001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Sanchez. Good evening, members of the board. Superintendent Reyes. Um, I'd like to proudly present the 2025 NMAA 2A esports state champions. This this team of young men and women went in to this competition, you know, expecting to have a good time and, you know, just compete with other friends, you know, do do really good, honestly. Um, but they went up, they gave it their all. They actually managed to take down Questa last second and just take first place in state for esports. Um hard fought by everybody. Every single team had a part play in this. Uh Mario Kart in racing. They had um 2K in basketball,
002Madden in football, um Super Smash Bros. in a fighting 1v one game, and then Rocket League in a car soccer game. Um, all of those games contributed to our point total and bring it in for us to, you know, bring this amazing recognition down to our school. Um, once again, I'm going to give you guys a quick little introduction to esports. Um, I talked about it before. Um, but really they're just competing in video games, something they already do at home. They just play, you know, leisurely. um here they work with a team or you know individually for 2K and Madden and they use skills or you know strategies that they've practiced already and then to bring it up to a school level and compete in a um MMA sanctioned sport. So these guys have
003all managed to um I'm not going to say do the impossible because they already had the expectation from the beginning. They said they were going to win state and they held true to their word. Um, but no, I'm proud of these guys and I wanted to present them today to you guys and I have certificates for all of them. I'll call your name if you guys will get your certificate and shake the board's hand and then you'll line up over there on that side for a picture. So, Emily [Applause] Amaya, Carlosto Eileen Dominguez, Gioani Nathaniel [Applause] Espino, Juliandio, Elen Lona, Robert Lopez, Grayson Noah, Sebastian Pettis, Emanuel Sanchez, Jason Sanders, and Xavier Zamora and parent volunteer Miss Cam Beast. Congratulations. Good job. That's awesome. Let's take a picture, guys. Uh where would it be best
004to take a picture? You want to have them go behind the board? work. So, just go against the wall next. When are we going to have a board versus state champion? We're open to it any day, right? Just walk down the wall. I'll carry the board. I don't care. Mario. I can do Mario. Go ahead and move a little more this way. One, two, three. I took several of them. And tell them about their ranks, Mr. Sanchez. They'll be working for them. This is a surprise for really everybody, including the esports team. So, at first they had asked me if we were going to get rings. I reluctantly said no sadly because I really want to commend them for all their work. Uh but talking to Miss Reyes, she said, "Hey, let's do fundraisers and
005we will be working towards getting them all rings for their esports state championship. Keep the memory going. [Applause] Y'all don't have to stay. I should be check the second one, the presentation of the NMSBA excellence. We need to postpone it until May. She's not here today. Okay. Oh, okay. All right. Uh any comments or questions about the agenda? I see a motion by second. All in favor say I. I. All say agenda approve. Public comment. Anybody I would like to say something. Sure. Um, I went with them for esports and the camaraderie and sportsmanship with those kids there were was nothing I had ever seen before. So, I thought that was really amazing. That is good. Those all those kids are really good. And I'm really thankful that our boys have good hygiene. Some of
006those nice. Not all gamers are smelly. Okay. That's a that's a stereotype with her stereotype. Well, and then of course, you know, we have to thank Mr. Sanchez because this is the first year doing this and he took a big responsibility and to take, you know, he I know he wasn't expecting to be the state champs, but kudos to you. Good job. Anybody online? All right, moving on. Uh, Mr. L. I I passed out the payment investment request just some carryover or um last little dab of monies for migrant is the first one and then SCG adjustment. It's um another 166,000. I'm just gonna end up putting it shoring up some spots in operational that look like it's running low on is where I'll be ended up with that. The rest of them are just
007some transfers. As you can see, most of these where I'm shortfall is in the substitute line. So, I'm getting some money to um shore those up. in the cafeteria. I'm moving a little bit of money from the food portion to uh some general supplies that some um equipment sells needed for the cafeteria. Other than that, I don't have anything else. Any questions for Johnny? Thank you. Mr. Barbie, they dug out and removed the old fan from the long jump and the triple jump pits before started and the javelin throw to soften up the throw area. J&G finally came back and almost ready to certify the fire alarm system they need for cam fire and security from Carl's back to come and install the communicator for the no fire panel in the high school gym got
008a quote for two speed bumps between the elementary and middle schools for $4,9143 from Desert West Enterprises out of Rozo. Also got a quote for a traffic control gate with the ghost control systems for $7,95 on the north side of the gym to be installed on the north side of the gym. Been trying to stay at my desk this past week to close out work quarters except when emergencies come up. had a big big grease transfer line and floor station dispos garbage disposal last Thursday and we got that unstopped. Then Friday we got the garbage disposal done. Have Johnson septic tank coming tomorrow to pump out the grease trap. We pumped it out in August, but it's seems like it's got a lot of extra grease. And I guess that's it. Any questions? You mentioned
009gates hearing. What were you talking about with the gates and at the back of the gym? Yeah, right there where they're going in. This Ry wants to have a little bit more traffic control back there. We got too many people coming in and out all times of the day. And that's just kind of to put a stop to that. they come around the back and turn around and I'll get you. I mean, I really wanted and I we had a we got a quote. This was a while back for a nice gate and one of those kind of like automatic gates of iron, but it's was a little too expensive. And with the new school coming up, you know, we better just wait on that. And uh however sometimes you know I see cars leaving
010at any any time of the day. So we definitely need to keep control of you know if kids are leaving or you know they're skipping school or parents going in through the back. Sure. I remember my sophomore year they made the the superintendent made the ad class build the gates to lock us at the school. Is that an option? Is that already? I don't know, Parker. Probably not. I will be honest. I don't have the student skill set of students with the skill set. Not trying to harbor those kids, but we've been building benches for the last month and a half and it's a lot of reconstructive going. So, I say whatever we buy and just make sure we can reuse it with our new building, right? So, basically it will be the same as,
011you know, like the uh I don't know if you've seen the bus gate and the bus drivers, they have kind of like a remote and it opens and then it just closes again. I mean, it's just a simple one. Yeah. Oh, that that one's like just like a piece of pipe with a pretty much our original plan when we were talking was a full-on gate. That's when I was like, "No, that I could we could probably build that. But that one was like 34 $44,000 and it was a little costly. Um I was quizzed about uh sprinklers and stuff down at the fieldhouse stuff where the javelin pits and things. Is that a possibility or uh to ask was that mean even they could write some grants to try to help with some of that
012too. Do we not have any sprinklers on that site? Not out there. We got a quote two, three, two or three years ago and it was almost $40,000 just for putting in the sprinkler system. Could it be a project for a student or something like that? Like a what's it SAE kind of project? I'll I'll look into it and we'll make it happen. Why just Yeah, just a lot of dirt and rocks out there for those kids, but Okay. Any other question? Thank you, Mr. Barbie. Um, special ed everyone. All righty. Um, not a whole heck of a lot to record. We're in that final fiveweek, you know, mad dash. Got a few more uh professional development things. Got spring academy coming up next week. And then, uh, there's a one IEP writing workshop in
013Santa Fe to do in an ELLL workshop half day to help identify kids, Spanish speakers. We had child fine. What was that a couple weeks ago? Seemed like there was a thousand kids there. We didn't. Wasn't a thousand. It just seemed like that. Um was pretty good group really. Um I was pretty impressed. Um had one little kid. I gave him a piece of paper and he signed his name. You know, I was like, "Oh my goodness." So I said, "Off you go." Um I think we identified three kiddos that we're going to do some um eval for some speech and that was about it out of the entire crew. So elementary's got you know a good group coming in either at preschool or kindergarten level. And then the last thing is um the only
014other thing coming uh that's kind of a requirement is the idea B applications if they ever release our funds. That's our major state funding source between Kelly Alice up at the PRC and Miss Montana. They got that kind of in order and that'll be on the agenda in the May meeting that you guys have to approve. You want to approve it. So, but you have every year since they invented idea B. So, any questions? All right. Thank you. Yes, um so uh we did get another officer hired. So, um children should be back, um over here at the school full-time, uh within the next two weeks. Um and then, um I think as already told you about stuff going on this week and then of course prom and everything like that, but um we've just
015been busy taking care of all that, getting ready for that stuff and getting a new officer hired. So, yeah. Um hopefully by at least two weeks I should be able to have the other guy out on patrol and children's back at the school full time. Who was the new officer? Can we uh Yeah, his name is Manuel Cio and he came from Rosen Police Department. So awesome. Elementary. All right. I gave you a report. Got a lot of pictures. um just our super readers and amazing mathematicians, students of the month. Uh we had some staff pride referrals and then you see our students uh referrals. Um let's get to the good part. Uh March 27th we have a Spanish um and A-Rod has joined. Man, settle down a bit. All right. March we said we
016hosted the Spanish spelling be uh for the first time ever. We had an elementary winner uh Melanie Beltron outpelled her brother Diego. They went headto head for a while. I don't know you hold that over Diego. Um and she beat Diego. So Melanie got first, Diego got second, and then uh Luis Sinettos actually is another fifth grader got third. And so really excited uh about that. Melanie will go compete at regionals this weekend. This weekend. This weekend. And so, uh, Miss Cado will take her there. On Friday, March 28th, uh, Hagermanerman's three preK classes, visited the Roswell Library, and they went to the inclusion, uh, playground there in Roswell, and ate McDonald's. So, they were really happy on that one, which is a good day for them. Uh on Monday, March 31st, John Kvvic uh
017with Tissel Trainers came in and we were really really fortunate. Um he's come and done some training uh for our staff before and some of our staff have gone to training. I think the last training was a couple years ago. It was all online. Uh but we were fortunate to be able to get him to come in in person and he's outstanding. Um really hands-on. teachers were up and engaged the whole time laughing and having fun and it was by far well worth every penny that we paid. Um staff had told me uh things that they went into their class and implemented day one. And so it was just strategies on instruction and engagement and it didn't matter what subject you could teach, you could use the strategies. So it was really really good. Uh
018it was well worth um all that. Thanks to Miss Reyes for setting that up. she knows John and stuff. So, um, Friday, April 11th, we had prek roundup. My calculations between preK and kinder, we had 53 kids register that day. Wow. So, it was a really good day. Um, and stuff. And so, we had set it all up in the library from 9 to 11. It was packed. Um, and stuff. So, our numbers look really good coming in. PreK and kinder. Our 4 Y class is already full. We're already our 4Y and 34 Y is already full. Um we've got a little bit of room in 619 where we can take some more peers or uh students who qualify. Uh and then at uh Kinder, we're already sitting at we're sitting at 20 with a
019couple return kids who just need to bring theirs back. So our numbers are sitting really really well at preK and kinder. So that was a really really good event. Um, April 17th, uh, we hosted the color run, we shout out to, uh, Miss Rodriguez and Coach Rodriguez for all their hard work on that event. Uh, community really shows out. Um, and it was really a great event this year because of finding a day with track and we did it on early release and did it in the morning and uh, we actually bumped it up 30 minutes and were able to get get it done before the wind really started. So, we're really fortunate on that. Um, Monday, actually today, FFA came and hosted Easter egg hunts for all of our classes. Um, so our kids
020were excited about the five eggs that they got. Um, so they were super super excited about that. Uh, things coming up. Uh, last Wednesday we had our fifth graders took the state science tests. Um, tomorrow our third, fourth, and fifth graders will take the ELA. And on Wednesday, they 3rd, fourth, and fifth grade will also take the math. Uh we got spring pitcher day coming up on April 30th. May 2nd, we'll have a house day, an early release, Bobcat break, and spring fiesta celebration. Um elementary kids will be performing uh during that celebration, so that should be a good time. Uh May 5th through the 9th, we'll have a BOGO uh book fair. So it's buy one, get one free. Uh this is our third book fair um of the year. Miss Monica Aguilar does
021a great job of uh scheduling these and organizing them and and running them. And so we're excited about having that one. Uh May 14th we'll have a talent talent show. May 15th is food distribution. Uh this year all of our kids on their spring field trip are going to the Artisia Aquatic Center. Um, and so preK, kinder, and first will go on the 16th, and second, third, fourth, and fifth will go on the 19th. The 20th, the last week's just busy. We have awards assembly. Fifth grade promotion will be on the 20th. Kinder promotion will be on the 21st. The 22nd will be our field day and house celebration. We'll celebrate our winning house. Recently, a house took over first. It's uh one house has had it all year long until recently to see if
022they can hold it on hold on to it. And then our last last day of the year we're calling a turnaround day. Um kids will come and get report cards and go home so that we can tie up the year. And so it's a busy end to the busy till the end of the year. Uh but a lot of good stuff. So stand for any questions. Thank you. question is the uh field day on the same night as a baseball game. So field day is going to be during the day and probably because it's Thursday. So good luck. Last year it was brutal. I went and watched them after and it was terrible. So um I'm giving you a month to see if you can get that change. Okay. You know there'll be a lot
