001or like maybe right here by the middle and then you're going to do the punch. >> Okay. Say that to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisibley and justice for all. Thank you, >> Miss Tommy. You're welcome to stay, but you don't have to. >> Thank you. >> All right. and uh approval of the agenda or any questions um about last minutes or I mean the agenda any changes to the agenda >> I will make the motion to approve >> a second public comment admin reports Australian business. >> Um I guess something I have to report is um budget adjustment. We thought of increase in our late for the year. So that's normally used for after school tutoring and teachers and extra. Since it's
002not much this year, it used up quick. And the other ones are just some adjustments to for my salaries. Not many last week. How was that? >> It was okay. Some of it's repetitive, but >> any questions? >> So, do we hire a teacher? >> Did we hire a teacher? >> Uh, the administrators will give a report on that. >> Okay. All right. I don't want to take that away from them. >> Moving on. [Music] >> 4K roofing completed repairs on the high school gym locker room and concession stand. And then White Rock Construction gave us a quote for the sophet repair for the uh back of the gym for locker rooms for $10,176.72. They are also going to build a building extension for the new cafeteria soft water softener due to the not enough
003room in the mechanical room. I have some LED canopy lights ordered to install in front of the cafeteria to make it safer for the cafeteria ladies when they come in early mornings before the sun up. I noticed the high school gym lights were coming on on the outside. So, I I trace that down today and this is a bad photo sensor. So, that's repaired. And then I got to troubleshoot my ghost gate over by the cafeteria. It's not working. I'll get on that this week. We are halfway through preparing the football field and two more games left. We got our white bus back to running. I ordered a a alternator from Amazon for a little less than $500, which beat the heck out of the price of Hillary was running for $5,000. [Music] And we
004got it put on last Thursday, I guess. So, it's back to going. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Special editor everybody. It's good to be back. Sorry this last month. All right. Wonderful world of special ed. We started the year. We had 95 kids as an IEP. We're 504 at the school presently. Um no bells, no related IEPs fully stacked with services through the rec stuff. We've started our little got some partners in it that we work with. We're part of the consortium called the SWT Southwest transition team. They help us with postsecary education and u resources, postsecary employment resources. We started our bridge success group here in Chavis County. Um we have anou with pacitos and mecca. They help with our transition from early childhood to um non- early childhood education. We have anou
005with them. We've signed all of our paperwork and knowou with the local DBR office out of Roswell Division of Oak Rehab. They provide resources for post um secondary education employment also may help us with transition services for our kiddos that once they hit age 14. Um see only upcoming big training we got is the law conference is coming up in middle of October. I think the OSE office of special ed is actually going to make that free. We'll see what happens uh to Albuquerque. And the only big thing coming down the road from our buddies at the office of special ed is that they've invented a thing called the IDA compliance monitoring um whatever you want to call it. It's basically an audit. Every school's going to go through it. They've divided us all into
006five cohorts. Cohort one was last year. They didn't do too good. Everybody's on a corrective action plan. Basically, Lake Arthur's doing it this year. In angerman's doing next year, Dexter's got the year after that. And they're basically going to just do an audit on us for in the areas of child find, least restrictive environment, service delivery, discipline, early childhood, special education, and use of the alternate assessment. So, it's basically going to be a a big headache. Uh, but I figure I can bomb it with Lake Arthur this year, so I'll have it all in order for Hagerman next year. Um, but that's why they give me the big bucks. So, anyway, everything's everything's cool and the field expanded. So, anybody got any questions or comments or questions? Thank you. Thank you. that sort of culture.
007>> Everything's going good. Got a lot of foot traffic last couple months contractors and stuff like that. Sweet. Elementary. She's on live, right? >> Yes, she is. >> Good evening. >> Can you guys hear me? All right. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Perfect. So for Hagermanerman Elementary board updates, um as far as enrollment goes, we our current student count is at 211. Um for perfect attendance, currently we are looking at 107 students with perfect attendance. I'm hoping we can keep up that energy. Um for instruction and academics, coaching and observation, I was coached this last month by with by your side with Miss Peggy Brewer. we're able to observe some classrooms and um and then she gave me some feedback of just some things to look for as I walk in through beginning walkthroughs in these
008upcoming weeks. Um we observed that there's cohesive planning in first grade. There is letter formation happening in kindergarten. Uh various classrooms are using a mirror tutoring in multiple classrooms and then there was structure discussions happening in fifth grade. In K5 tomorrow they'll be getting observed by CK uh Mr. Mark Hatchel. So that's capturing kids hearts, checking for, you know, social contracts, how teachers are greeting students. Preschool will be getting obser observations from class next week and then I will be doing ongoing um structured literacy walkthroughs this the remainder of this week and next week. As far as some shoutouts for some enrichment that's going on in the elementary is EAS like Miss Nichols, Miss Nikase and Miss Lopez, our leading students in the STEM lab creating rockets exploring a variety of different science activities and
009they are rocking it and so I really appreciate that. Some other celebrations are staff and student handbooks have been sent out as well as progress reports have been sent out between last week and today and so that's a big win getting that in um our stakeholders hands. As far as professionalism, I held a meeting last week about ethics and professionalism and including the digital world and social media and what that looks like for us and setting some boundaries and um getting some signatures to report back to central office regarding that. Um and then some more shout outs. Teachers have been incredibly flexible and helpful and EAS have been stepping up with last minute coverage and support keeping everything running smoothly. And some more things that leadership was able to do. Um they were able to
010provide feedback to Decker regarding the new building concerns and we some concerns that we did know was um just prek classroom sizing and how that's going to meet the need of the New Mexico prek requirements and so that was presented to Decker also at that a loted time. Um last week or a couple weeks ago I participated in a weekend training with Miss Ray on strategic planning at Soore in Albuquerque. Currently, I'm in Albuquerque for RISE leadership training where I am working on developing my skills as a leader and I'm getting any kind of supports and things to be able to continue to develop my skills and helped bring that back to Hagerman Elementary in as far as events and activities. We had Creed Reparatory Theater presents Raquel's Purple Pineapple for our students and some
011of the middle school students. Upcoming we have a fundraiser coming up for world famous chocolate. So, you'll get see lots of that coming around. And then we also have Central Valley Electric Cooperative doing a safety demonstration with fifth grade next week. And then as far as hiring and open positions, we have a new hire, Geraldine Reigns. She'll join us as a fifth grade teacher. She's moving from Texas and expected to start in about a week. Um positions posted. We still have a math intervention is posted. And I have two interviews scheduled for Wednesday regarding that position. Substitutes and coverage. Currently, right now, Mrs. Alli Orosco is serving as our long-term substitute in fifth grade. And then Miss Jacqueline Summers is covering small groups, her small groups um during the interim. And some closing notes. Many
012thanks to staff and families for their continued support and teamwork. I'll be working on some reflection tomorrow at this conference to find some focuses for myself as a leader. And then please let me know if there's any other information that you need me to report during this time as I'm like updating and getting into the groove of um updating you all every month. questions, comments, concerns, >> questions. >> Good. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Is this >> okay? Um, so for enrollment and attendance, middle school enrollment remains the same as last month, 84 kids. Um at the high school we gained a freshman but we lost a junior so we're actually the same number we were there for 871 for the total secondary for um in the area of academic achievement and progress progress
013reports went out last uh week I think Tuesday we were following up this week with students who have not returned a signed copy to the office. I know Maddie was working on having working on making sure who we have who were missing today so we could follow up with those parents to make sure it made it home. Um, we do have teachers that are tracking students in danger of failing the nine weeks. Uh, there's a spreadsheet and teachers go in and put things in. Um, Coach Rodriguez and I will start following up with those kids, having a one-on-one conversation, you know, like why are you missing so many assignments? What's going on? And then making sure they have a their parents have seen the progress report. A lot of accountability is happening with that. Also,
014uh, teachers were encouraged to make phone calls home to let parents know of their concerns and try to, you know, get as much intervention happening as possible. for the intervention support programs we're using. We're using subject.com at the high school. It seems to be going really well for our credit recovery. From what I can monitor on my end, students are making uh progress and it seems to be working much better than what egeneuity was for us. Um it's it's an improved platform for sure. The middle school, we have weekly challenges. There's um out here on the front board of the middle school, there's a little poster every week of different things we have kids working on. Some weeks it's the most correct answers. It's the most skills mastered, the most skills proficient. This week it's
015a team challenge. So between different classrooms they're having which one and I didn't get a chance today to look to see who was leading, but it it's been some of the kids are consistent always in the top five and we've seen a lot of different faces and across the grade levels um the different kids and it seems to be motivated to use that platform. Uh last week we did complete um the BOI MAP testing for that assessment activity. Um, we had student council elections. We've started making plans for homecoming. Uh, it seems like esports is practicing pretty regularly at lunch. And I know FFA has done some stuff. They had since we last met they went to a leadership training. They've gone to state fair and they're looking forward to making plans for Easter. Um,
016we will host a our first quarter uh parent meeting on um the 24th, next Wednesday in the commons area for secondary parents to come out and share their ideas, concerns, anything like that. had an opportunity for them to have a voice in what's going on at school or ask questions if they want to become involved. That's something that I think is important that we haven't had done much of in the past. Um last Thursday we had our CES site coach Stacy Giller on campus. She worked with about five different teachers between the elementary and the secondary. um but spent a time about 40 minutes observing their classrooms and then in the afternoon worked with them one-on-one with some coaching strategies to help them improve some of their classroom um techniques and work with some of
