001students um elementary kids really and and middle school students who have been um joining up on the uh on the sports programs um sports camps. um 60 students uh showed up for football um you know in the 30s for the others and and um what was it like today with cheer and and Mirage were today this week [Music] right Right. I think it was I had a personal insight on that. So I think it was more like 39 to begin with. Yeah. 39 39 at the at the Mirage Desk Dance Camp. So So thank you, sir. Yeah, good job organizing all that. All right. Um moving on to um board president and um board of education comments or accommodations. Oh yeah, I have this. Okay, let's do that first. Yeah, remember to bring it. Um,
002at the law conference this last week, um, we received again for the second year in a row, uh, for good participation and attendance in all of our trainings for our region. Excellent. Congratulations. Good job. There we go. Good job. Yeah. Put that up in the office. Thank you. Well done. I need to put that up in here. Okay. All right. Madam President, any any other board members? Mr. Lawson, the floor is yours. Um, I just want to say thank you to everybody and appreciate you guys bringing me in your life, but this will be my last board meeting. As of tomorrow, I'll be stepping down just due to family situation and I'll still be in the district, but I'm just going to be stepping away. Thank you. Well, thank you, Jeff, for your service. It's
003been an honor to work with you, and I'm sorry to see you step down and uh I wish you well, but thank you for your dedication to serving on the board. I just want to second that and tell you thank you for serving um and all that you've done for the school board since you've been here. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sad to see you go. Um I understand things are tough, but uh it's part of the plan, right? Yeah. So, uh we'll we'll we'll be seeing around. It's not like all of us don't run into you everywhere else. So, um but thank you. And I'm not stepping off or stepping off of anything like that. I'll still help out where I can, but I literally just moved out of my my So, member Lawing,
004I I too want to thank you for um the time that you've served on the MESD board. Um you've helped me grow in our conversations um as as superintendent, um your ideas, your thoughts, your participation as a board member um with everyone else as a team. Um, you know, a lot of people in in in the country may look at at a board as five in one. Um, but I've really come to, you know, especially listening to to our trainings and coming together, it's actually a team of six and uh you you've done a a great job of serving your your district um and advocating for the kids um all kids for the Morard School District. Um we'll we'll still keep you involved uh moving forward. I know CTE workbased learning is a passion of
005yours and um with among other other other aspects but especially with that. So we we'll keep you definitely um involved um with that. Thank you sir. Thank you. All right. Thank you for being here tonight. Yes. All right. Anyone else? Madam President? I have not. All right. Miss Natalie, if we are ready. This is a really weird echo going on here or something. Um, Madame President, members of the board, um, tonight under my superintendent's report and report out for the strategic plan. Um, we wanted to focus um on um on um the well-being and mental health focus area. Um the goal for that was written for the well-being and mental health um is focus area number two says provide a safe supportive learning and social environment where each member of the educational community can flourish
006in a respectful productive environment. And what we decided going into the strategic plan is to use um what the state was offering us um it's a panorama education. It's the surveys um that we looked at the data at the beginning of the year and then now again um this data just came out um last week um really to everybody and we we being the district administrators um and the teachers moving forward um have been presented with some with some really um good and interesting data that we can move forward with um with 90-day plans um in the when we first started Panorama two two years ago In 2023, it was really limited um on on what type of questions and surveys that were presented and who took these surveys um in the district. We decided
007moving with our strategic plan that we would give uh the opportunity for students, staff, um teachers and staff members as well as family members to respond. Um you know, some of the districts are doing that and some are only doing students um some are only doing family members. But the data that's presented um tonight is an overarching really big picture view. Um I presented um each board member or in in your packet or are it's a breakdown even more so. Um but continuing on with our focus area, we said by measuring um using the panorama survey um that we would increase um by 10% the percentages of a favorable um um mark on the surveys um by all these um stakeholders um on the climate survey. So we're going to focus more on the climate
008survey even though the surveys will present us more and we can move forward with it. Um if you look at grades 3 through five um compared to um the New Mexico public education um numbers that's across the state um we are right at the average. Um we did go down four percentage points so unfortunately we did not make gains. That's okay with our third through fifth graders overall. 8y olds. Yes. Yes. before lunch or after? Oh, you it's it's at different times. It's at different times. Now, with each of these each of these reports, um it does break it down per question. I mean, we can dive down as deep as um male students, female students, their demographics, and and so that's what the principles and the rest of the staff will be doing. Um,
