School Board Meeting (3/18/25)

001e e e okay we are ready my eyes are just blurry I hereby call our Tuesday March 18th 6m regular board meeting to order and ask that you stand and join in the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of alleg ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all all right let me get myself set up here um Madame President uh moving to adoption of agenda um we are set and so I recommend adoption of tonight's um Regular board meeting agenda superintendent biano has recommended that we adopt our regular meeting adoption of the agenda so do I have a motion I Mo to adopt a second second all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries

002thank you all right welcome to guests Madame yes welcome we have a nice room full of uh people tonight so thank you for coming out and joining us we look forward to um the meeting that is ahead of us so I hope you all enjoy it as well um all right right Madam president moving on to approval of minutes um I recommend approval of the draft of the regular meeting minutes from February 18th 2025 superintendent biano recommends that we approve the minutes of February 18 2025 can I have a motion move a second second all those in favor say I I I opposed okay move minut it's approved thank you Madame President members of the board and staff members and guests that are with us tonight uh moving on to our staff and student recognitions

003and um our first group tonight that are that is with us uh um very um very excited and the accomplishment that has happened uh with the morti High School Mesa robotics team um as you well know um our Vex uh V five robotics teams um both of the the robots that were that were built programmed disassembled reassembled programmed over and over and over I can imagine um by our students um they went to state competition and they walked away with the state championship and so they are with us tonight and so we'd like to introduce the teams and Mr Smithson up um to talk about their their journey and um where they're headed so um if we can Round of Applause as we G yeah excellent they know where to stand Madame President Madame President

004members of the board superintendent biano district members um the last time we were here we had about the same amount of team members one robot and that had just gotten I don't know if you guys remember this 19 points in a competition uh we stand before you today with two robots the same amount of team members and both robots scoring over 35 points one of which scored 45 points which is a huge deal um three more tournaments one more event and of course a state championship under our belts um I mentioned last time that we had the best students in the school I maintain that but I'd like to add an addendum to it I have the hardest working students in this school superintendent bio was not wrong when we said we have torn these

005robots apart three or four times and I have had to slap their hands away from it at least three times a day for the last four days because they've been wanting to get ready for worlds and I said only after the board has gotten a chance to see them um I'm going to be brief um I will wrap up here but I'd like to introduce my team uh as well as my assistant coach and our invaluable manager as well and then I will turn it over to them for remarks about their season and what they've anything they really want to mention our team captains will be going first first from Team Atlas we have our team captain Donovan Barba our I'm I can we have our chief engineer and uh also our game manager Elijah

006orus we have another engineer as well is just he does really everything uh Aiden rosson we have our strategist I guess would be the best way to put it Melinda Martinez we have oh Chris our chief programmer Chris row you know he's a programmer because he looks stressed he also acted as our clock manager during the actual tournament itself and uh really kind of helped keep us on track um and then from Team Phil we have our team captain pelo pelo Sanchez our driver and chief engineer uh um I forgot your name Rohan Patel we have our Phil's version of the person who kind of does everything uh Bowden Moore and our chief programmer uh Jasmine lead better also with us is our she turned into a manager she does everything for us is Miss

007Aiden Le and my assistant coach and my right hand really uh Miss fleen sandal so I'm going to turn it over to our team captain starting with Atlas uh Donovan Barba hello everybody so so this is our bot Atlas yeah and you went wrong whenever we said we've like de assembled and reassembled about like eight different times I think our arm has like six different iterations but right now we might be the only bot to go to Worlds that main feature is an arm that comes out like this and scores a ring onto the goal because everybody else looks like Phil unfortunately but this is it's pretty reliable actually and you know I've been the main driver Elijah's been like the game strategist while he's on the side of me and then Chris was the

008clock manager and so the I have right here is Tournament champion from state is whenever we allied with Phil and we to hold him state championship and then El will talk about so this is the innovate reward award and we received it because we are one of the most unique Bots because we were one of the only bots to use an arm well the other Bots are conveyor Bots like Phil which can score a lot more points but they're not us they're not us for me it was I think like interacting with the other teams because like the like the top teams in the state right now they're actually pretty nice to talk to and in the in the final like the finalist we went against this team called odonata and it was a pretty

009tough match but after the match it was like all fun in games everyone was having a fun time and they're even going to Worlds with us so for um also for like goals to Worlds I think we should become like top or we should give we should be ranked I think top 300 because there's GNA be 800 teams that goes to world and I just if we win a couple matches that'll be kind of fun um you guys got anything to say Chris you want to say something um hello as I was introduced I'm Chris uh mainly Chief programmer for team Atlas um honestly my main goal for uh the Vex V5 world's Championship is to outperform every previous iteration of the autonomous code so throughout all of our previous tournaments and showings to Vex

010V5 events we've had in all honesty a pretty lackluster autonomous code however we've been slowly stepping it up and becoming more competent in that area and my goal for worlds is to not only have an effective autonomous code but also a reliable autonomous code and with the set autonomous code I have set the mark of 20 autonomous points which would put us above a decent am amount of teams so the difference between a conveyor po a conveyor bot autonomous code and our autonomous code is that theirs doesn't need exact Precision like ours does we need to have it perfectly aligned in order to get the ring to go in our feeding mechanism well conveyor Bots they just got to run into it they just got to run into it that makes it a lot harder

011to code but once you get it get it quite right it's pretty efficient I think that's everything else so we'll hand it over to team hello um I'm the team team captain for team Phil uh as you can see as they've been saying team Phil is a conveyor Bel bot so it basically just drives into rings and picks them up and then feeds them feeds them onto the conveyor belt and then scores them on Stakes um so our conveyor belt bot what I've noticed like compared to other robots at State like the conveyor belt bot ours is like really consistent with scoring a lot of teams a lot of other teams struggled with like scoring very consistently uh and I think it's mostly due to these two metal shafts right here it flip it allows

012the ring to flip and go onto the mobile go stake uh you want to talk more about it Rohan well first off um my name is ran and before I get speaking how are you guys doing no one has asked you guys that no one has asked I care all righty well to continue on this um essentially what's like the best feature of our robot in my opinion is probably our drivetrain uh like most common cars today we use a gear ratio our gear ratio is a three to five oh no yeah yeah 3 to5 gear ratio it allows us it's not even at as max power as it is right now it's only at 50% and it can go up to like at least 20 miles an hour estimate estimate if it was at

013100% it could go up to 20 miles an hour as it is right now it could probably goes seven um uh the intake I'd say is probably our second best feature uh a lot of teams they have a really good intake the one thing that differs from ours is that our intake is actually connected to like to a part of our chassis not really it's connected to like the structural towers of the conveyor bot and overall the robot itself it though it's like the same idea as other robots it's commonly like it's commonly different at the same time like it's it's this unique thing while being the same thing uh does jaas do you want to explain the code sorry oh wait before I say that if you're wondering wait before if you're wondering what

014is an autonomous code uh autonomous code is pretty much the code that allows a robot to drive itself without a person controlling it okay yeah hi I'm I'm Jasmine I'm the chief coder for Phil and when I first started I knew absolutely nothing about coding like at all I'd never even seen the program but Phil here is coded in Vex V5 block code and it's basically kind of like Legos you just piece it together to tell it what to do the main thing I did was I coded the driver's controls so I took what he wanted and mapped it to a remote and then I also programmed the 15 seconds which at the start of each match robots are given 15 seconds autonomous to score as many rings as possible and if you win that