017the struggles that they're having. Um as far as behavior, discipline, and school culture discipline remains pretty minimal. We've had a few more cell phone and electronic issues. Uh kind of looked at the data for that today uh at the middle school where only eight of the 84 students have had a cell phone issue or and that also includes other electronics. um AirPods, uh smartwatches, and iPads. We've seen a few of those little instances. High school, few more. They've had 23. We only have three students with that have had more than one run in with devices and we've only or we've only given one ISS for a refusal to surrender a device. So, it's working out. Uh tomorrow, Mark Hatchel will be here from Capturing Kids Hearts to work on traction, meeting, and coaching our teachers
018and help support our capturing kids hearts program. Uh today we had a meeting to work on refining some of our cafeteria procedures at the secondary lunch because we have some things that are not running super smooth there and trying some new things to try to make sure that process works well for all of our kids and our cafeteria staff and our lunch staff. Um important events that are coming up. We like you said homecoming we don't have a schedule finalized. There's some details that we want to work out and it really needs an advent team later this week to kind of have everything but get that information out so people can start making plans for that. Uh celebration recognitions for August we have uh two students of the month recognized. Uh middle school student of
019the month was Trip Moss and high school student of the month is Fernando Zamora. For staff members of the month, middle school recognition was Dulce Garcia and high school was Daniel Sanchez. Um we have accepted the resignation of the high school math teacher and basketball coach Mr. Bailey. We are in the process of finding a new person for that role. Uh we have we had an interview last week and we have two more scheduled for tomorrow. So hopefully we get that taken care of pretty quickly. Um other things have been happening. Uh worked on the New Mexico Elevate platform for our certified staff. They've done self-reflection. We they should by last Friday they should have had all their beginning of the year uh PDP goals and I've started walkthroughs and been to a lot of
020our classrooms and have a checklist that we're following and I provide feedback from that process. Um, I had hoped to go to Thrive last week, but I fell off the sidewalk on Tuesday morning and sprained my ankle and so I was unable to do that and I did have a follow-up with my coach for that today. So, um, with all that being said, I stand for any questions you might have. >> Okay, those teachers again for student um, Dulce Garcia Middle School. She's our e uh, ELA EA and then Mr. Daniel Sanchez. >> Can you film here on our sidewalk? >> The one in front of the or the of the middle school? Yes. >> Much better now though. >> Yeah, it is. I've worn my brace and iced it and stayed off of it
021a little bit. >> No crutches. >> I never had crutches and I told them football boys I was going to rub some dirt on it. So, >> we are getting it fixed. >> Yes. So, >> yes. Aon or Parker, have anything to add? >> I got something. >> Um, CT wise, we're pretty mellow. Um, this time of the year, um, kind of some good news. They, our old CCRB, CCRB rep called me maybe a week or two ago, um, asking for permission to use our application, um, teach new schools and programs. Um, apparently we're one of the top rated applications in the state. And so, that's always good news. um getting to see I guess telling me I'm doing my job right when I'm filling that stuff out. But um they're going to use that
022and train a lot of these smaller new programs coming up and stepping up into this nextG program side. Um this is a uh local needs assessment year. So I'll probably be sending some of you guys some survey data and some stuff um as we get closer to December and January as we start our CLNA um and our data tracking for the 90th and 100th day data for CT. So other than that, it's been pretty good. We've been doing good. Fade just got back from State Fair. We started our fresh country sale. So if you're looking for any of the frozen meat or anything like that, find a kid. There's a link going around online that you can purchase online as well. So that's time for questions. >> Did we ever get started on a barn
023or pens? >> Um we met >> last week we met with >> my days blur these. Um they're supposed to they gave us a quote and so we had Miss Ray and I sat with them and kind of made some revisions and so we're kind of waiting on a revised quote to come back from the same contracting company. Um so hopefully we met before they left for Albuquerque and so hopefully this week we should have a new quote back because we already got your sidewall and we met the same day. So I'm hoping hope maybe tomorrow. >> So we already had a quote for that. The only thing is that our grant was only 576. Was it 576? 596 somewhere around there. And this was the quote that we got was like $100,000 more than
024our our grant. However, uh we could use bond money because you know it was something that it was part of the the bond and I think I put $100,000 for that. So we could use that. We asked to see if they could reduce it a little bit because they have like bathroom for boys and girls. So, there's no need for a boy's bathroom and a girl's bathroom at the at barn. If we just have one bathroom, that should be more than sufficient and that should the cost. So, we're just waiting for the new one. Something else that we're going to cut, do you remember? Um originally they had priced in refrigerated air or swamp I think refrigerated air. Some other things that we asked them to take off look at um some of those gigantic
025fans um some different ventilation systems different some other ends they were kind of going full wall expensive. And so we kind of came back with some rebuttals and some different things to kind of see what they can come up with. recording. >> It's um White Rock, White Rock Construction. >> So hopefully we'll get started with that. We actually have two years to complete the project, but then if we wait too long, then it's not going to be $600,000. It'll be $800,000. >> 1200 million. questions. >> Um, just a a few things. Uh, shout out to Lake Arthur. We've had some bus issues and they stepped up. They lent us a bus to help us get from place to place. Um, you know, had a lot of lot of things, you know, pop up for athletics.
026Uh, Miss Dennis bit the bullet and escorted a bunch of middle school girls to Ununice because of, you know, just coaching and we had to have sponsors there. So, she she was there. Thanks for her help and real appreciative of everybody that's come together kind of help keep the the athletics and the events and the games going smoothly. Um, trying to think who else. So, uh, Mr. Hampton Hill drove uh helped draft some football players two weeks ago to Bob just because of the bus that we did get from Lake Arthur was really small and we didn't have enough for our football players uh and coaches to be on there. So he took he took a couple guys up there for us. Um, just real appreciative of everybody working together, collaborating and helping get things
027done. Miss Carmen was probably bothering the crap out of two, three weeks just we have a bus, you know, Gary getting stuff. It was a good team effort. Really, really appreciative for everybody that's coming together. um met with the construction company for BSN and took him to the field and what he thought what his undertaking didn't match what we had and they were concerned about the price. Um the two D-rings they said they would not be able to do the two D-rings. So uh one rendering that we have right now is a D-ring on the the east end zone where the high jump and bolt is. We would turn that into a D-ring. It's going to be about the same size as the rendering that we gave them. Um, and then they're going to resurface
028the the pole bolt area. Uh, one of the benefits from that is we're not going to have to move our field the way the original rendering was done. Um, and we're we're not going to mess with the the irrigation as much. There's still going to be a few areas that we're have to cap off and they said that they would take care of that. So, minimal damage to the field. Um, in place of the second D-ring where we had the three pits, I asked if they would be able to um lay asphalt and put the jumping pits on the east side of the field, that northeast corner kind of out there by where the fieldhouse is, where the third shop would now, and add a strip for Javelin. Um they said that that was probably
029a possibility. They have not got back with me. They were supposed to start today. Nobody was out there this morning. Um nobody reached out to me from BSN. So check in with them tomorrow and see kind of where they're at and what they're thinking going forward. Um, one option they had was to do the D-ring, the full D-ring um, this time and then maybe um, work in a second base where they fill the other deep ring. I don't know if that'd be be feasible. We definitely need to get the the track done for sure before a meet because it is not usable. It's not safe for us or for us on those meets. more information hopefully by the end of you guys. Um that's it other than that. Um great start to the season. Uh
030Bob three and one football girls are still have a winning record. Cross country's kicking butt. Our junior high one. Um the red do with like big 5A schools and stuff there. JB came in second and our our little seventh grade girls just won their first game today. So, >> they won the Olympics. They were fired up. So, that that's the good news. Um, you guys have any questions? >> I might have one because I was at the game Friday. Yes. >> And the parent behind me brought it up as well. >> The parent behind me, I understand this weekend emotions were high, flags were at half mass, >> but I mean I do agree with the parent. The parent behind me counted and the flag touched that ground or drug on the ground seven times
031from the tunnel >> to where they laid them down. They weren't even put up properly. >> Okay. >> And parents were upset about that. And the parent asked me, you know, do we teach flag etiquette? Do we teach them how to They like seeing our boys with the flag, >> right? >> But the boys need to know what the American flag isn't supposed to touch the ground. You're not supposed to lay them down. So that's something that I understand everything was heightened this weekend with the flags being at half mass and everything to happen. But I do agree with the parent. If we're going to carry the flags, there needs to be flag adequate. You know, flags don't touch the ground. We put them up properly. And I mean the parent behind me was counting,
032>> right? >> And I just told him, you know, we that's something we can fix. We can teach our boys. Our boys like carrying them. We can teach them how to properly do it. Um, but that was just something that >> and we had a conversation about that this morning as far as like how to have address that with the coaches about what needs to happen, who's going to be responsible for going and making sure they get carried back to the fieldhouse and those kind of things. >> And I didn't I didn't even know I heard it in counting, but I didn't know what it was counting. >> But it was just something I mean and it is, you know, pretty important to me as well. >> Yeah, for sure. >> So, we'll take care
033of it. We discussed They do look good out that tunnel. >> Oh, they do. They do. >> Are you going to get everything at the track though? I mean, are should we hold them more accountable for some of these things or how does that work >> there? Um, I'm not too sure. BSN is working with us because at least the rep that I'm I'm working through, he says, "This is what we quoted you at." So, we'll we're going to do what we can to honor that code as best we can. Um, and they had estimated the the other company had estimated like 11,000 ft of um asphalt that was needed, which was way under. Um, so BSN kind of worked with them and I think the D-ring that they had in that design is 13,000
034square feet. So, they're a little bit more um than what the the company had thought was thought it was going to take. And then on top of that, that area for the the pits. >> You get to move all your pits. >> So if I mean, if it comes down to it, maybe they just do re resurface the track, resurface those pits, those runways, and give us that D-ring and and maybe down the road we can go out for capital outlay or go for a bond to to really complete it or to get that chap section, whatever, whatever it needs to be. >> Um, They didn't make it right. >> They didn't make it right and and we need to we're kind of stuck where we need that track resurface redone so we be safe.