009I do want to point out though, um, that even though we did went down four points, um, on the overall school climate in our in our youngsters, our third through fifth graders, on question number five, um, we did have, um, an increase, and that's the question, and you don't have the numbers there, but how clean is the building where you go to school? Um, and we got a green mark on that one. We went up 1%. Um, any growth is good growth, right? Um but if we look at the question right before it, um how well do students follow rules in your schools? Um it went down seven percentage points of favorable and the the answers are extremely well, very well, somewhat well, a little well, or not well at all. So it went down
010from somewhat well, had 177 um students answer out of 405, and then it went to 98 a little well, and then 25 students said students don't well at all. Um so that's that's the third through fifth grade um data on school climate. I apologize in the packets I did not um upload but I can definitely scan these in the sixth through 12th graders. So our secondary students. Yeah, I apologize. I I realized that this afternoon I was looking at it. Um so if you look at 2023 through 2025, it's a two two percentage point decline. I will point out on um question number five and I'll give um people an opportunity to guess which one that was. How clean the school building was. We went up um you know that's good data. that's data to
011go around and and dive into deeper um and and really recognize the staff members that are doing that for our students. And it looks like the students are recognizing the work that are being put in by our custodial staff and and the administrators to to monitor as well as maintenance. If you look at question number four again, how well do students follow the rules in your school? Um no, I apologize. Um, question number two, um, how fair are the rules at your school? Um, that one went down four percentage points. So, even though we have red arrows going down, um, we do want to work on on the data with the students, um, to get those arrows up in green. You know, 10% is is a big jump, um, in any of these any of
012these surveys, but uh, that's what we agreed upon. So, we'll we'll continue working with our students um on on these on these with these questions and and I guess the interesting piece for me would be, you know, um breaking down the demographics, right? Breaking down the demographics and who who did give us positives, more positives than negative um um you know, answers um with each of these questions because again, this is just an average, right? This is just an average. Um, Miss Natalie, if you'd go to the teachers or the staff, I should say. So, we were up six percentage points um, from and I don't believe, yes, this does have the 2023 as well. So, we went from last year from 59 to 54 and then we went up six percentage points. Um, six
013out of the nine questions that the the staff members asked um had a positive increases, the biggest is number um eight. If we go to question number eight and that question is that 29% jump. Um when new initiatives are presented at your school, how supportive are your colleagues? Um that's a huge increase. Um we didn't get to the 70% we would like on that one particular question. Um but you know that starts the wheels turning in our minds. What does that look like? Does that mean that the initiatives um let's say for example BTC we put in or any of the uh other math initiatives the trainings other things that that we've done how well are the colleagues supporting each other um and how well are the PLC processes um working um those are kind
014of inference um in between the lines that that that we just uh we were talking about in the past couple of days looking at this data um question number seven um We uh question number seven. We did have an increase of seven a decrease of seven percentage points. How often do you see students helping each other without being prompted? Well, my hope is that we see green arrows, especially after the collaboration strategies we're putting in, BTC that we're putting in and getting um all of our teachers and other staff members. Um again, this is teachers and other staff members that are answering this question. And then Miss Natalie. Oh, this one's everyone except teacher. Oh, okay. I apologize. Oh, that's the one that says on staff survey only. Yes. Right. So, there you go. So
015we had we did not give a 2023 again. We decided this year was the first year to to have um teachers um take take the survey. And then if you could scroll down ma'am the percentages are there that we can break down. The highest being overall how positive is the work environment in your school that went up five percentage points and then I believe there was a 10% a couple of 10 10%s down to what extent are teachers trusted to teach in the way they think is best so we can have deeper conversations about that and then on most days how enthusiastic are the students about being at school. So, I think it ties right into the teaching strategies. Um, how welcoming are our are our classrooms? Um, right to get the kids excited to
016to be there. And then family members, overall we had a 1% increase. Um, Miss Natalie, can you hover over um the 57% on the left? We only had eight responses in fall of 2023. Um there was a a pretty good campaign after we saw 134 responses. Um and we went up to 332 responses. So it's better data for us. It's better data. Um and and and we're very pleased about the response rates on that. Um out of of 10 questions for um family members, um seven out of 10 increased. Um, number two, I believe was the highest increase. Yes, number two. Um, and that's how motivated are the classroom lessons at your, um, child's school. Um, so parents are are giving us some some data that they believe that it is a little more motivating
017in the classrooms. Um, teachers aren't seeing the kids being as engaged. Um, so we got to make a connection there sooner, you know, sooner than later when we hit, um, the ground running in August. And then number one, um, was the lowest, to what extent do you think, um, that children enjoy going to to your child's school? Um, it's it's a 50/50. It's a 50/50, right? So, you kind of see a theme coming out, right, with the with these questions. Yeah. Yeah. At the end of the school year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That got to keep them motivated. bell-to-bell, first day to last day and engaged. Um there is there is um like I mentioned and and then we'll we'll we'll move on um a lot of work to be done um to get to the
