001large was 643,000 448,000 of that is the uh gross pay. Then we have uh 31,000 FICA 37,000 for ERB and then 65,000 for other benefits. And then on the bars we have five this time. The first one is a maintenance boxer for the Perkins grant and I move some federal expenses around. The second one is a maintenance bar for structured literacy. And I u move some plugs around from general supplies to other flexible materials. And we have an increase bar for the CTE grant in the amount of $1,03. And we're going to buy some more supplies with that. And then I have a bar for $1,000 for the level up reading challenge. And then we have a decrease bar for the E fellows in the amount of 2537. and they had given us money this
002year to buy technology equipment for fellow um EAS and we didn't spend all of that amount. We were able to get them some good laptops and what they needed for a little less than we think we were allotted. So, they're going to take that, give it to somebody else. Okay. The utility, I did not see anything out of the ordinary on it. We did not have the electric bill yet, but everything else is right along where it was last month. And then in the large donation, we had one for $2,200 from Otter County Electric and that was for Tiger Cafe. And I think this was probably part of their roundup program. and I'll answer any questions. Anybody has a question? I I will add something. Uh actually Mr. Nesbbit's the one that found it that
003identified it. But we may have a little more of a water bill because we did find a leak on the football field this month that'll show up probably next month's bill. The leak has been fixed. I move we approve agenda. Second. All in favor? I do. We have any public comments and don't guess those. Huh? Public comments? No. Um, before we move into the next board items, can we possibly get a motion to move the science instructional materials adoption discussion up to number three maybe so we don't have you guys sit here all night? Okay. So, you did that in the approval of the agenda with the ability to move them to number three. The first one is discussion regarding the 2025 to 2029 CAP 10 municipal schools facility master plan approval. Uh Mr. President,
004members of the board, in your packet, it is in the packet. In your packet, you'll see uh we received uh on Friday the final version for your approval of the facility master plan. Uh this is a discussion with the possibility for action. Uh, but we can wait. We can wait if you want to wait and have a month to read it because I know it's a short notice, but there were not a lot of changes. There were very few changes and I'll let Mr. Aguilar speak to you. He's actually on Zoom right now of any changes that he that he did make. Mr. Agular. Yes. Good evening, Mr. President, superintendent and members of the board. Thank you for having me here this evening. Um, we received a priority list indicating the key changes uh terms
005of priority. Those were added and adjusted in the capital improvements plan. Um, and then we made reference to those changes uh in the document. There were also some grammatical and spelling errors that I picked up in my third fourth read. So, um it's essentially the same document. The um that we presented last month the um components of the FM are consistent. Again, there was only some priority changes to indicate some thoughtful uh feedback that we received from the superintendent regarding uh the u the use the future plans for the coming gym, u a bus loop, some administrative parking, uh a new competition gym, um a small loop around the boag shop and the uh greenhouse, and then of course in addition to the the boag shop. So those were all covered and are now uh
006included in the capital improvement plan which is section four. Sections one, two, and three did not have any changes. Uh it really was section four which included the discussion of those priority items um that brought to our attention. So uh with that Mr. president and members of the board if you have questions. And basically what I did was uh Mr. President, members of the board, as I looked at this, I had to put I had to put some timeline what what works as we move as we move around the facilities. Of course, you can't tear down a gym and not have another one already in place. You can't you got to have a bus loop if you're going to cut off the old bus loop. and just some logistical things there. But those projects were
007already part of what we had talked about. I just changed the order around a little bit and and how we would approach them just from a constructibility standpoint. Is there any update from last month um about finding or additional conversations with PSC about waiverss and how to find some of this money? I know we talked about that a little bit last month. There's no um Mr. Greer, members of the board, there's no information necessarily in depth in this document. Uh but yeah, I continually have those discussions about how we uh how we work with our legislators, how we work with the PSC. Uh Mr. Agular has been very helpful and he continues to do so in the background with uh with the uh LFC and and some of those organiz some of those agencies uh
008to try to address this 2.1 million that that still looms over our head. And uh you know and it it may need to be a discussion between the six of us as what what exact and along with someone like Mr. Agular what is our what is a real game plan that we're going to that we're going to go after here with with either of these groups or are we going to do it internally? I mean for one thing I look at is we got $8.6 million in cash balance. I mean that you know how how do we do we can't use it for new construction but we can shuffle it around. We can shuffle it around on on uh smaller projects uh smaller projects and and then try to deal with the two $2 million
009uh out of another pot. And so that that might be a discussion that that we need to have. But um I did not we did not receive any funding from the legislative appropriation. Uh that was actually those funds the governor did not give them to legislators at all as as far as the the junior money this session from what uh representative Vincent and I had a long discussion and he indicated that to me. So uh that was that was a little bit of a roadblock on another project actually. So Mr. President, superintendent, I have had discussions with three of the PSOC members um and and obviously we don't have a vote yet enough to but they've they've shown um some sympathy to the situation and I get the feeling that we might be able to
010get this through this year. Um, I do have another meeting scheduled in the next two weeks with the chair of the PSC. Um, and I'm hoping that we can get him to start hopefully moving in a positive direction with that. Yeah, we appreciate all the help we get there. Trying to nail that down and get some of these projects across the finish line with some extra funding. That would be well and and this may be a situation where I reach out to Mr. Agular and ask him for a quote for the additional work because that's beyond the scope of a facility master plan. So I might be bringing something to you from a consulting side of things. Thank you for your work on this Mr. Appreciate it. Thank you Mr. President. I sure appreciate It
011was a pleasure working with everyone in Cington and uh and the staff has been great. The superintendent's been great. If we could just get this u this loan thing taken care of, that would certainly be helpful. Um and I don't think we need to talk about a proposal right now. Uh so far, I think um we have to do the right thing and I think that I'll work toward that independent of a proposal at this time. So if we can get this past the finish line without spend any more of your money and spend it on your kids. So appreciate that. Does anybody have any comments questions on this? Think we should approve it? You guys want to for the next month or moving forward? Good. Tim, you good? Y good. I move we approve
012the Captown Municipal Schools facility master plan as revised and as presented this evening. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Next, a discussion and possible action to approve a contractor to provide install fiber optic cabling at selective locations around campus. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, I have Stacy Ren here to assist me with with this. [Music] We good? Yep. Okay. uh to assist me with the presentation of they're actually two action items. Uh they but they do go together. One is one can't be done without the other so to speak. So uh so go ahead. I'll I'll let you go ahead and have at it. Good evening. My name is Stacy R. I'm director of technology for region 9. Um, so you have I believe there's six quotes in there, right? There's three and
013three. Three and three, right? So you have three quotes for a lot of network equipment. You have three quotes for some some uh trenching and boring. So let me just give you an overview of the whole project kind of real quickly. So the overall goal is a proposed network upgrade and that'll prepare the campus for increased internet network traffic demands and better protect it for current and future cyber security threats. We hope to accomplish this with uh new 10 10 gigabit capable network switches, more capable wireless access points, a better fiber backbone, and the next generation firewall. Um for the firewall, um for security, we're proposing a forag guard next generation firewall that utilizes AI and machine learning to provide advanced threat protection. So basically, you're using AI to fight AI for cyber attacks. Um
