001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. [Laughter] Is that one mine? No, I think it's the one. Who's the um it it's ours. So, it kind of helps, you know, with the note takingaking. Uhhuh. So, it's legit. Okay. Legit. Okay. Um are there any questions about the agenda? Motion to approve. [Music] Good. How you doing? Public comment. Um, Miss Jolene, you're first. time, but I do have a few budget adjustments I need to go over. Um, the first two are just kind of some carryover. Um, for the next Jan, it's like $1,400. And then on the title 4, it's 3,800. I think um Jamie's going to order some technology with that. Um the next one,
002I've got to do a permanent transfer. It's on an RFR that got disapproved. It was missing a name badge. So, the problem was I had already done another RFR and uh they threw it out and they're going to make me pay for it out operational. So, that's what this is is about. And the other is just to move some money in my grid for some instructional materials. Right now, I've got in the salary line just moving it around to um be able to utilize it for the year. And I think that's about all I've got on adjustments. Any questions for Mr. Uh Mr. Barbie Hermanos came on Monday, March 7th 10th to run the power from the elementary breaker down to the outside west corner of the elementary for the marade board. On Monday the
00317th, the the company from Los Cruus came and started the install. They had to fight the wind for three days and finally got it installed around 6:15 on Wednesday. They drilled a hole 8 foot deep and three foot in diameter and filled it with cement. So it ought to stay for a while. Also on the 17th and 18th, inmates came in from RCC and painted the interior walls in the central office. Roads gave us a quote for a commercial water softener for the cafeteria at 67,544 which includes a little building to put the the softener in because not enough room in the boiler room. We are working down at the track field getting ready for the April track meets. Also also still dealing with sewer line problems. I keep stopping up and still waiting on
004J to certify air fire alarm system. Okay. Um any questions for Thank you. special ed. Hey everybody. All right. Um well, let's see. We've um indicator 13 has been uploaded. Of course, I got an email the other day saying we went better, so I have to make some corrections. Our 12th day data is finally all in order. Um and that'll be in order until we do the 160th day data and we'll have to correct those. Um the PED wants a gifted plan requirement of the redistric. So we put one together and turn that in. Um idea B applications will probably start next month. That's always a fun time. We're going to do a child find in a couple weeks. Um, also in a couple April 7ths, me and Bassa are going to go do the
005IEPs up at youth challenge. Um, we've started the brand new comprehensive monitoring system that the OSC has implemented, which basically is a big compliance to do that every district is going to be doing. Um, I'm not really sure how that's going to go. We're going to get some more info. Um, the spring academy is in Albuquerque next month and it's going to be a world of fun since the head honcho of the OSC just resigned Dr. cage to take a job in Maryland. And so I'm sure everyone will be like they'll be like I didn't like her anyway or whatever it's going to be like at you know I didn't really like her so I'm one of those you know so we're going to be a little bit rudderless with certain things but in that
006area but other than that you know schools is turning along and kids seem to be learning and having a good time. Any questions? Questions? Thank you. [Laughter] SO been good. Good transition. Been working with staff. Got my email up and running. Awesome. Thank you. Elementary. Mr. Williams, ready? Yeah, I'm ready. I guess so. Um, all right. Since the last uh board meeting, we had two kids withdraw. We added four kids today. So, our enrollment is at 221 at the elementary. Our prek enrollment is still at 39. I emailed this to you. I'm sorry, my uh printer wouldn't print. So, um on Wednesday, February 26, we had our house leadership elections uh where kids uh they had to apply to be part leadership and then they gave a one to three minute speech. Um and I
007gave you a full list of of all of our our house leadership. There we have each house has a president, vice president, secretary, historian, and reporter. So, uh, gives an opportunity for about 20 kids to, uh, serve in some kind of leadership and stuff. And so, it's been really cool. um one of the kids that really Emory Rodriguez um he's the president of is a bendy and it's really been cool because he's like really taken it on himself and really just trying to bring his house together and and just really kind of cool to see him lead in that manner. Um the first week of March we had read across America. It was awfully windy day. Wendy week and we didn't get to do a lot but one cool thing that we did is officer
008Coulter came and read the legend of rock paper scissors uh to all the kids and then we had a rock paper scissors tournaments. Unfortunately our champion Tanner was not there but Coulter did hold it down and beat a kindergartener in the championship. So you know there's no easy wins here at Herman and so he he held it down. Uh we keep celebrating kids uh with our Bobcat Pride referrals every week. Um one of the things we started I don't know just idea epiphany of why we don't do this for our teachers. So two weeks ago we started having kids nominate teachers for ballcap pride pearls. So every week we get to celebrate um our staff and the awesome stuff that they um are doing. I included pictures all in the report. You can see it
009in your email. Really the biggest thing well two things. Um, February 28th, uh, we had the LL training on campus. Um, all of our elementary teachers K through 5 attended along with, uh, a number of secondary teachers who use it. It was a really beneficial day. um May with came in um and the the cool thing is we're able to do just some funding uh do it in person and so it was great to have her here and be able to work with our staff and and just be able to give them a really good training. Um really the biggest thing since the last board meeting is all the windy days. Um, we've had two remote learning days. We've had a a number of early release days and unfortunately it looks like it's going to
010be anytime it gets up to 20 m an hour, we're just going to have dust and wind everywhere. So, um, as a staff, we're really focused on trying to provide as much um, learning opportunities on those days as possible. Uh, depending on the grade, some grades are sending home a packet, some grades are assigning Il um, from there. And so really that's kind of been the our biggest thing of trying to figure that out. Um now that we have all the win stuff. So um other than that I stand for questions. Any questions? Talk about your PD coming up. Yes. That's a couple of a couple things coming up. We have a busy month. Uh let me get to that. Um, tomorrow we'll have food distribution. On Thursday the 27th, we'll have a STEM night.