01810% u favorable rate that we want across the board um increase 10 percentage points increase um with every one of these um subgroups um stakeholders. Um but that's drilling down to each one of these questions and and again when you look at data you board madam president and members of the board um some of the questions we chuckle at but you know what you may be right when did they take them? Was it in the morning? Was it in the afternoon? Was it you know end of the year? Was it during testing? Um but we have a certain window that we can give panorama. Um it's just a matter of of having the students um really um understand um the data that they're helping us with. So we'll communicate with them as well. I do
019like um the response rates that we got at the end of the year. Um and so what we will do is we'll put together a report um that breaks down even more of the data. Um a as a board um as a school district again we picked um school climate uh to be to be measured. But if you look here um barriers to engagement, school safeties on here um um Miss Natalie, if you could scroll down. Um now go to um students. Yeah. So if you go down to students down even more so even to that one right there the wellbeing and competency survey we start looking at self-management um sense of belonging self um self-efficacy um if you can hover over self-management the I so how will students manage their emotions through um thoughts
020and behaviors in different situations. Um so the work that we're doing um for self-regulation during seal um this data um madame president members of the board that that you see there as well as if Miss Natalie scrolls down even um I think it's the same isn't it right these will give us data points that go into um our engagement piece not just right if we look at our focus area for engagement if we look at our instruction of ELA and of reading and of writing um and of SEAL. Um all of this will will is more data than we we've had in the past. Um and and it's a baseline for us and we definitely can be looking at that when we come together in our work sessions um and and moving on with our
021strategic plan and action steps moving forward. One thing that that Panorama has that that we are going to take a closer look at um if if Miss Natalie could scroll up right there it says take um action with playbook. They have resources that are available um either for individual students or in the classroom or schools um that can give us some ideas um on on different strategies and different ways that we may not be um thinking about um or even implementing um to help uh increase the culture and engagement of our students. So I wanted to just give the overarching view and look at that again. um moving up to that 10%, we're not going to give up. We're going to, you know, hopefully keep that as our as our goal. Um and and and
022dive deeper into this. And I will I will we'll create a a report that gets in a little deeper and and and I'll provide it to um the board and then we can uh report out to to parents moving ahead on on strategies. So, I stand for any questions or comments. Ma'am, any questions or comments? Yeah, I did see one question in there that I thought um you know kind of stood out in my mind about bus services and transportation issues. It's a family survey I believe, Madame President. And um um member Young, it's question number two on the barriers to engagement. Yeah. And so there's only a 55% favorable. And it does say how big of a problem is the following issue for becoming involved in your child's current school. And it says transporta
023transportation related challenges. Um I went maybe um Vice President Young where you went with our transportation, but this may be is this a barrier for parents to get to the school as a transportation? Yeah. Yeah. That but we can dig deeper into that, right? Yeah, I just thought I thought it was I mean I know how how many buses, you know, we had to skip last year personally at my house. I mean so and you know we're fortunate enough to be able to get our kids to school and you know some folks I mean they get the call after they left for work or something like that. That was kind of that's how I took the question. Oh yeah, I did it. I did at first, but I also as I read these a little
024more, you know, the question may be geared more towards, do you have a barrier at your household to be involved with your child's current education? Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. But thank you for pointing that out. Yes, sir. And quite frankly, some of these questions are just silly. I'm sorry. Questions are silly. They're a little ridiculous. Yeah. How does how does this bring up bad memories of you going to school? Come on. That's it. It It's ridiculous. Now what what we could do um and if um what what we could do now that we have these questions as as the standard question across the state um there are they do have um opportunities for us to build our own surveys with a question bank, you know, um that that we could look at and
025um it it it could be very specific or very or broad um if we wanted to change up the tool measure um one of these one of these um um surveys or some of these questions. All right, any other questions or comments? Thank you. All right, you're welcome for providing this. You're welcome. Thank you. All right, then we will move on to the 2025 geo bond school election resolution. Um we have with us tonight um Mr. Mirhead. Um he is going to present to you. Um there was a change. Um the hard copy you have there was some the hard copy that I presented. Um he brought them tonight and I'll let him present. Yep. Thank you, Superintendent, Madam President, members of the board. This is the same resolution when Kaylee and I were here