014current firewall has done its job for 10 years. um does not have these next generation advanced features. It's also limited to 1 gigabit and internet speed. So, it wouldn't be able to utilize new internet capabilities and and uh backbone speeds. Uh for network switches, uh we're proposing HP Aruba switches. You're not going to see those in the quote because those were paid for with funding and so that's a separate thing altogether. um wireless system uh proposing HP Aruba wireless access points. They're way more capable than our current access points. Um fiber optic cabling. So we're proposing um replacing some of the fiber optic backbone with new single mode fiber runs. So there's some runs fiber runs that are currently between the elementary school trailer gym, Cummings gym, and the weight room. And those are currently
015running through the air and they're exposed. And so what we want to do is utilize some underground conduits and uh they're actually existing because they put those conduits in for the new fire alarm system. So we can use those existing conduits and run those new connections with new fiber. We're also proposing a new fiber installation. We currently have a wireless shot that goes from the high school to the press box and that provides service for that switch which also powers the the Wi-Fi at the stadium and also the camera for the games and such. Um, so we're proposing actually having the company come in and do a bore underneath the ground. No trenching on the asphalt, just minimal trenching on each end and um, bore a conduit in to the press box and then run
016a brand new fiber and that way the switch can u handle the capacity needed for that stuff that's already out there. Plus, uh, if you want to add security cameras around the stadium, it can handle that as well. Um, now the quotes that you see there, I guess the best pricing is RTI and we've worked with RTI for several projects um in multiple school districts including this one successfully. U some of their other schools they work with are Los Cusus public schools. They work with NMSU, TRC, Mexico Tech, Rio Rancho. They have a quite a standing in the state. Um project details. The the optimum way to do this would be to have the fiber installed soon and then summer break sometimes during the summer break to minimize impact on the campus have the equipment
017installed and I was talking with the engineers and they're saying that minimal downtime they'll just hop around the campus and you'll have a building down at a time and then there might be a half a day at most where the whole campus is down internet wise while the firewalls put on. So and that's pretty much the whole project in a nutshell. Any questions? All right. Thank you. So, you have a question. I was just so the need for this upgrade um I know as technology progresses every year, but is this something we've been behind on or is this just work catching up to the new times? Other districts around our area, have they done this? Are they doing this? Um the districts I work in, this is the first one we're upgrading to this level.
018your internet speeds are currently at 1 gigabit and I could see the capacity this campus soon needing to go to two to five you know as they grow as the there's more demands every year for the content just gets heavier and heavier and bigger so you need more internet service and also increased uh camera capacities and and such around the campus you're you're just your network backbone needs to be able to carry more data and so that's the purpose for the the fiber optics and then the upgrade switches that's a time thing as well it's not just you know, the carrying capacity of 10 gigabit. It's also because those switches you already have, they're end of life. And so, this is a necessary upgrade for security reasons. Uh, the firewall, that's a huge improvement. Um,
019again, it's able to handle um the increased network speeds, which your current one can't. It just it's maxed out at one gig, so we can't go any higher. And so, that firewall is is going to be good for a while. It's it's a really good improvement. And with this current cyber security stuff we're getting hit with that's definitely going to make us sleep a little better. I hope so. Yeah. And so our internet provider is Windstream. Is that right? Yes sir. And they're like I know the internet service in C10 is kind of sketchy sometimes depending where you're at but they'll be able to provide and that may be not part of this but you know if they can't provide us the internet then some of these upgrades may or may not. So I believe
020they already provide 2 gigabit at least for Rudosal schools. I think they have the capacity to go up even higher. I would just I mean we haven't talked recently on it but I know they're expanding their capacity. So it's been a fairly reliable um provider. So thank you. You're welcome. And this uh of these uh three proposals, RTI is the least expensive of the three and that's the one that we are recommended to approve. Is this paid out of edtech? Uh edtech and SB9 I mean for the boring and trenching and some that was whatever qualifies for what out of those two funds. And that was WX for the trenching, right? Yeah. And well, let's do this first action. Oh, got you. Yes, sir. I move we approve the recommended vendor proposal to provide and
021and install fiber optic cable as presented. Second. All in favor? I I and as uh Mr. President, members of the board on U BB2 uh proposals to por and trench fiber optics cabling, we've received three proposals. Uh one was significantly low lower than the other two uh with WX and so we are definitely recommending that proposal. I don't know what these other guys. It happened. It happens sometimes. And it's the same same products on all three quotes or same service. Same. Yeah, it was same apples for apples request or scope of work. Yeah. I'll move approve the recommendation. All in favor? Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Now move on to the science instructional materials adoption. Sorry, I'm a little dazily tonight. um brought my science team to talk about the upcoming
022science adoption. Um we have not opened it up to the public yet, but I wanted them to let you know what which way they're leaning. So you guys will have a chance to look at it as well and then we'll advertise for the parents to come in and look at it and then we'll be bringing it to you, I assume, in May for adoption. Is that correct? So who wants to start? I'll go. I'm not going to get up. That's all right. All right. Um, the other Mr. Scott and I and Mrs. Ry went to the adoption ga in February where they had numerous vendors there available for us to actually go through, sit in and see what they had to offer. Um, for me personally, I was more concentrated on physics because I feel
023as though at the high school we have a a good control. I have a good control an idea of what we need to be doing in in chemistry and it's been successful for me. So, I had a um my eye was on on physics and in my personal opinion, McGraill offered the most versatile complete package for us as a district just because of the interactive capabilities that it has. So, um like I said, I and I I I can go back and look at chemistry if the board and Miss Huie and Mr. Lee would like for me to, but I was concentrating on physics. That that's my take was McGra Hill just just the total package because everything else was not really what I was looking for and I spoke to Mr. Lee a couple
024of weeks ago because he asked me about physics in a box and I said physics in a box is can be adopted into any curriculum. Give it to me and I'll make it work. So, and I feel as though with this curriculum that we're proposing for physics, physics in a box curriculum can easily dovetail it and enhance what it offers. So, we'll have two great sources for physics to be used if we go with negro. So, Mr. Scott, do we do you see that we're getting an increase in the number of students that are taking visits? Oh, yes. because that for a while it was pretty low numbers. We have 30 41 right now. 41. There's 41 right now in physics and 35 in chemistry. So, and then I'll be honest, I'm using um open
025book resources for for physics. That's why I wanted a a concrete curriculum that we could depend on. And I feel as McGra Hill is the one just because of what it again what it offers. Hello, Taylor Scott, the other science, one of the other science teachers in the high school. And I want to shadow that uh went to the textbook adoption with them as well and sat through all of them and was just kind of like on my toes looking for the right one. And then I agree whenever they brought Hill in front of us, put me on the edge of my seat. I I think as a from an educator perspective, I was like this is the one. uh it really stuck out to me the engaging aspects that it involves for the kids.