023of sick kids that day. You may not have enough to play. Needs to be reschedled. So okay, I'm good with that. That that is that will be on a Thursday. Are you playing? I have no idea. You should have a coach. [Laughter] Okay. What? All right. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Okay. The secondary school report. Uh enrollment is the same at the middle school as it was last month. We're down one at the high school. Uh so we're at 170 between both buildings. Um no major changes to report as far as attendance goes. Still trending in the positive direction. We will um make our determination of the no zero heroes by May 9th just so the seniors will know if they which finals that they don't have to other kids will kind of
024have an idea of what they need to plan for and prepare for. Um the junior class is hosting prom this weekend. It's a casino night. Uh there's lots of things on the spring calendar and I'll go through some of that. Um there's a track meet on Thursday um at Loving. We have prom on Saturday. Monday is the written and red scholarship dinner and we are the hosts for that event this year. On Tuesday, Miss Reyes and I and Mr. Parker are going to a meeting in Lake Parker for the Peran Basin Initiative for Career Tech Ed. The 11th graders are going to take the ASR and that evening is the Chavis County Teachers of Character Ceremony and we have several teachers from the secondary level nominated for that honor. Wednesday is spring picture day and
025we're going to have a parent advisory meeting that night to discuss a few things to prepare and plan for next year. Um then we'll be in May pretty quick thereafter. The second is an early release day. Uh Miss Dunn in collaboration with Gear Up is planning a career fair for the high school students for that morning since we're on an early release schedule. We're going to host a staff CPR training for our PD day that day. And try our goal is by the start of the school year or quickly into the start of the new school year. 100% of our staff will be CPR certified. Um that evening bilingual program is going to host Cinco de Mayo celebration and that sounds really exciting for all the things they have planned for that. Also the day
026of the district track meet. So if you're looking for something to do, there's plenty to do on May 2nd. Um May 5th is the FBA banquet. Uh Parker doesn't know what they're serving yet, but he'll figure it out soon. Uh May 6th through the 11th is BPA Nationals. They'll be going to Orlando. Uh May 5th or May 8th through 10th is a state track meet. And uh May 13th, the eighth graders are going to go to Love It for their class trip if that is approved tonight. Um we'll have Baloria on May 15th, which is a Thursday. And then we will have uh graduation on May 17th. And then on May 22nd, we have eighth grade promotion scheduled and the middle schoolers will host an end of the year dance and they're going to invite
027the fifth graders to come to their first middle school dance since they'll almost be they'll have their promotion earlier in the week. Um, and we have just 24 more days of school left and four more Mondays. So stand for stop. You're that's your second question. Somebody quit town counting down today. Um, but I stand for any questions and I know Coach Rodriguez and Mr. Parker may have some more things to add to secondary. Any questions? Written in red scholarship. What's Okay, I'll let you. Okay. So, uh we actually have three or four students this year that they filled out an application with uh you know for the written and red written and read scholarship and uh so three of them were selected from here and one from Lake Arthur. So this year we are going
028to be hosting the uh event and all of you are quarterly invited to come to the event. It will be on the 28th and uh I believe it starts at 5:30. Correct. 6 o' 6 o'clock. 6 o'clock. Is that what the invitation? I'm not sure. I haven't seen the invitation. I just haven't I will confirm that and then I will definitely let you know. But you know the I can tell you and you know again you're courtly invited. The uh Lake Arthur board members will be here. No pressure. No pressure. April 28th. It's next Monday. Yes. On Monday and we will be at the uh we'll set up in the commons area. the the foundation will provide the dinner and then we will provide um everything else you desserts and drinks and everything else. So
029yes, hopefully you can come and join us. I won't 45 seconds. I'm traveling. You don't have to explain anything. All right. Any other questions, Parker? Uh, it's been super busy. Um, CT wise, we're still kind of waiting on grant stuff to open up. I talked to our region pay specialists today. Um, they are aiming for Friday or Monday morning for all of our federal grant money to applications to open up. And so hopefully by May I can kind of give you guys a number of what we're receiving between Perkins, NextGen. Um, this year I did apply for a program called initiative zone. It's a little bit more paperwork. Um, but it does not disagree with any of our funding and it would kind of correspond and work with workbased learning. So like we have a
030junior this year that's working for the school and last summer we had a bunch of kids that work for the school. It would help cover some of those salaries and help provide some opportunities for those kids. Um, it's been super busy for FA. We just wrapped up judging season. We had a amazing season. Um, we had two teams walk at the state judging. We had a fifth place nursery team, a second place team. Um, we tried our hardest to take a grindy home with us this year and it was it was tough. Mari threw a fight with us. [Laughter] Thanks, coach. sixth place Wool Team and all the other teams progressively have enhanced um in their progress moving forward. It was amazing to see a lot of our younger kids where they placed and how
031they did. It was great. Um as we're moving forward throughout the day, we have our banquet which all of you guys should have an invitation with you guys. Um you're all invited to join us May 5th for our banquet. I will have menu items tomorrow figured out. Um it's been a little chaotic. I've been gone. My mom had a knee replacement, so I was out part of last week with her and then I had her done, too. So, trying to get caught back up on everything and making sure my duties are done. Um, also with that, Heggerman FA has partnered with the New Mexico Game and Fish. If you haven't seen it, today we're hosting Hunter's Ed for um theoretically it's 8 to 18. Um, I put on the flyer 10 to 17 just to
032kind of target some of our younger kids that might need to do it. Um, if you know anyone that's interested in participating in Hunter Edge, reach out to me or sign up through the Google form. Um, we'll get them taken care of. We can host 20 kids. Um, game and fish are doing this for free for us. Um, my buddy's the warden for kind of our area and so he's going to come take care of us and teach it on May 2nd, third or third and fourth that weekend. Um, in my my classroom. What hours? Where I will have that next week. Um it will probably be a all day Saturday, half day Sunday type thing. Um he was his goal is to try to keep it as minimum length as possible. Um we I
033am excited to share we have our first state officer candidate running for state office in a while. Um Grady Moss will be attending his try and running for state office this year. He will be attending the nominating committee process this weekend. So I'll take him down Friday morning. Um we have a couple stops on our way there to practice interview work with some other individuals. Um and then he'll spend the weekend interviewing with the nominating committee process. So wishing him luck and we're excited to see where he does in this process. Um and then we'll have state convention in May and at state camp this summer and then a busy busy summer for getting ready for county fair and things like that. But for that I stand for questions. Hopefully May I'll have budget information.
034I'm tired of not knowing. I wish we knew. That just is up in the air. You don't know what that anymore. Any questions for Parker? 6:32 p.m. See, Reyes wants me to finish. Hey, Rod, you still there? Yeah. Sorry, I had the my phone out and I'm trying to yell at these guys and I think I unhit mute. One second. Let me get to a a better place. Let's go. Okay. Where we at? Do you have anything to report? Oh, okay. Um track meet. Uh we hosted a junior high and a high school track meet um a couple weeks ago. Uh that went well, very fast. We ran it very smooth. I want to thank everybody for their their help and their support. Um got some kids qualified in the high school meet. Um guys
035are guys are getting close. I think the boys have all their their relay teams in. Um girls are still working on a couple that they have a chance in. Uh individuals getting qualified. I know uh Javon has all his events and our throwers, they're just about qualified in everything that they do as well. So, uh, track's doing good. Um, physicals right now, we are looking at, and I don't know, did did Cody mention this in her report? No. No. Okay. So, we're working on getting Dr. Mure down here again to provide physicals um for the kids. Uh, right now, May 12th looks like the best uh date available that doesn't interfere with any sports. and we're going to try to use the athletic hour as much as we can to get as many of those
036kids done um without taking them out of class and interrupting the school day. Um and then they'll they'll do their other stuff their their concussion class and other requirements that they need sometime that week just so they're they're set for next year. And um school's going to cover part of it. It's going to cost $25 for a physical and the school's going to cover a part of it. Uh with the kids only have to pay like 10 15 bucks. I can't remember which way we we're slicing it. Um, but a great opportunity for these guys to get all their all their stuff in order before uh the start of the year so we're not scrambling at uh the beginning of the year to get everybody, you know, their physical and stuff like that. Interviewed um
037potential football coaches uh last week uh three candidates, four candidates, I can't remember off the top of my head and then we got one more tomorrow. So, we should have a decision on a football coach uh by the end of the week this week and uh we'll let y'all know. We'll be introduced in the newsletter and and uh get a little synopsis on on what he's done and what he's his plans are for uh our program moving forward. Um that's about all I can think of as far as sports go. I stand for any questions. Thanks, AROD. Uh, any questions for No, sir. I appreciate it. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you. All right. Moving on. Um, motion for approval of the regular meetings for the March 25th meeting and any investments in bills
038for the month of 2025, March 2020. Any questions? Have a motion to approve? I'll make a motion. Move by Chris. We'll second. All those in favor say I. All those oppos say nay. Motion carries. First new item, uh, budget adjustments. Any other questions for Ming on those? I make a motion to approve. Trimmer. I'll second by. All those in favor say I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Item B is removal of Elva Bella from the signature card at JP Stone Bank. I thought we did that last summer, but apparently we only put Carmen on the pickup at the drivein and they want board approval on that, too. So, I did not put our account numbers on there, but I just listed our four accounts. So, we'll be taking her name off and put
039Carmen on. Okay. Uh, any questions? Just need a motion to approve. Chris second. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposing me approved. Uh item C, financial audit. It's from earlier. Uh any other questions? Need a motion to approve. Make a motion by Dusty. I'll second. Second by Trevor. All those in favor say I. All those oppose say. Motion carries. Item D, out of state travel for eighth graders to go to Adventure Park in Levik. There are about 11 kids in that class that are eligible to go on their end of the year trip. They've gathered up some donations from their parents and they've been raising a little bit of money and they have enough money to go to the adventure park. They'll just go over in the morning. They uh will do their
040activities there, play video games and ride go-karts and stuff like that. and then we will come back that same same day and it'll probably be myself and their two class sponsors who will take them over um and they will have a little trip. There's about 11 of them that are still eligible to go. That's there's only 12 in that class I think. So that are on campus anyway. But that's what at the beginning of the year when we had their their meeting what they wanted to do that's what they thought of and they want to do. So I give them a lot of credit because they were willing to raise money and do the work so they could have an opportunity to go. So So there's 12 kids in the eighth grade class. There is
04114. Two of them are not on campus every day. See, it's that small class. They're the small class. I think I think the biggest they ever were last year was 16. Any questions? Other questions? Just need a motion to approve. So Chris second by Trevor. All those in favor say I. All those opposition carries. Item E. Upper to attend Alabama's exploration of agriculture education June 8th through the 14th. Good afternoon. Um, superintendent Miss Reyes. Uh, I kind of have a unique opportunity um through New Mexico AED um to attend this professional development opportunity. Last year, uh, New Mexico FFA and New Mexico State University brought Alabama a teachers to New Mexico and tour the Southwest. And so we're we're kind of doing changing the favor this year and New Mexico teachers are getting a chance
042to go to Alabama. Um last year when we had set up Perkins funding, we had to put in a line there for um professional development and travel for me since I have received some other grants and other things that pay for most of my travel and opportunities like when I went to Nashville or San Antonio for NA things like that and still leaving that barrier right there of money that we have to spend by the end of this year. And so I'm asking permission to attend the 2025 uh Alabama Tour of Agriculture. It's a really cool opportunity. we're going to get to tour the poultry industry, forestry industry, natural resources, animal science, um all different things. And so the Perkins grant that is already stipulated this been on professional development for ACT teachers, CT teachers,
043we'll be covering this. Um we'll have a tour to start in north part of Alabama and work our way all the way down the northern part of Florida. um I'll fly into Huntsville and fly out of um northern part of Alabama or Florida uh to partake in a weekl long training of getting to explore different agriculture industries. Um you go back to those parts of the states and their agriculture is three times different than what we're used to here. Um and it I feel like this would provide me an opportunity to bring back some new skills and opportunities to really teach our kids. Hey, this is what the forestry industry is actually like. We don't have that here. This is what marine biology is like. this is how your fish gets from here to Red
