Regular School Board Meeting | May 14th, 2026

001present. >> Mrs. Hasky Overly, are you there? >> Is she there? >> Mr. Sue, are you there? Mrs. Aspus, are you there? >> [laughter] >> All right. And then myself, we do have a quorum. Um, reviewing routine matters. May I have a motion to approve the agenda? Oh, sorry, wrong one. Sorry. We're going to start with the pledge of allegiance. >> Um, are we doing the work session first? >> Yeah. I mean, >> okay, >> please rise and uh let's do the pledge of allegiance. Flags over this way. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty, justice for all. >> We will now have the prayer. Miss Miss Aspus. [clears throat] [cough] Hello. Let's bow our heads

002or however you show your faith. Father God, come to you this evening and ask that [sighs] [gasps] to guide us and to help us remember that this is all for our students, our community, and those that we call staff. Um there's a lot that that is here that we are responsible for moneywise and and just clear our heads and our thinking and so that [sighs] uh we um can make our district um not feel like it's um in a crisis mode. and and have everybody in our community secure and um especially with our economy today are um you know there's many thoughts that are going through my head right now and and I just pray Lord that prosperity and health and all of the good things that our our district is blessed with in Jesus

003name. Amen. >> Thank you, Miss Aspus. I want to welcome all the students, staff, community members, guests joining us in person and via live stream. The agenda has been um distributed and posted. Are there any requests for changes? If not, may I have a motion to approve the agenda? I um I would I would like to to look at the um the usual stuff that I asked for and as far as the financial reports and also um our checklisting that that is um old that as if if possible. Thank you. >> Okay, with those items removed, may I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> I motion. >> Can I get a second? >> I second, but I got a second. But I do have a question for the superintendent. >> Yes, sir. that

004uh board report uh other than the um outstanding checklist uh that will be pulled and read separately with the presentation to the board on the finances. Correct. As we have every month, >> every month we have the reports, no board action. It's letter U number seven. Letter B, accounts payable dispersements, board report summary, dispersement listings, outstanding checklistings, expenditure report, revenue report by Stacy Gallagher. And u you can ask whatever questions you need to ask regarding those reports. >> Okay. So I'm just to assume that that um border report that we generally have read is going to be read and then along with the outstanding checks. That's all I'm clarifying with four. >> Correct. The outstanding checks are part of that um that report. >> All righty. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Just clarification. >>

005Uh yeah, I just want to add this in. So, I think we can approve the agenda as is and once we get to that part, we can actually pull that item off for separate action and discussion. I believe it's on the consent agenda, so we can we can pull that off when we get to that. >> Correct. >> Absolut absolutely. That's why I was clarified. Thank you. >> Okay. Voter roll call to approve the agenda. Um, President Montoya. >> Oh, no. Is I motion? He >> go ahead. >> I will second. >> Okay. Um, we're voting now. Mr. Mononttoya, do you approve? >> I will second. >> Jeez. >> Yes. >> Okay. Mr. Cell. >> Yes. >> Christina, >> where are we? >> We're on We're approving the agenda. I've heard I've heard I motioned

006and then all of a sudden somebody's speaking. >> Second. >> So, we're lost. >> We're voting now. >> No, there wasn't second. I second it. [laughter] >> Good. >> And now you're voting. Do you approve it? Yes or no? >> I'm not sure. Um, yes. >> Myself is yes. It's passed. [laughter] >> Okay. Next item is the consent agenda where we have identified we're going to be removing items for review. Uh item 7B, we'd like a read through on that. And then let's see for these items. Um, yes ma'am. >> Other than that, um, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda with the reading of items seven? >> Madam Chair, >> see that >> I can't hear. I'm sorry. Say that again, Mr. S. >> Madam Chair, I make a motion to

007approve all the items listed on the consent agenda with the exception of the item that was requested 7. Thank you. Can I get a second? >> Production discussion. >> Thank you. Can I get a second? Perfect. Voter roll call. Second. >> Mr. Mononttoya, do you approve? >> Yes. >> Mr. Cell. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Miss Aspus. >> Yes. >> Myself is yes. It's passed. >> Uh, vice president. >> Vice President >> Mononttoya. >> Yes. That's the [laughter] first I um I do want to say and uh since our meeting is just starting no more just coming out. I mean we we we need to start um if you're going to have something to say, you know, do it right and and um address you right. And I I'm I'm tired of this, you know,

008jumping in with with different things and and and not um just confusing the whole whole matter. Um I think that individual's been on boards long enough to know. Thank you. Appreciate your feedback, Miss Aspus. All right. The next item, um, item four, student, staff, and community recognition. We'll hear from, um, the superintendent Carlson on the 2026 NMBA student achievement award for Tim Kercher. >> Do we have Do we have Mr. Kercher in attendance today? >> No. Um if he's not here, I' I'd like to go ahead and just say a few things real quick or um I don't know if anybody has contact with him at all. Um there would be a way that we could move those items since we don't have Do we have anybody here for Shipwreck High School robotics team? >>

009We have We are here. >> Okay, you're online. Okay. Um, how about Jordan Holian or Tayana Mikas? >> No. Well, I don't want people who are here to have to wait. >> That's not the resotics. That's the FCC. >> Are the robotics ones on online? >> Yeah. Isn't she? >> Yes. >> So, it just sounds like a The robotics team is online ready to go. >> Okay. >> Um I think I saw Stacy raise her hand that she might have contact with Tim. Correct. >> Miss Gallinger, do we have any any news on Mr. Kirk? >> Okay, we can uh >> Can we switch? >> Yeah, we'll switch the order on student staff and community recognition. We'll start with item 4B, Shiprock High School robotics team recognition at nationals. >> Okay, we have the Shiprock

010High School robotics team online. And the Shiprock uh robotics team, they traveled to Houston, Texas to compete with teams from around the world and proudly earned the judges award in the Loveless Division. And we have some students. If you could all share your screen and if you would say a few words for us, we'd love to hear from you. >> Closer. Yes. >> Uh [laughter] sorry. Uh hello. Uh hello. This is the robotics team. Uh, as of now, we don't have all the members present, but I'll allow them to introduce themselves. >> I'm I'm Leah and the Colti. >> I'm the driver and also the assistant builder. >> Hello, my name is Tashan Toweather. I am the lead coder for the robotics team. Yeah. [clears throat] >> Uh hello, I'm Lanai Rderoff and I'm the

011uh journalist for the team. >> Oh, we'd just like to say thank you >> from all of us. >> Yep. Thank you very much for uh showing your support for the team >> and uh yeah >> thank you for all your support and one thing that I noticed was that it's not nationals it's actually world's championship. >> Yeah we had a lot of fun going to world and we're so happy to have um accepted the um judges >> the judges choice award. So thank you. Yeah, we just like to thank you all, especially for the school board for your um endless support for robotics. It really has meant a lot in helping us succeed and go farther, especially all the way to worlds and for um your support [laughter] and we just really appreciate it

012because without your support and your help, we wouldn't be we haven't we wouldn't have gotten this far without you. I I would like to thank you board of education and we hope to see you next year and be our support supportive system for us so that we can continue. >> Yeah. Till next year. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Were there any um comments from the board? >> Yes. Bruce, >> you cut out. >> I was going to say yes, I do. Vice President. >> Perfect. All right, President Mononttoya, go ahead. >> I I just want to say first congratulations and and your success certainly goes handinhand what I've said many many times before about our students. They're very talented. They're as equally, if not more talented than a lot of kids, not just in

013the county or the state, but obviously now across the country and not to mention the world because that's where they competed. And for some of you, you don't know, I'm actually coming back from Washington DC. And in many of the conversations that I had in Washington with the staffers for our congressional members and Senate members, I was expressing to them the importance of our JOM funding and our impact aid funding and how it's utilized to support the opportunities for our kids. So this is absolutely a fine example of that of what that money does. I constantly say that money does not solve all the problems. However, what it does is to provide an opportunity for our students to grow and learn. So, congratulations to all of you. Thank you. >> Mr. So, do you have

014any comments, questions? Uh yeah, I just want to say congratulations and wanted to express my sincere uh appreciation and thanks to uh the robotics program and hopefully our district will continue to support programs like these especially those that make a difference and impact the lives of our students and kids across our district. Thank you >> Mrs. Aspus. [clears throat] >> Thank you Resotics. Is that your t-shirt? Your for your team? >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Shiprock. [laughter] >> Well, and you guys wore those t-shirts at at the competition. >> Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for everything that you're doing and and I hope that you know our younger students can uh use you guys as role models. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Is Miss Hasky overly on the line? >> No.

