001Yep, they're ready. Okay, >> we'll pick it up on this one. >> Yeah. I would like to call the July 15th U board meeting to order. And would you please stand and join in the pledge of allegiance? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Before [Music] we move on to adoption of the agenda, Madame President, like the record to reflect that we do have a quorum um and uh board members and uh Mr. Chavis will be joining us um shortly. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. So, Madame President, I recommend um adoption of tonight's um regular school board meeting. Superintendent Bibiano asked us to adopt our regular agenda for
002our board meeting. Can I have a motion? >> I move to adopt the agenda. >> I'll second the motion. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. We're good. >> Okay. Welcome to everyone that's here. Uh it's the summer is going fast and we're into high gear again, aren't we? So, but I'm glad to see all your faces and looking forward to the new year. So, thank you for coming. >> Madame President, members of the board, before we move on with the agenda, um if I could to continue the welcome, um some familiar faces and some new faces with us. So, um like to start off with our director of student support services, Miss Amy Ortiz, her first board meeting. So, welcome. >> Welcome, Amy. >> Welcome, welcome. Um second I have on
003here Miss Sarah Apple. >> Yes. >> Um she's learning uh the system to help us run our uh new um edte specialist uh combined with district librarian sent out that message uh yesterday. So we're very happy to have her um with the with the new role and look forward to um everything that she'll do with that tech. And then um in the audience is Mr. Brandon Linen, our new transportation coordinator. >> So yeah, welcome. Thank you guys for coming >> and everyone else, the the old crew, right? Yeah. All right, >> Madam President. Moving on to approval of minutes. This is approval of the regular meeting minutes from June 17th, 2025. Um, I recommend approval. >> Uh, Superintendent Vibiano recommends approval for our regular meeting minutes on June 17th. Can I have a motion? Also
004move. Can I have a second? >> All those in favor say I. I. >> I. opposed. Okay. Accepted. >> Madam President, um next order uh item is approval of our special meeting minutes. Um these are minutes from our special meeting that was held on June 25th, 2025. >> Superintendent Bibiano has asked us to is recommending for us to accept the minutes from our special meeting on June 25th, 2025. Can I have a motion? >> I so moved. >> A second. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. I Okay. And opposed? Okay. No. Approved. >> Thank you very much. >> All right. Going to item number two, superintendents, boards, comments, and um accommodations. Um we move uh no student or staff recognitions during this meeting. >> Um so we move to principles
005and athletic directors reports. Um you had a couple of them in there. >> Had two. >> We had two and they are here. if you have any questions um for um Mrs. Romero um or um Mr. Annayia. >> No, I >> I guess I have one question. Coach Anna, how how was the turnout for the physicals last Friday? Did we have a lot of kids show up to get those >> um I saw the fact that there was like 60ome last year and they were opening up additional slots and all this and then we don't show up for it. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. Move to um board president and board of education. Uh members um any comments or >> comments or anybody >> updates? Um, again, just looking forward to a new year
006and going forward and with all the new people that we've got, it'll it should be a good year. Sorry. >> No, it'll pick you up. Yeah, >> it'll pick me up. >> Yeah, it's pretty sensitive. >> Yeah. So, just looking forward to it. Thank you. >> There's not a lot on there. It's good to spend time with some of you guys this week or you know this weekend I guess sat Friday into Saturday and >> um kind of learn a little bit more and kind of bond a little bit with those that I didn't know and interact and I mean >> it was uh I think some there's a lot of positive to come out of what happened over the three days you guys were there and the day and halfish or day I was
007there. But uh thank you for spending uh part of your Saturday >> which uh and time away from your family as you go do that because I mean that tells me you're here for kids. So thank you >> and I would echo that. Thank you. >> Okay. >> All right. Appreciate it. Um Madame President, moving under uh superintendent report. Um two items um for the boards. um >> um to uh approve. Um these are will be annual um service agreements that we bring um as part of our um strategic plan under safety um and security for for the district. Um these are the service agreements for the SRO's um one out of the um um town of Edgewood Police Department and the second one um out of the Morardi Police Department. Um these service agreements