044Lobster or to the store. This is how you go to Home Depot and buy lumber. This is where it's coming from. Have that more firsthand experience to provide for these kids and not just be like, "Well, let's Google it or let's let's try this out. Let's see what the book says." Um, really providing me that firsthand experience. So, uh, without any further questions, I'm asking permission to travel to Alabama and North Florida. You guys do have the letter that I provided, Miss Reyes, Miss Dennis on everything. Um the total trip should cost about 25.68 um with my flights, registration, everything like that. I will be responsible for my own meals and things. But um and then it has the full itinerary kind of what we're expecting to do. There's about 11 of us from the
045state going. Any questions? Your CTE funds you said out of our Perkins and NextG, you know. Maybe it's just me, but I just I don't know how this is going to I just don't know how this is going to like boiler egg production and poultry hatchery and forestry. I mean, I just don't I don't know. Maybe I'm just uneducated on all this stuff, but I just don't know how that's going to tie into our egg program. Thanks, Shannon. Um I I teach a lot of natural resources and forestry um in my eighth grade act. Um providing the opportunity, this is an opportunity to kind of see different agriculture aspects and bring some different experiences to what New Mexico just has to offer. You're touring Auburn University, too. I think the exchange program like from what
046I understand as a former egg teacher the exchange program that they did we when they brought the Alabama teachers they showed them chili production pecans things that were different so they so they could have that knowledge to share with their students so if their students were interested or if they were doing something and I think that I know from my own experience when I was teaching animal science in the classroom I can talk about what what I know about math poultry production, but I've never seen it in real life. And I've never, you know, I can't I can only speak from it from what I can see online, just like our kids. And I think sometimes our kids value a unique perspective or a firsthand perspective if you know if they're they they look for
047that credibility with us as a teachers or as teachers as general to have that experience to say, I've really seen this with my own eyes. And I think this I mean, I don't imagine this will be something that we see happen very often for our teachers. Um, an opportunity like this. Do we have any curriculum that that works with this? We teach animal science then we teach uh forestry, natural resources and we do have forestry in New Mexico but it's a different kind of forestry than they have in the in the southeastern United States and I think that was the hope that they would get some and then also collaboration between what is a and FFA. Georgia is one of the largest a education and FFA states in the um second kind of behind probably
048they're in the top five of FFA and they do things a little bit different. So I think it's a also like kind of a cultural exchange of ideas like you know how their programs work, how their schools work to to build some bridges between programs and chapters also. Um, is there any opportunities, you know, for our kiddos to to look into Auburn's university? I mean, to gather, I mean, information, university information, things like that. I know I will have the opportunity to grab as much resources as possible to bring back for the kids. Um, I've never been to a major university like that. I attended New Mexico State University and so if I have the opportunity to highlight I've taken the kids to Purdue to highlight their act programs, highlight their campus, um be able
049to bring have a firsthand experience to explain Auburn and bring back some resources for them would be amazing opportunity for them. Yes, this is all grant money. Nothing coming out of the school. Nothing coming out of school. Uh we have already received approval from our region specialist that handles our grant money. Um and thought this was a great idea. Um she has signed off on multiple other act teachers building as well. Any questions? Just need a motion. I'll make a motion. I'll second Chris second by testy. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you. Motion carries. Um item F title one part C library application. So yes, as we've done every year, you know, and I do, my purpose is to have the uh title one application approved. However, um you know, while
050we remain committed to supporting our migrant students, you know, the current title one has always working with the application. So it it's all the title one part C the allocation it's really not sufficient to even cover the salary of the migrant uh liaison and unfortunately they cut everybody in the state 60%. You don't have anything on on this one here. Okay. So they they cut everybody by 60%. Last year we had about $25,000 that we still received. It It was actually like $12,000 and then they just Jolene did a a budget adjustment. They gave us like another what was it Jolene? 187 or 587. 587. Okay. And then we had carryover money of an additional $12,000. But this year they're only going to give us 3,89. and the requirements that this grant I mean it
051just requires so much a lot of paperwork. Tomorrow PE will be here and they will be talking to me. They will be talking to the migrant parents. It's going to take at least half a day. I just don't feel that it is enough money. Again, you know, in the past, we used to we used to get enough funding to be able to cover the liaison that salary and we still paid some of of the uh liaison salary, you know, using uh operational funds. However, now we would have to the liaison salary is about 32, let's say somewhere around there about 32,000 for uh per year and then getting only 3,800 and then the requirements that everything that they need they want us to do you know send the uh I have to go to those
052trainings and the liaison has to go to those trainings. So all of that it's going to be more of a burden for the district than what they are giving us. With that said, I mean the students will still receive their services because we do we provide after school tutoring but the grant does not allow you know there's no funding for that. The kids get a lot of resources but we really don't use the uh migrant funds. So, what I would like and I'd like to opt out of that uh that grant because I think it's more of a burden. It's more we're not getting anything unless, you know, we can wait and see if if everything that's happening in the fed with the feds, you know, maybe they'll give us more money at a later
053time, but at this time with $3,000, it's just not enough. the kids will still be serviced no matter what you know they will we will continue to service them so what's the benefit of the grant I mean like it's to be able to again so we have the the liaison and that's about the only thing that we can pay because the this never there's never enough money for supplies there's never enough money for professional development it's a lot of work believe me a lot of work a lot of requirements that we have to uh comply. I mean it is a federal uh grant and it's to be able to help the students. We are still helping the students but we are using additional funds and basically you know the funds that we give from uh
054this grant just covers the the it used to cover part of the liaison salary now it doesn't and really the liaison works with those students one-on-one and provides resources for the uh the parents. So, this additional money you're you're saying nyx this whole thing because it's um a lot of work to this application. Yes, it's a lot of work and I'm not afraid of the work. But the thing is that they're not even giving us much money anymore. It's not worth it. I mean, we can continue that. That's not the problem, but we probably have to end up paying more. So, if we get the grant, we pay more. it will probably end up paying more because the position it doesn't even cover the position anymore. It's not enough. So this year what we had
055to do with that position because even this year it wasn't enough. The only thing is that we had some carryover money that we were able to use. But this year we ended up uh paying the liaison 75% from community schools money and 25% from um migrant but this year I don't think it will even cover the 25% of the salary. Who's our lia? uh Elizabeth Pa. However, I do have the application. We can sign it and hopefully, you know, we will be able to get some more money. It's set. This price is set already. Like that's what that's what Yes. for for this coming year. Um I carry over. Well, we have a little bit of carryover money, but we're not it won't be much because the carryover money we had $12,000 carryover money, but
056then we spent $7500 on some of the euplies. So, that takes it down to 5,000 and then the 5,000 would be used for the um summer school. So, we won't have any carryover money. So, this is this is it, the 3,800. Now, I I did I spoke with the um one of the guys from PED and he says, "Well, hopefully by October, you know, we might be able to give more funding on that, but it's not a for sure thing. This has to be submitted every prior to July. It it has to be submitted by May I believe it's May 20 22nd." And that's why I wanted to get this signed today just in case, you know, there there's a possibility that they can say yes, you know, you there's a little bit more But
057everybody, all of the districts, there's probably like eight districts that have the migrant program and everybody got cut by 60%. So it's significant. If we approve this today though, it do you have to submit that? No, because we do have local control. But if we approve it today, then you know if we get more money, then I will send it and we can just take it. Oh, okay. So this isn't a we just lose it all together if you know this is not the only program that is at risk. There's so many federal programs that are at risk. So right now we have title one, we have title two, title three, title four. Those applications are already being submitted as well, but we don't know if there, you know, we are at risk of losing
058everything. So, we don't know what's going to happen. Hopefully not. Um, so you're suggesting that we go ahead and approve this today or take So, my my suggestion is that we still it only needs your signature to approve this. If we get more money, we send it in. If we don't for $3,000, I don't think it's worth it. But at least, you know, we will have it signed and and if you know, if we submit it, then great. The kids will still be serviced, though. You know, they will still have the the resources that we have. They give clothing. I mean, there's an abundance of resources, but it's really never through the the m the migrant because the the program only pays for the liaison for the the salary. You said May 22nd. Correct. We
059should have a board meeting on the 19th, right? Yes. Wait till then or you just want to go ahead or sign it and then either sign it or not. I don't question about that. I don't know if this is any relation to that. So, we're servicing these kids with or without the grant, but we don't get to count these kids on the count day because they're right. No, we do we do get to count them whether you know if they are here for the 40th, the 80th. Uh most of the time they're not here for the 120th, but what they do is they give us an average of the 80th and the 120th. So they're either here for the 80th and then usually not for the 120th. So we still get an average. Um but
060they, you know, they will still be serviced and you know that's that's not the issue. The only thing is that the money it's being lowered and it's just primarily for the liaison and some instructional materials. It's practically what do we pay Jolene? Just the liaison, right? I thought we did summer school. We did we did summer school last year because we had carryover money and then uh you know the plan is to do it again this year. you know, we only had like two weeks of uh summer school. I mean, we can continue. I I don't that's okay. I mean, I just don't think it's enough. And we've always just paid a percentage of someone's salary. You can't increase it anyway because that's supplanting and it's just for supplementing. So, I've never tried to increase
061percentage questions. I don't know how I don't know how to make this motion. Make the motion to approve it depending on the dollar amounts on the grant on the dollar amount of the grant. Yes. And my budget is due on May 22. 22nd. Approval by Trevor. I'll second for additional funds though, right? Yeah. They need additional. So, just out of curiosity, what limit you' be like, "Okay, this is worth signing." Last year they only gave us $8,000 but I guess you know it's it was okay to to at least pay the 25% of the uh the liaison salary. Again you know in the past we've used operation to be able to pay part of her salary this year because we had community schools and Miss Padra is also doing community schools. So then we were
062able to use 75% of that and 25% of the uh of this grant. But you know this year with $3,000 I don't think I don't think it's going to it it won't I don't think it will even do maybe 10%. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor say I. I I was saying although it's better than nothing though. $3,000 is better than nothing. It potentially could help. Okay. Item G uh Peran Basin Collaborative CTE initiative. Okay. So this one you do have it and it's the Valley Rural Collaborative Memorandum of Understanding. So with this one here on requesting approval so uh so that we can sign the uhou with the perium basin collaborative. So again this partnership will allow the herman schools to work alongside the valley schools with um Lake Arthur and
063and Dexter as well as ENMU to expand career and technical uh CTE of course u you know courses and more opportunities for the kids. So this is the it's already been signed by superintendent from Lake Arthur and then also from Dr. Powell and you don't have to sign this. So basically I have to sign it and I'm just uh you know asking for approval so that I can sign the the uhou. This agreement remains in effect till later when it's on a yearly basis. So just to remind you, Dexter will be offering um medical field, Lake Arthur will be offering educational courses and we will be offering it's kind of like a Google certificate. So we will have kids from Dexter coming here. If our kids are interested in the medical field, they will go
064to Dexter. And then um the same thing with Lake Arthur. Y'all figure out transportation yet? So um we actually and then tomorrow, Mr. Parker, uh, Cody, and myself, we will be having a meeting with, uh, Jenna McKinley, the lady that came in here and do the to do the presentation. Um, the plan is to be able to have, you know, one of the suburbans and be able to transport kids. Lake Arthur, they might have a bus and then if there's kids going to Dexter, they'll stop here and drop off the kids from that want to come here and then they'll keep going. Dexter will do the same thing. So basically we might not even need the transportation ourselves like right in the middle and uh however we will not pay for the transportation. It's um
065it's paid through the permium basin and I I just think it's great opportunities for our kids. It opens broader opportunities for juniors and seniors. So actually even freshmen. Oh, so freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Yes. But again, they'd have to all be going that first period, you were saying. Yes, it has to be during the first period. And all three schools will be, you know, we're trying to work out because Dexter, they actually have a block schedule and uh that will be kind of difficult. So tomorrow the the lady Jenna McKinley will be here and we'll be discussing more options. Okay, just the motion I'll make. Thank you. I will send I will sign it and send it to them. Thank you. Those in favor say I. Say item H. Science adoption. A-Rod. I'm here.