015part you get an autonomous bonus which can't be toen away by negative corners and if I'm being entirely honest that kind of really did help us win because almost every match we got the autonomous bonus and so that was really nice and one of my goals for worlds is I want to get an autonomous win point which is where a robot scores rings on multiple different Stakes including a wall Stak so that's why we need to add something like an arm because currently Phil is not tall enough to score a wall Stak but at the same time Phil is also too tall to get under the ladder so multiple problems there there's also the one minute which I made the first few like references for but the full one minute as of currently is coded

016by Ved okay uh so I'm Bowden I worked on the autonomous code for the one minute uh we had uh several different variations beforehand but before we went to Worlds we had a week of working on just the autonomous for one minute and with the one minute what we wanted it to do was score of course as many rings as possible in one minute which then would get us a ton of points although it was my first time working at it it seemed like it was working very well and we actually were able to score a ton of points using our one minute code unfortunately though it's not perfect it still had some problems so it wasn't consistent which led to it not scoring any during worlds or not worlds State um so for the

017one minute uh you pretty much just program a ton of set definitions uh unlike what jasine used which was Vex V5 block code mine was uh C++ in Vex V5 code which it's pretty much the same thing except for you could change a lot more individual variables for it so I pretty much just we all came up with a plan of the path that he was going to take and then I just pre-coded all of it with estimations of how long you would need to do it which surprisingly led to it actually scoring the Rings decently well for the first uh four rings out of the uh eight um so for the next week before uh State we pretty much just worked on that changing variables changing it over and over so then we could

018get as many as possible unfortunately though we didn't have enough time to work out all the Kinks so it wouldn't have uh variability problems so even though we got pretty good one minute code done it wasn't perfect enough to consistently score the uh points that we needed um I'd also like to point out the uh tournament Championship award that we got from Carl's Bad the state award yes it's very impressive way way more impressive than getting this but I would still like to highlight this Phil and Atlas both got a tournament champion award from uh carlbad whenever we went to carlbad we we already were accepted into State at the time we knew that we were accepted but we all wanted to still win an actual award even though we were accepted so we all

019went in there with determination to win so we tried our hardest at all things we possibly could we were working on autonomous still while we were at the event we were working on fixing up our Bots making them as best as we possibly could in between every individual round we made sure to polish up our notebook as best as we could and we also TR uh actually I didn't I goost over that the notebook uh we keep a log of everything that we do before uh we go to an event like any modifications we do any plans we have and we made sure to polish it up as much as possible in the hopes of of doing as best as we possibly could um so even though the Carl's Bad award isn't of very impressive

020War compared to State it still shows how much that we cared about the program and how hard we tried to get a win under our belt and it led to Phil and Atlas both winning because both of us were determined as much as possible uh also something we didn't mention we have the Jasmine right here is holding the judg award we also got that from carlbad so uh you get this from like judges come around and start interviewing Bots and whichever interview they think is the best they give the judges award to and um one of the main reasons I think we won is because the judges were witnessing us solve a problem that was wrong with our robot like one of our Wheels wasn't connected to the motor properly so we had to flip

021it like flip the shaft with the wheel on it yeah we had to disassemble like the whole drive chain and then yeah in five minutes uh yeah but I think that's what made us stand out for the judges award um also my goal for worlds I want to at least get like in the top half like if we can also for skills I want to like for our skills which is just one robot tries to score as many points as fast as possible I want to like beat our old record I don't I don't think we can beat like top World teams but it'd be fun to try yes that's what and I think the most important thing since this is a School District board meeting is that we should demonstrate what we learned from

022a robot um in the fall I'll be attending New Mexico Tech as a mechanical engineer uh so what I learned through this program was something called Tech writing uh Tech writing is essentially English for engineers uh I've learned it from the engineering notebook that we to fill out through our progress with uh with the program essentially Tech writing just says it's like a analysis or troubleshooting or problem Solutions of what you did to your project essentially the robot uh we also learned a whole bunch of physics without actually being in a phys physics class uh I also learned uh a lot about gear ratios I learned a lot about torque I learned a lot about power and and a lot about mechanical structuring uh I want to give it to pelo to explain what he

023learned as well uh so I honestly just learned how engineering works and how stressful it is like having to having your design not work the first time and how frustrating it is but the ability to persevere without it working like the first time of the ability to redesign it the ability to see yourself succeed that's really what I learned uh similar to pelo but I learned more on the coding side that your code is never going to work the way you want it to and that coding is pretty much just changing one single variable every single time until something works like our bot here uh Phil he doesn't understand degrees so all our turns are programmed in seconds and so pretty much all of my coding was changing from like0 65 seconds to 67 68

024over and over and over until it started to work so that's the main thing I learned is that you really just have to persevere because there was so many times I wanted to give up but Mr Smithson wouldn't let me so I learned how to you know push through it even though I was getting frustrated being the only original coder all right lastly before we give you guys back the floor that we' that we've taken up for far too long um uh oh actually there's one more thing no um uh something that I've learned is cooperation with others I've never done too well with a group of people but having to work on something like this a massive bot that has a ton of little things that to be fixed like explanations for ideas and

025things and things like that it took a lot for me to learn how to cooperate well with others but this was a great stepping stone for that because it helped me be able to share my ideas with others and then work on other people's ideas in a coherent and timely manner uh i' would also lastly for myself leave off saying that working on this bot and with everyone has given me a sense of uh for Mori being able to work with these people and being inspired by those in my community to get our name out there has led to me wanting to make our name as best as possible for everyone in the [Applause] community hi I'm Aiden Le I'm their manager first of all I want to call Melinda up here too to talk

026because she did not get to talk yet and I want to know her goals for world my goals for worlds is autonomous win for Phil and just top 300 for Atlas because we're not getting autonomous points um but I want to say that I learned a lot on how to manage time and how to communicate effectively with everyone like everyone in the room because that was something I was not good at before I have severe social anxiety and I was never good at this but this club and this whole team honestly bought that out in me and I love it I love it so much and I know what I want to do with the rest to my career because of this team but I'm G to pass it to Melinda so she can talk

027hi Melinda as said before I will have to say well let me say my favorite thing about M right now it's like the family we had built it's became one big thing and I really enjoyed being in it the whole being also able to talk to other teams and us all communicate all together has honestly been amazing our goals do seem kind of crazy but I feel like we can do with especially how far we have gotten I have been so proud of everybody especially our coders they got to stop bringing themselves down but they have done amazing I'll be there recording and all that and I just see them being all like nervous about I'm like no you guys are doing amazing our drivers amazing the bill Team all of it is just amazing

028um I do agree with our goal at least making it to 300 or higher or half of that it would be amazing to at least get pretty up there especially for our first year in Mesa okay also roson come here you also didn't talk don't think I didn't notice so big uh like everyone else said my goal for worlds get for Atlas is just get top three uh 300 um I want to get better autonomous scoring stuff like thatal do you want to say anything um thank you guys for giving us the time to be here um we have created a great team here and we're looking forward to traveling to Texas and we um needed all your support to do that so thank you parents for um letting your kids join our team um