008um as as they are written are are the same um as we went last year. Um and the budget for each one of them um are the same as well. And so um the first one is um recommendation for school resource officer service agreement um for uh a budgeted amount of $42,000 for the Edgewood Police Department um SRO. Uh, Superintendent Viviano is recommending approval for the school resource officer for Edgewood Police from the Edgewood Police Department. May I have a motion? >> And a second. >> I'll second. >> Okay. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Opposed? >> Okay. >> Thank you very much, Madam President. Um, the second uh school resource officer service agreement is for um SRO for the Morardi Police Department. um with a budget of uh for us
009of 33,000 $33,000. >> Okay. Superintendent Viviano has recommended that we approve the school resource officer for Mariardi Police Department. Um and I didn't in the amount of $33,000. >> Um I so move that we accept this. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> Okay. All right. [Music] Welcome, Mr. Chavis. >> Sir, >> how are you doing, sir? Good to see you. Thank you. >> All right, moving to learning services. Director of learning services um board report. Um Mr. Gatsby, any questions for Mr. Gatsby or Mr. Gatsby, any um changes or updates uh since you submitted your report? >> Sir, Nothing. Something's quiet. >> Okay. >> No, >> I guess none. >> Okay. Moving on to >> And here's her first role right here. >>
010Okay. >> Director of student support services. Um any questions um for u Mrs. Ortiz or um Mrs. Ortiz, any changes or updates since you submitted your report last week? >> I did see the increase at Mer High School. >> That was I don't I don't >> I don't know if that's concerning or if it's not concerning, 5% growth in kids with uh additional needs. But >> I don't I guess maybe that's a question. I mean, I don't I don't know. Never guess I'd never noticed. >> Um, Madame President, members of the board, um, that was across the district. >> Oh, it's five across. Okay. >> Oh, okay. Spread across the district. Okay. >> Mr. Ortiz, I don't know if you you can answer. Would it but would that um percentage increase be um is it
011off of um students that were evaluated at the end of the year and now they're um you know may have an IEP or is this student enrollment or combo? Probably >> a combo. Okay. >> All right. New kiddos coming in, right? >> All right. Excellent. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else, Madam President? Doesn't look like it. Nope. >> All right, then we will move to business. Um, Madame President, we have um consent agenda finance items 1 through 4. Um, I recommend approval of the consent agenda items. >> Superintendent Bibiano is recommending approval of the consent agenda finance items one through four. Can I have a motion? >> A second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. Approved. All right. Madam President, members of the board. Um, Mrs. Young. >> All right. >> Yes,
012sir. Madam President, members of the board, in your board packet is a memo for IBR's approval. Um, our year-end reports, our final reports are due July 31st. Um, we're still cleaning up stuff from last fiscal year. So, we just ask your permission to be able to do the IBARS to clean everything up before we submit our final reports and then I will present them to you at the August board. >> Sounds good. >> So, Madame President, um I recommend approval of um the memo um for the IARS uh for the 2425 school year. Superintendent Bibiano is recommending the approval of the memo for the Ibars for the 2425 school year. May I have a motion? >> A second. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Okay. >> Approved. >>
013All right. Madam President, uh, members of the board, um, Mrs. Young. >> Madam President, members, >> sorry, Madam President, members of the board, um we have a finance committee meeting scheduled for Monday at 4. Um and then audit committee, the entrance conference will be Thursday morning at 8 a.m. >> And so we are beginning to upload documents to the auditors already. So >> that's all I have. >> We start again. >> Yes, sir. >> Start again. Okay. >> Anything else for Mrs. Young? Anyone? >> No. >> All right. Moving to uh um Dr. Buckley, director of personnel board reports. Dr. Buckley, any updates or changes since you submitted your report? >> Uh we've hired five since I submitted the report. So, we're down to 10 openings. >> That's good. I can't believe we have two
014PE positions open. I just can't believe that they're not easy to fill. >> Um, Madame President, uh, Vice President Young, I believe that's one of the positions, right, sir? >> Correct. >> Yeah. Route 66. >> I just baffles. >> What sounds better than sweats in a t-shirt all day? >> Have we filled the choir position yet? >> Yes. Oh, good. Okay. >> Awesome. What are the other two positions you filled then since we're >> for which count? >> Three. >> You said you filled five. >> Uh so, um high school was the choir. Uh Route 66, it was the PE position. Um for early childhood, it was an EA uh and two maintenance and a social worker. >> Okay. >> Oh, wow. We got >> Thank you. hard to find. >> Yeah, that they're difficult
015at times to find. So, yeah, we're lucky. >> We're lucky. give us an email. >> Yeah. About the recruiting still. >> Yeah. She's she worked for up public schools, but she's going to she's going to be moving here. Her family, her dad, mom, and nobody moving down here. >> And we got to talk. She told me what she did. I said, it's closer. >> Yes, sir. All right. Any more questions for Dr. Buckley? Thank you, Dr. Buckley. That's a great update. >> That's a great update. All right. Moving on to support services, special projects, and other items since we have Mr. Lighten here tonight. Uh any questions for our transportation coordinator? There any updates? Uh since you last submitted your report, sir? >> I do have one update. We did take a hit today with