015Okay, sounds good. And then myself, we're very proud of you. Thanks for your efforts and representing our district. [clears throat] All right. Did we have moving on to the next item? Let's see. >> I'll go ahead and try and >> Okay, we'll uh reinstate item 4A 2026 NMSBA student achievement award for Tim Kercher. >> Yes, we'll go ahead and do uh whichever ones are here. If they're not here, uh we can go ahead and and hold off and see if they might show up. I'm going to ask is has Mr. Percher been notified? Do you know if he's going to join? >> Okay, we'll go to see and and just to see if Jordan Holian is here. If she's not here, I will do just a real short version. And I don't know if um

016perhaps Sharon, do you have that picture that is in board docs that you could kind of pull up of her? Uh, and again, if she shows up, we can go ahead and do it for real and do a better job of it. But, um, and we do have a picture that goes along with a short article. And so there it is. And and everybody has a chance. You can read this. I'm going to go ahead and read just the the first it's kind of the opening and then the first paragraph. And if she comes later, we can we can do more. Uh, that's Jordan right there. Saludiatoran Jordan Holian becomes the third Davis New Mexico scholar in Nukem High School history. She will pursue nursing degree at the University of Portland. Newcome High School senior

017Jordan Holian will head to Oregon this fall with every dollar of her college education covered, tuition, housing, meals, and more after earning the Davis New Mexico scholarship, one of the state's more most comprehensive awards for first generation college students. Holan, the school's saludiatoran and a national honor society member, will enroll in the nursing program at the University of Portland in the fall. So, congratulations to her. Um, again, if she shows up, hopefully we can do a little bit more, maybe take a picture with board members, that kind of thing. But for now, uh, we could we could give her a round of applause as if she's here. Congratulations to her. And we'll go down. Is Tayana, hopefully I said that right, Tayana online. Nope. So, we'll go ahead. I'll do the same thing. Nothing. Okay.

018Uh, Tiana Beas is the only New Mexico student named among 12 national recipients of the 2026 FCCLA National Leadership Leadership Conference Scholarship. Tiana Beas, a junior at Nukem High School, has been named one of the 12 students nationwide to receive the 2026 FCCLA National Leadership Conference Scholarship, making her the only student from New Mexico to be selected for the distinction this year. Again, there's a a whole article you can kind of read that when you get a chance, but since she's not here, I'll go ahead and ask that you uh give her a round of applause like she were her. >> [applause] >> And we can go back to the first one if if Mr. Kercher hasn't replied. Um there is an award u for Tim Kercher and that is we're back to a now

019and he is the 2026 NMSBA New Mexico School Boards Association uh achievement award recipient uh Tim Kercher and what it says is the excellence in student achievement award. It's presented by the New Mexico School Boards Association in cooperation with the local board of education in recognition for the outstanding role played in improving student achievement in 2026. And so he had to be nominated, I believe, by an administrator of the school. Perhaps the principal. We we're not sure. She's shaking her head yes, but that's probably who it was. Um I've been in Mr. Kercher's classroom on many occasions and I've seen him teach and he's doing the things that I I request teachers to do. He's moving about his classroom. He's engaging his students. Students are discussing their topic with one another and talking about their

020learning. Um he's an outstanding teacher and and you can tell when you walk into his classroom, students enjoy being in there and and that's not the case in every single classroom I go in. Um so anyway, thank you Mr. Kercher for all that you do in your classroom. I wish you were here now. Um, but we can still give him a round of applause. Oh, >> well, there you go. And who can fault him for that? So, give him a round of applause. Good thing is these things are taped so he can tune in and hear all that we said and he can hopefully hear your applause. So, thank you. >> Right. Thank you and congratulations to our students and staff. We're moving on to item 5A, comments from the audience. I just want to

021remind everybody to follow the time limits and to make sure to um uphold the quorum. It is three minutes, right, for public comment. Did anybody turn in a slip for public comment? No. She usually gives them. Okay. Well, in that case, um, we'll just move on to item 6A, reports from the board. Miss, we'll just go through the, um, roll call. President Mononttoya, do you have any reports to give? >> Uh, I do. Again, I'm coming back from Washington and just now coming in on the east side of Farmington. But uh I just want to say that I am very very thankful to the Navajo Nation's uh Washington DC office because the individual there set up several meetings um in a couple of days. In fact, uh Miss Chappelle, our general counsel actually stayed another

022day to finish meetings today. And on both days, I think a total of 15 meetings with congressional and uh Senate staffers throughout the days. We put literally four miles in each day walking uh from building to building back and forth. And it was quite productive and they were responsive to our needs and especially with the proposed budget uh for 2027. from the president and um we were able to state our concerns and its possible impacts on our school district. So again, I just want to publicly thank the Navajo Nations Washington DC's office and their staff for doing a wonderful job in getting us set up uh for those meetings. and and again once I get back I'll I'll have a send out an email to everybody on the board and let them know exactly some

023of the more finer points of those conversations that we've had. So that's my report. Thank you. >> Thank you. Mr. So do you have any reports? >> Okay, moving on. Miss Aspus, do you have any reports yet? Hello. So this this was just a discussion with some people that um uh [clears throat] pretty much support and you know um elect certain people and um during this discussion I talked about how uh we've traveled as a board uh to different places to uh different conferences such as um National Congress of American Indian and NIA and um other places to where we've talked about our situation here on the um and how we're seeing that our students and our community is really the sacrifice for renewables And um a lot of them uh there was some elder

024Navajos there and um they didn't realize that when I brought up about um if you look at Navajo Nation on a map and put those energy spots of u power plants in there um you'll see that around Navo Nation um boundary is um these closures are happening. So you wonder what what really is the imp the agenda here and um and then on top of that how it really affect our our students and student count um and families moving away um our homelessness rate. So they were very surprised and um didn't mean to grandstand but um that's what I think is needed in order to get across to others um and and and it's still going on. It still needs to happen. um because they were they even though this was kind of a small

025setting uh they were very surprised and and um afterwards came up and asked different questions and and I let them know that um in a lot of ways our focus is on our students to make sure that they don't lack in any way you know uh compared to other districts such as Albuquerque or around the New Mexico uh state of New Mexico, but at the same time we have to remember that we are CCSD is a large employer and um on the reservation. So, you know, with all those you keep in mind and and um so it does matter and and uh so I I was really glad to have talked to this, you know, within this small group and um and I think they went away with a better understanding that um yeah, we

026we really need a balance in in in our situation and then how funding goes. and even school districts have credit ratings, bond ratings and things like that. So, uh and and I and I just I just pray that all of us can keep that, you know, that talk up and and um voice it and especially as we go to these different conferences. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comment, Mr. So, one more time, do you have any reports? >> [laughter] >> Okay. Um, I don't have anything to report today, so looks like we're back to you, Mr. Carlson. Item 6B, reports from the superintendent. General and reporting of student travel request, fundraising requests, and gift donation approved administratively by the superintendent. >> Thank you, board vice president. I do believe we only have at

027this point some donations, gift donations. So, I'm going to go ahead and read those. I think there's four of them. The first one is from NTE NA NAVO Transitional Energy Company and it it is for the Shiprock High School robotics program and it is a check for $500 to help with upcoming robotics competition. We also have from NEC Navo Transitional Energy Company for the Nukem High School robotics team a check for $250 to be used towards student travel and or purchases for supply and materials for the robotics team. Um, Intech has been very generous to CCSD in the recent future and we appreciate all their generosity. I have a request for a donation from Pizza 9. for Eva B. Stokeley Elementary School. Uh this is a student incentive for preK to sixth grade. Um and

028it is free 7 in pizza coupons. Um valued at I guess 500 coupons at 7.49 per pizza is 3,745. Check the math real quick. Finance director. Oh, okay. Well, we're going to have to take her word for it. I believe that's correct. Thank you, Pizza 9, for your donation. >> One more donation. This one's from Fly High. >> Uh, this is for student incentives from PreK through six. This is also for Eva B. Stokeley Elementary School. They're donating a free pass to Fly High. Uh, $17 per coupon. Uh, and there's 75 coupons for a value of $1,275. Um, and so thank you very much for for that donation. fly high in Farmington. And that's all I have. >> Thank you. That's very generous. All right. So, we're moving on to item seven, uh, report, snowboard