029thank you Bor for listening to us and supporting us and we hope to do a great things while we're there and in the future we hope to do great things as well thank you guys yeah okay uh final thought I promise I'll be brief um I want to talk about well sorry I'm not um I want to talk about the coach's perspective from Worlds you've seen how them here if you were all present for the last interview and it was not that confident it was not that knowledgeable that alone demonstrates How Far We've Come how far they've come in terms of their learning and their progression their iterations um from a coach's perspective our goal from Worlds is to watch our seniors do something that's never happened in our district before and just enjoy the

030ride um compete as hard as they can but make connections with the massive Tech sponsors there uh watch our freshman and sophomores get the experience of competition at Worlds so they can basically train the new generation that are were coming up for Mor middle and Edwood mle and uh the next time we go to Worlds set ourselves up so we don't come back as competitors but as world champions that's our goal thank you board members Madame President of Mr biano all the district for all of your support and help uh we could not be holding these trophies without you parents like Miss handal said thanks for letting me borrow your kids for a little bit thank you very much yes sir first year that is awesome hey guys I just want to really let you

031know that we do appreciate you and that we love the fact that this is your first year and you're striving as hard as you are to do this we'd love to see you guys and like you guys were saying that your pride now and your pride and your family and everything like that we truly appreciate it we truly value that so understand we're here for you if you guys ever need anything come find especially Mr bibiano he's he's been glowing the whole time so be proud of yourselves we are very proud of you at this time so keep moving and you're going to do better than 300 I got it in my heart that I feel that you guys are going to do that so congratulations thank you Mr Laing all right we will move

032on now and I will ask if uh Mr niia could come up and um bring a guest with him um sella um and Mr Nia um we so we did we did plan on um having a win winter sports teams here but Mr Nia will explain but we do have M gyos good evening members of the board Madame President superintendent babano um last night at the softball game this is is Bill guy goes hit 500 strikeouts so she is one of and she got on the last out she's exactly 500 correct okay she is one of three in the state of New Mexico so she's sitting in third place um she needs 167 if I'm correct to get to second so no pressure we got it right and next year she'll be pitching at Huntington

033Beach correct I'll be pitching at uh Golden West in Huntington Beach California um I'll be going up there to play two years of Joo softball congratulations we going to recognizer for 500 strikeouts congratulations and the season just started so we've got plenty of games to get that right congratulations yep it's it's a great accomplishment and all the hard work you've been putting in since you were little right since you were little all right all right congratulations congratulations thank [Applause] you come stand over here put you in this now turn now turn there you go we still got to learn learn it yeah yeah you're good yeah winter sports yes sir tonight can you guys hear me it's working all right um we're supposed to have winter sports teams here tonight but baseball is playing ourl

034basketball coaches are part of the baseball crew a lot of kids are playing baseball so they're not here tonight um so boys basketball so they finished nine and 18 on the season they did beat Los alos in The District tournament and he wanted us to let you know that they did win the bean Valley tournament in stonia that took first place there um making their first team all district was Jordan and he also scored 1,000 points for his career that was boys basketball girls basketball they finished 13 and4 on the year um they were fourth in the district they also won the bean Valley uh tournament in Stan so basically we swept the tournament in stonia so did a good there first team District was Presley Edward Presley Edwards she'll be playing in the north

035south game this Saturday in Hobbs representing morari so that was girls basketball this year wrestling wrestling boys won the district Championship this year uh they wanted me to let you know they took 20 they qualified 16 kids for State 22 16 out of 22 of our wrestlers made it to State six placed um boys overall took 11th and State girls took 10th they did win one of the first ever combined meets in Grants where they used both boys and girls so they what they did is the girls 100 pounds wrestled then boys 107 girls 107 took Tob stores and they won that so that was our year in wrestling so that was our year in winter sports thanks thank you [Applause] guys thank you Mr annia are you headed back out to that wind in

036the in the baseball game or you going to stay in here yeah all right um Madame President if I may um let the students and the parents know you're more than welcome to stay the rest of the meeting but if you'd like to head home early and uh get warm and get ready for another day of school then uh then you're welcome to uh to head out now or maybe I should put that the other way around you're here until the end congratulations again [Applause] Brooklyn not you Brooklyn needs to St oh are you gonna have to are we okay with just having her do her report so before we move on we yeah we'll bring her yeah we had we had moved it down to help him out to get out of practice and

037now and now get down all right um Miss Brooklyn Miss Brooklyn only us is with us uh and to give a quick report out for student councel can I have stand over here you're good Brooklyn okay um hi members of the board so I just wanted to talk to you guys about some of the stuff we've been doing in student council recently so we have been working with the wellness committee to basically um working towards Teacher Appreciation Week to show all of our appreciation towards our teachers we are getting gifts for them and providing meals and also working with our Wellness committee to provide extra like things for our teachers just to show them how much we really do appreciate them and all the work they put in we are also working on finishing up

038graduation working on planning whether it's outside or not and also we've been ordering cords and stols for our student council officers and our student council members so yeah that's pretty much what the year has been so thank you members of the board and I hope you guys have a good day ready doing that for the teachers yes thank you Brooklyn all right Madame President um we move on to principal's and athletic directors reports um any questions or comments on the reports make sure turn it on yep turn it on so yes you all are continuing to just um excel in all your activities and all your accomplish ments that each of you are having at your individual schools I happen to be here on my Friday meeting with Todd and and February and got to

039go down to the little Early Childhood Center and um they gave us some play money and we went shopping at their Farm to Market that was a lot of fun um to see the kids and how excited they were and how well they were doing I have a horse head that's on my refrigerator that Mr biano bought when we were at of the one of the tables and um just that um all the pictures we enjoy the pictures seeing what your activities are and and um we know that you guys are going to finish up strong um as the year progresses but thank you for all your hard work and and for all that you do for your your students thank you ma'am I'll pass it thank you um real quickly um thank you for

040your reports obviously I know it takes time and I know we get a lot of repeat information a little bit here and there and I get that you guys use a formula and all that stuff i' just like to remind you that we do have a strategic plan in place and um the information me that me personally that I'm looking for are the things that are outlined in our board values that we came up with um I mean there's six of them and obviously I think it addresses a lot of it but there's also there's also things in reports that uh I don't think um add a whole lot of value um to what we're trying to achieve um and if you got questions about that I'll gladly uh go over that with you later

041because it's a couple specifics um but other than that just so you know obviously every board every report you send in is tied to an agenda and every agenda is public information so what's what's in there is is it's for all to see and for every one to uh to uh interpret it as they wish so just a reminder thank you vice president young Mr Laing Mr Adams I just want to say what did the math department get out of going to that conference on the 7th because that's one of been one of our focuses is the math and everything yeah um I'll let Mr Adams answer if you'd like Madame President member um um Laing um in my board report we're going to follow up on that yeah yeah yeah no that's okay thank

042you thank you and they're going to be volun told to give you information on that absolutely Madame President any others any else no sir all right thank you very much thank you for your comments we will move on to superintendent report and we will jump right into that Mr Laing all right so oh I'm sorry you're right I am sorry uh board comments and um U board president and Board of Education comments sorry I crossed it out early Madame President any other comments or or um from the board I just had a comment I just wanted to comment on how impressive the students are with their public speaking like I think that says a lot about this district and how confident they are in what they're doing and how the passion for what they're doing

