to the beat of Come and Get Your Love by Red Bone. The next day was a hearing of candidates for the 26 27 Nmasc officers. We then broke off into our group workshops and individual workshops. The workshops are a way to bring ideas and different idea activities into our schools. For example, one of the group workshops was an Oreo eating challenge. Uh the kids stood in a line, sat in a chair, put an Oreo on their forehead, and tried to eat it without using their hands. So, that was really fun. While the other members of student councils of my student council did their individual workshops,
059I was appointed as a voting delegate. So this means I listened to all the candidates running for the officer positions and they answered the same two questions and based off of my school and my opinion. We vote off of that. Later that night was our big banquet. They spoke about the other school advisors and later on we had a big party. The last day which was Valentine's Day consisted of awards and keynote speakers. We won second place school spirit uh delegate choice. Third place school spirit judges choice and we won the platinum award for student council of the year. Platinum is an award we receive when we get gold three years in a row. And this is our second year winning platinum. Um this is the plaque. It's not very special because >> special >>
060um our first year platinum is always the biggest award. It has a little turquoise stone in it and everything. This one is just like, you know, but >> it's what it represents. >> Yeah. And there's little holes, so I'm guessing they're going to give us pins for every other year. >> And that's it. >> Very cool. Good. >> Good job. just keep wrapping up the wind. >> Yep. >> This is my last item. >> Okay. Next, we have academic services with Mrs. Niger. >> Good evening, Vice President Hamilton, members of the board, and Superintendent Russ. Um, this evening I have Mrs. Laura Atkins attending virtually to share with you the outcome of our recent technical assistance and focused monitoring review. Miss Atkins? >> Yes. Good evening, Board of Education and Superintendent Russ. Uh just a
061quick summary of our uh technical assistant and focus monitoring review from the New Mexico peed department. In your packet, you have the official letter from the um Secretary of Public Education. And I'd just like to draw your attention to all of the things that they audited uh from the federal programs this year. This is not the financial audit like we participate in with the financial um audit piece. This is on the compliance of our federal um compliance with that program and meeting those programs objectives and competencies. So you can see that um they reviewed our English learner program, our title three funding and how that is utilized and implemented, our bilingual multicultural education program, our equity councils and our culturally linguistic responsive instruction. So, um, they did a visit to Clovis schools on January 21st
062and the 22nd, and when they were here, they they meaning the New Mexico um, public education department, they did a virtual leadership interview uh, for it was approximately 4 hours and we had to cover an array of different topics and give artifacts to our compl liance to certain uh items that they had selected. And we put together a team of people that consisted of teachers, uh principles, district leaders, equity council members um for them to share and give evidence to um the competencies that they were checking um for the visit. They also did on-site classroom observations and they selected two schools. They selected Lacita and Clovis High School to do the observations. They reviewed 40 English learner files and 15 bilingual education student files. And just for your information as a reference, Clovis currently has
0631,19 English learner students K through 12. And we have 420 students in our bilingual program K through 12. So focusing on the strengths is our leadership team clearly articulated the L identification process and all of our program implementation and this committee that we selected by the end of the presentation um the peed committee just stated that it was very thorough very complete and very impressive and so I hadn't experienced this type of audit before. So that um was a great feeling to have that um communicated to us right there on the spot. And then after they did their instructional walkthroughs at Clovis High School in Lacita, the team stated, "This was one of the best um English language development instruction that we have seen across the state. It is clear that your district is implementing
064the structures presented in our virtual meeting." So again, um we had a good validation there that instruction was strong and supported our students. And because of that, uh review and presentation, they cancelled the second day technical assistance session stating that it was not necessary. So that is also um a good indication that um we felt like the the audit was going well. And I credit this to the preparation that the committee and the team made. Um the team in my department and how hard they worked at making sure the artifacts were relevant and easy to access and the collaboration that we had with the district leaders and um everybody in our district. When the audit was over, we did have two findings that is u like a procedural finding. And one of the findings they
065want a list of the staff that's going to be required to take the English learner identification course. Currently, we have the district staff in language and culture department take that course every year. the English learner screeners for the district and uh school site registars. We have their certificates on file and um for some reason we didn't present that. We presented the numbers that had taken the course but we didn't give them the details and so to um meet this finding we have to submit that required documentation by March 10th. The second finding is also a procedural finding and it relates to our bilingual multicultural education program parent letters. We have always given the Avant assessment and that is a state required test for students that are in the bilingual program and it measures by literacy