026last month going through it. Uh about $20 million for a new geo bond election to keep the bond cycling program that RBC has put together. uh this will put that on the November 4th ballot for uh voters within the district to uh vote yay or nay on that. The change is on the SB9 question. Uh if you look on page two under the continuation of that public school capital improvements tax, there were the fourth line down 2027 2028 2029 and then 2030 and 31. Those got jumbled around and one was uh repeated. So just cleaning that up. So it's 27 28 29 30 and 31. So the tax is in place uh now in 2025 and again in 2026 at the two bills. This if it's approved would continue that tax uh for the next
027five years and put you on the right schedule for elections. So uh this continue this is just the actual official action following up on that work session last month. But I wanted to make sure I pointed out that one correction. I still happy to answer any questions. This will go to the to the county clerks uh for the three counties in which the school district sits and will be on the the district's ballot for November. Any questions? Public finance usually is a buzz killer. You had good conversation come in here start talking about public finance and y'all are like, "Oh, this year." Yeah. So, so does it. I mean, obviously what you guys So, obviously in what we have to put on the ballot, we can't we can't actually state the fact that there's no
028increase in taxes or anything like that. That comes up, you know, represent city about five years ago clerk was gung-ho on saying she kind of got the mayor deal with say let's put on each question that it won't increase your taxes and that was that was a fight because you can't do that because yes, the plan is and what RBC's put together for you that the tax rate should stay level under this rotating plan. However, what happens if there is a drop in assessments, a drop in property values, uh the others would have to go up to meet that. So while it's everybody's intention and the likelihood is yes, they do not change, you can't put that on the question because in actuality bond holders in this case you finance authority uh will have to
029have they have their primary credit strength is if it does drop if your uh property values drop and the assessments and property taxes come in lower because of that they can then through DFA and PE raise that rate so that it pays the debt service and that is automatic. That's what makes the general obligation bond which these are the strongest credit because ties property taxes and it's unlimited as to how much it can raise. Now that is sounds a little spooky but it it is really through what RBC does and the what the county assessors do in terms of setting property values. It is consistent. It is reliable. You know there aren't significant variations. The other good thing in in the school district is there is in any one particular industry that if Intel left
030or if some major employer left and all a sudden everybody's moving out of town your property values are going to go down. Um that isn't really the economic pace here in the district. So that's also another protection. So, it makes sense that you want to say that to people and you certainly can say as you're educating voters about it that it's our intentions that these property taxes will stay steady consistent with what you're already doing the go, but you can't guarantee that the likelihood of that happen. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Madame President, if there's no further questions for Mr. Mirhead, I recommend uh approval. I recommend approval of a resolution calling for election um for the MESD um for Morardi School District for the GEO
031bond um election and the public school capital improvement tax election that will be happening in November 2025. Superintendent Viviano recommends that we approve this resolution calling for an election to be held and the Morardi counties of Torrance um at the regular local election of November 4th for the purpose of submitting to voters to the district the questions of the issuance of general obligation school bonds and renewing the public school capital improvements tax. Do I have a motion? I move. I will second and all those in favor say I. I opposed. Thank you, ma'am. You're welcome. We will get signatures and then at the end and then we'll get it. Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. Moving along to um director of learning services board report. This is Romero's final report as director of
032learning services. Yay. You guys lined up all the questions for her today, right? Yeah. Yeah. Any questions? Any um changes to the report, Mrs. Romero, since you last sub since you submitted it? No. No. Yeah. Well, thank you for all the work you have done as our director of learning services. you're going to do an outstanding job at Mori Arti High School. Um she's already started a dual dual work. Um wonderful things are going to be coming out of Morardi High School. Um thank you for um taking on the challenge. um and for fulfilling um multiple roles that you did um to serve the kids um here in the district office and uh your services will be called upon regularly um for my benefit. Um Mr. Gats and Bey is doing a fine job in
033the transition. Um and again, thank you. We appreciate everything you've done. Thank you. Um, I also just wanted to say thank you as a new board member. Answering all the questions that I had that the rest of the board had helping us understand things from your report was very helpful. So, I just wanted to say thank you for that as well. I want to say thank you to you as well. It's been a pleasure um working with you in this capacity and we look forward to seeing you as working with you as the principal of the high school. It's a great high school and and they're doing great things and I know it's going to continue under your leadership as well. So, thank you for that. Um, I did enjoy um your proficiency mapping report.
