School Board Meeting (5/20/2025)

001All right. I call the five o'clock work session on Tuesday, May 20th to order and we will go forward with um the agenda for the work session. I turn it over to Antuinette. All right, Miss Young. Madam President, members of the board, um I would like to go over 911. Um, we went over last meeting the wishes of the budget committee and we talked about what you guys would like to have see implemented in this new budget. Um, it was nice to have a little bit of money to be able to to add some things this year. We spent a lot of years cutting things and so when we have a year like this where we can add some things, it's always pleasant. Um, so the only things I changed were the things that we

002discussed last meeting. We didn't make any other changes to the budget other than those. So to start with, um, we moved approximately $450,000 worth of salaries and benefits from the title one budget into the operational budget due to um a cut to that title one budget from the feds. Um, we were able to add an FTE for an assistant principal at Minority Elementary School. We were able to add an FTE for a career technical educationworkbased learning coordinator. We were able to add an FTE for another security guard at MHS to help with the ISS students supervision. We were able to add an FTE for family and consumer science. We were able to increase the athletic coaching stipens and to increase the lunch duty stipens. We were also able to um continue to fund the afterchool

003programs like we have like we have the last in the last fiscal year. Um and we were able to increase the salaries for the office staff which was high on the priority of the budget committee. Um, the only other thing that happened between the time that I sent you the report and today was yesterday, Miss Romero got her idea B budget and we did experience a cut in that budget as well. Not as significant. It was about $100,000 that we had to move out of idea B um into operational. So, my report that I have up on the screen is just a little bit different than what I sent to you, but the difference would be found in the salary and benefits lines. Um, on page two, we had to move a point, it was

004two different staff members, but a point two of one staff member and a 0.5 of another staff member out of idea B back into operational um to service those special ed students. So, it wasn't as bad as it could have been. We were a little worried about how bad that cut might be, but it was still another cut. So, I did have to make that adjustment. Um, and the I took from the report that you have, the line that I took that money out of was um construction services. So, I had put some extra in that line for next year to accomplish all these things that we're hoping to get done. Um, but I just had to pull back on that number a little bit to cover the $100,000 I had to move out of

005idea B. Um, other than that, everything remained the same as last year other than the mandated salary and benefit increases. Um, we didn't put extra money anywhere else. So at and in at looking at this report I I don't know if all of you remembered from last year but budget is what we have this year projected is what we're projecting we will have for next year. So this first page is revenue and those numbers are a little bit um lower than what we'll actually end up with at the end because of the fact that we haven't received all of that revenue yet. We'll still have some payments coming in in May and in June. So if you look at the state equalization guarantee there about the middle of the page, it only shows 26 million.

006That's because we have not received the uh May SG payment or the June SEG payment. So um that's why that's a little bit different there. So, that's really all of the changes that I made, but I stand for questions if you saw any lines that stood out to you that you have questions on that I can give explanations to or anything like that. Like I said, we were just excited to be able to accomplish pretty much the entire wish list. The only thing I didn't get in there was that uh the possibility of paying the 80% of the insurance benefits. Okay. Okay. All right. Does anybody have any questions from Mission? You answered my one question. Yeah, there you go. That's it. Yeah. So, thank you. That a lot of hard work. We're excited to

007have it done. Superintendent Viviano, do you have anything? Um just want to thank uh Antonet and her staff and and all the staff uh that uh you know it's it's a obviously it's a team effort all the way from um the committee that was made up of staff members um all the way you know up to the board having discussions um school site administrators um getting coordinators involved. Um, Antonet, you know, says that, uh, you know, we're excited, um, about having this money. Um, there was, you know, a lot of thought put into spending the money that we can, um, that we would use to make sure that whatever was added to the budget this year, those FTEEs or those stipens, um, were going to be sustained, um, not just a one-year shot, um, centered

008around the goals that we have for our strategic plan. um as well as as support um needed across the district and in certain schools. Um so, you know, with uh transportation again um being able to budget all that uh then um getting a little bit of increase, it's uh it was good work by by everyone. Um it's a it's a daunting task at times. Um but uh our you know, we're lucky um as a district to be able to have some extra time. um you know hopefully um moving forward when we get into our regular meeting with um an action item to approve um the um 910 B5 and this budget um we can start making some moves and and doing some some things to get ready um starting tomorrow actually you know starting tomorrow.

009So um appreciate um the board members their comments and and all the thought that they put into uh uh and questions they put in um to this process. So, thank you. I echo that. Thank you to your staff and to your uh finance committee um and for all the work that has been done to put this together. It's a great budget it looks like. And um I didn't mention that, but Mr. Rabiano kind of touched on it. we we will see a little bit of an increase in the transportation budget of about $400,000. So hopefully we won't have to supplement as much next year. We definitely still will because some of that will get eaten up by their their salary and benefit increases. So um but that was a pleasant surprise because um we have

010been supplementing that budget quite a bit in the past. Um, oh, the other thing I did have to pull back into operational, which I know I mentioned at the last meeting, but just to remind everybody was the family income index, um, money going away this year. They did not, the legislature did not refund that. So, we did also pull those positions back into operational um, to be able to continue to support uh, that school with those positions. Um, I'm just scrolling through here real quick to make sure I didn't forget anything else. So, transportation was a good thing. Um, our SB9 money will be about the same. I think we'll get a they're anticipating a little bit more um property taxes this year to help with that than last year, but it's pretty stable. Um,

011and all of our other funds pretty much stayed the same. So, welcome, M. And we're just kind of concluding this. Do you have any questions? Okay. Thank you. All right. Antinet said she was going to go for about an hour and a half when we first Yeah. Yeah. line by line. line by line. Um, but I'm glad we had the work session and and um during the special meeting a couple weeks ago to to dive in deeper to dive in deeper. All right. So, next on our um Madame President, members of the board on our um work session agenda um staff members from um RBC Capital Markets are here to um talk to us about moving a forward with our um geo bond um election coming up um in November. Um that's really important for

012our school district and every school district to uh help us out with funding. Um, this is a preliminary um, report um, to get ready for um, and I and I believe in an email I explained a resolution that's going to have to be um, passed um, in June so we can get the resolution um, to all of the county um, county clerks um, where where polling will take place um, for voting and um, um, I think that's it, right? Yeah, that's it. All right. So, I'll let the staff introduce themselves and uh thank you guys for for being here tonight. Well, thank you superintendent for that introduction. Uh good evening, madam president, members of the board. My name is Kayley Wyersk with RBC Capital Markets. We're your municipal adviserss. I'm Chris Mirhead with the Model

013Sperling firmware bond council for this. Well, great. Well, again, tonight we don't have any actions for the board. We just want to talk a little bit about the resolutions that'll be in front of you at your June meeting, both referring to your upcoming election and also a tax rate resolution. You know what our goal for today though is to just educate you guys on your current plan of finance and just kind of game plan a little bit. So without further ado, I'll just go ahead and jump right into it. So our first slide, we have the district's history of assessed valuation. You know, this is your tax base. It is comprised both of residential and non-residential values. Looking at your residential values, they've continued to grow pretty strongly. They make up about 72% of your

014tax base, which we really like that because generally residential values fluctuate less than your non-residential values. you know, we believe that that growth will continue on um into the foreseeable future. Looking at your non-residential values, those continue to have some growth, but are subject to more fluctuations. You know, we're not as concerned about that, though, because that only makes up about a third of your tax base in total. So, all in all, for tax year 2024, the district's assessed valuation came in at about $774 million. That was a 6% increase compared to last year. you know, your 5-year average growth rate is sitting at 6% and your 10-year average growth rate is sitting at 4.3%. But, you know, to be conservative, we anticipate that your AV is only going to grow by about 2 and

015a.5% year-over-year. And that's just to be conservative in case those growth rates don't continue to keep up at this very aggressive rate. You know, additionally too, another thing that we're looking at is uh some constitutional amendments that were passed by voters this past November. And I will let Chris talk a bit more on that. Sure. So, actually, if you go on the slide, uh Kaylee has them in the slide on page six. Uh you may recall in the November 2024 election, there were two constitutional amendments on there related to veterans exemptions. Uh almost there. Two more. There. There it is. Two constitutional amendments were up for a vote. So, to amend the constitution at the state level, you need a a vote of the public and to and majority in support. So the first constitutional