026I um stick more to biology and anatomy. I think the uh virtual labs that it offers and just how engaging it could be for the students. I think it will really benefit us as a district as well um and really get the students engaged in I think across the board for any science subject. So that's the one that I as well would consider. So thank you. So, um these are the three that um me as the middle school teacher is I'm evaluating those three. Um McGraill wasn't really an option for us. It doesn't really have a real strong middle school curriculum. So, I evaluated uh Twig, which is the one that Mr. Rich has. and then opens um that one and then amplify and I evaluated them on the criteria of using the 5e model
027which is engage explore explain elaborate evaluate I really like that when I'm planning my lessons um whether it's aligned to our NGSS science standards they all were pretty strong there um but what got me was the engagement. Twig is way more engaging. Look, just look at the workbooks. Twig is full of color pictures. It's full of really strong vocabulary. It's got the text in the workbook. Um, I was just really impressed. Um, the teacher edition is really usable. Um, differentiation is really strong in Twig. Um, it's got a strong online component. It's phenomenal based, which is something that is important to me, too. You know, giving them something that they really need to think about before starting the lesson. Um, so Twig was good at that. Um, and another important thing was that it was
028adaptable to be able to to shrink lessons to to last a short period of time or to make them last a little bit longer so I can integrate the physics in a box a little bit better. So, I think I I would like to go with Twig. So, what we're going to do is we're going to put um all of these out for everyone to look at and and now you guys know kind of which way they're leaning. So, we'll want your input as well on uh what you think in the end. Okay. So does it look like that going from that med school science program to the high school one with two different curriculums will be okay like mesh okay it right now we're doing the same thing yes we are going from two
029different curriculums but we are also in the middle school and high school doing physics in a box twice a week and so that was the other component that I had them look at was what how can you incorporate your physics in a box also in a curriculum so we don't want to drop that moving forward. So, as far as the elementary and our science curriculum, um all of our K through fifth grade teachers do teach science. Um it's a little tricky in the younger grades, so there's a lot of participation, but we take that into consideration when evaluating science curriculum. And we also um my several of my elementary team attended the adoption um event at with region 9 in February as well as we met last week to kind of review the samples that
030we had. Um they prefer they are looking at twig as well as far as elementary um because of the engagement. Um it was the concepts were simple, easy to teach. Lessons were adaptable so that they could um shorten them if needed or draw them out as needed. they could teach part of the lesson as introductory one day and finish the lesson the second day. Um and and then another consideration for us is our focus on writing right now um as far as literacy and structured literacy and pulling that writing op part out of different contents. So not just using writing as far as ELA but using it in our social studies and science settings as well. And so that was something that they really looked at with the science curriculum. um it's they can mesh
031those two parts together and kind of write about the content um in Twig a little bit better. So my elementary teachers are also looking at Twig. We have not reached out to receive a quote or anything yet. So we'll kind of do that process here in the next couple weeks and bring it back to you. Can I have one more thing on the TWI? Sure. Um there are kits there's there are hands-on kits that go with it and I've never had a kit before but it seems really cool. Yeah, they come with all the manipulatives and things that you need for um to do the lessons and things like that. Also, um we talked about physics in a box and how that fits with this. Um my third grade teachers really feel like teaching physics
032in the box kind of in that second half of the school year is a little bit easier because they have some of the how do we actually do a science experiment, those kind of things down um learning how to develop hypothesis and things like that. And so and then the fourth and fifth grade teachers have been able to use um physics in a box handinhand a little bit better and and use it more often than third grade. So any questions? Thank you. I just my only comment is hope make sure this is what you guys want. We don't want to have to search history with math because it's extremely expensive. So make sure this is what you want. Like I said, Mr. N, I was looking for something with rigor for physics and because we
033don't have a current and I feel as though that would meet the need. I'm sorry. We currently don't have a physics book. We currently don't have an anatomy and physiology book. I mean, these guys have been winging it. And so, um, they they're doing a phenomenal job doing that, but right now we have nothing. And so, we're excited to get the opportunity to get get some resources. And then that's why I say I really did gravitate towards McGra Hill because whenever um their representative was up there presenting it, there was a sp a part a part specifically for anatomy where these students can do these virtual labs and they work at their own pace and they pick apart the all the different muscles that are throughout our skeleton and can look at it at their
034own pace and and it would just it was like like I said whenever I was sitting there all the others it was just kind of like it was boring to be honest. But then when they got to that one, the McGra Hill, it was like this is intriguing and and all the ways that it could, you know, really all the components to to dial in for those students and and it kind of they lead it, but also as a teacher, you know, like I said, educationally, we can really gravitate toward towards them in the direction. And it just I was really excited whenever they brought that one out for us. And I think it would really benefit our our students. Thank you guys. questions. Thank you guys. Thank you guys for doing that work. Okay,
035next one will be the uh discussion and possible action regarding the 202425 CMS fixed asset inventory. Mr. President, members of the board, I'll turn it over to Miss Shepard for the fixed asset inventory. Maybe Miss Shepard, are you available? Yeah, I'm I'm here. Sorry about that. Um, so this is the asset listing after the auditors approved the depreciation. And if you look on the last page, it shows a total book cost of $27.5 million for our material assets. And we depreciated about half of that. So the net value of our uh material fixed assets is 13.6 million. And we are going through inventory and uh identifying items that uh we can get rid of. Um we just need to to uh finish that process and then u maybe uh auction these items off. I just