043shines through I think that's very impressive so that's all I wanted to say I seen that too when one of the girls said that she was real shy and all of a sudden she's wide open right now she's speaking to us right here that is something to say about this moari Edwood School District yes I agree it says a lot I was thinking the very same thing as they were standing there and all wanting to have a chance to talk and share their their thoughts and their their goals so so they truly have um grown a lot in their accomplishments and in their confidence absolutely and their team teamship it's it's it just it's so good to see people work together as a team it makes it feel good when you see students yeah yes

044thank you appreciate that I I too had a listening to to and I'm glad every student had an opportunity to speak um but to see the wheels turning as speaking and reliving the moments that they had um in the competitions and how the adversity and the collaboration um the speaking skills um Miss Donner um uh the the the writing how they are already looking at it not just to transfer to have their robots win but career oriented as well um and and um when we we developed the Strategic plan and we talked about slowly building up our our CTE um you know um systems and and our programs um that those are the outcomes um that we would like to see on a regular basis to be able to um help students out um I

045mean they they basically were were giving us probably the way that they they spoke to the judges when the judges were asking them questions so I appreciate that as well and that was very impressive that was very impressive he that I said a bunch of way over my way over your head Mr my head but there's a good example of student outcomes because from the work they've put in together and the leadership that they've gotten from Mr Smith Smithson and his team absolutely all right any other now we will move on to the superintendent's report thank you for keeping me straight um madam president and members of the board tonight um wanted to update um on our strategic plan um from last month um some items and some f um some action steps that we

046took um as a district with our our teachers um and really want to highlight Focus area 1B which is math instruction and uh three which is student engagement um displayed up on the screen uh is the goal for each one of those Focus areas um increased growth in student achievement annually by 5% um in mathematics and then the goal for Focus area three in student engagement is increased student engagement in the learning process um as measured by districtwide attendance rates and student participation um in the type of activities that we were just um privy to have presented to us today um tonight we will will'll talk about those action steps that so for every goal we have action steps to try to to achieve that goal and um the first one is creation of a

047professional development menu by providing teachers with the opportunity for professional development in the area of math prek through 12 each semester and then increase Project based learning and building thinking classrooms by providing professional development telary teachers and content area teacher teams um so on March 7th and 8th um we did take our second AR Math teachers our general Ed teachers as well as our special education teachers um our principes Mrs Romero um they attended both days of the conference I attended March 7th um I I bout out on the eth um went to the Mirage um first competition of the year um but if you if you notice some of just some some brief information um 50 plus breakout sessions designed to address the middle school math Cliff um and I take this from from

048the conference where the US has the largest decline in math scores between fourth and 10th grade um worldwide at the conference there were internationally recognized leaders in education um and then and then we were able to go to breakout sessions with um teachers principals coaches um all that all staff members from around the country I didn't meet anybody from around the world but I know there were there was uh people from Hawaii there was people from um Michigan um Oregon oh Australia and sou Paulo yes so there was International um and and and and we were able to not only listen to them but then you know get ideas and strategies on how to move forward with our math instruction um breakout sessions there was sessions on questioning skills um um teachers questioning breaking down

049questions um Mr Adams um Mrs uh Romero and I went into a a session about that you know getting word problems that we've all been exposed to um but this gentleman showed a way to break them down to build students up to gain confidence not just in math but just to collaborate and be able to explain their their thinking um it was pretty fascinating um quick it was it was a quick session um but we got a lot out of it so there's some other breakout sessions that that um our teachers and our um administrators attended the keynote speaker which was on Saturday was U Mr Peter lenen Lil lenal lenal I can never say his name I apologize um and he is the author of building thinking classrooms in mathematics um and Miss Romero

050um you attended the the that do you have a any feedback on on what um he was able to provide for our for our staff members yeah Madam president members of the board super biano um so that keynote um was pretty much and please chime in principles that were there um pretty much a very in-depth overview of building thinking classrooms and um if you will the the framework to um what it looks like to run um nonvert or non-permanent vertical spaces and the strategies that building thinking classrooms um um allows students to show their thinking so it's visible thinking skills so that he really went through a checklist of if if I was a teacher going to do this in my classroom what are the key takeaways that I need to do um in his

051keynote he clarified some I think misconceptions that are happening across the United States right now we have in um in fact been um uh kind of a um uh participant in some of those in one of those misconceptions um some of our trainers have talked about the randomized groupings and the use of a random name generator for instance and um Mr lindall said in his keynote he said no do not do it use cards use cards do don't buy these you know paid for random generators and name generators um the curriculum there's actually a mid school math curriculum that um is is who put this conference on and um they have a um random name generator in their curriculum and so he was kind of giving the curriculum um the CEO of the company a

052hard time during his keynote um and so that was interesting we got to spend a minute after the keynote and talking to him and he he really just is um he said he's on this mission to reinforce the the random groupings um with uses of cards and there's lots of science behind it and research about you know students um wanting to check out if if they know they don't want to work with that student or they were paired with a student because of whatever um it just increases the odds that they'll check out and not be an active participant so um he uh really um I think he accelerated our teachers um Pro the our teachers that had not been trained in it we had some Math teachers that have not attended the trainings yet

053and I think he really ex um expedited their want to um be trained get involved and try it um and take some risks in their classrooms so um anything I left off so we do have some feedback um um and I'll ask the principes to to to come on up notice they got out of their chairs ready ready to go um I'd ask them to just give their perspective um you know being the side administrator seeing that you know building thinking classrooms is just one component of what we're trying to do to um increase our math instruction um in a in a positive way obviously and um I I I do know that you know in during breaks um walking to lunch together um the teachers were already you know I guess fired up they

054were excited and I see Mr Gatson be and some heads nodding um and that's what we need to do we need to we need to you know get that conversation moving knowing we need to move forward with our with our math proficiency scores um but it's also to support the teachers and so they were excited to be there and to generate some ideas about moving forward on on everything from what schedules look like to um what the actual instruction does that build that brings in um building thinking classroom um one real quick note the the concept and the idea of of building things in classrooms um is already starting to expand in some of our classrooms um students getting up and walking and collaborating and and being able to explain their thinking and the processes

055um um it's it it's expanding into some English language arts classes um it's already going on so um Mr Romero had sent me uh some feedback on an email and it was so well written and and and and put together asked him just to tell us in person if he didn't mind yeah absolutely um I attending uh I told Mr biano I was in a rut it's that it's almost spring break right like we're tired um and I needed a spark and the the conference provided that spark for me I'm currently working on a component of my national boards to become national board certified and so I've been borrowing a classroom uh for the last six weeks and so I was able to immediately take some of these strategies they're low Tech they don't they

056get the kids off their Chromebooks they everything is geared towards building inquiry so in the classroom that I'm borrowing it's social studies based so even though everything here is math-based um there's immediate application to all content areas and so that Monday um the group that I've been borrowing we're reviewing for a re for a test and and one of the breakouts was to uh he was this older gentleman from New York who spoke really fast and he said why do we give the kids the totality of a math problem and he said why don't we just go piece by piece and and it was like really powerful for me because I used to give the kids the review and we would answer the questions all together and it was this whole two three four pages

057of review so instead I cut out the questions and we went one by one and he uh Peter ladol shows a lot of footage of students all around the corners of the room working and he said do you see that lazy group in the middle that's the teachers and it's because the students are driving everything they're working together they're conversing and so I utilized this practice and I was like wow um I really really liked breaking it down and just this concept of our students don't necessarily have the stamina to read or endure a long word problem so let's chunk it for them and let's go in Greater depth instead of here's the problem find the answer you're on your own and so yeah it was perfect for me I came back uh I haven't