016amendment was to increase or provide a property tax exemption for disabled veterans that were disabled at not 100%. And so that one exemption before the amendment only disabled veterans who were 100% disabled had a full exemption for property taxes. the new amendment that passed and it will go into effect this year uh is you can if you're disabled whatever your rate of disability has been determined that is your property tax exemption. Okay. And so generally if if you fall within that that would be the exemption that you would use. So that passed. The second constitutional amendment was for all veterans uh that historically they were getting a $4,000 deduction or exemption off of their property tax value. uh that was increased to $10,000 uh through that constitutional amendment. And so, House Bill 47, which is

017me mentioned in the third bullet point, uh was passed in this most recent legislative session. What that did was just codify these constitutional amendments. So, the amen the constitution amendments were approved and House Bill 47 just puts them into law. So, now they are in the state statutes. Both of these uh exemptions uh do have a a negative impact on property tax revenues. There's obviously strong societal reasons you have them, but they do have they do lessen the amount of money coming in. And as Kayle's presentation said, based on the 2024 tax year, you'd see a 3.4% uh drop uh in your property tax values. Just uh kind of further on that. So for tax year 2024, you know, the veterans exemption and a disabled veterans exemption was $26.5 million of property tax exemption in

018total. So if you scroll to the next page, actually on that the very last slide of this presentation. So that's an overview of this year, but then the next slide shows, you know, what are going to be those impacts once those constitutional amendments come into effect. And so because we're widening Oh, sorry. Go up. Thank you. um because we're widening those property tax exemptions, more folks will be exempt from their property taxes. So, all in all, we think that this will impact your AV by about $51.2 million or by about 6.6%. Um we think that for constitutional amendment 2, the $4,000 up to $10,000 exemption, we think that'll hit the tax roles next year. And then for the disabled veteran, we think that'll come into full effect um the following year in 2027. You know,

019to be frank, we're not entirely sure how this will shake out in reality. It really depends on how many disabled veterans, um, their level of disability, if they even know to file, stuff of that sort. But we use very conservative estimates for your drop in your assessed valuation. And this is something we are taking into your financial planning for tax rate setting and also the upcoming election, too. All right. Well, with that, then we'll skip back uh back over to slide two. All right. So, here we have the district's history of tax rates. You have an operational tax rate in place along with your SB9, your 2 mill levy. You have had an $8.15 general obligation bond debt service tax rate historically, too. So, that your overall residential tax rate has been uh stable at

020$10.50. Our current plan of finance is based off of keeping your tax rates at these current levels. that includes the future election amounts and future bond issuances too. You know, additionally, I mentioned a tax rate resolution. So, in June in front of you will be a resolution. It is a new resolution and really what this resolution does is that it states that, you know, for tax year 2024. Our debt service tax rate was $8.15. And it is the desire and um goal of the board, the intention of the board for the tax rate to be the same again for tax year 2025. The reason why we're starting this new resolution is because last year with setting tax rates with peed um peed had requested some documentation supporting a district's desired tax rate or kind of

021like a statement. Unfortunately, we didn't have that documentation at the time. So, in response to that, we have started this resolution. Now, I will say that um you know, in our discussions with peed Morardi Edgewood schools never came up. Um, you know, this is more of a precaution for some other districts, but because we're offering it to uh some of our school districts, we wanted to offer the option to all of our school districts, too. The last thing, too, is with that tax rate resolution. You know, it doesn't guarantee what the tax rate will be next year. It's really just stating our intent or our goal of what we want it to be. You know, ultimately, your tax rate is dependent on your assessed valuation, too. And we won't really know those preliminary figures until

022late summer. All right. So, continuing on. So, on slide three, we have the district's um outstanding debt. So, in total, the district has 20,65,000 of general obligation bonds outstanding across 10 different issuances. You know, as municipal advisers, we always look for potential refinancing opportunities, but seeing how the average outstanding coupons on your debt range from just 6% only up to 2.5%, there just aren't any feasible refinancing opportunities in this market. But that's something we always uh keep an eye out for. You know, additionally too, on the bottom of the slide, you can see your principal and interest payments in that bar chart there. And you'll see that your debt is rapidly declining. We structure that on purpose. This allows us to layer in future debt issuances without a tax rate increase. We also like that,

023too, because it creates interest cost savings throughout the life of the loan. So, on average, we've been pricing your bonds with only a 10-year maturity. So slide four kind of just looks at your overall debt management plan. So first looking at SB9, you know, the last time we went out to voters for SB9 was back in 2021. Um we're scheduled to renew it now in 2025. Now I want to note that, you know, your old resolution for SB9 that was approved back in 2021. That does provide authorization through tax year 2026. But the reason why we're renewing it now is because school districts can only go out to ballot on oddnumbered years. you know, although we have that authorization through 2026, we wouldn't be able to renew it until 2027. If we wait until then,

024we would have a lapse in your SB9, which is why we're getting ahead of it and doing it now. You know, looking for general obligation bonds. Your last geo election was $11 million also back in 2021. Because we've sold all that authorization, we're getting ready to go back out to voters this upcoming November. So, the election amount we've projected for November is $20 million. And that amount was decided and based on keeping your tax rate level, that debt service tax rate level at $8.15. Now, I understand that $20 million election amount is a bit of a jump compared to $1 million. The reason being is because of that aggressive growth within your assessed valuation. Again, we've been growing at above about 5% year-over-year. And because of that growth in the assessed valuation, we're able to

025go out for larger geo bond elections without needing a tax rate increase. You know, the last thing on this slide that I want to note is um the district's legal bonding capacity. So, state statute allows school districts to bond up to 6% of their assessed valuation. So, 6% of the district's 2024 assessed valuation is 46.4 million. Since we've sold 20.6 million, you know, we have an additional $25.8 left to issue. But the reason why we're not going out to voters for that full $25 million is because that would require a tax rate increase. you know, we're more constrained by your tax rate capacity than your legal capacity. And then the next slide is is really just um just an overview of all your election timings. So again, election authorization lasts every four years. You know,

026we we successfully go out to voters this upcoming November. We have that authorization for four years. We'll go back out to voters in 2029. We're currently projecting an election amount of $26 million. Again, that's depending on the growth in your assessed valuation. you know, if the growth continues up, bigger elections in the future, but if we see some faltering in your collections or your tax base, that 2029 election amount will go down a little bit. You know, additionally for SB9, that authorization does last for six years. So, once we renew in 2025, we won't need to renew again until 2031. You know, the next couple slides are that um AV analysis that we had. We can skip past that. You know, the last slide is really just kind of the overall timing of the election.

027So again, tonight we're really just discussing the resolutions, getting up to date on the plan of finance, and then at your June 17th meeting is when we'll go ahead and adopt the election resolutions. You know, I'll let I'll let uh Chris speak on that because I'll honestly pass that right now. Okay. So, yeah, as Kaylee pointed out, for both the SB9 and the general obligation bond authority, you need to go to the voters. Um and so uh what you'll pass in June is a resolution that has the election question in it for the SB9 and either in that same one or separately whatever we decide you know is is the cleanest uh you'd have one in there for the geo bond as well. And so on the SB9 it lays out the entire basic statutory

028authority that uh provides maximum flexibility to the board and how they ultimately you want to use that money. Um and the geo bond again will keep that question very broad to give the board maximum flexibility for the projects. So uh the June 17th would be the the uh seminal moment for just getting all that done, sending those in to the respective county clerks and then it would pop up on the November uh 4th, 2025 ballot. After those both pass, uh then as Kaye mentioned, you have six years on that SB9 election before you'd have to go back out. It would give you six years authorization. You would have four years to issue the $20 million in GEO bonds. If you didn't issue the full 20 million, whatever you did not issue, you're just get you're

