001behind I think the computer. Yeah. 459. I call this five o'clock session uh together uh in to order and [Music] um I recommend that the board adjourned to a closed executive session as permitted under limited personnel matters as permitted under section 10-15-1H2 NMSA1978 of the New Mexico Open Meeting Act specifically to discuss the super attendance formative evaluation. I move that the board adjourn to the closed executive session as permitted under limited personnel matters as permitted under section 10151H2 of the New Mexico Open Meeting Act specifically to discuss the superintendent's formative evaluation. Do I have a second? I second. I need a roll call. Jeffrey Lawing I. Albert Chavis I. Jenny Young I. Linda Hudson. I All right, we I'd like to call this session um from the executive session. I move that the board adjourn
002from the closed executive session. Do I have a second? I second. The matters discussed in the closed executive session were limited to those specified in the motion for a closed executive session. No other topics were discussed and no other business matters were conducted nor any action taken. I ask for a roll call vote to come back in. Jeff Lawing I Lindseay Donner I. Albert Chas I. Denny Young I. Linda Hudson I. Okay. We are now out of executive session and I would now like to call the 6 p.m. regular meeting uh to order and um would like for us to stand and say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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
003justice for all. All right. What are we doing? Am I doing Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. At this time, um, we have item C, which is an action adoption of agenda. Uh, Mr. Bibiano. Madame President, members of the board, before we move on to adoption, um I'd like to um be able to um change um with the board's approval, moving um item 6A, Morardi High School student council report. Okay. Okay. and move it up to section 2 a number five. Okay. So, it would come after the student achievement awards. Okay. We have a student council member with us um um and he's also part of the um choir and so we'd like to just be able to have him follow follow suit and then um talk about where that agenda item okay in the
004future. Okay. So, that's my recommendation. That's your recommendation. All right. Superintendent Bibiano has recommended that we make a change in our agenda for moving um um the school uh why the student council report. Yeah, the student council report up to A5 to follow uh this achievement awards. Do I have a motion for that? A second. I second. And I'd like to make that permanent if we could. Duly noted. Duly noted. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. Motion passed. I now would like to welcome all our guests. It's so nice to see every this room so full of people and happy faces and we're just excited to to see what we have for us in store tonight. So, we have a lot of representation from the school district. So, welcome to all
005and may we enjoy what we're going to celebrate. And next is um item E um approval of the minutes. Superintendent Viviano. Madam President, um I recommend approval of minutes from the regular meeting um school board meeting that happened on March 18th, 2025. Okay. Superintendent Viviano has recommended that we approve the minutes from our March 18th, 2025 meeting. Do I have a motion? A second. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? All right, we're good. Thank you. Now, moving into section two is the superintendence board's comments and commendations. Under section A, we have student staff recognition. Superintendent Viviano. Madame President, members of the board, um staff members and members of the community, families, and friends that have joined us tonight. We have a few of our groups and some individual um recognitions we'd
006like to uh present. Um and to start off if we could have the Mori Arti High School choir. Um and Miss um Audriana Aragon if she wouldn't mind coming up and you guys. So this time face that camera over there. It's a little different than than in the P. Yeah. I just Yeah. Yeah. So this uh looks like with our messengers, right? Yep. This is uh messengers and we'll let Miss Aragon uh give us uh information on the great accomplishment that these students had and the other choirs uh in competition a few weeks ago. Yeah. So last weekend we had our New Mexico association take part on this and our high school advanced trouble choir and our messengers competed. Okay. Um so the advanced treble choir and the messengers just competed at the NMAA state
007choir contest and the messengers won um the state championship in the 4A division and the treble choir won the A through 5A treble division um with a score of 90.633 and the Messengers won with a 94.833. [Applause] That's it. Oh yeah, it is. This is the first time in Morotti High School history that um this has happened, which is really cool. Um this is also only the third time in NMAA history that one school has won two divisions at the state contest. So we're really really proud of that, too. There you go. Yes. Yeah. Well done. Well done. All right, Madam President, members of the board, any words for them? Thank you for coming and congratulations. You guys enjoy it? Good. Nice medals. Oh, they're going to exit. I guess they're gonna All right, Madam
008President, members of the board, um members of the audience is uh our choir students exit. Um up next we have um MESD FFA. Um Mr. Henen, you want to bring this? There you go. Mhm. Can spot him out of a crowd. Looking great. Thank you guys for coming. We'll let Mr. Henson and the students give us all the information on their great accomplishments. I was just looking. It's not meant for me. Okay. Um before you, I have some of our Morardi FFA members. Um since January, we've been hard on the road doing judging CDE's career development events. And these are the five teams that placed in the top five at the beginning of April when we're down in Los Cusus for the week at state judging. Um had to take had to take notes. We
009did a lot of it. Um aronomy, they won first place. They're state champs. The team consisted of Kayn Cook, Lexi Goodrum, she was fifth high individual. Jeremiah Young, fourth high individual. And Madison Satderfield, first high individual in the state. [Applause] Livestock was third with the team Lexus Corvin, Camry Chavez, James Tucker, and Heidi Tucker being second high individual in the [Applause] state. Our livestock team, oh, sorry, double back to aronomy. Uh, aronomy will be representing the state of New Mexico this fall at the national FFA convention competing in aronomy. And then livestock will also be competing this fall four days prior at the American Royal Nursery Landscape. They got third. The team consisted of Cody Kinsey, Ashlin Alman, Emma Rose Chavez, and Payton Butler, and she was fifth high individual. Our entomology team got fourth,
010consisted of Molly Eisenberger, Madison Satderfield, Lily Murdoch Poff, and Caleum Cook. and our entomology team, they are qualified to go to the entomology entomology national invite at Charlton State in May. And veterinary science, we got fifth and the team consisted of Logan Stanforth, Emoros Chavez, Ashlin Alman, and Heidi Tucker. And she was also a second eye individual in that also. at state this year. We took 10 teams, five of them walked the stage and received hardware. And me and Mr. Pitman, we are blessed with the students that we have, with the coaches that we have, and the community that we get to represent. So, thank you, [Applause] Mr. Young. Can I ask a question? Sure. Uh, who are your guys' coaches? Which who who coaches which team? It's Mr. Paul. For entomology, it's Mr. Pman.