036want y'all to know that we are working on it, but it's a a pretty uh timely process. [Music] I move we approve the recommended 2425 CMS fixed asset inventory as presented. I'll second. All in favor? I I Okay. Next is the discussion and possible action regarding the proposal for the re renovation of Cummins gymnast. Uh now I know we talked about coming gymnasium and you'll see that in facility master plan uh uh in our facility master plan document but that's out of ways. That's one of the last things that's going to get addressed. Uh I can assume seven years seven years out probably. And so u it's in need of repairs right now. Uh definitely in need of repairs repairs to the wood. Uh, but in the meantime, we can do a full renovation of
037the playing service and this will be funded through mill levby funds. And you'll see a diagram and I think I've I've brought that to you all in the past. So, uh, this is one one quote one uh through CES with Stout Hardwood Floor who has been dealing with our floors for quite some time. They do a great job. And so, I'm recommending that we go through uh through a CES procurement uh with St. hardwood floors. So, Vance with them would that with them doing that? When would they be doing that? This summer. Well, would it interfere with like the summer basketball? No, I worked with the uh basketball coaches. Well, with the basketball coaches and uh and volleyball and it's kind of during that dead week right before August 1st. Oh, okay. So, it's in
038those last two weeks. There will be two weeks, but volleyball's rolling in and they can have trailer gym. Okay, we were originally going to try to do both gyms and that wasn't going to work if I shut down had both gyms shut down. So volleyball will be able to use trailer gym while this one's being renovated. This is the comparison on the master plan district priority rank three plans for converting gym district administrative offices. Yes. So to convert it would be a priority three. The gym floor itself is a it's a it can be considered a a life health safety because kids are on it every day all day and and you know we just we want to make sure that it's a good playing surface. uh this project would have nothing to do with
039the other because that floor would that floor would end up coming out and we would re we you know there would be office spaces and a cafeteria and it it's a pretty big gut and come back with a very different functionality of that space. No, this gym floor is just for the playing surface for the immediate. Um aren't those redone about every other year or so? It depends on Well, they get refinished every year. We we refinish them every Christmas. Uh but to do something like this is about every seven to eight years. It's it falls in line with with forecasting when we might would be addressing that facility as a whole. I got just one personal question or preference, but the the font for the Captown Tigers on the court, is that something that's
040like a district-wide font or We can change it. That's just something we kind of kind of like the look of it, but I I don't have I don't have a strong opinion. Yeah, we could do block lettering. We could do block lettering. We can do Well, I don't know if that's the thing. you know, my personal preference, right? I I don't like I don't care for the font, but just we thought the logo was, you know, we thought that logo looks good and it's a district-owned logo and we wanted to we wanted to show that off and we like the idea of black being in that gym. That gym is so bright that a little bit more black would would kind of bring tone it down a little bit if anything. And I can even
041talk to Barry Stout about about the font and what he thinks of it. You know, they put them they put them down all over the place, whether it's UTEP or they handle the parket floor at New Mexico State. They they they do quite a bit of high-end gym floors around the area. Just my personal preference. I just didn't like I'm not going to vote against it. I just thought I thought I like the layout and everything else looks really well and the wood is that a little whiter wood color than what's in there now. It'll end up lighter just by sanding it down to wood because now there's layers of ambered, you know, they get ambered from the from lights and darker than what you see now. And so that wood floor is going to
042be a bright wood floor when it when it comes when it gets down to sand gets down to the maple. Sanded down to the maple. Mhm. The only thing you might ask him too that's not here but uh with that black Well, I I see it. So like inside the three-point line and like between the three-point line that's black and the the out of bounds that's black. If they can have a like a orange colored line right there. They're going to you can kind of from a ref standpoint that if it's black on black, you can't tell where out of bounds is. Yes, there will be a line separating that. There'll be a where it's not painted separating that. Okay. Separating that area. And then there's some things that we didn't put on there because
043we didn't want to clutter the view, but they'll be there'll be volleyball court, basketball courts going the opposite direction that are going to be in a tan color that you you won't hardly see from the bleachers, but when you stand down on them, you'll see you'll see those lines. And uh something I've done in the in past gyms and it really turns out nice because for practice, you can you can see those lines when you're on the floor, but they don't get in the way of your sight when you're sitting in the bleachers watching a ball game and it doesn't just get cluttered. Uh but it'll be uh main main volleyball main basketball and then two b a basketball a volleyball and a basketball volleyball going the other direction. Yeah, we don't want the rest.
044Well, there's Well, and and and you know this the uh the logo in the middle where it's painted, it'll be it'll have a little shade line through it so that officials because it's a requirement. I mean it's just for a floor motion on that. I move we approve the recommended proposal for renational renovation coming second. All in favor. Okay. Next is the discussion and possible action regarding proposal for the purchase of the utility vehicle. Okay. Uh Mr. President, members of the board, the utility ve vehicle is a replacement of what was once an insurance claim quite a few years back, about four or five years back, we had a we had a gator get stolen and wrecked out on the football field, I think, and and it was the claim on it was uh approximately
045$11,000. Uh you'll see the quotes here. We have three of them, one from John Deere, one from K Cabota, and one from Bobcat. Uh the quote for the John Deere, and they're all apples for apples. Uh the quote for the John Deere is 27538. Uh the uh 27640 on the K Cabota and 2846 on the Bobcat. Uh this is replacing one we haven't replaced. And so um we would use 11,000 of those out of that insurance claim money to pay that. And then the remainder would be paid out of out of mill levy money or or cash balance. I mean, we could do that. We I'm going to talk to you all at some point about cash balance and how we're we need to think about that might be a good thing to use cash.