066All right. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen of the board, President Moss, it is time for science curriculum adoption. Um, back Jeez, I don't know. We'll go based off of sports season. So, back during basketball season, we went to a um like a showcase for different curriculum um for science at different levels all the way from elementary to junior high to high school. Um myself, Cody, and the two science teachers, MissWami and Mr. Molina uh all went and we kind of divided and and went to different presentations um for HT Mifflin Hardcore uh Savis which is through Pearson and um Glen Co McGra Hill and uh after discussing the different options that we had with uh the other teachers we felt that Savas was the best way to go. I have several quotes here for you guys.
067Um, I know it says 9 through 12 at the first with kits, uh, but this is also going to include the middle school. Um, so if we walk through this, that first one right there, it says Earth. Uh, that's going to be your, um, integrated middle school curriculum. So depending on how these are structured, how the teacher wants to present them. You know, one grade can have earth science, uh, the next grade could have, I believe, life science and then physical science. or you can kind of rotate them and go through different parts of the book um throughout the the the school year and integrate it that way. Um so the first thing you get uh your textbook or it's like a workbook plus your your six year digital. So a lot of stuff is
068on um a digital platform and so it'll have the exact same copy of the textbook. it'll be able to be translated into different lessons and then um it'll have different you know activities and stuff like that that you can go through. So the first one is uh earth science for middle school. Then you have chemistry that'll be at the high school level. Uh physics at the high school level. And what we have on this one is the not only the teachers editions but the materials kit. And um that that is more pricey and we'll talk about that in a little bit. But I feel it's um essential especially for our teachers. They're young teachers. Um, and you know, when I was in that classroom, I was able to go in and kind of see what
069we had in place and get creative and and kind of um, bounce ideas off of Coach Crannle and the the teachers before me. And, uh, with these two young ones, it's it's a little bit more difficult. So, if we have those materials in place, I think it's going to help them a whole lot more than if uh, they had to kind of get creative. Um the next little part on the next page are uh profess professional development sessions. So uh one will be how to implement this um with fidelity and what it looks like and the other one is going to be what the platform looks like and how the teacher can use the platform and the tools that are on the platform. Um and and the same thing down there is the Savage 6
070integrated is going to help uh incorporate some strategies into uh the classroom at the the middle school level. Uh the next is what the kits look like and that'll be for the middle school level kits and then um like I said life science on the the next page that's another middle school level course uh and then the biology on there so that covers all our subjects that we offer uh and have enough teachers for uh middle school level and teachers guides that are on here as well. Um, the next quote is the exact same thing except it eliminates those kits and that's on the next I believe six pages. If you go to uh the next set of quotes, it'll have the elementary curriculum on there. Uh there are two quotes. One is for kindergarten
071through fifth grade and then the other one is for just third through fifth grade. um their prices and the differences. Uh one thing that I do like is that uh everything's reading based uh investigation. So, you know, it's tough for elementary teachers to find the time to to do science with fidelity. We we only have uh one teacher, maybe one and a half, that I can think of that does that. Um or at least I know does that because she tells me about the cool experiments that she does in her class all the time. Um, but currently they just implement it when possible if there's time or if there's a fun day. So there's not a true science implementation going on at the elementary. Um, there are things available. So like the makers kit is
072available uh and they can go in there and do it in that STEM lab. Uh, but like I said, not not every single teacher uh takes advantage of that. We do have physics in a box. uh but that would take you know a structure in place and collaboration and training uh that we really don't have time for but it is available. So the question is is this done with fidelity? If we had this, maybe this would allow for protected time if we go to I know one of the discussion items on here is a 4 day school week and so that might extend classroom hours which might give protected time for uh science to be implemented in the elementary. Um I I think it's really important. I know students really like it and I I
073am kind of biased when it comes to that just because I've taught it for so long. But uh I I feel it's if we can get it in there, it'd be a good place to start. Um talking with uh I know Tori and then I even asked uh Alex because he used to teach at the elementary like if you had these materials would you use it more than you know whatever else you had and he said yeah for sure. Um it gives a little bit more structure than what they're used to. Um, going back to the high school, I I really like this uh this textbook because it's focused and it's geared towards project based learning. That's one thing that I told the science team when uh we were looking for materials is is look
074for something that can, you know, be related to project- based learning. And I feel like this does it goes with the 5e model. So they engage, they explore, they explain, they they elaborate, and then they evaluate. And it's completely like this is aligned with NGSS. I know the science curriculum that we we had kind of came out when NGSS was implemented and you know to sell textbooks they're like oh yeah of course we're aligned with the science the new science standards. Uh they they weren't and I feel that this one does a better job. It has this anchoring phenomenon. It it requires them to go in investigations. It has those crosscutting concepts uh that NGSS demands. it it goes in there you know with the explain it's all student learning uh students do the lifting
075they have to go in and investigate conduct experiments and then the elaborate that's where you can connect it with the uh the project so it's an overall uh you know overarching project that you might but you're only focusing on a part of it so if you're doing um a molecule a project about a molecule it'll build up to that and you'll have to say okay this is the atom that's in the molecule this is the compound can be found in the molecule. These are the bonds that are in this molecule. And so it kind of builds off of that. Um, and then it provides professional development. It has digital tools online and the ability to be translated into Spanish. So, I think it checks a lot of boxes for us. Um, and like I said,
076those those material kits just make it a little bit easier for the teacher that everything's right there and ready to go. Uh, you guys can look at the prices. It is pretty pricey. And I kind of feel bad cuz my two sections I'm just asking for a whole lot of money. But uh it's it's really going to help out these kids, I believe. Is there any way to get this $12,000 shipping and handling charge down? pick it up. Well, maybe and I think we do have to go through uh Archway from Albuquerque. So, I believe that they do not have the um I'm not sure if they wave the shipping and handling. So, we definitely this quote will change significantly because it is a lot u paid contracts with archway. So it will be much
077much less. So are you uh suggesting option one with the kids and the K through five? You know that that would be that would be my my best bet. You know I know um we we definitely need to address the the older kids in elementary just because that's a fifth grade is a grade that is tested. they have to take the ASR test and I feel that if we can at least incorporate it through third through fifth um that that's definitely important but if we're going to do it for three through five, why not start at a younger age? I know um and I don't know Tori Tori can probably jump in here. Um I know she does a lot trying to get these kids um doing investigations and peak their interest in things that
078aren't, you know, just math and reading. Um, and I know that she would use it with fidelity. Do you think the lower grades would use it? I know I gave you Did I give you kindergarten or first grade to look at kindergarten? You gave me kindergarten. I Go ahead. I think part of it is uh if we don't have the resources, it's hard to because then you're you're scrambling to go find things. I think if we have it, I think it'll get used for sure. Especially if it comes with some Especially if it come Yeah. And especially if it comes with like we used to get some kits from m where do you where do we get those kits from? Do you remember co-op? Remember the co-op had them but I don't remember what the
079company was. landmark. I think whenever they sent those, it was it was easy because you got the tub and everything was in there and you just pulled out the teachers manual and it had beers, it had all the all the materials you needed to teach that and we returned them what we could reuse. Like they'd send a skill and we would return it. And when we did that, science was taught every single day. I know a big part of that was we had to return materials and we weren't always the best at returning the materials and so that part of it kind of failed. But um I do think if we have it and we have all of it, it's easier to do than if you have pieces of it. So right now elementary does
080have simplified science. We purchased that for K through five last summer. Um we have that good for three years. We did look at some K through5 science curriculums outside of this. Uh Tori was on that, Miss Montterat, Miss Mayan was on that. And one of the things that was discussed was simplify science was good and it was simple. It wasn't a bunch of stuff, but one thing we needed to fill out was to build all the kits. And so that was kind of the plan and will be in in my budget going into this year of here's the cost for all the kits that have all the labs in that. And so I think the problem we have with that is funding though because PED isn't going to approve approve of us buying materials. PED
081will approve a portion of it to be high quality materials. So they'll approve of materials. So if they buy oil, they they will approve materials. If for example, when A-Rod and Cody and uh you know, everybody who went to that um training, that training, if simplified science was part of their curriculum, then yes. If it wasn't part of it, then no. It's not an approved. It's not on the adopted list. It's not on the adopted. So if no, then it will not. I I really like Simplified Science. It's really good, but we don't have the materials. That's the hard part. And it's expensive to buy. I don't think it's expensive. No, it's not. It's actually super like super cheap considering what it provides. It really is cheaper than what we're going to pay to buy
082all that. The only thing that is is we're going to have to buy the materials to like so for example, like if I pull up a lesson right now, it's going to ask me to have foil beaker and we don't have those things. So then what happens is teachers don't teach because they're having to go buy all that stuff out of pocket. Would it be better though to have the curriculum all the way through K through 12 would be different? And that's what you know that's what we are trying to do because when they come to the you know they start sixth grade they have no knowledge no science knowledge and they it needs to start early. Well, having taught seventh grade science last year, that was a pretty eye openening thing because I expected
083them to know a lot of stuff and they looked at me like I was crazy. Yeah. And in my experience, anytime they they say, "Oh, I know we did this one thing this one time back in second grade or we did this one thing this one time back in fourth grade." So, they have they have, you know, very small amount of exposure to different topics that we we expect them to know by the time they reach us. And we do have instructional materials uh monies that we get every year. We might,000. We might have to, you know, lower some of the amounts here, but um we just have to look at it, but we definitely need to make sure. Now, PED, they do keep a log and we have to do a report every year
084and they keep track of the high quality materials that the schools are using. Is this high quality? This is yes the simplify that they're using right now. It's not good. It's just not recognized on the state list of approved. So it follows the NGSS standards. It follows the same standards that the other curriculum. It's just not a vetted one. It's not a state approved one. That's all. Now the only thing is that we don't want to buy materials and just sit on the shelf. So they need to be done and this is you know K through K5 it has to be implemented teachers science. So isn't there money that's already earmarked for like textbooks and all that? Yes. Yes. So is this taking up all that? So right now we have what did you say
08593 93,400 or something like that? Yeah it's not if we went with both kits. Yeah. We probably have to, you know, Aon, I don't know what they base that. So, so what I So, what I figured is we You said 93,000. Yes. So, right now, that would be no kits and uh just the third uh through fifth grade curriculum that we could give. I I have that at 84. I don't know what shipping and handling would be like and I don't know what it'd look like uh going through I can't remember what I whatever Miss Ray says. I can't remember the archway that I want to call Applegate. I don't know why, but our current textbook from our last adoption was from 2007 for the elementary. Yes, 2007 is the last time we purchased a
086curriculum for science for elementary that has textbooks and all the materials. And so our science is pretty outdated as well. Um because when we did adoption, we skipped a cycle because we had Summit and we thought that was going to be enough and then um we got rid of summit and we we missed our science adoption the last cycle. So uh so our science curriculum is out of date right now and potentially if we did do this one we'd have to wait another seven years I think. Correct. So if we say no now it's seven more years before without science. So what we do is we can look at this and then see where we can do some cutting. I don't think we're going to bring it down to, you know, the 93,000 that we
087have a loted. So we might even have to use some operational money for this. But I think, you know, if we don't have the materials, then nothing will be tough. If if we had material or the kits for the younger kids, would that be better than the high school kids? If I would say I would honestly say yes. Um that that that would make it easier for those elementary teachers to get the materials that they need. Like I said, it's it's just a easy thing for the secondary level, you know. Um if if I can make it work, I know they can make it work. Um but just trying to look out for the young teachers and and help them the best way that I can. And that's to have those materials, those kits ready
088to go. I think when you're prepping for five subjects, it's tough when you get when you're having to really plan in detail when you don't have all the materials. So, I think that I think the elementary for sure needs to have the kids if we're going to get it because that's the hard part. Does that change the pricing though if the elementary had the kids? And the kids we have to order every year, right, to replenish them? Yeah. might just be certain things like yeah, you'd have to go in and and just kind of take stock on what you used and what you didn't use and and and kind of evaluate it based off of a you know if we had like a science pull out teacher for the elementary that'd be the best. Aon
089right the the K through five doesn't come with the kits. Um, I'm not exactly sure on this quote. I don't know if that's under the optional products because they have they don't really have a description. And then it does have additional materials, but it says, yeah, experience size experience classroom materials kit grade one. Um, and then maybe that's something that we we change cuz it has, you know, it has two. maybe we just get one and and we make them partner up. Maybe we could cut um some costs there. So, if you look at the the K through five quote on the back of the on page 204, um you know, uh where is it at? About six, seventh item down. Materials kit grade one. Materials kit grade five. And there's two of them. Maybe
090we do one and and the the teachers really focus on collaboration and you do partners or you do groups. Um I think to amplify the kids were geared for like 40 kids. So I don't think we need two. No. I think it was like 40. It was it would be enough for 40 kids. And so, and so if you uh if we, you know, just start nickel and diamond and find pieces that work um for us and pieces that don't, there's different definitely ways that you can like refer to you can nickel and dime and trim it, you know, depending on because they're going to have a lot of different parts. But like Mr. Rodriguez said if their kids are for 40 kids, well, we don't need more than one per grade. You know, outside
091of fourth grade, everybody else is less than 40. So, yeah. And really, that's the only grade and trim it to where it it can fit within the budget that we need. And and another thing that we could probably do is is maybe even drop the amount to to 30 and Miss Reyes might be able to to jump in. Maybe not 30, but maybe 35. and then as needed start to to buy books um as that fourth grade class starts to progress through um middle school and into high school because that that's that's really our outlier. 35 seats would more than cover every other class with the exception of that fourth grade class. So, you know, once they got to sixth grade in a couple years, then maybe, okay, we got to go order maybe four
092more books and then the next year just keep ordering, ordering, ordering or or even maybe just seats at uh on the online platform. I don't know what that looks like, but you know, to cover everybody uh until the next adoption, 40 is the way to go. Um, but maybe we can just And I don't know, Miss Rice, if if that would cost too much to do it a year at a time or or what? You're looking at a $42,000 difference from the 93 if you got everything, right? Where would that those funds come from? Our operational stuff, the a difference of the the 93 from the 93. So, we have 93 from the instructional materials. the rest of it would have to come from the operational but there I you know there's a lot that
093we can actually cut did you look into the the digital format you know the platform just going and now I don't I don't know if it has purely digital um I don't know that's one thing that we've we've discussed um the the science teachers and myself A lot of things are digital and that's a good thing to have. But at the same time, you know, we we don't want to just have that available. You know, if we're doing something in the lab, we don't want labs in there. Maybe maybe you take the book in there. You know, it it's I I don't know. I know I'm kind of traditional and and I'd like to get these kids off the screen um at times and then at the other time, that's that's the way it's going.