066in speaking, reading, writing and listening in both Spanish and English. And so we've administered that test. It's usually done late fall or early spring. And we've always shared the parent report that we get of their children's results, but we've never put it in a formal letter and we've never um put those scores in a letter and consistently placed that letter in the file. So, we've used a hybrid system in our department to post the um partly digitally in Skyward and then part in the paper file. And so, we'll make sure it's in both formats until we can convert maybe totally to an a digital file. But we will um work on developing that parent letter template that's based on the state's uh recommendation and then moving forward we will send those letters out annually with
067the student report and not just give the parents the report on their own. We'll also place a copy of that letter in the parents files. The letter made some recommendations uh in some of the other areas. Uh they wanted us to continue leveraging the title three funding. Um we were very strategic with our title three funding because that is a grant that I don't have um carryover limitations on. And so during COVID when we had a lot of the um ARP and the and the CARES money, we did not spend down our title three fund strategically knowing that we wanted to get a English learner instructional coach for our teachers to give that automatic feedback on their instruction and their strategies and to give them additional professional development to help our English uh learner instruction.
068So, we strategically kind of built that fund up because the instructional coaches salary and benefits um consumes more than um the grant that we get annually. So, that would give us about a five-year commitment to an instructional coach before those funds kind of zero out. Um so, that's why that fund um looks a little high at certain points of the year. Um they also recommended that we participate in equity council collaboration. I attend those state meetings um all that I can but just like tomorrow we have a meeting and I have two meetings at the same time and so I have to pick and choose. So sometimes um I don't always go to all of those meetings, but uh we will continue to participate and meet those requirements based on the Yazy Martinez lawsuits. We
069also u were recommended that we continue to give professional development on culturally responsive um instruction and PD to our staff. So there's a Canvas course that they're recommending. Um, we prefer to address that embedded in our culture uh or embed those culturally uh responsive instructional strategies in the other trainings that we're doing through teachers leaders, through our instructional coach. I just think that in the- moment training um has a bigger impact than taking a six-hour course on Canvas and getting a badge. Um so that's how we address that. These are all growth oriented recommendations and they're not findings. So in summary, I would just like to say we did have two procedural findings. There were no instructional deficiencies. Um all of the required assessments are being administered. The corrective actions are already in place. We're
070just uh tweaking some things. and that this review reflects very strong systems collaboration and commitment to the Clovis district and how um we offer services for our English learners and our bilingual students. And with that summary, I would stand for any questions. >> Any questions? >> You said this is a new process, right? >> Yes. I've been in this position for six years and this is the first time um I've experienced this. Every school district in the state is going through this and they have a list that um you can find on their website. So, um they're a very busy department as they're trying to get to everybody. So, this is a a new process for our district that I've experienced. Just a comment that I guess I love that we're in the digital age
071and they want paper. >> Yeah, >> I just think it's worth a comment. >> Good on you for copy and stuff. >> Yeah. Well, this was a very intensive um audit or technical assistant visit. They also have um done the same process with our title one that was due all of our artifacts and evidence was due in December and we still don't have those results. But um Mrs. Osborne that was a little bit more digital. They gave us this uh format sheet and then we had to build folders in our Google Drives and upload links for artifacts so that they could do a desktop monitoring visit is what they called it. So everything in my department has been audited this year. >> Questions? >> No more. >> Thank you, Mrs. Atkins. >> All right. Thank
072you guys. >> Mr. Strickland, sir, >> Vice President Hamilton, members of the board, Superintendent Russ, we have our employee services report. Um, I just wanted to point out a couple of things for almost being in March and we're in really good shape. Total of 51 open positions. Um, we've already looked at rollup numbers for next year and these seven elementary positions. I believe that we're going to be able through rollup numbers to absorb six of those. So, we're sitting really good, but I stand for any questions on those reports. >> Any questions? >> Thank you and your team for all the work you've done to build those. >> You bet. Um, we also have Mr. Boro here to discuss the 2627 draft instructional calendars. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Vice President Hamilton,
073Superintendent Russ, members of the board, thank you for letting me come and visit with you tonight. just wanted to highlight that we've put out a few drafts for next year's instructional calendar that we're currently collecting feedback from our staff on. So, we just wanted to let you see kind of how that's looking right now and what the plans will be for next year. Um, the important thing is coming out of this last legislative session, there weren't any major changes to the requirements for the number of hours of instruction or the days of instruction. And so it's allowing us to go ahead and move forward with a good plan knowing that really the only stipulation that we have to stick to going into next year is that we cannot reduce the number of hours of instruction.
