001just like that said everything's up to date, good language, um anything like that, we'll include it as part of our latest. Anybody have any any questions, questions or discussions on that? Okay, next is going to be the discussion and possible action regarding the 2526 fine arts grant application. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, I will turn it over briefly to Miss Gibson. She handles our elementary fine arts grant. And this is much like the ID I IBA uh asurances there. It's similar procedure. Good evening. So this is an annual application um that we apply for each year. It has changed um in the two two years ago they changed the format. Used to be an actual application that they sent it. Now it's a Google form. So, it's hard for me to share that
002with you because um each page has different information on it and I have to flip through the pages. It's just kind of a weird format right now. So, I'll kind of give you the basics. Um the fine art grant provides funding for us for our music teacher um full-time certified music teacher and um our educational assistant as the art teacher. Um and so it also provides us a [Music] 1.14 of Mr. Shaver's salary for that um band aspect that he does with our fifth graders. Um and so that's part of the information they ask us about what our program looks like and those kind of things. But we do have to set three goals for each year. Um and so our first goal is that students will show an increased awareness of the diverse pop
003uh of the diverse people and cultures through visual and performing arts. Um and so it kind of goes on to talk about different ways that they'll do that. Um the second goal is students will develop an awareness of how artists um have contributed to the community and to um the different cultures in our state and also in the world. And then our third one is students will integrate an understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among art um disciplines as well as other contents. So it's really connecting um music and visual arts with all of our content areas. And so on a side project that I'm doing kind of looking at our math data and things like that, I interviewed a bunch of students about how what they thought about math.
004And so every single one of them connected having to know math with banding and choir. So it was a group of fifth graders um that I talked to and said they said, "Well, if we didn't know math, we wouldn't be good at band or if we didn't know math, we wouldn't be able to read music in choir." And so unprompted, they are really making those connections. So that was kind of interesting. Um we do provide music and art to our actually our our pre-K as well, but we provide it to our kindergarten through um fifth grade students. Um fifth grade students are allowed to choose band or choir and they actually go every day. Um all of our other students go every other day. So they'll go to art twice a week and music twice
005a week. So um and then we have to talk about our assessment process. We're looking towards this year for art, doing more of a portfolio style um collection of their art for students. Miss Scrubs is great about um displaying their art during different family engagement nights and things like that that we have around the um campus. And then also we're excited sad to lose Mr. Ellson of 32 years of service um as an educator, but we were fortunate to be able to hire um Mr. Franklin Smith who came to us and was currently working as an educational assistant in our special education classes, but he's a certified level three um music teacher. And so um we interviewed had a few applicants. Um one was a no-show for their interview. And so um the others were
006one of the other ones was out of state and it was going to be a a hard move and so Mr. Smith ended up being our a good natural fit for us. So um he will replace Mr. Alison next year for music and he is also able to do 17th of that music teacher that we have teaches guitar and so he's still able to teach that guitar class to high school and middle school students. So any other questions about the fine arts grant it it is now part of the SEG and they haven't I did not find the formula. I've got it here. It's on the breakdown that I did. It's uh fine art 64,715 this year. So, any other questions for me on the fine arts grant? Perfect. Thank you. Get a motion for
007that. I move we approve the 256 fine arts grant application. Second. All in favor? I discuss. Uh Mr. President, members of the board, we have another outofstate travel request uh for a middle school teacher to travel to the model school conference in Washington DC on June 21st through the 26th. That includes that 21st through the 26th. I believe that does include the travel a day for travel on the front and back end of that. Um I recommend that we send that staff member to Washington DC for that train. We have a motion to that. I move we approve the out ofate travel request for teacher to go to the model school conference in Washington DC. Second. All in favor? I Who is that teacher if you don't mind? I'm sorry. Who's that? Who's attending? Michelle.