011It's rescheduled uh with Nimi. Um, they'll be here in the high school commons area. We'll also have the Spanish spelling bee that same afternoon. Um, the 28th prek is going to go on a field trip, but March 31st, we're going to have John Kik on campus. He's a Tissel trainer to do SCOP training with all of our teachers. And so, um, some of our teachers have done some training with him and speak very, very highly of him. We're fortunate, um, he's going to come on campus, so we're use some title one funds and and some structural literacy funds to be able to fund that. And so, it should be a good day of learning for all of our um, teachers. Uh prek, kinder and prek roundup was supposed to be Friday before spring break. Obviously,
012we didn't have school. So, it's got rescheduled for April 11th. Um and then about mid uh 15 16th our fifth graders. Uh we'll do the science state assessment. April 17th, we'll have the color run. Uh then April 18th, we have Good Friday, no school. And then April 21st through 25th we have our third, fourth, and fifth graders will take the state assessment. So it's busy all the way here until the end of the year um and stuff. So a lot of fun stuff, a lot of good training for our staff and so excited about those opportunities. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Where's PreK going? prek is going to the Roswell Library. Uh the inclusive park in Roswell and then they're going to eat McDonald's. So all the prek stuff. So which is that we
013didn't want to take all 39 of our prek kids to the uh McDonald's playground because that'd be quite rowdy. It'd be fun though. Um but they'll have a good time so it'll be good. Awesome. Thank you. Okay, the secondary report. Um, our enrollment is 171. We've had a couple new kids join us since the last time we were here. Um, attendance continues to be positive. We've dealt with illness. Uh, and we've had, of course, weather issues. We've learned um how that we that we can do virtual and remote days. Uh, there after the first one, there was a few kinks to work out. And I think when we got ready to do the second one, we were in a much better place. And if we continue to use that or if we need to continue
014to use that, we do have that available to us, which is great. Um the we have our last 4 Friday for middle schoolers. This Friday, they're going to do a program on rockets. Uh they really see the kids really seem to enjoy that and the once a month activity has been something different for them to be involved in. There is a lot of stuff happening um at the secondary level. Of course, track is in full swing. Um the middle schoolers are at a track meet in Dexter today. I think the high school kids have their track meet in Dexter on Friday. Um this tomorrow the juniors are going to take the SAT. Thursday it's busy day. We have ASR testing, Spanish spelling be STEM night. Uh next week the sixth through eighth graders will start
015their MASA testing. Uh then we have this next week FFA will go to state judging. Mr. Parker may have some more information to share about that. Um the e the seniors have been invited to the ENMU senior day um on Thursday and they'll some of them will do that. Um on the 9th, Gear Up is having family financial literacy night. It's kind of like a family night where families come and they they I remember from last year they have like little booths and activities for the kids to take part in and learn different financial literacy things. Um the 17th will be a really busy day. If you're looking for something to do, there's going to be plenty of things to do on the 17th. Color run. We have early release that day. Staff has PD
016that day. Be a pretty busy day for all of us. I think there's track meet and units that day as well. We don't have school on this 18th. Prom is scheduled for uh April 26th. Uh the ENUR senior day is April 29th. And I'm not sure how that's different than this senior day that we're having this week. One of them is like a preview for kids who might want to go there. And the other one I think is for the kids who have decided to go there. One of those look at those dates. One of them got cancelled and we moved it. Okay. So it might be only one of those is okay is in charge of that. Right. I swear. Well, I just had I was just copying stuff off my calendar. Yeah. Uh
017May 2nd is also another great day to come do something at school because there's a lot of things happening May 2nd. We have high school career day that day. Another early release would be PD day for staff. The bilingual department is doing a Cinco de Mayo celebration. Um on this actual single is the FFA banquet and then I believe BPA leash hopefully for nationals the next day. We'll be geared up for graduation which is May 17th and then eighth grade promotion is May 22nd and I am sure between now and our next time we talk that I'll add more things to that really full calendar. So any questions? Oh man, any questions? Thank you Parker. All right. Um, as Cody said, we're leaving for state next week. We're taking five teams, 16 kids. Um, super