011For livestock, it's Mr. Thomas. For veterary science, it's for nursery landscape, it is deserves some kudos, too. Can I ask where's Nationals going to be for the aronomy? I think no the um it'll be in Indianapolis the American Royal where the livestock team is going to Kansas City and then for next Charlton University okay they're the ones they host the national life where's Charlton somewhere in Texas okay thank you any other question congratulations well done congratulations again. Congrats, guys. All right. Next, Madame President, members of the board, we have with us tonight um Mori Arti High School student athlete, uh powerlifter. There he is. I was looking for him. Um Dominic Montano as well as his coach, Gabe Romero. Um this is the first year that we've had powerlifting at Mori Arti High School. Um
012implemented it. Um it's a winter sport, right? It bleeds into winter and and spring. Um and Dominic will um and his coach will let us know how how well he did and why he's here tonight. Um so this was our our first year um doing powerlifting. Um and uh Dominic went to qualified for state. Uh went to state and uh ended up getting third place. Um he squatted um 425 pounds, uh benched uh 220 lbs and deadlifted uh 500 lb. Oh wow. Um so he he did a a really good job. Um you know, it's our first year having powerlifting. Um, you know, but one of those things that that Dominic has been in the wait room for four years, uh, working hard, um, you know, and so, um, he wasn't sure if he was
013going to do it. I'm glad he did because, uh, he did a great job for us. [Applause] Congratulations, Dominic. Yes. And coach, congratulations. Excuse me. Thank you. Good job. Yes. All right, Madame President, um members of the board and um members of the audience, it's uh an honor to um be presenting these um these next awards. Um these next awards are the New Mexico School Board Association Student Achievement Awards. Um, these awards are sponsored by the New Mexico School Board Association and are presented um to individuals by local board members um throughout the state uh that have played an important role in um improving student achievement and um helping the districts run um the way that we need to for our for our students. And so tonight with us um we have um if you
014don't mind, Madam President, I'll go one at a time and um present their awards. I don't if you guys want to go down as well. All right. Okay. Thank you. All right. So, our first excellence in student achievement award um goes to um staff member who's been with the Morardi Edward school district um for 23 years I believe in uh different positions um on in Edgewood schools as well as the Morardi side and most currently in the Morardi um Edgewood school district um athletic department. And so we'd like to congratulate um Linda Apadaka on achieving this award. Coach Anna, [Applause] Congratulations, Linda. [Music] You know this um when we first heard about the award, we got it through an email from Mr. Bibiano. And the first thing Linda says, "Coach Nia, what'd you do? I
015didn't do anything. This came from the board." You know, congratulations. I know she um doesn't like the spotlight stuff, but this is a award well- earned and welldeserved. You know, what she does for our department, what she does for our coaches, what does for our students is second to none. So, Linda, congratulations. Madame President, members of the board, members of the audience, um our next staff member um is in um I believe his 27th year um working for the Morardi Edward School District. Um he's done work inside the classroom in the math departments as well as outside with the athletic departments. And so for you know over two decades he's been servicing and working closely with our students. So I'd like to recognize tonight um Mr. Howard Henderson. Yeah. So, Mr. Henderson, this is uh
016Whoa. He's he's breaking stuff. Um [Laughter] So, as Superintendent Bibiano pointed out, he he's been in our district for 27 years. Driving from the west side of Albuquerque, he's dedicated to our district. Um he he's about kids. He does a lot for our students. Um and um not only for the kids, but their growth and their learning. And um you know, he's a tremendous asset to the district. So, thank you Howard for everything you do. Our next recipient um is from the MESD um IT department um came to us uh started off as a teacher um and saw that uh his skills um would enhance and really be good on the team on the IT team. So, we had conversations and um decided to go and has done a tremendous job as one of three
017um of in our IT department. Um and for a district our size, you know, that's that's a lot of hustling and and a lot of work. Um without our IT department, we definitely don't have student achievements. So, I'd like to congratulate uh Mr. Lucas Hibler on this receiving this award. You're welcome. You're welcome. [Applause] Um, and not with us tonight are the other members of the IT department, Paul Tensions and and Sean O'Donnell. Um, again, it's a a team of three um that that have done a tremendous job of putting systems together um not only for their their their department themselves, but they work on the software, they work on the hardware and the internet, you know, um system for us. So, thank you guys. Appreciate it. And um our last recipient tonight is standing
018to my or sitting to my right here. Um we'd like to recognize and thank uh Miss Jennifer Buren for everything that she's done in learning services to keep uh that department going as well as the other departments that she's worked in in her 16 years in the Morardi Edward school district. So congratulations Jennifer and thank you So, while she's giving hugs, I'm just going to say um the work that Jennifer does is is much like um I think all of our clerical staff, but the work that Jennifer does um definitely sometimes I think goes under the radar and is unnoticed um by by just because everybody's so busy and and um Jennifer is the reason that teachers get curriculum. Jennifer is the reason that um school supplies are delivered when we order those. Jennifer is
019the reason that um we're able to do school um you know instructionally really. She she is instrumental and I I think we forget about that. So, she is the backbone of the learning services department and um she absolutely is um just amazing in all that she does. Yes. Thank you again. All right, Madam President. Um, we did approve to move up the Morardi High School student council report. So, I thought I saw Sergio. There he is. Yeah, Sergio wouldn't mind coming up to address the board. Thank you. this on. Okay. I'm sorry. Madame President, members of the board, howdy. Hello, guys. Um, so I am Sergio Reyes. I am a part of this I'm the historian student council. And first off, I'd just like to say we're I'm going to recognize again Messengers in the
020advanced treble car getting first. Dominic Monttoano getting third at state for powerlifting. And then our FFA people for at their state. And then we also had robotics, our robotics team, our first year robotics team going to world championships this year in Dallas. Um and then I'd also like to recognize NHD National History Day. This year they had a very tight competition and placed fourth in a and they had a three-way tie for second. Uh they did a website for the Soviet Afghan war. They also had like an interview with um a like refugee I think. But it was Andrew Andrew Ritter, Danny Gonzalez, Peterino Sanchez, Donovan Barbara and Bowden Moore. And then we also are going to be having prom May 10th. Uh and then we have our graduation again is outside. And then I'm
021gonna inform of the week of what's happening during graduation week if I could find it. I'm sorry. Okay. So, Monday, uh I think it's called Back of Gloria where we go to the church and we just celebrate the religions. And then Wednesday is senior checkout. That's when we get our cap and gowns and then we also do our senior awards. Then uh Thursday is our graduation rehearsal and then also our senior walkthrough. We're going to start with the high schools and then go to the elementary schools and then go around and then Friday is graduation. Okay. We're also for teacher appreciation week student council and Mr. Johnston is going to be helping us. Uh we're going to be doing we're going to be having help with the wellness committee and we're going to create a
022fund celebration for the teachers and there's going to be lunch provided and the student council members are going to be giving lunch to the teachers. Um, and then I'd like to talk about youth in government. So, uh, Andrew Ritter and Bowden Moore, they got runner up for, uh, best house bill. And then me and my co-consil writer McCutchen, we got runner up for best uh, judicial brief. Um, Isabelle Uri, got best lobbyist. And then McKenna Hatton ran for youth governor, but she did not get the position sadly. Anyways, Yasmin Miranda, she got into the finals for justicing in the judicial branch. And then also nine students applied for the conference on national affairs. And that's everything I have for you guys. Question. Thank you, Sergio. That's a great report. Thank you. What day are you
023doing serving the teachers? What day are you serving the teachers? Oh, Lord. Um, I know it's a teacher patient week. I I think it's the Wednesday if I'm sure, but Okay. Thank you. So, sorry. And congratulations on using government. Yes. Thank you, Sergio. All right. Now, we move on to item B, which is principles and athletic director reports. Anybody have any comments or questions for the principles? I do. Um, first I was going to ask Moyardi Middle School if they had an update on National History Day. Looks like some kids went to state competition on the 11th if I remember correctly. We had a state champion. We had two students uh Morales [Music] and they won their Awesome. Thank you. Congratulations. Cool. If I if I may, Madam President, um Mr. Donner, um we'll be