029just letting go. So, happy to answer any questions. Once you, as you've seen through the geo bond process, once you get it approved and you come back, there's a whole separate process for actually issuing the bonds for the projects, but we'll walk you've done it before and we'll walk you through that again. But this is what's happening with the the elections. I know the only thing I want to add to is that as we go up to election day and you guys should be talking to your local community, your teachers, the parents, stuff of that sort. Um, you know, explaining the importance of these projects. You know, any sort of election materials that you guys have. We'd appreciate it if you could pass along to us just because there are some laws um around what

030we're allowed to communicate to voters. Again, as a basic rule, we can't tell them vote yes. We can just tell them to go vote. And so, just little nuances like that we like to check. You know, that really does uh conclude our presentation. Um we stand if there's any questions about the plan of finance or about the election or kind of anything that's coming up. So I quick question. You said we can't publish anything or put anything out there that says vote yes, but if a local business was to that's on their own Yep. that's on their own accord and that's okay as long as public monies are not funding um that advertisement. Yeah, if there's a a generous wealthy person in the community then they have free reign to do what it's as they

031would like. Um no, I think it's a good question. Board itself can't take a decision as an individual board member. You can certainly say this is what we're going to do. This is why it's a good idea. Yep. And also no tax rate increase. That's a very important thing to communicate to the community. Yep. No tax rate increase. Thank you. All right. Well, again, thank you guys for your time. Should you need anything, feel free to reach out to myself or Chris or any of our colleagues. And um again, we will be back. I'm not sure if I'll be back or Eric will be in person. Those resolutions will be in front of you in June. Thank you. Thank you. down here. Okay, here we go. All right. Right on the dock. All right. May

032we um join in our six o'clock regular meeting uh which will start here at six o'clock straight up. And would you stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance 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. Madame President, Madam President, move to um recommend adoption of tonight's agenda. Um as as is. Okay. Superintendent Viviano has recommended that we adopt the agenda for this evening as is. Uh are there any questions? May I have a an a um motion? Motion. and a second. Second. All right. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Okay. Motion carried. Thank you, ma'am. Welcome. Yes. All right. And welcome to guests. We have another room

033filled tonight. That's always so enjoyable to come and have a room full of people to be here and be a part of our our meeting tonight. So, thank you for joining us. And now we'll have um the action to approve approval of the minutes. Madam President, I recommend approval of minutes from uh draft uh minutes from our special meeting um that we had on May 6, 2025. Superintendent Beiano recommends that we accept the draft of our special meeting minutes from May 6th of 2025. May I have a motion? A second. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. I. opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Thank you. Madame President, if I may, before we move on, um I'd like to publicly express our condolences to the family and friends um to the Morerti High School senior

034that passed that passed away on Friday. Um tragic incident um that happened in Albuquerque. Um so again, condolences to her family, to her friends. Um and Morardi High School is um working on recognizing her as well um along with the rest of the seniors um on Friday when we have graduation um at 10 o'clock. So thank you ma'am. Thank you. Um with that uh we go to um Morardi Edgewood School District Spring Sports. Uh Mr. Nia, you got a a large crew with you today. He's got some announcements I would think on uh some results from uh the track meet that happened. So we Yeah, it's the floor is yours, Mr. Nia. You want to grab the grab the mic? Yeah. New routine still. Okay. I don't want Good evening, members of the board, Mr.

035President, Superintendent Bibiano. Um we're going to start by recognizing our softball team. They uh finished second in district and made it to the first round of the state playoffs this year. Um this is twice in four years. So coach, congratulations. Congratulations to your team. And we'd like coach come up and say a few words. [Applause] Uh thank you. Uh I'm Coach Patricia up until Friday. Um, I um am gonna go pursue my dream of watching my own daughter play at the college level. So, I'm gonna play the parent role. Um, but I'm here tonight to thank all my softball um families for supporting us over the last four years at the high school. Um, I'm going to invite Coach Amy up here and coach Kevin to talk a little bit quickly about the JV and

036then I'm going to run through some of our fantastic um, varsity stats um, that our ladies were able to accomplish this year throughout the district um, as well as at the state level. So, Coach Amy and Coach Kevin and softball girls, if you would like to come up and join us, you're more than welcome. Or you can just uh wave. Just wave. Oh, they're coming. Powerful. Um, all right. I'm Coach Amy. I'm the head JB coach. Coach Kevin. My dad, the assistant, um, took over basically for me. I was on maternity leave half of the season, so he took over. Um, so our stats are mostly to him this year. Um, but we were 14 and nine overall. It was our first winning season we've had um since we've been JV coaches. We were 10

037and two in district. We were one game away from district champs. Um, self-declared. Yeah, doesn't really count in JV, but we were counting it. Um, so some stats for the team as a whole. We had a 354 batting average, uh, which was above the national average. 313 runs scored, 151 hits, and we had three home runs over the fence. Um, a 196 Oh, 196 RBI's. I couldn't read my stats. Um, a 699 fielding average. Um, and we played 21 games total where the national average is only 10 games total for JB. So, we played double what the national team's national average is for JB. So, we we had a heck of a time. The most girls we've had come out um this since we've been here, since you've been here also. Um so, we had

03819 girls. We started with 21. We lost a couple to grades. Um seven of them were returners and the rest were all new. So, we we had a great time. It was a great season for us. So, thank you. Um, right. Every everyday varsity team can only be success successful with the teams they're building underneath them, right? So, we made the decision to keep um the girls and didn't cut anybody and some of them had never thrown a softball or swung a bat in their lifetime. Um, and so it left a big task up to coach Kevin and coach Bobby at the beginning of the season. Um, but they did a phenomenal job and it's going to build a path to making a really good varsity team next year. um because we are losing six

039seniors. Um so with that being said, um a little bit about the varsity. Um the Morardi varsity softball team had an impressive season finishing 19 and seven overall, recording second place in district and advancing to the state tournament which we were seated 14th. We ended up back in Lovington. Uh and unfortunately Lovington always has our numbers. So we lost that game, but the girls learned a lot through their lessons there. Um and and played an impressive game. Unfortunately, it was maybe our worst defensive game we played all season. Um the stage definitely got to them. Um but they left it all on the field and that that's what we asked for them. Um so some of our highlights to accomplish through our district selection is we had eight different selectes. We had four um members

040who were named to the second team all district was which was Antinet, Aninsley, Leah, and Emma. And then we had four picked to the first team all district which was Shay, Sienna, Christina, and Isabella. Um, and we also were lucky enough to have Isabella Gyos named as the district 2 4A player of the year for our entire district. Um, earning um, by her stats and the recognition of the other four coaches out there. Um, with a pitching um, erra of 2.67. That's an earned run average. So, that's how many um runs the other team has earned on her. Um she had 136 strikeouts this season and she'll end her career with 597 which will lead her second in the state New Mexico state history. Um she also has many state records um that will be

041published starting next week. Um and I would be happy to share them with the board to put in their notes. Um so she'll collect those um on behalf of Morardi softball. Um, so she was selected also as an all-star player, which is the first time in Morardi's history as a softball player and the first time in a long time for our own district. Um, she'll she'll be proudly representing not only our district, but Mardi High School at the New Mexico All-Star Games uh May 30th and 31st at Cleveland High School. Um, we want to directly uh thank the school board, Miss Linda and coach Annayia for continuing to support the softball program and myself over my last six years of coaching at the middle school or at the high school level. Your dedication to our

042student and athletes has made a lasting impact on my life and their life as well. Thank you again for supporting Morerti softball. [Applause] Um, as coach mentioned, she's stepping down to be a mom. Go watch your daughter play softball in California. But we do want to recognize her for her hard work at Mororti High School. Um, she's been our head coach for six years, two years at the middle school, four years at the high school. And coach, congratulations. Thank you so much. And that's our softball team. Okay, next is going to be um I'm gonna let Coach Mcdana talk about our cheer team. Coach, you're up. She has she's working on her doctorate right now, so I know she's in a hurry. She said, "Call me first and I forgot." Sorry, coach. No, it's okay.