035>> So if the main thing if we get the track and everything done are the other things things we could possibly fix or make to where we could use them this season. >> Well, if we can get it all used this season as is. Everything can be done. But for that that price that they quoted us, they they need to do a little bit of extra, right? >> And they said they just got to figure out what that is, what works, how that how long it's going to take, which last and that's where we're kind of question. >> Yeah. Make sure it's as close to what you want. >> Yes. Yeah. Close to what we want, close to what works for us, post what that quote is. [Music] No other questions. Any questions about the
036minutes from August 18th bills and investments for the month of August? Not I just motion to approve. >> I'll make a motion. >> All those in favor say I. >> First new item uh budget adjustments. Any more questions for Mr. >> Motion? I'll second by. >> All those in favor say I. All those first uh B item B presentation workbased learning. >> Okay. So um good evening to all of you. So today we're going to hear a presentation on the Kos Valley Rural High School internship program. So this is basically an initiative that represents a partnership with four uh school districts. This is between Artisia, Dexter, Hegman, and Lake Arthur along with uh local employers and community organizations. So, this program is designed to provide students with paid um internships and capstone experiences that will
037build their career skills and support graduation requirements. So, at this time, I'd like to introduce Mr. Mike May. Are you there, Mr. May? >> Yep, I'm here. Can you hear me? Okay, Ellia. >> Uh, we can hear you. Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> He will be presenting and he will be giving us all the details of the program. It's all yours, Mr. Ray. >> Okay. Very good. >> Good evening, everybody. Thank you for the the time. Um, as the superintendent just described, uh, my name is Mike with Future Focused Education. Uh, our organization is a nonprofit based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Um and really we do a lot of different work helping schools. Um but fundamentally one of our core areas is helping to create paid internship programs. We run our own program here in
038Albuquerque uh with multiple schools as partners. We do the same thing in Santa Fe and Espanola. And then uh part of my work is to support communities around the state um in developing their own paid internship program. um based on the the work that we've done and some of the experience that we've accumulated now over the years. Um Billy, I just wanted to see am I able to share my screen? >> Um Ellen, can you give him >> He should have access. >> You should have access, sir. >> Okay, very good. Um I thought it might just be helpful for you all. Uh let me see if I can get the right thing up to I'll just share >> I'll share a brief presentation of of kind of the work that we do at Future
039Focused and then um transition into um the design in particular of of what we're thinking about and have been talking about with the four districts that um that Bellia mentioned. So Artisia, Hagermanerman, Dexter, and Lake Arthur. uh as a way to collaborate together. So, let me see if I can get this to work. Uh see, here we go. [Music] Is that is that up for you all? >> Yes. >> Very good. So again, I'm not I won't go into future focus too much other than just to make clear when it comes to the world of paid internships, we're trying to solve this dilemma of access for young people. Um we know that I just heard the audio wasn't great, but I heard the report out I think of your CTE director. So I know that
040your district and others that are nearby, you guys already have opportunities for young people to gain experience in different ways. This program would be designed to complement that and that's what we've done at future focused. So we started this program about eight years ago uh and now we have done close to 2,000 internship placements. So the I think what this is telling us is that there is certainly a need for young people uh and for local businesses to have the opportunity to support each other um in creating a pathway forward. We did a lot of work uh around the state interviewing young people um and I thought this was worth sharing. We have a arm of our organization called the Instituto del Puente. And what we did was gathered young people and just kind of
041surveyed them about what they felt was important for a a promising and a meaningful high school experience. They named learning with purpose, care for their well-being, and mentorship uh as the top three things that they felt were really essential. and we think that the the paid internship program is something that's important uh and a real contribution to address some of those desires. The challenge has always been in this program um creating the funding paths. So, uh, what I'm going to show you is the proposal that we have worked on, um, together with the the four districts to essentially run a pilot program in your community um, in the spring. And I'm not sure how much I'm going to stop share. Oh, I was actually doing that successfully. Um, have folks seen the the document already,
042Bellia, that kind of outlines the the basics. >> They do have the document. I believe I did send it to you guys. They have it they have a hard copy, but I think I also sent it to you via email. But yes, they they do have it. >> Okay. Um, I'm just going to walk through. Is it I I tried to make this large. I'm not sure how visible the screen is to you all if you're able to see this text. Yes sir. >> Yeah. >> Yes sir. >> Okay. Very good. So what what we are proposing with the POS Valley High School internship program is a way to address the question of how you are able to compensate young people in paid internships. So the idea is a partnership between the four districts and
043the peed and future focused. So the idea is that peed will put forward $1,500 per student to cover the cost of a stipen for their participation. Typically what we're shooting for is a a total of around 3,000 per placement. And that's assuming that a young person would be out in the community about 12 hours a week and then they're compensated via a stipen. Uh at least this is the idea at the moment. So a portion of that would be picked up by peed um employers that the different superintendent and their teams are already generating. We would be asking them to contribute as well. So, we're not sure how much they'll be able to do, but the idea could be as much as a half. Um, and then the the districts would contribute an amount as
044well. So, we've named that at the moment at 500. Now, if you total that up, we're already above 3,000, but that's perfect because we'd want to have a little bit of a buffer depending on how the program is designed. So fundamentally we would work uh the future focus role in this process is to help provide the technical assistance um to the districts to the the folks that they you all might name uh to work with these young people and with employers um as well as working with the employers to help them understand how to create an environment that can be successful with a young person. what supports uh they need to think about putting in place and how to really interface uh between a a high school and and local employers. We also have developed
045uh some performance assessment tools that are very easy to use um and that are driven by industry. So they were developed by folks uh here in the Albuquerque and and other areas now uh to really focus on entrylevel workforce readiness skills. So that's the the the last component I think of this is that we have partnered with the New Mexico Community Trust which is a a foundation here that that has done this now in a couple places most recently Lake Arthur where they have uh been able to provide administrative support to districts should they want to not try to pay or compensate interns themselves. And these this community trust has also been willing to hold any type of community uh or employer generated funds that might be contributed to the program. So, we've tried to
046to put this together as a package that would allow communities, especially uh ones like yourself that where there are um it's it's more of a rural nature to partner with different entities so that the whole lift doesn't fall on one particular district. Um so again, that's this is sort of the the fundamental approach. You can see at the bottom what we're uh proposing as a total budget. This includes stipens for teachers. Uh any teacher that would be named to work with this would be provided a stipen. Um and then our organization would receive some technical assistance support and then the the large cost would go towards student internship stipens. Again, this is fundamentally to develop student capstones, uh, internships with employers and your teams to really include the skills and knowledge, uh, attributes that that
047many of you have identified in your graduate profiles and that link to real life experience and mentorship with professionals in your community such that they can start orienting themselves towards life after graduation. and gaining experience. So, I'll stop. I feel like I probably just opened up a fire hose on you all. Um, so if there are questions, I'm happy to do my best to answer them. >> Mike, can you clarify that the student internships of 50 that is for the four schools? So, >> say that one more time. >> Okay. the um student internships, you know, we have 50 here, but that's for the four schools. So, for Herman, it will probably be about 10 to 12. >> Yep, that sounds about right. I think those are and those again are the details. What my
048understanding tonight, Belly, is we're just sort of for for the board at this point. Our request is uh for the permission to move forward to try this pilot, meaning that we need to keep working with the other districts and then with peed um to try and and and employers to see if we can put this into place. >> So, right now we only have it as a presentation for them and >> yes, hopefully next month, you know, we will have more information and then we'll be able to make a decision on this. >> Very good. Is it juniors and seniors or seniors? >> Juniors and seniors that came that program meeting that I went to this morning. Um they're talking about internships for students that are underage because some of the industry we can't have
049underage workers because of liability or whatever. Have we talked about that aspect of it because >> not not with this so with this program it would only be for juniors and seniors because usually they are the ones that can drive themselves. >> So so we are having and there's also I give you a packet and some of you are going to be getting an email on this so that you can attend this. So basically uh there's going to be a conversational meeting with uh businesses and we have several we identified several businesses here in town that could potentially be able to host uh one of you know one or two of the students. The meeting will be October the 9th. uh you know lunch will be provided and this will be entertaining public schools in
050the boardroom and uh it will be presented by the four superintendent as well as guidance from uh future focus education. So for example, Mr. Gray, we I think you're part of this. You will get an invitation. Let's put it that way. And if you want to have it really doesn't cost the the employers much. Well, it sounds like it cost $1,500 on on top of their wages, >> but not not to the employer. The $1,500 PE will be contributing that and then >> and then there's another $1,500 by the the employers >> and the school's going to pay 500 on top of that. The school will pay >> the school will be paid $500, but that comes out of nextgen funds. Uh that would be per kid. So again, for us it's about 12 students.