016a resution. But we did more of that. [Music] All right. >> Thank you. >> We will take that. >> Yes, sir. >> All right, Madam President. Anything else for Mr. Lion? >> No. Thank you, >> Madam President. uh any questions or that we might be able to answer or at least uh get an answer for you under tech coordinator maintenance um or food services. >> Did I agree was food services had a shortage for starting the year, right? >> Did I have openings there? Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. Well, um um Miss Kelly does have a um subpool that she's working on to see if they'll come on full-time for her. >> Okay. >> Yeah, that'll be good. >> Okay. >> Um just real quickly before we do move on with with maintenance, um
017um the reports were submitted last week, right? But um an update that if you the um paving on Center Street >> um has been completed. Um there's still some um concrete work um that they'll they need to do and the striping um that they'll they'll come back and do um I believe next week um if if I'm correct. So um it looks good. >> Good. >> It's an improvement most definitely. So, Madame President, um I want to thank you and the board for um having us move forward with that and and big project that'll just help us and the community as well and the safety of of of all around as well as our traffic, our buses. >> Right. >> Yeah. Most definitely. >> Okay. If there's no other questions under um support services or
018special projects, we will move to board policy. Madam President. >> Okay. Um Madame President, uh members of the board, in your packet was um a second reading for um policy JIC DAA. Um this is a um policy um that we had to update um that we had just under cell phone use um based on um legislation that was passed um um on the anti-distraction um legislation. Um so we have it as a um second read and any discussion um before we move on um to to the approving this >> approving it. >> I don't Does anyone have any questions or Okay. >> Yes, I have. >> Okay. Sorry. >> So So I I know that the elementary and and so no devices allowed on campus at all. Is that is that how I read? Is
019that the basically what it says >> for the elementary ones >> or must be turned off and stored in a student's >> turned off and stored in their backpack or in a secure location during the >> Okay. So that's the that's elementary and middle school. >> Middle school. Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> Mhm. >> I guess I didn't read it all the way. I didn't see the bottom that it went to the next page. I just went to the next highlight. Sorry. >> Okay. No. No apologies. Yeah. Yeah. >> So, okay. No, we're good. Did you have a qu >> Oh, I thought you said I have a question. Okay. Sorry, Mr. Travis. All right. >> Okay. If there's no no further um questions, then we'll move to approval. >> Madame President, I recommend approval
020of policy JICDA. >> Superintendent Bibiano is recommending approval of JICDAA, wireless communication device use. Is there's no further questions or comments? May I have a motion? >> All second. >> Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. >> All right. Madam President, um we do have a first read. This is policy IA, instructional goals and objectives. >> Um let me get myself organized here. Um this is an update to the policy that we already have in place um under instructional goals and objectives. um to revise, to add language related to science of reading and structured literacy, to ensure compliance with um legislation that was passed this this past legislative session for House Bill 156, and to add legal references um to the statutory section um um in which HB 156 is codified. Um
021if what is it I guess page number one um the highlighted area um all the rest of the language stays the same. Um but in the highlighted area that that we um will be required to to um have conversations on and and um to um comply with House Bill 156 says students shall be taught to read using science of reading structured literacy and scientifically based reading instruction. Literacy for instruction for English language learners shall include evidence-based practices for biiteracy differentiation and culturally and linguistically responsive instructions. >> So that's all that's that was added. Okay. >> What does that mean in English? >> Um so really the science of reading, structured literacy, scientific based reading instruction. Um I know in our district um we've really worked hard for several years um to to bring in the
022professional learning and professional de development. Um you know there are um once this language comes out there are companies out there that will claim that they are the science of reading or or scientifically based. Um but we really vet, you know, through our through our curriculum adoption that they're meeting um all of these um as well as as really moving into um and continue the training with um the letters training um that that the uh um elementary teachers are required to to um pass and take to get their reading endorsement. And um actually this will start moving us into um middle school and secondary um specific reading curriculum and and and training for for the teachers moving forward. >> Was that >> Yeah. I I just thought it was a lot of big >> big