043That was wonderful. I'm so glad to hear that um everybody's doing so well, the softball program. That's something to be proud of. Um I am here to just talk about cheer. I understand that the coach that's taking over just had tryyous and has a team of over 20. Uh, which is amazing. I'm very excited. Uh, she's a great person to take that over. Aaliyah Stabling. Um, oh, I didn't know you were here. Get up here. Come here. Are there any other cheerleaders here? Get Jasmine, get up here. I didn't know you guys were here. My gosh, I should let them talk. This is their team. Um, but yeah, the I had three years and these two actually have been there all three of those years and have been amazing. So, I assume you're going on

044with the next team, right? Okay. Do you want to tell them uh what you're expecting for the team? Hi everyone. Good evening. I'm expecting to see us at competition this year like we had last year with Miss Fenna as a coach. Um, and I'm I'm really excited that we have over 20 girls. We haven't had that since my freshman year. And so I think that's really exciting for our 25 and 26 school year. Anyway, thank you. I didn't know I was giving a speech, but I'm truly grateful for the opportunity. Um, anybody who hasn't coached, you have no idea the lives that get touched between you and the athletes and you go on and see them do great things. And I am stepping away to take care of um my own schooling and stuff and

045I know that they're going to do great things. So, Coach Nia, thanks for uh talking me into it and asking me to do it. It has been a pleasure. Um, so carry on the legacy, ladies. Don't go anywhere. Um, as she said, Coach Mcdana, this is her last season. Um, she came to us. We really needed a cheer coach and she's done a heck of a job recruiting kids, keeping kids, and really taking this program to another level. So, coach, thank you. We like to offer you excellent. Um, next we'd like to bring up Mirage Tanya Chavis. [Applause] So, I typed something up. I don't like, believe it or not, talking in front of big groups and stuff. And so, we're just so appreciative for the support that we receive for our program. Um, we're

046small. Um, this is not all of our girls, but we are a small program, but they are always super strong and, um, it's more than just a team. We really are a family, and that's kind of our motto, um, throughout the year. And so, um, we are a year-round sport. And so, most, if not all of these girls when they come in, um, come out with any prior dance experience. And so, they really start the year from scratch, not having any experience. And if you watch them from the beginning of the year till the end of the year, the growth that they display is just tremendous. And the things that they do to get there, um, constantly pushing themselves and pushing each other really, really is something that I'm so proud of. So, um, the

047dynamic that they have, like I said, it's more than a team. They're a family of sisters. Um, and they're always there to lift each other up and encourage each other and push each other. Um but having those high expectations and challenging each other to rise to the next level and not allowing the person next to them to be lazy or to doubt themselves. Um they're just really really a supporting group of girls which um we had been lacking for many years in these past two years with these young ladies has just been amazing. Um our competition season went really well. We drove to Tukim Carry um which was a trek in itself because of course it snowed and um it was ugly um you know for snow that wasn't supposed to be there. but they

048placed first for both of their routines. Um, and they were really excited about those. And then at state, we placed eighth. Um, with just a 10 point, I'm sorry, a tenth of a point difference between us and seventh. And the next team in sixth was literally like, you know, a point and then the next one was at three points. And so the division of those middle groups of teams was really really um narrow. And so we know what we need to work on for next year. And we are trying to build our program for next year. Right now, we are sitting at six young ladies. Um, and one of those is Alexi, who is in our Crossroads program. So, we're really excited to have her in there dancing with us. And we are going to

049do a second try out, try to build those numbers up a little bit. We don't need a big team. We'd like to sit it, um, between seven and 10 would be nice. And so, um, we're going to do a little bit more work to see if we can get a few more girls out to to challenge themselves and be part of something that, um, I just think is really, really phenomenal. I come back year after year, and eventually I won't come back. I know Coach Naya doesn't believe that. Um, but it'll happen, but not not anytime soon, I hope. And so, um, anyway, so I just want to thank everybody and thank these young ladies and their parents for all the time and commitment that they put in. [Applause] Thank you, coach. She promised us

050eight more years. I just want to add on since Tanya said something. I was not prepared to give a speech, but forgive me while I cry for a second. Tanya was my dance coach in uh at Morty High School. And so the experience that I had as the cheer coach would not have happened without Tanya. So I hope everybody knows how important she is. And it's not just the dance coach that she is. She really is the spirit of the community and she builds that up. So just great big thank you to Tanya again. Thanks, coach. Next, we're going to introduce our baseball team. They're going to be represented by Evan Pacheco. Baseball team was 12 and 13, one game away from 500. We're district runner-ups. And I'll let him tell the story. Hi. Uh,

051so I'm Evan Pacheco. I'm a four-year varsity starter as a junior. So, I've got the pleasure of coming up from my young age in middle school and uh sharing my experiences with this program. I want to thank the board and Mr. Annayia for keeping our seasons alive every year and uh giving us that awesome baseball field we have. Um our our year started off a little bit rocky. We had seven freshman come up and play varsity. Every one of them played long minutes, so it was pretty rough at first. We started off the season, I think, three and eight before we got to districts. Eventually cut up our deficit to what I think 11 and 12 or something like that. Game shy of,200 and I'd say spot or two out of the playoffs. So it

052was a pretty awesome season. I'm pretty excited for my senior year next year. And again, I just want to thank you guys for everything you do for our program. Coach Gonzalez. Coach Gonzalez is not able to be here. He's being a dad. He gets to watch his son play. He hasn't been able to watch him all season. So, he took tonight to watch him play. Um, two programs we're going to talk about. They're having their banquetss tonight. One is tennis. We have a new coach. He is um coach Matt Johnston. He's our new tennis coach and he's really built up the program. He had 13 new players this year. Two of them that made it all the way to the third round of district. We haven't had that in a while. That was Tanner Denami

053and Lily Shelby. So, we want to say congratulations to that group and congratulations to Matt Johnson. Matt Johnson will also be our new soccer coach in the fall. So, congratulations to [Applause] him. Um, the next one is track. Track had a heck of a year this year. They were again district runnerups. They had four different record breakers off the board. I believe we have school records and we had four different athletes break or four different groups. one of them with the 4x8 uh our miler. She's unbelievable. If you guys ever get to come to a track meet and watch Carmen Dorsy's pitch run, it's amazing. She's just just amazing. Um all our athletes there are are amazing. Um they had a heck of a track meet. They took third. First time we've trophied in years,

054probably since Coach Bailey took state back in 2000, I think, was the last time we took brought home a trophy. Um and that was a heck of a meet. Um throughout the two days we're going back and forth with Artisia for that third place. First and second were kind of beyond us. Los Alamos Academy are fighting for that and we were fighting for third. One minute we're up two points. The next event we're down two points up two points. We came down to the last event. They even announced it on the speaker. We're at 19 of 20 scored events and us and Artisia were tied at 45 points. So the winner of the last event or not the winner but all we had to do is beat Artisia. So, I wish I could have filmed

055the coaches watching that race, but we took the baton. At one point, we were dead last. Correct, Natalie? And um our last two runners, Brooklyn, and Troy Alvarado brought it home and we're able to pass Artisia. I don't even know what place we finished. I just knew we beat Artisia. That was that was the main thing. I don't know if we finished third or fourth on the podium. I didn't know till we stood on the podium that we were fourth. It didn't matter. We just had to beat Artisia. We did that. So, the girls ended up third. Um the results over the weekend were state champion in the javelin was Presley Edwards. It's back to back her second one. She also broke a school record doing that. Um state champion in 3200 meter was Carmen

056Dorsy Spitz. Second place in the 300 hurdles Victoria Alvarado. Third place in pole vault Payton Butler. Third place in high jump Victoria Alvarado. Third place in the 4x2 meter meter relays was Emily Russell Presley Edwards Brooklyn Alivas and Victoria Alvarado. Third place in the 1600 meter run was Carmen Dorsey Spitz. Fourth place in the 4x4 was Ashton Walters, Emily Russell, Brooken Olivas, and Victoria Alvarado. Fourth place in the discus was Presley Edwards. Fourth place in long jump, Presley Edwards. Fifth place 4x1 meter relay was Satie Bella. Presley Edwards, Brooklyn, and Emily Russell. Fifth place in the 100 meter hurdles was Victoria Alvarado. Sixth place in discus was Jaclyn Rivas. Um, sixth place in the 4x8 meter relay was Clara Windsor, Ashton Walter, Olivia Hasser, and Carmen Dorsy Spitz. They also broke a school record running