029action 7A, National Student Safety and Security Conference report by Charlene Rivers and Janine Lewis. Well, obviously I'm not Charlene or Janine. Um I'm Gina Jones, the principal at Mesa. Um Charlene is at her son's uh National Junior Honor Society induction tonight. So she has asked me to um represent the team or the the group of uh administrators and our LSA who went to wow the conference in Florida. Um, so I just have a few remarks and then I'll stand for any questions that you might have. Um, hopefully our safety people will back me up if I can answer. Um, [clears throat] so we really want to make sure that our goal is to ensure that every student and staff remember uh, every staff member occupies an environment that is safe, secure, healthful, and respectful. Safety

030is no longer a binder on a shelf. It is actually a daily culture that we have. We balanced advanced physical technology with the hightouch human connection. Um, as emphasized by Dr. Shauna Finley, relationships are most effectively is our most effective early warning system. When students feel a sense of belonging, they move from being bystandards to being partners in our safety. And this was one thing that they really stressed at the conference was one of the most influential factors in what is the most influent influential factor in school climate. It is the shared belief that we are making a difference. What is the second most influ influential factor is cultural awareness which is the impact of climate safety and achievement. So, they went over a couple of models and one of the models that I really

031um kind of enjoyed learning about was the Sarah model, S A. This is to stay proactive. We they were using the Sarah model in several school districts um all around one in Texas and one in Nevada. And it is a problem solving engine. So, it moves us from reacting to incidents to solving the conditions that create them. So S is scanning, identifying recurring safety problems or hotspots, analysis, digging into the why. Why why do we look at a a crime triangle, you know, victim, offender, and location um and to see if there is a gap in student belonging. R is to response. It's the implementation of their tailored solutions or like our mentoring, pairing, our individual um um environmental changes that we make. and A is our assessment. So we review the data, our panorama

032climate surveys to measure if our interventions are actually working. Um so the other piece to that was really this um this model protects against unnecessarily spending on programs or projects that fail to address the issues. It serves as a key indicator on the need for staff development in key areas. It provides administrators with knowledge needed to set priorities and allows for greater transparenc transparency in the I um ideiation of actual issues and concerns for staff. It also helps to build and define better um systems uh or application of prevention, intervention and behavior supports. So it can easily be integrated into school policy development and daily operations by routinely scanning um for emerging issues that may arise um through anal um analyzing any contributing factors that may arise, designing evidence-based responses and assessing any outcomes. Schools

033can create a culture of ongoing improvement. And this is not only um something that leads to measurement reductions um measurable reductions, but it also um helps with all of our negative incidences and it may actually foster a safer and more supportive environment for our students. So, I really um enjoyed that that um [sighs] time when they were going over this uh Sarah model and and that might be something that we look more into um if we already don't have something like that in one way or another. The other thing that they talked about was the human pillar like our relationships. Um, I have some data that they said 80% of student misbehaviors at school happen outside the classroom. 80% of classroom misbehaviors happens during the first and the last five minutes of class. Only 4%

034of misbehaviors happen during supervised instruction. So, something's working when we're supervising. Um, and that kind of goes back to our school climate, our classroom climate, focusing on those academic improvements. Mr. Carlson, you've mentioned uh many times before, bell-to-bell engagement, right? Um, supervising our non-instructional areas, following the discipline plan objectively and consistently, working on those building uh work on those building relationships. So we have our student to student, our student to staff and then our staff to staff teaching coping skills, being aware of of various cultures and then address the stress in our schools. Are we addressing that? Are we lowering that effective filter? So um national data proves that just having just one trusted adult on campus reduces a student's high-risisk behavior by 50%. So by doing the behavioral threat assessment and management it is

035about support not punishment [clears throat] and we need to identify leakage early signs of distress and provide mental health resources before a crisis occurs. By identifying students who are struggling with belonging we close the opportunity gaps that can lead to safety risks. Um, they went on to talk about a lot of things about apples and orange protocol and and I won't get into that um too much, but um I learned some interesting things and I I'm sorry I only brought one copy. I was going to put it in a digital format for you. Um, we had a whole in a whole uh discussion about we played a game and it was could we identify harmful items that may be targeted and marketed for kids. So, can I bring these up here? >> Sure. >> Okay.

036I was going to say So, as you can see in those pictures, one picture is you can see it's for the youth, right? It's a Mario. It's this. It's something that Oh, man. The kids, they would like that. And what is it? It's a THC vape. >> Oh, no. There's a Sharpie that looks like any other school supply. That maybe >> Oh, we see Oh, there's a Sharpie. No, it's a vape. Um, they we kind of played a game. Don't get mad at me. It's not my title. Booze or no booze. And they clearly had bottles of water that looked like bottles of water, but they were not bottles of water. They were alcohol. um things about marketing. You can see that that death water, but then you see this other can that looks just

037like death water, but it is alcohol. So, it was a really um big eye openener. All of us were really surprised at how the how clever they're getting in marketing and we need to be aware of these things that are harmful to our students um and what we're trying to build at school. And it was really eye opening. I mean, I I'm an elementary principal, but I could see Sharpies. I could see some of those things in my school. Um, and I'm I just wondered if we're seeing any of that in our middle schools or in our high schools. Um, right after that presentation, they did another presentation with um a a machine that was pretty cool. that was a um it was a non-invasive technology and it was just this big pole and there

038was one on this side and it was like a um I don't know what what what would I call that? A like a metal detector but it detected vapes. It dete detected liquids all the way from the shoes on up. and they started to talk about how they had these in big um stadiums. Um and I started thinking about we have a lot of people that attend our sports graduation parties or graduations um things that have a lot of the population that attends and are we you know something like that might help. Um and so we'll pass that off information on to the safety. Um one thing that it did say is that safety is a discipline we practice through the frameworks and everything that we do and it is our um and with our

039daily interactions. And we don't stay safe by being lucky. We stay safe by being ready. Remember security is felt in the heart not just seen on the screen. And I really enjoyed I really that took that to heart. We're not just lucky. We stay safe by being ready. And some of the things that they mentioned was why do we just do a fire drill? How about changing up your fire drill? So I took that to heart and we tried it last Friday at Mesa Elementary. So, I got grabbed my Prometheium board and I found a flame from YouTube and I put it up on my board and there was a fire in the kitchen and I put it in front of the double doors and this was at the very end of lunch cuz fires

040aren't going to only happen when students are in their classrooms. So, there was a fire in the kitchen and we had to reroute. Kids had to think. The staff had to rethink. We evacuated for a fire drill and then we evacuated and did an actual evacuation from the fire drill up to the lap up to the uh blacktop. Took 12 minutes, but we learned a lot from that 12 minutes. And that was one thing that I took away from the from the training um from the conference was we we practice these things thinking that's going to happen and what's the what's the percentage that it's always going to happen when we expect it to. And so we tried to do a drill that was least expected and it worked out in our favor and we

041had some good conversations about that. So, um, that that's just a kind of a quick wrap up of two days, but, um, I stand for any questions. >> President Mononttoya, do you have any questions? >> Uh, yes, I do. So, first really is the comment is I I just really appreciate the fact that you took in that training and actually applied some of it and it helped to uh reframe your mindset on how some of these things work that can become mundane over time, right? So, I appreciate the change up and you acknowledging that and also hoping that uh some of that from that SRO that went out there with you guys if we don't already certainly the consideration of applying some of those principles and ideas within the district those things that we can

042do. So, um, also I believe, um, superintendent, uh, is there not going to be a consideration for a another safety summit? Maybe some of that can be shared during that time as well. >> Absolutely. >> All right, that's it. Thank you. Just if I may reply to that, um our LSA Misty um Jensen who went there did say that um it was nice to see we were on the top of the heat because a lot of things that they were doing she was like we're already doing that and we're all like we're already doing that and we're already doing that and we're already doing that. So I believe David and Devon has really set our school district up with uh rethinking our safety because a lot of the initiatives that they had we have already

043started to implement. So that that kind of answers your question, Mr. Mononttoya. >> All right. Well, well, I've said this before, too, and I know because of what we're doing and what we started, the Navajo Nation reached out and that's how that safety summit began because they saw that we were really in this area in the forefront of the safety programs for our students and now that's being spread across the Navajo Nations. So, if we can continue to do that, then more importantly to our kids, the safety of our children and the staff that we have in the building. So, very good. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Mr. So, do you have any questions or comments? >> Miss, do you have questions or comments? >> So, um, you may have mentioned, and I'm apologize,