018excited for state judging. It's been a good year. Um, we judged all over the place. We traveled all over the place. Um, this was the most we've traveled with. Um, starting out the beginning of the year, we had 35 kids and it's dwindled down from there. Um, Kazoo is always the make or break it for kids if they like it or not because it's always windy and cold. Um, but we had a great season. Um many of our teams compete as well. Um of our five teams, we have aronomy, nursery, milk quality, wool, and livestock competing at state next week, which is a variety of um high schoolers to sixth graders. Um so I'm really looking forward to see what they do. Gonomy, nursery, and wool have the best shot. Um milk quality is getting
019up there. They're they're babies still, so I'm impressed to see how much they can keep growing and what they're doing. Um livestock is one of those contests. Best luck. um see how they do. Um I've watched horse watch kids win horse out of the blue and so never know. Can't predict that one. Um this is looking really exciting for next week. We'll leave Monday and judge Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be our awards um Friday evening and then we'll return Saturday morning hopefully in time for our high school kids that are running track to be back for track. Um, CTE wise, um, we're in a holding pattern for everything. Um, they, our APR, annual performance review has been turned in. Um, Miss Rey certified it and we got that turned in. We're still holding
020out for our region K specialist, Melissa, to approve it. They're they're CCV is in a weird holding pattern right now. Um, waiting for all the bills to come out and um, the governor to either veto or sign things um, off and get everything out. And so they still haven't unlocked our Perkins and NextGen application. Um those are still promised this year for sure. NextG is um and all that. And so we're still kind of holding out on getting those applications unlocked. I have everything paperwork wise ready. So if they submit it to me, open it tomorrow and it's and it's due the 3rd of April. I'm ready to submit everything and just have it done. Um I've already gone over all that stuff. I am applying for the Harbor Freight Grant again. and reached out
021and asked me being the only New Mexico finalist applied for it. And then there's a few other grants that I'm working on applying for through CTE to kind of help continue growing our programs. I did working on some of our numbers today. We're 90 of our 102 active um students in the high school are enrolled in a CT class um some way, some form, some shape. And so that's pretty exciting to see. pretty much 90% of our kids are active in some type of career technical education, gaining those skills. So, that's really exciting to see our programs grow and things like that. Um, as I kind of get more information by hopefully by the next board meeting, I can tell you exactly what we're going to see receive from state and federal funding for Perkins
022and NextGen. Um, this last year we were in 93. When I attended the region or the state meeting in January, they were kind of expecting us to be about 97 to 103,000 for our CT programs. Um, right now that's kind of what I stand for questions if you have any. Any questions? Thank you, Mr. Parker. Goal is to send have a send off Monday at about 1:30 if you guys are around. Uh, next item is the approval of the minutes from the February 24th meeting and any dispensing bills for the month of February. Any questions, concerns? No. A motion to approve. Motion. All those in favor say I. I. All those oppos. Okay. carries first new item, new business. Uh the budget presentation. Okay. I don't see uh Miss Pam Rice unless she's, you know,
023I don't see her on there to waiting to be admitted. Uh if we can skip item A and then Jolene, she went to go talk to her and hopefully I don't know. Hopefully she got the link. So if we can skip AD and B. Oh, okay. For now. All right. Um out of state travel for Miss Dunn EPA. Um so I have um 14 kids that um are going to go with me to our national leadership conference this year. It's in Orlando. um they'll go and they will partake in the leadership academy um internships, workshops, and um like a lot of different competitions. There's an award ceremony. We signed up to do a um like a tour of the Candy Space Center and stuff like that. So, we'll be leaving on I think a Tuesday
024and then we'll come home on Sunday. Do you know the dates? Are they 6 through 11 May. Yes. Okay. 6 through 11 and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Any questions? I'll make a motion to approve state by Chris. Second. All those in favor say I. I. facing it. Okay. Have fun. Thanks. Um, graduation requirements. We Sorry, y'all voted to table that last time we were here. The recommendation from the committee of myself, Coach Rodriguez, Miss Dunn, and Mr. Parker was that we require all students for our local um graduation requirements that we're we have to put forth that we require all students to take one ad class and one business class during the course of their high school career. Um that was met with some resistance. We felt like you guys wanted to rethink that possibly.