057the 4x8 this year. Um, sixth place in the 4x4 meter relay was Noah Gonzalez, Corn Runan, Mateo Grego Manley, and Deon Ortiz. Altogether, we had 15 kids podium, 15 total events podium. So, not a bad weekend for track. Just want to say for spring sports, our coaches did an excellent job. So I thank the coaches, the work they put in and the amount of effort they put in, the things they do around our kids. She said it best, you know, with coach Travis and everybody else. They really do a lot building our our programs and our kids. So thank you coaches. Thank you. Thank you, coach. And I So we have a a week or two moratorum, right? No sports going on. Two weeks and then they start hitting it. March will be Oh, right

058in the middle of July. Okay. Yeah. All right. Back at it. Back at it. Well, thank you and congratulations to everyone. Well done. Um it's always uh great to have the recognition of the students uh the coaches, the family members and everyone. Um any board members before we move on to our next set of recognitions? Thank you for coming. Congratulations to each and every one of you. Congratulations, Coach Annayia, for a wonderful spring track uh sports season. Yeah, it's awesome. Did I hear that the young man that stepped up here a while ago, he said that there was just one that had been playing for a while, the rest of them were all new to the game. Is that the way I understood? That's pretty darn good for what they did. Mhm. Awesome. We're good.

059[Applause] Um had a great kilometer event and you said she was state champion in the 3200. Right. Excellent. Now therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the state of New Mexico. Thank you. That congratulations be extended to Carmen for the Morardi High School girls cross country team. Signed, Javier Martinez, Speaker of the House. Lisa Ortiz McCutchen, Chief Clerk, and Representative Anita Gonzalez. So, congratulations to [Applause] her. Next up is uh House of Representatives Sid New Mexico would like to recognize and congratulate Christina Means. Is it on? Whereas on February 22nd, 2025, the Morardi High School girls wrestling team competed in class A through 5A state high school wrestling championship tournament at the Rio Rancho Event Center. Right. Okay. And whereas Christina placed third in the girls 120 lb weight class. 120 pound

060weight class. Now therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the state of New Mexico that congratulate congratulations be extended to Christina and the Morardi High School girls wrestling team. [Applause] Congratulations. Um, is Miss Lydia here? Did I see her walk in? Yeah, come on up. So, from the House of Representatives, State of New Mexico, congratulations to Lydia Gabalone. Whereas on February 22nd, 2025, the Mori Arti High School girls wrestling team competed in the class A through 5A state high school wrestling championship tournament, the Rio Rancho Event Center. And whereas Lydia placed fourth in the girls um 235 pound weight class now therefore be resolved by the House of Representatives, the state of New Mexico that congratulates congratulations be extended to Lydia and the Morardi High School girls wrestling team and signed by

061all those people as well. So congratulations. Well done. Good job. Is Caleb here? Gustoson. All right. Come on up, Caleb. House of Representatives of State New Mexico would like to congratulate Caleb. Whereas on February 22nd, 2025, the Mori Arti High School boys wrestling team competed in the class A through 4A state high school wrestling championship tournament at the Rio Rancho Event Center, whereas Caleb placed fourth in the boys 139B weight class. Now therefore, it be resolved by the House of Representatives of the state of New Mexico that congratulations be extended to Caleb and the Morardi High School boys wrestling team. All right, congratulations. Good job, Kayen. Kayen here. All right, mosey on up here. Kayen, House of Representatives of the state of New Mexico would like to congratulate Kaden Kaden Justice. Whereas on February 22nd,

0622025, the Morardi High School boys wrestling team competed in the class A through 4A state high school wrestling championship tournament in the Rio Rancho Event Center. whereas Kaden placed fifth in the boys's 121 pound weight class. Now therefore, it be resolved by the House of of Representatives of the state New Mexico that congratulations be extended to Kaden and the Morardi High School boys wrestling team. All right, congratulations. All right. And our final one, can uh we have some of the team members from the New Mexico State Robotics Championship, VEX V5 Championship Team. Well, you want to take it now? I've got to read it for everyone. Right. Right. Would you like to come up, sir? Come on up, Mr. Smithson. The House of Representatives of the state of New Mexico would like to congratulate the

063Morardi High School Robotics Team, 2025 New Mexico State Robotics VEX V5 Champions. Whereas on March 28th, 2025, the Morardi High School Robotics Team won the 2025 VEX 5 Robotics Competition, making them the 2025 New Mexico State Robotics Champions. And whereas the VEX V5 Robotics Competition is an international competition sponsored by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation with more than 20,000 middle school and high school teams from more than 50 countries competing in 1,700 700 competitions worldwide. And whereas the Morotti High School robotics team says will represent but represented New Mexico in the VEX Robotics World Championships in Dallas, Texas in May. Now therefore be resolved by the House of Representatives of the state of New Mexico. That congratulations be extended to the Morardi High School, the 2025 New Mexico State Champions. Congratulations. [Applause] Mr. Smithson,

064we need an update. I'm getting a request. Uh, well, Worlds was a trip. Um, yeah, you watched uh you watched him drive. I know that match. I was that was a it was a bit of a heartbreaker. Uh, Worlds is uh I'll let Pelgrino and Donovan, my team captains and our two of our graduating seniors and two of our first ever Letterman uh to speak about their experiences, but from a coaches one um walking in and seeing 840 different teams from all over the world and knowing that you belong among them was Yes, we did. Stop it. Oh. Uh was insane. It was it was absolutely marvelous uh to represent not only Morerti but the state of New Mexico. Um brief updates uh we found out very quickly New Mexico plays that game a lot

065differently and a lot more aggressive than 90% of the world apparently. Um we were better at driving than they were. But that's not what the game turned out to be. So Atlas had a rough go of it. Went one and seven in an international you're still a top 7% robot in the world. Calm down. Um, so Atlas was built for speed and this turned out to be a blocking parking show. It happens. We'll get them next time. Uh, Phil is the first New Mexico team in I think 10 years to post a winning record at six and four. Um, Phil was was a fat robot. So, it was very good at defensive play. If you caught any of the matches, it was able to bully basically every other bot out there. An absolutely wonderful time

066for our students. Uh we've got a good core returners, a bunch of middle schoolers coming up that are very excited about the program. Uh I appreciate everyone who managed to log into the stream and uh our intent is to go back next year and the year after and the year after until we bring home a world championship. I'm going to let our captain speak real quick. You have Yes. Uh I don't really know what to say that he hadn't covered, but um I guess the world championship was one of the best experiences of my life. Um, so many teams from around the world. Uh, getting to see their engineering, their driving, how the game was played. Like Miss Mr. Smith said, the game was played completely differently and at Worlds, but I don't know. Um,

067we could have done better, but we did the best we could. Uh, I will say we did get robbed one of the matches. like we got we got robbed at least like two of the matches. Our teammate could have scored but whatever. But I don't know. It was really it was really fun to watch. Um the amount of colleges, the amount of people, the amount of friends that I've made there, it was just like one of the best experiences. Um, okay. So, even though we went on like a a losing streak, it doesn't really matter. I don't I didn't really care because I still got to be there and it was really fun. Like Pelg said it was probably the best experience of my life or second best. It's it's the best. Oh yeah. So,

068in the in the entire world, we were Atlas was ranked 752nd and Phil was ranked 336th in the whole world. In the entire world. Not bad. Also, not bad for our first year. Wish we had more time. We started very late. Now, me and Peliguno, we're going to probably go on to college and then do VEXU and we'll do we'll go to worlds there and then we'll win worlds. Yeah, I know. We were prepared. We were prepared to ski. [Applause] Okay. Uh fun little update and then I'll shut up. Um, Donovan and Rohan Patel are going to New Mexico Tech and per uh participating on their VEX University team. Pellegrino Sanchez and Bowden Moore are going to UNM for their VEXU team. So, there's a very good chance we can see them battling each other