024inviting those kids in in May. Good. Good. Awesome. Cool. I think I have a comment or a question for Erin and I guess it's Rob as well because it was a joint effort. Um in your report, Erin, it was talking about the the NASA and the NASA uh project that you did. Could you describe that a little bit more? I thought it was awesome. It's an after school that we have and that's put that on. I had to go for her and so she asked she would skip out early last Friday to get their down to a competition in [Music] Losers in space that she belongs to and she played a big role in that and our NASA club is not a huge club yet but Yeah. I mean, that thing went up in space,
025they said. Right. Right. It went up. The students in the group are interested in music and so they created this bot that will go up and is able to detect sound in space and they're playing in space to see if there's like distortion or sound changes. This is all that you could explain better than I can. Well, thank you. Congratulate her. Yes, I will. Miss Donner had another question. Yeah. And then I had a question for Morardi Elementary. I was just wondering if you could elaborate on what the reset and learning and behavior expectations entails or what that means. So we did a reset just before spring break and then after spring break we did grade level morning meetings. So we meetings in our classroom meetings. So like all 95 of our second meeting and
026just what it means to be awesome. Thank you. [Music] very good. Again, all of your reports are full of wonderful accolades um about the students and their accomplishments and we love the pictures that you put out and I'm just excited about this year. I know you guys are going to finish strong. It just went too fast. It's hard to believe that it's almost over, but thank you again for all that you do at your schools. You're almost there. Like, it's really close. I mean, I know understand everybody's a little wore out. Um, being married to a teacher for several years, I understand that, you know, this time of the year, it may be more about getting through it. Um, and, uh, we appreciate it and thank you guys for all your hard work. And, um,
027what is it? Seven weeks. What's the countdown? Who's got it? Six and a half. Seven. How many days? Okay. We're good. All right. Item C. Anything else? Again, thank you for all the work that you guys do for us. Yes. Next would be items C would be the board president and the board of education. But I really don't have anything else to add. I always get it out in my principal's part. But um it's just a very congratulatory year and look forward to graduation and and um the excitement that's with that and um seeing all the families um united to celebrate their kids accomplishments and their graduation to go on to the next chapter. So thank you. You know who's got something. Um, I just wanted to let everybody know, um, we've been working hard
028as a school board the last couple weeks coming together, figuring out where we've had our flaws and doing small things to get better for everybody. I want everybody to understand that. We want we're taking our time and communicating a little bit better. We noticed we had a couple falls in ourselves. So, we just wanted to make sure that you guys knew that we're still here. We're still like they always say, we're really appreciative of everything you're doing and we're going to be holding ourselves more accountable and letting you guys know what we're thinking a little bit more. So, I hope you guys understand that. Anything else? You got a bunch of rookies that are becoming veterans and it's getting better. We're understanding what we're looking for. Um I don't I don't think me personally I
029understood what this job entailed when I signed up. I said I signed up to go to a meeting once a month. Uh I signed up for a lot more than that. About what four retreats a year, three days, um other stuff, trainings, traveling, stuff like that. Um it's a it's a lot more. And for those who have done this before, I wish you'd have given me a heads up because uh I might have thought a little bit more about it. But, uh, one thing we're not going to do is we're not going to quit on our kids. And, uh, we're going to grow. We're going to get better. And as we get better, hopefully, uh, we get better as a district. So, uh, thank you for your patience. And I tell everybody that it's our
030teachers that we got to take care of because if we get good teachers to teach our kids, our kids will grow up to be right. That's, you know, really true. I thank you for the commitment of this board and and appreciate working alongside you and as three new newcomers, you you brought yourself up to speed pretty quick. So, thank you for your due diligence. And now we'll move on to uh the superintendent report. Mr. Bibiano. Thank you, ma'am. Madame President, members of the board. Um tonight I just wanted to under um strategic plan monitoring um not necessarily bring um the data that we've been looking at this year at the different goals and the different action steps that we had um but just since we're in budget season um and that's carries a lot of
031our conversation the you know uh the past uh two weeks in particular and moving ahead um till we get our budget approved by the state of New Mexico. Um, I wanted the board and the members of the audience and um to to see what we're working on in terms of getting funding that we haven't had in the district um for a while. Some of it we've never had because it's new. Um, but there's some funding that's that's taking a um time and it goes through um the learning services department, then it goes through um finance, then it comes through my office and we have conversations about it. So, um, you know, we're hoping that we get approved, um, so we can use this, um, for our CTE and work-based learning. Um, what I asked Miss
032Romero to to, um, display is, um, simply the New Mexico Public Education Department website. Um, and this is where the, um, information for the the funding, the grants that we're trying to secure um, can be read about and looked at by the public. Um and so the first one that we have um is in highlighted in red there in the right is called Perkins. It's a Perkins grant. Um and this grant simply states the strengthening uh this grant strengthens career technical education for the 21st century. Um Perkins supports the expansion of CTE. um it challenges students with rigorous academic and CTE instruction and a method that prepares students um for high level um high-skilled living wages or in demand and emerging professions. Um I'm not going to go through the entire list, especially those hyperlinks
033um because that's really where the the gist of and the meat of the the work is being done. Um I'd asked uh Miss Mrs. Romero who's uh uh she and I have been working on it along with with all of us have been have been looking at it because there's different components um we really are at the beginning stages um especially with um if I get this right here um the forms that she has to fill out for Perkins um she's working on the um community input uh community needs assessment if she has anything else to add on Yes. Thank you. Um Mr. Bubiano, Madame President, members of the board, in order to apply for um Perkins Funds, um a majoral major grant. And in order to do that, they we have to complete what's
034called a community needs assessment. And that community needs assessment will take data that luckily with your work um in um last year over the strategic plan when you had the community meeting and the input that we have gained over the course of the year with um our our participation in some um career tech and work-based learning communities of practice with the state of New Mexico and Mr. Bibaniano's involvement in um um some uh Lannel um CTE project um up north. Um we're able to utilize that data as well as um Perkins is looking for um our subgroup populations, students with disabilities, our English language learners, our students from poverty, um and um their school data. They'll take all of that along with our industry um our in our region industry and um members of um
035of the businesses and community industries around um this region data from them. We populate all of that into a a needs assessment and then we're able to once we turn that in, we're able to apply for funds. It looks like our Perkins fund is only going to be about $20,000 this um this year. Um which is not so much, but it is a drop in the bucket that we can use to further this um you know for our students. Once once we apply for Perkins, that opens us up to apply then for some other grants such as I think Mr. Mr. Vibiano is going to touch on next our NextGen grants which is a bigger award um up upwards to almost $100,000 and innovative zones. Um that's a a New Mexico um specific grant. Um
036I believe there's actually some in um some neighboring states. Um but that's those are even bigger grants than $100,000. And with those grants, we can really um change some things and provide some new opportunities for kids. So once we get through Perkins then again like Mr. Romero said it opens up the NextGen um NextGen um started in um 2019 with pilot groups um slowed down when we had to um you know unfortunately shut schools and and and and go that route. But now that we're back around and we have um really targeted move u increasing it and moving our career technical education and work-based learning um we want to um look at this nextgen funding and really um try to get it like Miss Romero said because of the dollar amounts um that are distributed
037right in the middle of the screen um it gives a good descriptor where it says funding may be used for any of the following initiatives um you know with Perkins being a smaller dollar amount. Um, with the increase, then we can distribute it through those different bullets. Um, starting at the bottom, looking at our work-based learning, moving all the way to the middle where it talks about employability skills training. Um, you know, using or student organizations and helping helping out our students to increase their extra and co-curricular activities. Um, moving up to the top, careerg guided exploration for middle school and high school students. Um and then again programs of study um and CTE related um supports. Um money through Perkins and and NextGen is used in a variety of ways. Um you can get