051Um, and then so Mike, can you uh help us with this? I mean, let me see. >> Are these paid internships? >> Yes, >> that's right. Yeah, I'm happy to. So at the moment the the hope with this uh and and why peed and even the the secretary of education are very interested is we have had in communities around the state employers who have said they are willing to contribute something towards this type of effort. At the moment we have pegged this at the the numbers that you see listed. Um that's something though that still has to be figured out in detail when it comes to actual program implementation. But the suggestion is that somehow between this the peed will make a contribution, a local employer will make a contribution and the school district will
052make a contribution. Um that is correct. I don't remember which board member noted that at the moment it's stated at $1,500 for an employer. That number could change. Some employers are offering to pay more. Some employers are going to have to do less. But I think the the hope with this pilot is to initiate that conversation and see what is possible uh in a given community with different partners. >> What's the term of the internship? Is it for a year, five years, two years? >> I think the hope with this one is to be able to run the pilot in the spring for a spring semester. So that would track Belly. I don't want to I don't know your calendar exactly, but generally ours are going about 12 to 13 weeks. Yes, >> it would
053be about 18 weeks uh during the spring more or less. And Bellia, do you know in in your community, does your um does the county in that area participate in the summer internship program through peed? >> No, we don't. >> Okay, got it. So, so my the at the last meeting that we had and my understanding was that the employer would only pay like 3%. >> Would pay what percent? >> 3%. That they would contribute their contribution would be 3%. Not $1,500. >> Yeah. At this point, I don't know what 3% would be a a very low number. Um so I'm not sure exactly how that'll work. We know that we have employers who are interested between your four districts in contributing potentially even more. So I think that's what the employer session that you
054named on October the 9th will be to help explore and and have people uh kind of think through what's possible and also what where that intersection of need at a local employer is with the opportunity for exposure. So, um, another thing that, and I know Jolene would be happy with this because, you know, right now she's probably thinking another thing that, you know, it has to go through payroll, but actually we don't take care of that here. Is that correct? >> That's right. At at the moment, we have the resources available to have an outside entity through that community trust be able to manage payroll for you all that it within the four districts. That's something that we're leaving up to you all. Some some districts may say we have the systems in place to
055do that um and and proceed accordingly. But for instance, Lake Arthur, they ran a pilot this uh past spring and they did utilize the um community trust to um pay their students who were participating in the internship program. So, we actually have two students from Lake Arthur that they are coming here. Um, I believe it's twice a week and they're with uh nurse Henson and they get paid for that. >> Yep. I think that's you, Ellia. You know that better than I. So, I that is that's awesome. That's what we work to help them put into place. I think just so the the board members understand uh broadly speaking, we have future focused last year in collaboration and and with the sponsorship of a state representative. We introduced a a bill into the legislature to
056create a fund that would allow local employers, uh, foundations, nonprofits to contribute to a fund that could be accessed by districts around the state to implement work-based learning and to compensate then young people through that fund. the the bill did not pass last year, but it's coming back up again and this type of a pilot much like Lake Arthur did um last school year. These are the opportunities for communities to show that um they're interested and and open to creative problem solving with the state to try and figure out how to compensate young people for these types of experiences. Uh we've been doing this work as well up in Espanola um and in Cuba supporting Cuba to execute an internship program and we've just seen there's there appears to be appetite and an openness to
057thinking creatively about this knowing that um it is rare for a company to be able to cover the entire cost of an internship especially in in more rural parts of the state. So, I think that's we're going into this very much with our eyes wide open and want to be transparent with you all that that proposal that you see uh is just in order to put something down to start a conversation. But I Yeah. So, that's that's kind of where things are. have any questions from Mr. Mike? So, is there like a they have to make minimum wage or anything like that? Yeah, generally we we try to design the program to at least match the minimum wage in the local community. Um, and that that's that varies. Um, we're typically trying to exceed it.
058I think that's the summer internship program that I mentioned that's run through peed. That's the way they've approached the work as well. So, if an employer is paying the 1,500 and we're only getting 12 hours, that's kind of setting our kids up for failure because they're not going to start out at $125 an hour at once they graduate high school. >> The Yeah, I think that's something that we'll need to look at carefully with the employers that we have worked so far. establishing what your local minimum is and what the typical um we're generally not trying to exceed an entrylevel wage, but trying to establish a stipened amount that is at least in line with um the the local minimum to exceed because one of the things that we found is if a young person
059if you don't at least match that um they're they will choose potentially a a fast food job or something over a paid internship um if you're not able to entice it a little bit more. So, at least matching it has has shown to be helpful. How many hours a week do they have to work? Is that a minimum? >> Yeah, t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t typically what we would work with the the principals at the sites and the school leaders, but ideally what we're shooting for is about 12 hours. I think Lake Arthur has also experimented with doing more. It
060really just depends if you have uh generally juniors in particular seniors often have a schedule such that they're able to be off campus a little bit more. What we're trying to avoid is sending an intern to a business for just a couple hours a week. Um because that just tends to become more of a shadow ship and they're not not able to really make much of a contribution and our insurance actually covers the students. Yeah, with a lot of industry around here, it'd be 18 or 21 just >> that was what came up in the meeting, but I was there. >> How much do our students make more students? >> Well, let's see. We can have one or two here at the school and then possibly if somebody wants to become like a teacher safe,
061you know, they they can do that too. Maybe at the police department filing papers, we could possibly have one at central office. I mean, that's just, you know, >> there's there's all of our workers a loted already. >> I mean, there's just a lot there's a lot of things that we can do. at the local farms. [Music] >> Springtime slow time. >> And we have some mechanics. Maybe they can help. Uh Mikey. >> Yeah, Belly. I think these are the, you know, I was I've been involved in multiple communities now as we've brought people together to explore where you might create internships and once the opportunity kind of gets put on the table, I've been very impressed with where folks uh start to think could be good fits for young people. So, school districts have
062located young people in places like HR, IT, transportation. There's a lot of uh opportunity under the roof of a district and then like you named local employers. Sometimes it's you know there are going to be places where uh entities will want people who are over 18 or there may be other constraints but we've had a lot of success identifying kind of peripheral settings whether it's in construction um in your world there are other you know oil and gas uh is going to play a role I would imagine within these four districts um but there are even health care um outdoor recreation land management. We have found a lot of places that young people can fit in such that they're not in the front line of a high liability risk type position, but they're still able
063to um to make a contribution. what we've done and and what we would recommend and offer assistance. This is what we did with Lake Arthur is for each company that's interested, we work with them to create a custom position description so that the young person, it's not a job description, but it's a position description that really blends contributions with what they would then be able to see and observe. And by doing that intentionally, we've been able to put young people uh in a lot of interesting spaces that work well. Um that's something that uh has become a bit of a quality um characteristic of the program and I think employers have felt felt very supported by going through that process so that they can have their concerns addressed about what does that mean for us?