069at Worlds next year. [Applause] All right. Congratulations everyone. Um, Madame President, um, members of the board, now we have a a new, um, student council representative, um, that wants to report out on the happenings at MHS. Um, let the, if, Madam President, if if I may, and and if it's okay, um, everyone is invited to stay for the remainder of the meeting or after the MHS report is completed, um, we'll give you a little time to head on out and go study for those finals that are going on for underassmen. Good evening everyone. My name is Madison Toatello. I am the incoming vice president for the 25 and 26 school year. I am on the varsity cheer team. This is actually my fourth year as of Saturday. I made the team. Um, I am also

070on the powerlifting team and hopefully tennis. Um, I do lots of helping out throughout the school district, especially the elementary school. I like to help with Christmas parties, and just whenever I'm needed, I'm there. I would like to talk about our upcoming student council members. We have McKenna Hatton for president, Lily Shelby for secretary, Mario Romero for treasurer, Amber Levery for historian, and Naa Grievous for reporter. Student council will continue to be involved with pep assemblies, homecoming, Halloween, sweethearts week, and other events. As we continue working with these events, we also want to look into the attending to the state council student council, excuse me, convention. Thank you. [Applause] All right. Thanks everyone. Bye. Congratulations. Yep. Congratulations. Yes, sir. Thank you. Yeah, it's going to clear out parents. Thank you. Appreciate it. [Music] Yeah, same

071to you. Thank you very much. Thank you for being here. Absolutely. All right, Madame President, uh if we may, we'll move on to principles and athletic directors board report. Does anyone on the board have any comments or questions towards the principal reports? No. I think I commented with several of you before the meeting since we have a long agenda since we have a long agenda tonight. But there is a lot of good that always goes on in your schools and we just thank you for the way you report it to us with all your pictures and and how students are doing and the accolades that they're accomplishing. So, thank you for the hard work that you do. I got one. Okay. Um, Superintendent, do you want to update about the South Mountain Elementary the what

072we got done with the Department of Transportation? the flights and everything because I did we got comments from the public about when was it going to happen and we finally got Oh yes yeah yeah yeah sir I was trying to wrap my head around uh um Madame President members of the board um members of the audience um it was a long process uh a lot of there was paperwork uh at times that didn't that that was either DOT side or miss you know on our side we didn't understand exactly what they wanted but after a long journey Um we have received our funding to put um the um flashers and create a school zone at South Mountain Elementary. Um that has gone through. Um um Mrs. Young um received the money and we found out

073what line item to put it in. Um, and Bixby Electric is the company that will be installing them and they have been in uh um in contact, we've been in contact with them and uh so we will get those flashers up and running at um to help out on um 344. Mr. Lawson, you're talking about right um and slow down that traffic and make it a safer safer school zone for us. Um to piggyback on that, the school flashers are now working out here outside of our preschool. Um, thanks to the, uh, DOT that, um, lent Lincoln some parts that weren't working. Um, they lent them to us and now we know which ones exactly to order because it was a troubleshooting thing, right? It was this, this, this. Um, they hadn't been working for

074a while and so those flashers are are also working. So, thank you, sir. Is that it? All right. I think so. Move on to board president and board of education. Anybody have any comments? Nothing yet. All right. U Madam President, members of the board under superintendent report. Um we provided you a summary of um a visit from um representative that is helping out with um the six-year study through CES. Um um as a reminder, the school district has signed on to to be a school district that is working with CES and AEIS um through the six-year um study. Miss Romero, are we going to be able to get that up? Thank you, ma'am. So, as part of our monthly report out, um, in our strategic planning, um, you see that in the summary, um, not

075only did we have a representative go and have classroom observations, um, but there was also, um, some short sitdown meetings with all the participants, um, listed on the on the first page. Um, so, let's see if it's coming up. There we go. All right. So, Mrs. Romero and I will tag team on this. I'll start with this. Um, strategic plan progress. Um, three bullets there that that that um everyone can read. The district continues to deepen the implementation of key strategic action steps. Um, moving on to some initiatives such as standardbased grading have been strategically delayed to allow for more concentrated efforts on other areas. Um, communication with families and a broader community has been more intentional and consistent. And then expectations for student learning are increasingly visible in classrooms across the district. Each one

076of those bullets very pleased to see that um our consultants um are are seeing this um but especially that that third bullet there um student learning is increasingly visible um in the classrooms um to take uh really uh detailed notes and conversations. Um Mr. Romero, you want to talk about instructional focus? Sure. Um, Madame President, members of the board, as far as instructional focus, um, of course that, um, we had an intentional, um, laser like focus on implementation of building thinking classrooms. And, um, in her report, um, she also, um, states that she sees and has seen a significant professional learning, the initiative throughout the district um, and the goal to have all of our staff trained in building thinking classroom strategies. um by August 1. And um then she goes on to um state

077that um we have teachers that are that she saw and then that we've reported have implemented building thinking classroom strategies within their classroom without having that formal onboarding new teacher training um because of the collaboration that is occurring um in departments and through schools. Thanks to the principles and their leadership as well. All right. Thank you, ma'am. Moving on to leadership development and administrator work. Um I'm sorry, administrator support. Um in these three bullets here, um when asked where we were moving, thoughts of moving ahead, how are we going to enhance what we've done? Um really it talks about um the onboarding process for for principles. um having a more robust uh deeper dive um earlier in the year and we've already scheduled some of those meetings with our new principles that are coming on

078board. Um board report development um it's not just the reports that that are you know given by principles it's it's reporting out monthly keeping a track um and and hitting all the goals and focus areas of our strategic plan. And then um we talked to her about putting together a board retreat, coming together and working with school administrators, district administrators um and the board as one team um strengthen the government governance and um have a a collective engagement as she put it in the strategic direction. As far as student engagement and academic culture, um I just want to take a second and really um commend the leaders in this room and their staff. Um our teachers were observed um over 10 times this school year um from a number of consultants including Evan um from

079CES and the consultants from AIS. And in this um she reports and this is um also reported from our other consultants um a strong academic discourse that um and an increase in academic discourse in all classrooms and um really focusing on in on that academic ownership for students um especially in the math and science classrooms and um you know really reflecting back on those um September 1st visits to um the May visits um at a just dramatic increase in student engagement. So, thank you guys so much. And then um Evan, as as Natalie um said visited these school, she there was a visit to each one of these schools um and it at each school there was more than just one teacher observed. Um if you can read those bullets there and there's really some

080things that step uh Morarda Elementary uh teachers embraced that challenge um and opportunity for deeper learning. Um Morardi Middle School um you know recent BTC training generated high energy and commitment. Um Morardi High School teachers are designing real world projects. um for example in algebra 2 their final project um to get their skills that they learned right and and apply them to real world efforts um root 66 strong math language um that's always important when we talk about academic language um in the classrooms um for students especially as they head into assessments and then in South Mountain um students actively engage in mathematical conversations um highlighting going ongoing efforts to implement BTC with community and CTE partners. Um we we talked to to um Evan from CES um when we started our strategic plan. There

081were conversations about you know the partnerships that are right here right now and and and we've started those conversations. Um, but the reality of it is the co the partnerships we've created have been more statewide. Um, so we could learn on how to to do it right for our students, how to bring in CTE and work-based learning, um, joining up with the Northern New Mexico Alliance, um, going to trainings that are outside. So, we have we're better versed in the conversations that we have as we start talking to um, local um, partners, even more so going into next year. Um we did mention that um right before we met with Evan um we had a meeting with um the town manager from the town of Edgewood and their community liaison. Um they um told Mrs.