058been able to debrief with my team that went but we are tomorrow during PLC so um but I also know that one of my math teachers immediately did the same thing she's doing different practices on Monday two days after we were done with the conference so really really powerful so what um Erin's talking about with the word problems that Mr biano mentioned at the end of that process the students were as actually telling the teacher what the problem was going to be so they would walk through the steps with questioning and they would figure out what the what the problem was going to be having already worked through it so that was pretty cool the the thing I walked away most with is first of all um talking to other administrators and teachers at the

059conference um is that we're just in the beginning steps of the BTC we we've only started last summer um it was the first time all of my math teachers had been together at a conference or to been trained um and they're still going through there's still sus that haven't been completely trained um and I talked to principles that they've been doing it for four years and um gone to conferences together four years and they're learning the ins and out of it and doing B book studies and things like that so um I think that's important to remember that the results aren't going to just happen and teachers aren't going to perfect it right away um but you got to stick with it and um make that um just a part of their process um year

060after year good evening um just to add on to what the other principal said um one of the things that resonated with me was that teachers are facilitating and the students are doing the work um I went to um an instructor he was from California and he taught at a pretty high-end School engineering stuff and I'm not super mathematically inclined and I was around a bunch of Math teachers so I was intimidated um but because I was in a group we all learned from each other I mean one of the Math teachers that was with us she was a genius and and she taught me stuff that I didn't learn in high school and I went to a private high school and I was just like good Lord um just we learned from each other

061he increased the rigor every time and and I got more confident with my group and it was just it you know it's it makes sense for the kids um I had a staff meeting regarding this and I I didn't even talk about teaching I I broke out the 2A and I'm sorry domain two and domain three for evaluations and we're talking about innovating if you do BTC you should be hitting applying and innovating almost every time because of all the things that the state is asking teachers to do so uh I went into an Ela class I sent uh central office some some pictures I went into an Ela class they hadn't even been to a training um I had a special ed teacher co- teing with a with a general ed teacher and they

062did BTC the whole the whole observation and they rocked it and the kids were it it was great to see that people are trying they're taking risks um and the kids are learning so it's it's very transformative thank you guys thank you thank you thank you um Madame President members of the board I had um one of our special education teachers um send me some feedback and said she wouldd like to thank the school board and district for giving the opportunity to participate in these trainings and conferences and she believes building thinking classroom is a valuable tool um and um hearing um Mr lilen doll speak in person gave me Insight on how to support future lessons with an inclusion classroom um so great feedback so um that's it about the math conference um Madame

063President members of the board any questions or comments yeah my biggest comment is I love that you guys are into it that you guys are going to those classrooms and seeing it my biggest problem right now is I hate the Chromebooks for kids because now that they're back involved you can see that they're improving and that they're getting better so I truly appreci appreciate more and you know and the feedback from parents that I've been getting is they hate the Chromebooks too but they love that the interaction is better and I love that like you got the spark again I mean it truly is it's going to bring passion back for our kids so I truly appreciate it more than you know thank you Mr Lawson I know that it's technology that's coming but the

064kids need to develop a brain and this seems like if the kids are will be able to work more together and be able to develop a great a brain instead of just going to a laptop top or whatever they you and figured it out this is great I like it thank you thank you well Madame President and members of the board um seeing the the progress we've made um with our professional development um the observations in the classroom we will plan and um continuing on and like Mr Adams um mentioned about being a district in the first year of it um we plan on being a district of the of the second year um most definitely because um we have um some some ownership being taken um across the board from elementary all the way

065to high school with this and then um teacher other teachers really wanting the the training and with that being said um I'll pass on to Mrs Romero she has the second piece um you know AIS is our Consulting Group that we um have been partnering with um through the sixe study um and as as a district we um decided to um uh pay for Consulting um a little bit more um when it comes to math instruction and so we wanted to give you an update and where where we're at and we headed um specifically with that thank you um Madame President members of the board Mr biano what you see on the screen is the actual Math training that will occur um for our elementary teachers and then math departments at um both middle school

066and high school um from now until the end of the year and then um after after I go through these I will briefly mention um what we're doing on the separate contract with AIS that will involve all other disciplines um so we um earlier this month we had two um Consultants from AIS come and they modeled it was part of the six-year study math project with CES and they modeled in almost all of our schools um they we chose a classroom and they modeled a lesson so they went in for 30 minutes and observed the classroom just to get a feel for the environment the routines how the kids um communicated and collaborated with each other then they had they had already collaborated with the teacher they knew what standard they were on they had

067talked via email and were ready for what that um where they were in their learning and um so the the AIS Consultants they um taught a lesson um using uh the boards and building thinking classroom strategies and all um as many teachers as we could pull in came and observed that so they got to see it real time it wasn't just the PD um it was actually getting to observe um the the experts do it and then we had about a 45 minute to an hour debrief with the teachers so we visited um Elementary Middle School and High School classrooms and uh it the feedback was was phenomenal teachers just appreciated it so much we had some teachers who had not been trained and they were begging for the training by the end of the

068debrief they were like well when do we get to when when's our turn so um it that was a great professional development um learning opportunity and a model that I think we will definitely use moving forward it's very tricky to schedule at one point I had to call Mr Fano and say can you come help me get one trainer across the district so um so that happened on May 1 and 2nd we're going to have a day for elementary and a day for um secondary um where they um work on Rich tasks so the actual thinking tasks up at the board and that really looks like um the teachers um posing a question or a problem and just letting the kids go to work on the boards and so talking about what those Rich tasks

069look like and then also diving deeper into visible thinking and how to work through the questioning so as teachers and even I mean as humans we we want to give answers it's just natural um we want to um help so we want to help you know give the answer or pose a question we might um pose a question that prevents the thinking from continuing and um one of the strategies for BTC is you say they ask you a question and you go hm good question and you walk away and students are like hey she's not helping me what happened but that just keeps their thinking going so we're going to work through that because it's very difficult um as a teacher and that's one thing that's really hard to do so we're going to work

070through that on May um 1 and 2nd and then June 2nd is uh will be a a um day it's a one day um just it's going to be so jam-packed of learning BTC in one day at um CES in Albuquerque followed by um so that will be for people who have never been trained and then on June 3 and fourth I did not put those days up there it will be um all of the people that have participated in the math they will um go to CES and and attend um a a followup aside from this um we have ana um kvas here tomorrow and um Thursday so if you would like to come um just see um we'll be in the admin conference room we're going to work with elementary teachers tomorrow and

071secondary teachers on Thursday we're working on um assessing and well planning and assessing visible thinking so we will be up at the boards and um so I invite you to come check it out if you'd like to um and then on March 31st so this is Monday after Spring Break um March 31st through April 3rd we're going to run two two-day brand new cohorts so um principal sent me names over the last two days and we're going to run 40 teachers over the the four days um and get them trained up so I'm very confident that we will have almost every teacher trained in BTC at least the first toolbox of BTC by August 1st all right that was fast um but we're planning it out and continuing on with that Journey like I mentioned