038pretty creative. Um you know, and you you let the state know exactly how we're doing it. Some some school districts are using um these funds to help out with transportation. um they may be busing um some of their students to um Valencia UNM or to CNM to help out students who may not be able to to to um drive to those campuses. Um um there's also um equipment um you know that can be purchased um to enhance our programs. So that's the nextG and then the last one is is even newer to the state of New Mexico um as Mrs. as Romero mentioned and these are innovation zones. Um it's hard to kind of read up there but you know innovation stones involves creating a distinctive graduate profile that reflects the needs of the local
039community the implementation of work-based learning CTE capstone projects social and emotional learning and other programs aligned with core academics aimed at preparing students for future success in innovative and impactful ways. Um this one expands out this this funding expands a little further out from CTE and work-based learning. Um you see there they have capstone projects um social emotional learning. I know that uh um a couple of school districts are using peer tutoring or peer counseling um where they send their students um using this funding to actually get trained and certified um and then they're available at their high schools to help uh their fellow students out if there's any any situation or just some you know bumps in the road that they may come across. Um again this is uh uh funding that you know
040going through the three starting with Perkins NextGen and then um finishing off with Innovation Zones. Um funding that um we the school district had Perkins um Perkins has been around for a very long time. um kind of went away. And we think it's important to support the students um and support this uh strategic plan goals with at least applying for these grants um and preparing ourselves. You know, if it isn't uh doesn't go our way and we don't get the amount that we want this year, then we know where we're headed next year so we can push even harder and and improve um on our on our um grant writing process. So with that, um, Madame President, members of the board, any questions. [Music] Thank you. No questions. All right. Thank you. Um so Madame
041President, members of the board, um members of the audience, um we did have on our on our agenda an action item to um adopt the 2526 or at least have a discussion um with the MESD instructional calendar. Um again, I want to publicly apologize. Um the process of putting that calendar calendar together should have been um a lot more simple for me and I didn't color code. um I was the one that that did it and um in particular for for the staff to look at um and the staff starting date wasn't correct. Um so we thought it was it was important to get the correct calendars out there so the staff um could make decisions and help us make decisions and give us some some some feedback. Um so um with that being said
042again I I apologize wholeheartedly um for delaying the process um and we will we will see where we you know get it on the agenda sooner sooner than later. Um so Madame President um I recommend that we table um action on the 2526 MEESD instructional calendar um for a um put it on the agenda for a future meeting. Okay. Superintendent. Thank you, Superintendent Pia. Um he's recommended that we um table our 202520 SD instructional calendar to a future date. Do I have a motion? A motion. So move to table it. Second it. Okay. All those in favor say I. I opposed. It is tabled. Moving into learning services. Um item three, Miss Romero. Thank you, Madam President. I stand for any questions on the board report. Um, sorry, got to regain myself here. Okay, so
043uh, building thinking classroom sounds awesome. It was like n how many teachers? Um, madame president, members of the board, Miss Honor, 99 teachers are now trained. So my question was, is there like a goal for the number of teachers that you're wanting to have trained for this? And you might have already mentioned that previously, but Yes, ma'am. Um, our goal is that, um, by the end of next year, we have every staff member trained in uh, BTC strategies. Cool. Thank you. That's all I have. My only question and I guess I guess for clarification for everybody else is um in your report we obviously have some test data from beginning of year to end of year. Can you guys kind of go over like if I'm looking at this correctly in reading we saw a
044like a decline I guess in kindergarten first and second and then in math we saw the exact flip-flop in it. It was weird. It was almost like exact flip-flop and you know ma in math fourth, fifth and sixth went down and in reading they went up, right? So I mean can you kind of explain so I guess we all know that you know what that is and what we're looking at. Yes. Um thank you. Um yes madam president, members of the board. Um Mr. Young, so um yes, exactly what you saw is correct. um in our proficiency um for um what what you saw in your report was um comparative growth from our August which was our beginning of the year um testing and I station in both reading and math to April and I
045gave April to you the comparative in those because I wanted you to see where we stood as we're moving um and uh we're rolling into endofear testing that students will complete in May um in just a few weeks and that is the summitive data um that um will be the state will take. Um so what you saw in um proficiency levels um when we're looking at reading um we did see um in kindergarten we've you know we grew a percentage in first grade um definitely there's a a little drop there by about 7%. Um in second grade we grew three, third grade four, fourth grade five and then um fifth grade 5%. Um and then significantly though I want to talk about also the level drops from um the decrease in the amount of students
046that moved out of um level one which um you know makes that means that they're showing some growth there and and um showing some more proficiency in their reading. Um but so that was reading. Let me go to math and then I'll we'll finish the I'll I'll explain. So in math, yes, what you saw was an increase um in our proficiency levels um fours and fives. Um we had we went from 42 to 53 in kinder in first grade. They grew from 28% to 60. um 12% in second grade to 20 uh 27 to 18 in third grade, 39 to 28 in fourth grade and then 24 to 28 in fifth grade. Um so those those numbers are significant um especially in math because um I stationation gives students questions that they have not learned
047yet. they are on grade level. Um for instance first grade um they are on level first grade all the standards that um are priority or that I station um uh signifies I guess as priorities those are given to first graders at the beginning of the school year. So that's why you see that, you know, um 12% in second grade and then now we're now, you know, at 20 or the 28 in first grade and we're now at 60. Our teachers, we have a big group of teachers in the room. Um so I just, you know, they are that shows um they're working through those proficiency maps. They they've identified the correct um priority standards and learning targets and they're working really hard and kids are learning. um you know, we do have um a spot
048that we definitely need to um really hyperfocus on and that's that early literacy. We know that the state knows that they've um you know, we've invested a lot of time and money and effort on early literacy in this district and um it's going to come. We're just doing it little little pieces at a time. Thank you. I think it's important for people to know that in math we're not not progressing. We're just it's not something they've seen. Exactly. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. Any other comments or questions? I just wanted to say thank you for adding the strategic goal into your narrative. It makes it easy for us to flow and keep moving along with those. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. Yes, sir. I would just like to comment on the um building the
049thinking classroom and when you had um Ana I don't know how to pronounce her last name. Corbuvius. Coruvius. Yes. Coruvius. Okay. And I happened to come to the district office one of those days when you were having one of your sessions. And that was just so exciting to see all the teachers working together on their little class um projects on how to prepare a thinking task and then how to evaluate the the activi, you know, the activities and stuff of the students. So, I think it's just a hands-on wonderful plus for us to be adding this into our into our curriculum and it was fun to be there and be a part of it and just watch it. Thank you, Madam President. Very exciting. Members of the board, yes, thank you so much. We enjoyed
050having you. I guess that's it. Thank you. That's it. All right. Um, Madame President, we do have um and I think Miss Natalie is pulling it up now. Okay. Under Learning Services, um, an action item. It is the New Mexico Public Education Department's unified application for federal grants. Um, this is an attempt um to consolidate all the different applications that have been uh submitted throughout the years under exactly what it says, a a unified application. Um, we are a pilot district. Um, all districts will be moving to this, we've been told already. So they um for next year and uh you know again if you see there's um ESSA compliance there's IDBA um IDA um as well as the other applications. So Mr. Romero would like to explain this before we move ahead with action.