064What do we need to be ready to do? What do we need to be ready to support? And frankly, what are we going to get out of it? Right? What contribution can the young person make? And and by hitting that intersection, um things have worked uh very well for a lot of communities. Maybe the last thing I'll share is just a a tool um that we've developed that we would hope to be able to use with you all that is a um it's a very simple way to uh help create a performance reflection experience. So this is what I had mentioned um where rather than having somebody just sort of fill out a paper sheet, this is actually an online survey that a mentor and an intern would complete. It's very quick to do and
065it it's rooted in 10 um workforce readiness skills. And what happens is the young person would would fill it out and then the mentor would fill it out. And what you're seeing on this is a a representation of the interns ratings of how they did in certain categories, right? Are you able to to listen to people effectively, offering help as needed? Are you able to write clearly and communicate? Um are you able to respond to differences? If somebody comes up with feedback um for you, how are you able to engage? So, what you're seeing is an intern rating themselves. the colors uh here. Green, dark green is the highest rating. You can see this intern is is giving themselves uh ratings that are are sort of minimal. They're kind of middle of the road. And
066you yet you see a mentor on the right side, their ratings are are telling that young person that they're doing quite well. In these settings that we work with, um, we help facilitate a conversation that is a performance reflection, um, and that really allows a a deeper conversation that's different than what a young person might expect for a grade or an assignment, but really introduces them to the notion of work in a in a professional setting and the corresponding skills that go with that. So it it sets up the school um to be able to start crosswalking not only academic competencies right with real workbased settings but also those professional skills uh hard and soft. So, we found found that some form of that is very helpful to include in these types of experiences and
067it facilitates Bellia's team to be able to offer credit, right? If the program grows and she wants to count those capstones and internships for credit, the state graduation requirements now, as you all know, allow for that, but there there has to be some infrastructure and uh some methods to the madness. I've got uh one more question. So uh why would we go with future focus instead of just like creating our own internships doing this inhouse? Like what's the benefit of partnering with you guys and doing the pilot program? >> That that's an excellent question. Um I think the ultimately to be clear our vision is that you will take this on yourself uh over time. I think that's that's the way we have worked with most communities. What I would offer I think is in
068this initial phase um we have uh been successful in guiding folks as they start off programs like this um in particular in a setting where the idea with this is that there's some collaboration between the four districts and what we offer is the ability to offer training from people to people from the different districts to together um such that you all are able to create a landscape and a framework that can be sustainable within your area. And we're suggesting ourselves as the initial kind of starter for that and helping you all lay a foundation that'll work. and that we've worked to put these other supports into place, whether that the community foundation um or just the the ability to convene employers. A lot of schools initially um have told us that that's a a heavy
069lift to get things going. But again, to in all fairness, I think that's something for the board and the district to discuss because there are certainly examples of districts that have done that on their own. Um and the the notion of this though was there seemed to be some value to having us as kind of a third party to facilitate initial relationships, design and then execution such that it could be handed off to you all going forward. I think that the other thing is that that we have helped administer um paid internship programs on behalf of the state of New Mexico and there's a level of trust that the peed has in us with how we approach the work that we were it appears is has gotten their attention such that they're willing to contribute
070to this pilot in a way that helps defay costs for your local communities. I hope I hope that's helpful because I certainly would, you know, ultimately when we worked with Lake Arthur, we had that discussion as well. What's the value that we bring versus what was their vision? And uh that's something that we want to be sure each of the districts is um feels good about what what this course of action might be. [Music] Hey guys, >> thanks for your time. Yeah, appreciate it. >> Yeah, absolutely. And uh we'll look forward to being being in touch and um see how we can move things forward hopefully. >> Yes, sir. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> All right, you all have a great evening. >> You too. >> Next item C is drug awareness search.
071So, uh this is really not so much of a presentation. And I know it says here presentation on drug awareness, but I just wanted to give you our um policies about uh student searches and arrest. And so you have you have them all right here. So basically the one if you look at J3411, this one is uh the use of dogs in uh drug searches. So, it was brought to my attention that uh you know if we if I could look into bringing the the u you know be able to use the dogs so that we can do some drug searches and I know that we had a lot of issues when we did the backpacks you know searching the backpacks and there's got to be probable cause but we can you know in looking
072at this and I just wanted to provide you some information I will continue looking into this but I wanted to provide you some uh information on what it is that we need to to do. Um, so basically if you look in the second paragraph right here, it says the superintendent or his or her designation shall request the use of uh drug dogs when the superintendent or his or her design believe that this type of action was necessary for the safety of the students of the school district. So um it can be done. The only thing you know and then here it provides us you know as to what we need to do and um you know I do need to send a letter home that that there's a possibility that you know that this could
073be done but again we have to have a probable cause and that the dogs cannot be like getting close to a kid and then starts barking. Basically what they do if they sniff then they just sit down next to that kid. So there's no need to do any barking. But um I just wanted to share this with you and um you know that way you can look at it and we I in the meantime I will look more into it. So you know I'll contact the police department and then see what we could do. I want to make it if we do have them, if we do bring them in here, which I think it it will be, not even the administrators will know when they will be. >> I have a question because you
074brought up probable cause, which is a good topic. Um, >> yes. >> And I noticed some other schools over by Albuquerque. So if we go with from my understanding if we go with an actual sheriff's department or police station then yes it is probable cause >> but if we go with a private say a security company or canine service that roles are different >> and I mean do you know >> anything about that or >> that might be different though the only thing is that we kind of have to go and that's why I wanted to to provide you with this so that you can have a little bit of time to look at it and then I will I want to bring it back to discussion for next month. That way you know we're
075all on the same page and we are not when it comes to litigation. >> I think it was es Espanolia I think that uh they went with the path to use I mean they're still state certified canines. They went through the same training and everything, but they used a private company instead of a police department because how the rules >> apply to, you know, police or state troopers or whatever versus a security company, >> but they're still licensed through the same approving authorities. >> And I want to be able to look into this because, of course, this was just brought to my attention, you know, a few days ago, and I need to look more into it. I just wanted to get these policies so that we could all become familiar with them and then
076you know so that we can move forward with this. But I think that this is something that we can definitely pursue and we just need to make sure I know as I was reading it says that we need to have a lockdown and um you know then the dogs could come in. The only the only concern is that because marijuana is actually legal. It's legal, not in the schools, but it has been legalized. And I believe that the dogs are not they don't stiff that anymore. So, but you know, if there's any other things that are out there, then that they they will detect them. >> But one of our problems is vapes. If they're not a marijuana vape, if it's a nicotine vapor, >> in fact, they won't >> they're not going to get
077that either. >> They will get that. And that's why I I brought up possibly private because some of the private still are >> versus where I think I read most of your state state and sheriff's departments have been trained not to sniff. >> Correct. I can look into it and we do have a new lawyer now. We are already signed up with Samora Ortiz and Samura. I will definitely give them our first bill and then consult this with them and we'll see what we can do. I mean, I was just this was so recent, you know, and uh I just need to give more information, but I right now I just wanted to provide you with the uh policies that you currently have >> and and there's a few of them here if you look
078on policy. >> Is this updated through uh NMSBA? >> Yes. >> So, this is like their guideline on this. off our website. >> It It's from our website. >> So if you look at this one here, so this is something that I have to do and we have to do it immediately. So this is I'm looking at J3431 and this one is actually it's an acknowledgement concerning the use of student lockers. So in other words, um this one says I acknowledge and I understand that the student lockers are the property of the district. So, we have to let the kids know and then um possibly send a copy to the parents as well. >> I was going to ask this some moving forward we should probably have it in our hand. >> It has it
079needs to be in the handbook. >> Does it need to be just our student lockers? Our student and our athletic lockers because some of our kids have multiple lockers >> probably or access to multiple lockers. >> And here says student lockers remain at all times under the control of the district. I am expected to assume full responsibility for my school locker. The district uh retains the right to inspect student lockers for any reason at at any time without notice without uh student consent and without a search warrant. Then every kid needs to sign this >> question. If they refuse to sign, do we take their look or what? >> I don't think that they should, you know, refuse. You never know. You never know. Then if you look at this one, you know, there's J3432.