023words for that. >> Right. And then and then I mean they there is specific in here about English language learners that our students um will also have access to evidence-based curriculum um to to move them um under not only the standards that we have for our language arts but for those students there's also it's a WEDA standards um in speaking and reading um writing and public speaking. >> Thank you. Yeah. A little more a little more targeted and fine-tuned under this policy. >> Okay. >> All right. And then, Madame President, u members of the board, the second the second first read, the next policy that we have a first read is a brand new policy. Um this is um new and is um added to address the requirements in legislation that was passed in House
024Bill 532 um that school boards adopt a water safety guidance. The the details of this guidance including providing local information for swim lessons and water safety are left to the district administration to develop. Okay, let me pull it up right now. So, in the second paragraph, it says that the district shall provide parents and guardians of each student with guidance developed um upon the students enrollment um or no later than the 10th school day of the school year. um what that looks like um you know is we're doing some more research how in depth um I know that there's been um some suggestions you know it could be a flyer um and on the flyer there are websites or there's information for parents to go and look up for water safety whether it's or where
025they can um enroll for swimming lessons um um you know um it could be water safety be around pools or it could be also water safety around lakes and rivers >> um as well. So there are some state agencies that have um these types of of you know this information on websites and so um still have some discussion with some of my colleagues on what exactly that looks like. Um it'll be different in some, right? Because some of the some of the school districts actually have aquatic centers or pools. >> Um um >> and or they may have an Aekia or a river or a lake nearby. >> Um >> but again, this is new. Um this would be a new policy added to our our policy um book um based on um House Bill
026um two um excuse me, uh House Bill 532. Any other questions or comments? >> I guess once we figure out what we're supposed to do, >> we'll do it. >> We will get it. We will get it to meet the timeline. Yes, sir. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Um, moving to citizens comments. None. Nothing online. Okay. Um skipping to uh advanced planning. Um gave you a list of seven items. >> Um either um committee work um with most of it just being um start of the school year coming up with teachers and staff members in two weeks. >> Um onboarding um you know beginning of the year convocation, first day of school. Um there's a lot there's a lot of of movement and a lot of moving and grooving moving forward. >>
027Yes sir. >> Someone went by fast. >> Yes. Yes. And as I get older, Mr. Chavis, I am falling into that conversation that it seems to fly by faster, you know. >> Um some of my colleagues having some conversations even today. um schools summer flying by even faster for them. There's some school districts are starting on July 30th, July 31st with students >> um because of just some movement with calendars or or just making some changes in their district. So, um but we'll be ready. We will open doors and those kids will be coming in, students will be coming in and we'll be ready for them. >> We'll be ready for >> Okay. >> All right. Madame President move to um um recommendation to enter into closed executive session to um address limited personnel matters
028um as permitted under section 10151 um H2 NMSA 1978 of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act specificative session with a roll call vote. Yes, Superintendent Vayano is recommending that the board adjourn to a closed executive session as permitted under limited personal matters as permitted under section 10151H2 on the New Mexico Open Meeting Act specifically to to discuss the superintendent's formative evaluation. Um, may I have a motion? [Music] >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor by a roll call >> Donner I. >> Albert Chavis I. any I >> Linda Hudson I >> All right. We are >> going to the cave. Yeah, we're good to go. Um, Madame President, I recommend coming um exiting and coming out of closed executive session. >> Uh, Superintendent Bibiano is recommending that we come out of our closed executive
029session. Um, do I have a second? Do I have a move? Motion. >> So move. >> Okay. >> And a second. >> So Mr. Chavis, motion, second by Miss Donner. >> Donner, I believe. So all those in favor say I. >> Oh, a roll call vote. Sorry. All right. So, Madam President, I recommend uh that we adjourn tonight's uh regular meeting. >> We are going to adjourn tonight's regular meeting. >> Let's get a vote. >> I thought we just voted. >> No, we can voted to come out of executive session. >> Executive session. >> I need a motion. >> Second. All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. All right. >> Now you can hit it. Meeting closed. I thought you said D.