051Madame President, thank you Mr. Bibiano. Members of the board um as Mr. Bibiano did say this is the first year that we did this. We are one of 13 districts in the state of New Mexico um who are completing this unified application. This has been um it started in early October and we've had weekly hour or 90 minute calls every Tuesday in order to get the components of this um completed. typically or before this each um federal program had its own application that was um uh very cumbersome and um had to be approved in multiple steps from from the board um all separately. Also um lot all of the applications asked for the same things. So it was over it was just input again input and you really couldn't copy and paste it. Um so
052it it was very cumbersome. Um this definitely has streamlined the process for what I I think the districts in New Mexico and it was um a lot easier to navigate. Um so I'm going to take you through it um as quickly as I can um and spend some time on the dollars. Um so um there are multiple um sections in here in order to apply for for federal funding. Um we have to um agree to asurances and I do have a copy of the 10 pages of asurances. Um if you would like to read them um I can get them to you. Um but it it says we're going to follow the laws on how we're going to spend federal dollars. um and um what those where those dollars can go to. The next thing
053is the gapa statement and the gapa statement is about how we are going to disperse the dollars and that um all of the dispersement of the gap state or of the um federal dollars will be spent um according to um well with within equity of all subgroup populations. So students with disabilities, students um that live in poverty, our English language learners um and so that we have to take equity into um consideration. Um this um um gapa statement I can also get you if you would like to read. Um, as we go into domain one, we have to um certify that our curriculum in all content area comes off of the New Mexico State highly qualified instruct or um highquality instructional materials um list. And so I have to um select each curriculum for each
054grade span in all content areas. If it is not on the adopted list or falls below recommended um so on the instructional materials um list there are um crit or categories um re recommended recommended re with uh reservation and not recommended. And so if even if it's a recommended with reservation I have to justify why um the district is using that curriculum um in our district as you know we've talked about um as we adopted science last month um we use a team and so we use rubric grading um the teams um typically especially when it's in um secondary it's the entire department and it's the that team's choice and recommend recommendation of what um to choose. So that's what I have to justify um those recommended with reservation categories off of. So that's what
055this section is. Going down to priority 2A, I have to um justify and certify that all of our um instructional materials for students with disabilities are also um evidence-based and um utilized within intervention. We will be looking for a tier three or special education math intervention program this year. And then um I have to um we are also able to um if we qualified for something um um called RLIS, which we do not. That's why there's a note there. So I have to scroll back up. I have to um as I talked about um just um justifying that um our services do include students with disabilities and English language learners because this application does um uh pertain to our title three um federal grant and our idea grant. So again, they've just taken all um
056really five grants and put it into one application. So um that's why these questions are there. Um I have to justify professional development in the areas of curriculum, our intervention for early literacy and reading um the materials that we utilize. um how and then as we get down here um talking about um how we are increasing our students with disabilities graduation rate and decreasing the dropout rate for students with disabilities workforce is specific to our title two budget. Remember that title two is um specifically for teacher recruitment and retention. So um we utilize those that funding for um our mentorship um uh for teachers, new teachers. We utilize that money also for um professional development um for the entire district. Um so these were just yes or no questions. Um and um then I had
057to attach um the 80day mentor and mentee report. As we come down in here to compliance, this is where we get into um the dollars. So, um here on the screen you see um the allocation um this is our um allocation from the state of New Mexico for the 2526 school year in title one 672,473 and some change I think. Yeah, 80 cents. Um, we do not receive title one part C or D. For title two, $122,000 for title three. Um, that's um instruction for our students that are English learners above and beyond um $15,786. And then title 4 um $46,843. Title four is for student success and achievement and we split split those funds between Morerti Middle School and Morerti High School. Um we do not service or take grant for title 3 immigrant
058or that RLIS that I um talked about earlier. Um, as you can see, um, we do not have any carryover funds in any of our grants. This is the first time, um, Miss Young, would you say since we've both been here? Yes. So, um, we've been, I guess the term is kicking the can down the road, um, with with the utilization of carryover funds, um, for 10 years. Um and we have run out of those carryover funds. So the funds that we had the additional funds that we didn't use from last year um up to three years ago, we could use them for this year. Um we are out of those and that's due to um the fact that many things but specifically the in the teacher um or the salary increases that are not
059um funded through federal grants. So, every time there's a a a staff increase in salary, um you know, the SEG might go up a little bit, but federal dollars have not gone up. So, we're we're trying to cover those and we've just been using carryover carryover and and we're finally out of carryover. So, our allocations are all the funding that we have for this upcoming school year. transferability um for federal programs from um especially title two and title one you can transfer funds um this would be for districts that um might not um need I don't know how but might not need professional development um or um and and they might move those title two funds into title one or vice versa. We do not do that in this district. So, um that's why you
060see zeros in those columns. Um we also have to um determine if we had a private school within the district boundaries, we would have to offer um consultation services with them and we could end up giving some of our title funds to the private school. Um we used to service Edgewood Christian School and Calvary Chapel Christian School. um those two schools have closed and so we no longer have any um and so the answer is no and we do not have to consult with those private schools any longer. All right. So title one um so with title one um we there's there's seven ways that we can fund and rank schools within the district. And um so before we do that we have to determine our set aides. And we have some um we have
061some needs that we have to take care of before we can determine how we're going to spend our funds. And those needs are um when any school district that receives title funds um we have to um set aside at least 1% for parent and family engagement. We also have to dedicate some funds for um homeless children and youth. So that's what you see here. Uh we put $10,000 towards parent and family engagement. That will be split amongst the um eligible and funded title one schools. And then homeless children and youth, as you know, we did not um receive the McKenna Vento grant um for the next three years. Um, so we um put a little bit more than we have in the past in that um so that we could you know at least provide
062something for our kids that need that um that are um McKenna Vento eligible. Right now in our district um there are currently 1441 students residing in um title one areas that um are low income. Okay. So those are our set aides. The next is the way that we um identify our students. So, as you see, there's seven options for um identifying eligibility and um based off of poverty rates and um or to get the poverty rate, there's seven ways to do it. Um there's A and C are typically used. C is the most widely used across the state of New Mexico. And what it does is it takes the direct certification from all of the students in the in the schools and then um does a we gives it a 1.6 multiplier on the back
063or on the end of that. So um we are we use option C and as you can see oh I'm sorry this is let me try to make it smaller for you. Okay, as you can see, what that does is it gives you the rates with each. I don't know if I can Can I do it? No. Well, it'll give you the rates for each school on each option. I'm very sorry that this is this window. Okay. So, for instance, um I'm going to focus on option C because that's what we use. All right. So, Edgewood Middle School um is 62.4%. Um poverty rate. Uh Morardi Elementary 100%. Morardi High School 78.4%. 4%. Morerti um Mi Middle School is 100% Route 66 is at 80.6% and South Mountain Elementary is at 54.6%. I'm I could
064have just went down. Sorry. So, here you go. The district average percentage of students that um our p our total pover poverty rate average is 80.2% in the district. We have the option of making high schools or secondary schools eligible. Um we are not doing that because um hot off the press this year um which was something that we were not expecting um our we have two options. We can um decide we have to decide on a minimum lowincome student rate for eligibility and of of title one. And so our option rate would either be 35% which would make all of our schools title one eligible or 80.2%. Um we would all we always use the higher number so that you get the most effectiveness out of those dollars and serve the students that are
065the most um um where the most poverty is the schools where the most poverty is. So based on those numbers, we have three schools, Morardi Elementary, Middle and High that are eligible. However, did I say Route 66? Morardi Elementary, Middle and Route 66. Yeah. Um, however, in the state or in federal um in the United States, um, any school that has over 75% poverty has to be funded. So in title one there is um you're eligible but then there's funded. You can be eligible and not be funded. If you're under or yeah if you're under 75%. So say we were at a school we had a school that was at 73%. They'd be eligible but we could choose not to fund them. Okay. 75% and above we have to legally fund them. This is the