094That's the way the world's going. That's the way education is going is everything's um going digital. So So I don't know if if that's an option that we look at or not. When do we have to have a does this have to be made and approved by tonight or So actually my recommendation is no, it does not have to be approved by tonight. So my recommendation is that we table this and then A-Rod will contact Archway and that way we could see the difference. the you know the difference in in price and then we can have it uh approved by the May meeting. I think it's best to have the K through 12 if we can make that happen. I I agree with you. So so so try to work on a a price that
095fits that K through 12 across the board and it works for us and works price-wise too. Yes, I think I mean the difference right now is 40 something,000. So if we can narrow that down, I would be way shy. And I think we can because if you if you do 35, maybe we can go that way because most of our classes are really not big. Will those companies work with you? They will. Can you say we got 93, you can give us it all? We'll buy from you. If not, we're going with H. No, not going to do that. Now we're doing separate by side by side. You know, I've got that 166,000 increase in the SCG I could put like in general supplies for some of those workbooks and extra things. I wouldn't mind
096instruction. I still think we need to see what our best options though. I I totally agree. So So maybe if we can take good until May, are you okay with that? Yeah, I I think as long as we get this in before the fiscal year ends and and we get a little bit more information. I know it's I know it's a lot of money. Um when's the fiscal end? July. The July the Well, actually June 30th, but it starts July 1st. So, we can't use this uh materials, can we? Until June 1st. The 93,000. I mean, until July. until July or we need to we need to use it. This this is the year for science adoption. So decide May. So it really needs to be probably approved next month so that the order can
097be put in money can be spent out and they can start delivering it and they'll have it by August. Yeah, they should they should have it in by then. Um I know the middle school curriculum is brand new. Um, this edition that they have is I think they said copyright the copyright's actually gonna be 2025. So, middle school's brand spanking new um and fully updated. And then um high schools, I think the copyright is 20 23 maybe 2024, something like that. So, it's up to date. Cool. Yeah, they're telling like 60 days to ship on some of this stuff. They want you to get it in person. Get it in for school. $12,000. We should get like overnight. Should be like should be like pick it up, right? They they should be packaged individually. [Music]
098Travel for 40 quantities are about 150 average. So drop that. There's seven of them. Seven line items in here. Nothing. That's just if we need it earlier, we can do that whenever we come. Yeah. Whenever you'll get it next Monday cuz that's a terrible idea, Chris. Didn't say it was a good idea. I move to uh table this item until the next meeting. All those in favor say I. All right. Table. Okay. All right. Uh, track and field. A-Rod. All right, guys. So, um, I don't know what you guys are looking at first, if you got the quote or the or the schematic or the the email that I got from um, Helis, but you know, we we wanted to go out C for capital outlay on this. Um, Helis said that, you know, it's
099going to cost a whole lot and so we asked for a whole lot. Um, when the BSN rep came and talked to me again, we'll go back in basketball season. I'm not sure when, but sometime in basketball season, he's like, "What what what else do you need?" And he's like, "We can do it all." And he always he always pitches me that we can do picnic tables, whatever. I was like, "Well, can you guys resurface tracks?" And he's like, "Oh, yeah, we could do that." I was like, "Yeah, for how much?" She's like, "I don't know, but I'll I'll get you a quote." And so he got me a quote, and um Miss Reyes had said that there was some money available that we could possibly use to um resurface the track and and get
100it done. Well, one of his quotes was close to that dollar amount that Reyes had told me and um it included all the work that Helis was going to do in uh adding the D-rings, moving the moving the pits um from basically the bleachers to on the field and um expanding the high jump area and and redoing the pole pit. So, if you look at that that rendering, uh that's what it's going to look like on the west end. There's going to be three pits uh for long jump and triple jump. And then on the east end, you can see the outline for pole vault. And um we'll we'll put a high jump mat there somewhere as well. So the pricey quote today with with all that stuff, the first part is is the resurfacing
101of the current track. Um, the striping, the painting, uh, is I don't know if you guys got color copies or black and white, but the exchange zones are are going to be colored so you know exactly where the exchange zones are. And then um, add the D-rings in there with three pits and um, the PVT uh, box in there as well. And, you know, significantly less than what Ellis quoted us at. So, doable. Can you color the whole thing green? Hey, I would love that. I bet it's going to cost a whole lot more. Um, I was not in favor of a green track and then Coach Alex sent me a picture of one and and you I I think it'd be pretty cool. I I think me and you talked uh football season, but
102y'all have to move the gop post and everything with this rendering, right? Yeah. So, what what's going to happen is is we're going to have to shift uh basically the football field uh to the east a little bit. Um our press box isn't centered anyways, but it's going to be way off center right now. Uh so that might be something that has to be addressed in the future. Um, and actually like kind of where what we have going right now isn't too bad. It's just going to be at a weird funky angle. Um, and and all the angles at that at that field are are just crazy. So, it's nothing that we're not used to. Um, but I think it would work. The bleachers on the north end look more centered now if you moved
103it than than they did before. And maybe that's what we do. Maybe just flip. That's the home side now. And and we get the good look and then we make the the visitors have to camp out on our concrete. We do the old Fort Southern trick. I like Yeah. Yeah. Except not with the players but just with the Yeah, the fans. Yeah. Yeah. So if you approve this, we will be using some bond money and I think we still have you have the amount that we have from the first bond that we haven't used. I don't I don't know. I didn't I think it was the first time I'm hearing this. It was the 300 and something I believe that we still have bond. And then we also have some operational funds. our operational funds
104right now we stand about 2.6 six, I believe. And if we don't use them, then we also have the risk of giving giving it back. Well, probably not everything because we still have to have some uh carry over carryover. But at least, you know, these projects that we need definitely because the track it's needed. It's really needed. It is. Does he did he say how long it would take him? Um, it just depends on when we got this approved. I told him if if this was approved, I'd work on a requisition uh first thing in the morning and then hopefully it got I don't know how long it'd take to get pushed through, but once it got pushed through, we'd contact them and I said that we could uh we'd be ready to to get
105started on May 19th if they were willing to. Um he said the longer we wait, the more jobs they get that pile up and then that just puts us lower and lower down. So, if we can get this done quick, he said they can probably get it done quicker. Um the later we push it, the later uh they get it done and then it cuts into football season. But did they have a general time frame of how long it would take him to actually do the work? The the guy I was talking with couldn't couldn't tell me exactly what was going on. He he didn't know. He's like maybe anywhere from four to eight weeks, I think, is what he said. So uh he he broke it down. He said, you know, it was about
106two weeks for all the supplies, materials to get here and then um another two weeks for something and then they start working on it and painting it and stuff like that. Anywhere from four to eight. What do you think, Mr. Lind? We might have to get permission. You know, when we went before the voters and we went out for that bond, I'm pretty sure football field wasn't on there. I think club the last bond it was architecture fees and that sort of thing which we've been doing out of that. So, I don't know if they would consider. So it was just concession stand and not just concession specific though. Yeah. Anything specific? I think construction at the football field, right? Something to look at to see for sure. And you said we already have 400
107available. I think it's somewhere around there. So and well then and the other bonds we going to drop too in May 9th. I mean, if it's not specific to what you use it for. Well, I think the problem is it's what we've told is what Chinese Yeah. If we were if we were real specific because there was a time when we said we were going to do the carport over here with Mr. Williams and we did a lot later because a previous superintendent promised that one. But there are things like that. Yeah. But I I know we put a lot of improvements into the football field on those. Correct. Bonds, which we've done the press box and the concessions. And the concession and the roof. I'd like to ask them first before we commit to
108something like that. And then Yeah. Well, I agree. Because it's not just one guy that we have to answer to. It's it's whole more all of it. I mean, I don't want to get messed up when we're fixing to build that building. Yeah. Let's keep Yeah, that's true. So, we if if we if we do this and we resurface this, I know a lot of the the people out there will definitely approve of this just because they use it too. You know, you have people in the community going at the track in the morning and the evening using this and there there there are significant issues. You know, if if it's not track season, it's not football season and we have kids going out there and messing stuff up or the weather tearing divots in
109the track. It just stays like that until, you know, we need to fix it to prep for football. We need to fix it to prep for track. So, it it becomes a hazard. And if we get this done right, you know, not only is it going to look nice, but it's going to be smooth. It's going to be flat. There's not going to be holes. There's not going to be cracks. Um, it's it's going to be softer. It's going to be easier on your feet. So, we definitely need to take care of it, right? Yeah. No, I I think we find out if if we can use her for that. if we can do it. Um, so could we do we need to table this though? Pending approval from see what the one or we
110need to make a motion to approve this pending pending approval because it needs to be done. I just I don't want to get us in a bind either. Yeah. But I have no problem with this at all, but I just want to make sure that the funding is okay. And I don't think that would take very long to find out. No, I don't think so. So, I'll make a motion to approve pending bond by Dusty. Approve pending bond approval. Bond use approval. Bond use. Yeah. Second it. Second by Trevor. Yes. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Okay. Motion carries. Thank you guys. Yes, sir. Uh, next item Jay is sidewalk construction, light rock construction. Okay. And on this one, you know, there's a possibility that you might not want
111to go for this, you know. So, we do have a pre preventative maintenance uh plan that we need to make sure that we comply. And um I just want to address that. And I'm sure you have seen how you know the conditions of the sidewalks between the elementary and the high school. So they're badly cracked. I mean they're just creating significant hazard um you know safety hazards and it's just a matter of time before an accident occurs. So I mean I know and I recognize that the issue should have been addressed you know at least a decade ago. I don't understand why it hasn't been um maybe there was just no funds but it hasn't been done and but it is critical that something you know uh gets done. Now the question here is we
112are in the process of getting a new school. So I contacted uh Decker the um and actually they were here last week um you know the uh architects and I asked them if it was something that I should even pursue doing. I mean uh again because of our pre that's on our preventative maintenance plan that they need to be done. The construction will not happen you know probably another three years for the new school. So we still have I mean it's something that it really needs to be done because again like I say it's an accident bound to to happen. So I have three bids actually a couple of bids there. One of them is so I asked them to to be able to do the the concrete, you know, from the high school all
113the way to by the marquee sign. And then, you know, he gave me a quote and this is the white rock construction. And the quote was for 50 and you'll see like it's the third one like for 50 $53,000. But that was just the sidewalk. And then uh I did a walkthrough with with the uh constructor and then he I showed him I said well this needs to be done. I mean there's a lot of concrete that it's already kind of you know lifted. And he gave me another quote for $93,000 696. If you look at the the one in the middle there's one for $214,355. That was from another company, Robert um Cohen company. This one is just extremely extremely high. I think for and I did talk to Decker and for what we