046Yeah. I I I think it probably is. Yeah. Just because What was the one that was stolen? Was that other John Deere? I believe so. I think it was. My only comment on these is they're all expired. Um, all the quotes are expired and I know with the tariffs and the fluctuation in prices here, maybe that'll be my only concern to make sure we nail down what we're paying for it. Uh, do you want to you could make a motion to not go above a certain number and I could Yeah, that way we can just get done and not have to bring it back. So, I mean So, do they is there one that the maintenance guys prefer? Oh, we use John Deere pretty much for everything around here. I haven't heard him ask for
047anything differently. It's a little bit cheaper. Yeah, there not a lot of difference in the three brands as far as price services coming out of Roswell, right? Yes. Yeah, I believe I believe that's Yeah. Out of PE. I'm approving this. Maybe we should we add a little money not to exceed just in case or I know how things have been going up on the weekly on the day just don't know how much. Oh John Deere anything imported from anywhere else their parts are. I mean I mean some parts are I mean it's because you we have it at what 275 we could say 30,000 and we'll pay we're going to say 11,000 with the insurance claim 11,000 from the claim and cash balance. Yeah. I move we approve and recommend a proposal for the purchase
048of the utility vehicle as presented not to exceed 30,000 with funds coming from the insurance plan and remainder throwing cash balance. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Next is discussion and possible action to approve gifted program. I'm sorry to make you wait the side people. Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and call up Miss Schaefer who's a gifted facilitator for region 9, but I think we want to I want to recognize her as our new one of our new elementary teachers for the next school year. So, congratulations. We stole her. We stole her back. Good job. Which I'm very excited about. So, I'm happy to be here on both accounts. Um, yes. As Mr. Lee said, I'm currently working with um M Mrs. Beats and the
049district as the gifted teacher servicing Capitan students. Um, today I'm presenting our district's um gifted program plan. So, the new administrative code for gifted um services states that eleas need to submit a gifted education plan for the next fiscal year um to the peed and those are due every other year um as designated by the department's deadlines. Uh in that gifted program plan, it meets um completion requirements if all elements that are listed in that administrative code are um fulfilled. And so just a general overview of some of those elements. Uh they want to know about our communication procedures with the staff and the community as well as students as well as um screening assessment and identification procedures. And if you'll remember I came back or I came to present I think in December um
050with a lot of that information during that presentation. Um we also are required to talk towards our programming components. So the service models that we are meeting our stu students needs with uh as well as progress monitoring uh the qualifications of staff and professional development that would be implemented and just some implementation plans and details. So the peed actually asked for those plans to be submitted March 17th. So we have submitted um to the program director at peed uh but we wanted to bring it to the board for your approval as well. It's a new program in New Mexico and so uh it's kind of a growth year. That's kind of our initial plan and um the outline of our goals and procedures to date. So we do have some room and some flexibility to
051make adjustments as well as um submit in the next it's due by annually. So um a few years. So I'll answer any questions you may have. And a lot of it is kind of what we outlined in that December meeting as well. So, it shouldn't be new info. I've updated you all. Yeah. I'll add a little bit to uh what the work that she's done this year. We have 15 kids. We have 17 likely to be and three more that are being evaluated or and then we have well we have one more who's still being evaluated and a a meeting pending. We're likely to have a talent pool of five students as well. So those are students who don't quite meet that qualification criteria but have a lot of those gifted tendencies and abilities and
052so they can receive some services as well. And that what that means for us from an FTE standpoint is right out of 0.5 FTE. I mean it's 049 or somewhere in there. So as we transition um Miss Schaefer into the uh her new role, we're looking at at how we're going to address the gifted program moving moving forward. And I'll have a I'll be able to report to you all that here in the next coming months when we start talking about uh personnel out and personnel in and and who we have. So So you're possibly looking at a half time future a halftime like a halftime gifted halftime sped kind of that's that's one definitely one option. So the program has grown substantially. We had one student um at the beginning of this school year
053so up to that 17. So, we've really discovered a lot of talent and abilities in the student population and there's a lot of potential for the program to continue to grow and those services to change and develop as well. So, any questions? Okay, I am going to stick around because I may as well not leave now. Usually, I watch from home so it's better in person. It is for action. Okay. To approve. We approve the gifted program as second. All in favor? Next is discussion and possible action regarding the revision to the 202425 CMS calendar. So as we uh Mr. President, members of the board. So, as we're looking at our calculations for this year, we we do see that we have about two days right at two days in excess of our,40 hours. And
054we got to having we started having a discussion. Do we want to do we want to bring it to the board to consider to uh consider that 25th, which is the only Friday we have left in the school year, uh to that not being a school day? And so we're bringing that to you for your consideration. Either as a snow day or just a non-day or how many days you said we're over right now? About to take another one out somewhere like the end of the year. Well, if I have a wind day, I'm kind of worried about I'm worried about the 1140 hours more. I mean, it's not days that I'm worried about. It's hours that I'm that I would be worried about moving forward. So that's about as much skin or meat as
055I can take off the bone on I see three days there after that. You'll see that you'll see this in the next in the next action or the next discussion item. I'm addressing that. [Music] Next we approve. Do we need to do we need to to make motion on that or Yeah. Do we have to what? Make a motion for it. Oh, he just did. Oh, I didn't hear you. All right. Make a motion. We We consider Friday, April 25th a non-day. Second fuss regarding the 2025. U Mr. President, members of the board, I've been working on some different options and I have not taken this to our committee yet. And so this is this is a discussion item. You'll see the first page is calculations for the three calendars that that have been provided.