066first time that we've ever um seen Morardi High School be above that 75%. Um last year they were 64%. So Morardi High School is now a funded title one um school. Um the reason that this is significant is because the allocation amount did not change although our schools that are have to be funded increased. Okay. Um, so after the set aides, what we have available is $614,000.76 and we fund per pupil. So we start with um Morardi Elementary, they are funded at $550 per pupil with their total school allocation of $24,9700. Moriardi Middle is funded at 528 with their school allocation of 128304. Route 66 is funded at $500 per pupil with an allocation of $112,000. And then Morardi High School will be funded at $23860 for a total school allocation of $124,072. We do
067not have any tier 2 schools that might be eligible and we choose to fund. And then we have tier three schools that do not qualify. So getting into the actual funding, this is going to have a lot of numbers on it. Um so just bear with me because now we're moving into all all four grants. Um this is the expenditure detail where it breaks down all of them. So I'm going to start with title one and then we're going to go to title two, title three, and title four. Okay. So um for title one we're we fund um the salaries of um instructional coach at Moriardi Elementary. Um principles if I leave something off please just chime in. Um instru this year we will fund uh instructional coach at Morardi Elementary uh mental health counselor
068at Morardi Elementary. Yes. Uh instructional coach at Moriardi Middle School and a more instructional coach at Route 66 Elementary. That's all the um salaries and that amount is $338,2644. The benefits have to be split out because it's a different line. Those total $133,1911. Um, going back up to title one supplies and materials. Um, for title one schools, $40,000 split. Um, Antonet, did we split that by pupil? We split it. Oh, here it is. By Yes. By their per pupil. By per pupil. Um so that that amount will be per pupil um amongst the four schools for title one um professional learning um and the allocation for Morerti High School new um we had some conversation about that and um we are going to um dedicate um Morardi High School's allocation of title one dollars um
069for this first year solely to professional learning. Um they've you know the schools that are not title one um we have to use title two or general operational which we don't have a lot of and so we really want to focus on professional learning and so we thought it would be a good idea to be able to use those funds for professional learning for our staff at the high school. um the additional professional learning dollars at um that is in this $133851 um will be divided also amongst the other title one schools. The other cost that um is um occurred here is um indirect costs um which go to fund all of the work that the business office does. And um so from each federal grant um so out of title one um is $27,300.
070So that's the title one budget. In title two, our award was um $122,86. five or $5,700 is coming out of um for indirect cost and the rest of that is um as you can see here title two substitutes for professional learning. So when teachers will attend training, we dedicated $16,374 stipens for professional learning um off of contract. So summer work um $10,000 and then um $90,000 for professional learning for all schools um and staff in the district. The next is EL um and our title three. Our allocation is $15,072. Indirect cost is $714. And that money we set towards professional learning and Tissel certification um 100%. Then the last is um title 4. This amount was um drastically reduced. um we were able to um pay for a full FTE of a student success coach
071that is split amongst um or between uh Morerti High School and Morerti Middle School. Um we are no longer able to do that. Um so we're paying for um this will pay for 65 of the salary which is about 348 and then the benefits is um $9,738 um operational will be um covering the other piece of that salary. And significantly, I really want to um let you know that um we we had to pull out um the director of learning services salary, the um administrative support salary, and the um district instruction and assessment coordinator salary, which totaled about well, it was over $400,000, right? including two mental health oh and two mental health counselors out of title one this morning in order to meet this. So um the operational budget is absorbing absorbing over $400,000
072um of salaries and benefits um from what was housed in um title one and also a reading specialist work. Yes. So um that's significant to know um of you know again um with the reduction of federal dollars and um the reduction um the use of the carryover to cover those salary increases. So um that's title funding. I'm not done yet. Thank you for bearing with me. All right, the next one. Oops. Sorry, did I go out? There it is. Okay. Idea B. So, idea B um as you can see we have not got allocations. So, we don't know how much money we are getting at all. Um but the application is due. So um they said just work on it as best you can. So here we are. Um so um again we do not
073have any private school and so we do not have to um set aside any dollars for private school um child fine or coordination in our district. We already provide childfind services for any child within our district boundaries. So if they um between the ages of three and five before they're in preschool um or while they're in preschool um even if they might attend a private child care um we still are responsible for screening for um any disability. Um and we set aside funds for that. Um we do not have any local um in district charter schools. So we do not um have to um provide funding for that. And then as far as compliance um this is um so we have to answer if we were um if we had any finding on the um
074idea B um 13 categories for compliance in the United States and we did not um we were not identified as a district with any significant disproportionality and we are not a needs um substantial um intervention school and we We are not um we we are adequately providing FAPE. Um so we're not um a need support district in the area of special education. Um cooperative intervention services is something that uh if we had a high proportion of students that were not being screened and um were not receiving services, we could be pulled into that and we would have to identify or give money um put money aside for the screening of um a specific category of students. So about six years ago, seven years ago, um we got identified as a district who um under report
075under evaluated um Anglo students with autism. So we had to set aside um idea B dollars specifically to evaluate students that were Anglo and might have autism. So we had to create a huge plan and set aside dollars. We are not that in that situation anymore. So we do not have to set aside money. Um we have met maintenance of effort. So that's why there's no dollars there. Um we have updated our policies and procedures. Um they are available um and we coordinated with the Walsh and Gyos law firm and they are available on the website. parent involvement. Uh, Miss Ortiz, our district special ed coordinator, has been working with parents throughout the year um to talk about um special education services provided any thoughts that they might have and needs um and also been
076sent that she's been sending parent training information to parents of students with disabilities. Then this is just where I will upload the um approval um and our assurance signatures here. When we talk about the expenditures, you're going to see a red box. So, what um Mrs. Young and I did was this is uh best case scenario. Um so in order to fund everything that we would um feel everything we need to fund special education um we would need $892,164 for um idea B and about $54,763 for our preschool special education. Okay, our um um our 619 program. Um and that goes to cover supplies and materials in um the amount of 15,000 um contracted aologists of 6,000 um IEP tech services. So um the platform that houses our IEPs um for 16,869 per capita. This
077is a very low amount. Um, but we put 2,000 in for um, parents to be reimbursed for bringing their children to school if they can't ride a school bus. Um, supplies and materials for preschool in the amount of 5,000. Benefits for the child find coordinator in the amount of 13 um,342. salaries. Um this is a half of an FTE, $36,420. Um substitute coverage for IEPs in the amount of 5,000 and that is also low. Um 20,000 for substits for the subs and then 20,000 um for um substitutes. benefits for staff um out of idea B. And then um we have um and I put them on two lines, internet, I probably should fix that. Um but we had two classes of of um uh salaries for educational assistance that we pay for out of special
078education. And then also um program specialist, our um we took out our co no our coordinator and um our um administrator who are our coordinator for Medicaid um our special education coordinator and our program specialists across the district. So all of that equals the 892,164. Our plan is that once we get alloc um allocations, what we will do is we will take out the things that um the operational budget has this year already paid for things like the per capita, the substitutes, the aiologist contracted service, and um all of our extended school year services. um the operational budget has covered those this year because we could not cover it um out of the idea budget. So, we plan to do that, but we wanted to give you a very clear picture of everything that's needed
079uh to run special education um the way that we would like to. it will be run that way out of operational but if idea B budget could cover it this is what this would is what we would definitely need. So those are our um this is the U unified application. Um thank you for bearing with me while I went through every single one but um it is for your um approval tonight and I will stand for any questions of explaining it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Madam President, no questions. So, I appreciate that. Um, Mrs. Romero, um, thank you for joining the into the details as we move into budget. You know, kind of the theme, um, that we've had. Um, it's interesting. Um, and just so you know, again, at the beginning, Mrs.