034I enjoyed looking at the uh proficiency mapping and then the priority standards and from K through 12. That was quite brought back some memories of my own education. But anyway, thank you so much Madame President, members of the board, Mr. Mr. Biviano, thank you. Oh my goodness. This I'm not going anywhere. Um I just I really want to express um just my gratitude. Um it has been an honor to serve the district at this capacity um for for 10 years and um I'm excited about the new challenge. Um but it's just change not going anywhere. Um, you know, the high school is a special place and um, just near and dear to my heart and um, I think we have a great team and the students are amazing and I'm just excited for um, you
035know, start doing the work and being close to students and having that impact. So, thank you for allowing me to do so. Thank you. Thank you. All right, moving on to business. Um, we have consent agenda finance items one through four. Um, number four, you just keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Um, any um questions for um, finance director um, internet young before I make a recommendation? No. All right, then. Um, Madame President, I recommend approval of consent agenda finance items 1 through 4. Superintendent Vividiano has recommended that we approve consent agenda finance items one through four. Any no questions? May I have a motion? Um, I'll move a second. I second. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Okay. All right. Disposable uh disposal of fixed assets. Madame President, members of
036the board, this listing is of what we refer to as our IT dead room. So, it's um all the IT equipment in the district that no longer is functioning. The IT department uh clears the hard drives and stacks it in a room and then when the room is full, we try to find a recycler that will. The last few times we've been able to make a little bit of money back on it. not much, but we try um so that we can purchase some replacement items. So, it's been about three years since we've emptied that room. So, the list is very long. Um but the resolution kind of condenses it for you guys. So, Madame President, I recommend um approval of um the list on for disposable fixed assets. Superintendent recommends to approve the list
037of disposal of fixed assets. Um, if there's no questions, I have a motion. I so move. A second. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Madam President, members of the board, um we have two quotes um to work on the um Edgewood Library and Town Hall building um that we are um renting out to the town of Edgewood. Um we've had some issues where we've had some minor repairs and we thought we mitigated the issues with the with the with the roof leaking. Um it got to the point where um the company um Roof Care that we use came in and they did an infrared scan um a few weeks ago um which was interesting, right? Because they come in when the sun's going down. Um they did a scan
038um in your packet. Um there um there was um the the the quotes as long as well as as the pictures um and it shows that um a vast majority of the roof um is is good. Um and a majority of the problems and where the insulation in the roof would would need um work is around the HVAC units. Um not quite sure um why that's happening um if it's just the the installation um did not um come about properly like with every one of those HVAC units. But because we have two um quotes, one for repair around each one of the HVAC units, and that's um the one that I have here. It has the circles um around each one of them. Um that comes in um at at a at a 30 uh
039$2,400 um cost versus replacing the entire um south portion of the north building, if that makes sense. um where the where the library is primarily and some some going into the offices um just to do that part of the building um increases the cost to uh 180 I have it here 185,105 um so um huge discrepancy with the with the prices repair um versus completely redoing the roof um and I wanted to give the board an opportunity for discussion since we have two different quotes um and and see where we might go with it. That was fixed. That was fixed right before we got on the board. Most of us got on the board, wasn't it like two years ago that they you guys did the repair? I think it was a different part of
040the building. I thought it was the library that the repairs were done. Madame President, member Lawing, we have actually done multiple repairs on the top of that building. Um, and like Mr. Ribiano said, we keep thinking we've mitigated the problem. Um, they had they came back and at first told us it was just the HVAC units leaking. So, we thought we had mitigated that, but now we are at the point where they're um come going to have to replace the insulation and then reseal it again. So, and and where the infrared scan because they scan the entire building, the entire roof. Um it's in those areas that are just in the pictures. Um where they had orange or red or red um marking. Mr. Richie um has requested from the HVAC company to also go
041in and check the units and make sure that it is not the units leaking. Um we are waiting for them to get back to us on that, but we're going to make sure that we cover both areas this time. What um is this can it be covered? Is there is this an insurance claim or is this 100% on us? What how does this go? Um usually the insurance doesn't cover the roofs. Uh it's a wear and tear issue. The warranty is off this roof, so it's old enough that the insurance wouldn't come in. You know, if I could blame it on the hail that came through here, but it didn't hit Edgewood Elementary that year. I mean, that time. We didn't get it like you did. So, do we we have a we have a