056Uh and you don't have any of it. Oh man, I'm sorry. Uh so of the three calendars of the three calendar options we haven't taken them to a committee yet that's in the next week or so. uh one option we have the 30th July 30th is a all region professional development day where we're bringing together Tulosa Kerzosa US Riosa some of Riosa Hondo where we all convene in Riosa and it's an all day uh professional development day and so that day is kind of sacred what you're going to see in these calendars is there's a calendar where it's that day on the 31st And then we start school on we start school right away on the on the on the 1st, I believe. Uh and then there's another calendar where we've uh we've moved it
057a little bit further back to the 4th. We have a day on the a day on the 30th and then teachers on the 3rd and then the fourth is that Tuesday of the week of the fair and where students would be coming. But that first Monday would be a professional development day. Um all of them I've tried to avoid the the three days after uh the three days after Memorial Day at the end of the year. And then all of them at this point I have at all of them at this point I have matched up our spring break with ENMU Riosa. Now there's some good and there's some pros and cons to that. Um, the pros to that is that our dual credit kids would have would actually get a spring break where they're
058not on spring break and doing college classes and then and then they're having to come do high school classes on their spring break. Trying to avoid that a little bit. The problem is universities end so early in the year that their spring breaks are so early in the year. So, you're still catching some pretty cold weather. And so I once again I need to speak with you all and the committee and get your feel for spring break. It's really the one that it's really the the deal that uh that could be a point of of debate. U but the rest of it uh we've moved all the Fridays out except for that one Friday. There's one Friday that uh in January right at the beginning because they're only coming on Wednesday and so of that
059uh January 9th because we have the professional development days Monday and Tuesday and to only ask for kids to come Wednesday and Thursday. I'm afraid kids there's not there's not the motivation to come for two days but there might be for three I don't know. Um so V on on like option number three where I know I know that the Friday thing is not not ideal but is there any way to push our starting date till after the county fair? I know we have a lot of kids and teachers that if we in that Yes sir. if we could go like I said I don't I don't like pushing schools till Fridays but I also don't like having half our teachers and the kids if if we were to push our start date to the
060it would so like on version three uh there would be four days four Fridays throughout the year that we would well on any version actually I I believe well in in version one it would be six days that I would have to Well, in version three, you only have us going, right? January, right? Oh, right. Right. But I mean, but the second the the fourth that second professional development day would probably have to go to the 11th. And so it's actually four days, four Fridays that I would have to build into there. You could keep the fourth as your day because it's a week a week. Well, it's a date kind of a day for a day, I guess. Uh we could do we could do it like a July 30th and July 31st is
061the professional development and then not do not have anything for a week and then come back in on the 11th and then then we would still have those three days. I'd have to find I mean I'd have to they'd be Fridays that we would have to come. The thing is I'm in version three. If you look at it, we're already have it's the one version that we're already coming the three days after Memorial Day. No, it's the only Oh, one and one and three do. Two dozen. And it's not so much it's it's hours. I mean, it's ours. So, we could go longer. It's still 11:40. It's still 11:40. But but it in that 1140 high school still can only use 30 hours of professional develop of professional development where elementary can use 60 hours
062of professional. That law she vetoed. And so could we make Fridays like remote learning? I think in the new rule, in the new law, I think I can use four days throughout the year as remote learning and that just remote learning and don't turn on our cameras and just well remote learning and it has to be held synchronously for the five and a half hours to call it a day. So it would go till 1:30 in the you know it' be 1:30 or so in the afternoon. And that's a good question though. I mean we could we could definitely consider that. I think our tenants would be pretty poor. Well, that's the point. I mean, I don't know. It was we had internet glitches or something, right? Right. But I figured No, these are all
063great ideas that you're throwing at me. I mean, it's and we're learning because the session just she just started or just finished signing all these bills and so we're still trying to figure out how this is all because how many staff do we have that are involved in the fair that are involved staff that are involved in the fair. Brucey 10 12 10 Michelle no we're talking six or eight probably 20 kids 25 kids 20 25 you know but if I don't know. People look at it different. It, you know, if you're if you're not showing, you still have animals there. But if you're done showing early in the week, then you probably could come back. But some choose to and some choose not to. You know, it Oh, kind kind of like state FFA
064convention. I mean it I I see the fair as you know being the first week of school you know that's introduction that's get our feet on the ground and if we're missing that handful of teachers that first week and then we're missing that handful of students that first week then the ones that do come to school you know are going to get a little bit of a head start but are we really going to be progressing right in that three days you know of well of a mixed mismatched bag of of people and our kittens and kids and and teachers here not here. And as far as attendance at the fair, other than the some of the dances and nighttime stuff, the I don't think the student body that's not involved is going to the
065fair. I mean, there's a handful, but not a not a large Well, yeah, I agree with Zeke. if you if you're because I I see the fair and the egg the whole animal deal as an extension of the classroom. That that's that's a learning a learning tool that those kids get to partake in. Um so the kids at the fair are probably learning more about right other things you know than they're learning a ton while they're there learning a lot of stuff that doesn't apply to you know life they're learning a ton. So if we start that week early, we got those kids are going to be three days and then that way that way it's only one Friday. But on the version, it's just that January Friday. Yeah. Is the only one. And then
066version two actually is because we're not using up we're not have having to come kids aren't having to come after Memorial weekend. So you have four Fridays or three Fridays on that one. Four. Yeah. And those those are only when we have a holiday on a on the Monday the Monday holiday. So there'd be four of them. The one I missed was that Easter and the Easter is early this year. It's April 5th. And so I didn't put that Friday on there, but that would be one that that would be the fourth one. If we went with version two done by Memorial Day and tried to start the week after, we'd have to add four Fridays or four days after the week. Friday. Oh, the fair week if we didn't go the week of the
067fair. Yeah. We'd have to find four additional Fridays. Four additional Fridays, which would get us closer to How many Fridays do we have this school year? Six. Five. Five. We only had five, I think. Five. Yeah. Well, well, four because you guys got rid of one tonight and the staff says about Memorial Day. Yeah. What are you guys saying? I mean, just looking at these three options, you don't want to hear what I would year. Well, I'm just going to speak my mind. You know, I I don't see a problem with us starting in in the fair going on because it's the same thing that we run into when we have the state fair. It's the same thing we run into when we have the Roswell fair. It's the same exact kids, same teachers that