080Romero mentioned that this is bringing all of those grants together. Um, all of this work used to have to be individual grants with a um repetition of um some of those text boxes over and over and over and over. Um, again um I believe it was last week um I sent uh Madame President a message out about this application. um because it is on a specific platform um to be able to have anything printed out or screenshots available would have to um you know be be a a chore. Um but um any other question any questions any M Romero good job Mrs. young. Everyone has worked on it. I just want to say thank you to Antinet. Um she sat with me this morning. Uh I don't know what's just happening. Getting tired. Deep breath.
081Yes. Um she sat with me this morning for two hours. Um but we continuously talk and definitely could not do this without her. So thank you. Thank you both. Yes. Thank you both. I have one thing to say. Is G paying attention? [Laughter] He's wide away. Taking notes. All right. Thank you, Mrs. Romero. Um you're welcome. Uh so, Madame President, um I recommend uh approval of the NMPED unified um application um for federal grants. Superintendent Biviano is recommending uh approval for the New Mexico PED unified application federal grants. Can I have a motion? So move and a second. A second. Anyone? All those in favor say I. I. I opposed. Motion carried. Our next section is business. Um, Superintendent Bibiano. Madam President, um, we have four items um for consent agenda finance. Uh, recommend approval
082of the consent agenda finance all four items. Superintendent Viviano has asked for us to recommend uh recommends for us to consent agenda finance items one through four. Can I have a motion? So move. A second. I second. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Okay. Motion carries. All right. Now we go down to B. Actually down to B. Yes. Disposable fixed assets. Madame President, members of the board, um we have um unfortunately a maintenance truck that we need to put on disposal and Miss Young, you want to explain some more? Madam President, members of the board, um, we had a maintenance truck that was involved in an automobile accident a couple of months ago. Um, not his fault, just for the record. Um, and the insurance has totaled that vehicle, but I
083need your permission to be able to dispose of it at this time. So, okay. Um, and unfortunately I'll have to be bringing you a quote soon probably to replace it because we actually have a full crew in maintenance now and I don't have enough vehicles for them. So, it's a good problem to have, I guess. So, Madam President, I recommend um approval of disposable fixed assets for this um um maintenance maintenance truck. Superintendent Bibiano has recommended approval for the disposal of this maintenance truck in the fixed assets. Do I have a motion? I so move. Do I have a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Next we go to personnel. So um Dr. Buckley. Yeah, we still need Pardon me. Let's back up a little bit. Uh oh.
084Did I miss something? I went too fast. Never mind. All right. Any questions for Miss Young in regards to No questions. Yeah. Madam President, members of the board, um for the finance committee, we have a meeting scheduled for Monday. It got a little off because Monday is the third Monday of the month. Next Monday, but today is the third Tuesday of the month. So, usually it's the day before the board meeting, but it's off a week because of the calendar. So, we are scheduled to meet Monday at 4. Um, audit committee. I will be reaching out for dates that you're available. I need to get that RFP out, but I need we need to be able to come together as an audit committee because the RFP states that it will be open publicly. So, if
085we have somebody show up at that date and time, we have to be prepared to open the audits. Um, so I will be reaching out to you shortly for a date that works. Thank you, Miss Young. Mrs. Young. All right. Now, moving on to personnel. Correct. Um, Dr. Buckley, do you have any questions or comments for Dr. Buckley? Yeah, in looking at your report, I I'm I not seeing that we're looking for two principles. Yeah, when I submitted the report, it was not posted at that time. Okay. Not official, but I have it here. Are we getting applicants? Are we getting people interested? Uh, we do already. Any other questions? Anything Dr. Buckley you have to share with us? Uh, no. Just happy to have maintenance finally. That's good. All right. Thank you, Dr. Buckley.
086Uh, support services, special projects, and other items. I did the high school report. All right. Are there any questions in regards to transportation tech coordinator maintenance or food services? Just echo on the congratulations that we have a full maintenance staff. That's awesome. Thank you. All right, Mr. Biviano on item F. Um Madame President, members of the board, um on our agenda for action is approval for out of state travel request. This one is for um the Mori Arti High School junior um the JOTC junior cadet leadership um camp for Carson in Colorado June 8th through the 14th u 2025. Um I recommend approval of the out ofstate travel request. Superintendent Viviano is asking for approval for the out ofstate travel request for the junior ROC to go to their camp at Fort Carson on June
0878th through the 14th. Are there any questions or comments? All right. May I have a motion? And a second. I'll second. All those in favor say I. All those opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. And I um we have a second um out of state travel request. Um this is for Morari High School volleyball team to attend the University of Northern Colorado Gley. Um it's the team volleyball camp in Gley, Colorado, July 23rd through the 27th, 2025. Superintendent Viviano is um recommending the approval of the out ofstate travel request for the volleyball team to attend University of North Carolina North Carolina uh from June 23rd to the 27th. Is there any questions? If not, may I have a motion? I'll move to approve it and a second. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I.