044was it in here, but where this conference took place? >> It was in Orlando, Florida. >> Okay. And um and just as President Montoya had talked about, you know, with the safety summit that we had quite uh a couple years ago, what um I'm sure there was vast differences or some something um as far as related to the reservation compared to urban or Orlando. Um they [clears throat] had they had uh people that presented from all different walks of life. Um rural uh districts in Nevada, um Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas. They had all different types of city and rural um superintendent or safety adviserss. Um national people at the safety council. Um so they really had a good mix. Um people from up north. Um there wasn't anybody particularly per se that I seen there

045from the Navajo Nation. Um but I didn't get to speak with everybody. Um >> what about other tribal >> um >> reservations or >> I don't know about that. I'm sorry. I don't I didn't know. Um I I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to answer that. Maybe Misty might miss Miss Miss Jensen, she might be able to see she she kind ofworked a little bit more with different SRO's and LSAs and stuff that were there. Um, so she might be able to answer that. Um, I won't be able to, but I can find out. >> And then being at a a conference, I'm sure it was a huge one, the you have people from different states. >> Yes. And so they comply. Their laws are different. And and then just the recent um cell phone

046law that came in, you know, for New Mexico. Um any other states >> doing that? And how is that working? or is it uh was it brought up as negative or positive or >> in on any of the sessions that I went to there wasn't necessarily a cell phone piece per se although they did bring up say see something say something um and they did bring about um Parkland okay um the chief security guy over the district that was over the Parkland shooting. Um he talked about um you know how cell phones were a part of of trying to triangulate things and uh how the students used the cell phones um to to help with that. Um, [clears throat] and they did play a video and it was it was um made from pieces of

047everybody's cell phone and the videos that they got. Um, and they [clears throat] had a lot of other they had people from Virginia and Tennessee and New York and Minnesota, um, Nevada, Utah, um, so it was all over. And surprisingly, I was actually quite surprised with the number because there may have only been like 200 people there. And so I was I was kind of surprised about the number. I thought it would be more people because safety is such a big issue right now, especially with all the recent shootings and things like that. But um they didn't mention negative things about cell phones at this time during in the sessions that I was at. Maybe some of the other participants had some of that, but we all kind of divvied up our sessions. >> And

048and then on top of that, the as as I brought up about tribal, um we do our district does uh comply to two governments, state and tribal. And so, uh, the gun laws are different if our security is armed. And this summit that you went to, was it um any of their SRO's armed or >> they were they were um they had um concealed carry. >> So, they did talk they did have several people had concealed carry while they were there. Um, but I didn't there wasn't an a part of the conference where we were um told or that wasn't really mentioned. It's just that I noticed that the participants were carrying concealed. >> Okay. Thank you. No worries. >> No questions or comment from myself. Thank you so much for your report. >> Thank

049you. We do want to go. Sorry, I apologize to everybody, but we're going to go back in time to item 6B, uh, reports from superintendent. >> So, I just had one more thing. >> I'm going to wait for the microphone to either hope it won't get too crazy. Um, while we have the uh the next one, the next report is by finance director who happens to be the previous principal at Shrock High School. Just recently we interviewed for the new principal of Shiprock High School and we asked that gentleman if he wouldn't mind coming this evening um for an introduction. So I'm going to ask the Irvin Trio stand up and come to the microphone. As he's coming up there um I just want to mention I got to work with Irvin quite a few

050years ago. He was in the district. Um since that time he spent I believe about 10 years at Pierista High School in Farmington um honing his skills at the secondary level. So we're very proud to welcome back Urban Trillo as the next principal of Shipard High School. At that time you can all applaud that. Would you like to say a few words? >> Yes I do. Thank you. I I'm I'm glad to be back. I'm I'm excited to to take over the Sheriff Rock High School and be chieftain coming from my Panthers. So, I enjoyed my 10 years at um Pedro Vista High School. I don't want to talk too much. Um in Navajo, um I'm fluent in Navajo, so I'm going start with that. Urban trigger So, um, again, my name is Trillo. Um,

051I've been in education for over 20 years now. The last 10 years have been at PJ Vista High School as assistant principal, and I'm I'm honored and and grateful that I'm able to take over the principal at Shipwrock High School and be a chieftain and and then and look at the systems and see what I can do. So, I'm glad I' I've learned a lot in my in my um educational journey because before I was a principal at Mesa Elementary here. I did my internship at Eva B. Stokeley and I did a year there and I also did human resources here at the district office as well. So, a few a little bit of experience underneath my belt and I'm always learning. I'm a lifetime learner and I have a growth mindset um in mind

052and I'm always willing to learn new things. I'm willing to try new things and I'm afraid I'm not afraid to think outside the box. So yeah. Well, thank you for for letting me come here and to introduce myself. I'm grateful to be here and and see what I can do with Sherlock High School. So do you guys have any questions? >> I do. >> [applause] >> Go ahead, Miss Hospice. >> You You must be really missed. I mean, they vandalized that school. [laughter] >> They do. They have a senior prank. We Every year we try to catch them, but yeah. So, we do our best. >> Mr. So, do you have any comments? >> Just I just want to say good. I know it's been some time. Welcome back to the district, but I message

053students at high school and hopefully you can bring back some state championships. All right, looking forward to it. Yeah, >> President Mononttoya, any questions, comments? >> Absolutely. Welcome back, Mr. Till. looking forward to the change at the high school and again um we appreciate the experience that you've gathered especially over the past 10 years and hopefully that will uh translate into very good progress at the high school there. So thank you very much for uh accepting the invitation back and the opportunity to uh work with our students and our kids. So, thank you. >> Oh, dang. >> Thank you. >> Glad to have you back. Congratulations and welcome. >> Oh, thank you. Like I said, just a quick last comment and my number one goal always in my mind is student first. usually their safety.

054Make sure they're safe. They're welcomed. And then also like um Superintendent Carlson said, what matters is how they're welcome at the school, but also what's being taught in the school from bell to bell. I'm a I'm a person of a I walk in a classroom. I'm looking for what's bell to bell. Are the students engaged? What are they learning? And that way, we're creating future leaders for our community and for our nation. So, well, thank you. >> Thank you. Oh yeah. [applause] All right. Back on schedule. Item 7B, accounts payable, dispersements, board report summary, dispersement listings, outstanding checklistings, expenditures, revenue report by um Stacy Gallagher. Good evening, Vice President Mononttoya, board members, Miss Aspus, Mr. So, and Superintendent Carlson. I come to you this evening with the general board report summary, and I can also

055go over some of the checks that are still stale. I had to run and grab those real quick. Um so the in our dispersement listings for operational our operational dispersements for the month of April were 3,239,56683. for the year. Our total dispersements $23,570,668.75. In activity, our dispersements for the month of April were $50,281.37. Year to date, $370,9598. Johnson Ali for the month of April, $1,731.54. year to date $95,872.70 [snorts] outstanding checklistings and this is like total so this could include payroll that we had just recently been ran when these reports happened for the month they were 10,48 10 million4800 48,116.33 year to date 10 million 748,15921. Again, this report was ran on 55, so not that long after payroll. In activity, the outstanding checks were 50,28137. Year to date, 57,96977. So if you look at

056those numbers, what was for the month being 10,48,000 compared to the 10,748,000, we're looking at a difference of about 700,000 there. That was not for the month of April itself on those. And then I can go over the ones that are fairly stale here in just a minute that were before this fiscal year. There aren't those up there for prior fiscal year. We've never included those. I could start to I think the only reason they really came to light is Mr. Manning did bring some up in his report at the last board meeting. So, I can go over some of those with you, the ones that are prior to this fiscal year, because these reports are all ran for this fiscal year. So, but I can go over those. I did go grab them. um

057expenditure reports in our grand total out of general funds 11,000 through 23,000 for the month of April 8,123,3584 year to date 71,767,1152 as we're coming toward the end of the year um out of impact aid operational we had in the month of April 14,72,00 414.80 that showed on our expenditures year to date $18,225,134 addorum in the month of April 20,744.87 year to date $25,26.85 um grants total Carl Perkins well the grants total was1 million6 my eyes 1,630,397.15 in the month of April year to date $14,67,9183 out of those the ones that you've asked us to highlight Carl Perkins for the month of April April $9,593.51 year to date $14,256.14. So as [snorts] you can see by those two totals a good portion of Carl Perkins was spent in the month of April. Johnson Ali for