025We are uncertain as to what other options we really have as far as what we could do. The other consideration that we had which would pretty much fall to the same outcome would be that we require all students to take computer applications at some point because that is a skill set that they desperately need to be successful in high school. Um, and so if we wanted to do that one CCT, our recommendation would be to have have all high school students take one CTE course either from a business or another pathway that could be forthcoming in the future and then computer applications while they're a student in high school. Those would be our local requirements or we can continue to to think but there's no when they changed and made financial literary required that was
026what where we were before was a or it was a CTE course in financial literacy. Now, financial literacy has taken off the options for that because that is now a required math course for all students to take. I don't remember. There was two options, right? You want us to choose. Well, we have we have to have two. We have to give the we have to say these are the two that all Herman students have to do these two things in order to graduate. Like those are our local our local choices. I mean, wasn't there option A and option B? Option A was Yeah, option A. Option B was Let me find the I think where I was is I didn't I didn't want to force the kids into a kid that want to do all
027a I mean it's good that he Yeah. to make them do a an option an option. But will we ever become a problem where they can't take an they won't they can't do an egg. They have to do the business class that year. The thought process is is that like all kids will end up like the freshmen are the most limited, but they still end up with two electives. Um, every other grade level past that has a lot of electives. And so really this one credit is one class throughout all four years. So even if it is a kid that's like very highly the concept here is that even when they go into the field of agriculture, they should know how to use computers which is which is a business pathway not an a pathway.
028So like that was the concept that we were saying is like and kids that want to do business should should have an idea of what some of these other careers are because as far as career goes it's it's exploration right so that they can get like an in just an intro class into something so that they can be at least introduced to those topics. Well I would say option B was just um what kind of we have now is a CT class and dual enrollment class and there's only one requirement. No, you well we have you'd have to have one of each. They have to do both. And the argument against dual enrollment is that not every student is prepared to take dual enrollment classes, nor are they always successful when they do. And that
029creates two a two-part problem. One, they failed a class here at school and that affects their grades and their eligibility and that kind of thing. But also, it start establishes a negative record for them in college because that whatever they take as a dual enrollment student still counts for them towards college whether whether they're successful. Yeah. They'll start college essentially on academic probation. I would say of the 102 students in the high school, 95% of them have already done one a and one business at some point in their in their career. Um whether it be a far as far as a neck. Mr. Hempill has um two high school a classes. Mr. Parker has a variety. And a lot of them are kids that they're not active FFA members. They're not interested in pursuing that
030side of things. They but they are in they're taking horiculture. They've taken food science. They've taken some of them take welding aback even though they're not interested in that other side of things. So I don't know that we're creating a problem for any student specifically. Um but if it's already happening where are we going to mandate it? We have to we have to have we have the pen is requiring us to say what in Herman what are your two things that you guys require? And they don't have to do it every year just once right like once in their high school career try something different. So, why don't you talk to them a little bit about the um technology pathway through the per I yeah maybe I explained my my concern wrong but if a
031kid want to go is fully business or fully ad whichever yes they they do have to take one class but is there going to be a year where they won't have two electives and they have to the Only way they ever get in a bind and not having enough electives if they've failed a bunch of classes and we've got another problem altogether there. Otherwise, they'll always have at least two electives or more. Yeah. I I mean, yeah, electives wouldn't be a thing for a kid that's has bad grades, right? Right. Well, and if they're and if they're in a credit recovery situation, that's a whole another can of worms that that is this is an issue a non-issue for them at that point. But I meant like a good kid, a kid that's got good
032grades that is fully business, but yes, explore the A for sure. Is there a time to be able to take their preferred class plus the elective? I think there's a lot of kids I mean like you said especially the last probably the last two or three years that I I was teaching a we have kids that their senior year they're in their their ad class the first time because that's what fit in their schedule and maybe it was offered up against something like yearbook that they had already tried or you know against a business class that they had already taken. So I mean the other side of that is that we're a pretty limited place and there's only so many teachers and so many places for them to go. So they they so in other
033words occasionally so as far as the number of classes available they will have like freshman will get at least two electives after that like they can get three four seniors get four four at least four. Yeah. Um because of the way their core classes you know work as it as you get grow go up. But um the only issue that we have sometimes is because we are limited on like the number of staff we can have is that sometimes they're like the advanced egg admech might fall during yearbook and then they can't decide what they would prefer. So like they might they might face that problem but they can still choose. there will always be an option between like an ACT class or an arts class or a business class. Like they'll still always be