008Next is discussion of possible action to approve out of state travel for Captain High School football program to travel to El Paso, Texas on June 25th 21st. You'll see from a narrative that coach Poss sent you within your packet. Uh he intends to take some offseason football kids summer to a summer camp and uh I had the 21st and 22nd, but as I' as I've read this now, it's probably up and back is what I'm assuming on the same day. But they're going to going to El Paso. Will Hernandez and the Jones brothers, they they're current NFL players. They come back to El Paso. They were UT players and they come back to El Paso every year and put on some put on some camps. And because of his relationship with them, they were they
009reopened the registration for him to slide slide a few more kids into that camp. So, uh I do recommend that we allow him to take some take some boys to El Paso for a football team. Move we approve the request for CHS football team to travel to 08 football camp Texas July 20th. Second. All in favor? Next is discussion of possible action to approve a quote for the purchase of switches for the CMS network. Uh Mr. President, members of the board, I will ask uh Mr. Ren to uh provide you a update to that bigger project that we've already started working on. Good evening. Um so these switches are part of the network upgrade as he said. Um these items were separated out so they could take advantage of the - funding and they're category
0102 and then so it includes all the switches and then the related cabling and uh the licenses. Um, e- rate should cover a good portion of this. I don't know the exact numbers. Jamie probably has those. I think all about but about $36,000 that that's the part that we'll have to pay. Yeah. And all these switches, they're end of life and they can no longer receive security patches or firmware updates. [Music] So, and that'll be paid out of tech. Yes. And these will be put in as part of this project. Yes, sir. Any questions about this? How will we approve the report from RTI for the installation switches? Second. All in favor? I. Thank you. any is discussion and possible action to approve out of state travel for power university in San Diego on June
01121st through I'm assuming 26 2025 Mr. President members of the board once again uh this would include a travel day on the front end and back end of it uh with the request is for June 21st through the 27th uh to send Mariah Ventura to Power School University. She is the new uh starting with the new school year. She'll be the second that second secretary at the high school and she she can really take advantage of the opportunities of of power school power school university. Does she already have any experience with power? No. She better go, right? [Music] I move approve the out of state travel to attend college school. All in favor. [Music] Okay. Next is our second public comment portion. Do we have none? [Music] Finally, supervision report. Okay. Uh, Mr. President, members
012of the board, uh, the vacancies we have and then I'll follow it up with uh with our new hires and I'm going to have to probably have some help because there were there were a few of them. Uh, we still have one custodian position that has been open for quite some time, but that remains open. a bus driver uh with one of our teach with one of our former EAs who was a part of the Ed Fellows program moving into the classroom. It's so hard for any teacher to be able to drive and be a part of their school. So, she has she has pulled back from that um driving and to focus on that classroom. Um we we have one maintenance technician position open. Uh then the the rest of these are for next
013year. Uh we have a district math instructional coach position that is that is currently open for next year. For next year we have one c uh we have one capan high school or capan middle school high school teaching position. And I believe at this point it's PE after all the shuffling. We did some internal shuffling with some staff members that requested to move in to where the domino fell. A teacher was was there to move into that spot. Uh we have one varsity assistant football coach position, two varsity assistant track and field coach positions with the loss with uh coach Rush moving into transportation half a day and it being on the outside of the day both at the beginning of school and the end of school he's unable to unable to be there at
014both places at one time. So, and then with Jason Lee uh semi-retiring or leaving the district, uh that leaves that other assistant coach. We have a middle school volleyball coach position uh possibly too, but I'm thinking u thinking we we might have had some movement there today on that. And then a middle school boys basketball coach uh to replace uh Troy Schmidt who moved into the girls varsity head coach position. Uh, as far as coaching positions that we filled, there's been been quite a few of them. Uh, Nate Poss, of course, is is a head football coach. Um, Candace Stab, she is currently the program director for the uh, village of Riidosa Parks and Recck, and she is coming to us as an EA to be in the Ed Fellows program, but as a head