072with um AIS the Consultants um we've been very pleased with um not only what the content they've delivered to us but um just their professionalism and and the feedback and the modeling um and the the um observations that they' they've provided us um Madame President members of the board any questions before I move on to my next topic all right then I will ask Miss Romero she's pulling it up I want to give a real quick um overview of um the budget committee meeting that we had on March um 13th which was last week right last week all right all right so um go ahead Miss Miss Romero so the budget committee goals um participate in discussion centered around the 2526 school year operational budget with strong consideration of the morard Edwards School District strategic

073plan and the second goal is to develop recommendations this committee will develop recommendations for the mesd school board and administration to consider um you know Staffing program needs um even though the budget committee um we got into um a really quick and I keep saying like 50,000 foot view of of public school funding um we're really looking at operational the operational budget go ahead um we presented uh this slide um to the to the committee um I um we had uh 24 um attendees staff members um and parents um attend um six were absent um and so we're hoping to get up to that past 30 Mark um in our next meeting and so we just gave them you know the $36 million was our our um funding budget for operational budget um this year

074the unit value is 6241 and some change um a real brief explanation on you know uh 83.7% of our of our operational budget is um staff salaries and benefits and then um the second bullet where the it says nmped budget um um Mrs Young um really helped out with this and and we talked to um the committee again the the real high arch view of multipliers and how different students equal different multipliers um or different programs um are different multipliers um all those are are put into the 910 B5 and then we are we generate our our operational bud budget go ahead ma'am we also talked to them about the other um funding sources that we have um above and beyond operational um and then we did talk to um the the committee as well

075about um federal funds um reductions that have happened um recently um or just historically um and it's really important that that last bullet federal funds Cuts federal funds Cuts it's weird the way to say it but federal funds Cuts may cause more FTE moves into the operational budget so if there was a decision that this staff um or this position is needed that was originally funded by federal funds um Mrs Young um administrators and the staff have found a way to move them into the operational um and cover that um Mrs Young um go ahead we could you could jump in at any time but um I told her to remind me to tell you um president um Hudson and members of the board when when we get our federal funds for a position um

076and we really need to consider this and and and and take a look at it when the state approves a certain percentage for a salary increase we don't always get that cost of living increase to match it through the federal funds so we may still have a staff member who's funded federally right their their salary and their benefits but any increase would have to come out of our operational so we've gone over it um um with with some of the with the trainings that the um you've you've attended but we wanted our committee to understand that as well all right Miss it's raining or snowing sir yes sir um this graph and I'll share this I'll share this slide Deck with each of you um Mrs Romero put together um idea B is our special

077educ ation funding our Title One funding and then our title two funding just to show where it's gone down and some places it's gone up and then back down um but we wanted to give some history on our federal funding um um especially in light of of everything in conversations or what we're hearing about federal funds being reduced even more possibly um it looks like you know it may not be coming as quickly um as as reported out or as we thought um with some news and just different things that have come out um in in the past couple of days so moving into um the the the the operational budget um which is driven by House Bill 2 um this year the public education fund um for the state of New Mexico was $4.4

078billion dollar that's that first bullet and then the second bullet is what was proposed um early on it has moved slightly because House Bill 2 is still making its way through some committees um but but the governor's um um recommendation was to increase it by 5.3% LFC 5.9 the legislative education study committee 8.4 and the house appropriation and finance committee um 6.2 again those are in billions of dollars so 4.6 to 4.8 somewhere that looks like they're going to land um when House Bill 2 is finalized um transportation those are in Mill ions um just wanted to show the committee of the the the executive is is recommending a $3 million increase Statewide um for transportation um LF LFC 7.2 million LEC 9.1 million um and the house appropriation and finance committee with some amendments

079to House Bill 2 um 7.2 again these are numbers that you know aren't set in stone because they're still going through the committee but these were the original um either um proposed um increases or the finance committees um amended keeping an eye on on the New Mexico legislature um I believe I I tell I told my staff and the principles um I have a spreadsheet of about 75 78 bills that may um um some way affect us um if they if they were passed and signed by the governor um some of the bills are really stuck I'll tell you right now um um they're stuck in committees um the legislature is um ending the their session um on Saturday um and so um what we do want to highlight here is um there's a proposed

0804% salary increase for all of our employees um house bill um two um I covered that um the paid FMLA um right now now it was passed by the house and is um being sent to the Senate finance committee um House Bill 63 um this is a a a a multiplier change um there's some there's some other changes to family income index and At Risk Index in it as well but really um moving sixth grade into um secondary um and increasing that multiplier that right now is stuck it in the Senate education committee's agenda um House Bill um this is at the house education committee but it's not on the agenda for tomorrow I didn't see it and they didn't have Fridays um what this bill um is proposing is um adding teachers and adding

081ass um educational assistance um gradually into first grade second grade third grade fourth grade fifth grade in the ne upcoming years um the legislative education um study committee um on their report with the fiscal impact um on the report said that it would be something like 182 or 184 new first through third grade teachers and over 600 EAS would have to be hired this upcoming year um so the state would have to finance that for us if if that went through um raay School employee minimum wage to $30,000 that's um uh at the house appropriation and finance committee and lastly um Erb return to work Senate Bill 133 um that is now in the House Appropriations and finance committee um this is changing um the amount of time to come back to work from 36

082months um to 60 months um for for a retired employee um so I know that's the legislation and then finally with the group um what we did is we asked them to um we had generated some posters with ideas that were were created um from the budget committee last year and our vanas are going to hold that up um so Dr Buckley if you could pull the bottom down just a little bit so we could see that thank you so the post posters were colorcoded um and the color coding is if it was if it was gold um then it's a go Bond or S sp9 money um so we have so let me let me backtrack a little bit we made a poster with these ideas that were generated again from last year we

083took the ideas and put them in each one of our Focus areas for the Strategic plan where they would fall um and I have the other posters for review in my office if if you'd like to take a look at them um and then we tied them to a funding source so that's the color code on the bottom and we asked seven groups to walk around and um take about five minutes to discuss and kind of give us a consens um you know put dots where they where they would like like to see um our conversations continue moving forward with this year's budget and so what we'll do is we're going to compile the dots um if you see where it says completed in 2425 or needed for 2526 um we didn't take that needed

084column off um and it's hard to see because a couple of dots are there but they're kind of gray those boxes that means that we've done it this year either fully or or at least started working on it um those ideas so I wanted to give you an example of kind of the small group work then we came together um as a large group debriefed on the on the process and then um we um let them know that the our district will be participating in the um spring budget conference on April 9th through the 11th and then we will schedule um another budget meeting right after that um at that time at the budget meeting um more than likely on April 11th we will get the unit value um that was in parentheses on on

085the previous slide and um then um Mrs Young and her staff could start working on a mock budget um that we might be able to work in and then we'll tie in um some of these some of these recommendations to to to present to the board phew I was trying to go fast guys not too fast though Mrs Young you'd like to add anything about the committee meeting no okay all right Mr Laing you want to tell them about the considerations that we you were looking at I didn't did you skip over that or um we'll we'll compile them with those considerations yeah yeah and I'll pres I'll send them all out to the to the board in a slide yeah yeah yeah and it's looking at family and consumer science and some of the