074So um knowing that we went ahead and built three different drafts. They have the exact same number of days of instruction and c and contract days for our employees as we had previous year. Um these are very similar calendars. There's very few differences and I'll highlight those in just a minute. Um, the important thing to know is that all of our instructional calendars contain 172 instructional days for students, one parent teacher conference day that counts as part of the instructional time and 183 contract days for our teachers and and other staff that are on the instructional calendar. We are not starting before August 1st and we are ending before Memorial Day. There was those are the two big pieces of feedback we got from last year's calendar. And so essentially, I just was able to
075go in and copy and paste and kind of roll over a lot of the dates that we started with last year. Um um all of these are very similar, so I'm just going to kind of roll through them. So starting in calendar A, we're going to be bringing back all of our staff on August 3rd. Our Yes, ma'am. >> I think I just need to point out to the board that your >> Maybe it's just my copies. I just want to make sure that you have the updated ones as he goes through. Are these their current? >> You have the update. >> Okay. I just want to make sure that you didn't go through all of the explanations and then >> Okay. >> All good. So, all of our staff would uh all of our
076teaching staff would be coming back on August 3rd. They would have a week uh to prepare and get ready for the year. Our first through 12th graders would be coming back on August 10th with a delayed start for kinder and prek starting on August 12th. Um a lot of the other days kind of fall normally. In calendar A, uh we would have uh November 3rd for the general elections and then we have a holiday built in for Veterans Day. Uh but that creates a long gap between spring break and the end of the school year where there's no additional days off. Um in calendar B is essentially identical. The only thing we did in calendar B was we traded Veterans Day uh to be at school that day and instead have taken one day off
077in April just to give us one um 3-day weekend break between spring break and the end of the year. And then in calendar C, uh we went ahead and pushed spring break back a week because Easter holiday is going to be earlier this coming year. And so that would allow us to take spring break. Good Friday would be part of that spring break. And then we would give everybody else the Monday off after spring break which would extend spring break by an extra day. Um and then again the holiday uh just an extra day off in April. The other thing I'd like to highlight is this allows us to finish the school year with students on uh at the end of May. We give all of our teachers and staff one full workday to get
078the school year closed out, clean up the buildings, and we would be able to host um CHS graduation on the 21st. I did give you a copy of the state finals calendars and that date does not conflict with any of the state finals. Everything sports related will be wrapped up an entire week before we get to that last week of school. >> Um so we're like I said we're currently taking input on these now. Once we get staff input we'll make any adjustments as necessary and then we'll actually put these out for public input as well and then once we get a final version I'll come back and present that to you. So I stand for any questions. Looks like you guys put a lot of thought into >> they look reasonable. They're giving you're
079giving people kind of breath and >> Yes, ma'am. We're doing we're doing our best. >> Yes. >> Full week of Thanksgiving, a full two weeks at Christmas and doing the best we can. >> Thank you. >> I I would like to take just a second uh to talk a minute about the Amazing Shake. I just want to tell you a story that my son came home and told me that I think you need to hear and I think it's the the value of the Amazing Shake. They picked all those kids up at lunch, drove them to CCC. They're all nervous. They all know they're about to compete against each other. Those kids had about an hour to spend with each other that day in between all the contests and getting ready. And and my kid,
080who was fortunate enough to be one of the winners, came home and of course we celebrated and had a great day. But as he was processing the day, one of the things that he said to me that I think is so important, he said, "Dad," he goes, "That was a great group of kids." He goes, "I think I could be really good friends with anybody in that group." And that is the value of the Amazing Shake is we're teaching these kids the skills it takes to walk into a room with a group of people they don't know and make real connections and actually get to know people. And in one hour he felt like he knew enough about those kids and had enough of a connection with them that he walked away and felt like