082Romero and myself and um I think Mr. Gats and Bey was with us, right? Um they are looking to um apply for a grant um through workforce solutions um through the state um and if they are able to get that grant um then they really want to partner with us and our seniors um for paid internships um learning um what it's like to to work for a for a town um and the careers that are available. Um and then madame le madame president members of the board um so out of out of the um so she's been here she visited us three times this school year and um so just emerging questions and next steps that she um that we talked about uh globally is um what does coaching look like um instructional coaching with

083our teachers um in the early stages of building thinking classroom strategies and really defining um uh feedback that instructional coaches and administrators can give um in a feedback cycle what that looks like specific to BTC for our teachers go moving into next year um which is great because we have scheduled uh administratoronly training um with AIS um for this purpose of creating what that looks like. The next thing that we talked about were um internal exemplars across grade levels so that we could um enhance our instructional coherence and so that um what is seen to be um you know exemplar in one one building it also is in another building across the district. Um the third thing was continued leadership and um attention in the areas of attendance, tardiness and community involvement. Um and then

084a shared engagement scale. Um so um she provided us with an example of what engagement looks like. And actually there's not one in here. Um there's one in in the other room. Um but we are going to move into um being aware of what um student engagement looks like and what the and there's a scale for it and also our engagement when we are um in collaboration with each other. with this report. Um there's a lot of in between and thank yous that need to go out to the principles um the teachers um the work that the students are putting in um to to really learn um and enhance their learning through these different strategies. um the principles supporting they they we we have asked a lot of our teachers and a lot of our

085principles this year when it comes to professional development um and and you know out of classroom time um to get where we want to be with our strategic plan and some of these initiatives. So um again I want to you know thank them um for all the work that they're doing. um this summary um and these emerging questions and next steps will go back to the other summaries um that have been provided or some information um and bring it to the board um to help us and maybe guide us when we start looking at the strategic uh plans action steps for the 2526 school year. Um some of our action steps we may keep all three years and some of the steps we may um take off. Um there's there's there's a process that we

086go through um that we need to say are do we really need this? Um do we were we able to effectively implement this? Um or what new do we need? And so um that'll be happening this summer and um it would be great if we get everything lined up and ready for um the board and administrator retreat um in July. So with that, Madame President, to stand for any questions or comments. I would like to thank you and congratulate you. That's a great report. I'm very encouraged with the the BTC and what we've seen implemented this year and that everybody will be trained uh by the end of summer to have it on all schools in all areas. So I it's just exciting to see um what you all have done as principles and administrative

087staff to uh get the staff trained and um in these different areas. So, I thank you very much and congratulate you on a great report from CES. Still moving. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Madam President, no other no further comments. All right. We're almost getting to the long part of the agenda. Almost to the important one, really important one for tonight. For tonight, right, this um but before we get to that, director of learning services board report. Any questions um for Mrs. Romero or uh Mr. Romero? Any updates since you submitted your report? [Music] No. I thought the um Yes, I have a comment. I liked looking at the Hagert's writing curriculum. I thought that looks very exciting for our young writers. Yeah, madame president, members of the board, we did um get a quote

088and so we will be moving um forward with that. It will come to you for approval in um June. So that'll it's for kindergarten through third grade um across the district uh writing curriculum. Looks like something very worthwhile. I also want to thank you Natalie for rating all your strategic goals into your report. I thought that was very nicely done. So kudos. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Romero. Um, moving on to business. Um, item A. Um, Madame President is our consent agenda, finance items 1 through 4. Um, I recommend approval of our consent agenda, finance items 1 through 4. Superintendent Superintendent Bibiano is recommending approval of our consent agenda items one through four. Can I have a motion to that? A second. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Thank you

089very much. All right. Item B, approval of the fiscal year 2026 oper operating budget. I I keep calling it operational, but it's actually titled operating budget. So, Madame President, um after our special meeting and our work session, I recommend approval of our FY26 operating budget. Superintendent Bibiano is recommending that we approve the operating budget for uh 2526. Is there any questions? Any comments? No. Uh may I have a motion to this effect? I so move. May I have a second? All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Budget passed. All right. Hit that button, Mrs. Young. Oh, okay. Um, next action uh item is action for approval of FY2024 2025 PED budget adjustment request, a bar request. Um any I recommend approval. Okay. Superintendent Viviano is asking for approval of the fiscal year 2024

0902025 peed bar requests. Are there any questions in regards to that? If not, may I have a motion? So move. A second. I'll second. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? I Okay. Motion passed. Although you didn't oppose all the eyes. I No, I said I. I'm sorry. Okay. It was a late I, but I said I. I'm sorry. It's all right. I just want to make sure. I did. Yes. All right. Moving on to item D. Approval of the Moriardi High School track quote quote provided to us from Lone Mountain Contracting Incorporated. Um, before we move on, Madame President, is uh, anybody have any questions about this quote? It's a Yes, sir. It's well, but it's it's it is uh lower than any other quotes that came in. significant. My understanding is

091those guys are probably the best in the state of New Mexico at it. That's good to hear. So, I actually heard that from Mr. Annayia on Friday, I believe, or or Thursday. I heard it yesterday in Santa Fe. So, well, there you go. Yeah, they came in under um a few other companies that were a lot more. Very good. Any other conversation? Okay. All right. So then I recommend approval of the Mori Arti High School track quote um provided to us by Lone Mountain Contracting Incorporated. Superintendent Bibiano is appro uh is asking for approval of the MHS track quote from Lone Mountain Contracting Incorporated. Um may I have a motion? May I have a second? I'll second. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Okay. Motion carried. Thank you. Next item is approval of

092the asphalt paving project of Center Street. Um that was on the recommendation from the budget committee for the past couple of years and um so we have that quote. Um it is from Sunland Asphalt and Construction LLC. So I recommend approval of the asphalt paving project. Superintendent Viv Viviano is recommending that we approve the asphalt paving project of Center Street Quote from Sunland Asphalt and Construction LLC. Are there any questions in regards to that? If not, may I have a motion? I was going to ask about are we going to put up the barriers on that when it's done because it's going to be a safety issue on that one because the town said that we could help put up like barriers on both ends when like the kids are moving around. Are we going

093to try to do that or is that down the road? Madame President, member loing, that would be the will of the board if they want to have that discussion. You're talking putting gates on or some sort of barriers to stop the flow of traffic going in between during time. Yes. During school time or something like that or like getting out when there's just think about safety. What about the we travel to there every morning and every afternoon? We've got to come up with something though because there is kids moving around a lot. So, Mr. Lawson, if I hear you correctly, you're saying during like school hours, close it. Um, well, like pick up and drop off. Okay. All right. Pick up the kids. Drop the kids there in the morning and pick them up. Those

094guys out there do a heck of a good job of taking care of them when they're every morning they're there. They're they're they're watching everything. But it'd be kind of it'd be it'd be pretty bad. Yeah, it may be it may be um if it comes um back up um developing some data, how many cars go through a day, how many parents pick up cars and stuff and it just um may lean us one way or another of yes, we're going to do it automatically or not um in in future conversations. And we can we can start that um next year um once we get into the routine because those first few weeks are always going to be heavier traffic. I think there's a policeman there all time in the mornings and in the afternoons

095when we go by to undrop the kids and come back there's always policemen there or just on the other side of things right there. Um Madame President um members of the board um I already started some conversation with hopes that this um project would get um approved. Um there's some residents on on the west side that it will affect. Um and then um residents and those apartment complexes on the east side and um had a conversation last night with one of them um just saying giving you a heads up. This is on our agenda if it gets approved um once we get plans in place a schedule. Um we're not sure if we're going to be able to schedule it this summer um because it's already you know it's already that season with this it's

096coming up. Um maybe if it were not this summer, we definitely want to do it on a time where there's not going to be school traffic. So maybe that week of Thanksgiving um or or before it gets too cold. Um so um started those conversations just to give everyone a heads up that that that street will be affected for a while. And it shouldn't take them very long to to to get the straight shot um down and back. Okay. Any more questions or comments? If not, uh may I have a motion? A second. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Approved. Excellent. Thank you. Um, last action item I believe. Let me scroll here and look. Yes. Um, for under business is approval of the Morardi High School Performing Arts Center fire alarm

097system. This is a quote from Apex Solutions, the company that we work with our other fire alarms. Um, right now, um, the fire alarm system is, um, under a different company. Um, and if I have it correct, Mrs. Young, when we do have major problems, which we've had because we've had Firewatch for two years on and off, um, the company has to fly somebody from Arizona now, California, California, for them to come and work on our system. Um and so what we are asking for approval is a fire alarm system that Apex Solutions who works on our current fire alarm systems and other um um systems um this be approved and we can get work started on that so we don't have to continue with the um the fire watches and and and the warnings