086issues absolutely all right Madame President members of the board any questions no no all right then we will move on thank you very much for your time thank you we will move on to learning Services uh Mrs Romero um director of learning Services board report any questions for Mrs Romero or Mr Romero anything since you submitted your board report Madam um president members of the board Mr biano um no I do not have anything additional I think covered it a lot of it congratulations thank you very much all right then we will move on to number one under learning Services A1 action Fine Arts application Mrs Romero um has sent a a memo in about Fine Arts uh the Fine Arts Grant and she will give you an explanation Madam president members of the board

087um Mr Bano and I will also lean um on um to Mrs Young um to correct me if I misspeak um So Fine Arts Grant is funded through as your memo says um funded through the secg um but we are able to fund um pieces of in essence um our Fine Arts um some of our FTE for our fine artarts staff in um Elementary but it's actually includes sixth grade so I'm able to I was able to capture pieces of our choir teacher our guitar teacher our band teacher because sixth graders attend those classes so um it helps pay for again it's funded through the secg and it helps pay for pieces of the um Elementary art teacher and choir teach or music teacher the educational assistants that fund those or that um run those

088classes at the elementary schools where we don't have the certified teachers and then portions of those sixth grade um FTE that I just mentioned as well as supplies and materials and a little bit of money for some um professional develop um like the New Mexico um um educa music educators conference um I think that's pretty much what it covers and it's just a little smidgen of supplies and materials money um when it's divided up across the um schools but it does help them um get materials all right thank you ma'am um Madam president members of the Gard again this is an application that we put out um completing all the information along with our data um it's in in a hope that the application is um approved by the state um so we get the

089funding to help us out with this so um Madame President I recommend um approval of um Fine Arts application process superintendent Viano has asked for us to um sorry that's okay I was on top of it earlier um move forward with a fine arts application is there a motion a second second all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries thank you um second one is the bilingual application thank you um yes Madame President members of the board Mr Su Mr superintendent Mr pivano bilingual um so bilingual funding again also comes through the seg we have a bilingual program at morard elementary and um that funding um helps pay for that teachers FTE we have 57 students right now in bilingual program and um at Mees it also does fund some supplies and materials

090for um the the program um there's some components to the bilingual program that they have to fulfill such as a um a multicultural event and um a bilingual parent advisory and then also some um field trips and experiences for students that um so they go to they went to um the Hispanic Cultural Center they went to um uh there's a multicultural experience at the Museum in the crest tinkertown um so um it's it's really actually pretty cool um so they went there this year so all of those components have to be fulfilled every year in order to um keep our bilingual status um and so the funding again does come through the SE and we would like to continue to um serve our students thank you ma'am Madame President um I recommend approval of the

091bilingual application superintendent Vio is recommending the approval of the bilingual application have a motion also move can I have a second second all those in favor say I I motion carried thank you thank you all right next under learning Services is discussion item um the uh 2025 2026 moror Ed School District student handbooks um they were provided in your packet for review you um M Romero um Madame President members of the board Mr vibiano um you all received um copies of the updated handbooks um we have an elementary handbook a um Middle School handbook and a high school handbook these are the handbooks that will be attached to the online enrollment um platform and we do ask parents to sign for um they when they enroll their students they can download the PDF and they

092have to click a box saying that they received a copy of it um our um there's you know all of all of the information that parents need um are in these handbooks we try to also this year update all of our um really important policies that um are we seem to hear a lot about or get questions about we ensured that those are um in in them um and the elementary principles they um take care of really going through their handbook as well as the Middle School um principles they go go through theirs and the high school as as well Mr Adams went through his um principles I do need you to know that we did go through them Mr Bano and I and we did add some um policy stuff on bullying and added

093those different things that we had been talking about in the back um so those are those are the things that we did add right Madam president members of the board um any discussions comments questions um and and you have them now in your packet if you want to look over them a little more closely um to be honest with you I didn't get the time to look at them like I needed to and the big thing is I just want to be able to highlight them a little bit better because as it looks right now a couple of us are going wet because I guess we just didn't hit him I'd like more time to be able to discuss them and look at those changes and just sit down and know what those changes are

094especially when you say that you got information inputs on especially discipline problems or dis anything that you said that needed inputs I'd like to spend a little more time looking at them and maybe yep pushing it down to the next meeting or Madam president member Lawson yeah and so they're in your pack they're in your packet um but we wanted to present them to you now um so if you have any questions um in the next week or so or couple weeks then then we can uh sit down and and go over them even more um appreciate that because I just sorry I didn't that's fine no problem but I would like just to know some of changes focus on Madam president members of the board Mr Laing I didn't we didn't really make any

095changes it was just updating um what we did was we pulled in some policies um that we wanted to make sure were in books so there was one policy that um I believe um the fur was it furpa per Pura um one of the polic one of the handbooks did not have uh the PE um policy in it and so um I had to make sure that that was in there um for title n or I think it's attached to Title 9 UM and then there were some um there I think two of them didn't have Dr Buckley's name um so those were the changes that I made um there and then I did um with we we did improve our um um bullying and harassment link on the website and so I matched that

096language um when I say changes those were the three main things that I did but yes absolutely take all the time you need yep and I'll highlight them we can go over them as when we meet yeah right Madam president members of the board any anything else on the handbooks right thank you all right we will move on to business um Madame President um I recommend approval of consent agenda Finance items 1 through four so's recommending consent for the agenda Finance items one through four can I have a motion motion to approve consent agenda items Finance items one through four I did say that yeah okay okay uh and who motioned okay and a second a second okay all those in favor say I iOS all right thank you very much moving forward all right

097Madame President members of the board um any questions um or Mrs Young anything to add to your reports um Madam president members of the board uh just a quick update we did meet as a finance committee yesterday uh Mr Bano Mrs Hudson and Mr Laing I went over all of the peed bars with them and why there were so many um so if you have questions you can speak with them or contact me um and the only other thing we went over was we talked about the budget committee meeting a little bit yesterday too at the finance committee uh audit committee we won't have anything for a little bit I'm working on getting the quote out to Auditors and then the audit committee will need to come together to evaluate those that we get back

098um right now I'm waiting on the state auditor's office to send me my letter that says that I can that I am free to procure those services so nothing further at this time anyone else Madame President members of the board no sir all right we will move to Personnel um director of personnel board report Dr Buckley stands for questions or any updates Dr Buckley since you last uh submitted your report no not the moment no questions for Dr Buckley no oh thanks sorry Mr Young that you okay okay um then we will move to um under Personnel 1A action um Madame President members of the board um we have a memorandum from um Dr Buckley to myself for um an employee again falling in um um to policy um leave for a serious health condition

099um that falls under FMLA but it needs more than um the 12 weeks um we've brought a couple of these to you um in the past um and so we have a transportation employee in this situation and um looking to have a leave absent without pay um until June 30th 2025 when there will be a re-evaluation of the situation so um Madame President I recommend U approval of pay without leave for this Transportation employee uh superintendent Bob biano is asking for um approval for pay without leave for this Transportation employee can I have a motion I'll move two so moved a second second all those in favor say I opposed approved thank you um Madame President moving on to support services special projects and other items uh let me get to my agenda um any

100questions or clarifications or um comments for transportation coordinator report tech coordinator's report maintenance coordinator or Food Services coordinators reports Dr Buckley Dr Buckley um just in regards to Transportation because I know we've had such a battle with that all year with the buses um is there ever more than two routes that are getting canceled today Rec good okay very good thank you thank you sir give a little time there's four reports there so if not we'll move on then okay Madame President we'll move to item f um it's an action item the um ATP um Family Enterprise donation um and in your packet you had a memo from uh principal um Romero from Mor Ari Middle School um it is uh um they applied for the um Family Enterprises donation um they were chosen um