114need right now, the 53,000 should be more than sufficient. And that is just the uh the sidewalk. I mean, especially going down to towards the, you know, the elementary on that side by the marquee sign, they're they're pretty bad. They are pretty bad. So now the question is we've dealt with this for 10 or plus years. We can leave it another three and let's just hope that no accidents happen. Or if you like, you know, we can try to to get that fixed. There's still a lot of design work, right, with our school drop off and all that stuff. There's going to be some. Now I did talk to to uh the guy from Decker and he said that it should not affect you know much there might be part of it. So I mean
115we can we talked we talked about annexing this road in and having a different entrance stuff. I mean is that still on the table? It's still it's still that affect all that concrete. Correct. So again you know we can we can just I mean we've had it like that for a long time. We can just leave it. Is there a way for them to come out and patch or repair it without ripping it all out? It's pretty bad. It's Yeah. No, I think instead of just ripping it out, replacing it, is there any way to we grind off the high spots? Can we tear out those small parts and reconrete them? we I can talk to the uh constructor and see if there's something else that he can do, you know, being that we are
116getting the new school and no hurry with this, you know, I just uh wanted to bring it up to your attention. I mean, it's something that the problem is is that those tree roots are uplifted and until those trees are gone, that's just going to happen again. So that was another question that you know another discussion that I had with Juan Dorado from Decker and he said he asked me if we were keeping those trees and I don't think we need to do you know I don't think we need to keep them because I mean it's a burden for the custodians and they're just a mess and they're pretty old but I don't know I mean I don't know what you guys think you know if we want to keep them if we keep them
117it's just going to continue you know with because it's the roots that are affecting the sidewalk. Yeah, I don't know about taking them out till they get the new school built cuz some of those roots might go into the building. So, if we go to take them out now, it might might be part take some of the foundation with it. It'll be part of the demolish I'm not partial to them vehicles. And and I totally understand that this is a lot of money and you know it might be money that we probably will not get back. Yeah, that's my only problem with it. Maybe maybe there's just some things we can do to kind of fix some of that stuff. Just kind of patch a little bendy. Yeah. grinding some of that down or jackhammering
118out some and just making it flow instead of trip hazards. I will talk to him and see what you know if there's anything that they can do and bring the cost down. This is an action item. Well, I had it yes, you know, to to approve that. But it does not you can just uh table it until we we get a different quote and you know, just for the u patching and see what we could do. Okay, I will make that motion to table this item. Second to table till later date. Yes, just later date. We'll have to do it. Thanks. Second by. All those in favor say I. Table. U. Next item is discussion around contracting quality janitorial. On this one here, I would prefer to have this discussion because it it involves personnel
119and I would prefer to have the discussion during the executive session. Do you have any documentation? There's no documentation. I have a um Have you gotten a quote? Yes, I have the quote. Uhhuh. What's the cost of that? So the cost it will be I guess what's the specifics? How many days a week do they plan to do it? So so yes. So the plan is to have a quality janitorial come in and um it they gave me a quote. It's $579 per visit and that would be a total of $180 days per year. So that gives us a total of 104 104 220. Am I going to be staffed here all the time or just We will have uh Yes, we will have um one in each building and that they don't like come
120in full force after hours clean. So, so the plan is uh what they do is they come in from 4 to 8 and then uh then they they tackle the entire building. Any other discussion? calculator. And you don't have to approve anything on this one. I'll put it on, you know, it's 104 228 for the year. 10 104 220. Well, I have Yeah, for the 180 days. But you'll need some for the summer, too, won't it? Actually, we might not because if we keep the three custodians, one in each building, then you know they can tackle the summer summer summer work. So, you'd have a custodian, our own custodian in every building plus like these guys. Correct. Okay. So, um, currently we have, if we go this round, three custodians, that would give us a
121total of 115,51.15 plus the 104,220 for uh, quality janitorial. That gives us a total of 219,720 currently. Currently the that uh the custodial salary and benefits equals to 298 586.62 62. 298 562 586.62 plus a 4%. Is that correct? We keep 4%. Oh. Oh, that's right. Plus the 4% raise in addition to that. Or we're going to add 4%. Will they do the the stadium? Yes. So because they don't have to clean the classrooms, you know, the three that that we will have, one in each building. So they have to get together and they they will have to go like right after breakfast, they will have to go clean all three of them will go clean the cafeteria. All three will clean the cafeteria again, you know, after lunch and then they will all three
122of them will go do the the stadium and the gyms and the Well, no, the gyms will be done by quality quality even after games and stuff. Um, we might have to have one of these ladies or whoever, you know, stay and be able to help out. Again, it's not an action item right now. I just wanted to have some discussion on that. And then what are the supply car actually besides borrow? Yes. So there's [Music] um you know what I will have Mr. Parker go get a cop. Can you make copies of these Allen so that they can have it and then they can read it. But I know that of course we probably have to pay our supplies because I don't think that they'll be making you know much money but they do
123bring their own equipment. Okay. So, so that's [Music] she likes that move on. But he was Oh, okay. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. He can work on that. So, um, basically what I wanted to to it's just a discussion and, uh, just give you the good news. So, Capital Outlay, they appropriated 576,000. And you do have the list. This list right here has um all of the projects that uh capital out outlay, you know, they are funding the some of the projects were actually vetoed by the governor and ours is still there. So, we are very grateful that we got this money, $576,000. We will probably see it sometime in maybe July, August and then um but Parker is already looking for some uh bids, you know, so that we can build the the
124construction of the egg farm. So that basically this one is just for you to um to see what I mean it's a significant amount of money. This should be pretty nice. My question would be could we utilize it to be closer to our new build our new building? We could acquire some land. You know what? Maybe we're here on this side. That's what I was That's what I was going to ask. Okay. So, since you're here now the only thing is that this side. Okay. So just uh and I was going to talk about it in a little bit, but this side, you know, we had discussion about building we qualified to get like a a track, right? Not a full one, but like a four lane, like a PE track, like a PE track
125and some fields, like some practice fields within that. So there'll be like areas for the kids to play kickball and then like a walking, you know, how the kids they they have walking uh like a walking path. Where is this on relative where we are? Right here where we're sitting. Right here. Correct. I thought they couldn't do anything. We can't build construction there, but we can we can use it as like a a few like a recreation. They don't recommend building anything within 150 ft of the rover track, right? Is what they So, they're asking if if the egg farm could be built since it would it would be nice. Yeah. Um, I don't know what the requirements are because we were given that property and so I don't know what the rules are like.
126Yeah. I mean, we got the $574,000 for a 76 76 for a barn. Um, this was kind of a project Miss Rice and I talked about. I've been struggling trying to get the other side of the property. We do have some younger kids coming up that are wanting to show that aren't capable. Um, two of you on the board, you guys are raising show animals. You kind of know. What about the smell? [Music] between them and the gamers, we're gonna have a problem. Um, you guys know to raise quality show animals for the most part other than goats and sheep, they're raised inside these days. Um, there's ever since that property, I guess, before my time here, they've been always talking about building a barn out there. Um, Miss Ray had approached me about applying
127for Capital Outlet for this, creating a project. I was not expecting us to get it. I was actually expecting all of our other projects to get it or get it selected over this one. Um Andy Spence had approached me at Eastern Fair and talked a little bit about it and throughout the year she's kind of talked to me about it and so they approved this um capital funding. Um really what they're want they're looking for is creating an environment where we can grow our SAPE projects. Um heck if if it was right here that'd be way much nicer instead of driving three miles down the road to check animals. Um, I can do it right after school or work with kids and actually take kids over there. Um, my ultimate vision of an egg farm
128is being able to raise animals for animal science and teach kids that whole side of things. Um, that's a little impossible going three miles down the road, but I'm open to it. I mean, we have that 20 acres over there. I don't know what the stipulations of that use of that farm property is, how it was given to us, donated to us. Like, I don't know if we could sell it. Like, I don't know. You have water rights there? Like, do you have water? At one point I was thought we did. There is a well there. I don't think there is water. Trevor's shaking his head. So I had asked and electricity. There is electricity out there. Um you probably got city water right there. There's city water current. I know there's a line right
129there, but you'd have to tap in. Like that part of it is going to be expensive. Um it's already tapped in. Like there's already a water meter there. Yeah. Yeah. I already have water out there. Um gas will probably have, you know, pro if we were to do any type of gas out there, we'd have to go with propane. Um, same with the sewer system. We'd have to have septic things like that. Um, I did the White Rock construction that has reached out to Miss Reyes. They were kind of looking for projects. Um, and so I've been waiting on kind of a quote from them, kind of see what their gauge is. I kind of took them out there and said, "This is my envision. This is what I would love to see of a
130dream facility." Um, and so kind of laid it out of a show barn with an opportunity for kids to raise projects. um cattle scales, small animal scales, things like that to incorporate that way some of our families that aren't able to um purchase these items or things like that that are showing in our community can show and raise animals um and be more inclusive with the county fair, eastern fair, state fair, things like that. Um right now kind of the envision I told them was a 40x60 barn. Um that's what before my time Jesus Trillo had started. um with the plan and then Cody tried with that and then at one years told no build a Mueller building things like that and it's kind of fallen and sat there. Um I worked on it quite
131a bit last summer. I got a lot of the poles in the ground for an out pin type system. Um never got to welding it. It's tough for me to go out there and spend my day and can't take 15 20 kids out there to supervise them with one gas welder that's my personal welder. Um, so I think this is a great opportunity. I'm looking forward to it. But no, I'm open to all ideas of this. Like we're just in the planning phase of it. So I think another thing we'd have to look into though is if we had a show mark here, would the city or I mean would they have any kind of ordinance? Yeah. Because I know right now there's roosters in my neighbor's house. There was a goat at school. Yeah,
132there was a go at line. No, those are and I'm not taking credit for the first three pages. Sorry, dude. Although they're all directed, but I think they're still readable. I would like to know what our limits are out there on that for sure. I tried calling the animals to kind of give some more gauge of it and I got no answer last week. Um, what's so I I don't know a lot about that. I was kind of came I was just barely here when that started becoming a project with Mr. But I can try to answer a question or two. I don't know. I think the problem if you do it here is you're going to have to wait for approval. [Music] Well, yeah. Do it over there. You can do it immediately. Yeah.