068are run. And so I don't I don't see a problem with us starting with my opinion. We don't know how many students are going to show up at this year. That's always a problem. So we'll see we're done. I'm not coming back. See you later. And and really at that point, what kind of learning are we at for those three days? Those are field days, right? We're going to be on field day. Well, only May I say why? Because the FFA state the FFA state convention is the last week in May, right? And so we've lost our kids, 65 kids. And so, um, that's the reason we're having to have finals week the week before. Right. Right. And I get it. These hours that we're required to go, you know, if it wasn't for that,
069then we all know that the week after Memorial Day is going to be a wasted week. Then we're dictated by these hours. And so, we have to make up days just to be here and make up hours just to be here. It's not productive. It's not educational. Exactly. Right. Doesn't gain us a darn thing. So, Exactly. Right. anywhere we can cut a little bit of that week. I mean, I'm all for it. In the week of the fair, I'm still of the opinion of, you know, well, and I don't know. I Everybody slid their calendar. So, two years ago, the NMA slid their calendar. Well, we didn't slide ours with it and so that we ended up off a little bit. Well, we slid ours this year, which slid it into that last week of
070that. But, uh, FFA didn't slide their week into June, that first week of June. You know, it's just one of those where they didn't slide it. I'm willing to bet that they slide it into that first week in June next year and it probably wouldn't be would be not non-issue anyway. But yeah, but I do agree bringing kids back after Memorial Day is a waste. It's more of a waste than the fair. Yeah, I agree. I bet. I agree. I bet it is. Absolutely. Yeah. Because at the fair, those kids are going to make up a week two. They're going to catch back up, you know. So, it's Well, teachers don't want to be here. Nobody wants to be here. At some time. Yes, sir. So, when do we have to adopt a schedule? Is
071that next month? And then it'll be with the budget. It'll be a part of the budget, but next month I'll bring it to you all with the recommendations of the committee. And um but I wanted to switch it up a little this year and get your input before I went to the committee. In the past two years, I've gotten their input and then brought it to y'all. And I think we can be a little more efficient with it by getting getting your input first and then that will drive my versions that I that we take to them. But thank you for the input. Appreciate it. And I guess com [Music] uh just real quick and I've added some things that were not on there. Oh, a news release. Excellence and student achievement uh recipients were
072announced. Um, and it's the ones that the Captown Municipal Schools custodial staff that you all did and then we were a we did get uh Juel Joyce submitted as the scholarship nominee and so those those got done. Uh, thank you Mr. Rich for I should have had it signed that night and thank you for coming in and taking care of that. Uh our vacancies, we have a custodian, two educational assistants open right now. Uh for next year, we still have one elementary teacher that they've been interviewing that but they have not made a recommendation yet at this point. Uh we have a head varsity a varsity head volleyball coach. Uh some others that have come up recently, a mechanics teacher and varsity head girls basketball coach. Is he retiring? He's kind of retiring. I think
073I don't know. I don't want to speak for him. I guess let me put it that way. Uh but yes, uh he's he resigned the other day from both positions. And then I received a a resignation today for the operations and operations and transportation supervisor. So I'll we've posted that this afternoon and and we'll be searching for searching for one of those. And that's a big job. So we'll we'll get it filled. Um the enrollment I think I was off on the enrollment you told me. I was under by two. So it's 446. So we've stayed pretty much we've been flat all year. I I think the highest we've been is 449 or so and the lowest was 442. We have our child find here coming up pretty soon. We do. What was that? May
0745th. May 9th and that's for prek and kindergarten. Um it's actually open to anybody um consider early childhood. They'll do screeners as early as like but we coordinate with region. They help organize it of course and bring different agencies but we also it's our registration for the K34. And just so you know, region 9 as a coordinating council, we've voted to approve their restructuring of their uh early childhood uh or early head start head start program and they will not be on our campus starting next year. So they're they're moving out and and we're we're taking the big we're taking the big load anyway. We have been and so uh there our prek have been doing a wonderful job and we've got full classes there and and it was no longer a need for region
0759 to have a head start early head start here. So we still have pre three and pre we have our pre Yeah, pre-3 and four. So that does not change. Uh we have a lot of events and and I just keep putting them on there and and leaving them on there. I'll cut out the ones from previous. And May's not busy at all. May's not. And it's this is a small list. Uh Miss Huie Miss Huie actually updated it the other day and I think she added a page. I don't know. And so that is all I have. I'll take any question any other questions you guys might have or something I might have left off here that you have questions about. Graduation quickly approaching. I mentioned last year it sure would be nice to
076put teachers up on the stage instead of I think our teachers and class sponsors probably be a better person. Put me over. How are you guys on? Do we have enough stage to put all the staff on the stage? You guys, somebody mentioned the class sponsors. Are they already up there? We had a class sponsor up there last year, but he was the keynote speaker. Or maybe even either have them right in front or right on the side. However, wherever they would fit, I think it would be good for them to They're always on the side. But the sponsors we can put on the stage for sure. You're only talking about three, right? Are you talking about senior sponsors? All three sponsors. Just three sponsors. Just the senior sponsor. 11 10 11 12. No, just
077three sponsors for senior. Oh, okay. I like that idea. But with you, you can leave Dennis up there. Never mind. I quit. I want to be by myself. you know, the community doesn't ever get to see you guys and it is such a formal it's it's such a formal ceremony and and I know you all don't like to be in the spotlight, but it is a formal cere ceremony. That's tradition and and I I would like to keep the formality of that formal ceremony. if I have an opinion. Yeah, it means a lot to some of the kids when they ask us to present their homes, too. So, I think that's something special they really like. I agree. Your vi your visibility is important to the community and um and I think the kids appreciate
078it because they get brought into these board meetings through the course of their career and there ends up being a little bit of a connection to you guys. So, I I think it I don't know. I think I think I like you guys I I like you guys being up on the stage. I I do. But we'll make a little more room on the And I just bought you guys nice gowns and sashes this year. Can we pin the sashes to the G? Yeah. So holding them like for for dear life. We'll get we will get bobby pins or safety pins this year. Anything else from meals? No. Anything else from my superintendent's report? Getting better on meals. Working on meals. Any update? Getting better. Staying the same. It gets better for a minute. Goes
079up and down. Yeah. I guess if I lived in the cafeteria, it would stay better. I don't know. The middle school, high school kids are appreciating. They get to get seconds and not have to pay for it. That's really big. The portion deals of the quality. We just need to keep not for the quality maybe. not let everyone die. Right. Right. I saw the portions the other day better at the high school, but then I've walked in the elementary a few times and I'm still not real pleased with the portions on the elementary. An ounce of meat is not enough. Oh, no. Well, when they're growing, I mean, those kids sometimes get they can eat a whole lot when they're growing. So, I'd like to see that better by next year. I don't know what