042lease or rental agreement with the town of Edgewood? What What is that worth? I mean, what do we Is it $6,000 a month? Is it is it enough to like offset $185,000 in a a very short amount of time or is it Madame President, members of the board, when that lease was set up, it was set up as a 25-year lease. The town of Edgewood pays us $9,999.84 a year. [Music] So about 850 a month. Yes, sir. That's quick math if that's Yeah. Easy. That's that's I don't know what it is, but it's probably between $8 $900 a month. I mean, I don't think you rent a mobile home for that. So, so a true negative equity situation in this lease, it sounds like to me, I mean, to be realistic, I mean, yeah, putting
043the numbers together like that, for sure. Um, you know, as as the um as the um landlord, I guess, right? I guess we use it. It's in the least that we take care of this, you know, um and on on our on our budget um as is and as quickly as we can just like any other tenants would want if their landlords had were renting out from them. Um you know, I uh I do believe that um having the HVAC units and the area around them versus because the it was scanned the entire roof. um would be the fiscally responsible um way to go um right now with this. Um and then we do um we do have some uh I'd have to look again here. I apologize, Miss Internet. Do you remember the warranty
044on this? Madam President, members of the board, Mr. Viviano, on the repairs, there's actually no warranty. Well, no warranty. That's right. That's right. Um the in order to get a warranty, we would have to replace the whole roof. Um, the 185 1853,000 the difference is 153,000. Yeah, I'm sorry. The cost return on investment on that one's different for something we don't use. I think it's a bad lease, but you said a 25 year lease and we can't renegotiate that price at all. Madame President, members of the board, the lease actually stipulates in it that we will um renegotiate the cost of the um rent every five years. And the previous board was going to do that before they left, but we didn't they didn't get it done. So, it is actually past due to look
045at the price of that lease. Um, and I do know at one time we did have an appraisal on what the fair market value would be for that size of building and it was a little bit more than what they're paying. I don't think you could buy an RV and live in an RV park for 850 a month. I really No, you can't. You can even do it on base for that price. So can So I know this is how I say sorry can we put that on the next agenda then getting that looked at reevaluating agreement on that it's a fiveyear to try to offset that a little bit madam president members of the board I believe that's your call I mean that is what is stipulated in the lease that every five years
046we would um renegotiate the price of. So, so we're say year seven of this lease. So, we still have a few years before we can go back because it's every five years. It's not any time after 5 years. It's more than seven. I'd have to pull up that lease again. Caught me off guard on the question for I have it right. If you give me a second, just um I am not a legal attorney so I can't tell. Let me let me look into that and then I can get back to each. But I can tell you when the lease was um put into place. Maybe if my computer will play nice. All right. Are we ready to move on then? No further questions or uh so so what I get is um before we
047move on um the the board would um like um Mrs. Young and myself to look at the stipulations of that lease. Is it possible for us to bring it to the board to to talk about um a possible increase? Um or is it already past due and we have to wait till year 10, I guess, right? Is that what you're asking? Okay. Okay. or or move the maintenance wear and tear and replace stuff back to them. I mean, or any any of the verbiage in the in the lease. It sounds like they're getting they're getting a heck of a deal or have been getting a heck of a deal. I can't. Yeah. No, we need it now. Yeah, we need it now. Thank you. Yeah, if if you're okay. Okay. All right. Okay. So, um,
048Madame President, um, I recommend, um, approval of the, um, Edgewood Library and Town Hall insulation, um, replace um, fluids applied, um, quote by roof care for $32,416.90. So, it's just that one. It's It's just that one right there. Yes. Superintendent Viviano has recommended that we accept that we accept the Edgewood library and town hall insulation replaced with applied repairs for the cost that he stated um which was $32,416.90. If there are no further questions, can I have a motion? Make a motion to library installation. Okay. Is there a second? I'll second that. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. We have approved. Madam President, with the second quote then um I recommend that we do not approve the Edgewood Library 15-year renovation um of the roof. Superintendent Viviano has recommended that we
049do not approve the Edgewood Library 15-year renovation to include the wet area repairs of the roof. Um if there are no further questions, may I have a motion? also move to not to not accept to not accept that quote. Did I not say that right? No, I'm sorry. My recommendation my my recommendation is to not approve this quote. This quote I I second not approving it. Okay. Not approving. Yes. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Okay. We will not All right, Mrs. Young. Revenue and expenditure reports, fixed asset report, uh, reconcil reconciliation report, finance committee, and audit committee. Madam President, members of the board, um, I, as you know, I did cancel the audit, I mean, the finance committee meeting yesterday because the last at least month, I've been totally completely consumed with