058the month of April $3,167.54 year todate $116,1722 impact aid for sped for the month of April $49,643 31 year to date $448,59253 impact aid Indian education month of April Toal $465,556.36 year to date $4,714,755.77 capital outlay grand total for the year for April $389,517.98 year to date $12,940878. $887.90. So those were our expenditures for the month and year to date. Um revenues general funds 11,000 to 23,000. The grand total for the month of April was 98,796.17 year to date 74,326,71066. Impact aid operational year to date has been 20,595 $519,66568. Adorum revenues in April were $1,823.79 year to date $214,8226. >> [snorts] >> grants grand total for the month of April 6,846,160.118 for year to date 83,564,04386 um Carl Perkins grand revenue in April $3,580.94 yeartoate revenue $36,84861 Johnson Ali revenue. You're going to like to

059hear this one, Miss Aspus. For the month of April, we had $59,68911 finally come into our coffers for revenue for a year-to-ate total of $163,52069 for the year. So, we got a little catchup with the government in April. Impact aid sped. We did not have any new revenue in the month of April, nor did we in Indian ed. Grand total revenue so far this year $51,795 Indian education $4,844848 $844,638.75 capital outlay grand total revenues in in the month of April $18,566.99 year to date 9,31 337 $7.81 for you, Mr. So interest on investments this year year to date 1,500 thou $511,919.13 has been our interest income on our investments. Looking at the stale checks, so these would be checks that came in previous to 71 of 25. So, previous to this fiscal year, there are

0601 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 stale checks that our department is currently contacting either the vendor or the individual to find out the status of those checks and we're working to get those cleared. [snorts] So, that was part of the work this week. I'm sorry, Vice President. >> Yes. Okay. Um, thank you for that. Are there any comments from the board? President Mononttoya. >> You see? >> Yeah. >> Oh, there he is. He's over there. We probably didn't hear most [laughter] of the report. >> Hey, good to see you. Do you have any comments from the uh Okay, Mr. So, do you have comments? >> Uh yeah, ju just I just want to say thank you for the report, especially on

061the the investment or interest income. Okay. Uh, one of the reasons I I did bring bring that up is I think it was that one of the meetings that we had one of our neighboring districts that they generated about almost $4 million off of uh the money that they have sitting in our banks. So maybe the next time is to look at where some of the money the district has if we can if they're in investments that yield a much higher return. That way instead of money just sitting there we'd have the money work for us. So, one of the things that did happen last year with my predecessor who was an investment, you know, specialist, he did put in some new sweep accounts and those sweep accounts did help to increase this amount of

062interest income quite a bit. So, we will continue to look at ways to do that. >> Okay, >> Miss Asus. >> Yes. Um, like I said, you know, with the Jim, um, I I just, you know, going off reports, uh, especially with the legislative, uh, what do you call them? Um, um, Buleras um, reports >> that we get um, lobbyists. So, you know, just reading off of them and then, you know, just seeing, you know, through our email with um NMSBA, NIA and, you know, that a lot of those especially JOM and, you know, other tribal federal funding is um being questioned. And so, you know, just really want to make sure that um yeah, um you know, I think some people think that we should already know, but you know, the reason why I

063asked for, you know, to be read in a public setting is that we all know and and then it gives the opportunity for, you know, our viewers, our our attendants, you know, to to um attendees to to see and and and actually see and um what we're facing. >> I appreciate that. I agree. >> Thank you. >> I'm going to turn it over to you, uh President Mononttoya. We're on item eight. >> Thank you. Um and kind of as a another note, uh to follow up with Miss Aspus, it's this money belongs to the community. They need to know what we're doing with it and how it's being spent and how it's being raised quite frankly. So I appreciate that. Thank you. Um we're all good. If we are, we can move on to item

064eight, reports and possible board action that will youth risk behavior surveillance survey in fall of 2026 by just ying. >> Okay. Good evening members of the board, uh Superintendent Carlson. My name is Justine Yazy. I am the supervisor for the Navajo Health Education Program um here in the Shiprock Service Area. I we are under the Navajo Department of Health um focusing a lot on um health education and public health prevention. And today we want to present to you on the um fall to 2026 uh Navajo youth risk behavior survey. But um with me I want to introduce my uh one of my staff Uh good a good good evening board members. My name is Mira Pablo and I work in the uh Zenadi area cover the Aztec uh community as well all the way down

065to counselor. So good evening >> and we did have a presentation if that could be pulled up. [snorts] It'll be a quick overview on the Navajo youth risk behavior survey. Um, just a quick recap, this survey is done every three years. For those who are not familiar with this survey, um, it's very focused on schools that have an enrollment of Navajo students, so on the Navajo Nation and, um, border towns, which would include a lot of our, um, central consolidated schools. >> Yeah. [clears throat] You guys can just read a little bit. >> Okay, while we wait for that presentation to come up, um we just were uh wanting to seek implementation for the central consolidated schools um from sixth grade on to 12th grade. So there is two different types of surveys. One's for

066the middle school Okay, for the middle school students, sixth grade, 7th grade, and eighth grade. And then the high school survey, which is um for the 9th through 12th. So, this survey covers a lot with um identifying health risk behaviors for our high school and middle school students. um kind of targeting like what they're experiencing um and what we can do, you know, to prevent things to um improve areas, get resources and um pretty much just kind of see what your schools are um reporting and the report from 20 was no 20 23 has been completed. It takes a while. So um the school's reports have been completed. So, we do have that um hopefully up and running. I think they did do a a dashboard on our website. So, that's available for the community

067to see the results for overall. So, what um we passed out is the overall results for all NAVO Nation schools that participated in the survey. So, you can kind of see um each every 3 years the survey was done. And but overall, the schools um for Central Consolidated did participate three years ago. Um all schools from 6th through 12th did participate and did re receive their results. So each principal I met with they received their school's results which was hopefully shared um going up from there but I'm not too sure on that part. So um still waiting on that presentation but the presentation overall is just kind of talking more about the NYBS, why school should should participate, what do they get out of it and um the process for it. So um hopefully they

068can get that up. >> [snorts] [laughter] >> I know. I kind of a little late. the sheet. The one that has Okay. So, just a quick I'm just going to highlight some of the areas regarding this presentation. So, the NYBS again is a Navajo youth risk behavior survey. So, this survey is also done um nationally and for the state. So, the state does it every two years while we do it every uh three years. So in 2023 it did overlap. So we did work with um the state on implementing their survey along with ours. So but this year it doesn't overlap. So we're going to be focusing on um just our survey this year. So again it's just basically um collecting data for key health behaviors. So those areas can be like nutrition, um healthy

069um healthy weight, uh physical activity, um smoking, drinking, sexual health behaviors, and I believe uh driving or injury prevention. So those are the areas that the survey really focuses on. And it's just kind of really just wanting to monitor, you know, changes. Are things going up? Things are going down. I know one of the in the survey results we've seen that vaping is increasing. Um a lot of different areas like bullying is increasing especially with internet bullying um cyber bullying and some other areas are decreasing you know um can't really highlight all the areas but um that's kind of the results we've been seeing. Um >> this survey Also at the local level, the school can [laughter] ide >> Yeah. So those support services um as a result from these um information we get from

070the surveys and then here we're just talking about um why schools should participate that it's really critical to ensure that you know we do represent our Navajo students getting an accurate kind of information of what they're um experiencing what we can do to you know provide support or resources um for the schools. next. And let's see. So, with this survey, it's completely anonymous. So, students names and any demographic information is never reported. We don't accept that information. Um, and it's also completely voluntary. So, um, students do not have to take it. The process is that we seek um, approvals from the school boards down to the principles, down to the parents, and then down to the students. So, that's just kind of the process for um getting the survey completed. Next, but overall, the biggest

071thing is that, you know, students that are healthier, they they're better learners. So, it's been shown that they um whatever they're experiencing that um any behaviors uh that they can that might be affecting their schoolwork, their learning um can be identified. And this data can also help with like passing laws. You know, a lot of areas they use the information to bring in their resources, apply for grants um or create other programs for their schools. Next, but here I'll just talking about the um this recent findings for the high school students um that you can see that a lot of students, you know, they don't feel safe going to school either. Oh, suicide and um suicide ideation were some areas too that were um kind of either leveling or increasing. Um issues with drugs on

072school property, um bullying like I mentioned next. And oops, wrong way. And then for middle schools talking about injury prevention, um bullying, prescription drug use, um use of cigarettes, and then suicide as well. Next, >> what is the helmet? >> Um go back. So that's for injury prevention. So this is regarding students who either skateboard, ride bikes, u if they do use a helmet. No. [laughter] Next. >> Okay. But overall, what the benefit is is that it represents your students from grades 6 through the 12th grade on their health behaviors that they report. Um it helps monitor changes over time. So you can see kind of every 3 years um the data either increases or decreases or generally stays the same. And pretty much it's um to help improve our youth's health um for the