133Well, how long they let us wait on that money? Well, actually, I think we have like a couple of years and then um it has to be we have to use it. There's a reauthorization every year you have to do on it when you don't use it all depending what you do and then that goes into a bill action with the governor so she can either sign it or say so you don't use because she did I kind of was really weird reading these bills this year and she like not signed multiple capital outlay projects which is unheard of um she was like nope veto veto so um especially some reauthorization stuff and we got ours like I said I was very shocked. Like I had put this together like no true bids, nothing and
134we got it and I was like whoa. So I like I said I don't know the stipulations of um that property. Those are things I started working on last week. We kind of were waiting for the true authorization before we brought this up and started working on this before we wasted our time in case the governor did veto it or something happened. So So this will cover like our barn, our pens, everything. this would cover everything. Um, in that initial look, I had talked to them about incorporating the outpin system we already kind of had started developing out there and turning that as okay, we have an outdoor show arena, we have stuff like that, some out pins that maybe kids can feed the cattle out there, do different things, we could do some more
135projects out there and then it would have the indoor pins as well set up for small animals and large animals. Have to go back any kind of um reapproval for any changes or anything. It was just this is kind of the way it's written in the state law for the capital outlay bill for us is we have whole design authority. So groundwork whatever we need as long as it meets the the amount the quote. Yeah. As long as it meets that price. Um and so we kind of this is kind of just getting you guys informed about it and starting that process of where we're at. Um I'm excited to see us grow this program. I have a bunch of young kids that have showed interest of, well, I want to show goats, I want
136to show sheep, I want to do this, but they don't have anywhere to raise them. And so, um, we would be the first of the kind truly in this area. We've always had some type of a farm where kids can raise their animals. Um, to my best of my knowledge, um, it will be the true of the kind outside of like Texico and some of those schools. Texico has a beautiful property. Um, nobody else in Champas County has one. Any county doesn't have one. Carl'sb has one, I guess, but like Artisia doesn't have one, but many other schools in our state don't have one. Um, when Candy approached me about this idea, she was like, "This is amazing. This is going to You guys know Candy Spence. She loves supporting the kids, especially the show
137kids." And so, well, my thought process on it, too, is I would like to put permanent scales. Like, I know Mosses, you guys go away in Roswell, but something happens, you'd be able to have a chance to weigh there. The grays, you guys are getting more show business with the pigs. Um, things like that. Whatever you guys need having that opportunity. Um, big last week. I'm a big component, even though our 4 kids that are younger that aren't at yet, I'm going to support them if they're at our school. Um, Colt Cutler, I supported Colton. I went with his sheep and goats the other day for him. Um, so this is not just gonna be an FFA thing. It's going to be kids in our school. Like they will be able to use this facility.
138Um, it's the best recruitment tool I have. If they're in 4, might as well keep them started young and keep them going. So, and Chris, you probably know this. I mean, do you recall that who owns the property next? It's Isn't it clear? Okay. Didn't he want to trade at one point he wanted to trade 10 acres for three? Something like that. No, 40 for two. It is I do know I can tell you it is 20 acres out there. It is a 20 acre plot. It's 20 20 out there. I do know that. So there's also put a house for their egg teacher on there. I mean doesn't need a house but one day that could be a valuable recruiting tool in the future. Just No, but I mean closer trailer out there either,
139but yeah. No, I'm I mean I don't know how the Hamilton feel that's that's where I'm at. I I don't know what the restrictions or what their thoughts on it. Um I wasn't around. I probably wasn't even You're probably a wee child. Yeah, I was a wee child probably when this deal brokered and happened. probably nine. I'm thinking it was like seven eight somewhere in there. I don't remember. When that happened. I had I started working here in 89. So it was about that time 2008 2010 somewhere in there is when we started because I think at one time there was a donated building that was supposed to be put on there and then we couldn't have that building because it wasn't going to be meet the codes for educational buildings. I it was a
140big a big thing and that's kind of how it got laid by the wayside and then all the other things plus COVID plus some other stuff has kind of led us to be where we're at today without an ad farm once that property over here sold. You got evicted. Yeah. Well, I mean since we're getting the new building, maybe they'll understand like this is closer, but I don't think they'll let us wait on the money. They're going to take their $500,000 back. Yeah. I don't think we I don't think I mean it would be nice if it was close but it really is not I mean I I I took kids walking from here to the one that was over here before to across the road that land now there's no waiting right true we're
141got to wait if we build it on this facility but not next door so we just need to find out the specifics of that I don't trade or swap or it was quick claim is what Cliff had approached me about quickly, but I like it to be a little more to our advantage than that. Yeah. And I mean to help with that and have some type of water or anything like that where we can actually do stuff. I can't have to city water. Just city water. Yeah. a meter because because there for a while I think we were pay at one point we were paying a water bill there and a water bill here and it was kind of a mess and there might have been a leak or something. I don't remember all the
142details but it wasn't good for us. There's just tons of opportunity to build it real close to the school and add on and do things. We can definitely look into it discussion. It will take a while before we even get the funds. This is just the starting process of hey guys the government governor signed our bill saying we have this money. So any other discussion? We have a racetrack for horses. Okay. All right. Uh, next item is the 4 day week. Okay. So, we'll try to be brief. I know everybody's getting tired. It's already past Gary's bedtime regular. So yeah, definitely I I want to bring to your you know um discussion with the possibility of moving to a 4-day uh school week. So you know some of you already know that PED actually what
143they've done is they they updated the requirements for the school year. So some of the schools are no longer strictly required to meet the 180 days and uh instead all we have to do is meet the minimum of 1,140 instructional hours. So with this change it now makes it possible for uh schools to explore the um the 4 day week option. I mean including you know for our district. So they are allowing it this this year. In the past it was like nope but you know you cannot do it and and now as long as we meet the 1140 hours we should be okay. Um you know I totally understand that this is a decision that requires a lot of careful thought and we are at the point where time I'm limited with time. I
144mean we just barely got the information about a week ago maybe a week and a half but we are very limited with time because we have to involve all the stakeholders you know it's not just us making the decision and saying yes let's go for it I know that I've been giving the directive in the past to be able to look into it do I like the idea absolutely but again it will impact so we als you know we also need to know how it's going to impact all the stakeholders, parents, um you know, the teachers, the community, the the bus company, I mean, just everybody involved. Now, what um Cody, you know, she's going to be providing you a list of the pros and the cons. So, for the, you know, the four day
145week, I had the admin team meet with their staff only. We haven't gone anywhere with this. Parents haven't been informed. We want to wait and see if you want me to pursue this or just leave it alone for now. We don't know what's going to happen next year. Next year it will be a different governor. We don't know what's going to happen. They might say, "Nope, you need to go back to 180 days." Um, so you have with you and I want Cody to be able to provide with you some of the uh pros and the cons. Cody, if you have I don't have I mean I just prepared the document here or or yours I didn't I'll just I'll stand by you miss yours. Okay. So we put what had happened and I'm going
146to give Tori the credit because she did all the leg work in the elementary school. I worked on the stuff with the secondary, middle school and high school teachers and we talked to all the teachers um and gave them an opportunity. We met with them face to face. We didn't try to have the conversation through email. We met with the teachers face to face. after that the topic of a 4-day school week came up in our calendar committee meeting. Um and we wanted I mean everybody has to be all in on this. We have to be together. Um the um the consent the general consensus I know and I'll let Tori answer questions about elementary. Um thank you. The um but I can speak to the secondary the secondary um staff. We pulled everybody and
147we gave them a poll and asked, you know, kind of what they think, what their feedback was. Um, 20 out of the 29 people pled, 24 of them prefer a 4-day school week option or would like to see us consider a 4-day school week option. Only three people want to stay with five. There was a couple for four and a half, but after listening to the conversation that Miss Reyes had and the the information that was coming from PED, I don't think four and a half would be a viable option for us. Um, some common themes that were that come out in the conversations of the uh positives or the the those that were in favor of the 4 day week are better work life balance for our teachers have opportunity to rest and recharge,
148time for personal appointments, errands, and family responsibilities, and maybe a reduced need for them to use personal leave days. Um, we feel like it would help with teacher morale. U, one of the biggest questions we get asked when we're interviewing people is, "Are you a 4 day school week?" That comes up almost every time we interview somebody. And I know that more often than not, if you have a choice between a four-day school week and a fiveday school week, you're probably going to pick the four because we all pay about the same for the most part. Um, and we hope that it would be, you know, less burnout for teachers and students. Uh, more in opportunities for people to use their Friday maybe for planning, preparation, getting reset for their next week. Um, intervention possibly.
149Um, an opportunity for more focused one-on-one support. um our periods would become a little bit longer just to accommodate the hour um requirement. Uh we would hope that maybe we would continue to see our positive trends for student absence um for and the better attendance. There's a couple of concerns that came out from the uh secondary staff. They do feel like, you know, the days are going to be longer. We're looking at probably 4:15 4:30 in times. Um, right now at the high school that wouldn't be as huge of a deal because they are they they would start athletics during that time and there's a very small number of our students who are not engaged in athletics. I would say maybe 25 or less of our high school students are not involved in athletics seventh
150period. I think Parker 7th period is only six kids. Five kids. Five. Five. Art has about 12 kids, I think. And there may be a couple more kids in other places that aren't accounted for, but almost everyone else is in athletics seventh period. Um, and then we would have to really work and do it be concentrate on the amount of effort we put into having um our students engaged um through the class period because they would be a little bit longer, but it wouldn't be we wouldn't go to like hour and a half classes. They would we would still be and I think the conversation that they had on Friday was that it's still a 7 and 1 half hour day for students for students. So it wouldn't be we we see a little bit
151maybe from a 55 minute period to like a 70 minute or something but it wouldn't be considerably longer for staff. It would be like maybe 4:45 5:15 depending on our what our start and end times were. But we did get some other positive information out of that meeting. the um concern for child care is not as great at the secondary level. Um a lot of our kids are able to care for themselves after school. Some of them ride the bus home and let themselves in and we have kids that stay for practice. A lot of them drive. I think that is something that would be a consideration maybe for some of our younger parents, but based on the numbers of cars I see out here at 1:30 in the afternoon for pickup time, I'm not
152sure that that's for the pickup drive line race. I don't know that that's a real a real concern anymore for our community. At one time it probably was much greater. Um there was some question about how it would affect pay especially for our hourly employees. Um if that would be and there was some research and and some different ways that we would have an opportunity to address that. So we would not hurt those employees but considering some of the other things that were mentioned tonight that would maybe be even a smaller impact than what we would what we would think. Um and and staff did request some clarifications on, you know, how would it work with we have fewer numbers of days on campus? Are fewer people going to have to be on duty? Are
153we going to see some people have, you know, not have to do morning or not have to do bus duty in the afternoon? I don't I can't answer that question. I think it would really just depend on where we were at at the time. Um the other thing that comes up, what about our kids are that are worried about meals? Would they count on us for that Friday meal? I think we would have some opportunities to address that with some of our social programs that we have in place with like community home schools and that kind of stuff because it that is a real thing. A lot of our kids do come to eat lunch and to eat breakfast here at school. Um but other school districts have mitigated that by providing maybe take-home meals
154and some things to alleviate some of those concerns. Um but that that was kind of the high school stuff. Tory, anything major for the elementary that was much different than that or Yeah, it's right here. I I've got it if you want to look. I think it was pretty much the same. And that was pretty much the I think the the younger kids are worried about the longer days. The prek is a really fun year. That's a long day for those little guys. That was another thing we talked about. Um just a longer nap. A longer nap. We get to nap. Could we put nap back in for those little They have nap in prek. We don't have it in kinder. Have a bath. I could have it back. Recess time was another thing. And
155then another thing with an extended school day, you don't feel like you feel like you can add those things in like science that are not getting taught right now because with you have a little bit of extra time to add in those things. So probably more positives like in LSS, you can have more times for interview interventions and things like that to uh take the hit. At the end of the day, especially for the elementary and even the secondary, be more creative. do more STEM activities where the kids are, you know, being energized and um and I think those are the the bigger things. Um I the but the pretty much similar between the two buildings, the concerns that came out of out of those um we had a 100% say yes in to a