101and it's to fund um schoolwide initiatives um and incentives um it's laid out here about uh taking students on a a trip in particular to Isotopes um if they um are able to um reach the goal that has been set by Mor arti Middle School um for certain amounts of of academic growth um and and participation with with um testing so congratulations yes um Mr Romero all right we'll be talking about the logistics and and moving forward and um looking to to get a all of our students right we want 100% of them to be over there and and represent at the ISO game and if it's a if it's not 100% then we can have a conversation um on what that's about right okay all right so with that um Madame President um I

102recommend approval of the um AP family Enterprise donation to morti middle school for $10,500 superintendent biano is asking for approval uh for the uh passing of the AP funds for MMS in the amount of $10,500 is there a motion I overwhelm motion for this one to pass so M Mr Laing motions Mr Young second young seconded thank you all those in favor say I I opposed all right very good all right motion carries um Madam president um next um item is uh action item out of state travel request um this is an out of state travel request for our MHS Mesa robotics teams um to compete and um do their best and represent Mori High School moror Edward school district and the state um in their division um and um you know I I think

103I'm with Mr Laing I can see I can see it's getting better than three you know you know the just at that Mark where they were setting but uh with that being said um I recommend um out of state travel request for our robotics team to travel to Dallas Texas May 5th through the 9th 2025 so superintendent biano is asking for the approval the outof state travel requests for our robotics team um for May 5 through 9 of 2025 may I have a motion okay and a second I'll second all those in favor say I I opposed okay motion carries thank you very much exciting exciting exciting is it a bus trip they're flying they're flying got hotel rooms got hotel rooms and everything awesome excited all right um Madame President members of the board

104um we have board policies first reads on one two three four five six seven um policies that were updated by um policy Services advisory um if I may Madame President um and members of the board um I'll go through each one of these real briefly and just give a summary and if anyone has any questions or discussions moving forward um we could take note of it um or um um um just leave them as is if if we don't have any changes before our second read which would be in April everyone the these are these are um policies that have either been um created through the through the peed but primarily Mr Laing they are um State statutes that were passed yes sir um okay Madame President members of the board um going to U

105first read policy number 246 um policy GE return to a retiree um that should say retire return to work um and I'm just going to read straight off of the policy advisories and I think most of you have received these yes did you receive these from Joe okay so this is a new regulation that requires the local administrative units meaning the school district um to create and maintain and distribute to its employees an internal return to work policy consistent with uh inmac uh 2.825 um I'll skip down and it says um Erb retirees who return to work for a school district District in any capacity including as an independent contractor must apply for and receive approval from Erb or incur penalties to the retirement benefits um one of the one of the processes Madame President

106and members of the board just to let you know that we have that that has been in place is in an application we um ask an applicant to either let us know yes or no that they are return to work um so we hopefully if they put yes then they we double check on their on their um paperwork um and um but that's a process we already have okay all right Madame President members of the board any questions or comments on that all right uh first read um and this is for policy um ADB ADC um and and the rest of these policies um Madame President um that that we would be um considering for Action to approve um in next month's meeting really center around um tobacco um um use um uh tobacco um

107and and um alcohol prevention um as well as nicotine um and so um policy a what did I say ADB ADC drug alcohol and tobacco nicotine free schools um with this one um here um this policy is going to if approved be the main policy that would spell out prohibited prohibited items alcool alcohol um um tobac um alcohol drugs and tobacco nicotine free schools adbc any any questions on that sorry no all right the next one is um the regulation that is tied to it so ADB adcr it's still under number one uh 247 this is the regulation um that gives us um the step by steps on how to um deal with um alcohol um tobacco and nicotine free schools and drugs okay next one um Madame President and members of the board is

108policy e a-r um actually this is a regulation um and if you notice they they when they jump in the lettering that means they're in a different section of our of our policy handbook so this goes under transportation um and this one is um this Transportation regulation is amended slightly to add the full range of prohibited drugs alcohol and nicotine products to the list of prohibited items on the school bus number four is um exhibit gbbb D EA staff conduct with students this exhibit is related to the staff conduct with students and is amended to say the word nicotine two times in the list of prohibited items so if we take our current exhibit and and this one for recommendation they add nicotine now into it okay number five policy GBE this actually deletes the

109entire policy because there would be consideration of having the first policy which is um ADB ADC adopted so make that one null and void we are number six policy GC qf I didn't skip one did I no GC qf okay um the only change was to um at the end of the policy when you look at the references so the policy and wording stays the same but when you look down at the references and cross reference it says refer to and then ad ADB and ADC and lastly policy GD QD um discipline suspension termination discharge of uh support staff members it's the same it adds a cross reference to the first policy that that we talked about in dealing with drugs Alcohol Tobacco and nicotine um I apologize I don't remember what month it was

110but a few months ago we did have um a member of the community um she was a representative from uh the 24/7 program and um she referenced uh updating our policies and so we were waiting for policy services to bring this to us um so we could have our first read um and then possibly our adoptions there will be some more coming um that we'll have first reads on and they're all centered around um again um volunteers um additional signing signage excuse me um around the schools um and just other ways to promote a a tobacco alcohol drug and nicotine free campus um in in each one of our campuses all right Madame President members of the board we good with that yes sir all right we move to Citizens comments no citizens comment we'll

111move to advance planning um I listed six different items here that you know go from the starting tomorrow um to our next board meeting in April um spring break is next week um Madame President members of the board if you would like to um attend item number two which is the regional four meeting in re Ranch on April 9th um then please let me know as soon as possible and we can get the list going so we can register for that the New Mexico School Board Association student scholarships the nominations are due April 11th so we get those out to the students and students can apply and then bring that to the board for our nomination our regular school board meeting will be April 15th um as mentioned in in our updates about the budget

112committee the New Mexico asbo spring budget conference April 11th uh 9th through the 11th and then we will have our second budget um committee meeting after that to be determined who's going to the spring budget conference on raise your hand if you're going to the spring budget conference thats into the regional meeting regional meeting um Madam president member lossing they usually start about 5:30 so I'll leave from there and go to RI Rancho and meet you guys there yes sir yes sir yep yeah they usually end uh I'll make it on time you I'll make it on time all right Madame President with that um um members of the board if there's anything that you would like for me to um put on for the agenda for for April or any items for discussion um

113you can always let me know and then um we um will look at that um moving forward um or any other Advanced planning um that I may have missed that I can um communicate to the board only question about voice did all that last follow on that yes sir I met with them a couple of weeks uh Madame President uh member Laing I met with Mr Tibbits uh a couple of weeks after the the board meeting um he presented with the the the gist of their EST um I've had some additional um requests from him um I and and to follow up I'm meeting with um Mr Tibbits as well as the scout master at uh 2:45 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon um at Edwood middle school so we can actually look at the lay

114of the land um and see how the building if that's the building that that would accommodate them um be useful to be able to sponsor um The Troop and the pack okay all right thank you all right Madame President I recommend uh adjournment of tonight uh to adjourn tonight's regular meeting superintendent biano has recommended that we adjourn tonight's um board meeting do I have a motion and a second okay all those in favor say I I I motion carries meeting adjourned at seven no yeah seven