073short term and then for long term. and then strengthen funding and resources. Um advocacy, you know, um getting this information can be helped with those grant applications at the state, local, and federal level. >> [gasps] >> But um like I mentioned participation um how it works is once um we approved to to implement the survey for this fall 2026 um a date will be selected with um each school's principal or whoever they rep um represent to work with us. Um, we'll provide a number of students on how much material we're going to need and then parental permission forms will be going out um for uh parents to understand what's going on. And the survey does take about 45 minutes or at least one class period. Next, [snorts] uh let's see. And one of our goals

074too is that um depending on the schools there's two different types of um permission forms. So one is being an active or a passive permission form. So depending on what the principal wants to go with majority go with the um what's it passive passive permission form which just requires um a no answer for parents whereas the active they need to respond either yes or no. And that's usually mostly with a lot of our Arizona schools. [snorts] notify the parents. But if they don't object, then >> next. But um that's just kind of a recap of the survey for those that weren't familiar with it. Again, it's anonymous. It's very easy to do, implement, um, and very important for a lot of our school areas. [clears throat] >> And we're okay to take questions. >> Before

075the question, I just want to point out that >> uh before the questions, let me go ahead and point out that uh the schools that served under um your school board, they all did an excellent job three years ago. They really helped us out with their professionalism. They made everything go through as smooth. I think Shiprock High School and Kirtland High School being the biggest school, we were able to, you know, get the get out the survey and real quick it was done and then they brought it back in. They gave it to us and it was awesome the way they treated everything. They were professional about it. >> Any questions from the board? [snorts] Yes. >> Mosspus. >> So, you mentioned that some of our schools and and I that was back in 2003.

076>> Yes. >> Okay. 23. >> Yeah. 23 was the last time [clears throat] we did. >> Okay. Um I'm really would like to um this upcoming one the 2026 and see how that compares because you know as as we were talking earlier you know that with student count and with COVID um I think that that really made a a huge um difference, you know, meaning um I hear that some students lost hope. >> Yeah. And and but I think the biggest thing is a lot of our families were, you know, the home their homes were multi-generational and so they um they lost people and um their relatives and and I I I just really I just really want to see what you know the state of our our district is and um I think it's

077it's is it it it's going to be helpful and [clears throat] um you know to to uh get things back on you know going forward and um you know that that's just my hope anyway and and I think if we can uh get that data. I think that' be good. [snorts] >> Thank you, >> Mr. So, >> yeah, I just want to say thank you for this data the survey that's been been provided. I I what what I'm more what I'm also interested in is um are there any schools that seem to have more outliers like numbers that are really high compared to some of the other schools and whether that's indicative of what's going on within that local school setting versus some of the other schools such as like high use of like high

078uses of alcohol drugs that are beyond what the the other schools are. And also if those problems have identified, they're relay back to the school and our district so that we can actually start to intervene if it does come up in that regard. >> Yeah. So the best thing about this um survey is that each school gets their own results. However, we don't we cannot report on each schools to anybody. So it's up to this principal on how they implement or distribute their info. So if they bring each principal brings up their data to you guys then that's where you'll see um those like the differences the um correlations things like that. So um unfortunately it's out of our hands. We gave the data back to the schools. So [laughter] so it's up to the

079schools to how they um want to share that. >> I think another maybe question to probably ask is uh how often are people on social media like how many hours they spend a day? Mhm. >> And then I think the other one that's also come up is I've seen a lot of younger people with like those earphones, their headphones or that they're blasting music in their ears. >> So maybe a good good [clears throat] topic is how many kids have headphones and how much they spend and whether or not it's at a certain level >> and I'm I'm actually curious if uh hearing loss is one of the things that's becoming a lot more evident with younger people. >> Oh, that's a very good question. That's something we can also bring up to our um

080survey. >> And of course, like [laughter] how much they they spend on their phone, social media. >> Oh, yeah. >> Cuz I know that I I see every time you walk down, everyone's all walking around, but even in school or wherever, you're always on their phone. >> Yes, definitely. And I know one of the questions is how many how much screen time you do um aside from like classwork, your computer um on a normal day. And I think that one was a pretty pretty high number too for a lot of our schools. And and of course, maybe another one is uh for students that drive, h how many um do texting while driving? >> Yeah, that's another really good one that needs to be added to our survey. [laughter] >> Okay. Thank you. >> All

081right. Thank you. [snorts] >> I I have another question. Um, as he was pointing out some of the the items on that list, um, tobacco use and, um, on how education seems to, um, bring it down. And I think for us our within the district, we need to do better um superintendent to where we've had issues such as sexual harassment, >> but it's it's um it's almost um as if they're adults, you know, and these are middle school >> and the way it's handled like a adult level And um and I think we need to do better on our part. Um and then you know the the presentations um as you said it brings it brings it down and we have not done you know I remember back in the day where we had assemblies

082on you know certain items and you know and and these days it would be on bullying would be on vaping it would be you know and we don't do we're not consistent We're not um we're not we're not doing that. >> Uh so I think as a district we we need to do our part too. >> Thank you. >> Thank thank you for that comment. I did want to add on to that that we were contacted by the health class for Kirtland Central High School and that was our first time ever being reached out at that level and the health class wanted us to come in and present on sexually transmitted infections. it seemed they they weren't um they wanted an outside entity to kind of educate them and um kind of teach them at

083that level to where they'll understand and it was very successful and they want us to come back more for on the vaping and the bullying. So we're very accommodable for that too. So I just want to share that as well. >> President Montoya had a question. >> No questions. I just wanted to thank you for the report. The data is very eye opening. I see that the majority of the um questions being asked, it seems to reduce over time for the majority of them, which is it's it's really nice to know that, you know, we've got some good kids out there. [clears throat] >> But that's it. Thank you. >> That's that's what I was going to say is if you look at the trends since 2008 over time, especially from 2017 to 2023, they've

084all gone down in the first three categories, which is good. Um, so there's progress being made. >> So I so I appreciate that. And if um, thank you for the information. >> And if there's no other questions, would someone like to make a motion to accept the program for fall of 2026? >> I make a motion to accept the program for fall of 2026. >> I'll second that. >> A roll call. Mr. So >> yes. >> Misspus. >> Yes. Miss Mononttoya. >> Yes. >> And myself. Yes. Thank you. It's approved. >> Yes. Thank you so much. >> On to item B. Indian education grant title 6 for SY 2627 by Dr. Belinda Gay. foreign speech. Good evening board members, uh, President Mononttoya, Vice President Mononttoya, Secretary Aspusen, um, board members, and Superintendent Carlson. I'm going

085to be, um, presenting the title six Indian education grant application for school year 2627. Next slide. So these uh this is a supplemental grant in addition to all other grants that are out there, but this is specifically um for our uh American Indian uh Alaskan Native students or Native American students for this grant at the federal they do um title us as American Indian. So that's that's how um they identify us at that level for this grant. A lot of the services for this grant uh really is to support and [clears throat] strengthen our students their identity. It also includes what is taught to we still have a lot of work to do with the history part or the government part of it. Um we do have um Miss Roan Lee who has been instrumental

086in creating a curriculum for Navajo history this year by working with several of our um teachers at the high school level. I believe that is complete and we're supposed to have that um as an overview soon. I can't remember what date it was. Uh in June, I think to go over what was um completed. And then we do have our Native American English learners that are here. a majority of our current identified English learners are primarily Navajo students. So in terms of that um we do support them in different ways such as um supporting their teachers that uh have our Native American English learners in their classrooms whether it's um um is it self-contained classrooms or by periods they do get trained in culturally linguistic relevancy. Uh we have been working with Dr. Holly in

087that we are currently um we we completed level two cohort one uh this this past um spring. We do continue to um have that because that is part of the ruling and the Yazy Martinez lawsuit and that is coming from um the state and it's also lined in our current educational laws of um the BE and the um Indian education acts as well. And as it always states, it does support culture sensitivity training for district staff as well. Next slide. The other components of what's written into this grant. It does include the holistic wellness and balance services that's done in different forms whether it's the actual services or bringing in consultants or um workshops to address different areas in regard to holistic wellness and balance. Also, we do work with um Dr. Harvey's programs to