081they could be friends even though they were showing up to compete against each other. >> And to me that speaks volumes. And I'm very proud of my kid, but I'm really proud of this district for stepping up and doing something to help kids learn to be better adults. And I think that speaks volume. So, thank you, Mrs. Russ, for all that you've done and and all of our school leadership, Shelley Smith, for what they're doing. And thank you for approving that trip. Means a lot to me as a dad. >> Thank you for absolutely congratulations. >> Financial matters. Mrs. Neto, >> good evening. First of all, I don't feel like it's very fair to have to come up after that heartwarming story. Um, but I'm gonna do my best. Good evening, Vice President Hamilton, members
082of the board, Superintendent Russ. Tonight, I'm presenting the second quarter cash report that ended December 31st, 2025. So, I want to let you know that our overall cash cash position um currently is at 42.6 million. Um and that's among all of our funds. We have total revenues of 64.5 and total expenditures of 68.7. If you notice, our expenditures are a little bit more than our revenues, and that's just based on the differences between the reimbursement requests on our federal um and state funds. Uh our operational fund remains stable and continues to to excuse me, to support the temporary cash flows that we need for the reimburseable accounts. And then once we get reimbursed, it just goes right back and it's just kind of a monthly cycle. Okay. Um so overall we remain our district remains
083strong. Um and then our operational cash is solid and our cash flow is stable and continues to be monitored closely. And I stand for any questions >> about how long is it taking to get reimbursements from all the federal programs? Um, this month was a little slower, I think, because of the legislation and they're just behind, but it's been fairly quickly. It's to me when I'm looking at them, it's less than a month sometimes on some of those. And we've been try we've tried to be strategic and making sure that we aren't lacking any materials and and we're following up before we even submit that so that they just have everything they need to review and don't have any follow-up questions. And so is there going to be an adjustment to the unit value soon
084or that next year's? >> So we should be hearing something hopefully Friday, the latest on Monday. They do have a deadline to get the unit value out to us. Um we have heard that it's going to be a little bit of an increase, but just very minimal, but it's not decreasing. They they stressed that last week when I was at winter conference. >> That was a lot of the maneuvering that was happening in the legislative session. There was pretty deep concern. I copied you all on that correspondence. We were looking at somewhere around a half a million decrease had the one bill not passed. And so that worked out in our favor, especially in light of all that's gone on here in the last month. >> Yes. Any questions? >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Okay.
085Open forum. Any cards? >> Yes, sir. I have one speaker registration card. Bill Taylor speaking on bond issue vote. >> Good evening. I'd like to briefly explain why I voted no on the recent bond issue. Whenever the first bond issue came up in November, I didn't care which way it went. I don't even remember how I voted the first bond issue. Whenever the second bond issue came up and I began realizing that this was something that we had voted on just three months before, I became aggravated. To me, it was a lack of respect being shown to the voters. And I'm not saying that y'all don't have valid reasons for the use of the money or anything else like that, but sometimes no is no. And I remember as a kid, I'd go to my
086dad and ask him for permission to do something. Sometimes he'd tell me no. And I would go back to him and I would explain to him point by point exactly why I had such a good idea. And he'd look at me again, he say, "No." And I'd say, "Well, why?" And he said, "Because I said so." So again, I'm not uh saying that y'all don't have valid reasons for the money, but please respect what the voters are telling you this go around. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. Okay, announcements, Mrs. Russ. >> Okay. Uh, March 13th, coming up quickly, we will have no school for students and staff will participate in a data review day. Looking forward to spring break, March 16th through 20. Uh, campuses and district offices will be closed during that week.
087And then we will reconvene for our next regular board of education meeting here on March 24, 5:30 p.m. >> Thank you. With that said, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Move to adjourn. >> I'll second. >> That's a motion by Mr. Martin and a second by Mrs. Oburn. All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. Meeting adjourned.