034able to pick and the way they land might not be where like they might end up with their number two and their number three choice and the number one choice just doesn't fit. But there's not really anything we can do about that unless we want to be able to offer like a lot more classes and which we are. So you want to explain that how to do CT and there's so much more. Yeah. I mean yeah I think there's a bunch more classes. Yeah. Well and now they're trying to do where they have to take an ad or a CTE. Well CTE would include ad business cyber security yearbook yearbook. There's a whole journalism all the stuff that and if we get in this uh permium basin innovation zone stuff they will we'll have access
035to more things that they could take and it wouldn't be a or business. Those are the two that we currently have. That's what what it define pathways on campus but we would have I mean they could have access to a lot more CTE options because Mr. Parker has a a dual enrollment welding class, right? Yes. Is there a dual enrollment business class? Yes. So I mean the financial literacy is but now that's a separate requirement like the government or the state had come in and said you have to do financial literacy. So we can't count it as part of the and what year do they usually have to take that? They're going to do that their junior year. We're pretty much just trying to decide whether we require them to do A which is one
036in one or B which is a dual enrollment. And I don't know that we'd even say one in say from two different pathways. That way we don't lock ourselves into if for some reason down the road we would have health care access to health care the kid could pick a kid could pick that or whatever it is. Right now it looks like aggra business because that's what we have. But hopefully in the future we have access to a lot more options such as medical pathway take a dual enrollment dual enrollment and then a CT like a CT class from any of the pathways. And I if I understand correctly and Tara can correct me if I'm wrong, the state has moved away from the dual enrollment because of the lack of success that some students
037have and that there are some of them are not prepared for that level of academic. We have we have a lot of kids that we set up for failure if we I mean not the majority the majority of the kids can can make it because of the options we have but we we do still have a lot of kids that if we tell them you have to do a dual credit we just set them up for failure. Yeah. I don't want to force one to have to do Dylan Rom. So, I mean, I'm fine with with the a or the local. Yeah, I too. I just don't want a kid to get in the bind. And so, potentially next year with Perium Basin, they kids will also have an opportunity to take like a medical
038pathway or a software pathway or information technology is the true name of it. they have that in this picture or an educator pathway um that fits PED requirements as well. They would be considered CT classes. Right now we have journalism yearbook those all fall under CTE. Um technically systems go falls under CTE. Um and then our true defined pathways meaning we have they have three or more constructed classes within that sequence. um which requires heads approval of being a completer, concentrator, non-completer, non there's verbiage all over the place in there. Um business falls into that category because they have there's three classes of sequencing there. A we're lucky enough so like our plant science pathway right now this year is a sequence completer class. A mechanics is a completer class because there's three multiple classes
039they go through um in there. And so we just put those on there because those are our defined pathways. Those are what we receive our federal funding through nextgen Perkins through cyber security. There's only the two classes. So it's not considered a true pathway if that makes more sense to you guys. I don't know a little brain fried after our meetings we had today. I think what we what our goal is is to just say that at least one time in their career, high school career, so even if they don't do it their freshman year, because they only have two options, by the time they hit their senior year, they can take a lot more electives, is that they take at least one class that's not necessarily only in their comfort zone before we just
040dump them out in the world and say, "Okay, good luck." like without at least having got them to try something else in a very sheltered environment of and I think what happens a lot of times our kids when and they find this out when they get to to college that they have to take a class outside of their like a upper division global diversity something that's outside of their comfort zone outside of their major to see something else but a lot of colleges and universities require that and so I think it it would be good because a lot of our kids do get very comfortable and very in the end it would challenge them a little and provide them to see something. I' I've had really some kids that I would have probably never gotten
041to see that ended up in ad classes that either learned a lot, taught me a lot, or just, you know, they're like, I didn't know you guys did all this stuff. Well, because they never took the opportunity as young younger students to get exposed to those things. And I will say, I was looking at some data today, our freshman already, every single 90% of our fresh 98% of our freshmen, what I can remember, they're all in enrolled in an Aggra business class. Every single one of them and some of them both or no? No, they're I have all the freshman boy, majority of the freshman boys at one time and then they go to Richards and then I have majority of the freshman girls at one time and then they go to Richards. There's only
042like two or three kids that I don't see. Keep in mind that this will be starting with the um freshman next year, the eighth graders coming up and so they're a lot smaller group already. They're at 14 right now. Okay, I'm okay with option A. Um, so Chris for option A. Can we pose option B again? Don't roll it. And a CT class. Do I have a second? A second. All those in favor say I. All right. Do we need to go back or um actually Julie? What did she tell you? Pam, she can't make it tonight, but she'll come in person next month and maybe'll be here. That'll give you time to read. Go read read your book. A little bit of late night reading there. So, I I need a motion to table