088carry these out as well because it is included in her grant. And so we do support those at the school levels. We we do have principles that do request for these services as well. Next slide. Um I covered the first part under this grant and does support eight um heritage NavHo teachers their FTEES are at 100% with benefits and 25% of salaries and benefits for two of our ICO um admin and also for professional development for the coaches and ICO staff, things do come up in terms of language and culture or anything related to uh language planning, Native American research or uh conferences, that's where we do support that as well. Also in terms of other departments, they do uh request services from us to help them support with some of these um costs as

089well. Next slide. So this is a breakdown of our um budget this year. That amount that's listed right there is what has been awarded to us for this coming school year. As you can see, a big portion of that goes to personnel uh with what I had just shared earlier of the eight teachers and the two ICO staff at 25%. We do have our travel in there. So this year a lot of um the support came from title six because of JOM. J&M as you know we we didn't get the full amount this year. Um so whatever was not being provided from JOM we had to tap into title six to support those services. Uh but we did get additional awards and so for that to post it's taken a long time as well because

090we have new people at PED that approves these awards. And so while that was happening JOM tapped into Title Six to support a lot of the programs that schools and parents were requesting. So, uh that's that's what happened in terms of using up the travel and the supplies and then the contractual parts of um this year. Next slide. These are just a breakdown of what I've been sharing regarding our teachers and then our um bilingual supervisor and one of our Navajo language coaches. Next slide. And this is the travel budget for students and some PD travel as well. Next slide. and supplies. These are all direct um instructional services for students. Next slide. Uh these are our consultants like Dr. Holly, other uh language culture um presenters and services as well. Next slide. And this

091other the breakdown is the direct instructional delivery that specific to help with um students things that don't get uh covered or is not allowed in JM comes from here. And then of course student activities such as field trips uh such as um the equity uh trips and events. We've been cost sharing with them as well cuz we've noticed and found that we do additional things than what we originally um put into our grant. that um it it's needed with our equity council and students. Um for example, like when we took our students to the legislation day and other conferences, we get called up from other places like Gallup. If they're having a forum, they'll ask for students. And so those are the types of costs that will come out from here. We also have our

092holistic healing services coming from here and then our IPAC member stipens also come from here. Next slide. Is that the last slide? [snorts] Okay. So that is the end of um this report on title six and I stand for questions >> questions from the board. >> I just want compared to last year or decrease >> it's a slight increase it always it fluctuates between a,600 and a million700 and it it just really depends every year it just fluctuates. Misspos. >> Yes. So in your report, do you let them know that you had to steal from >> and and >> borrow? [laughter] >> Yeah. Um and what what is their if anything do they have a response or anything? Um, it's just like what's already listed in this grant. It's just like using up those services.

093There's nothing different or nothing new. It's just that we've been utilizing this grant to the maximum um capacity, I guess, uh, because of JOM. So, it's it's nothing different. It's just the fact that we're doing more than usual. So, that's that's how that works out. And then as you were talking about Yazy Martinez and with the Indian Act, um [snorts] the fact that you know it's still being scrutinized and still, you know, um I don't know, trying to come up with a template or or what what they're doing. Um, do you often refer to some of that or >> I I do and I actually teach um Tissel classes for um our Tissel teachers and I every semester I get a different set of teachers and it's really surprising that a lot of our teachers

094aren't aware of the lawsuit and the ruling. things and that CLR exists or what is it or how does it work? So, um we spend time on that. It's also embedded in the evaluations to the CLR and they don't they don't realize that it um it's embedded in there. So, we spend a lot of time with that. Um and that's what we feel needs to um get strengthened in with with different areas. And then as as you're doing these um you know grants uh is there a movement or if any I don't know I I I've seen some stuff on on it that tribes don't like to be called American Indian and put into one whole um group whereas Alaskan Native they have their own. >> Yeah. And so how come we don't just say

095Navajo? >> So I I guess it varies. For example, at the state level and a majority of the documents were still titled as Indians. So that's what they go by. And then at the federal level, it's different I guess. And depending on what was put in documents a long time ago, it's still Indians. That's how it is in the constitution. Well, it's not Indians. It says something [laughter] else. We >> And so, um, but that's what they go by. But from our end, it really varies on what I guess you use based on how things are being utilized at the state and federal level. That's what you use in your grants. Like what they use, that's what you use. And then at the state, you use what they use, too. Does that make sense? >>

096Yeah. Well, you know, I and um President Mononttoya, I is is that something, you know, I would like to see, you know, it change and to where um we're recognized as Navajo um and and then of course, you know, all the other um different tribal students in in our in our area instead of as American Indian >> certainly that language could be posed from the perspective of one the school district and the Naval Nation and then to Congress because again as you're saying that's the language that they use. So in turn, so does everybody else. But certainly, I don't think it's out of bounds to request languages that would be more applicable to the tribes individually, [laughter] but that would be something that they would have to take in consideration. >> Yeah, it does vary.

097for example, like different people who who are uh in the capacity of the um positions like Katie Anne Wano. She says PBLO's tribes and nations. She's the first one I've I've heard her say in other people before her, her predecessors, they say other other terms that they've used, too. So, I guess it really varies um in in terms of who's in these positions, but in the documents like for official legit stuff, that's what's what's used. >> Wow. Could start the discussion. [laughter] I I think it's more of a Indian education advisory council that's um that advises the ped as well that can start this movement as well. Um we do have a member here sitting among us that's on that council that can begin that recommendation if that's something to go forward with. >> I

098think that's certainly more just of the collective that they're looking at. >> Um because you start printing up those documents then they're printing out 19 tribes or the 19 and 23 tribes every single time. >> Yeah. >> So >> yeah, but in even though the people say that in the documents at the state level it's Indian. That's how those are written in the documents. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Any other questions? >> Wow. No, no, I better not. Okay, that >> motion. Any questions? [snorts] I do I do have some comments first before I move on to that because to me this is important and I kind of alluded to it in regards to educating our congressional members and our Senate members or staff. And one of the things that I said and it was very

099particular to particular to JOM and the services that it provides especially when you're talking about BMMP right that I said very clearly to them that culture and language is not DEI. It's the identity of our kids. That's who they are. >> That's why we do what we do. And it took some of them back. You could just see the look, the expressions on their face that um some of them don't see it that way. It's just a program to them. >> Yeah. >> But for us, it's deeper than that. And so it's important for us to especially at the federal level to ensure because we're doing a good job here in New Mexico. It's at the federal level when you talk about federal funding. And I've also talked about every single time we stepped in

100those offices was about the fiduciary responsibility of the federal government to the tribes because loss in these conversations of efficiency and effectiveness. What's lost is that fiduciary responsibility and trust tribal and trust obligations to the vast number of uh Native American tribes. 575 now. So, um, I just want people to know that, like I said, every time I step in those offices, I express that to them that that money is important to our kids. >> So, >> I I agree and that's the basis of our sovereignty. I mean, the purpose and basis of why we have sovereignty is for the very reason that we have a cultural identity. Absolutely. >> And so, yes, >> I wholeheartedly agree and support that. So, thank you very much. >> With that, I believe Mr. So, you made a

101motion. >> Yes. Second. >> I second. >> Vote a roll call. Mr. So, >> uh, yes. >> Miss Aspus. >> Yes. >> Miss Montoya. >> Yes. >> And myself? Yes. Thank you. It's approved. >> I think I'm I'm next. >> Oh, that's right. >> My bad. You're there again. Please continue. The next presentation I have is the Indian parent advisory committee bylaws. [snorts] If I could ask um just to help summarize it, are there any changes that were made by the committee or is it pretty much the same? know just the year and the people that are signing off it on it. But um for those that are new like Miss Mononttoya, I just wanted to do a quick background on who the IPAC are, the Indian parent advisory council are specific for this title

102six Indian education grant. Um we do have JOM, they have the IEC, the Indian education council. Um so there's a difference. The difference is for this committee we include teachers and students to be part of the um council. They do make decisions and make recommendations and they have a vote in that. So nothing has changed. We did have our meeting last week and um it's it still stands as is. The only challenges we have right now are that um we use our IEC members for this um committee as well because it's really hard to find um parents and guardians to fill these positions and some of their terms are um expiring and it it takes a lot [laughter] of of even now we've been recruiting nonstop. it. We still haven't filled one position yet. So,

103um that's what we're what we have for the IPAC. We just call them IPAC. questions, >> comments from the board, Miss Aspus. So, you know, it's it's been ongoing that we have those issues about >> um IEC having enough especially for corn, but um I'm wondering if um you know the board itself can sit in for a little bit until that vacancy is filled and um we all have our different um areas that we represent and um just a suggestion, you know, just something temporary and um and [clears throat] until they get somebody to fill it, especially especially if it starts affecting quorum. >> Well, right now it doesn't. It's just the fact that their terms are expiring and it takes time to find people, but right now we don't have an issue with quorum.