088All those opposed. Okay. Motion carried. Next is moving on to board policy. Superintendent Bibiano. Madam President, um um under um A we have a second read for policy GE. Um retired retirey return to work. Um this is um a new regulation requiring local um administrative units they call it or school districts um which includes um to maintain and distribute to its employees all internal return to work policies consistent with MNAC 2.82.5. Um you received uh the policy in in our last meeting. Um and so if there's any discussion madam um or any questions that need to be clarified any questions or comments in I believe not. All right then I recommend approval of um this new regulation policy GE retire return to work. Superintendent Bibiano is asking for approval for recommendation to approve the policy
089GE retire return to work. Are there any comments? If not, may I have a motion for this? I'll move that we approve the policy for GE retirey return to work. May I have a second? Second. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Carried. Madam President, we move to policy advisory 247. Um, this is a policy as well as the regulation that goes with this policy. It's drug alcohol and tobacco nicotine-free schools and the regul regulation um is also drug alcohol and tobacco/nicotine-free schools. Um the policy ADB ADC um this policy which previously um just referenced the various policy provisions um stated in in our update um applicable to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, nicotine free schools now becomes the primary policy. And so this one be this would be our primary policy based on
090um state legislation. Um the regulation um addresses um signs um and signage and um what will be required to be put on all of our campuses um in terms of um the policy ADB ADC. Um so it's second read ma'am for any discussions or questions. Are there any discussion or questions in regards to this? Okay. Superintendent Viviano and I recommend approval of policy ADB ADC as well as the policy regulation ADB ADC-R. Superintendent Bibiano is recommending approve um what's the word I want? Sorry. Acceptance. Acceptance. Yes. of this policy ADB ADC-drug and policy regulation ADB ADCR drug. Are there any comments? If not, may I have a motion to I move to adopt. Okay. Is there a second? I'll second. Uh all those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Carried. Moving on to
091um policy advisory 248 second read. This is policy is a regul well this I'm sorry this is a regulation um under student transportation EA-R um this transportation regulation is amended slightly to add the full range of prohibited drugs, alcohol and tobacco products um to the list of prohibited items on a school bus. Okay. Amendments to second read. Okay. Second read. Is there any comments on this or questions? Discussion. Okay. Then I recommend the board to approve um regulation um EA-R student transportation. Okay. Superintendent Viviano is recommending for us to approve policy regulation EAR, student transportation. And the regulation, it's a regulation. Just a regulation. All those in favor say I. motion. I didn't get the motion. I'm sorry. I'm jumping ahead. Sorry. This is Okay. May I have a motion for second reading of 248?
092So move. A second. I second. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed. All right. Motion carried. Policy advisory 249. This is um Madame President, members of the board, an exhibit that would be um added to this policy. Um it's exhibit GB EBB-EA. Um staff conduct with students. Staff conduct with students. Yeah, this exhibit relates to staff conduct with students. It is an amended um exhibit to add the word um and so the only change is adding the word nicotine um twice in the exhibit as a list of prohibited items. Okay. Are there any comments or questions, discussion? If not, no. Okay. All right. Then I recommend um madam president the board approve um policy exhibit GB EBB-EA staff conduct with students as amended. Superintendent Viviano is ask is recommending for us
093to approve exhibit GB EBB EA staff conduct with students. May I have a motion for that? I'll move to approve and a second. I'll second. All those in favor say I. I opposed. All right, that motion carried. Moving on to policy advisory 250. This is policy GB ED. um you would be approving to um delete this entire entry because it is going to be replaced by the first um policy that was adopted ADB ADC. So this would be um Madame President a second read about deletion of um policy GBED from um our policy handbook. Okay. Uh, Superintendent Vibiano is recommending that we have a deletion of policy GBED, tobacco use by staff members smoking. May I have a motion? Also move. May I have a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I opposed.
094Okay. Carried. Madam President, second read of policy advisory 251. This is policy GCQF, discipline, suspension, termination, and discharge of professional um staff members. Um the only change to this from our current policy is that it adds a cross reference to the new policy that's that was adopted ADB ADC. Um so second read ma'am. Second read. Is there any discussion on this? Any questions? All right. So, Madam President, I recommend a board uh approving um policy GCQF um which um the changes to add the cross reference to the new policy that was adopted in regard to um drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and nicotine. Superintendent Bibiano is recommending that we accept the policy GCQF with the amendment for discipline, suspension, termination, and discharge of professional staff members. May I have a motion? I so move and a second.
095I'll second. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion carried. And lastly, Madame President, um policy advisory 252. Um very similar to 251. Um but this is a policy GDQD, discipline, suspension, termination, and discharge of support staff members. It has the same change to add a cross reference to the new policy. Second read, ma'am. Second read. Is there any questions or comments? All right. Then I recommend the board approve policy GDQD um with the addition of this cross reference. Superintendent Viviano is recommending that we uh accept the policy GDQD with the cross reference. May I have a motion? I'll move to approve. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. No. Motion carried. All right. Thank you very much, Madam President, members of the board. Um
096we will continue on with these regulations that um have changes to these policies in reference to tobacco, drug, alcohol, and nicotine use in a first read coming up. Okay. Um in the next um meeting. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Now we have citizen Yeah, citizen comment. We have one. We do have one citizen comment and it's um Roxan Sado. Sad deal. And there is a two-minut time limit. Welcome. Hello members. You can hear you. So I am a substitute teacher. I was an educational um assistant last year and I am writing to formally address a serious and ongoing issue regarding employee breaks and wage practices within the district. In my role, I am responsible for supervising students and am not permitted to leave them unattended. Despite this, I am not being properly relieved for
097breaks. Yet, a lunch break is still automatically deducted from my pay. This is not only unfair, it is clear violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Federal law requires that if a break is unpaid, the employee must be fully relieved of all duties. That condition is not being met, and deducting wages under these circumstances is illegal. It's also worth noting that the FSA does not require that employers provide breaks at all, and neither does the state of New Mexico. However, if an employer chooses to provide unpaid breaks, they must ensure the employee is completely relieved of duty. This makes it even more troubling that time is being deducted without meeting the legal requirements for an unpaid break. Adding to the concern, I was told by someone in a position of authority, and I say with
098this with full respect and for that person's um I'm not going to mention who it is because I do have respect for this person, but that if I don't take a break, that's on me. And also that it's not my choice to skip a break, that it's simply not acceptable. It is not my choice to skip a break. I cannot take one if I am not relieved of my duties. In fact, I would prefer to continue working through my break and be compensated accordingly. However, I am told I must take a break because it is policy. If I cannot actually be relieved of my responsibilities, yet the time is still deducted from my pay, that is not only violation of labor law, it defies common sense. Many of us are caught in this exact situation
099expected to follow. Your time is up. I'm so sorry, but thank you, Roxan. No problem. Thank you. All right. Our next item is advanced planning. Superintendent Bibiano. Um Madame President, members of the board, um I listed um some items and some activities uh school activities that are coming up towards the end of April and into May. Um, budget committee meeting will be on April 22nd. I will get those invitations out tomorrow. Um, we have a April break coming up this Friday, a remote day on April 21st. Um, we have our regular school board meeting on May 20th and then we do have Morardi High School graduation on May 23rd. Um, um, the last day uh for students. Um, I will, like I did last year as the elementarymentaries, which many of them have already started
100to do, fill the calendar up with their promotion days or or end of year activities. Um, I will get that out as a list um to you in my weekly updates and all the end of year banquetss and everything. Yeah, that's what that's what I'm referring to, sir. Yeah. Yes, sir. As I get them, I'll put them on. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. And our next item is closing. So without any further ado, it is 10 minutes till 8. Madam President, I'm sorry. And adjournment of tonight's regular meeting. I should let you do that. That's okay. This is the first time for some of this, so bear with me. I'm sorry. I recommend adjournment of tonight's regular meeting. Superintendent Beayiano has recommended adjournment of tonight's meeting. Is there a motion? So move. A second.
101Second. And all those in favor say I. I. opposed. Motion carries. Meeting is now adjourned. Thank you for coming.