050budget and I had nothing to with you guys about um I will report that um all of the budgets have moved through the first level and at least 11 of them this afternoon have moved through the second level of approval. So um our operational budget was through the first level last so things went pretty smoothly. um audit committee. I did reach out to the auditors today and they are they said we can do the audit entrance conference next week or we can wait till the first week of July. It's completely up to us. So I will be reaching out to find out what dates work better for you guys. We can get that set up. We are they already requesting information on you know the rosters but you guys are still in your same positions
051and that type of information. All right. Thank you, ma'am. Um, personnel, director of personnel, Dr. Buckley. Dr. Buckley's report. Any questions or any changes? Dr. Buckley. No, we've hired probably two employees since my report. So, we're down to 22 21. We've made some other offers, but um the individuals either couldn't be released from their contract or just couldn't get here. I like the spreadsheet. I know not everybody sees it, but I like that it visual like where it's all at three here or two there. Appreciate that. And I will say we made an offer to the transportation coordinator. Um he's accepted it in email but not nothing in writing yet. Is he local? Uh yes. Yes. Kids in the district and is trying to get from the city to out here. Awesome. All right. Thank
052you, Dr. Buckley. All right, Madam President, support services, special projects, and other items. Transportation, tech, maintenance, or food services. Any questions? Just in regards to transportation, we're lost a few bus drivers, it looks like. Yes, six now. for drivers and we had some move out of state completely which happens on Yeah. And so far only one signed up for the the next class. Okay. All right. Any other questions or comments? All right, Madam President. Then we move to support services, special projects and other items. Um item E action. Um um this would be approval for CNC plasma cutting machine um donated from Clayton schools. Miss Natalie, you have a little more information on that. Madame President, members of the board, um Mr. Andy's our welding teacher ha uh communicated with and communicates with welding teachers
053from around the state. And Clayton's uh CTE um department and specifically their welding teacher has a plasma um cutter that um they were getting rid of because they upgraded. It is in fine working condition and um so it's taken a little bit um of time, but they were able to disassemble it. perfectly and their board released it and so um Mr. Andes has a space for it in his shop and has some great ideas about um uh sustainable business for students um and u doing some work for the district. So, we're very excited from the Clayton schools of their CNC plasma cutting machine to Mori Arti High School. Okay. Superintendent Vibiano re recommends um the acceptance of the CNC plasma cutting machine donation from Clayton Schools to Mori Arti High School. If there are no
054other questions, is there a motion? I make a motion to uh accept a donation from Clayton Schools for the plasma cutting machine. A second. A second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Madam President, uh members of the board, moving into board policy. Um we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, uh second readings um with recommendations of approvals for each one of these. We'll go through these one at a time. Um and Mr. Loing, I will try to hustle through these. Okay. All right. So, we will start with the second reading and approval. Um I recommend approval of U policy advisory 253, which is policy JCE. School volunteers add nicotine to the list in paragraph 13 regarding things not to be possessed or used. I recommend approval of of 253. Okay.
055Superintendent Vibiano recommends approval of 253. Um are there any other questions? If not, may we have a motion? I Okay, go ahead. Um and then I'll second. Are there um all those in favor say I I opposed. And I say I next. All right. Policy JIC student conduct um add nicotine to the list of prohibited substances and add um A-0750 um to cross reference policies. So I recommend approval of policy advisory 254. Superintendent Viviano recommends approval of um student contact number 254. There are no other questions. I may we have a motion. I so move. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Okay. Moving on to um policy advisory 255 which is policy JICG tobacco use by students um um tobacco use by students smoking. Um um and
056it has um deleted um this entire um am I on the right one? JI GICG. Yes. To delete it completely out of our policy handbook. I recommend approval of of of uh deleting this. Okay. Superintendent Fibiano recommends we delete number 255, the tobacco use by students smoking. Is there a motion? So move. A second. I second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. 256. This is JKR. Um, this is regulation and exhibit. Add tobacco and nicotine to the list of prohibited items and add nicotine to tobacco reference policy advisory 256. I recommend approval of policy two uh policy advisory 256. Superintendent Gayaniano recommends uh approval of policy advisory number 256. JK-R. Is there a motion? Also move. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. Policy
057advisory 257. Ma'am, this is policy JLCD, admin, administering medicine to students. um add cross reference to policy A-0750 and delete cross reference to um policy JICG which was just deleted. So I recommend approval of policy advisory 257. Superintendent Viviano asked for approval of policy advisory number 257 JLCD administering medicine to students as he read it. Uh is there a motion? I so move. Is there a second? I second. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Policy advisory 258. Ma'am, this is um policy KF as an exhibit community use of of school facilities um site use agreement exhibit. It's to add nicotine to the list of prohibited items to be on campus. Um so I I recommend approval of policy advisory 258. Superintendent Vivian is recommending approval of policy advisory number 258 KF-EA community use