080This one is basically from the arresting officer. if anything was to happen. So like for example I you know so and so officer Julie Schwar police officer and member of the you know Herman police department and so you know this has to be I mean just in case that there's a kid that gets arrested we need >> don't they have their own paperwork? >> They they do but we we need to have this but that's only if if a student gets arrested. >> Okay. So >> so the students fill out this? No, we would fill it out. >> The the acknowledgement would be the officer. >> No, this acknowledgement concerning steel locker. Should every student that has a locker? >> Oh, yes. That is the student. Correct. >> And does it do the parents need
081to sign it too? >> But you know what? I think I we can I mean based on this one, it's only for the students, but we can definitely send this to the parent. I mean, and we can update it and then make sure that the parent knows. I think it would be wise for the parents to think it'd >> be safer if >> as a parent I would want to know that my kid was signing this. >> Okay. So what then what I need to do on this? I need to do an amendment and then really it's just another line that we need here. >> Well, I think we need to amend it to include all lockers that belong to the district. So whether it's a football locker at the fieldhouse, basketball locker, a locker
082in Parker's shop, whatever. I guess you could go as far as the puppies that the elementary kids have if they want to go that route. I mean, that's their locker. >> Really just the school property. >> Yeah. >> So, I can amend this and then we can go ahead and approve it for next meeting. >> In the meantime, you know, it will give you time to be able to to set up something. >> Yeah. a better word. >> Mhm. >> What what kind of concerns me with the dog is um anything with search and after our last >> Yes. >> searches and all that. You bring the dog in, let's just say the dog sits next to, you know, well, he may not have anything. He might be at home and his people that he
083lives with, you know. >> Yes. and it just transfers onto the clothing or something like that, you know, >> impossible. >> Does it mean that that kid is and now we're singling out, you know, with no I don't know that the whole west >> in all that it's actually in here everything, you know, what should you do if if this happens? I mean, I ate it. Who knows? They might come over here and sniff Cody and But I just wanted to provide you all this information so that we can have a little bit of time to read it. I will definitely uh contact the lawyers and see what the best option will be. I mean, even if we just, it's an attorney. We just use them with the buildings and not necessarily the kids. Even
084if we just run them through and we find their stash spots and we start hitting those more and more and then that's going to be more deterrent possibly for them bringing them. >> I remember being in high school and drug searches were really common in Los Brusas. um they would pretty much lock us down and then if a dog notified at that door then all the kids would come out and then that dog went inside and search but they still we have backpacks then but >> but according to this you can't search the studio without probable cause >> search any school >> so our lockers our hallways are >> so we can do the I mean you can walk the the dogs just scare them you really and search probable cause though. So if you
085bring a dog on campus and you did not have suspicion of drugs on the campus, would that completely throw that out because you didn't have probable cause? >> And that's going to be where the law comes in between if we use a state agency if we use an actual police officer versus where if we use a private company. >> Well, if we use a private company and we catch somebody, do we have any grounds to stand on? I mean the fact that we can discipline them through the school. We can't discipline them legally, >> right? The dog's not doing the searching. The dog is giving the searcher the probable cause by sitting next to what they smell. That's how they're getting around the probable cause that the dog is getting the probable cause. That's the
086way I was. >> I got a bit of trouble. >> Trouble. I mean because we already went through this with the backpack searches and I think do this again. However, I mean if it's needed, it's something that that if we need to do it, we need to do it. But I again I think we need to get guidance but sounds like we I would but school property shouldn't be as big of a deal as it would be. >> Correct. person. We probably should stay away from the person for sure >> from the person. But you know what I was thinking? Maybe we could even bring them and then just go ahead in in the lockers. >> We just want the kids class where >> do the hallways or whatever the lockers, the locker rooms, >>
087but not around >> the places that we suspect there. But I would contact the lawyers and that way, you know, I can get more and then hopefully by next meeting I'll be >> there any could be a slippery slope. It could be well >> the school property is one thing students is another. Right. >> And here lately there's several dogs. I think Roswell PD just got two. I think the sheriff's department has three or four now. So it's they're becoming a hot topic here. recently. >> I have to think about that too because obviously Pidge doesn't have dogs. So if you had like some suspicion that needed a dog, how long is that going to take to get them? >> Oh, it's it's going to take a long time. >> So that's why we could
088possibly have them like maybe every quarter. And it's something that I think if we get ahead of now, maybe we can fight it before they get a new school and have >> a million hiding places versus what we have now. >> I will definitely look into it and then hopefully by next meeting I will have more information. >> And right here too it says we got to give notice to search policy too every year. >> Yes. So, well, that was in the ambush, wasn't it, that we could possibly use. >> I It is. There's a a small section, but I think we probably need to do this. So, this is the first thing that I need to do is I need to amend this and be able to have like the parental consent, you know,
089with their signature. So, I'll do this, but we can't I really can't do anything >> consent. But it it would just be parental >> Acknowledgement consent. It's our school property. >> Yes. So just acknowledgement or basically it's just for them to >> I mean it' be kind of like when they do the DUI checkpoints, right? They advertise it in the paper or wherever saying hey there be a checkpoint because that way it's not a trap. Yeah. >> So I mean it's kind of like what they post on Facebook or in the paper or whatever say hey you know we're having one. And just kind of >> don't really say when and where, but just know at some point there's going to be one, right? Just a warning. >> Or they'll say, "Hey, there's one this
090weekend, but >> what time? What day?" >> The state police are famous in the month of It's like, "Okay." All month long >> on a highway. >> And I will call NMSBA tomorrow and see if we could just add that other money. And um well maybe during parent teacher conferences it would be a good time to have them acknowledge it >> to be able to sign. >> I would just have to policy. >> Correct. >> That' be a three reading. >> No. No. Because it's only an amendment. So it's not going to be like a a policy. >> So So it's really just an amendment and that's it. Next item is close. >> Okay. Um, first of all, you know, my apologies. The in doing more research with this van situation. I mean, it was
091brought to my attention and actually I got a phone call from the Hamles. I don't know how they found out that we were looking into purchasing a van. And uh, so I was told that they're still not allowed. Now the one that we were looking into is actually it would have been a conversion which would have been converted to 10 passengers instead of a 12. Once you have more than uh more than 11 then you really can't use them for student use. So I was looking at this you know and so uh Ela sent me some information. I called Hillary. They also sent me some information and this is what you have right here. Uh so so basically it's just uh the states that do not qualify to be able to use the van and
092unfortunately New Mexico is one of them. So then >> but it does say 12 to 15 and not 10. >> Correct. It it says 12 to 15. So now the only reason that I wanted to bring this back to you because I contacted uh Lee White and Ela was telling me that um Ella Haml that Lee White or Loving they purchased one. They were the very first ones to purchase one did not allow them to use it and they converted it to a 10 passengers and they were not allowed to use it. So, they lost they had to return it and they lost $20,000 because they were not I mean they didn't get their full refund. So, I just thought, okay, I'm going to hold on to this. It's really I you know, there's some
093things here. Let me see. Um >> but I mean, but we can have an eight passenger SUV. >> Yes, >> that doesn't make any sense. >> Yes, but we cannot have a a van. It seems like the band would be safer, but >> so so there's actually an administrative code and it's uh uh 6.41.4. It's a handmask and then it has rules about the school own activity vehicles. So these are vehicles used for school sponsor events. So you know not regular daily student transportation. So says such vehicles should not be vans for minivans. Let's see. Excluding buses. They may seat no less than six and no more than nine people, including the driver. So, all occupants must wear seat belts. That's a use of SUVs for and transportation. Let me see. School bus regulations of
094New Mexico requires that all school buses used to transport children meet certain design and safety standards. If a vehicle is used in place of a school bus for transporting students regularly, there are legal and safety standards that need to be met. So what does this mean for a 10 to 12 passenger van? Putting together what the law says, a 10 to 12 passenger van, including the driver, is more than nine seats. So it exceeds the maximum seating capacity for activity vehicles or the SUVs allowed under the non plus rules in New Mexico. Also, the rules explicitly say that school loan vehicles shall not be vans or minivans. That means a standard passenger van 10 to 12 seats uh style would not be permitted under the school activity vehicle rules. If you tried to use a
09510 to 12 uh passenger van to transport students on a school bus route or similar, it probably would need to meet the full school bus standards, which many vans do not. Uh let's see here. In conclusion, based on the rules, uh 10 to 12 uh passenger vans are generally not allowed under the New Mexico law for the regular school sponsored transportation of students because they exceed the 9 seat limit in the van mini van proition. So they may they may be allowed in very limited exceptional scenarios if they meet stricter safety standards and state approvals, but that would be an exception rather than the rule. So um >> on the short bus >> Oh, you weren't here for that. >> You missed the short bus, are you Chris? >> I was on the short bus.
096And if you want me to drive, so we have the option >> a short bus. >> Any of them have a CD? >> Yes. >> Drive short bus. >> Anything with air brakes and education. >> Wouldn't have air brakes. >> The Chevys don't like it's not it's a Chevy van with the bus pack. [Laughter] So, we have the option and we have a $96,000. >> I believe it was $96,000. That one is actually a 12. >> This one will hold up to 30. >> Really? If we pack them into >> kids and >> but probably a basketball team or a volleyball team with big >> but maybe it's best considered >> it's just a >> those coaches >> those are are vans what they're independent from their college >> just like a Chevy cargo van
097with the >> bus I don't know what FMVSS and CMVS means But we take >> and I sure hate to do that purchase and then what if we can lose it? >> I mean I haven't seen a lot of short buses lately but >> like said that I mean drivers are the issue. We have an excess of activity drivers but we don't have an excess. >> So um >> Cynthia are you still there? >> Probably not. So um we actually worked on a we want to send it out you know soon. I'm thinking that we probably have some parents out there with the CDL driver like Mr. Chris Philly. I remember I still have those notes and say that he was going to >> Yes. He said he was going to get his CDL license.