1564 day week knowing that and and they're saying yes knowing two things. one that it was going to extend their workday and two that it would potentially kind of alter our calendar the way we have it because based on the information that we got the other day, we can't have any we we'd have to have four true four day weeks for the school for the school calendar to work. We can't have some weeks that are four day weeks and some weeks that are five day weeks. We would have to be purely four, which would probably bump our start date potentially three to five days to like the end of July, like July 31st. Something that I heard in that conversation was that Loving has a really kind of the model calendar for this and they
157kind of and they shared that with us. We looked at that um and it doesn't look like it would be unmanageable for us to take that on. Those of us who show animals at County Fairy might be a little more tired that first week of school, but So why is it that you have to start earlier? So because we're losing it we're losing the instructional day of Friday every week. So they say that you can you can only go to a tough hours. If you're going to go to a 4 day school week, it has to be How many hours are in a 4 day? How many hours? Be seven and a half times four. So, it was actually the hours. It has to be the same. Yeah. It's supposed to be 114. 11:40. And
158then according to this schedule right here, we have 11:48. Yeah. And there was like I mean we would have a little bit of and we probably have to cut a little bit because notice that I mean the second uh page for the 4day it has 7.46 academic numbers. We have to cut a little bit there because we need to make sure that it is 7 um or maybe add a little bit more 7.5. We cannot go. So maybe it's okay. 7 7.46 is okay. And it doesn't count like we did find out that it doesn't count our passing periods against us. Only our middle of the day lunch period counts for us. So like everybody else out. Did we rat everybody else out? No, we didn't rat anybody else out. They were just talking. They
159were just I mean sharing all these ideas of how how it works. Um so you still have to get 1140. Yes. But there's a number you can't go over of instructional hours each day that you have to stay within. And for us to be able to go four days and meet those requirements, that means we would have to add more days um at the beginning or the end of the year. And at one time we had talked about, well, what if we use the Fridays in August? Unfortunately, that wouldn't let us they will not that won't fly. It won't meet their test, I guess, because once you add a Friday, I mean, you can add a Friday, for example, if you don't have school like on a Monday, then then you would have to come
160to school Tuesday through Friday. But let's say you know they because at first when when this schedule was created we had some Fridays there but then once you add a Friday like a then you're considered a fiveday and they they won't do it. Now the only thing is that again you know we're crunched with with time because this should have already been done. I was hoping to get it approved you know by today. We have we have to submit everything the calendar everything but the budget has to be in by May 22nd and so we are really and from the rumors I've heard our neighbors up north of us are trying to go 4 day as well and many schools many schools well even large districts like they they are voting and that's a big
161school district a 4 that was a conversation coach Rodriguez and I had was that you know for a 4A school to think that they're going to go 4A but the article article that I read about Portalis wanting to do that is all of their neighboring districts are all four day weeks. So they're losing students and teachers to Floyd, Dora, Alida, all the places that go 4 day week. So if we want to do a 4 day, this is the time to do it. But I know that we're crunched with time. It it's difficult because I we can't just say, "Oh, we have to do it without talking to to the community, having community meetings, parents, a lot of the bus company." I feel a lot of parents already know about it because I've been talked
162to and say it also I mean kids know kids my kids came home two or three times hey are y'all talking about this hey do you know about this and parents have asked me at also so is this something that's you probably say I have no idea I was like but we haven't never talked but you know sometimes things leak and we do have plans I know coach Rodri and I would be prepared to discuss it with parents when we have our parent meeting on the 30th, which is next Wednesday. I don't think you're going to have a whole lot of push back because like we have Wednesdays and you know, we send the kids to school and then by noon, well, we got to go get them. So, just I'm sorry. It's I mean,
163it is what it is. It's nothing but you know, like people have to adjust. Yes. We adjusted our schedule. We went a half day. Our numbers on Fridays were terrible because because parents, it's easier for a parent to make a plan for a full day than a half day. And so if we're only if the decision is to go to four days and a parent has to make a plan for Friday, a parent can do that because it's easier to plan out one day, right? And I think if if I could jump in real quick, go ahead, you know, Miss Reyes is concerned about us not having time. I think that uh you know we we have a good team ready to go. It's something that we want and I know you know the admin
164team's going to work hard to try to make it work and I know the teachers going to work hard to try to make that work and you know it it's something I think is going to benefit all of us in the long run and there there's going to be hiccups. We we know that you know it's it's new to us and we're going to have to kind of see uh what other districts have done to make it work and then find something that works for us. But, you know, it's something that we're really really motivated to do and and you know, we're going to make sure that we cover all our bases as best we can to make sure that it doesn't fail and it is successful. Well, and I think that was kind of
165a cool thing that they talked about in that meeting is that like if we took a snow day, we could go that Friday to make up our snow day immediately because we'd still maybe be within the 4-day threshold of the week. or if we had an infamous wind day or something like that, we would have that cushion in our in our in our that flexibility to make it up immediately versus trying to tack something on somewhere else. From an educational standpoint, there's a lot of out there of the benefit of going four days in the balance of it. U not only for your teachers but for your students and for your families. And so I know Texas just allowed uh schools to go four days and it was like a title wave to go four
166days just because there's a lot of benefits to it. It'll turn my Sunday into a Friday. So, you know, we're here today today to seek guidance and you know, you just let us know the direction that you want us to take and then of course depending on the direction you provide and the input that we receive, we might have to have a special meeting to get the calendar approved because this is something that I need to enter into OBMS as soon as possible. And uh but of course, I can't do it without the direction. You said they're due the 22nd. It's due on the 2. Well, this is due yesterday as soon as possible, but I mean it would be nice to have a calendar to talk about like with our staff and that kind
167of stuff. The sooner the better. So, I say do the four days. I'm I'm too trying for a year and if it doesn't work almost jumped out of his four days ago. You can have a whole day another day for gaming. Well, that was the part that I know Alex and Mr. Parker both in their comments because I was able to see who who said what. They both mentioned that as but they competes primarily on Saturdays and cross country is primarily a Saturday thing. they would feel like they still and they that the our coaches and our kids would still have a weekend because I think we do see a hit sometimes on track cross country numbers and FFA numbers if the kids like giving up my whole Saturday and I only get you know
168one day of a weekend and I know that during the six weeks of judging season it's rough and I'm sure the same for coach Alex with with cross country it's murder after you spend a whole day traveling and doing all those things. So, so again, you know, the plan is to be able to to talk to all the stakeholders. The Hamill Bus Company will be impacted the most and that's something that we also have to think about. I know they work for us. They've been riding this cash, but they might it might actually help them if they don't have to. I mean, if they're bus drivers don't have to less wear and tear on their buses. That's wear and tear and then they get Fridays off. I bet they'd be on board for it because
169I mean oil changes diesel services. That's you'd be surprised. Hey, and if those bus drivers need hours, we have a lot of activities going on. Win. So again, if you want me to proceed, you know, it's a lot of heavy lifting that we have to do and it's going to I'm going to have to delegate as well because you know get it out there. Okay, we need to not a secret everybody. We have a parent meeting scheduled for the 30th. That's the plan because I need yesterday. Well, that's next week. That's as soon as we can do it. the rest of the only thing is that parents do not respond to the surveys. They do not respond. I think it kind of we put it on class dojoy. No, July 31st. Johnny, I know mom
170needs to get her act together. Yeah, if we did it that way and just Oh my goodness, look at that. across the Was that you? So, what what's the what's the first day of school? Is it the 31st or 31st? It would be July 31st. You have to bump it up. Yeah. You don't That's what loving schedule look like? They start like there was three days of inservice and they started school July 31st. So, you really won't start school they they're on a 5day week and they still start school on July 31st. Well, a lot of them are doing K3 plus, K5 plus, which makes them start then anyways. They're not a 4 day school week, but they're doing K. Yeah, we would still get the we would still have the same Thanksgiving break, a
171whole week of Thanksgiving. We would still have our spring break. Christmas would still be two weeks. We would still get out by like May 22nd, 23rd. We wouldn't have to come back after Memorial Day. Okay. So, this is what I recommend and it's going to happen tomorrow. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Let's create a survey. The elementary teachers, my expectation would be to contact every single one of your parents and let them know, okay, I need I need you to go into this, you know, and and be able to respond to the survey. The survey needs to be done in both English and in Spanish. Okay? And they need to respond to the survey, but y'all, the teachers will need to make the contact. And the same thing with the secondary because I actually screenshot the questions
172that Dexter was asking. So um the survey will be sent to you. So I think yes. It will be sent to you by tomorrow, Mr. Williams. Put an eye out on class Joe. Or do we want one survey unified for? Let's do one unit and then um either A-Rod or Cody posted on the UR there will be and then will there be a so so we also you know and that was one of the things that a lot of the parents are requesting that we go back to not just the digital but we also have to give them a paper So, so let's do that. And then it has to be in both languages. I know that it's not the ideal, especially when it comes to a survey, but it has to be it doesn't
173have to be a long survey. Are you in favor? Are you not in favor? Just ask the parents when they're dropping their kids off. Yeah, we'll do a QR code on a on a clipboard and just drive away and then have the meeting and they just fill it out right there. [Music] If she creates that, we can copy it and hand it out paper. We can send that. Okay. And then let's have a meeting in the cafeteria or maybe the auditorium on the 30th. The 30th. That was the thing. We A and I worked on a on a plan for that because we would like some parent feedback on the discipline matrix the handbook and you want to have it together and I think it's better. I think so because you're going to have parents
174who are and for them to see that it's the same. Okay. All right. Let's tackle that. So we'll once you have it finalized, we'll just have a meeting real quick to Can we Okay. So we can um do you want to schedule the meeting tonight and then that way we can have the calendar it can be approved. I mean if we could change this to approve right now okay it's not the agenda agenda right now. You can't adjust the agenda. No. Sorry, I make the motion to not it's only a discussion just yeah just I mean you're probably not hear it out there. I think it's inevitable that it's going to happen. Just real quick. We're not K plus correct? No. No. Okay. Okay. Well, no. Yes and no. So, so every school in New
175Mexico it's a K K5 or K12 now. The only thing is that we don't get the funding because we have to go over over the days. But for example, like here we have a total of 148 1148 hours. Then that means that we get like maybe one day for K the K plus. So we get funding for that. Okay. Okay. All right. Moving on. Miss's superintendent. I'm only gonna say one thing because I know it's already kind of late and everybody's just like ready to go. So, I'm just very happy to share that um we are very close to the completion of the programming phase with Decker. We're like very very close and it's working out very well. I think right now we are what like 90 89 and it was 93. It was 93,000
176square footage. So, we have to cut down on a little bit, but um you know, I'm just happy to say that last week, you know, I had the opportunity to go to Santa Fe. We had a hiccup that you know, I was sweating and I thought, "Oh my goodness, they are not going to give it to us." But at the end of the day, we ended up getting the additional um 19,000 square footage. So right now, you know, we qualify for 89 89,000 and I can't remember the exact number, but um you know, we were approved and you know, I'm just very grateful for that. I believe it was 19,500 additional square footage. Now, the only thing that we do have to keep in mind, we had our waiver, we had a waiver and our
177our uh portion was going to be 624,000. Now, it's going to be a little bit over a million dollars because, you know, it's an additional 20,000 square footage that that we are um that we can use but don't have to. Well, we are going to because we haven't been to one of those meetings lately. So, you're going to use it. It's uh we have to use it because we just don't have enough. You got to show up to one of those meetings. We are like decreasing in size now. We're going to be teaching you coat closets. Moneywise, we are okay. Okay. So, there's going to be additional uh fees for Decker as well. I believe it's like an additional $58,000. We are okay. We're going to be okay. Now, keep in mind in next month
178we will have uh somebody here from RBC and they will be talking about the next the upcoming uh bond. So, right now we have a bond for 1 800 uh 1 1,800,000. So we have enough money to cover for that. But then we are going to go for another one which it will not increase people's taxes. The taxes will stay the same. So I think you know and that would give us an additional 1.9. I think it would be dumb not to to go for it if it's already out there. It will leave taxes the same. Now if we decide that we don't want to go with it then it will decrease uh taxes. I think something that we need to look into is the they said that landscaping wouldn't be so if we do
179go for that second bond then we can use that second bond money for landscaping. Are we still sticking to our projected completion date? Yes. No, you know I and I keep saying well you know it's probably going to be seven years from now but they actually have I believe the end of 27th year 27 would be moving in. Yeah. Yeah. I read that the 2027 I was like yes so your junior senior brand new story so so it will probably be I I say you know because what they want to do is they want to finish the school like maybe during the summertime and then be able to move in and then tear it down as Yes. Nothing. So, I'm excited. I mean, you know, we can be the the gym of Southeast, you know,
180at half million dollar a farm school. Four day come. What else could we ask? We're in a better location. And that's all I have. That's why I'm not going I'm not discussing anymore. It's this YouTube video. All right. Uh, thanks everybody for coming. We got executive session. Appreciate it. Need a motion to