015volleyball coach. So, she'll be on campus full day. uh her brother is coming to us, his name is Caleb Stab and uh he is coming to us as an educational assistant in the Ed Fellows program as well. We only have two slots open from the vac vacating of Miss Reynolds who went to the fourth grade uh classroom and so that left one position and then Mariah when she moved over to the high school secretary position, she backed out of that out of that ED fellow. So that allowed us the two open ed fellows positions. Um, and that's about it with the coaching. I do u I'll recognize Wesley Harky. He's he's the operations uh coordinator. Uh he's been assigned that position. And then Tyson Rush is, as I mentioned, he's a halftime halftime teacher, halftime
016uh transportation director. Uh Franklin Smith, as as Miss Gibson mentioned, he's moving from an EA position into the uh the elementary music position. Uh Nancy Stanton is moving to special special ed at the high school. Um Brian Lewis is moving into special ed at the elementary school. We actually gained a half of a position because of the FTE requirement. We're up to three and a half FTE. And to to solve that, uh, Miss Dwise, Amy Dwise, who is currently our elementary special ed, she's also gifted certified. So that's how we got out of the gifted business with our with region nine and she's now halftime gifted halftime middle school or high school but she it'll be secondary special ed. So uh so Miss or Mr. Lewis is filling filling that position. Uh Taylor Scott accepted
017the a mechanics position at the high school and so he's moving into the spot that's vacated by M by Jason Lee. Uh Kylie Prit then took on some of his role in anatomy and physiology but retaining some of her math respon or some of her middle level math geometry and some of that. So um and then she remains in our athletic program. She has uh moved into the assistant girls basketball position. She's accepted that position. We're pretty excited to have her over there with the girls uh in basketball. Um am I missing who am I missing? Troy. Troy. Troy Schmidt. Did you mention Troy Schmidt? I mentioned that one. Who? Um Oh, Janice Schaefer. Jenna Schaefer. We hired stole her from region nine. She's going to teach second grade for us. And then we hired
018um Bianca. Bianca Marquez out of Texas. Um she's going to teach first grade for us. And then Leticia Lewis, she just happens to be Mr. Brian Lewis's wife. She is an early childhood teacher and um she's coming to teach kindergarten for us. Is you get all that? So is has the football coach been on campus? He's been on campus since May 5th. And uh what's the turnout like with him? When I talked to him today, uh he has talked to upwards of 45 students and their families. and their parent and uh either by phone or face to face. He he lacked two two incoming seniors this afternoon and was able to talk to to both of those parents, grandparents, guardians, and so he's been busy with that. And then and then he's uh Mr. Jackson's
019been filling him in on right now it's about scheduling and uniform inventories and and preparing for summer for summer conditioning for for our athletes. So I know he's been extremely busy and uh seems to be a good response when I talk to when I talk to people both parents and kids. So uh I believe Miss I believe coach Stub is planning to have a meeting uh this week with the girls. She wanted to wait until after softball was over and not be muddy and you know not be they needed to be focused on a softball tournament. And then the same with Mr. Schmidt. He he didn't want to meet with them and with the girls until after they got done with softball and he could do that. Um and so there's also some of these
020on this list of that I need to have further discussions with about coaching. We have a few coaching opportunities as you saw there, but we have some of the new applicant or the new people that we've hired that they do have a background in athletics and we just haven't had we wanted to secure them as a teacher first and then and then uh and then have those discussions with them. And then I don't know if we mentioned her by name, Christina Reynolds. She went through the Edfell's program with us and then residency through uh Eastern and Portalis and she did her student teaching in fourth grade and so she's going to teach fourth grade math for us next year. Any questions? Any further personnel type question? Uh our enrollment's 440 down about five or six
021from the beginning of the year. I think we're 446 or so at the end of the year. Um we have gained a little bit in the elementary and we've lost a little bit I believe in the or vice versa. You've lost three or so since the beginning and high school's picked up a couple. So um so upcoming events u well let me before I do upcoming events this was just handed to me before the u before the board meeting. uh the state, the ped is uh going out to New Mexicans, specifically parents and administrators and teachers uh about input on a statewide student information system. So the state is actually looking to purchase a statewide to replace for us it would be power school for others it would be synergy and uh they're looking at
022doing this for this 26 27 school year so uh I there's a survey that they that they want people to fill out and I can make a copy of this and have it and let you let you take it if you want to fill out survey it's with a it's with a QR code or we send it electronically so go ahead without comp um which that's I can imagine statewide that's going to be a heck of an expense because it's about 40,000 to implement them and I think ours was 32,000 back when we implemented our school and then it's a $9,000 annual subscription or it's I mean it's not cheap so I don't know how they're going to fun that but but uh I thought it would be good good information for you upcoming events