043that. I'll make a motion. All in favor say I. So we tabled that one. All right. Um B, item B is the budget adjustments. Any more questions for Miss John? Just need a motion to approve. I do have something else on your CTE. We're moving 6,000. We are moving. We're doing a buff, which is a budget adjustment form. Um there's so much terminology. Um we're having to move some student travel money from point A to point B to cover some registration costs. Um I can't remember why it was in one line over the other, but um we're just waiting for a signature line from CCB to move it so we can adjust some of our student travel costs and make sure everything's paid for properly. Um not getting yelled at by PE. This was a
044like a $1,100 bill that we paid for some when they went to the was it creek contest uh NMLC state um junior high contest and so it's set up where all n all of our state contest through EPA and FFA should be covered to next year the registration registration fees and then there's another one I'm going to move a little bit of money in the It's operational, but it's the transportation portion. Um, we need to for the random drug testing. I need to move some money for that. Like $1,000, but we have it in there. There's like 80,000 in there right now. So, I'll be moving that. Sorry, I ran out of time and I didn't get it all put together. Okay. So, um any questions for Miss John? There motion by Chris. Yes. Second
045by all say it. Motion carries. Item E, Miss Reyes traveling. Okay. Um, so President Ma and members of the board, so I am requesting uh board approval for travel to attend the uh new school venture fund which is part of the uh Perian uh basin, the Perian Basin. And uh so there is a conference in San Francisco, California from May the 13th through the uh 15th. So this will be a couple of days and uh so this event is directly related to our district uh initiative with the uh permium basin and it will focus on enhancing educational opportunities, improving the student outcomes and of course fostering the the regional collaboration. um the valley superintendent will also be attending and uh you know we'll be providing an opportunity for us to align our efforts and and
046share the uh best uh practices. So today we had a meeting and um you know Alan started discussing this but it was very very intense and we're trying to work out all the logistics. Um, so Dexter will be having a medical pathway and of course the plan is to be able to have our students to if they want to go into the medical field they can go to Dexter. So we're thinking probably horse period. Now we're trying to work all the kinks because Dexter they do have a um I think it's a Navy schedule I believe. Navy block. They do have a block schedule in Lake Arthur and and us. We don't. So, we kind of have to figure out, you know, how we want to do this. Um, but if some of our kids,
047so the plan is to be able to get one of the the buses, either contract the uh EMLs to get a bus to take the to bring the kids from Lake Arthur, then they pick up our kids and they go to Dexter and then have another one. If we have kids from Dexter that want to be able to do the software pathway, you know, the technology pathway, then the bus will drop them off here and then we'll take the uh the kiddos to or pick up the kids from here if they want to do the educator pathway and that will be in um at Lake Arthur. So there'd be two buses kind of back and forth and uh the Perian Basin will be the grant will be covering for all of this. So basically, you
048know, the uh going to San Francisco is just to sorry, going to San Francisco is just to be able to strengthen our our partnership, you know, with the collaborative initiative and and just gain insights and and resources of how to support the uh the initiative. So I'm seeking approval for the travel and you know just all the expenses will be paid through the uh the grant. It will not cost the the school a single scent. That was going to be my question. And your turn. So they they will pay for everything. Now there's another one, but however, I'm not ready for this one yet. I will not be going to that one. And I'm hoping to to send Cody and and Allan to that one. And it's actually, sorry guys, you were just volunttoled. Um,
049it's actually also through the Perium Basin, but they will get to go see a school and this one will be in San Antonio. The Perium Basin will also pay for that. And that will be a couple of day, you know, it's a trip for two days. And again, all the expenses will be paid, but I still need to work on that. And, you know, if that's the case, then we'll we'll seek approval for next month on on that one. And so basically what they will do is they will get to visit a school Alan that's what she did but they'll get to visit a school that's yeah we actually see the this program initiative in action and get to talk to key stakeholders leaders school officials um CT teachers and all that stuff and how
050it's impacting them what's what does it look like for them on a daily basis it' be a travel in day visit the school the next day and kind of talk and then travel home the next I think is the way I understood it. Now once I have more information on that one then maybe for the next board meeting but for this one you know just seeking approval for travel and then of course you know the expenses will be paid through the uh premium basis. All right any questions? A motion to approve. I'll make a motion. Second by Jennifer. All those in favor say I. I I was posting it curious and hopefully the San Andreas fall to stay. [Music] Good evening. I'm James Richards. I'm the new bilingual director. uh Miss Rez and I, we've
051been working on this application and she's uh showing me the ropes here. It's not wasn't a very intense application at all. It's a projections for the 25 26 school year. Um right now we're looking at probably about 95 in the bilingual program for next year. Um we tend to graduate, you know, about 10 each year and then refill them with precar coming in. myself. Um, but President Moss, we're going to need your uh signature on the back page tonight for this thing. And uh outside of that, that's really about it. It's just a pretty simple application. So, questions, but you you got to ask the question. Uh, no, I'm not bilingual. Easy enough. Uh just see a motion to approve. I'll make a motion. Chris, second favor say I. I. All post carries. Do you