098um moving forward. So Madam President, I recommend approval of the Morari High School pack fire alarm system. Superintendent Bibiano is asking for approval of the MHS pack fire alarm system through a new company, Apex Solutions. And are there any other questions or comments? Did they give us a timeline on it? I didn't see it on the quote. I did not see that either. So, okay. You talking the scope of work timeline back up and running like going to the band concert the other night when seen that firearm sign on it kind of unving. So with all of these madam president and member loing um Lone Mountain already knows it. I'll contact them tomorrow. Sunland Asphalt will get contacted tomorrow and then we'll get those from APEC and then I can um get that to everyone

099about when these when these will be scheduled and they probably got to sit down and figure out if they're going to get the bid or not before they can start thinking. Yeah, that's what I Okay, any other questions or comments? If not, may we have a motion for this approval? I second. And all those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. Approved. Thank you everyone. All right, Madame President. Uh members of the board, questions for Mrs. Young on the rest of um our agenda under business. I have none. Nope. Denny. Nope. Okay. No questions, madam. Uh, Miss Young, do you have any updates or other than the budget? No updates. Finance committee met yesterday. Yes. Madam President, members of the board, the finance committee did meet yesterday. We went over um the third quarter cash

100report um and then we discussed the budget. So, um I did get the engagement letter from the auditors today and signed that and sent it back. So, they already asked when my budget's due. So, I'm sure the next day they'll be asking for audit stuff. So, and that's all I have. Certainly, the cycle continues, right? Yeah, it's good. And all her Yes. people there for all the work that they do putting that together. It's a lot of thinking. It's a lot of work. Thank you. [Music] Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chavis. Appreciate that. All right. Moving on to personnel. Uh, director of personnel board report, Dr. Buckley. Any questions for Dr. Buckley? Um, or any updates, Dr. Buckley, since uh, you'd submitted your report? Uh, not none. No. Looks like lots of work this summer. Yeah.

101Yeah. It's my tax time. Your tax orientation? Tax time. Yeah. Yeah. Moving and grooving summertime. I wanted to at this time just say welcome to Miss I'm sorry. Yep. To Miss Amanda Seagars for being selected as the new principal for South Mountain. So we're happy to have you with us today. [Applause] Thank you. All right. Moving on to support services, special projects, and other items. Um, any questions for transportation, tech, maintenance, and food services. Again, I would just like to take this opportunity to thank Dan Bell as our transportation person. He uh answered the call. How many years ago? Has it been now? Almost two years. almost two years ago to come back to MESD and run the transportation department. So, I thank him for that and wish him well in his future endeavors. Thank

102you. Anyone else? Any other questions? Anything? No. Okay. Now, I got to stretch here. Get ready to go. Here we go. Take a breath. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you, Madam President. Um, if I may, Madam President, before I go into board policy and members of the board, um, we also would like to, if I could congratulate Captain Kelton, who will be going on to Route 66, principal. Yes. Sorry, Catherine. And Mr. Biano Maldonado has been with us a few meetings, but if you haven't met him, he's in the back over there on the left. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Congratulations. Uh, want to thank uh, Mr. for the work he's done and stepping in as interim. His interim. Yep. And helping out at South Mountain. Yes. Yep. He's got uh you know, we had

103a we've had some of our promotions um already started. Um last week we had the early childhood center. Um this morning uh Principal Loose had a kindergartenner singing. I I've I've heard Decalotus my entire life, but I've never heard the English version and the Spanish version together. So that was pretty awesome. Um but you know um Mr. Ma is getting ready for promotions down at the elementary school tomorrow. So um and other activities. So thank you. Thank you, Greg. Appreciate it. Thank you all. Thank you. All right. Thank you for letting me um do that, Madam President. Thank you Todd for doing that. Okay. So um going into board policies, um Madame President, members of the board, we have policy advisories number 253 through 260. Um these are the last of the policies that um

104were changed with uh the nicotine um implementation of using terminology um in our in our in our current policy and changing them um to what we will adopt um hopefully in in June. In June um I will I am just going to go through them really quickly and again I I I provided these to you with a synopsis and I'm just going to read that again. Um what the changes are. So um number 253 it adds nicotine to the list in paragraph 13 regarding things not to possess or use. This is under school volunteers 254 student conduct JIC add in nicotine the list of prohibited substances and add policy that we've already adopted ADB and ADC to cross reference policies number 255 tobacco use by students/smoking this will be deleted in its entirety discipline added

105tobacco and nicotine to the list of prohibited items and on and u 256 apologize 256 also has an exhibit which adds and nicotine in quotes to tobacco reference 257 administering medicine to students it adds the cross reference to a-750 and deletes the cross reference of jic which is 255 that will be elimin uh deleted from our board policy policies. 258 community use of school facilities site use agreement exhibit. That's what this is. It adds nicotine to the list of prohibited items. 259 public conduct on school property adds nicotine to the list of prohibited items. And then 260 um is a policy as well as a regulation for tobacco use smoking on school property. These will be deleted and replaced by these other ones that are above. So, um, first read, Madame President, if anybody has

106any questions, um, or comments on these first reads, uh, my plan is to have the second reads ready to go in our June meeting, um, have discussion as well as, um, recommendations for approval. Okay. All right. Any other questions? Not at this time. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Right. Um, Madame President, um, when we're talking about board policies there, I will be bringing a first read um, in June. Um, the first read for the anti-distraction policy, um, that was passed. Um, I was on a meeting last week with the peed and some superintendent. They're giving us uh, um, some drafts what the policies could look like. I've sent in our policy, which is just a cell phone policy um, for them to look at. Um we've gone back and forth uh in the past couple of days

107um in terms of well you could just replace cell phone with um with um wireless devices, right? Um one thing to think about and we'll talk about it more when you s when we see the first read or if you have any questions in between and I'll get that to you guys ahead of time. Um Mr. young um wireless devices by law are now um cell phones, smartwatches, um smartphones, tablet laptops or or um computer laptops. So, we have to put in our policy that definition um and then um go along with the other recommendations um posting it that we the way that the law reads includes the sunglasses. Um they don't have that specifically. Yeah. But but but it says um the these are devices that are defined as as wireless devices, but they're

108not limited to just that that list. Yeah. PC. Yeah. Um and um those would be prohibited items um during instructional time. So I don't have much more. We'll get that first read. I'll get it to you. Um, there were several superintendents who sent in their policies. The peed wants to look at them and put it together. We don't have to use what the peed gives us, but it'll give us some guidance on some language moving forward. And again, what I did is I sent them our policy and then I replaced cell phones on on a on a copy of the document with wireless devices just throughout our policy for them to um and if you look at our policy, what's being asked when it comes to um monitoring um the use of um it falls

109in line with the law the way that it reads um through my eyes at least um right now. Um, what I'd also like to do is is get those drafts done and then make sure that we give them to legal counsel so they look at it to make sure that we have um everything that we need um per um the new state law for anti-distraction. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to citizens comments, Miss Jennifer. No citizens. No citizens comments. Uh advanced planning request for discussion items. May uh the remainder of May I have listed items and going on into uh June. Um various like I mentioned uh end of year school activities everyone's done a wonderful job so far. Um the pack was the pack was packed. I think I say that

110every year. You don't mean to say it right. Yeah. And the kindergarters did a great job. um early childhood center. They uh did it differently this year and they had classes all singing together and and and doing a celebration. So that that that was great. Um on May 28th um um we will have our end of year staff recognition and celebration that board members are invited to. Um the law conference um two members will be going to that finance committee and MESD board of uh education regular meeting. What I didn't have in here is what I sent you in some other emails about this. Right. Tomorrow night is the um awards ceremony for the seniors at 6:00 at the at the pack and then graduation is at 10:00 and the weather looks like it's going

111to hold up for us. Um so we're planning on doing it um at the football field. Very good. Can I just add to that that the concerts, all three concerts were very good at the pack for the band concert, the guitar concert, and the choir concert. They were all excellent programs. Yep. Thank you, ma'am. All right. So, with that, ma'am, Madame President, I recommend uh that we adjourn tonight's regular meeting. Superintendent Bibiano is recommending that we adjourn tonight's uh meeting. Do I have a motion to that effect? So, A second. A second. Uh all those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. Anybody want to say? Okay. At 71213, uh the meeting is adjourned. Yep. Thank you. Thank you.