058of school facilities. Is there a motion? And is there a second? A second. All those in favor say I. We good? All right. All right. Uh, policy advisory 259. This is policy KFA, public conduct on school property. This adds nicotine to the list of prohibited items um in this policy. I recommend u approval of policy advisory 259. Superintendent Vibiano is recommending approval of policy advisory number 259, KFA, public conduct on school property, as he read. Uh, is there a motion? I move and a second. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. And lastly, for approval of policy advisory 260. this policy KFA and KFA the regulation that goes along with it. This is to delete policy KFAA um entirely out of our policy handbook. Superintendent Viviano has recommended policy advisory
059um as he stated to be removed from our student handbook. Is there a motion for this? I move. A second. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. We will get these updated and put into the into the um board policy handbook. U Madame President, we have first reading. This is a first read of policy JICDA, wireless communication device use. Um the um draft version that I provided you um is basically a revision of the cell phone policy that we have in our in our current policy um board policy. Um on page one, I believe I gave you hard copies, right, to look at. Yeah. Um just an example on page one, the first paragraph, um in capital letters, it says wireless communication devices. um anywhere um
060for the most part where it said cell phones because that's what it really just was geared toward, we um we put um wireless communication devices. Um this is coming out of um the legislation for the anti-distraction policy and needs to be in place by um by the time school starts. So that's why we have our first read now and a second read in July. Um right below that where you see the bullets um that is required by state statute now to have a definition um wireless communication devices include but not limited to and then each one of those are listed. Um we do have on page one now if you look on page uh on page one there is number two respect for um educational environment. So we have number one number two and then
061on the next page number three. Okay. in our current policy. Number two really is specific towards elementary and middle school. So I'd like you to think about if we keep that very specific where they are not out at any time at any time. Whereas if you go to page number two and it's it's three at the top of the page, cellular phones and other devices may be used appropriately respectfully before and after each class or in appropriate um common areas during the day. um that would be high school and say in the policy only high at Morardi High School. Um the legislation specifically states that these items, the wireless communication devices are to be prohibited during instructional time. And so the rest of the policy kind of lays out what instructional time looks like um
062or or what it is um how we define it. And then we actually have a little more when it comes to respect for privacy, assuring academic integrity. Um, and onto the next the last page. And on the last page, exemptions for students to use wireless communication devices. I kept this in capital letters as well because this is additional language that would have to go in no matter what our policy looked like um or how it read. Um, and there are very there are there are several variations going around now um for for for school districts to look at. Um, but we do have to put that medical necessities, emergencies, and accommodations as prescribed by an IEP or a section 504 plan. So, um, if you would take a look at this as a first read,
063let me know if you have any questions. Um, I will I will um put in there the elementary, middle school, and high school specific language and have that emailed to you within the next day or so um to update um the revision and do a revision number two. Okay. Of this policy. Okay. Okay. Any questions or comments at this time? Thank you. All right, Madame President. Um we do not have any citizen comments and so we move to advanced planning. Um I just have two items. Um the M meesd administrator a board of education retreat in Santa Fe July 10th through the 12th. Um I will be sending you um either tomorrow or Thursday. Um a little more specific agenda on that. Okay. Um but really broadly what it looks like is the 10th would
064just be MEESD administrators and then on the 11th would be um the board can is invited to come in and join us um whenever you can depending on your schedules. Um and then working all together definitely on the 12th for a half a day. Um but if you have questions let me know okay please let me know. Okay. Um and then we have our regular board meeting um scheduled for July 15th. I would like you for to um consider moving it to that Monday um instead of the Tuesday. Um we have trainings and we have other things going on. So um we will we ask me any questions or we can talk about that any further. All right, with that being said, I recommend um adjournment of tonight's regular meeting. Superintendent Gabiano has recommended the
065adjournment of tonight's board meeting on August 17th. Nope. June. August. June. I'm sorry. June 17. I jumped ahead. I jumped ahead. June 17th. May I have a motion? I so moved. And there is a second. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned. Right. Yep. All right. at 7:05.