098>> I have a CDL. >> Then it's just a >> It's just an endorsement. But I'm pretty sure that we have >> But even if you have a CDL and you have the endorsement, what would you have to go through for the district or the state to be able to Oh, nothing. >> You have to have a drug test. You have to have CPR. CPR. >> Yes. >> Anyway, get CPR. What is the one that we have to take that is like driving >> the activity? Well, just but for activity drivers like if the kids are in the back of your van and you're they're getting in a fight, what are you going to do? >> Answer correctly. Not what you would do. >> There there's an approved answer. Not >> give the book answer,
099not what you would do. I do what Tffy did. did. [Music] >> If you would like me, you know, I could start looking into the short bus or >> on here. It says you don't need a CDL with this bus. You just have to get a passenger, which that's just the test you take, but there's no CD >> for the the tiny one. >> So, that one was $96,000. The other one, I believe, was like 146. I do what Tffy I believe, was like 146. And I think the 146 would be the ideal one because that holds up to 22 passengers. >> So we already have we already talked to Tiller and I know that Gary's not very happy with Tiller, but when it comes to buses, I think they're the ones that What is
100the other bus company? Carrie Estus or >> Roberts. >> Yeah, Roberts. [Music] >> There's districts that use those little short buses as their route buses. When I taught in Alina, that's all their they had one big bus that went to Portalis to grab those kids, but all the little buses that ran around like Kenna and that direction, they were all short buses. Do you think that's why our bus company is concerned that we would be the market for short buses? What do we I missed. So what are we? >> So we actually we >> actually right now at that time of course we only had and we only had one bus. One of them was uh broken. Now it's already been fixed but it always happens. It's always one or the other. So, and sometimes
101we have okay like this coming u Friday the cheerleaders they want to go to and half of the time we can't even send them because we don't have transportation >> but both football teams didn't fit on the bus that we borrowed last time we were like middle school and high school going at the same time doesn't cross country too much >> so the purchase of a bus it is part of our it's in the budget Well, there's one more. >> And of course, it's not going to happen overnight. I mean, we have to order it and it'll probably be sometime in July before it's it's ready. >> So, will we get a discount if we have to wait till July? >> Well, you know, I wish I wish, but see, what happens is that they
102have to be able to >> So, they don't just have them like lined up like cars. >> Yeah. No, they don't. I wish. Well, actually, there's one I think it's over here on Cherokee short bus and they're big for sale. >> $8,000. >> Yeah, exactly. >> I saw that on Facebook. >> I drove by it the other day and I I was driving down there and I saw that and Cody and some of his friends, Cen, some of them, they're like, "Oh, we could buy it and drive it to school." Like, >> that would be hilarious. >> Put in their ear. Oh, they're done planning it. All there's two or three of them, but they can get together and you know that could be what they drive to school in when they get their last
103>> and pull their money, their resources. >> Yeah. Stuff have something kids. So, do we not have a bus that could take the players, the coaches, the cheerleaders, the or do they all have to ride separate? >> So, so what happened um with uh with the Bobc one was we have right around 50 players plus the four coaches plus the equipment. >> And then cheerleaders wanted to go too, that would be an extra bus. And then Cross country. >> Cross country. >> Yeah, they were in Malero. So, and then if that's if we don't have a volleyball game, that's the girls plus all the boys that are there. So, I would say there's >> about 75 people. >> Yeah, maybe 20 kids for cross country plus the 50 that are doing football. throw the cheerleaders.
104The ones that actually don't do any of those sports, maybe maybe seven extra bodies depending on what team is actually going for. Is it middle school or is it middle school and high school? >> Roughly two to three buses anyway. That's that's worst case. Like all of a sudden now we have all these away games or whatever they might be >> is probably going to out. >> Well, February, January, February are kind of tough depending on whatever's going on. Basketball's always going. We're getting started going end of February might actually see some track meets. >> So, so what would your recommendation be? Another a short bus or a full what what would help out most? I mean, you see it more than than any of us. So, what what would help out the most? >>
105What's a what's a fulls size bus cost? >> It'll probably be about a little bit over 200 now. Get two shorts. >> Well, the medium one. >> It goes back to what Des said like this is great, but driving. We have two drivers. >> Chris, >> but short bus, you don't need a CD. >> I think they do. We do need a CD. >> Even though the manufact, >> yeah, but even the manufacturer might say that, but what is the P? What is >> in all their infinite wisdom and knowledge? can overrule federal. >> The state can overrule the government. You driving a tanker, a water holler. You got to federal >> forgiveness. >> Yeah, they can make it stricter. They just can't take away from federal. So Federal could say, "Okay, 26,000." But the
106state could come in and say, "Okay, well, if you haul more than 10 people, >> that's 16." >> I mean, I would say that you don't have to have CDL for it. >> I would ask maybe some of these districts that use short buses either as route buses or as like what kind of training and things do these people have? >> There's no air brakes. There's no It's just there. Are they having to go to like bus driver school or whatever it is that bus drivers go to? >> You have to go to bus driver school. >> But there is one of those things. >> No, like there's like a bus driver. There used to be a bus driver school because like my grandma drove a bus and apparently my dad >> 16 or more.
107>> Let me ask you a P and an S endorsement required to drive any bus designed to transport. >> Yeah. >> Hello Miss Hamill. How are you? >> Good. How are you? >> I'm doing well. Hey, I have you on speaker, so don't say anything. And you are actually here part of our board meeting. No. So, we're having a board meeting. Hey, I have a quick question for you. So, you know, I'm discussing with my board the issues with the uh van and uh remember I told you that we wanted to get a van and then um anyways, that's out the door. But what about those mini buses? Ela, do you need a CDL license to be able to drive those uh special ed buses? The tiny one? >> I do. Yes, >> You do
108those class, but you still have to have a license to drive. >> Okay. >> It's the license or just the endorsement? >> The endorsement license or >> you plan to get your pass? See, we have um if it has the only way you can get a C class that you can drive one of those vans is if it doesn't have air brakes. They have to have hydraulic brakes. >> Okay. Okay. So, in essence, you do need a >> But you still need the endorsement. The passenger endorsement. >> You still need the passenger endorsement. Correct. >> The passenger and the school bus. >> Yeah. >> It's not that different. They wants the best thing if you're actually looking at one is to go with one of those 45 to 47 buses because they are a little
109bit. >> Okay. So, what do you mean by 45 to 47? >> Yes. The suspension is so absolutely horrible. They Everybody hates those buses. We have four and those are very equipped with wheelchair lifts. They're so rough. We have them seatoughs. [Music] >> Okay. So, what about the 22 passenger? >> And that's the special ed bus. >> Okay. Okay. The price really isn't any different to 47, but you can equip it with bucket seeds and it's going to make a nice activity that you know just training. They have changed things up this year. The training is much easier than it has been in the past. If you can get the drivers, we will gladly for you. >> Thank you. We have one a couple of them in this room right now. Maybe three. Okay. Do
110y'all have any questions for Miss? >> Thank you, Miss Ella. >> You're welcome. I would highly recommend our choice for that kind of international. >> We have a we have an international and we really like that international. >> Okay, I will definitely look into it. Thank you, ma'am. >> I sure will. Thank you. Bye. you think? >> I would ask Ben. I mean, if they're going to start outlawing the short bus, then I wouldn't bother with it, but >> short to me. I mean, and we still have the same problem with driver. So just get your bus and just drive instead of having you at all. >> I'll go get my endorsements next week. >> Thank you. >> So for a school bus, you have to get a commercial license. >> I already have it.
111I've got doubles, triple. I've got everything except for my passenger because, you know, I wasn't going to get and go through there and take the test. >> Yeah, I'm open to suggestions. Whatever you want me to do. >> I got cattle pot. I can drive that. >> I got a classy. So, I don't know. I just >> looking for the right thing, especially if you're CEO. It's really and it's it's only getting harder >> and it and it is getting harder. And not to put anybody down, but the brothers that we currently have are probably soon going to retire. >> Sure. >> And we definitely need to look for people. So that's why, you know, um Cynthia and I we she helped me create because she's really good about, you know, with technology. So we
112created a flyer. We'll put it out there and see who can get it. I mean, I'm sure that there's parents out there that can possibly help us out. Is the compensation going to be worth it for them? >> You don't need to do it for the compensation if you're going to do it. >> Yeah. >> In this area, >> I mean, to go out, I mean, the school could, let's say you're on a CEO. The school could pay for a CEO, >> but you're not like going to pay whatever makes >> No. And but you know what? It's really not too bad. I mean, okay, I now I believe it's like $22 an hour. That's right now. I mean, potentially it could go take it. >> Is that the entire time they're gone? >> That's
113we were there for >> for two days. >> For a while. >> Yes. >> Leave here, get back here. >> Exactly. So then they they get paid from the time that they leave here until the time >> they trip their bus or whatever. >> Yes. And sometimes it's a good reached out to >> Excuse me. >> Ela and Mark, do they not can they not provide do they not have any drivers that would >> they have a hard time too? >> So we actually share we share a couple of drivers with them and you know we have two drivers that they drive for us but then they also drive a route. So it's really difficult and then when we use the drivers then Ella has to drive herself and she has to do the route.
114[Music] I I mean to me if it drivers the thing so but if PB is going to outlaw short I guess >> but P could change their system next year. Lots of things. Doesn't give you any benefit. >> I think a van would be ideal. But >> right, >> I don't want to lose money. >> Yeah. >> I think the only appeal of having a small one, it would be less intimidating for somebody who was driving. Students would maybe be less intimidated driving one of those smaller buses than if we turn them loose and say, "Okay, how about it with this giant?" for the times where they chose to go to >> or if they would want to go to >> 12:15 probably it okay society volleyball >> that's probably um seven varsity and then
115if we let the middle school go like another 10. >> Like when you go to a tournament for basketball, how many you take? >> Uh just depends on the year. Um anywhere from 14 full roster plus the two coaches >> plus probably two managers. >> Um versus, you know, maybe this year it's 10 to 11 kids going and maybe a manager or two coach. Just depends on the year. >> So you wouldn't I mean you wouldn't need a full bus. Well, and even FFA like on average during judging season the last probably five years we've traveled or we >> state it's been >> 20 or less. >> Yeah. >> I think one year we took seven, one year we took 14. >> Five years it's been about 15. >> 15 16. >> Gary, what do
116you think? >> I think we probably just go ahead and get the regular size bus. say if we get that regular size bus then there's always two hopefully like if one goes down we'll have two >> normal size buses so we're not >> can we do a bus and an excursion and there's more drivers >> I'd agree I mean if you're going to if we are going to have to get a CDL I mean you might as We'll go with the the regular bus cuz we're not saving anything. >> Oh, look at the prices of the regular bus. I know that they are kind of hype. >> Or if you buy a 2024 that's new [Music] there. There has to be some brand new ones sitting around somewhere. >> 2023s that are new. Yeah. Okay.