052have that application? Yes sir, I do. We can sign it or I can sign an hour or later whichever. All righty. Miss Reyes. Okay. So um I will be very brief and you know Trevor is not here today so he won't get to see us leave early. So um starting you know actually next month the Jolene myself and Raquel we will be attending the spring budget and that will be April the 9th through April the um 11th. Carmen will be here at central she will stay here. So uh so again that's uh April the 9th through the 11th and then at last the so as you know we are having our meetings for the new school every other week. Tomorrow we have the next meeting. But at the last meeting, you know, we discussed the
053increase of uh numbers and uh so actually what I did is I went ahead and sent out a the letter to PS CC to see if they could put us on the agenda. They they have the meeting scheduled for the 9th, which I will be, you know, in Albuquerque. So I might have to go to Santa Fe that day for the meeting and then go back to Albuquerque. However, there's a possibility that they will be changing it to the 14th because usually all these uh members, you know, from PDS, CLC, they usually attend Namasco also the spring budget. So, I'm hoping that they do change it and um so we are requesting for a total of 420 students. So, you know, I did talk to our representative from PSFA and and he was telling me
054we have a new one. We lost Sarah Walco and um our new one is Savandra. I can't remember the first name but anyways he was telling me that it's very promising. So hopefully you know if we do it should give us including because there is a new calculator that they're giving you know the the uh districts the new schools a little bit more um square footage. So we should be able to to get that. So, I'm hoping that everything will be great and, you know, they'll be able to approve us. So, it it looks very promising. So, that's on on that. Um, in my newsletter, you know, I I welcomed everybody, of course, you know, coming back from their spring break and yesterday was a Monday, believe me, all day long. Today was a Monday
055all day long. But, it's been really hard for the kids and really hard for the teachers. However, you know, we are into the final stretch of the school year and we have a lot to to do. I mean, you saw or you know, heard um Cody with a list that is so long and you know, we have testing, we have the events and and um you know, graduation. So, you know, we definitely need to stay focused and of course be able to finish the year strong. Um, we started March and it's almost gone. However, you know, this unpredictable weather and we probably going to be having more bad days. So, you know, as we continue to navigate this weather, you know, we will continue and we are working really close with Michelle with the bus
056company and you know, usually culture will say, "Hey, you know, they already closed state 2. we need to do something about it. And so we definitely need to take action because you know it is a very serious condition and and we definitely you know need to think about we have to be proactive and think about safety. Um so once again if this continues we will I mean if if everything's fine we will continue with the in-person learning. However, you know, there's going to be many times that we probably need to dismiss early and or transition to remote learning. So, again, we have two remote learning days this month. It was on the 4th and the uh 14th again. And then we had a couple of early release. I mean, believe me, I don't like that.
057I mean, I'm sure you saw what the weather was like last uh Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It was just horrific, you know, trying to get home when I left here. There's no visibility whatsoever. And then of course all the traffic was diverted to I I I don't even know where I was. I mean I was going down and I was trying to just follow somebody from the back but then I you know I was so afraid that somebody was just going to come and rear me and I'm like where am I? Where am I? Where am I? And then I was talking to Carmen and she's like oh you're right next to uh Miss Gayy's house. Well I never been to Miss Gray Miss Gray's house. Like it it was it was scary. It was,
058you know, really, really scary. So, we definitely don't want the families to be able to do that. Believe me, I it it I feel like, you know, it's not up to me to just close the school. It's a collaborative. You know, I contact the board, the police department, everybody. It's everybody working together. And you know, sometimes if it's not safe, we have like the last week before we left, you know, people that that live in in Roswell, we send them home a little bit earlier. And, you know, that's something if we need to do that and then the ones that live here in Herman can continue with, you know, the kids here. But, um, you know, it's it's not an easy situation. But again, you know, with this weather, it might happen again. And again,
059we are just starting with this. So hopefully May will come quickly and and everything will be good. Okay. Next, moving on. And I'm sure you saw the new uh sign and uh it's already, you know, set up. So we are just waiting for we have a webinar next week and they will be showing us how to uh you know, how to program it and and be able to get it going. Okay. And then everything else, you know, they already talked about in my newsletter, I have been posting about uh, you know, information about the measles and, you know, somebody told me, well, you need to take it down already. Well, I can't take it down because it's still, you know, very evident and and the the cases are increasing and, you know, the only thing
060we could do is just be able to inform the community and, you know, just hoping that they're, you know, that they'll be able to read our our uh flyers here. Um, and then the last thing that I have here, and we are the actually the bilingual department, and you know what, I'll let Mr. Richards, if you want to. This is your thing. What is it? You do that now. All right. Yeah, it's uh the spring fiesta, and it's just something I've actually learned about. Um but it's kind of been a tradition here. It be May the May the 2nd uh 2025 from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Uh there's going to be fun uh food, fun, and live performances by Herman Elementary students. Uh y'all come up and grab a burger. I'm going to already know