023on the 23 Third, we have graduation at 700 p.m. If you all could be here 6:30ish, we could be ready at your office or we're just at my office because I'll have the gowns here. We can get um Memorial Day the district's closed. Um the culinary they take a trip to Japan on the 26th through the 31st and state FFA convention is the 26th through the 21st, which is next week. And so we've been working with those kids to get their finals done before they head off to those. So, uh, school board special session for budget purposes is on the 27th, which is next Tuesday. On the 28th is the academic boards assembly at 9 in the morning. Also on the night of the 28th, and I don't have it on here, but it's back
024at senior dinner. And the 28 also on the 28th, and that's at 6 o'. No, that's on Wednesday. tomorrow or when this huh? That's this Wednesday. Oh, this Wednesday. I'm sorry. Yes. This Wednesday, not next Wednesday. The uh kindergarten graduation elementary academic awards are at 9:00 a.m. in trailer. The eighth grade promotion is at 10:00 a.m. in Cumins. We were trying to avoid 9:30 on the eighth grade promotion. No, we're going to go 10. Yeah, we'll get information out to parents. Uh we're trying to avoid be with elementary parents trying to be in two places at one time. We we slid that one back a little bit so that we could make sure the parents could get to them. Um we have an early release of one on the 29th. Uh school law conference is
025the 5th through the 7th and then our budget is due on June 12th. Um we do have some agenda items that will be for next month. some of those um you know of course the the policy the sec student harassment bullying cyber bullying policy will be on there the instructional materials will be an action item on there and then also because it's the month of June we'll have some beginning of year approvals the uh the stuff the open meetings act and there's four or five of those that are that are as I look back through last year's June meeting we'll do is we'll try to do the same and get them done before the J July one so we have that squared away questions any new words from our school the data breach anything new
026on that I saw a news article out of North Carolina where the ransom attackers supposedly P school paid them a sum of money to delete the data And now and it's I don't know how confirmed it is if it's a copycat or if it's otherwise in North Carolina the the state board of education and or the education department in North Carolina and specific school school districts in North Carolina have been hit with ransom directly with ransom threats. I haven't heard anything beyond that, but I did see that in a new article last week and there's been no guidance, little guidance, no guidance from from Heather P. If I learn any information, I'll definitely report it to you. any real information right now. The North Carolina deal closer. With the end of the school year coming
027up, we making plans for next school year. Is there any plans to change the food service or make any changes to the food service in the cafeteria? So, we're we are working on a plan. We actually had a discussion today. U our third year of our contract will that will be another item I'm bringing in June. Yeah. Right. Um but we are Yeah. continually have discussions and and I've gotten to where I eat there most days to check for quality and and some days better than other days. Need to probably spend more time with the elementary because that seems to be the problem area. But the quality's been decent. It may be seasonal because I eat salad every day. So I do eat I do eat salad. It's been better than what you had reported
028than what you had reported to me last month. I just think if it's some days are good still and some days are still bad, I don't want to keep doing the same thing next year. I want to do something better. If it doesn't get better, let's what can we do to fix it? Like let's have a plan. Will they have to actually come in and report to us in June? Will they have a They don't They typically do it after school started. Did they do one this spring? Did she do one this spring? Uh, she came in. Can we in the fall? If nothing else, can we have them come in June, July? And definitely. Let's voice some concerns to them and see if we get it straight out and, you know, with you approving
029their contract. Yeah. Maybe let's bring them in June. We can have them come in when you're approving their contract. That's probably a good idea because then they get they'll get to hear what you're hearing in the community and and what you're observing. Yeah, that sounds good. I'd like to might up the up the Annie a little, you know, that might up the a little bit like whatever it takes to make a good positive change. Whatever that is. I don't know. Well, that and that's when we go into next year uh or when we get into next year, we'll be working on either a a contract, an RFP and a contract or or is it something we want to consider taking on ourselves? So, is this renewal of their contract the last year? It's the last
030year of a three-year contract. [Music] As a matter of fact, No, that's all. We get a motion to move. Second. All in favor? I think there's a few of those applications that I need to sign. Yes. Cute things inside.