104We've been having our monthly IEC meetings and our quarterly IPAC meetings. We do we do work with Jared as well and we do announce at all our ICO events and hand out flyers too that we do have these positions [music] available. >> Yeah. >> Just just a suggestion. I mean just to keep you know things going and um it's not to take it over or anything. It's just, you know, just to help >> just in case we cross that bridge. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I'm sure you can give us an answer. >> Yeah. >> Anything else? >> Uh, just real quick before we go, um, on page 9 of 11 under article 7, you might want to double check the the citation for compensation says 25 CDFIU73.17.C.2. >> Oh, CFR. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >>

105Yeah. I I'll just Yeah. If if there's anything I would s suggest that you just make that technical correction or edit. >> Okay. >> So, we can get that done before sign. Correct. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I'll I'll uh edit that and have Mr. George resign it and then give it to Sharon tomorrow. >> Good. All right. Thank you. So, I I do want to say before did you have any comments, MTO? I apologize. >> Okay. So I [clears throat] do want to say the importance of this obviously uh we all understand that but and again it's one of those things when you speak to some of those people in Washington who are clueless >> absolutely clueless and we had to time and time again express sovereignty to sovereignty um be it the [clears

106throat] state but they have no absolute jurisdiction over the tribe. They have to have government to government and again the relationship always is stated with the federal government and I had reminded one of the um individuals there about many many years ago especially in hindsight of the 250th birthday of this country and it was George Washington who actually at that time used to treat every tribe every indigenous tribe as an absolute sovereign and it's unfortunate that they don't do that today. So I I think that's really a sad commentary to this country that they don't look at it that way. So I certainly try to do my best and we were trying to do our best to remind them of that relationship. So um I thank you for what you did. So with that, go

107ahead, Miss Montoy. >> Sorry, I just um noticed that you guys have open meetings act. Where can we listen to one of your public streams? Um Mia posts that it is on our um website and then on our calendar too. So um anybody can listen in or we do have in person too. So you either can listen in or um sit in with us. >> Okay. >> At we we have it at the pa the meetings. >> Okay. Sorry just looking for your um the department link but okay. Thank you. Mhm. >> So with that, there's nothing further. Some would like to make a motion to accept with the change. >> Yeah. I'll make a motion to approve this item with the with the with the edit on page 911 regarding compensation citation. >> I

108second a roll call. Mr. Self, >> I vote yes. >> Miss Aspus, >> yes. >> Miss Montoya, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. That's for pass. Thank you. Okay. >> Item D, RFP evaluation results and recommendation to school board. Number one, RFP 2026, sped 160, clinical social work. Two, RFP 2026, sped 161, physical therapy. Number three, RFP 2026, sped 162, teacher for the blind and visually impaired by Joel Balisut. >> Good evening, board president, board members, superintendent, colleagues, and community. I'm going to present the evaluation results and recommendations for the different RFPs that were evaluated recently. So, uh the award criterias that were used for the clinical social workers, the physical therapist and the teachers for the blind were are the following. uh the personnel's experience, lensure, support, intercultural sensitivity and the cost for uh the

109service. And [snorts] uh among the the vendors that uh that presented for their proposal are ACORE, Ammerges, Care Staff, Ed theory, Gifted and National Recruiting. Among the six uh vendors, there were five that uh uh were approve uh that are being recommended and uh their scores range from 83 I mean up to 83.73. And the one that's not uh included or being uh uh for that's not being recommended is the lowest which is the national recruiting consultants. Uh the proposal highlights are the following. uh competitiveness, professionalism, organized approach to to the response, candidates meeting high standards required by the district, intercultural sensitivity. The next one is for the physical therapist and again uh the mentioned criterias were used for this vendor and the following uh and the scores are the following ACORE 80.73 care staff

11089.33 Ed theory 86.94 Gifted 88.40 40 national 78.37 Ortiz PT services 79.26 uh the stepping stones 87.01 um Sarah Ed staffing 85.13 and all vendors listed are uh being recommended. The proposal highlights are the following. High quality placement. Vendors use an extensive selection process, detailed information that were provided in their proposals, extensive experience working with CCSD. And the third uh RFP is for the teacher for the blind and same criterias were used and we so far we have four vendors that uh submitted their proposal. We have ACOR, care staff, gifted, national uh recruiting and of those four there are three that's being recommended. Uh the one that's not being recommended uh which scores low is scored low which is 23.75. Uh the highlights successful work with the district in the past uh commitment to the

111delivery of specialized program and strong partnership with the district. Um this this proposal or this RFP is being uh a proposal being recommended in order to make in order to ensure that our students in the district will at least uh receive services due to the staff shortage that we are experiencing currently. Thank you very much. question from board. So >> I don't have any questions. >> Hold on. >> Okay. No, no. Just as a point of clarification, there is no retainers. There is no retainer paid to these services. They're just held in contract and they're only paid for the services when they're rendered. Correct? >> Yes. The service rendered. >> Just Just making that clear. All right. So, if there's no questions, further questions or any questions at all, would someone like to make a

112motion to accept? >> I make a motion to accept. >> I will second that. >> Vote a roll call. Mr. So >> I vote yes. >> Miss Aspus, >> yes. >> Miss Montoya, >> yes. >> And myself, yes. That's for pass. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> On to item nine, executive session. Convening executive session discussion on limited personnel matters regarding the board's goals and expectations of the superintendent as permitted under NMSA 1978 section 10-15-1H2 of the Mexico Open Meetings Act. Someone would like to make the motion to convene executive session. I will make a motion to convene an executive session. >> Second. >> I second. >> A roll call. Mr. So, >> yes. >> Miss Aspus. >> Yes. >> Miss Montoya. >> Yes. >> And myself. The time is now 7:34. get

113the most bulk of our kids. >> Okay, the time is now 9:02. I would like to make a motion to >> rec Mr. So let me read this. I like to read so people know exactly what we're doing. There's no question. >> Executive session B reconvene in open session as stated the board has discussed in the executive session only the subject identified on the agenda the reason for which the meeting was closed. Discussion on limited personnel matters regarding the board's goals expectations of the superintendent as permitted under NMSA1978 section 10-15-1H2 of New Mexico meeting acts. Would somebody like to make a motion to reconvene? Mr. So >> I will make the motion to reconvene in open open session. >> I second. >> Go a roll call. Mr. So >> yes. [snorts] Miss Aspus, >> yes.

114>> Miss Monatoya, >> yes. >> And myself, yes, that's four. Item C, possible board action on items discuss executive session. There was none to be made. Um item 10, requested action items and or reports for next future meetings. A possible items for next meeting. I would certainly like to make a suggestion um in regards to the budget that we have a special meeting on Tuesday what day is after the 19th [sighs] >> May 19th at 9:00 so we can have a presentation of the budget so we can get that approved. Um is everybody okay with that date and that time? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, does anybody else have any other um for any other meetings coming up for June? Any topics, any items for consideration? Yes, >> so um I'd like to have uh

115I was looking at the director's report this this past Monday and um the sped [sighs] portion I would like a further presentation on that on what was shared at the director's meeting and um gosh uh and I guess I I'll get back with you on the other but mainly that. >> Okay. Certainly if whatever um your thoughts are for the consideration, get that to superintendent email, please. >> And and then also I I really like to pursue um inviting uh what's her name? Uh the lady from Albuquerque School Board. to Ronalda. Ronalda Tome from Albuquerque Public Schools um school board member >> regarding >> um to share with us her um what she knows about um sped and all of that. that whole paragraph [clears throat] everything that that [clears throat] you wrote down. [snorts]

116>> Does anybody else have anything? And also when are we going to do an evaluation for the superintendent? >> That's also coming up too >> on the 19th. >> Yes. >> Yeah. As far as four hours. >> Um I do have something I'd like to review on the June meeting special. [snorts] Um, I would like to pull our student code of conducts, specifically the anti-bullying um, segment on that and what our district's stance is on um, those things in our code of conduct for our students. Review and potentially amend some things maybe. >> Okay. Anything else? If there's nothing else um basically a A and B are covered to move on to item 11. Someone like to make a motion to adjurnn. >> I will make the motion to adjurnn. >> Mr. So second asp

117roll call. Mr. So >> yes. >> Miss Aspus. >> Yes. >> Miss Montoya. >> Yes. >> And myself. Yes. Time is now 9:07. And the meeting is adjourned.