061what my job's going to be. I'm going to be flipping burgers all day. So, but it sounds like it's going to be a good time. Um, from what I understand, uh, there's going to be a lot of involvement from the school and I look forward I look forward to to being a part of this thing here. It's going to be sounds like it's going to be a good deal for the kids in our community. We contracted a live band. So, they will be playing from 7 to 10:30 and um, they play a variety. They play country, they play Spanish, text, a little bit of everything. Are we having it outside? So, uh, you know, we actually had a request that we could do it out here on the street and be able to close the
062street, but it's more difficult because of the lining. Not lining, but the the lining. So, so we decided to go ahead and use the patio. That's all I have and I stand for questions. who's gonna kind of be in charge of the marquee and putting stuff up there and taking stuff down. So, so definitely Daniel Sanchez will be volunte. So, no, Daniel Sanchez is the So, we do have a meeting. It's on the 31st and uh so I you know I would like to have the administrators there and then um Mr. Sanchez. So, I like the drill share right now. Okay. Pretty much cool. And that's basically what it will be. you know, you will be online and then you just uh send your messages. But good times. Oh, um I'm sorry. I have one
063more thing and I I before you close this I So I gave you the and yesterday we got this at the um NMSBA meeting. So basically this one here I'm not going to read it all but everybody has page. So, these are the ones, you know, some of the House bills that passed. If you one of the I mean, they're all important here, but um there's just way too many of them to be able to read. And then if you look, so on page two, three, and four, it tells you the ones that passed. And then on page five, here's the ones that did not pass. One of the ones that did not pass, if you look at HP 2011, and it's like the fourth one down, and it's the raise for school employees. uh
064minimum wage. So what they wanted is to raise the minimum wage to $30,000 for the custodians and for the EAS. That did not pass. However, what we you know what did pass is an increase of an average of 4%. So all the employees will be getting a you know an average of 4%. So Jolene and I will figure that out and and for some of them you know that will bump them too. significant I mean it's 5% of whatever they are getting right now. So if you look at the uh the first page or page the very first page although it says here page two because I'm missing the cover page. It says here65 the instructional days in school year. So this one was the one that you know it says clarifies the local school
065boards and uh governing bodies of charter schools shall determine the total number of instructional days per year and the number of instructional days per week that students are required to be in school programs. Um this one was vetoed right away. So I'm still waiting for us. I mean it would be I don't think it will really affect us. I mean, unless we really want to go into a 4 day in the future, but for now, we are actually going to do the uh we have a calendar meeting on Thursday and uh you're welcome to join us. We've tried twice to have calendar meetings. Every time we do, we have a major weight storm in Global Road. So, here's hoping. Yeah, we are going to try it again and we are going to go ahead and
066go with the 180. We can definitely try to do like a a 4day. However, I don't think that that would be a possibility. And even even though if we were to be approved, I think it's something that needs to be thought out probably, you know, like a year in advance, you know, not just right away. But that's something that we could definitely look into in the future. But I'm, you know, we're it's still not clear. All of these are still in in the the governor's desk, but this one was detailed right away. The governor wants 180 days, but really, you know, if the one of the judges said, "No, you know, as long as you have 1140 hours, then, you know, we're okay. It doesn't matter if you're 4 days, as long as you meet
067the the 1140 hours." So there's another one and all of the okay if you look on page three HP 156 so there's an increase of educational salary so the level one teachers will be so it's the $5,000 for each level so level one will be 55,000 level two 65,000 level three 75,000 and that's for the the uh teachers um the retirement. So, we will get to keep Miss Denning. Miss Denning, as you know, she has retired and then you know, she's working under this uh um for I think it is on page did not pass. No, it No, it did pass. No, it did pass. I saw it here and it did pass. So, basically, they increased it to I thought it was 60, but I think it's um 82. Oh, it's 133 on the
068Senate side. 133. What page are you looking? Page four. It's about middle of the page. Okay. The educational retirees returning to work. It's about the middle of the page. SB 133 relates to educational retirement increases the salary a retired member may earn with No, there's another one. The other one's at the bottom of page five. And it says that did not pass. Council bill 24 is on. Yeah. 254. 254. Okay. Let's see. to 54 or went from 36 period of time from 36 to 84 consecutive, but I believe they passed with the 60 if I'm not mistaken. Oh, yes. Oh, well, you're in that situation, right? Yeah. No, I didn't. So, it didn't it didn't pass to 84, but it did 60. Okay. So, we get to keep Miss Denny and then I'll let you
069read those. And it's crazy how HJ4 didn't pass on the last page doing away with PE and having state board of education. It's crazy how they didn't just push [Music] through the work. First time I'm seeing this show the entire every single one line by line by line. That's one recap. You missed out on the I just want a big inch off. I mean that little I was happy. You were so busy. Well, I could eat it in the tractor. Maybe you were cutting the hay, but they're not Can't use that excuse just yet. Is it time or That's all I have. All right. No questions. I make a motion to adjurnn by Chris. Second. All those in favor say I meeting a journ at 7:03. Yeah. It was like 6:45. Yeah. There was a
070time you were on here. Uhhuh. See, that's where 14 bits.