117All right. Um, superintendent report. >> Okay. Uh, first thing is I wanted to give you a copy. As you know, we are going for a U geo bond and, uh, the amount it's 1,800,000. Now, this is not going to be a tax rate increase. So, basically, you know, this flyer here, we're encouraging people to go vote. It has not been uh we haven't sent it out yet. I wanted you to look at it and see if you, you know, I want you to look at this and see if you think I'll just send it out and start advertising. I mean, it really it's not going to cost the taxpayers anymore and there's not going to be an increase. So, I'm just hoping that people will be able to vote. Now the the current and um
118what we need of course this will go towards the new school design project continue to pay for that the new school construction phase and then you know if we do build the FFA ad barn which will be you know a portion probably about $100,000 for that. Then we do have on the second page or third page here the some of the prior projects funded with the geo bonds. Uh so you know we had like the concession stand and then the bathrooms at the football field. Uh the roof at the concession stand, replacement of tile and this was at all the schools. Replacement of the track and field although that hasn't been done. Hopefully by the time that this is out then it will be done. The soft landing at the elementary playground. Replace the elementary
119turb gym floors gyms. And then we installed a ventilation system in the FFA. There's FA welding shop. We're missing an F there. >> My >> Yeah, you're you're And then replace doors, gates, uh fencing. So, those are just some of the things that we did with the uh current uh you know, geo bonds, and uh there's just some information about the board here. There's on the other side there's ball questions. What is a general bond? And then who may vote, where do they vote? And um you know early voting starts October the 7th and then uh if they have any information they can contact me and I sure like to start promoting this and be able to send this out and if you want me to make any changes other than just change the here
120and that way >> I think it looks good. So, I would probably add just the date they're going to get the um I mean the joint. >> And where do you want that? >> Well, because you said the it was listing where the early votes and stuff. >> Okay. So, if you look at the if you look at the first page, it says Tuesday, November 4th, 2025. And that would be a no school day, uh, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Do you want to do the Joy Center? Just >> because they do early and they do early voting there like usually two is a date online. I mean, I know it says to look online, but >> Right. So, I can just write Joyce Center. use that hand. >> And I think on your
121where you said you were going to fix your typo for it says FFA. I think it should really be a because it's not the organization shop. It's the A department shop. >> So just uh take out the >> welding shop. I mean, >> yeah, >> just >> a or welding shop by itself, I guess. >> Oh, the install a ventilation system in the >> welding shop. Okay. Um, anything else that you think I need to change? I wonder if our voters would respond more favorably like track and field like pend if we put pending or something so they know that because they're going to say well you have we've never done that >> but >> parentheses pending >> pending or in progress or contracted or >> just so it looks like pull the wool over
122people's eyes. >> Okay. Um anything else? I think everything else that we have here we've done you know they it's been completed other than the uh the replacement of the track we're doing the I mean I could put more but it's >> I didn't have enough space here kind of difficult. >> Yeah. No. >> Okay. Are you guys okay with it? So then I will uh correct the uh typos and then I'll post it and then I'm going to send it out to just a hard copy to all the families probably maybe next week or so. Okay. All righty. I gave you a copy of uh so next week on the 22nd September 22nd that's Monday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. the we are having the uh NMSBA uh regional meeting that will be in
123Carlstead. So, this one here has it's this page. It has information as to where it's supposed to be and um I already have confirmation from uh most of you majority and then um they will be feeding you. Now, I am taking the Suburban if anybody wants to go with me or if you want to take your own vehicle or if you'd like to request a vehicle here from the the school community, >> take a bus. specialist. >> Uhhuh. >> You're driving. >> Well, you know what? We could. Why not? >> And we can find the driver. >> And so that would be next Monday. I also attached the agenda for just for your reference. And then another thing, so uh the 2025 annual convention or also NMSBA, this is going to be December the 4th
124through the 6th. If you could please let me know if you'll be attending that one. That one will be at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque. And uh again, it is December the 4th through the 6th. And um I will remind you again next month as soon as uh you know the uh hotel uh notification comes out. I want to make the reservation. So if you let me know if you do plan on on attending that one. >> I won't be able to. >> You will? >> No. Okay. >> Jennifer, you usually do. I should be able to but I'll think it to you for sure. >> When is that one? >> This one is December December one. >> The December one. December 4th through the 6th. >> I won't get that one. >> You won't?
125>> No. >> Dusty, >> I will. I was just looking. I'll be off. >> Trevor, >> I don't even know what's going on the rest of my week in advance. >> I couldn't tell you. >> Okay. I will ask you again later on, you know, especially when the the hotel rooms come out and and that way. I mean, it's so convenient to stay there at the uh >> Yes. the place where the convention >> as far as a fire alarm go off all night >> or there's actual fire in there. >> Yes. >> Remember we were evacuated. >> There was a real fire. The fire trucks came and everything. >> 11:00 my room fire alarm went off for an hour. >> I think we stayed there. >> Nobody came. >> That's all right. >> You
126stay in your room? >> No. >> Okay. And then so that would be December the 4th through the 6th. And I just uh we are having you know some enrichment programs. So I just want to give you an update. The guitar lessons are going very well. Uh we currently have about 15 students that are enrolled. Um, when I talked to the instructor, I told him that I my expectation was for the kids to be able to perform uh during the Christmas program and, you know, at least a couple of songs and then again during the the COO spring festival. And I told him, I said just two songs would be, you know, more than enough. And then he assured me that the students would be prepared to play 10 songs. I'm like, okay, they're not
127the only ones who are bargaining, but I'm like, okay, not a not a problem. So, we're looking forward to, you know, his uh him showcasing and their progress. And the kids are really excited about it. I mean, they're little and they're just they're doing a good job. And then we're also adding the um dances, folklore dances, which is another way that we are engaging students. So, that should be starting pretty soon. We already have like 16 kids from the elementary that are enrolled and they want to take part of this. So again, you know, we will just um continue to to showcase these both of these programs and uh give the students opportunities to shine outside of the classroom. And um we will also be starting the um and community homechools will be paying for
128this. So once again, we are going to open up the um the wait room for the community and uh so that will be open for 2 hours each day and for three two or three days. So that would be starting probably next week already and then we will also open up the computer lab and that would also be part of the community school. So the computer lab is just for students and parents, you know, to come in and if they need to use the computers, if they if they need to print, then we actually there's something for that. And uh last year we only had one or two people that would come in. So I'm hoping that, you know, we'll just be able to promote this and and more people would be able to to
129come to this. Um I have nothing else. I stand for questions. I have a question. I'm not sure if it's for you or if it's for you, A-Rod, but one of the kids brought up, I guess we're offering weightlifting as a class, but we're not offering it as a sport yet. Or I know some of the ninth graders, a few of the eighth graders mentioned, you know, they and I know we talked about it. I believe it was last year about powerlifting and stuff. Do we have any update or was I I didn't understand it's being offered as a class but it's not a sport or >> uh it could be a sport but it is kind of during the busy time. Um then we have to find coaches and then um if we were
130to do it and pursue it we have a proposal present m present to you guys. >> But the class I mean are they is it like a PE credit? >> Okay. Okay, I see what it is now. Okay. >> Yeah, that's all it is right now. Just >> I think it's mostly for juniors and seniors. It's not the underassman still take regular PE. This is where it lined up in the schedule. The seniors that are still on campus after lunch needed something else to do. >> Yeah, one of the ninth graders are like, well, I think the seniors took all the slots because we didn't get to pick first and >> it would have never worked out for them anyways. [Music] >> Any other questions? That's all I've heard from the ninth and 10th grade.
131Well, the junior and seniors took all the good classes. >> Uh, I've got one question. It might be more for Miss Jolene. The status of the pink cards. >> It's gone nowhere. I've got to email all three of those guys and see. I'm not sure he did on the response. I haven't heard back from when I sent off the audit. So, I really thought, "No way. I don't know." >> Or just do like prepaid Amazon gift cards. >> Prepaid. >> We're not allowed to buy gift cards. That's against the rules. >> Prepaid debit cards. >> Don't give them the rechargeable dinner card. It's pretty much what a PE card is, isn't it? >> A little more secure than >> a lot more. [Music] >> Any other questions or anyone to move to?