080we can do, but I definitely want to keep that constant discussions with them. I mean, if it's not going to get better this avenue, what's our Well, like Miss Gibson said, you know, we address it and then it gets better for a minute and then then it falls off and then we address it and it gets better. Uh salad. I've eaten salad the last few days last week or at the end of last week and this and today and it was fresh and tomatoes were good and the cucumbers were good, you know. So the quality, you know, you had mentioned the quality of the salad and I've noticed that's been better lately, but it may be it's springtime, too. So you're getting fresher stuff, too. So we just keep that on the radar for next
081year. Hopefully have something more consistent. That'd be awesome. Definitely. And then I just had one more question on the Can we get an update on our like how's the bullying policy going in the school? Do we have a problem with bullying? I just wanted to bring that up with the light of, you know, not necessarily last week had anything to do with that, but just to No, we we saw the Facebook post. Well, we had a we had issues internally. Do we have any We had a discussion about that as as soon as we saw some of that. And um it's getting reported on Facebook, but it's not getting reported to my principles that it's going on. And when it is, we take care of it. And when it is, we're addressing it. But we
082can't address it unless we know about it. And a lot of the people that post it on Facebook don't even have kids here. We got a lot of Facebook warriors in this community. You can't believe everything you hear. Sometimes it's conflict, not bullying. And so that word gets so overused in situations that it doesn't apply. And so a lot of times it's I had a conflict with somebody. That doesn't mean that this person is one this person. Usually when it is investigated, it comes you get all the information and it was both ways. guilty. And so really at my level, educating students and parents the difference between a conflict and an actual bullying, what that really means to be repetitive. It happens over and over again. It's targeted to a specific student from a specific
083student, all those kind of parts that go into what bullying is. And so that's a big part of it. That word gets overused and in the wrong. So, if there is bullying going on and it's not being reported to you guys, then how how does that look like? What is what is there's nothing we can do about it, right? Like if it doesn't get reported to you guys, then what? You don't know about it and a teacher doesn't know about it, it's hard to address something that you have no information about. And as soon as it's brought to our attention by either a student, a teacher, or a parent, right, we're on top of it. Yeah. Because the policyy's clear. I mean you guys follow the policy so it's it's it's an easy thing to
084to when it happened was very clear on on our discipline and the things that we put in place and even the some of the comments you know discipline was followed through but we can't tell parents what happened to this kid. Yeah. Because it's that's fun. So they don't know what has actually happened right. So a really hard situation and we can't defend ourselves. It's hard for them to think of it from the other side. If it was your child receiving the discipline, you obviously wouldn't want the whole world to know what discipline your child received. And so really, it's getting the parents to understand that part of the policy as well that we can't just like I can't tell you um you know, Becky can't tell you what Tayden's grades are. You know, she can't
085tell you what discipline he receives either, you know, but and those kind of things. So, it's part it's educating the parents as well on FERPA and what that means and what it looks like. Okay. Thank you. And we don't know what they're talking about with death threats, by the way. Yeah. I'm sure you guys would know if there was any death threats. Yeah. We did not know about those, right? Can't believe everything you read. Yeah. And and we work well with the CE 10 police that are left and the sheriffs and they are in and out of our buildings and all those kind of things. So when they have information, they share it with us and vice versa. It's a good working relationship, I think. Good. And our new under sheriff came by and got
086a new batch to get in all the buildings. Cool. And introduced himself and we did a walk around, showed him everything. Very good. So I I feel I very comfortable. We talked about concerns and he sat down and visited. Awesome. Good. I think that and I I've gone to this in the past that that whether it's bullying or whether it's mental health issues or any of these these issues, we're constantly working with teachers to build relationships with kids. So, they'll come to you and tell you this. So, they trust, you know, they they trust you to come to you and tell you anything that might be negative right now. It's so important to build for the adults in the building to build positive relationships with the kids in the building. It's critical and they are
087doing that, right? I mean, we do have students that are that are doing that. Yes, definitely for the most part. So this is this could be for another meeting but so would it be and I don't know if it would be beneficial or helpful but would it be something to build like a student I don't know kind of student advisory like where maybe they maybe they don't want to go talk to a teacher or principal but like hey we got like we'll go talk to our peer maybe and and kind of tell them what's going on or kind of had that challenge going on. [Music] Try it again. I mean, if there's students that are willing to step up in that role and, you know, be somebody that would be, you know, just somebody they
088could talk to or or, you know, they're having a bad day, they can go talk to them or, you know, something to throw out. It's always it's always good to have some other options just that are not, you know, they're free options. They're the students are here. We could look into the FCA program. We can that's a good group to work that. Yeah, I've heard they had really good turnout the first they did early on first few meetings. Bug. Our kids are just busy. They are. They are. I know. I know. You know, pick a day. Yeah, I know. Well, and and then in the past, students have reported things to adults that their friends have said or done that they were concerned about, but hey, um and I just know a few you probably
089have more where a student called Miss Hume or Mrs. Kennedy or sent a message to a text to a friend and that person reported it to somebody else and it was situations were averted and things were stopped. Police were sent to to homes and they received help and were That's what that's what I'm just want to make make sure they do get the help they need or or or talk to them about you see something you say something and kids are really good about Snapchat and um they'll take a picture of it and then they will come right in in the morning and let us know so we can address it. So a lot a lot of them do do that. There are some that don't unfortunately. And parents of high school kids you still
090have to talk to your kids. You have Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It starts at home no matter what and find out what's going on with them. Know where they are in their mental and not that that stops anything but it can help just being aware. [Music] Any other comments on that superintendent report? Any questions? Okay. Next one is the executive session limited personnel matters as permitted under 10-151 H2 specifically to discuss the contract superintendent. We'll do start at eight. Is that good? Do we need five minutes? A motion. Oh yeah, we need a motion to do that. And roll call. I move we move into executive session to discuss unlimited personnel matters as pertaining to specifically to discuss contract of the superintendent. I'll second Freddy did it. Thank you guys. Thank you. Dr. Freddy did
091it. Okay. Yes, Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. G. Yes. Dr. Yes. Yes. Okay. [Music] So it should be fair. [Music]